Caliphate Pontificus
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"Your the reason this country is going to a Socialistic nation"—Some dumb right-winger
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The Trump administration is planning to stop recommending most childhood vaccines. This is the Make America Sick Agenda. Children will die. RFK Jr. must resign.
December 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The Trump administration is planning to stop recommending most childhood vaccines. This is the Make America Sick Agenda. Children will die. RFK Jr. must resign.
Murder. "It is difficult to argue drug running boat in Caribbean poses instant, overwhelming threat that left no moment for deliberation in protecting the USA. The vessel in 2 September attack was allegedly unarmed, had turned around back to Venezuela." #cspan #cspanwj www.usni.org/magazines/pr...
Operation Southern Spear, the U.S. Military, and Lawlessness
The administration has bypassed critical international law thresholds with potentially devastating precedence for the international order and, more concerning, U.S. domestic law.
www.usni.org
December 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Murder. "It is difficult to argue drug running boat in Caribbean poses instant, overwhelming threat that left no moment for deliberation in protecting the USA. The vessel in 2 September attack was allegedly unarmed, had turned around back to Venezuela." #cspan #cspanwj www.usni.org/magazines/pr...
USA really really doesn't want investigations into war crimes by its client state Israel, so it's going after judges. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
#cspan #cspanwj
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US sanctions more ICC judges, citing ruling on Israeli war crime probe
International court has repeatedly decried US sanctions amid its ongoing investigation into Gaza war crimes.
www.aljazeera.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
USA really really doesn't want investigations into war crimes by its client state Israel, so it's going after judges. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
#cspan #cspanwj
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AI data centers are straining electrical grids across the country so that our president can post an AI-generated video of himself dumping shit on protesters from a fighter jet.
Monster of 2025: AI slop
The drive for a frictionless existence has sloppified our offline lives, too.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
AI data centers are straining electrical grids across the country so that our president can post an AI-generated video of himself dumping shit on protesters from a fighter jet.
Right-wing media outlets continue to work hand in glove with the trump administration to mislead and bamboozle their audiences' understanding of key events like Trump keeping classified docs in his bathroom.
#cspan #cspanwj
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While the Trump administration’s document releases have proven little “deep state” corruption, its strategy of chumming the water with red meat for the MAGA base works on the Trumpist propaganda corps.
The Trump administration’s chum cycle
www.mediamatters.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Late stage capitalism: Privatize profits, socialize losses. Despite being awash in cash, local communities are being forced to subsidize data centers' electricity and water usage. www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/d... #cspan #cspanwj
Senate trio questions DC operators over rising energy costs
: Amazon, meanwhile, claims its datacenters are helping ratepayers despite tons of evidence to the contrary
www.theregister.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Late stage capitalism: Privatize profits, socialize losses. Despite being awash in cash, local communities are being forced to subsidize data centers' electricity and water usage. www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/d... #cspan #cspanwj
Trump is a transactional psychopath, incapable of anything resembling empathy, especially for those who dared call out his heinous words and deeds. Rob Reiner was a pretty dang good artist.
#cspan #cspanwj
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President Donald Trump blamed Rob Reiner's outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director’s killing, delivering the unsubstantiated claim in a shocking post that seemed intent on decrying his opponents even in the face of a tragedy.
Trump levels political attack on Rob Reiner in inflammatory post after his killing
President Donald Trump is blaming Rob Reiner’s outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director’s killing, delivering the unsubstantiated claim in a post that seemed intent on decrying his opponents even in the face of a tragedy.
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending.
We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
December 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
nbcnews.to
December 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
What if someone negotiated for a group with 340 million members?
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
December 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Official urges mediators to stop Israeli attacks, numbering 738 since ceasefire began, Gaza authorities say.
Hamas says no Gaza truce phase two while Israel ‘continues violations’
Official urges mediators to stop Israeli attacks, numbering 738 since ceasefire began, Gaza authorities say.
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Plutonomy, just as Piketty predicted more than 15 years ago.
[Consumers are] must pay for premium options as thats the majority of what’s for sale.
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p... #cspan #cspanwj
[Consumers are] must pay for premium options as thats the majority of what’s for sale.
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p... #cspan #cspanwj
Selling the Poor on Spending Like They’re Rich - The American Prospect
How plutonomy, premiumization, and social media squeeze the middle class.
prospect.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Plutonomy, just as Piketty predicted more than 15 years ago.
[Consumers are] must pay for premium options as thats the majority of what’s for sale.
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p... #cspan #cspanwj
[Consumers are] must pay for premium options as thats the majority of what’s for sale.
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p... #cspan #cspanwj
December 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
December 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Despite being an driving our economy, public higher eds have been systematically starved by increasingly conservative & right-wing politics at federal & state levels. Done to exert political influence on them. When they're worried about funding, it's easier to bring them to heel.
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If public research university tuition were equivalent in inflation-adjusted terms to what it was in the 1950s, the elite media & parents' panic about everything college-related, including student accommodations & the obsession with getting into elite private schools, would almost totally vanish.
December 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Trump's version of "tough on crime" while supposedly being worried about drug trafficking.
#cspan #cspanwj
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Foreign cocaine trafficer pardoned by Trump out of jail: "Trump's extraordinary move could strain U.S. credibility in Latin America, embolden corrupt actors and open the Republican president to accusations from critics that he is undermining decades of U.S. efforts" to fight drugs. Via Reuters
Former Honduran president released from US prison after Trump pardon
President Donald Trump, who has painted himself as a fearsome warrior against illegal drugs, pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year sentence after being c...
www.reuters.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Trump DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon describes the crackdown on schools & speech in response to alleged antisemitism.
Minutes later, asked about Nick Fuentes, she says: “the antidote to speech that you don't like is more speech. It isn't shutting down speech.”
Minutes later, asked about Nick Fuentes, she says: “the antidote to speech that you don't like is more speech. It isn't shutting down speech.”
December 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🧵 A bot network tried to help the GOP retain power in Virginia by influencing the Attorney General election.
It failed: Democrats won a triplex in the state govt: Gov, LtGov, AG seats.
This outcome could affect the 2026 midterms and subsequent presidential elections.
It failed: Democrats won a triplex in the state govt: Gov, LtGov, AG seats.
This outcome could affect the 2026 midterms and subsequent presidential elections.
December 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I misread this as Top Gun traders
December 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Sinclair broadcasting's right-wing lying and distortion of crime and safety in the city of Baltimore. www.cjr.org/business_of_... #cspan #cspanwj
What it’s like to watch Sinclair—and why that’s the story
Last Wednesday night, the evening news anchors on Sinclair’s flagship station, WBFF in Baltimore, introduced the 10pm broadcast with the story of a double murder. Over the course of the hour-long prog...
www.cjr.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Sinclair broadcasting's right-wing lying and distortion of crime and safety in the city of Baltimore. www.cjr.org/business_of_... #cspan #cspanwj
The homicide stories that get reported are typically from a "perpetrated by an individual" angle. But the *actual* things killing Americans stem from corporate pollution and poverty from inequality, so those things get much less mention comparatively. #cspan #cspanwj
What Americans Die from?
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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The first fascistic tactic to look out for is a hate campaign against a particular religious, racial, or ethnic group. Like, for example, let's say a candidate emerges who calls all people of one nationality "rapists" and "criminals," while promising to ban immigrants from only one religious group.
August 1, 2024 at 9:39 PM
The first fascistic tactic to look out for is a hate campaign against a particular religious, racial, or ethnic group. Like, for example, let's say a candidate emerges who calls all people of one nationality "rapists" and "criminals," while promising to ban immigrants from only one religious group.