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DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · 1d

Can't understand why he was not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · 6d

Government by delusion. Note, again, this is the British press reporting. Where are the U.S. outlets?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump’s ‘Antifa roundtable’ was so much worse than you’re imagining

Holly Baxter reports on a meeting that, at one point, appeared to position people protesting against Nazis in the Weimar Republic as the bad guys, and at another saw the president declare, ‘We got rid...

www.independent.co.uk

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · 7d

"Since the 1960s, Pynchon’s books have been grappling with something that’s now being widely felt for the first time our lifetimes: 'People trying to come to grips with what sort of a beast we’re on the back of.'”
lithub.com/thomas-pynch...

Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time

Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers f…

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DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · 14d

Does the "Medbed" post confirm that he's gone over the edge?

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · 18d

Yet another
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republican legislator in South Carolina agrees to plea guilty to child sexual abuse imagery charges

RJ May is accused of trading hundreds of photos of children involved in sex acts; he faces up to 100 years in prison

www.theguardian.com

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · 21d

Are they gone?

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · 21d

A comment made last night by Stephen Colbert, interviewing Sen. Mark Kelly, made in passing and with no development, stays with me: "Our country is under psychological attack."

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · 25d

The fiction that most people reject political violence is disproven by the number of people who say that, if they could travel back in time, they would happily kill Adolf Hitler as a baby.

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Sep 12

Someone on Reddit commented: "It has been less than 3 months since the assassination of Melissa Hortman and her husband in Minnesota by a rightwing shooter."

Was that on anyone's radar screen yesterday and today?

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sahara sands are being blown across the Atlantic and settling on Florida. That explains a lot.

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yet another reason to never, ever go to Florida

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Sep 4

"and, in an unusual move, she asked the justices to throw out a ruling from the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals that was decided in her favor"

There's only one conclusion to draw from that

www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/p...

Transgender student at center of major Supreme Court appeal withdraws her case | CNN Politics

A transgender woman who was challenging Idaho’s ban on trans athletes told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that she is withdrawing her high-profile case, citing intense “negative public scrutiny” becau...

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DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Sep 1

In 1973, the people controlling things behind the scenes took steps to remove Agnew as Vice President in anticipation of Nixon's resignation. No doubt the same type of thing is taking place now.

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Aug 26

Trump said Pritzker “ought to spend more time in the gym, actually, like I do."

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Aug 23

"This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins." - Justice Jackson, NIH v APHA

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Aug 23

How is this anything other than a straight-up Mafia move? www.wsj.com/tech/trump-t...

Trump, Intel Agree to 10% U.S. Stake as President Promises More Deals

The deal caps a two-week frenzy for the troubled chip maker and marks the latest in a series of extraordinary private-sector interventions by the president.

www.wsj.com

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DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Aug 16

It's not true that nothing was accomplished www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Trump says Putin agrees with him US should not have mail-in voting

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agrees with him that letting voters send in ballots by mail puts honest elections at risk.

www.reuters.com

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Aug 9

Take it from someone who knows this stuff.
www.reddit.com/r/MurderedBy...

From the MurderedByWords community on Reddit: One does not lie about code to a coder

Explore this post and more from the MurderedByWords community

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DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Aug 9

Roland Mehrez Beainy, Lebanon national, owner of the recently opened Trump Burger restaurant in Houston, arrested by ICE, facing deportation

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Aug 8

Again, we have to hear this from the Daily Mail. This was a genuine LOL. Bring it on! www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Trump ally Steve Bannon is secretly plotting a 2028 run for president

Sources close to Steve Bannon and President Trump told the Daily Mail that Bannon is now seriously considering running for president in the next term.

www.dailymail.co.uk

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Jul 30

The first batch of documents from Giuffre's suit were released to the public on August 9, further implicating Epstein, Maxwell, and a number of their associates. The following day, Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan prison cell. /2

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Jul 30

Just as a reminder, from Wikipedia: On July 2, 2019, the 2nd Circuit ordered the unsealing of documents from the earlier civil suit by Giuffre against Maxwell. /1

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DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Jul 23

A "rare" response? When the President suggests that a former President be tried for treason, we are in uncharted waters. Every response to that idea has to be "rare". www.axios.com/2025/07/22/o...

Obama rebukes Trump's accusations in rare response

"These bizarre allegations are ridiculous," a spokesperson for Obama said.

www.axios.com

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Jul 23

This appears to be fake. On the same page where this story appears, we also find this headline: "Pickleball Super Star Ben Johns Donates Entire $20 Million Bonus and Sponsorship Deal to Charities and Homeless Relief." And the report is not confirmed elsewhere. Great story. Just not true.

DemandEuphoria @demandeuphoria.bsky.social · Jul 23

Does Canada have as many crazies per capita (CPC) as the U.S.? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romana_...

Romana Didulo - Wikipedia

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