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Nazi collaborators, Nazi appeasers, Nazi apologists, Nazi facilitators, Nazi capitulators: They're Nazis.
The excusable time for that misguided, at best, strategy was the 20th century. No excuses now.
Death to Nazis. All of them. Always. Forever.
The excusable time for that misguided, at best, strategy was the 20th century. No excuses now.
Death to Nazis. All of them. Always. Forever.
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Anyone surprised that Republicans are fleeing the motte of "pedophile" to the bailey of "ephebophile" hasn't been paying attention. Here's @djgrothe.bsky.social, who ran the James Randi Educational Foundation, defending Epstein & his rapists in exactly that way 14 y ago skepchick.org/2011/04/lawr...
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Anyone surprised that Republicans are fleeing the motte of "pedophile" to the bailey of "ephebophile" hasn't been paying attention. Here's @djgrothe.bsky.social, who ran the James Randi Educational Foundation, defending Epstein & his rapists in exactly that way 14 y ago skepchick.org/2011/04/lawr...
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What makes people furious is of course how the NYT uses its own wide discretion about what to pursue, what to beat the drum on, when to have qualms about running with something, and when to just put it out there. There’s the rules, and then there’s the rules about when you apply the rules.
here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What makes people furious is of course how the NYT uses its own wide discretion about what to pursue, what to beat the drum on, when to have qualms about running with something, and when to just put it out there. There’s the rules, and then there’s the rules about when you apply the rules.
Matt Gaetz rapes a vulnerable teenager, quiets her with money, ruins his own career
There I fixed it
There I fixed it
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Matt Gaetz rapes a vulnerable teenager, quiets her with money, ruins his own career
There I fixed it
There I fixed it
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You really have to be working overtime to write this post.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
You really have to be working overtime to write this post.
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Trump is more personally culpable for the high cost of housing than any undocumented immigrant ever could be.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Trump is more personally culpable for the high cost of housing than any undocumented immigrant ever could be.
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Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
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NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."
WH claims 'inflation tamed,' per DoorDash stats. Company says that's not in its report.
It comes the same week we learned the WH would likely not release key economic reports for October.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."
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⭕️ NEW: Shelter Conditions in Gaza Near Collapse as Winter Storms Approach, While Israel Allows Only 5% of Agreed Shelter Aid
Gaza’s already thin humanitarian line is about to snap. Civil defense crews in Rafah are warning that incoming winter storms...
Photo: Mohammad Al-Sawalhi/CNN (Dec. 2024)
Gaza’s already thin humanitarian line is about to snap. Civil defense crews in Rafah are warning that incoming winter storms...
Photo: Mohammad Al-Sawalhi/CNN (Dec. 2024)
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
⭕️ NEW: Shelter Conditions in Gaza Near Collapse as Winter Storms Approach, While Israel Allows Only 5% of Agreed Shelter Aid
Gaza’s already thin humanitarian line is about to snap. Civil defense crews in Rafah are warning that incoming winter storms...
Photo: Mohammad Al-Sawalhi/CNN (Dec. 2024)
Gaza’s already thin humanitarian line is about to snap. Civil defense crews in Rafah are warning that incoming winter storms...
Photo: Mohammad Al-Sawalhi/CNN (Dec. 2024)
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notable but not surprising that Fetterman chose Fox & Friends as the place to promote his new book
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
notable but not surprising that Fetterman chose Fox & Friends as the place to promote his new book
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For every surveillance state to function, there must be a critical mass of people who willingly act as snitches to further the regime's ideology.
I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer
I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer
RAISE YOUR CHILDREN SO THEY DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE THIS dailyfreepress.com/11/13/10/216...
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
For every surveillance state to function, there must be a critical mass of people who willingly act as snitches to further the regime's ideology.
I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer
I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer
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It shouldn’t take 50 years to buy a house. We should not normalize that.
Kevin Hassett: "The 50 year mortgage is just one of many many policies that are currently being studied ... the argument for it is that it would really lower the monthly payment. The downside is it would take longer to build equity in the home."
November 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It shouldn’t take 50 years to buy a house. We should not normalize that.
Lol
The median age of all U.S. homebuyers is now 59 years old.
Just 15 years ago, it was 39 years old.
Just 15 years ago, it was 39 years old.
November 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Lol
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Epstein's only on-paper client as a financial manager was Les Wexner, founder and CEO of Victoria's Secret
Reading about Jeffrey Epstein—am I wrong that he seems to have made his fortune by befriending other sex offenders and them trusting him with money for no apparent reason except maybe that he was a sex trafficker?
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Epstein's only on-paper client as a financial manager was Les Wexner, founder and CEO of Victoria's Secret
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“I am a full-time college student from a low-income family, and I rely on these benefits to buy groceries — as do many of my close friends.“
Mia Vesely | I use SNAP benefits, and many other college students do too
Senior columnist Mia Vesely discusses the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and dispels the notion that such programs are misused or unessential.
www.thedp.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“I am a full-time college student from a low-income family, and I rely on these benefits to buy groceries — as do many of my close friends.“
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And you can do it on the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, which has accounted for $2 billion of the $5 billion the Trumps have made this year for their own cryptocurrency venture. Oh, and thanks to a pardon from Eric's dad, the founder of Binance won't have to serve time in prison.
Eric Trump: "You can send $500 million worth of bitcoin on a Sunday night at 11pm while having a glass of wine with your wife for virtually zero fees."
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
And you can do it on the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, which has accounted for $2 billion of the $5 billion the Trumps have made this year for their own cryptocurrency venture. Oh, and thanks to a pardon from Eric's dad, the founder of Binance won't have to serve time in prison.
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Some of the rules that apply to Ghislaine Maxwell’s fellow inmates at Bryan simply do not appear to apply to the late-Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous right-hand woman. https://cnn.it/3LAuWaI
Unlimited toilet paper and special privileges: Inside Ghislaine Maxwell's life in prison | CNN Politics
Some of the rules that apply to Ghislaine Maxwell's fellow inmates at Bryan simply do not appear to apply to the late-Jeffrey Epstein's infamous right-hand woman.
www.cnn.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Some of the rules that apply to Ghislaine Maxwell’s fellow inmates at Bryan simply do not appear to apply to the late-Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous right-hand woman. https://cnn.it/3LAuWaI
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Regular reminder that Christy Romer was right and Barack Obama should have listened to her instead of Larry Summers:
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As I recall, what Larry was saying was "if we ask for a $1.8 trillion stimulus to push aggregate demand back to normal, the White House will ignore us as crazy ivory-tower people who know nothing about doing politics; we should ask for a $900 billion stimulus, say it will do half the job..." /1
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Regular reminder that Christy Romer was right and Barack Obama should have listened to her instead of Larry Summers:
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Obama fervently believes in the household analogy and it was epically disastrous both economically and politically in a way that we still haven’t wrestled with as a country & Democrats certainly haven’t as a party, in part bc that would require rethinking their rose-colored views of Obama himself:
As I've said before, we've never seriously wrestled with Obama's (& Clinton's) utterly horrible fiscal policies, because Trump's & GWB's fiscal policies were so obviously & clownishly bad that O/C got free passes for totally embracing the household analogy & the deficit hackery.
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Obama fervently believes in the household analogy and it was epically disastrous both economically and politically in a way that we still haven’t wrestled with as a country & Democrats certainly haven’t as a party, in part bc that would require rethinking their rose-colored views of Obama himself:
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The Justices speaking, dressing, and acting like Fox News talent probably deserves more attention than it's received.
Neil Gorsuch went on Fox & Friends this morning to hype his new [checks notes] children's book
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The Justices speaking, dressing, and acting like Fox News talent probably deserves more attention than it's received.
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Today, Oklahoma is set to execute Tremane Wood even though a state panel recommended his life is spared
Tremane Wood is currently on death row, despite his older brother admitting to killing victim Ronnie Wipf in 2002.
Next week, he will have the chance to make his case for mercy.
Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death anyway.
Next week, he will have the chance to make his case for mercy.
Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death anyway.
His Brother Admitted To A Murder. He Is Set To Be Executed For It.
Next week, Tremane Wood will have the chance to make his case for mercy. Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death.
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Today, Oklahoma is set to execute Tremane Wood even though a state panel recommended his life is spared
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As almost every self-described American "conservative" watches on blithely as Musk's DOGE team Hoovers up tons of private data about every US citizen with which they will do God knows what, a flashback to this "conservative" pamphlet from 1963 is instructive. Conservatives hate big brother, right?
March 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
As almost every self-described American "conservative" watches on blithely as Musk's DOGE team Hoovers up tons of private data about every US citizen with which they will do God knows what, a flashback to this "conservative" pamphlet from 1963 is instructive. Conservatives hate big brother, right?
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Normal person in a liberal constitutional democracy: "The state should be judicious in how it uses physical force and these actions seem like overreaches."
MAGA: "Any state actions that constrain MY behavior or the behavior of people like me is tyranny, but it can do whatever it wants to THEM."
MAGA: "Any state actions that constrain MY behavior or the behavior of people like me is tyranny, but it can do whatever it wants to THEM."
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Normal person in a liberal constitutional democracy: "The state should be judicious in how it uses physical force and these actions seem like overreaches."
MAGA: "Any state actions that constrain MY behavior or the behavior of people like me is tyranny, but it can do whatever it wants to THEM."
MAGA: "Any state actions that constrain MY behavior or the behavior of people like me is tyranny, but it can do whatever it wants to THEM."
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If we were allowed to talk about "white supremacy" in the US, then it would be pretty obvious why what happened in Chicago is acceptable to large numbers of people while Ruby Ridge & Waco (and my imagined scenario) are evidence of gubmint tyranny. The state can't do that to people who look like me!
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
If we were allowed to talk about "white supremacy" in the US, then it would be pretty obvious why what happened in Chicago is acceptable to large numbers of people while Ruby Ridge & Waco (and my imagined scenario) are evidence of gubmint tyranny. The state can't do that to people who look like me!
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Ruby Ridge & Waco were not easy situations for the feds to resolve. But they were at least *situations* that merited some sort of response. A bunch of non-criming, undocumented people living in an apartment building which was also occupied by many legal residents and citizens was not * a situation*.
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Ruby Ridge & Waco were not easy situations for the feds to resolve. But they were at least *situations* that merited some sort of response. A bunch of non-criming, undocumented people living in an apartment building which was also occupied by many legal residents and citizens was not * a situation*.