Reconstructionist
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alt history, legislative politics, american studies, and reconstruction | lots of typos | he/him | views my own, normal disclaimers | Double Victory (DVTL) is my book / worldbuilding project | opinions my own, etc normal disclaimers
Honestly wild to see
The dismissal of Greene — once the epitome of "Make America Great Again" — appeared to be the final break in a dispute simmering for months. n.pr/47IOjXM
Trump cuts ties with Marjorie Taylor Greene, once among his top MAGA-world defenders
The dismissal of Greene — once the epitome of "Make America Great Again" — appeared to be the final break in a dispute simmering for months.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Honestly wild to see
Could you even be thirstier if you tried?
you can’t be putting this in the paper (gift link but i do not recommend you use it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...)
November 15, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Could you even be thirstier if you tried?
White Helicopter Cometh
Its so funny trump demolished the presidential bunker
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
White Helicopter Cometh
So cool that they're gonna redo the AHCA fight
Trump is on one about Obamacare posting "UNAFFORDABLE CARE ACT!"
November 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
So cool that they're gonna redo the AHCA fight
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Lol
Cargo cult ass appointees
Cargo cult ass appointees
“One thing we’re doing around here nowadays is we’re now saying 'schedule, performance, cost' instead of 'cost, schedule, performance' just as a way of emphasizing the fact that speed is the priority amongst those,” he [Duffey] told reporters
DOD acquisition shake-up prizes speed, raising questions for defense industry | InsideDefense.com
The Defense Department is overhauling its acquisition system to prioritize speed and transform its relationship with defense contractors, particularly the largest ones.
insidedefense.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Lol
Cargo cult ass appointees
Cargo cult ass appointees
Holy shit dawg
Breaking news: Newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show that he appeared to be texting a member of Congress during a congressional hearing investigating Donald Trump, and that those texts may have influenced the lawmaker’s questions.
Epstein appeared to text with House member during Cohen hearing, documents show
Newly released documents from the convicted sex offender’s estate include text messages from him that appear to influence the lawmaker’s questions to President Donald Trump’s personal attorney at a 20...
wapo.st
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Holy shit dawg
What
Hold up
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
What
!! This
This is existential for Trump. MTG is creating a permission structure for MAGA (not just moderate GOP who never really loved Trump) to break with him decisively. If he can’t put this rebellion down it’s gonna get real bad for him real quick
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM
!! This
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Let me just repost this: even old people don't get maintenance MRIs. He had this because something went really wrong.
Love 2 go to the doctor and not know what body part they’re analyzing
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Let me just repost this: even old people don't get maintenance MRIs. He had this because something went really wrong.
Uh what
Love 2 go to the doctor and not know what body part they’re analyzing
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Uh what
Oh my GOD
Dershowitz: The predecessor on your show described Epstein as a convicted pedophile. He pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. That’s not a pedophile.
November 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Oh my GOD
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*Marjorie Taylor Greene* being so sincerely anti-child sex abuse that she's willing to douse both her own political career and the president's in gasoline before tackling him into an open fire was actually not one I saw coming at all ngl
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
*Marjorie Taylor Greene* being so sincerely anti-child sex abuse that she's willing to douse both her own political career and the president's in gasoline before tackling him into an open fire was actually not one I saw coming at all ngl
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yes, and: there is an entire generation of voters out there that don't know what politics is like without Donald Trump
When I chose to study politics for a living I had no idea that politics would get this dumb.
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
yes, and: there is an entire generation of voters out there that don't know what politics is like without Donald Trump
Dawg what
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Dawg what
"We had to make the sophomores and freshman stop fighting their class duels after the sophomores got into chemical warfare and someone got killed a few counties over, they responded by using a rock as a sign of peace, which then got blow up and buried"
Also Hopkins rigging the Grinnell high school presidential election twice and then playing both sides in the 1912 Class Scrap, which I think was mixed up with the 1913 class scrap where the sophomores used chemical weapons on the freshmen which lead to peace rock which was then dynamited
Was reading this today and it is fascinating! Profoundly bizarre to see Grinnell customs get brought up in a book where the author was like "ah I had to wait for General Marshall to get back from his mission to China to ask him about how the commander for OVERLORD was selected"
November 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"We had to make the sophomores and freshman stop fighting their class duels after the sophomores got into chemical warfare and someone got killed a few counties over, they responded by using a rock as a sign of peace, which then got blow up and buried"
People were making shitposts in 1917
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
People were making shitposts in 1917
Also Hopkins rigging the Grinnell high school presidential election twice and then playing both sides in the 1912 Class Scrap, which I think was mixed up with the 1913 class scrap where the sophomores used chemical weapons on the freshmen which lead to peace rock which was then dynamited
Was reading this today and it is fascinating! Profoundly bizarre to see Grinnell customs get brought up in a book where the author was like "ah I had to wait for General Marshall to get back from his mission to China to ask him about how the commander for OVERLORD was selected"
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Also Hopkins rigging the Grinnell high school presidential election twice and then playing both sides in the 1912 Class Scrap, which I think was mixed up with the 1913 class scrap where the sophomores used chemical weapons on the freshmen which lead to peace rock which was then dynamited
Sometimes god makes his strongest soldiers not be able to absorb nutrients from food
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Sometimes god makes his strongest soldiers not be able to absorb nutrients from food
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This is beyond bullshit, it's like the complete opposite of the truth
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is beyond bullshit, it's like the complete opposite of the truth
Such bullshit it's taking forever for the new Long Bridge to get built, I need that VRE expansion
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Such bullshit it's taking forever for the new Long Bridge to get built, I need that VRE expansion
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“With great power comes great responsibility” is the core moral of what is fundamentally a famous picture book for children. It is quite naturally far too complex a text for our media betters to comprehend.
“But we are just smol reporters” doesn’t fly at the nation’s largest and most powerful publication.
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“With great power comes great responsibility” is the core moral of what is fundamentally a famous picture book for children. It is quite naturally far too complex a text for our media betters to comprehend.
"Yeah I might have driven my car through the front of this store but I also lifted my foot off the gas, so you should thank me"
BREAKING: President Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices.
Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"Yeah I might have driven my car through the front of this store but I also lifted my foot off the gas, so you should thank me"
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Not a critique of Tom at all, but how quickly we’ve acculturated ourselves to a world where the president publicly orders an investigation, and his AG salutes in plain sight. The corpse of the post-Watergate era is well and truly rotted through.
Instead of just releasing the Epstein files, Trump ordered the DOJ to investigate Democrats and AG Pam Bondi is complying.
Are they setting up a pretext to block the release by arguing the files are now part of an active investigation? I’m not saying that would work, but he’s desperate to block.
Are they setting up a pretext to block the release by arguing the files are now part of an active investigation? I’m not saying that would work, but he’s desperate to block.
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Not a critique of Tom at all, but how quickly we’ve acculturated ourselves to a world where the president publicly orders an investigation, and his AG salutes in plain sight. The corpse of the post-Watergate era is well and truly rotted through.
This is a murder weapon from an episode of CSI
November 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
This is a murder weapon from an episode of CSI
TS/SCI (Tasty Special, Serve Cookies Immediately)
Extremely convenient that I can offload excess baked goods to my coworkers now
November 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
TS/SCI (Tasty Special, Serve Cookies Immediately)