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"No mainstream reporter has the stomach to say, 'By the way, this administration lies all the time and we should assume this is a lie too' after every unsupported statement." They should, because it's true.
Donald Trump and the Power of the Little Lie
The war against Venezuela isn’t about drugs. It’s about the destruction of regular order.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Lovely, from @stephenking.bsky.social, on Rob Reiner:
“I marveled at what a good story the truth could make in the right hands.”
“I marveled at what a good story the truth could make in the right hands.”
Opinion | Stephen King: Why I Hugged Rob Reiner After Watching ‘Stand by Me’
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Lovely, from @stephenking.bsky.social, on Rob Reiner:
“I marveled at what a good story the truth could make in the right hands.”
“I marveled at what a good story the truth could make in the right hands.”
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@laurengw.bsky.social warns that the GOP is “trying to create a pretense to disrupt elections next year.”
Her full conversation with Jen Rubin is up now: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-gops-election-game-plan-cheating
Her full conversation with Jen Rubin is up now: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-gops-election-game-plan-cheating
The GOP's Election Game Plan: Cheating
Lauren Groh-Wargo fights back against efforts to suppress and delegitimize southern voters.
contrarian.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
@laurengw.bsky.social warns that the GOP is “trying to create a pretense to disrupt elections next year.”
Her full conversation with Jen Rubin is up now: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-gops-election-game-plan-cheating
Her full conversation with Jen Rubin is up now: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-gops-election-game-plan-cheating
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This article quotes Jason Lee Van Dyke, a self-described fascist who I found participated in a Patriot Front private chat room, to say he is not a member of Patriot Front and to defend Patriot Front's reputation. The article does not mention his fascist beliefs or his participation in the chat room.
Patriot Front, a White supremacist group, has been quietly building a 124-acre compound in the mountains of east Tennessee, where they train members and host fight clubs. https://cnn.it/44rpU6V
December 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
This article quotes Jason Lee Van Dyke, a self-described fascist who I found participated in a Patriot Front private chat room, to say he is not a member of Patriot Front and to defend Patriot Front's reputation. The article does not mention his fascist beliefs or his participation in the chat room.
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"To Putin, he is a tempting mark & full of weaknesses that are easily exploited.
He is narcissistic, greedy, morally loose, not especially loyal to his country, & fuzzy on the difference bt right & wrong.
For a competent intel service, it would be malpractice not to notice his mental blind spots,"
He is narcissistic, greedy, morally loose, not especially loyal to his country, & fuzzy on the difference bt right & wrong.
For a competent intel service, it would be malpractice not to notice his mental blind spots,"
A very smart take on Trump's alliance with Putin by a veteran of CIA's Russia House, @johnsipher.bsky.social
tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
A tempting mark—why is Trump behaving in ways that benefit Moscow?
Moscow appears to have used these vulnerabilities to influence Donald Trump, and, unfortunately, has done so with considerable success
tomorrowsaffairs.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"To Putin, he is a tempting mark & full of weaknesses that are easily exploited.
He is narcissistic, greedy, morally loose, not especially loyal to his country, & fuzzy on the difference bt right & wrong.
For a competent intel service, it would be malpractice not to notice his mental blind spots,"
He is narcissistic, greedy, morally loose, not especially loyal to his country, & fuzzy on the difference bt right & wrong.
For a competent intel service, it would be malpractice not to notice his mental blind spots,"
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New Rumor Claims Charlie Cox Will Return to the Big Screen as Daredevil in AVENGERS: SECRET WARS
New Rumor Claims Charlie Cox Will Return to the Big Screen as Daredevil in AVENGERS: SECRET WARS
Fans got to see the MCU’s Daredevil, played by Charlie Cox , make his big screen debut in the movie Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), which was awesome, because the studio was able to keep it as a surprise...
buff.ly
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
New Rumor Claims Charlie Cox Will Return to the Big Screen as Daredevil in AVENGERS: SECRET WARS
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Republicans are objectively a pro-crime party. Any "tough on crime" that happens with them is an incidental side effect of their main project, racism. Any media outlet that reports on the pro-crime party as being tougher on crime is lying or just going on auto-pilot
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Republicans are objectively a pro-crime party. Any "tough on crime" that happens with them is an incidental side effect of their main project, racism. Any media outlet that reports on the pro-crime party as being tougher on crime is lying or just going on auto-pilot
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Republicans, who like criminals and want to protect criminals, are always confused when they are like "ok well what if we start charging your guys for the crimes they did" and we're all like "that'd be great. those were crimes."
After briefing on strikes off Venezuela, Sen. Sheehy says “if we're going to question the legal process and the procedural process to target bad guys that this administration is using, then all of you better start cracking open every single Obama kinetic strike”
December 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Republicans, who like criminals and want to protect criminals, are always confused when they are like "ok well what if we start charging your guys for the crimes they did" and we're all like "that'd be great. those were crimes."
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She interviewed with Vanity Fair 11 times and they quoted her extensively from those interviews.
December 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
She interviewed with Vanity Fair 11 times and they quoted her extensively from those interviews.
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For anyone who thinks resistance is futile, I would like to bring your attention to just how much less ambitious the administration’s domestic crackdown goals have become in recent months. They’re unpopular, fighting on all fronts, and on the retreat.
Today, for the first time in six months, Angelenos are living without the National Guard unlawfully deployed in their city.
Our team fought tirelessly against President Trump’s unlawful attempts to militarize American cities, and while the fight is not over, this is a step in the right direction.
Our team fought tirelessly against President Trump’s unlawful attempts to militarize American cities, and while the fight is not over, this is a step in the right direction.
December 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
For anyone who thinks resistance is futile, I would like to bring your attention to just how much less ambitious the administration’s domestic crackdown goals have become in recent months. They’re unpopular, fighting on all fronts, and on the retreat.
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The VF profile notes Wiles was incorrect about violent Jan. 6 defendants receiving greater-than-recommended sentences, but it doesn’t capture how wildly off base she was. I don’t think there was a single above-guidelines sentence given in a J6 felony case. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The VF profile notes Wiles was incorrect about violent Jan. 6 defendants receiving greater-than-recommended sentences, but it doesn’t capture how wildly off base she was. I don’t think there was a single above-guidelines sentence given in a J6 felony case. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
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White supremacist group Patriot Front is building and training at a hidden compound. CNN's Rob Picheta tracked down the location and traveled to Tennessee to learn more.
Read the full story: cnn.it/4aAEL2X
Read the full story: cnn.it/4aAEL2X
Inside the White supremacist compound hiding in plain sight | CNN
Patriot Front, a White supremacist group, has been quietly building a 124-acre compound in the mountains of east Tennessee, where they train members and host fight clubs.
cnn.it
December 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
White supremacist group Patriot Front is building and training at a hidden compound. CNN's Rob Picheta tracked down the location and traveled to Tennessee to learn more.
Read the full story: cnn.it/4aAEL2X
Read the full story: cnn.it/4aAEL2X
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“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing,” Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, tells me. "Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to create a life for themselves, to prosper, to build community...to live a rewarding life.”
Finally, Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, gave us her first interview. It's powerful stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing,” Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, tells me. "Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to create a life for themselves, to prosper, to build community...to live a rewarding life.”
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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Once again, one very easy way for the Paper Of Record™️ to escape the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years would be for it to stop acting in ways that <completely justify> all of the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years
December 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Once again, one very easy way for the Paper Of Record™️ to escape the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years would be for it to stop acting in ways that <completely justify> all of the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years
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On a personal note.
I knew Rob Reiner & his lovely wife Michelle. One of my happiest memories was chatting with them in their kitchen, making sandwiches talking politics, and movies.
They were kind people. Extraordinarily normal and very, very kind.
I love & miss them already.
Life is short.
I knew Rob Reiner & his lovely wife Michelle. One of my happiest memories was chatting with them in their kitchen, making sandwiches talking politics, and movies.
They were kind people. Extraordinarily normal and very, very kind.
I love & miss them already.
Life is short.
December 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
On a personal note.
I knew Rob Reiner & his lovely wife Michelle. One of my happiest memories was chatting with them in their kitchen, making sandwiches talking politics, and movies.
They were kind people. Extraordinarily normal and very, very kind.
I love & miss them already.
Life is short.
I knew Rob Reiner & his lovely wife Michelle. One of my happiest memories was chatting with them in their kitchen, making sandwiches talking politics, and movies.
They were kind people. Extraordinarily normal and very, very kind.
I love & miss them already.
Life is short.
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Fuck the corrupt pair, Witkoff and Kushner. They are selling out the West for Russian bribes. I don't understand why Congressional leaders here in the US are not louder, more outraged about what is happening, more willing to fight.
Zelenskyy rejected Witkoff’s proposal to withdraw troops from Donbas during talks in Berlin, — AFR
Reports say the Ukrainian side insists that any ceasefire must come without prior territorial concessions to Russia. The maximum they are willing to accept is a freeze along the current front line.
Reports say the Ukrainian side insists that any ceasefire must come without prior territorial concessions to Russia. The maximum they are willing to accept is a freeze along the current front line.
December 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Fuck the corrupt pair, Witkoff and Kushner. They are selling out the West for Russian bribes. I don't understand why Congressional leaders here in the US are not louder, more outraged about what is happening, more willing to fight.
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More evidence that universal pre-school is good for students and good for the economy in short (and long) term.
Woah.
Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success.
The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points.
The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.
Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success.
The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points.
The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.
December 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
More evidence that universal pre-school is good for students and good for the economy in short (and long) term.
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What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
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DHS is shockingly incompetent.
December 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
DHS is shockingly incompetent.
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‘USEFUL IDIOT’: “Ex top litigation volunteer at the Anti-Defamation League’s scorching resignation letter is the latest sign of Jewish discontent over the org’s shift during Trump… says they failed to respond aggressively to antisemitism on the right…” www.jta.org/2025/12/12/u...
December 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM
‘USEFUL IDIOT’: “Ex top litigation volunteer at the Anti-Defamation League’s scorching resignation letter is the latest sign of Jewish discontent over the org’s shift during Trump… says they failed to respond aggressively to antisemitism on the right…” www.jta.org/2025/12/12/u...
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Victor is right. Promotion of the word "wokeness" allows right-wingers to pretend their racism and sexism is issues-oriented rather than hate-oriented.
Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Victor is right. Promotion of the word "wokeness" allows right-wingers to pretend their racism and sexism is issues-oriented rather than hate-oriented.
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Abolition, women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement are just “wokeness” now, according to our pliant and credulous media.
Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.
December 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Abolition, women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement are just “wokeness” now, according to our pliant and credulous media.
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It has been 18 years since the first charge of sexual assault of a child was filed against Epstein. D.A.s have failed the victims several times, continue to do so at the State and Federal levels. Stop posting photos of the torture instruments. We want to see photos of the sexual deviants’ arrests.
December 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It has been 18 years since the first charge of sexual assault of a child was filed against Epstein. D.A.s have failed the victims several times, continue to do so at the State and Federal levels. Stop posting photos of the torture instruments. We want to see photos of the sexual deviants’ arrests.