Lopkerjo
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“What more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.”
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Opinion: Our petty, hollow, squalid ogre in chief
Opinion: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.
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December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“What more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.”
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
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"Once it has happened, it proceeds with a logic of its own, largely independent of whatever actions a future administration might take."
The things Trump can permanently break in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3YnDh4r
The things Trump can permanently break in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3YnDh4r
December 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"Once it has happened, it proceeds with a logic of its own, largely independent of whatever actions a future administration might take."
The things Trump can permanently break in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3YnDh4r
The things Trump can permanently break in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3YnDh4r
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You've been hit by a car and you're fading in and out. You ask the EMTs to price the ambulance ride. You get to the ER and tell the docs you'll need a price on each service before it's done. You get cancer so it's time to put treament out to competitive bid. I can keep going...
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
You've been hit by a car and you're fading in and out. You ask the EMTs to price the ambulance ride. You get to the ER and tell the docs you'll need a price on each service before it's done. You get cancer so it's time to put treament out to competitive bid. I can keep going...
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54% of Americans (ages 16-74) read below a 6th-grade level. 130 million Americans are functionally illiterate. And the GOP keeps the base purposefully uneducated and has for decades because they are easier to manipulate and control. Stupidity and malicious ignorance is the norm for them.
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
54% of Americans (ages 16-74) read below a 6th-grade level. 130 million Americans are functionally illiterate. And the GOP keeps the base purposefully uneducated and has for decades because they are easier to manipulate and control. Stupidity and malicious ignorance is the norm for them.
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I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback
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The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
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Adam Kinzinger “The founders assumed a guy like #Trump would come along — They never assumed a Congress would so willingly give up their power—“
And by extension, a Supreme Court
And by extension, a Supreme Court
December 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Adam Kinzinger “The founders assumed a guy like #Trump would come along — They never assumed a Congress would so willingly give up their power—“
And by extension, a Supreme Court
And by extension, a Supreme Court
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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Aaron is a huckster of the highest order. He first tried his hand at being some sort of "how to ace law school" guru, then pivoted to vax denial when that didn't work out and he realized he could make money suing over vax requirements. Literally has funded his life through dead kids.
December 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Aaron is a huckster of the highest order. He first tried his hand at being some sort of "how to ace law school" guru, then pivoted to vax denial when that didn't work out and he realized he could make money suing over vax requirements. Literally has funded his life through dead kids.
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‘There is no bigger, more consequential topic in the world than this: Is the President of the United States mentally fit to serve?’
Good read from @vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
Good read from @vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
It’s time to talk about Donald Trump’s health (again)
The most consequential topic in the world is the simple question: Is the President mentally fit to serve?
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December 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
‘There is no bigger, more consequential topic in the world than this: Is the President of the United States mentally fit to serve?’
Good read from @vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
Good read from @vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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I think there are likely very few who can grasp the enormity of the consequences of a society without the rule of law. Or at minimum where the law is applied selectively by a handful of autocrats. That way lies Feudalism.
These people and their handlers are agents of violence and chaos.
These people and their handlers are agents of violence and chaos.
November 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I think there are likely very few who can grasp the enormity of the consequences of a society without the rule of law. Or at minimum where the law is applied selectively by a handful of autocrats. That way lies Feudalism.
These people and their handlers are agents of violence and chaos.
These people and their handlers are agents of violence and chaos.
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Also if you’re unwilling to be confrontational with powerful people you just should not be a journalist. You aren’t cut out for it.
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Also if you’re unwilling to be confrontational with powerful people you just should not be a journalist. You aren’t cut out for it.
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$1 Trillion a year is spent on managers managing healthcare in America. Not on doctors, hospitals or nurses.
How about we stop health insurance companies from managing nothing while skimming our money like they’re the mafia
How about we stop health insurance companies from managing nothing while skimming our money like they’re the mafia
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
$1 Trillion a year is spent on managers managing healthcare in America. Not on doctors, hospitals or nurses.
How about we stop health insurance companies from managing nothing while skimming our money like they’re the mafia
How about we stop health insurance companies from managing nothing while skimming our money like they’re the mafia
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Again:
There's no such thing as amorality
There is only morality & immorality
Do not excuse the immoral by pretending "amorality"
They know that what they are doing is Immoral
That's why they have to lie (immoral)
Trumpism means always having to choose bad & wrong, meaning
THEY KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
There's no such thing as amorality
There is only morality & immorality
Do not excuse the immoral by pretending "amorality"
They know that what they are doing is Immoral
That's why they have to lie (immoral)
Trumpism means always having to choose bad & wrong, meaning
THEY KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Again:
There's no such thing as amorality
There is only morality & immorality
Do not excuse the immoral by pretending "amorality"
They know that what they are doing is Immoral
That's why they have to lie (immoral)
Trumpism means always having to choose bad & wrong, meaning
THEY KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
There's no such thing as amorality
There is only morality & immorality
Do not excuse the immoral by pretending "amorality"
They know that what they are doing is Immoral
That's why they have to lie (immoral)
Trumpism means always having to choose bad & wrong, meaning
THEY KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
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In the past the vast majority of us held some basic political tenets in common even if we were on different sides. For example, that the outcome of elections should be respected and the Constitution followed.
Now all of that is shattered and I don’t know how we put it back together again.
Now all of that is shattered and I don’t know how we put it back together again.
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
In the past the vast majority of us held some basic political tenets in common even if we were on different sides. For example, that the outcome of elections should be respected and the Constitution followed.
Now all of that is shattered and I don’t know how we put it back together again.
Now all of that is shattered and I don’t know how we put it back together again.
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No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
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6/ The federal shelter system was set up to house and help reunite "unaccompanied" immigrant children with family in the U.S., usually after the kids crossed the border alone.
Now the system has been turned on its head. The administration is “creating unaccompanied children," one advocate told us.
Now the system has been turned on its head. The administration is “creating unaccompanied children," one advocate told us.
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
6/ The federal shelter system was set up to house and help reunite "unaccompanied" immigrant children with family in the U.S., usually after the kids crossed the border alone.
Now the system has been turned on its head. The administration is “creating unaccompanied children," one advocate told us.
Now the system has been turned on its head. The administration is “creating unaccompanied children," one advocate told us.
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A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
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Italian Senator Carlo Calenda:
“The President of the United States is simply an asset of Vladimir Putin… Europe will be born at this moment if it has the strength to fight two enemies - one to the East and one to the West.”
“The battle for Ukraine is a battle for Europe.”
“The President of the United States is simply an asset of Vladimir Putin… Europe will be born at this moment if it has the strength to fight two enemies - one to the East and one to the West.”
“The battle for Ukraine is a battle for Europe.”
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Italian Senator Carlo Calenda:
“The President of the United States is simply an asset of Vladimir Putin… Europe will be born at this moment if it has the strength to fight two enemies - one to the East and one to the West.”
“The battle for Ukraine is a battle for Europe.”
“The President of the United States is simply an asset of Vladimir Putin… Europe will be born at this moment if it has the strength to fight two enemies - one to the East and one to the West.”
“The battle for Ukraine is a battle for Europe.”
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Hard for me to say how this is different from Fox News's entire business model, except that it's less sophisticated. This is transparently and obviously bad — and Elon should ban these accounts — but the spirit here of trading rage for money is pretty much a lot of right-wing media.
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Hard for me to say how this is different from Fox News's entire business model, except that it's less sophisticated. This is transparently and obviously bad — and Elon should ban these accounts — but the spirit here of trading rage for money is pretty much a lot of right-wing media.