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every time someone praises Nuzzi as a stylist it becomes clear to me that they only read Politico and maybe the NYT (but not the magazine). a single Roth blog would turn their brain into mush
no one else has been so consistently artful in describing the last decade of conservative politics than David Roth, and for this accursèd talent the least he deserves is a Pulitzer defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
every time someone praises Nuzzi as a stylist it becomes clear to me that they only read Politico and maybe the NYT (but not the magazine). a single Roth blog would turn their brain into mush
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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The biggest "no, you don't get it, these people are BAD" movie since Goodfellas
I guess one lesson of Sicario is that the war on drugs is, at its foundation, the ultra-cynical management of illicit narcotics flows through the protection/co-optation of “favored” drug lords while taking an (at least public) hardline against the rest. Looks like folks have taken that to heart!
December 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The biggest "no, you don't get it, these people are BAD" movie since Goodfellas
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this guy is a fucking idiot
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
this guy is a fucking idiot
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This campaign has conducted the best GOTV effort I’ve ever been targeted by and I’m very excited to vote for Aftyn Behn tomorrow
VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE THAT WILL WORK TO EARN YOUR VOTE
Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!
Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!
December 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This campaign has conducted the best GOTV effort I’ve ever been targeted by and I’m very excited to vote for Aftyn Behn tomorrow
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"Prosecute ICE" should be a basic position for Democrats at this point.
December 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"Prosecute ICE" should be a basic position for Democrats at this point.
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TPUSA have been at this long enough that the default assumption of their involvement in literally anything that has to do with college campuses should be an assumption of bad faith based on a long and well-documented history of bad faith actions
Assumption of good faith is a solid heuristic.
But also "assumptions" are guesses you make before you have the evidence. You are allowed to retract good faith once more evidence arises.
But also, you shouldn't assume good faith from folks who are your avowed enemies.
But also "assumptions" are guesses you make before you have the evidence. You are allowed to retract good faith once more evidence arises.
But also, you shouldn't assume good faith from folks who are your avowed enemies.
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
TPUSA have been at this long enough that the default assumption of their involvement in literally anything that has to do with college campuses should be an assumption of bad faith based on a long and well-documented history of bad faith actions
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A police stop is enough to make someone less likely to vote, recent research has found. "Voting is a reflection of our belief that we’re part of the system, that our voice matters."
A Police Stop Is Enough to Make Someone Less Likely to Vote
New research shows how the communities that are most heavily policed are pushed away from politics and from having a say in changing policy.
boltsmag.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A police stop is enough to make someone less likely to vote, recent research has found. "Voting is a reflection of our belief that we’re part of the system, that our voice matters."
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In college, I had to read the Department of Defense’s Law of War manual.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In college, I had to read the Department of Defense’s Law of War manual.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
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This is probably both fraud and perjury and I look forward to his defense being that he’s too stupid to form a sentence.
Body cam shows an immigration agent asking ChatGPT for help writing a report:
“During surveillance in the area, I observed a male subject loitering while seated in a vehicle. Based on his behavior, I approached and initiated a consensual encounter.”
ICYMI:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...
“During surveillance in the area, I observed a male subject loitering while seated in a vehicle. Based on his behavior, I approached and initiated a consensual encounter.”
ICYMI:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...
Bodycam footage from Operation Midway Blitz released: ‘It’s all about arresting people’
The group of videos made public through the Loevy & Loevy law firm includes footage from agents who responded to controversial arrest operations in the Little Village and Irving Park neighborho…
www.chicagotribune.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is probably both fraud and perjury and I look forward to his defense being that he’s too stupid to form a sentence.
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
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“we failed a veteran” is the ultimate story here and if I were a soldier currently being asked to do war crimes on Trump’s behalf I would consider this instructive
Suspect in National Guard attack struggled with 'dark isolation' as community raised concerns
Emails obtained by the Associated Press show that the Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House had been unraveling for years.
www.latimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“we failed a veteran” is the ultimate story here and if I were a soldier currently being asked to do war crimes on Trump’s behalf I would consider this instructive
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Brain eating vending machine
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Brain eating vending machine
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Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
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Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience
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Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
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An actual journalist might ask her to define what she thinks a Third World country is and why
WELKER: Is the administration ending all legal immigration into the United States?
KRISTI NOEM: The president is absolutely determined to stop all processes at this point in time from third world countries
KRISTI NOEM: The president is absolutely determined to stop all processes at this point in time from third world countries
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
An actual journalist might ask her to define what she thinks a Third World country is and why
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They keep booking these guests thinking that they’re informing Americans by asking “tough questions” into the air, and having them ignored.
If you want answers, invite actual experts. Look some people up. Do some “reporting” and find someone knowledgeable. Come on, already.
If you want answers, invite actual experts. Look some people up. Do some “reporting” and find someone knowledgeable. Come on, already.
Kristi Noem refuses to directly answer a question about what Trump means by "remigration" -- a word that, as Kristen Welker notes, is often invoked by white nationalists in Europe
November 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
They keep booking these guests thinking that they’re informing Americans by asking “tough questions” into the air, and having them ignored.
If you want answers, invite actual experts. Look some people up. Do some “reporting” and find someone knowledgeable. Come on, already.
If you want answers, invite actual experts. Look some people up. Do some “reporting” and find someone knowledgeable. Come on, already.
This is why you HOLD THE LINE ON AI
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This is why you HOLD THE LINE ON AI
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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Not surprised at all!
And how many women right now are being threatened by their abusers with “if you leave me I’m calling ICE.”
Dream scenario for abusers.
And how many women right now are being threatened by their abusers with “if you leave me I’m calling ICE.”
Dream scenario for abusers.
I mean, the original article on this heavily implies his dad turned his mom in to win the custody battle. www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
Woman with family connection to White House press secretary arrested by ICE in Revere
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere.
www.wcvb.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Not surprised at all!
And how many women right now are being threatened by their abusers with “if you leave me I’m calling ICE.”
Dream scenario for abusers.
And how many women right now are being threatened by their abusers with “if you leave me I’m calling ICE.”
Dream scenario for abusers.
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There’s at least one GOP super PAC pushing last-minute phone banking efforts for the past couple weeks, TN Republicans are frantic behind the scenes about losing a seat they won by 20+ last cycle
Special elections are legendarily squirrelly but whatever happens next, that’s NOT nothing
Special elections are legendarily squirrelly but whatever happens next, that’s NOT nothing
of course you're paying attention to this race but I thought this write-up was very good, first I'd heard of her
Aftyn Behn: Running for Congress in deep red Tennessee
Aftyn Behn is trying to flip a seat Donald Trump won by 22 points in a December special election. Grocery bills and corporate taxes dominate.
prospect.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
There’s at least one GOP super PAC pushing last-minute phone banking efforts for the past couple weeks, TN Republicans are frantic behind the scenes about losing a seat they won by 20+ last cycle
Special elections are legendarily squirrelly but whatever happens next, that’s NOT nothing
Special elections are legendarily squirrelly but whatever happens next, that’s NOT nothing
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'Is My Refrigerator Woke?' the most controversial op-ed of all time, comments closed after 16,323 pages of heated debate
No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
'Is My Refrigerator Woke?' the most controversial op-ed of all time, comments closed after 16,323 pages of heated debate