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Crow: "I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds that I was doing something incredibly stupid and, I went ahead anyway."
Over the river, skip the gutter, and ver geharget.
Over the river, skip the gutter, and ver geharget.
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As with a lot of AI content generation, this isn't so much a replacement for podcast journalism as it is a replacement for thinking
The Washington Post is launching a personalized AI podcast, saying users will be able to "shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology."
December 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
As with a lot of AI content generation, this isn't so much a replacement for podcast journalism as it is a replacement for thinking
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If you think Trump's bad polling doesn't matter, I hope you reconsider after tonight's elections. Maybe his unpopularity doesn't affect *his* behavior, but it definitely impacts tons of other people—including many GOP voters who are either switching sides or staying home.
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
If you think Trump's bad polling doesn't matter, I hope you reconsider after tonight's elections. Maybe his unpopularity doesn't affect *his* behavior, but it definitely impacts tons of other people—including many GOP voters who are either switching sides or staying home.
Well, I’m off for the night. Fucking Little Marco and the rest of these idiots who see “DEI” in everything.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Well, I’m off for the night. Fucking Little Marco and the rest of these idiots who see “DEI” in everything.
The week that felt like a year is done, got the nose splints out. Now it's another few weeks for recovery, right now, my nostrils feel like there's still large pieces of plastic in them and tons of congestion, but it's better than last week. I'm happy for the moment.
December 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The week that felt like a year is done, got the nose splints out. Now it's another few weeks for recovery, right now, my nostrils feel like there's still large pieces of plastic in them and tons of congestion, but it's better than last week. I'm happy for the moment.
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Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social.
December 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social.
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What this clearly demonstrates is how easily Trump is manipulated.
Trump says he knows the people who sought the pardon for Juan Orlando Hernandez but not him.
They asked & he did it.
WHO are those people? Putin? Viktor Orbán? A coked-up Don Jr who needs his main cocaine supplier back in business?
Trump says he knows the people who sought the pardon for Juan Orlando Hernandez but not him.
They asked & he did it.
WHO are those people? Putin? Viktor Orbán? A coked-up Don Jr who needs his main cocaine supplier back in business?
Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco
The president’s claims about the boat killings and his pardon of the Honduran ex-president in a new Politico interview should finally convince Republicans that they, and we, must get to the bottom of ...
newrepublic.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
What this clearly demonstrates is how easily Trump is manipulated.
Trump says he knows the people who sought the pardon for Juan Orlando Hernandez but not him.
They asked & he did it.
WHO are those people? Putin? Viktor Orbán? A coked-up Don Jr who needs his main cocaine supplier back in business?
Trump says he knows the people who sought the pardon for Juan Orlando Hernandez but not him.
They asked & he did it.
WHO are those people? Putin? Viktor Orbán? A coked-up Don Jr who needs his main cocaine supplier back in business?
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It gets worse. Trump also says straight out that an invasion of Venezuela "on land" is coming and says he'd expand all this to Mexico and Colombia. Incredibly, no one even bothers pointing out anymore that he is claiming authority to do all of this without Congress:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It gets worse. Trump also says straight out that an invasion of Venezuela "on land" is coming and says he'd expand all this to Mexico and Colombia. Incredibly, no one even bothers pointing out anymore that he is claiming authority to do all of this without Congress:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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Remember that Elon Musk, the man who’s about to become the world’s first trillionaire, is an immigrant who avoids paying taxes.
He wants you to hate immigrants because it keeps you from recognizing that he’s the problem.
Don’t fall for it.
Abolish the billionaire (and trillionaire!) class.
He wants you to hate immigrants because it keeps you from recognizing that he’s the problem.
Don’t fall for it.
Abolish the billionaire (and trillionaire!) class.
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Remember that Elon Musk, the man who’s about to become the world’s first trillionaire, is an immigrant who avoids paying taxes.
He wants you to hate immigrants because it keeps you from recognizing that he’s the problem.
Don’t fall for it.
Abolish the billionaire (and trillionaire!) class.
He wants you to hate immigrants because it keeps you from recognizing that he’s the problem.
Don’t fall for it.
Abolish the billionaire (and trillionaire!) class.
I’m not going to mock Nick Fuentes for being a virgin at 27, I myself still am and hate the idea of manhood being reliant on the ability to be intimate. will however mock him for how hate really has aged him, I mean I figured he was at the least 32 in that Tuckems interview.
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I’m not going to mock Nick Fuentes for being a virgin at 27, I myself still am and hate the idea of manhood being reliant on the ability to be intimate. will however mock him for how hate really has aged him, I mean I figured he was at the least 32 in that Tuckems interview.
I turned off smart features in Gmail b/c even with clarification on the updated terms, I still had some reservations about allowing them access to my private messages. So then I find out I nearly missed an important one, because even though it was a reply to me, it got sorted in the Spam folder./1
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I turned off smart features in Gmail b/c even with clarification on the updated terms, I still had some reservations about allowing them access to my private messages. So then I find out I nearly missed an important one, because even though it was a reply to me, it got sorted in the Spam folder./1
The more I rewatch this clip, the more I think about just, how it all feels like a parody inversion of a Jerry Pournelle dystopia, since he was a paleoconservative who thought of people as easily swayed into welfare dependency, long story short rather than a welfare state it's like guys like /1
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The more I rewatch this clip, the more I think about just, how it all feels like a parody inversion of a Jerry Pournelle dystopia, since he was a paleoconservative who thought of people as easily swayed into welfare dependency, long story short rather than a welfare state it's like guys like /1
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Taking a brief break from Threads and Bluesky. Maybe to tomorrow. I need time to think.
December 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Taking a brief break from Threads and Bluesky. Maybe to tomorrow. I need time to think.
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Our data shows a lot of people are freaking out over fertility rates. Over at @19thnews.org, we looked into the history of pronatalism and how it intersects with Trump admin policies without valorizing Silicon Valley weirdos. 19thnews.org/2025/12/pron...
Why are so many Americans worried about falling birth rates?
The 19th News/SurveyMonkey Poll found that half of Americans think we should be at least somewhat worried about the impact of falling birth rates on society.
19thnews.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Our data shows a lot of people are freaking out over fertility rates. Over at @19thnews.org, we looked into the history of pronatalism and how it intersects with Trump admin policies without valorizing Silicon Valley weirdos. 19thnews.org/2025/12/pron...
Seems like all I do whenever I go ontoThreads is block the bots and MAGA accounts that just keep popping up in the "For You" feed. No matter how many I block, they keep showing up.
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Seems like all I do whenever I go ontoThreads is block the bots and MAGA accounts that just keep popping up in the "For You" feed. No matter how many I block, they keep showing up.
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the lesson executives should learn from this whole paramount debacle is that it is extraordinarily corrosive to a functional business environment to have a personalist authoritarian regime, and they should not support that in the future
what they will learn is they should get closer to trump
what they will learn is they should get closer to trump
December 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
the lesson executives should learn from this whole paramount debacle is that it is extraordinarily corrosive to a functional business environment to have a personalist authoritarian regime, and they should not support that in the future
what they will learn is they should get closer to trump
what they will learn is they should get closer to trump
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Everything is old is new again. Back in the day, Theodore Roosevelt called white women going to college "race suicide."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The rise of pronatalism: why Musk, Vance and the right want women to have more babies
The movement unites ‘family values’ conservatives and tech bro rightwingers. Will this incoherent coalition hold?
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Everything is old is new again. Back in the day, Theodore Roosevelt called white women going to college "race suicide."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
My splints and sutures are out in less than 48 hours. It’s so close yet so far. Did hear from my doctor that I can take a pill to help sleep the next two nights, which is a relief; I’ve been having insomnia so bad the last few nights, from the splints and such. Even a little relief will be good.
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 AM
My splints and sutures are out in less than 48 hours. It’s so close yet so far. Did hear from my doctor that I can take a pill to help sleep the next two nights, which is a relief; I’ve been having insomnia so bad the last few nights, from the splints and such. Even a little relief will be good.
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Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Good to know that I was right that MTG wasn’t to be trusted once she did the about-face on Trump. Still the same deflecting conspiracy theorist as before.
LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: You've contributed to it as well
STAHL: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people
MTG: I'd like for you to respond to that
December 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Good to know that I was right that MTG wasn’t to be trusted once she did the about-face on Trump. Still the same deflecting conspiracy theorist as before.
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Trump last night had the complexion of a Thanksgiving turkey that was left in the oven too long and bandages were again visible on the back of his right hand
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
December 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Trump last night had the complexion of a Thanksgiving turkey that was left in the oven too long and bandages were again visible on the back of his right hand
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
And now once again to bring up the tweets Hanania made a few years ago implying it’d be okay if a 14-year-old, her parents and Jeffrey Epstein set up a college fund for her in exchange for Epstein. www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMusk...
December 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
And now once again to bring up the tweets Hanania made a few years ago implying it’d be okay if a 14-year-old, her parents and Jeffrey Epstein set up a college fund for her in exchange for Epstein. www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMusk...
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Schmitt is a former state attorney general. Of course he knows about this case.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support the pardon of the former Honduran president?
SCHMITT: I'm not familiar w/ the facts or circumstances
S: What do you mean you're not familiar? It's been front page news
SCHMITT: You spew Democrat talking points every single week, which is why your ratings are so bad
SCHMITT: I'm not familiar w/ the facts or circumstances
S: What do you mean you're not familiar? It's been front page news
SCHMITT: You spew Democrat talking points every single week, which is why your ratings are so bad
December 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Schmitt is a former state attorney general. Of course he knows about this case.
Personally I suspect Cuellar could switch after the election since so much of this regime is a dog and pony show, but whoever is writing Trump’s posts still wants him punished.
“No more Mr. Nice guy,” President Trump said, accusing Democrat Henry Cuellar of “a lack of loyalty."
Donald Trump Fumes at Texas Lawmaker He Just Pardoned
www.newsweek.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Personally I suspect Cuellar could switch after the election since so much of this regime is a dog and pony show, but whoever is writing Trump’s posts still wants him punished.
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Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.