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River Tide
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Rejector of our ongoing political fecklessness. What happened to civic engagement? Tans more, rusts less these days.
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THIS is among the most important list of documents the public needs to see.

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
December 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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I’ll take immigrants over pederasts any day.
December 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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honestly unbelievable how bad this is, because it won't happen, but it will detrail naval procurement for the third time in as many decades. First we had the failure of the rumsfeld era DD(X)/CG(X)/LCS architecture and then we slammed face first into sequester cuts and now this
the golden fleet stuff genuinely makes me vibrate with anger
December 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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There are 78 Burke-class destroyers and we're planning to build 99. They say they're going to build "20-25" Trump-class thingys instead of the Burke's replacement.

Taking them at their word, that's a 75% reduction in surface combatant numbers.

Congratulations navalists, you played yourself.
this is just insane
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Much easier to issue these kinds of decisions when the Trump administration is down. That's why you got to keep pounding them when they're down. *This* is when you run up the score.
BREAKING: Huge loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that the Trump administration had lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to execute laws in Illinois. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
December 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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"The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor and then from a sheriff’s deputy assigned to their school...The principal had doubts they even existed." 1/

And now one girl is expelled for fighting back.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. She was the one expelled
A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her
abcnews.go.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Everything Trump does makes sense when you view him as a Russian asset attempting to sabotage the United States
December 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:

"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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What a flood of messages to wake up to.

It's not the dumbest idea I've ever seen, and it's not a battleship, but there's definitely a few people in NAVSEA crying over those renders.

Naming it the Trump class is everything I expected and less. But, I'll believe it when they build it.
December 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Here it is
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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On left:

Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review

On right:

Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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This statement is a sick joke. US foreign policy is a sick joke, being implemented by enemies of truth, freedom & democracy - people driven by personal greed & the opportunity to exploit the suffering of others by trading US power and prestige for death & business opportunities.
December 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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if this was me at a public event mourning my spouse who was violently murdered my kids would either have me committed or never speak to me again
December 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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And i’ve said before, guilt is useless and can easily curdle into resentment. A sense of moral obligation and solidarity on the other hand, can be productive.
December 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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If you still support Trump, I don’t judge you for your choice of political party.

I judge you for your lack of morals, ethics, compassion & humanity.

I judge you for your support of pedophilia, racism, treason & fascism.

So will others. So will history.
December 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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maybe I’m being too optimistic given, well, everything

but I just don’t think this guy running an explicit white nationalist campaign is going to have anywhere near the juice his boss does

he is a repellent man with a repellent message and people are tired of it all
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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"Donald Trump is not just a failure as a President. He is a failure as a human being."
– Rob Reiner
December 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Most US media are oblivious to Melania's role in the Epstein world and do no reporting on it. But Melania was introduced to Trump by Epstein while she was working for a modeling agency which Epstein controlled. This has appeared in UK media, but Melania struggling to keep it unpublished in the US.
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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So last night as I was wondering why Pam Bondi diverted almost 200 National Security attorneys who should be chasing hackers and spies to redact the Epstein files, I remembered that John Eisenberg, who heads it, is the guy who altered the Trump-Zelenskyy transcript.
December 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Not knocking the Admiral, but everyone who "makes use of" AI slop owes everyone else a duty to review the output they request.
December 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM