Mark De Bree
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🚨BREAKING: DOJ reached a new low Friday after Pam Bondi publicly thanked Donald Trump for ordering the department to investigate ties convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — a longtime friend and former confidant of Trump’s — had with several prominent Democrats and institutions.
In New Low for DOJ, Bondi Thanks Trump for Ordering Probe of Dems' Alleged Epstein Ties
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
🚨BREAKING: DOJ reached a new low Friday after Pam Bondi publicly thanked Donald Trump for ordering the department to investigate ties convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — a longtime friend and former confidant of Trump’s — had with several prominent Democrats and institutions.
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This Waitrose ad is better than the majority of movies I've seen this year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...
Keira Knightley stars in Waitrose’s Christmas ‘mini romcom’ ad
YouTube video by Daily Record
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This Waitrose ad is better than the majority of movies I've seen this year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...
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President Trump apparently thinks it's time to throw a lavish party for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who will host a U.S.-Saudi investment summit the next day.
The Trump Organization is currently working on Trump Tower Jeddah and also has plans for a property in Riyadh. trib.al/UybFL62
The Trump Organization is currently working on Trump Tower Jeddah and also has plans for a property in Riyadh. trib.al/UybFL62
November 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
President Trump apparently thinks it's time to throw a lavish party for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who will host a U.S.-Saudi investment summit the next day.
The Trump Organization is currently working on Trump Tower Jeddah and also has plans for a property in Riyadh. trib.al/UybFL62
The Trump Organization is currently working on Trump Tower Jeddah and also has plans for a property in Riyadh. trib.al/UybFL62
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New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
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#MeanwhileInCanada 🍁 #Canada
Moose set loose in B.C. Interior with the help of a Canadian flag
Mountie, conservation officer used flag to coax moose into forest after B.C. woman led it off her property
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Moose set loose in B.C. Interior with the help of a Canadian flag
Mountie, conservation officer used flag to coax moose into forest after B.C. woman led it off her property
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Moose set loose in B.C. Interior with the help of a Canadian flag | CBC News
On a sleepy fall morning in the quiet woods of B.C. Interior, a young moose trapped inside a paddock was led to freedom by an animal lover and a Canadian flag.
www.cbc.ca
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
#MeanwhileInCanada 🍁 #Canada
Moose set loose in B.C. Interior with the help of a Canadian flag
Mountie, conservation officer used flag to coax moose into forest after B.C. woman led it off her property
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Moose set loose in B.C. Interior with the help of a Canadian flag
Mountie, conservation officer used flag to coax moose into forest after B.C. woman led it off her property
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will turn to veterans of City Hall, nonprofit executives and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission — all of them women — to lead his official transition effort, he said on Wednesday. nyti.ms/4nHdyOP
November 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will turn to veterans of City Hall, nonprofit executives and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission — all of them women — to lead his official transition effort, he said on Wednesday. nyti.ms/4nHdyOP
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November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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An alternative currency that (at least theoretically) acquires value from a weaker dollar is cryptocurrency, and Trump *just happens* to hold a multibillion-dollar chunk of crypto.
That’s no small conflict of interest. trib.al/Wyptxco
That’s no small conflict of interest. trib.al/Wyptxco
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
An alternative currency that (at least theoretically) acquires value from a weaker dollar is cryptocurrency, and Trump *just happens* to hold a multibillion-dollar chunk of crypto.
That’s no small conflict of interest. trib.al/Wyptxco
That’s no small conflict of interest. trib.al/Wyptxco
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A.I. could deprive students of “indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought,” Anastasia Berg writes. “This means they will lack the means to understand the world they live in or navigate it effectively.”
Opinion | A.I. Threatens Our Ability to Understand the World
Artificial intelligence threatens students’ most basic skills. If they lose their ability to understand what they read, will they lose their ability to think?
nyti.ms
October 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A.I. could deprive students of “indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought,” Anastasia Berg writes. “This means they will lack the means to understand the world they live in or navigate it effectively.”
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“When you drive a nail successfully, you feel like an absolute superhero. It’s incredible.” This is Nick Offerman delivering an endearingly earnest sermon about a hammer.
Nick Offerman Told Me That Swinging a Hammer Might Change My Life
Nick Offerman knows his way around a workbench, and he knows that DIYing is about more than saving a little money. Hear what he has to say about the humble hammer.
nyti.ms
October 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“When you drive a nail successfully, you feel like an absolute superhero. It’s incredible.” This is Nick Offerman delivering an endearingly earnest sermon about a hammer.
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The comedian Stavros Halkias is hitting career milestones and attempting to pivot from online fame to mainstream roles. But he finds himself in a golden-handcuffs situation. nyti.ms/3JzWegA
October 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The comedian Stavros Halkias is hitting career milestones and attempting to pivot from online fame to mainstream roles. But he finds himself in a golden-handcuffs situation. nyti.ms/3JzWegA
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In Opinion
When Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica on Tuesday, the island "experienced something near to the worst tropical cyclone impacts our planet can produce," writes meteorologist Alan Gerard. "I have little doubt that climate change is contributing to more significant meteorological events."
When Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica on Tuesday, the island "experienced something near to the worst tropical cyclone impacts our planet can produce," writes meteorologist Alan Gerard. "I have little doubt that climate change is contributing to more significant meteorological events."
Opinion | In 40 Years of Forecasting, I’ve Never Seen a Hurricane Like Melissa
Western Jamaica experienced something near to the worst tropical cyclone impacts our planet can produce.
nyti.ms
October 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
In Opinion
When Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica on Tuesday, the island "experienced something near to the worst tropical cyclone impacts our planet can produce," writes meteorologist Alan Gerard. "I have little doubt that climate change is contributing to more significant meteorological events."
When Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica on Tuesday, the island "experienced something near to the worst tropical cyclone impacts our planet can produce," writes meteorologist Alan Gerard. "I have little doubt that climate change is contributing to more significant meteorological events."
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A Dutch center-left party appeared to be the biggest winner in national elections on Wednesday, a strong rebuke to Geert Wilders’s party, according to exit polls.
Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom Loses Seats in Dutch Election
A center-left party was poised to become the country’s largest political party, according to exit polls. The anti-immigrant Party for Freedom, led by Mr. Wilders, was expected to lose 12 seats.
nyti.ms
October 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A Dutch center-left party appeared to be the biggest winner in national elections on Wednesday, a strong rebuke to Geert Wilders’s party, according to exit polls.
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Musk launched Grokipedia, an anti-woke AI caricature of Wikipedia that describes abortion as death and lists “treatment approaches” for being transgender.
www.jezebel.com/elon-musk-ma...
www.jezebel.com/elon-musk-ma...
Elon Musk Makes the Internet Worse Again
Musk launched Grokipedia, an anti-woke AI caricature of Wikipedia that describes abortion as death and lists “treatment approaches” for being transgender.
www.jezebel.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Musk launched Grokipedia, an anti-woke AI caricature of Wikipedia that describes abortion as death and lists “treatment approaches” for being transgender.
www.jezebel.com/elon-musk-ma...
www.jezebel.com/elon-musk-ma...
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JD Vance, the second most powerful person in the country, makes a flatly racist comment about immigrants and barely any mainstream news orgs are writing about it? Kudos to my employer, USA TODAY, for unflinchingly allowing me to share my views.
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Vance seems to think segregation is 'acceptable' if neighbors don't speak English | Opinion
Vice President JD Vance has added a flatly segregationist twist to his broadly unlikable personality.
www.usatoday.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
JD Vance, the second most powerful person in the country, makes a flatly racist comment about immigrants and barely any mainstream news orgs are writing about it? Kudos to my employer, USA TODAY, for unflinchingly allowing me to share my views.
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some thoughts...
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment
October 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some thoughts...
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment
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Is it "trench warfare" if you're the only one in the trenches, lobbing grenades at yourself, your feet slowly rotting from fungal infection, while everyone else is just merrily skeeting about jewel-heisting the Louvre?
NEW: Inside the Trump Administration's Bluesky Invasion
Spoke with some administration officials who said the move was about "reaching new audiences." It's amounted to trench warfare.
www.wired.com/story/inside...
Spoke with some administration officials who said the move was about "reaching new audiences." It's amounted to trench warfare.
www.wired.com/story/inside...
Inside the Trump Adminstration's Bluesky Invasion
On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.
www.wired.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Is it "trench warfare" if you're the only one in the trenches, lobbing grenades at yourself, your feet slowly rotting from fungal infection, while everyone else is just merrily skeeting about jewel-heisting the Louvre?
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Lindsey Halligan Is A Real Lawyer And Any Unsolicited Meltdowns She Has In Your DMs Are OFF THE RECORD
Just, the incompetent stupid of it all.
By @marciej.bsky.social
www.wonkette.com/p/lindsey-ha...
Just, the incompetent stupid of it all.
By @marciej.bsky.social
www.wonkette.com/p/lindsey-ha...
Lindsey Halligan Is A Real Lawyer And Any Unsolicited Meltdowns She Has In Your DMs Are OFF THE RECORD
Just, the incompetent stupid of it all.
www.wonkette.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Lindsey Halligan Is A Real Lawyer And Any Unsolicited Meltdowns She Has In Your DMs Are OFF THE RECORD
Just, the incompetent stupid of it all.
By @marciej.bsky.social
www.wonkette.com/p/lindsey-ha...
Just, the incompetent stupid of it all.
By @marciej.bsky.social
www.wonkette.com/p/lindsey-ha...
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"George Soros Declares Bankruptcy After Paying No Kings Protesters"
“When I agreed to pay everyone who showed up at these things, I had no idea so many people were going to accept my offer,” Soros admitted. “But a deal’s a deal.”
#Satire
www.borowitzreport.com/p/george-sor...
“When I agreed to pay everyone who showed up at these things, I had no idea so many people were going to accept my offer,” Soros admitted. “But a deal’s a deal.”
#Satire
www.borowitzreport.com/p/george-sor...
George Soros Declares Bankruptcy After Paying No Kings Protesters
"A deal's a deal," the billionaire said sadly.
www.borowitzreport.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"George Soros Declares Bankruptcy After Paying No Kings Protesters"
“When I agreed to pay everyone who showed up at these things, I had no idea so many people were going to accept my offer,” Soros admitted. “But a deal’s a deal.”
#Satire
www.borowitzreport.com/p/george-sor...
“When I agreed to pay everyone who showed up at these things, I had no idea so many people were going to accept my offer,” Soros admitted. “But a deal’s a deal.”
#Satire
www.borowitzreport.com/p/george-sor...
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THIS IS ILLEGAL AND KRISTI NOEM NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED!
October 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
THIS IS ILLEGAL AND KRISTI NOEM NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED!
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
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“After two years of war in Gaza and nearly nine months into Donald Trump’s second presidency,” Meher Ahmad writes, the treatment of Zohran Mamdani ”is like a black light, revealing the flecks of anti-Muslim bigotry that still dapple American institutions.”
Opinion | Zohran Mamdani and How to Be a ‘Good’ Muslim in America
When I look at the mayor’s race in New York, here’s what I see.
nyti.ms
October 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“After two years of war in Gaza and nearly nine months into Donald Trump’s second presidency,” Meher Ahmad writes, the treatment of Zohran Mamdani ”is like a black light, revealing the flecks of anti-Muslim bigotry that still dapple American institutions.”
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Kristi Noem is mad they wouldn't let her in to use the restroom in Chicago.
October 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Kristi Noem is mad they wouldn't let her in to use the restroom in Chicago.