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I think "woke" was at least partly identified with "irritating" and the way we're rectifying that in Woke 2 is by being scary instead
February 6, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I think "woke" was at least partly identified with "irritating" and the way we're rectifying that in Woke 2 is by being scary instead
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It is also very telling that throughout the episode, the feelings/consequences they are trying to understand belong almost exclusively to the pedophiles, not to the victims. In fact, the word 'victim' only shows up in the transcript TWICE.
February 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
It is also very telling that throughout the episode, the feelings/consequences they are trying to understand belong almost exclusively to the pedophiles, not to the victims. In fact, the word 'victim' only shows up in the transcript TWICE.
Man, it is 2026, I really don’t want to be defending a Clinton, but they tried this shit with Hillary over Benghazi and she whipped em in the hearing. She’s actually smart, way smarter than her husband, and it’s a fucking shame she couldn’t put it down in 2016.
I’m betting Comer will suddenly lose interest in this hearing.
February 6, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Man, it is 2026, I really don’t want to be defending a Clinton, but they tried this shit with Hillary over Benghazi and she whipped em in the hearing. She’s actually smart, way smarter than her husband, and it’s a fucking shame she couldn’t put it down in 2016.
They can only get away with this shit because the Republican Congress lets them. A Democratic Congress can at the very least threaten contempt.
This is 100% perjury. The idea that the Treasury Secretary doesn't know anything about one of the most important figures in crypto facilitating a giant bribe to Trump and then getting pardoned is laughable. He would literally be the only person in the finance world who didn't know about it.
KIM: When Binance founder Zhao pleaded guilty to violating money laundering laws & was sent to prison, Binance injected billions into Trump's business & Zhao was pardoned. Is that a conflict?
BESSENT: I'm unfamiliar with any of that
KIM: Is it a conflict?
BESSENT: Again, I'm not going to respond
BESSENT: I'm unfamiliar with any of that
KIM: Is it a conflict?
BESSENT: Again, I'm not going to respond
February 5, 2026 at 6:05 PM
They can only get away with this shit because the Republican Congress lets them. A Democratic Congress can at the very least threaten contempt.
No shade, no joke, this is a good start.
Seriously, talk to your normies. They're not on the Abolish ICE train. Start moving in this direction and recognize that reforming ICE and especially CBP is going to be a decade-long effort that rolls up from this to criminal convictions for misconduct.
Seriously, talk to your normies. They're not on the Abolish ICE train. Start moving in this direction and recognize that reforming ICE and especially CBP is going to be a decade-long effort that rolls up from this to criminal convictions for misconduct.
SENATE AND HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARE UNITED ON REINING IN THE ABUSES OF ICE
Americans have watched in horror as ICE has terrorized communities across the country
Federal agents can’t continue to cause chaos in our cities while more Americans are killed
We must rein in ICE
Here’s what we're demanding:
Americans have watched in horror as ICE has terrorized communities across the country
Federal agents can’t continue to cause chaos in our cities while more Americans are killed
We must rein in ICE
Here’s what we're demanding:
February 5, 2026 at 7:36 AM
No shade, no joke, this is a good start.
Seriously, talk to your normies. They're not on the Abolish ICE train. Start moving in this direction and recognize that reforming ICE and especially CBP is going to be a decade-long effort that rolls up from this to criminal convictions for misconduct.
Seriously, talk to your normies. They're not on the Abolish ICE train. Start moving in this direction and recognize that reforming ICE and especially CBP is going to be a decade-long effort that rolls up from this to criminal convictions for misconduct.
This is absolutely explosive and all of you should commit this to memory so you can clearly and accurately explain to your Trump-y buddies, who really are not paying that much attention even now, just how lawless this criminal fucking administration is.
NEW: The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today.
"I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..."
Law Dork:
"I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..."
Law Dork:
The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today
"I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..."
www.lawdork.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:31 AM
This is absolutely explosive and all of you should commit this to memory so you can clearly and accurately explain to your Trump-y buddies, who really are not paying that much attention even now, just how lawless this criminal fucking administration is.
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funny how the man who cost the Washington Post hundreds of thousands in subscriptions by canceling the paper's presidential endorsement—almost certainly the most destructive decision in the history of the paper, if not journalism itself—still has his job
February 4, 2026 at 4:47 PM
funny how the man who cost the Washington Post hundreds of thousands in subscriptions by canceling the paper's presidential endorsement—almost certainly the most destructive decision in the history of the paper, if not journalism itself—still has his job
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What Bannon is proposing is illegal.
Brennan Center: “It is illegal to deploy federal troops or armed federal law enforcement to any polling place. In fact, it is a federal crime for anyone in the U.S. military to interfere in elections in any way.”
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Brennan Center: “It is illegal to deploy federal troops or armed federal law enforcement to any polling place. In fact, it is a federal crime for anyone in the U.S. military to interfere in elections in any way.”
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Federal and State Election Laws Ban Federal Forces from Polling Places
Americans should feel safe to vote free from intimidation by the presence of the military or federal agents.
www.brennancenter.org
February 4, 2026 at 9:14 PM
What Bannon is proposing is illegal.
Brennan Center: “It is illegal to deploy federal troops or armed federal law enforcement to any polling place. In fact, it is a federal crime for anyone in the U.S. military to interfere in elections in any way.”
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Brennan Center: “It is illegal to deploy federal troops or armed federal law enforcement to any polling place. In fact, it is a federal crime for anyone in the U.S. military to interfere in elections in any way.”
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Tolerating this behavior encourages it. These people need to be ostracized at every turn. Heckled at shows, egged, doused in red paint, summarily barred from any job you can keep from them, whatever—you cannot act like this much of a smarmy asshole and get away with it.
Some infuriating context for this is Will Lewis -- Bezos's imported Charles Marimow -- smarmily telling reporters that they were the reason the Post's readership was declining nymag.com/intelligence...
February 4, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Tolerating this behavior encourages it. These people need to be ostracized at every turn. Heckled at shows, egged, doused in red paint, summarily barred from any job you can keep from them, whatever—you cannot act like this much of a smarmy asshole and get away with it.
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
Just an unbelievably slimy mother fucker right here. The thugs you hired, for an agency that more than doubled in manpower and 10x'd in budget in just six months, shot and killed a guy ON CAMERA for NO FUCKING REASON besides their own viciousness, and the best you can say is "for what"?
Get fucked.
Get fucked.
Reporter: Do you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti?
Vance: For what?
Vance: For what?
February 4, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Just an unbelievably slimy mother fucker right here. The thugs you hired, for an agency that more than doubled in manpower and 10x'd in budget in just six months, shot and killed a guy ON CAMERA for NO FUCKING REASON besides their own viciousness, and the best you can say is "for what"?
Get fucked.
Get fucked.
I genuinely didn’t appreciate until GOTV 2024 how much of America doesn’t like school or education and just wants to coast.
We only want the good immigrants who study hard and don't commit crimes, unless they try to take little Brayleigh's (28 ACT, 1350 SAT) God-given slot at an Ivy away by being smarter, in which case Korematsu didn't go far enough
February 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I genuinely didn’t appreciate until GOTV 2024 how much of America doesn’t like school or education and just wants to coast.
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you are a TIER 1 activist. the product of years of training and an intensive selection process. your job, your duty, your calling, is to take on the fights that others cannot, the ones that demand someone of your calibre: randomly smashing some shit and then lighting garbage cans on fire.
February 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
you are a TIER 1 activist. the product of years of training and an intensive selection process. your job, your duty, your calling, is to take on the fights that others cannot, the ones that demand someone of your calibre: randomly smashing some shit and then lighting garbage cans on fire.
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Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
February 3, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
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a lotta people glaze revolutions & protests that achieved none of their goals while ignoring the actually successful ones
February 4, 2026 at 12:32 AM
a lotta people glaze revolutions & protests that achieved none of their goals while ignoring the actually successful ones
The Civil Rights movement worked because:
1) It had clear legislative goals.
2) It protested strategically in a way that isolated its opposition and made them look terrible.
Whatever you think of their merits, BLM, Occupy, WTO, etc.-style protests have **completely failed**.
1) It had clear legislative goals.
2) It protested strategically in a way that isolated its opposition and made them look terrible.
Whatever you think of their merits, BLM, Occupy, WTO, etc.-style protests have **completely failed**.
Be a fucking menace to the other side. No protest gets listened to without being at least a hindrance.
February 3, 2026 at 11:08 PM
The Civil Rights movement worked because:
1) It had clear legislative goals.
2) It protested strategically in a way that isolated its opposition and made them look terrible.
Whatever you think of their merits, BLM, Occupy, WTO, etc.-style protests have **completely failed**.
1) It had clear legislative goals.
2) It protested strategically in a way that isolated its opposition and made them look terrible.
Whatever you think of their merits, BLM, Occupy, WTO, etc.-style protests have **completely failed**.
I really want to back up and ask a very basic question: how was it established that he's unwanted? Because almost every single time I've seen this kind of pile-on, it's driven by a small number of angry, motivated insiders, and a big crowd of confused, unsure people who feel something's "off".
This is the stuff that marks someone as a danger.
Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows.
You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.
Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows.
You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.
February 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
I really want to back up and ask a very basic question: how was it established that he's unwanted? Because almost every single time I've seen this kind of pile-on, it's driven by a small number of angry, motivated insiders, and a big crowd of confused, unsure people who feel something's "off".
I honestly think the best way to deal with this is to flood them with complaints.
If you're a US citizen and you write a DHS attorney an email expressing some mild criticism of management of a case, you will instantly be labeled a domestic terrorist and they will start monitoring your email and send agent by to actually terrorize you. This is Kristi Noem's DHS.
Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:18 PM
I honestly think the best way to deal with this is to flood them with complaints.
The most terrifying thing about this obvious, idiotic, false sycophancy is that tens of millions of people—voters!—in this country believe it.
The Economist reports that Trump still has 38% approval. 38% of the public either wants this or doesn't think it's disqualifying.
The Economist reports that Trump still has 38% approval. 38% of the public either wants this or doesn't think it's disqualifying.
SEN. BERNIE MORENO: Not to be hyperbolic, but if you hadn't been elected the auto industry in American would be over
TRUMP: The country would be over. The country would be over!
MORENO: Well. But the auto industry would've been gone first
TRUMP: The country would be over. The country would be over!
MORENO: Well. But the auto industry would've been gone first
February 2, 2026 at 9:49 PM
The most terrifying thing about this obvious, idiotic, false sycophancy is that tens of millions of people—voters!—in this country believe it.
The Economist reports that Trump still has 38% approval. 38% of the public either wants this or doesn't think it's disqualifying.
The Economist reports that Trump still has 38% approval. 38% of the public either wants this or doesn't think it's disqualifying.
They're basically saying, "What-if AI ran a pill mill?" Because that's the most cost-effective thing to do for these people. You're not going to be getting surgery or other treatment this way, but you can get mail-order drugs.
Dr Oz on rural healthcare: "There's no question about it, whether you want it or not -- the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars"
February 2, 2026 at 7:56 PM
They're basically saying, "What-if AI ran a pill mill?" Because that's the most cost-effective thing to do for these people. You're not going to be getting surgery or other treatment this way, but you can get mail-order drugs.
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we could have broken Epstein wide-open if Sasha Baron Cohen had been at the right place and the right time
February 2, 2026 at 6:51 AM
we could have broken Epstein wide-open if Sasha Baron Cohen had been at the right place and the right time
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We all love Chotiner making his clever little remarks but he has been on a run of feeling so (correctly) disdainful of his subjects that it’s bordering on him going
Chotiner: so you’re just a big piece of shit aren’t ya?
Doug Warcrime: I guess so
Chotiner: seems that way
Chotiner: so you’re just a big piece of shit aren’t ya?
Doug Warcrime: I guess so
Chotiner: seems that way
February 2, 2026 at 12:02 AM
We all love Chotiner making his clever little remarks but he has been on a run of feeling so (correctly) disdainful of his subjects that it’s bordering on him going
Chotiner: so you’re just a big piece of shit aren’t ya?
Doug Warcrime: I guess so
Chotiner: seems that way
Chotiner: so you’re just a big piece of shit aren’t ya?
Doug Warcrime: I guess so
Chotiner: seems that way
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Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
February 1, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
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if you wanna know why national "Hispanic polling" is dogshit and seems to ping pong all over the place, the best answer isn't to just Cubans in Florida; you gotta screen carefully to not overrepresent this population. Whole lotta nazis that don't look or sound like it until you take a closer look
February 1, 2026 at 9:35 PM
if you wanna know why national "Hispanic polling" is dogshit and seems to ping pong all over the place, the best answer isn't to just Cubans in Florida; you gotta screen carefully to not overrepresent this population. Whole lotta nazis that don't look or sound like it until you take a closer look
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.