Tom
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new saddam just dropped
December 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
new saddam just dropped
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Lever up on daily options so you can lose your mortgage payment while you sleep!
December 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Lever up on daily options so you can lose your mortgage payment while you sleep!
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Today in the casual media normalization of personalist, nepotistic authoritarianism.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Donald Trump says Ukraine peace deal ‘closer than ever’ after talks in Berlin
Germany says US to provide security guarantees as Kyiv and Washington admit differences on territorial issues
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December 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Today in the casual media normalization of personalist, nepotistic authoritarianism.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
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It’s LCID that has the Saudi investment, not RIVN
December 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
It’s LCID that has the Saudi investment, not RIVN
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is this literally the venezuela pretext lol
NEW — Trump has signed an executive order "designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemical as weapons of mass destruction (WMD)." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
As a reminder, The Handbasket had the scoop that this was coming back in MARCH:
As a reminder, The Handbasket had the scoop that this was coming back in MARCH:
Trump to declare 'illicit' fentanyl 'Weapon of Mass Destruction,' per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
is this literally the venezuela pretext lol
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I absolutely love the argument that this is somehow due to European warmongering. When the Cold War was over, Europeans couldn't wait to destroy their militaries and if it weren't for Russian aggression, the entire EU put together would probably make like 7 tanks a year
December 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I absolutely love the argument that this is somehow due to European warmongering. When the Cold War was over, Europeans couldn't wait to destroy their militaries and if it weren't for Russian aggression, the entire EU put together would probably make like 7 tanks a year
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YouTube is a couple steps behind X. Turning into just pure slop
December 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
YouTube is a couple steps behind X. Turning into just pure slop
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Man, it is not just Elon Musk being a disgusting white nationalist on X, everyone’s brains are rotting.
December 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Man, it is not just Elon Musk being a disgusting white nationalist on X, everyone’s brains are rotting.
Opting out of voting is allowing real-world consequences to unfold. Thanks to those who chose a fleeting moral high ground and single-issue purity over the broader picture. This is the cost. US aid programs (a drop in a sea of wealth) have been dismantled followed by mass death and tragedy.
The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Opting out of voting is allowing real-world consequences to unfold. Thanks to those who chose a fleeting moral high ground and single-issue purity over the broader picture. This is the cost. US aid programs (a drop in a sea of wealth) have been dismantled followed by mass death and tragedy.
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The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
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There is at least one person willing to comment
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
There is at least one person willing to comment
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December 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Natty Gas $5.50 to $3.99 in 6 sessions
wild
wild
December 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Natty Gas $5.50 to $3.99 in 6 sessions
wild
wild
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As the saying goes, 99.99% of funds don’t outperform the index long term. That’s the casino collecting its fees. The house always gets paid.
$ARKK The lifetime returns of Cathie Wood's Ark Innovation fund vs. the Nasdaq 100.
December 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
As the saying goes, 99.99% of funds don’t outperform the index long term. That’s the casino collecting its fees. The house always gets paid.
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$ARKK The lifetime returns of Cathie Wood's Ark Innovation fund vs. the Nasdaq 100.
December 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
$ARKK The lifetime returns of Cathie Wood's Ark Innovation fund vs. the Nasdaq 100.
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Remember all the enablers of this heinous operation.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Remember all the enablers of this heinous operation.
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treveyon henderson. good at football.
December 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
treveyon henderson. good at football.
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In America, we hold ourselves to a higher standard, and we can’t let this President or Secretary of Defense corrupt that. I’m grateful for Jeff Flake’s moral clarity.
When Leaders Mistake Brutality for Strength
Americans may disagree on many things, but they still distinguish between necessary force and needless killing.
www.theatlantic.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
In America, we hold ourselves to a higher standard, and we can’t let this President or Secretary of Defense corrupt that. I’m grateful for Jeff Flake’s moral clarity.
The American dream is online gambling, betting and leverage.
December 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The American dream is online gambling, betting and leverage.
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The US Healthcare system has been reduced to people just setting up GoFundMe
December 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The US Healthcare system has been reduced to people just setting up GoFundMe
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Of all the reasons not to remain invested in stocks over the last three years, the “it’s only seven stocks holding up the market” trope has been the dumbest one.
Those "concentration bears" have really steered you wrong. I'm taking no prisoners today.
www.downtownjoshbrown.com/p/the-concen...
Those "concentration bears" have really steered you wrong. I'm taking no prisoners today.
www.downtownjoshbrown.com/p/the-concen...
The Concentration Bears Have Steered You Wrong
This consistently misguided argument against staying invested is looking dumber than ever
www.downtownjoshbrown.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Of all the reasons not to remain invested in stocks over the last three years, the “it’s only seven stocks holding up the market” trope has been the dumbest one.
Those "concentration bears" have really steered you wrong. I'm taking no prisoners today.
www.downtownjoshbrown.com/p/the-concen...
Those "concentration bears" have really steered you wrong. I'm taking no prisoners today.
www.downtownjoshbrown.com/p/the-concen...