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Good way to understand this administration is that they really, really want a war and don’t particularly care with whom
November 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Nearly a million views on a completely made up, obviously false claim (Cook + LA make up <10% of murders, not half). Zero fact checking from the Free Press and a pitiful “community note” added by Twitter hours after it went viral.
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Nearly a million views on a completely made up, obviously false claim (Cook + LA make up <10% of murders, not half). Zero fact checking from the Free Press and a pitiful “community note” added by Twitter hours after it went viral.
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
RIP to all the other superpowers brought down by imperial wars turning into disastrous quagmires, but I’m built different. And stronger. Maybe strong enough to conquer Afghanistan.
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
RIP to all the other superpowers brought down by imperial wars turning into disastrous quagmires, but I’m built different. And stronger. Maybe strong enough to conquer Afghanistan.
Elite accountability is the only way out of our decades-long elite legitimacy crisis
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Elite accountability is the only way out of our decades-long elite legitimacy crisis
One of the shames here is that LLMs are a genuinely useful and interesting technology, being smothered and dragged into infamy by VCs and marketers demanding immediate Disruption to cover their overhyped short-term bets.
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
One of the shames here is that LLMs are a genuinely useful and interesting technology, being smothered and dragged into infamy by VCs and marketers demanding immediate Disruption to cover their overhyped short-term bets.
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‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
This is about 2/3 of the way to what we’d need for Reconstruction II
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is about 2/3 of the way to what we’d need for Reconstruction II
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it’s vitally important for the future of this country that this wildly unpopular administration is tied directly to its enablers in congress and the courts and used to discredit the entire conservative movement
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
it’s vitally important for the future of this country that this wildly unpopular administration is tied directly to its enablers in congress and the courts and used to discredit the entire conservative movement
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This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
Happy untangling of holiday decorations day to all who celebrate
November 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Happy untangling of holiday decorations day to all who celebrate
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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Important reminder from Jeff Tiedrich:
"when these shitsticks leave office, there are going to be so many broken pieces to glue back together. please don’t scream at the next Democratic president when they don’t have everything fixed after three months. it’s going to take years."
"when these shitsticks leave office, there are going to be so many broken pieces to glue back together. please don’t scream at the next Democratic president when they don’t have everything fixed after three months. it’s going to take years."
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Important reminder from Jeff Tiedrich:
"when these shitsticks leave office, there are going to be so many broken pieces to glue back together. please don’t scream at the next Democratic president when they don’t have everything fixed after three months. it’s going to take years."
"when these shitsticks leave office, there are going to be so many broken pieces to glue back together. please don’t scream at the next Democratic president when they don’t have everything fixed after three months. it’s going to take years."
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Oh cool yeah just let the banks do whatever they want while the tech companies are all speedrunning 2008
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Oh cool yeah just let the banks do whatever they want while the tech companies are all speedrunning 2008
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Thank you to the first responders who subdued the suspect that shot two National Guard members earlier today. It’s an awful thing for a family to learn a loved one was shot while receiving mixed reports of their well being.
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Thank you to the first responders who subdued the suspect that shot two National Guard members earlier today. It’s an awful thing for a family to learn a loved one was shot while receiving mixed reports of their well being.
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The Nuzzi thing is a good reminder that outside the deep structural issues of energy/subsistence, most of what's happening right now is an old-fashioned crisis of elite legitimacy, which sounds comforting until you realize how some of those have turned out in the past
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The Nuzzi thing is a good reminder that outside the deep structural issues of energy/subsistence, most of what's happening right now is an old-fashioned crisis of elite legitimacy, which sounds comforting until you realize how some of those have turned out in the past
<Morbo the new monster voice>
3D PRINTERS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY. GOODNIGHT.
3D PRINTERS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY. GOODNIGHT.
Campbell’s fired the VP recorded saying its meat ‘came from a 3D printer’
Campbell’s fired the VP recorded saying its meat ‘came from a 3D printer’
Welcome to 2025.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
<Morbo the new monster voice>
3D PRINTERS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY. GOODNIGHT.
3D PRINTERS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY. GOODNIGHT.
My fear when these deployments started was that somebody would get hurt.
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
My fear when these deployments started was that somebody would get hurt.
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God this is so depressing given the political response to it
"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
God this is so depressing given the political response to it
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Here's what you can expect from the launch week of Past Lives: three full episodes, a bonus interview with the wonderful @ceaubin.com on Walter Benjamin, and much, much more. www.patreon.com/posts/one-we...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Here's what you can expect from the launch week of Past Lives: three full episodes, a bonus interview with the wonderful @ceaubin.com on Walter Benjamin, and much, much more. www.patreon.com/posts/one-we...
Their entire economic strategy is (1) fire a bunch of government workers and (2) pray for an AI revolution that also gets a lot of people fired. And somehow it’s not working!
The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Their entire economic strategy is (1) fire a bunch of government workers and (2) pray for an AI revolution that also gets a lot of people fired. And somehow it’s not working!
Curses, hornswoggled again!! If only the, ahem, United States Senate had some power to intervene here!
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Curses, hornswoggled again!! If only the, ahem, United States Senate had some power to intervene here!
Tech CEOs love to compare AI to the invention of the atomic bomb. If that’s true, then government *should* hold the keys — not oddball billionaires fixated on whether this or that model will summon the antichrist.
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Tech CEOs love to compare AI to the invention of the atomic bomb. If that’s true, then government *should* hold the keys — not oddball billionaires fixated on whether this or that model will summon the antichrist.