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The Best Political Cartoons on the Democratic Party www.usnews.com/cartoons/dem...
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Game of the year! In Öoo you play a cute little caterpillar trying to escape the labrynthine intestines of a monstrous bird using only the bombs in your butt. Trust me, play it. The design of this four-hour puzzle game is just flawless youtu.be/tSJyHEjyGuA?...
Öoo | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Games Must Play
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December 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Trump lets another drug trafficker out of prison because his father happens to be a Republican member of Congress.
January 17, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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More of this.

There is literally never, ever a time when an American government employee on an American street should dress like a soldier

(except when Active Duty does those funny drive-across-Arkansas convoys when 20 Humvees line up for one gas pump. and even THEY have to wear glow belts!)
Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
January 18, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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So, as terrifying as I find it, I am now also on Instagram - if you want to find me there, my details are attached.

📷: @bearly_politics

Never too old to learn, right.
January 18, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work.

Really depraved shit.
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.

Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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Fascinating to see the timing of all this. Their reputations were in tatters in Denmark bc their poor research practices had been exposed, so they turned to the guy they knew would be sympathetic, whose sole goal is undermining vaccines. And voila, they got $1.6M to conduct a wildly unethical study.
Truly damning investigative reporting in @rollingstone.com on how Danish researchers long favored by RFK.Jr for their studies which cast doubt on vaccines,secured a no bid grant to fund the unethical trial in Guinea Bissau. This read is worth your time.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
HHS Gave a $1.6 Million Grant to a Controversial Vaccine Study. These Emails Show How That Happened
Two Danish researchers faced accusations of “questionable research practices” as RFK Jr.’s top appointees made their study a “funding priority.”
www.rollingstone.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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We’re visiting a high-school friend of my wife and LOOK AT THIS PAINTING HER DAUGHTER DID
January 17, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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This is not about keeping Russia/China out. If anything threatening our nato allies is a gift to them. Forget spheres of influence and welcome to neo-royalism.

www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Trump announces 10% tariff on eight European countries until there is a deal to buy Greenland
Trump said the 10% duties on eight European countries would increase to 25% on June 1 unless a deal is reached.
www.nbcnews.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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🚨Border Patrol whistleblower outraged by ICE's conduct exposes over a dozen secret ICE programs in documents leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-...
21 Secret ICE Programs Revealed
Leaked documents detail the dizzying scope of ICE operations
www.kenklippenstein.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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BIG: The case for Tren de Aragua being invading narco-terrorists, key to Trump's attacks on Venezuela and immigrant communities at home, is just another manufactured threat, as revealed in a trove of intel documents we provided to @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com. #FOIA www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story
Hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rather than a coordinated terrorist threat.
www.wired.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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Who did this> 🤣
January 16, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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President Trump is keeping the Nobel Peace Prize medal presented to him by its recipient, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-mee...
Trump accepts Nobel Peace Prize medal from Venezuelan opposition leader Machado
President Donald Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at the White House Thursday, where she said she presented him with her Nobel medal.
abcnews.go.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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Again it is something that people in previous eras have commented on but I still find it just astonishing to witness in my own: fascism is somehow the natural ideology of loser men, just all of our most pathetic and contemptible instincts rendered into a worldview.
January 16, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?
Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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1/EU grovels as Greenland tries to assert itself. This is not how you project strength. But how you become a vassal.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Europe goes all out to make a deal with Trump on Greenland
EU governments say a military confrontation would be catastrophic for NATO — and see finding a negotiated solution their only option.
www.politico.eu
January 14, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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Germany questioning US dependence is the natural outcome of the enshittification of US power.
www.wired.com/story/enshit...
January 15, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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NYTimes has truly outdone itself with this latest in its "ask white guys in diner" genre. Thank goodness we get a perspective on what's happening in Minneapolis from people in **Nisswa** who probably mean Brainerd when they say they "prefer not to go the city anymore" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
One State, Two Very Different Views of Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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“These universities say over and over again, ‘These deals do not compromise our autonomy, our
independence, our academic freedom.’ Of course that’s not true.” www.chronicle.com/article/rand...
Randall Kennedy Is Afraid. He Thinks You Should Be Too.
The Harvard law professor on federal extortion, DEI overreach, and why defeating Trump in court won’t be enough.
www.chronicle.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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Police chief says there are 600 cops on the Minneapolis police department and 3,000 ICE goons terrorizing the city.
The Mayor and Police Chief will be holding a press conference at 10:15 p.m. tonight. A livestream is available at www.youtube.com/live/IyGSmBy...
January 14, 2026 Press conference
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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Frey: "I've seen conduct from ICE that is disgusting & intolerable. If it were your city, it would unacceptable there too. ICE can leave & this massive deployment can come to an end. We have filed litigation to hopefully make it so, but I'm deeply concerned we don't have that kind of time."
January 15, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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“Trump does not see himself as a constitutional officer. … Trump is an anti-constitutional figure — whose very presence on the American political scene is nothing less than a full-spectrum assault on republican government and democracy.”
Compelling analysis.
Thanks @jamellebouie.net
Opinion | This Is Not How a Normal President Speaks
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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Bezos ruining the Post was always about protecting himself and Amazon, not the Post
Would you look at that? Jeffy did all that craven genuflecting to dear leader and turned the entire opinion section into an instrument of flattery and the feds are still pretending press freedom and the First Amendment are imaginary

This reeks of Orbanism. Congrats Jeffy, you played yourself.
F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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"Imagine if President Barack Obama — or God forbid, Bernie Sanders — decided to have the Justice Department open a criminal investigation into the chairman of the Federal Reserve." rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Wall Street Is Dancing While Trump Assaults Free Markets. It Won't End Well
Donald Trump has been attacking free markets, including by going after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. It won't end well.
rollingstone.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:41 AM