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David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
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In 2014 during the net neutrality wars, Obama voiced his support for net neutrality. Republicans REPEATEDLY, for YEARS, (falsely) claimed this was an illegal, unethical affront to FCC independence.
11 years later they now insist the FCC has no independence and serves at the whims of our mad king:
11 years later they now insist the FCC has no independence and serves at the whims of our mad king:
FCC chief Brendan Carr tells Senate that his agency is 'not formally ... independent'
FCC chairman Brendan Carr testified to a congressional committee for the first time since ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel's show following a Carr threat.
www.cnbc.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
In 2014 during the net neutrality wars, Obama voiced his support for net neutrality. Republicans REPEATEDLY, for YEARS, (falsely) claimed this was an illegal, unethical affront to FCC independence.
11 years later they now insist the FCC has no independence and serves at the whims of our mad king:
11 years later they now insist the FCC has no independence and serves at the whims of our mad king:
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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
December 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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Expectation vs Reality
December 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Expectation vs Reality
Among the books being driven into the woods by pitchfork-wielding villagers this year: Louis C.K.’s masturbatory debut novel, Olivia Nuzzi’s delusional fortune cookie, Woody Allen’s autofictional kvetch-fest, and Kamala Harris’s 304-page excuse for ineptitude.
lithub.com/the-most-sca...
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The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025
Pans, glorious pans. No end-of-year roundup would be complete without them. Among the books being driven into the woods by pitchfork-wielding villagers this year: Louis C.K.’s masturbatory debut no…
lithub.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Among the books being driven into the woods by pitchfork-wielding villagers this year: Louis C.K.’s masturbatory debut novel, Olivia Nuzzi’s delusional fortune cookie, Woody Allen’s autofictional kvetch-fest, and Kamala Harris’s 304-page excuse for ineptitude.
lithub.com/the-most-sca...
lithub.com/the-most-sca...
Do not copy parts of crimeofaggression.info/documents/6/... into this form
December 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Do not copy parts of crimeofaggression.info/documents/6/... into this form
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a major factor that prevented Reagan from escalating the Cold War to a nuclear exchange was the fact that a filmmaker with some political connections made a TV movie about how even a limited nuclear war would kill absolutely everyone
this is cited even in Reagan's hagiographies as why he pivoted
this is cited even in Reagan's hagiographies as why he pivoted
December 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
a major factor that prevented Reagan from escalating the Cold War to a nuclear exchange was the fact that a filmmaker with some political connections made a TV movie about how even a limited nuclear war would kill absolutely everyone
this is cited even in Reagan's hagiographies as why he pivoted
this is cited even in Reagan's hagiographies as why he pivoted
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Reagan was an omnibigot who believed universal healthcare was slavery and made foreign policy decisions based off the interpretations of his wife's favourite psychic
he thought he could win the Cold War by blowing up the USSR with magic space lasers that he called "Star Wars"
he thought he could win the Cold War by blowing up the USSR with magic space lasers that he called "Star Wars"
December 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Reagan was an omnibigot who believed universal healthcare was slavery and made foreign policy decisions based off the interpretations of his wife's favourite psychic
he thought he could win the Cold War by blowing up the USSR with magic space lasers that he called "Star Wars"
he thought he could win the Cold War by blowing up the USSR with magic space lasers that he called "Star Wars"
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Ronald Reagan was infamous for being a charismatic guy who ultimately barely knew what was happening and plunged the USA headfirst into almost all its current woes
he's literally the model for Trump! he's Trump's direct predecessor in type!
he's literally the model for Trump! he's Trump's direct predecessor in type!
December 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Ronald Reagan was infamous for being a charismatic guy who ultimately barely knew what was happening and plunged the USA headfirst into almost all its current woes
he's literally the model for Trump! he's Trump's direct predecessor in type!
he's literally the model for Trump! he's Trump's direct predecessor in type!
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it's so funny knowing that in 30 years when the next fascist is running America, Democrats will be talking about what a unifying and heroic president Trump was
December 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
it's so funny knowing that in 30 years when the next fascist is running America, Democrats will be talking about what a unifying and heroic president Trump was
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7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds.
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
December 17, 2025 at 4:26 AM
7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds.
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
To recap:
- Reagan was working on rolling back the New Deal since 1954
- He wanted war declared in Vietnam and called protesters trash
- His take on the AIDS crisis or the lack of it have killed so many people it's hard to count
- Reagan was working on rolling back the New Deal since 1954
- He wanted war declared in Vietnam and called protesters trash
- His take on the AIDS crisis or the lack of it have killed so many people it's hard to count
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
To recap:
- Reagan was working on rolling back the New Deal since 1954
- He wanted war declared in Vietnam and called protesters trash
- His take on the AIDS crisis or the lack of it have killed so many people it's hard to count
- Reagan was working on rolling back the New Deal since 1954
- He wanted war declared in Vietnam and called protesters trash
- His take on the AIDS crisis or the lack of it have killed so many people it's hard to count
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Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.
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I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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stage wrestlers, carnival barkers, boardwalk nickels-toss game operators, and men of various flimflam industry all proved this year that they have significantly more backbone than any fortune 500 executive
December 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
stage wrestlers, carnival barkers, boardwalk nickels-toss game operators, and men of various flimflam industry all proved this year that they have significantly more backbone than any fortune 500 executive
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As a kid I thought AI was going to be cool af.
Instead we get Mickey Mouse whispering to kill yourself, The Mona Lisa giving crypto investment advice and your long dead nan reciting passages from Mein Kampf.
Instead we get Mickey Mouse whispering to kill yourself, The Mona Lisa giving crypto investment advice and your long dead nan reciting passages from Mein Kampf.
December 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
As a kid I thought AI was going to be cool af.
Instead we get Mickey Mouse whispering to kill yourself, The Mona Lisa giving crypto investment advice and your long dead nan reciting passages from Mein Kampf.
Instead we get Mickey Mouse whispering to kill yourself, The Mona Lisa giving crypto investment advice and your long dead nan reciting passages from Mein Kampf.
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About ten years ago, I read a really powerful essay arguing that opioid addiction and school shootings (and I think one more line of seemingly disconnected evidence) as uniquely American problems were symptoms of a greater societal sickness. It wasn’t in a major media outlet. Does this ring a bell?
December 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
About ten years ago, I read a really powerful essay arguing that opioid addiction and school shootings (and I think one more line of seemingly disconnected evidence) as uniquely American problems were symptoms of a greater societal sickness. It wasn’t in a major media outlet. Does this ring a bell?
The Trump directive is stupid but it'll be used as a pretext to deploy the Army domestically. Yes that's illegal but who cares about that any more.
December 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The Trump directive is stupid but it'll be used as a pretext to deploy the Army domestically. Yes that's illegal but who cares about that any more.
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Again, the logical endpoint of the Great War on Terror from the perspective of 2000s Bush-haters was that the government could designate anyone/anything it didn't like a terror thread/WMD and use the full might of the unitary executive to obliterate it.
It took 2 decades to come to fruition, but...
It took 2 decades to come to fruition, but...
December 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Again, the logical endpoint of the Great War on Terror from the perspective of 2000s Bush-haters was that the government could designate anyone/anything it didn't like a terror thread/WMD and use the full might of the unitary executive to obliterate it.
It took 2 decades to come to fruition, but...
It took 2 decades to come to fruition, but...
This is great. My vote aligned with the crowd except I am sad to see recency bias killing Ted Sarandos' well deserved advancement to the next round. It will be a real tough later on but I think the last round will be Thiel vs Musk and I think Thiel should win that but after this year I am not 100%.
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
December 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is great. My vote aligned with the crowd except I am sad to see recency bias killing Ted Sarandos' well deserved advancement to the next round. It will be a real tough later on but I think the last round will be Thiel vs Musk and I think Thiel should win that but after this year I am not 100%.
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Truth isn't a justification under fascism
December 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Truth isn't a justification under fascism
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most of the people fired actually made factual posts about Kirk.
December 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
most of the people fired actually made factual posts about Kirk.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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Here are a few reasons off the top of my head why creators don’t LOVE AI:
1. It has been used to create videos of them saying inappropriate things
2. It has been used to sexually harass them
3. It has been used to scam their fans
4. It directly competes with their business and devalues their work
1. It has been used to create videos of them saying inappropriate things
2. It has been used to sexually harass them
3. It has been used to scam their fans
4. It directly competes with their business and devalues their work
December 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Here are a few reasons off the top of my head why creators don’t LOVE AI:
1. It has been used to create videos of them saying inappropriate things
2. It has been used to sexually harass them
3. It has been used to scam their fans
4. It directly competes with their business and devalues their work
1. It has been used to create videos of them saying inappropriate things
2. It has been used to sexually harass them
3. It has been used to scam their fans
4. It directly competes with their business and devalues their work
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This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants