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“Civic education reform is, literally, essential to the continued vitality of American Constitutional government as we know it.” – U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter (retired)
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Listen to Maria Shriver, niece of President John F. Kennedy.
December 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Listen to Maria Shriver, niece of President John F. Kennedy.
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America: Hey, can we get some cheaper groceries and maybe some healthcare?
Trump: How about a real life Hunger Games?
Priorities 😒
Trump: How about a real life Hunger Games?
Priorities 😒
Donald Trump just announced the creation of the “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” with “one young man and one young woman from each state and territory.”
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
America: Hey, can we get some cheaper groceries and maybe some healthcare?
Trump: How about a real life Hunger Games?
Priorities 😒
Trump: How about a real life Hunger Games?
Priorities 😒
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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Over six years ago, I published an 11,000 word article in The Atlantic (gift link below) explaining how Donald Trump was, beyond any question, mentally ill and unfit to hold any office of public trust.
He has proven these points virtually every day since.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
He has proven these points virtually every day since.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Unfit for Office
Donald Trump’s narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.
www.theatlantic.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Over six years ago, I published an 11,000 word article in The Atlantic (gift link below) explaining how Donald Trump was, beyond any question, mentally ill and unfit to hold any office of public trust.
He has proven these points virtually every day since.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
He has proven these points virtually every day since.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Imagine doing your own research on measles and then thinking to yourself, "I prefer rolling the dice on brain swelling, blindness, seizures, and a fatal degenerative brain disease that takes 7-10 years to surface over a relatively safe vaccination series."
The Measles Outbreak In South Carolina Is Growing
I'm certain some people are getting tired of this refrain, but I'm going to keep repeating it to make the point: we shouldn't have to talk about measles in this country in 2025. This is a disease that had been officially put in elimination status…
I'm certain some people are getting tired of this refrain, but I'm going to keep repeating it to make the point: we shouldn't have to talk about measles in this country in 2025. This is a disease that had been officially put in elimination status…
The Measles Outbreak In South Carolina Is Growing
I'm certain some people are getting tired of this refrain, but I'm going to keep repeating it to make the point: we shouldn't have to talk about measles in this country in 2025. This is a disease that had been officially put in elimination status for America over two decades ago. We were done with this, thanks in large part to a dedicated campaign of MMR vaccinations and a government that advocated for those same vaccinations.
www.techdirt.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Imagine doing your own research on measles and then thinking to yourself, "I prefer rolling the dice on brain swelling, blindness, seizures, and a fatal degenerative brain disease that takes 7-10 years to surface over a relatively safe vaccination series."
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Powell looks deeply worried. And so I conclude that "either something's going wrong with the economy or something's going wrong with his Botox."
December 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Powell looks deeply worried. And so I conclude that "either something's going wrong with the economy or something's going wrong with his Botox."
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RFKJ never attended medical school, has no experience in formulating public health policy, no training in neurodevelopmental disorders: “my autistic child was affected. He asked me…”Did you do this to me? Did you take a drug that caused my autism?’ He was emotionally dysregulated for days”
The Damage Already Being Done
Misinformation about autism and its causes coming from the U.S. government is inflicting pain and suffering on autistic individuals and their families right now. The pain is real, immediate, and heart...
www.additudemag.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
RFKJ never attended medical school, has no experience in formulating public health policy, no training in neurodevelopmental disorders: “my autistic child was affected. He asked me…”Did you do this to me? Did you take a drug that caused my autism?’ He was emotionally dysregulated for days”
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Uhhhhhh
Patel on J6 arrest: "When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life."
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Uhhhhhh
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The new CDC #2 has a history of supporting medical gibberish.
Pro Ivermectin as a “treatment” for COVID, yet against mass vaccine campaigns.
It will fall to leaders at the state level and coalitions like the West Coast Health Alliance to fill the massive gap.
#WCHA @governor.ca.gov
Pro Ivermectin as a “treatment” for COVID, yet against mass vaccine campaigns.
It will fall to leaders at the state level and coalitions like the West Coast Health Alliance to fill the massive gap.
#WCHA @governor.ca.gov
December 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The new CDC #2 has a history of supporting medical gibberish.
Pro Ivermectin as a “treatment” for COVID, yet against mass vaccine campaigns.
It will fall to leaders at the state level and coalitions like the West Coast Health Alliance to fill the massive gap.
#WCHA @governor.ca.gov
Pro Ivermectin as a “treatment” for COVID, yet against mass vaccine campaigns.
It will fall to leaders at the state level and coalitions like the West Coast Health Alliance to fill the massive gap.
#WCHA @governor.ca.gov
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The arrogance/incoherence of freeing one narco-trafficking former head of a "narco-state" while threatening to turn the wrath of the US military on another (and killing off alleged footsoldiers without due process along the way) is breathtaking. Trump loves criminals...if they bend the knee to him.
December 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The arrogance/incoherence of freeing one narco-trafficking former head of a "narco-state" while threatening to turn the wrath of the US military on another (and killing off alleged footsoldiers without due process along the way) is breathtaking. Trump loves criminals...if they bend the knee to him.
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Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us
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One aspect of the lawful orders discussion boils down to this:
Is premeditated killing lawful if the executive branch manufactures a non-existent armed conflict and then declares by fiat and without a factual basis that certain people are "combatants" and certain objects are "military objectives?"
Is premeditated killing lawful if the executive branch manufactures a non-existent armed conflict and then declares by fiat and without a factual basis that certain people are "combatants" and certain objects are "military objectives?"
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
One aspect of the lawful orders discussion boils down to this:
Is premeditated killing lawful if the executive branch manufactures a non-existent armed conflict and then declares by fiat and without a factual basis that certain people are "combatants" and certain objects are "military objectives?"
Is premeditated killing lawful if the executive branch manufactures a non-existent armed conflict and then declares by fiat and without a factual basis that certain people are "combatants" and certain objects are "military objectives?"
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If this is true, every halfway decent foreign intelligence service on the planet already has the receipts ….
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
If this is true, every halfway decent foreign intelligence service on the planet already has the receipts ….
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Take pride in our fellow American, Sen. Mark Kelly, vigorously standing up for the Constitution and against a violence-inciting White House occupant who is failing to intimidate this good man and honorable public servant.
Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Take pride in our fellow American, Sen. Mark Kelly, vigorously standing up for the Constitution and against a violence-inciting White House occupant who is failing to intimidate this good man and honorable public servant.
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To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?
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This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
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Stephen Miller thinks reminding people of their oaths of office is “calling for an insurrection,” which should tell you exactly how he feels about the Constitution
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Stephen Miller thinks reminding people of their oaths of office is “calling for an insurrection,” which should tell you exactly how he feels about the Constitution
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"For decades, most Americans professed to support an immigration system that encouraged and rewarded people who followed the rules...Now the signal is being sent that following the law will put you in harm’s way."
www.thebulwark.com/p/arrested-f...
www.thebulwark.com/p/arrested-f...
Arrested for Following the Rules
The danger of ICE’s strategy of targeting immigrants fulfilling their legal responsibilities.
www.thebulwark.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"For decades, most Americans professed to support an immigration system that encouraged and rewarded people who followed the rules...Now the signal is being sent that following the law will put you in harm’s way."
www.thebulwark.com/p/arrested-f...
www.thebulwark.com/p/arrested-f...
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Where we are as a country
An incredibly Trump-era headline theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.
theintercept.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Where we are as a country
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They really are going with immaculate asymmetry of tariffs, which didn't raise prices when they were imposed but will cut them when they're withdrawn.
KARL: Tariffs have been removed from some food items. How soon do we expect prices on those goods will go down?
HASSETT: The prices for those goods weren't necessarily going up just because of tariffs
KARL: So they might not go down?
HASSETT: The prices for those goods weren't necessarily going up just because of tariffs
KARL: So they might not go down?
November 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
They really are going with immaculate asymmetry of tariffs, which didn't raise prices when they were imposed but will cut them when they're withdrawn.
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Trump’s order that DOJ investigate ties between Epstein and Democrats is deviously brilliant—an ongoing investigation can be used as a reason, even if pretextual, to block public disclosure of the file.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Justice Department to Investigate Epstein Ties, but Not to Trump
President Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate the dealings of Democrats with Jeffrey Epstein, after a week in which his own relationship with the convicted sex offender was in the…
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Trump’s order that DOJ investigate ties between Epstein and Democrats is deviously brilliant—an ongoing investigation can be used as a reason, even if pretextual, to block public disclosure of the file.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
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This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
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It's too easy to be distracted by the economic story of the day. The more important story is of our system fraying: The rule of law is decaying, Bribery spreading, crony capitalism normalized. It won’t show up in next quarter’s data, but when our kids try to build their lives.
November 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It's too easy to be distracted by the economic story of the day. The more important story is of our system fraying: The rule of law is decaying, Bribery spreading, crony capitalism normalized. It won’t show up in next quarter’s data, but when our kids try to build their lives.
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Dylan Thomas: “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Donald Trump: “Die without complaining.”
Donald Trump: “Die without complaining.”
Trump: "If we die, we must die and we as men we die without complaining."
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Dylan Thomas: “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Donald Trump: “Die without complaining.”
Donald Trump: “Die without complaining.”