Tom Cairney
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the reason he’s lying about this is because whatever the truth of it is, he knows it’s worse
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
the reason he’s lying about this is because whatever the truth of it is, he knows it’s worse
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Do reporters ever follow up with questions like:
-Why do doctors keep telling you to get cognitive tests?
-Is identifying a picture of a giraffe challenging for you?
-Can you tell us a difficult question from one of these cognitive tests, or are you unable to remember?
-Why do doctors keep telling you to get cognitive tests?
-Is identifying a picture of a giraffe challenging for you?
-Can you tell us a difficult question from one of these cognitive tests, or are you unable to remember?
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
November 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Do reporters ever follow up with questions like:
-Why do doctors keep telling you to get cognitive tests?
-Is identifying a picture of a giraffe challenging for you?
-Can you tell us a difficult question from one of these cognitive tests, or are you unable to remember?
-Why do doctors keep telling you to get cognitive tests?
-Is identifying a picture of a giraffe challenging for you?
-Can you tell us a difficult question from one of these cognitive tests, or are you unable to remember?
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I have refined
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I have refined
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
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I get why people are reluctant to draw parallels between MeToo and the blacklist. MeToo is good; the blacklist was bad! good things and bad things aren't the same. consequences for sexual abusers is not the same as smearing people for fighting for justice. 1
November 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I get why people are reluctant to draw parallels between MeToo and the blacklist. MeToo is good; the blacklist was bad! good things and bad things aren't the same. consequences for sexual abusers is not the same as smearing people for fighting for justice. 1
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"What trillion-dollar problem is Al trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"What trillion-dollar problem is Al trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
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Some ppl have seemingly forgot that political news media spun up a "Biden secretly has parkinsons" story out of a doctor visiting the WH while the admin was working on Parkinsons policy or that Nuzzis big "Biden didnt remember me" piece was written when she was secretly working for RFK Jrs campaign
The actual "worse than watergate" scandal is how much news media collectively worked to ratfuck a Democratic presidency by largely inventing health/mental acuity concerns for hyperventilate about while largely ignoring the very real & worsening issues in front of their faces from Trump
Both taken this weekend:
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Some ppl have seemingly forgot that political news media spun up a "Biden secretly has parkinsons" story out of a doctor visiting the WH while the admin was working on Parkinsons policy or that Nuzzis big "Biden didnt remember me" piece was written when she was secretly working for RFK Jrs campaign
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“Our objective was murder and therefore murder is ok”
Fox News legal contributor Andy McCarthy knocks down Hegseth's defense:
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
‘We Intended the Strike to Be Lethal’ Is Not a Defense | National Review
The laws of war, incorporated in the federal war crimes statute, prohibit the killing of people who have been rendered hors de combat.
www.nationalreview.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“Our objective was murder and therefore murder is ok”
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Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936
Right: 1936 electoral map
Right: 1936 electoral map
November 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936
Right: 1936 electoral map
Right: 1936 electoral map
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among many reasons to hope Behn wins it will be so funny if the Democrat representing the reddest district of anyone in the caucus is a 35-year-old pro-Palestinian leftist who previously ran with a DSA endorsement
Jewish Insider, a right wing "non partisan newspaper", laments that the Democratic nominee in TN-07 is anti-Israel
Long-shot Tennessee special election candidate stakes out anti-Israel stance
Aftyn Behn’s bid has attracted significant interest and support from national Democrats hoping for a show of Democratic strength in an upset victory
jewishinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
among many reasons to hope Behn wins it will be so funny if the Democrat representing the reddest district of anyone in the caucus is a 35-year-old pro-Palestinian leftist who previously ran with a DSA endorsement
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Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September?
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September?
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
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A thing I noted for myself after a recent trip to the UK and Ireland is that a lot of Trump’s fixation on shower head strength and toilet flushing are very much “The water pressure and flushing are better in Europe” and it’s exactly this post.
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A thing I noted for myself after a recent trip to the UK and Ireland is that a lot of Trump’s fixation on shower head strength and toilet flushing are very much “The water pressure and flushing are better in Europe” and it’s exactly this post.
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
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"Electricity and water requirements are impacting tax payers. Crucially, will people ever want to pay for this stuff? It's not ideal that OpenAI's success may depend on big companies using it to replace human workers at huge scales. How will people pay for OpenAI if nobody has a job?"
"They're forcing it on us because if we don't use it, if we don't subscribe to it, buy products through it, or click on ads through it — the debt structure will inevitably implode. It will wipe out billions in unpaid loans."
"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
November 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"Electricity and water requirements are impacting tax payers. Crucially, will people ever want to pay for this stuff? It's not ideal that OpenAI's success may depend on big companies using it to replace human workers at huge scales. How will people pay for OpenAI if nobody has a job?"
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really wonder how all of this would be perceived if llms had been marketed as “we made some under the hood improvements to siri so it can give more robust answers and better understand how you talk, plus you can goof around with making fun images” instead of “we are building a new kind of god”
When ChatGPT first went public I played around with it a bit, and there was a very short but lovely period where it was just “Wow, this is really impressive, neato” before the insane self-destructive hype cycle took off.
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
really wonder how all of this would be perceived if llms had been marketed as “we made some under the hood improvements to siri so it can give more robust answers and better understand how you talk, plus you can goof around with making fun images” instead of “we are building a new kind of god”
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I appreciate the sentiment as a plank, but as a slogan it's terrible, and I tend to think political consultants spend way too much time thinking up slogans because its less icky than doing actual politics
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I appreciate the sentiment as a plank, but as a slogan it's terrible, and I tend to think political consultants spend way too much time thinking up slogans because its less icky than doing actual politics
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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Even a decade ago I'd have far sooner predicted that the US would succumb to authoritarian rule than that it would become a state where vaccines were unavailable.
But if we don't throw RFK Jr. out on his ass, we're headed there fast.
But if we don't throw RFK Jr. out on his ass, we're headed there fast.
RFK Jr. is overhauling the program that helps preserve Americans' access to vaccines
A Kennedy adviser said he wants to preserve the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The health secretary's anti-vaccine allies prefer it collapse.
www.politico.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Even a decade ago I'd have far sooner predicted that the US would succumb to authoritarian rule than that it would become a state where vaccines were unavailable.
But if we don't throw RFK Jr. out on his ass, we're headed there fast.
But if we don't throw RFK Jr. out on his ass, we're headed there fast.
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I think about it like car companies. Once cars got good there wasn’t a push for GM to make something new beyond the car, or to reinvent the car, they were allowed to refine and improve, with mixed results. All of the tech companies are racing to make The Homer and don’t realize it.
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I think about it like car companies. Once cars got good there wasn’t a push for GM to make something new beyond the car, or to reinvent the car, they were allowed to refine and improve, with mixed results. All of the tech companies are racing to make The Homer and don’t realize it.
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this was real. you could play it on the Nintendo Entertainment System, like Kid Icarus or Duck Hunt
November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
this was real. you could play it on the Nintendo Entertainment System, like Kid Icarus or Duck Hunt
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The weather ain't the way it was before
Ain't no spring or fall at all anymore
It's either blazing hot or freezing cold
Ain't no spring or fall at all anymore
It's either blazing hot or freezing cold
November 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The weather ain't the way it was before
Ain't no spring or fall at all anymore
It's either blazing hot or freezing cold
Ain't no spring or fall at all anymore
It's either blazing hot or freezing cold
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nick saban looks like the father in a hallmark movie who just told the family the banks about to foreclose on their family farm unless they can sell 7000 bottles of apricot jam
I’ve been trying to figure out what kind of look Saban is going for here and I’ve settled on “hill country revenue agent”
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
nick saban looks like the father in a hallmark movie who just told the family the banks about to foreclose on their family farm unless they can sell 7000 bottles of apricot jam
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Yeah. Before the fall, CK's act—and his fandom—rested on the premise that his worst self wasn't his true self. Now it's the opposite, and that's just not interesting as comedy.
He is just generally an alt-right, unrepentantly racist and transphobic piece of shit. He is also a genuinely bad comedian, much in the way that thin-skinned assholes often are 🤷♀️
www.gq.com/story/louis-...
www.gq.com/story/louis-...
Louis C.K. Targets Trans People and Parkland Shooting Survivors in a Leaked Set
He's still trying to make his comeback happen.
www.gq.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Yeah. Before the fall, CK's act—and his fandom—rested on the premise that his worst self wasn't his true self. Now it's the opposite, and that's just not interesting as comedy.
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This should be how ABS is done too, but instead mlb’s gonna do a stupid challenge system for fake drama
November 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This should be how ABS is done too, but instead mlb’s gonna do a stupid challenge system for fake drama
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Karoline leavitt on hot ones-
Leavitt: ok now this is spicy
Sean: we just started
Leavitt: what do you call this one
Sean: water
Leavitt: ok now this is spicy
Sean: we just started
Leavitt: what do you call this one
Sean: water
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Karoline leavitt on hot ones-
Leavitt: ok now this is spicy
Sean: we just started
Leavitt: what do you call this one
Sean: water
Leavitt: ok now this is spicy
Sean: we just started
Leavitt: what do you call this one
Sean: water