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Brought to you by DOGE and two billionaires who don't care about the consequences of their actions.
Internal Forest Service report finds ‘unpassable trails, unsafe bridges’
A report obtained by The Post says the U.S. Forest Service’s trails are deteriorating rapidly due to staff cuts under the Trump administration, posing risks to visitors.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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And Susie Wiles
December 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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She wandered out of an Oval Office meeting, disappeared for two hours, and no one bothered to come look for her! No one was like “Hold up, it’s 1pm. Where the F is Susie?”

They just went about their day. Because no one needs her. Because in practical terms, Trump isn’t POTUS these days.
December 17, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Something that’s been overlooked in the storm surrounding the Vanity Fair piece on Susie Wiles is that it’s transitive proof of what @jamellebouie.net has said for months:

In a practical sense, Trump is not POTUS.

That job is being performed by a committee of three: Vance, Rubio, and Miller.
December 17, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Most planners I know are familiar with this playbook, and will also point out that democratically mandated public consultation processes are often manipulated to play into this, which is how we get watered down (or non existent) rather than transformative project outcomes.
Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?”

A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages.

It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning.

Since then, it’s only gotten worse.

Do the steps sound familiar?
December 8, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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It all matters, yes, but this matters more than Susie Wiles, matters more, even, than the travel ban; more than all of Trump’s wars actual & looming (Venezuela, Ukraine, Somalia, Gaza) combined. It’s like the Cuban Missile Crisis, only U.S. is aiming it missiles at everyone, starting with itself.
December 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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i've had this theory since middle school that any given Republican is less than five questions away from "black people are genetically inferior and the law should reflect that" or shyly quitting the conversation and it's never been disproven

it's all the same fight we've been having since Jamestown
December 16, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts

www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
What the hell? Are old-line lefites going to line up to defend Chomsky's heinous - that's right, heinous and disgusting - relationship with America's most well-known pedophile? Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon at Epstein parties? Say it ain't so!
Noam Chomsky’s emails to Jeffrey Epstein display none of the fawning chatter found from, say, Larry Summers. And he does not appear to have been co-opted by whatever access Epstein provided.
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us
Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Four days before Epstein went to prison, and six months after Wexner claimed to have cut ties with his former financier, Wexner emailed Epstein to stay he felt sorry.

Why did Wexner think Epstein was going to jail for not being careful, rather than gross sexual misconduct?
December 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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For just about ever, the mainstream press' obsession with what Trump voters in midwest diners say was a sign of his resilience.

Now, NBC has decided to go to THAT McDonalds, which may be a sign the worm has turned.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
December 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.

I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.

🧵
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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None of us are real people to any of them and that goes triple for their victims
December 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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It's a giant game to these fuckers and they're just of different teams, happy to sit down for a beer or SA when off the clock.
December 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Look at *when* he entered Epstein’s world
December 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Holy shit.
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.

abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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There is a not-very-subtle corporate media blackout of their stories.
Sophia Wilansky and Marcus Mitchell, Standing Rock defenders maimed by Energy Transfer's police mercenaries, are still fighting for justice. Their appeals will be heard next week on Tuesday and Thursday in St. Paul.
A Decade After Standing Rock: Shattered But Still Unbowed
Sophia Wilansky, Marcus Mitchell, and Greenpeace vs. Kelcy Warren's tar-sands machine of violence
hillheat.news
December 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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"They seem to have confused masculinity with childishness — petulance, aggression and self-obsession being their idea of maleness. On the other hand, their sway over the federal machinery of state has gone from tangential to central at remarkable speed."
as.ft.com/r/199e371f-8...
Big tech’s ‘elite victim complex’
[FREE TO READ] Acolytes of the broligarchs have a grip on key nodes of Washington’s power ministries
as.ft.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Anti-vaxxism is an ideology with maybe the dumbest combination of pointless and evil that has ever existed bsky.app/profile/nyti...
More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.
Hundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Outbreak Shows No Sign of Slowing
The outbreak shows no signs of slowing, likely because of the affected area’s “lower-than-hoped-for vaccination coverage,” a state health official said.
nyti.ms
December 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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🚨 BREAKING: Oversight Dems received 95,000 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world.

Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
December 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
How is this even possible? IP addresses? I barely know what an IP address even is!
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM