Emily
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The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made
January 6, 2026 at 2:51 PM
The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made
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People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
January 7, 2026 at 3:36 AM
People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
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They want to excise 30% of the country so that they can have a "heritage American" ethnostate.
Today's conservatives are anti-immigration maximalists because their most fundamental commitment is to an ethnonationalist upheaval of America that fundamentally transforms it into the virtuous heartland of their reactionary fever dreams
January 1, 2026 at 3:51 PM
They want to excise 30% of the country so that they can have a "heritage American" ethnostate.
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This is how you do it folks
December 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is how you do it folks
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Even if Trump's threat of an illegal war - or a military campaign itself - were to depose Maduro, would you trust this administration to build something stable out of a post-Maduro Venezuela?
Trump Is an Idiot Spoiling for War. Also, Maduro Is a Bastard.
The enemy of your enemy isn’t always your friend.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Even if Trump's threat of an illegal war - or a military campaign itself - were to depose Maduro, would you trust this administration to build something stable out of a post-Maduro Venezuela?
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This is extremely important
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is extremely important
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Next Dem president might be tempted to look into the funding for Vought’s Center for Renewing America to see if there was some oil industry patronage involved.
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Next Dem president might be tempted to look into the funding for Vought’s Center for Renewing America to see if there was some oil industry patronage involved.
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I made out with Benny Johnson in an empty dressing room at BuzzFeed holiday party in 2013. It haunts me to this day. 😩
Anyway, it’s funny that’s he’s done literally everything BUT come out of the closet. Men will literally become traitors to their country rather than go to therapy.
Anyway, it’s funny that’s he’s done literally everything BUT come out of the closet. Men will literally become traitors to their country rather than go to therapy.
Source: Tenet Media is the Tennessee-based company the US DOJ alleges was being funded by Russia; Benny Johnson and Tim Pool say they were victims of the scheme (CNN)
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September 4, 2024 at 11:01 PM
I made out with Benny Johnson in an empty dressing room at BuzzFeed holiday party in 2013. It haunts me to this day. 😩
Anyway, it’s funny that’s he’s done literally everything BUT come out of the closet. Men will literally become traitors to their country rather than go to therapy.
Anyway, it’s funny that’s he’s done literally everything BUT come out of the closet. Men will literally become traitors to their country rather than go to therapy.
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.
My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.
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I can't decide which details from this NYT piece will bother Kash Patel more: referring to his side piece as an "aspiring" country singer or describing how his work ethic (doesn't) compare with Robert Mueller's?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I can't decide which details from this NYT piece will bother Kash Patel more: referring to his side piece as an "aspiring" country singer or describing how his work ethic (doesn't) compare with Robert Mueller's?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
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this absolutely. i would also add — and that editorial actually demonstrates this — that moderation is often in the eye of the beholder, isn't something that can be easily quantified, and is in relationship with other qualities (like candidate charisma)
Gave a presentation on this last month but arguing that moderate candidates don't do better overall is like arguing that height doesn't matter in basketball. But also if height were the only thing that mattered then the Trail Blazers were right to pick Sam Bowie over Michael Jordan.
October 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
this absolutely. i would also add — and that editorial actually demonstrates this — that moderation is often in the eye of the beholder, isn't something that can be easily quantified, and is in relationship with other qualities (like candidate charisma)
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In his foreign policy, Trump launches illegal attacks, murders people, and starts pointless and destructive trade wars. Is that what Douthat wants at home? Because he’s already getting it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...
Opinion | Why Can’t Trump’s Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy?
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
In his foreign policy, Trump launches illegal attacks, murders people, and starts pointless and destructive trade wars. Is that what Douthat wants at home? Because he’s already getting it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...
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when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying
October 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying
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really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield
Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?
MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that
MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that
October 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield
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Again, going in circles, but Trump ****literally**** does not understand how the American government works. He has ****never**** understood it. He was, until this administration, protected from his own stupidity but now there is no longer anyone at the helm. It’s ***actual*** anarchic governance.
October 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Again, going in circles, but Trump ****literally**** does not understand how the American government works. He has ****never**** understood it. He was, until this administration, protected from his own stupidity but now there is no longer anyone at the helm. It’s ***actual*** anarchic governance.
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States that didn’t vote for the president—which includes ones that pay the most in federal taxes and effectively subsidize the rest—will have federal outlays unconstitutionally canceled, in violation of law duly passed by reps from those states, among others.
Taxation without representation, no?
Taxation without representation, no?
Next move from OMB - canceling $8 billion in clean energy funds. You will note, all of the projects are in states led by Democrats
October 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
States that didn’t vote for the president—which includes ones that pay the most in federal taxes and effectively subsidize the rest—will have federal outlays unconstitutionally canceled, in violation of law duly passed by reps from those states, among others.
Taxation without representation, no?
Taxation without representation, no?
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This is a crime. The Supreme Court has foolishly decided that Trump can commit crimes with impunity, but that is NOT true of anyone who works for him. Stephen Miller, Hegseth, Noem and anyone else who declares war on the US and our Constitution must not be let off the hook. Two years in prison
Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland
September 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is a crime. The Supreme Court has foolishly decided that Trump can commit crimes with impunity, but that is NOT true of anyone who works for him. Stephen Miller, Hegseth, Noem and anyone else who declares war on the US and our Constitution must not be let off the hook. Two years in prison
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Look at this video. Take a long, hard look at this scene. Masked federal agents, armed like soldiers on a battlefield, a dozen of em, taking down & detaining one immigrant. On our streets. Take a long, hard look at this. And then pass it on to others. This is Trumpism. This must not be who we are.👇
A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.
September 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Look at this video. Take a long, hard look at this scene. Masked federal agents, armed like soldiers on a battlefield, a dozen of em, taking down & detaining one immigrant. On our streets. Take a long, hard look at this. And then pass it on to others. This is Trumpism. This must not be who we are.👇
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Kavanaugh thinks this is a minor inconvenience, not something of concern under the 4th amendment
WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.
He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
September 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Kavanaugh thinks this is a minor inconvenience, not something of concern under the 4th amendment
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the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.
Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...
Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, pushing the issue back bef...
www.cnn.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.
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To be clear, this is not about the Jews killing Charlie Kirk.
It's about the Jews killing *Jesus*— the foundational story of anti-Semitism.
There is, however, an explicit Jesus: Kirk analogy being drawn.
It's about the Jews killing *Jesus*— the foundational story of anti-Semitism.
There is, however, an explicit Jesus: Kirk analogy being drawn.
September 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
To be clear, this is not about the Jews killing Charlie Kirk.
It's about the Jews killing *Jesus*— the foundational story of anti-Semitism.
There is, however, an explicit Jesus: Kirk analogy being drawn.
It's about the Jews killing *Jesus*— the foundational story of anti-Semitism.
There is, however, an explicit Jesus: Kirk analogy being drawn.
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Weird how Charlie Kirk’s killer is not even a news story anymore
September 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Weird how Charlie Kirk’s killer is not even a news story anymore
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is this not just kidnapping?
September 23, 2025 at 4:37 AM
is this not just kidnapping?