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I’m… I’m sorry—

These people are professional writers? With paying jobs?
Screenshot of a blog article: Part 1: How I Found Out RYAN LIZZA NOV 17, 2025 Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its contents scattered on the floor.
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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i don’t know you guys there’s some very interesting ideas in the prospectus
A children’s crayon drawing of a robot-type creature and a human
November 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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an aperitif for madame?
A social media post describing and showing images of Trump’s all marble renovation of a bathroom in the White House.
October 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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sigh
A man wearing a dress shirt, Fox Mulder, leaning forward with the caption “That’s why they put the I in FBI.”
October 31, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Literally calling ICE terrorism in Chicago a “blitz”. If they weren’t cowards they’d just come out and say they’re nazis.
Screenshot from Reuters article reading “The judge is presiding over a lawsuit challenging the legality of the tactics used by officials carrying out Trump's Chicago crackdown called ‘Operation Midway Blitz.’” October 28, 2025 8:28 PM UTC Judge intensifies oversight of agents in Trump's Chicago immigration crackdown
October 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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He claimed the milkshake had cement in it. It was just a regular milkshake someone dumped on his head.
man covered in milkshake
October 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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A man (Rudy Giuliani) in a suit with a shocked expression and dark liquid dripping down his face from his hairline.
October 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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andy: it’s a faaaaaaaaaaake!
A group of middle-aged women wearing yellow shirts and helmets, arms locked attending a protest.
October 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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He has his own Brian Stack
A man in a suit sitting behind a desk (Conan O’Brien) split screen with a man in a long dark wig, mustache, and billowing purple shirt (staff writer Brian Stack who played many recurring characters on Late Night)
October 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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actually it’s true, here we are high fiving
A person dressed in black pushing a dumpster on the street
October 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Top: caption reading “what people think anarchists want” and photo of a person in black clothing and mask throwing a Molotov cocktail Bottom: caption reading “What anarchists want” and a photo of an older lady feeding chickens
October 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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A person in a silver alien costume with a large head and eyes and hands to his face on CNN
August 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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You guys I found the perfect candidate
A slice of moldy old white bread
August 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Fuck, I’d missed that one

A good reminder, though, that we could all be referencing Gul Dukat more frequently in these trying times:
A screen shot of a meme responding to a tweet. The original tweet from Anson Mount says “And to bandy about the term ‘genocide’ is both ignorant and, in this context, deeply dismissive of the state of Israel and its right to exist. So here we are.” The meme response is an image of a grey skinned alien man, Gul Dukat from Star Trek, captioned “Attention Bajoran workers / To bandy about the term ‘genocide’ is both ignorant and, in this context, deeply dismissive of Cardassia and its right to exist. So here we are.”
August 7, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Trump himself now says it’s bc Epstein was poaching teenage employees from his resort spa, which we know happened with 16yo Giuffre in 2000. There’s also this www.businessinsider.com/ghislaine-ma...
From Business Insider: “Jane testified that she remembered Epstein driving her to Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida when she was 14 years old and introducing her to the real-estate mogul. She also testified that she later participated in a beauty pageant Trump oversaw.”
July 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Just getting out ahead of the Schriftleitergesetz
Screenshot reads: “Fearing imprisonment or death, reputable journalists also began to flee the country in large numbers. German non-Jewish newspaper owners replaced them in part with ill-trained and inexperienced amateurs loyal to the Nazi Party,” [this section highlighted] “as well as with skilled and veteran journalists prepared to collaborate with the regime in order to maintain and even enhance their careers.” https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-press-in-the-third-reich
July 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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“Good news, we put the foreigner in a concentration camp, but those lazy poors are still eyeing your cookie when there’s thousands of job openings working the fields for slave wages.”
A cartoon of a three men sitting at a table. A white man in a suit has a plate stacked with dozens of cookies while a white man in a hard hat has one cookie and a dark-skinned man has none. The suited man points to the dark-skinned man and says to man wearing the hard hat “Careful, mate, that foreigner wants your cookie!”
July 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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bahahahahahahaha
A pile of trash on a grass lawn with a sign in the middle that reads “ICE IS TRASH”
July 13, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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feel your brain cells melt into the screen. you won’t need them once Peter thiel has his flying car.
AI 2027 We wrote a scenario that represents our best guess about what that might look like.1 It’s informed by trend extrapolations, wargames, expert feedback, experience at OpenAI, and previous forecasting successes.2 What is this? The CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic have all predicted that AGI will arrive within the next 5 years. Sam Altman has said OpenAI is setting its sights on “superintelligence in the true sense of the word” and the “glorious future.”3 2029: Transformation Robots become commonplace. But also fusion power, quantum computers, and cures for many diseases. Peter Thiel finally gets his flying car. Cities become clean and safe. Even in developing countries, poverty becomes a thing of the past, thanks to UBI and foreign aid.
June 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Well underway www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/o...
Snippet from NYTimes article: The single most troubling thing about Senator JD Vance — his bizarre understanding of the work of J.R.R. Tolkien notwithstanding — is his close relationship with some of the most extreme elements of the American right. When asked to explain his worldview, Vance has cited his former boss, Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who has written passionately against democracy (“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible”), and Curtis Yarvin, a software developer turned blogger and provocateur who believes the United States should transition to monarchy (“If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia”). Yarvin has also written favorably of human bondage (slavery, he once wrote, “is a natural human relationship”) and wondered aloud if apartheid wasn’t better for Black South Africans.
June 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Flyer for Chinga la Migra (Fuck ICE) rally. June 18 @ 3:30. ICE building, 4310 S Macadam Ave PDX. “Our friends and neighbors are threatened by ICE. Join your community and say ENOUGH.”
June 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Pure Moods (1997) album cover, featuring an abstract multicolor watercolor painting with a sun, moon, clouds, and animals.
June 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and those of their ilk get all their dumb ideas from an even dumber asshole, Curtis Yarvin. newrepublic.com/article/1839...
In “Friscorp,” as Yarvin calls the San Francisco realm, an all-seeing Orwellian surveillance system would enforce public safety: “All residents, even temporary visitors, carry an ID card with RFID response. All are genotyped and iris-scanned. Public places and transportation systems track everyone. Security cameras are ubiquitous. Every car knows where it is, and who is sitting in it, and tells the authorities both.”
June 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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SpongeBob cartoon mocking meme that says “This is Portland police” and “This has been declared a riot”.
June 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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June 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM