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Gleichschaltung, coming to an institution near you. Faster than you can learn to spell "Gleichschaltung."
The appropriate constitutional response at this point is for the opposition candidate to announce that the day she is inaugurated, everyone who accepted an irregular Trump pardon gets a Hellfire missile.
Trump just commuted the 7-year sentence of David Gentile, a private equity leader who helped defraud thousands of people out of some $1.6 billion, almost as soon as his prison stint began.
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The appropriate constitutional response at this point is for the opposition candidate to announce that the day she is inaugurated, everyone who accepted an irregular Trump pardon gets a Hellfire missile.
"Strong floor, no ceiling" sounds like a motivational phrase for Kegel exercises.
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"Strong floor, no ceiling" sounds like a motivational phrase for Kegel exercises.
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
It turns out there were no survivors in the first five attacks because Pete Hegseth ordered them to be murdered, probably because they were innocent.
Unless, as some have pointed out, this target was actually running drugs, in which case we have to ask why there have been no survivors in the previous five attacks.
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It turns out there were no survivors in the first five attacks because Pete Hegseth ordered them to be murdered, probably because they were innocent.
My preferred candidate in the 2028 presidential primary will declare that she will direct the attorney general to seek the death penalty against Pete Hegseth.
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
My preferred candidate in the 2028 presidential primary will declare that she will direct the attorney general to seek the death penalty against Pete Hegseth.
Congratulations to the Secretary of Defense for ordering a hundred murders right before the president established the precedent that pardons are invalid.
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Congratulations to the Secretary of Defense for ordering a hundred murders right before the president established the precedent that pardons are invalid.
Everyone who got a Trump "pardon" should be shitting their pants now.
November 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Everyone who got a Trump "pardon" should be shitting their pants now.
Harriet Tubman is the worst.
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Harriet Tubman is the worst.
I'm glad Black Friday is no longer an opportunity to circulate racist videos.
November 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I'm glad Black Friday is no longer an opportunity to circulate racist videos.
Sarah Beckstrom might be alive if anyone in her chain of command had refused illegal orders.
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Sarah Beckstrom might be alive if anyone in her chain of command had refused illegal orders.
What the American oligarchs should think about, but are too stupid to, is that if the rule of law in this country was completely ineffective at constraining Donald Trump, why would it protect them in the future?
November 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
What the American oligarchs should think about, but are too stupid to, is that if the rule of law in this country was completely ineffective at constraining Donald Trump, why would it protect them in the future?
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There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.
Biden was right that by 2009, the US had been in Afghanistan far too long and could never win.
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Biden was right that by 2009, the US had been in Afghanistan far too long and could never win.
Lord, grant me the Christmas present the Romanians got in 1989.
Q: You said this suspect was flown in under the Biden admin. But was he granted asylum under your administration?
TRUMP: Uh, when it comes to asylum, when they're flown in, it's very hard to get them out no matter how you want to do it. But we're gonna be getting them all out now. *slams table*
TRUMP: Uh, when it comes to asylum, when they're flown in, it's very hard to get them out no matter how you want to do it. But we're gonna be getting them all out now. *slams table*
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Lord, grant me the Christmas present the Romanians got in 1989.
Notably not in attendance: the man who sent her there illegally so she could be killed. He's not ruining his Thanksgiving.
New — In light of WV guard member Sarah Beckstrom’s death, a call has gone out to all National Guard members in the DC area asking them to come to the Eisenhower Memorial to line the procession from the hospital.
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Notably not in attendance: the man who sent her there illegally so she could be killed. He's not ruining his Thanksgiving.
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National Guard members were not getting shot in DC under Joe Biden.
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
National Guard members were not getting shot in DC under Joe Biden.
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But here’s the thing:
Whose house has been firebombed?
Maybe there will be a first, but most of these guys fear threats made by some guy in front of a screen in an office in St Petersburg
And if they won’t stand up, it would be great if they acknowledged that compared to Dems they’re cowards
Whose house has been firebombed?
Maybe there will be a first, but most of these guys fear threats made by some guy in front of a screen in an office in St Petersburg
And if they won’t stand up, it would be great if they acknowledged that compared to Dems they’re cowards
“He isn’t worried about Trump’s political wrath; he doesn’t plan to run for reelection.
His fear of speaking out is much more personal: ‘I’d rather my house not get firebombed’”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
His fear of speaking out is much more personal: ‘I’d rather my house not get firebombed’”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Fear Taking Hold Among Indiana Republicans
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.”
www.theatlantic.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
But here’s the thing:
Whose house has been firebombed?
Maybe there will be a first, but most of these guys fear threats made by some guy in front of a screen in an office in St Petersburg
And if they won’t stand up, it would be great if they acknowledged that compared to Dems they’re cowards
Whose house has been firebombed?
Maybe there will be a first, but most of these guys fear threats made by some guy in front of a screen in an office in St Petersburg
And if they won’t stand up, it would be great if they acknowledged that compared to Dems they’re cowards
What is an "auto loan"? Is that for people who can't afford an automobile?
*sips sherry*
*sips sherry*
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What is an "auto loan"? Is that for people who can't afford an automobile?
*sips sherry*
*sips sherry*
When is the last time Astead Herndon wrote an article?
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
When is the last time Astead Herndon wrote an article?
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Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
Sorry, but the way not to get 200,000 Afghan refugees refouled and murdered was to vote for the black lady. All their buddies in the US armed forces that voted for Trump voted to murder them.
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Sorry, but the way not to get 200,000 Afghan refugees refouled and murdered was to vote for the black lady. All their buddies in the US armed forces that voted for Trump voted to murder them.
So how is it legal to steal someone's likeness for profit like this?
A racist TV show made with the assistance of Sora has attracted millions of viewers. Tyler Austin Harper argues that it could be “the harbinger of a new entertainment landscape where extremist AI shows will jockey for our attention with more anodyne ones”:
The Will Stancil Show Could Be the Future
A racist TV series making fun of a minor social-media celebrity has attracted millions of viewers—and demonstrates the alarming possibilities of AI.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
So how is it legal to steal someone's likeness for profit like this?
The leader of the free world will respond to this latest incident like he responds to everything else: by threatening to murder people and falling asleep at 2 pm.
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The leader of the free world will respond to this latest incident like he responds to everything else: by threatening to murder people and falling asleep at 2 pm.
I remember when they were going to declare martial law after that podcaster got shot.
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I remember when they were going to declare martial law after that podcaster got shot.
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The GOP entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to gerrymander everyone else, and nobody was going to gerrymander them. In half a hundred places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
COOK POLITICAL: Republicans “may have had a blind spot: the extent to which Democrats could push .. in blue states to fight back.” 🤡
@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...
@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The GOP entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to gerrymander everyone else, and nobody was going to gerrymander them. In half a hundred places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.