Jim
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I'm going to start shorting the stocks of all the companies that bend the knee, so when the next Administration reviews things, I'll make mint.
Q: Should Netflix be allowed to buy Warner Brothers?
TRUMP: That's a question. They have a very big market share. I'll be involved in that decision
TRUMP: That's a question. They have a very big market share. I'll be involved in that decision
December 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I'm going to start shorting the stocks of all the companies that bend the knee, so when the next Administration reviews things, I'll make mint.
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there’s a yank who ate one of those dumb chocolate orange things like an apple and the brits are losing their minds
December 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
there’s a yank who ate one of those dumb chocolate orange things like an apple and the brits are losing their minds
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L'esprit de l'escalier
December 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
L'esprit de l'escalier
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Hope, flags, fireworks as Syria starts to celebrate a year without al-Assad
December 8th will mark one year since the capital was liberated from the Assad regime.
@justinsalhani.bsky.social
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
December 8th will mark one year since the capital was liberated from the Assad regime.
@justinsalhani.bsky.social
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Hope, flags, fireworks as Syria starts to celebrate a year without al-Assad
Syrians gathered to celebrate days before the December 8 anniversary, which will mark the day the capital was liberated.
www.aljazeera.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Hope, flags, fireworks as Syria starts to celebrate a year without al-Assad
December 8th will mark one year since the capital was liberated from the Assad regime.
@justinsalhani.bsky.social
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
December 8th will mark one year since the capital was liberated from the Assad regime.
@justinsalhani.bsky.social
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow.
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow.
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
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When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
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Having sent a crappy bill to the Senate the Senate - per tradition - made our bill worse by adding a provision that says that in the event of a run on a bank holding stablecoin deposits, those deposits have a senior claim, above those of law abiding citizens in insured accounts.
December 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Having sent a crappy bill to the Senate the Senate - per tradition - made our bill worse by adding a provision that says that in the event of a run on a bank holding stablecoin deposits, those deposits have a senior claim, above those of law abiding citizens in insured accounts.
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This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir
Semantic quibble: constituents are eligible voters residing in a district, right?
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Semantic quibble: constituents are eligible voters residing in a district, right?
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This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
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THE BOAT WAS HEADED TO SURINAME, NOT THE US, BECAUSE OF COURSE IT WAS.
On left:
President Trump Statement Sept. 2, 2025:
"The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States."
On right:
(Under penalty of law) military leaders told Congress headed to Suriname.
President Trump Statement Sept. 2, 2025:
"The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States."
On right:
(Under penalty of law) military leaders told Congress headed to Suriname.
December 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
THE BOAT WAS HEADED TO SURINAME, NOT THE US, BECAUSE OF COURSE IT WAS.
A gilded prostate-massaging butt plug!
This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.
December 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A gilded prostate-massaging butt plug!
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Harini just makes my heart sing. So many small moments grounded in our entire history, delivered in an entirely unique vision that feels like the future. They are amazing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Harini just makes my heart sing. So many small moments grounded in our entire history, delivered in an entirely unique vision that feels like the future. They are amazing.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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at least once a quarter i stress myself out for no reason because somehow i got convinced it's a week later than it is. then i sit very still and count five things i can see, four things i can touch, three screams i can hear, two people i condemn to hell, and one thing i'd like to beat to a paste.
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
at least once a quarter i stress myself out for no reason because somehow i got convinced it's a week later than it is. then i sit very still and count five things i can see, four things i can touch, three screams i can hear, two people i condemn to hell, and one thing i'd like to beat to a paste.
Terrible, terrible timeline we're in.
Ever wonder what happens to the bad universe when the away team goes back home to their utopia? This. We're stuck here in the nascent Terran Empire.
Ever wonder what happens to the bad universe when the away team goes back home to their utopia? This. We're stuck here in the nascent Terran Empire.
Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Terrible, terrible timeline we're in.
Ever wonder what happens to the bad universe when the away team goes back home to their utopia? This. We're stuck here in the nascent Terran Empire.
Ever wonder what happens to the bad universe when the away team goes back home to their utopia? This. We're stuck here in the nascent Terran Empire.
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So. If you fight CSAM, you can't get an H1-B visa into the US. Nor can your family.
Why does the Trump Administration want to protect CSAM creators and users?
Why does the Trump Administration want to protect CSAM creators and users?
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
So. If you fight CSAM, you can't get an H1-B visa into the US. Nor can your family.
Why does the Trump Administration want to protect CSAM creators and users?
Why does the Trump Administration want to protect CSAM creators and users?
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We simply have never seen anything like the Family Swamp Trump has drained all the money into
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We simply have never seen anything like the Family Swamp Trump has drained all the money into
Make Christmas Magical Again!
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Make Christmas Magical Again!
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The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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Rose and Jack attempting to complete the maiden voyage of the Titanic.
December 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Rose and Jack attempting to complete the maiden voyage of the Titanic.