Harter Lancet
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When small men begin to cast big shadows, that means the sun is about to set
-Lin Yutang
-Lin Yutang
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the combination of increasingly puritan laws on regular internet content and increasingly slack laws on ai-generated content means soon there will be porn of everyone, except the people that consented to do it
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
the combination of increasingly puritan laws on regular internet content and increasingly slack laws on ai-generated content means soon there will be porn of everyone, except the people that consented to do it
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“This is not America having priorities that don’t involve Europe. It is not isolationism. It is America taking sides with Russia against Europe, because one of America’s two political parties now sees Russian autocracy as preferable to European democracy.”
Trump’s Long-Term Damage
The things we won’t be able to fix even if we wanted to.
www.thebulwark.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“This is not America having priorities that don’t involve Europe. It is not isolationism. It is America taking sides with Russia against Europe, because one of America’s two political parties now sees Russian autocracy as preferable to European democracy.”
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Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
The War on Terror coming home was predictable and inevitable. It's hard to escape the idea that Bin Laden won
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The War on Terror coming home was predictable and inevitable. It's hard to escape the idea that Bin Laden won
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
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Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child
December 6, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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We know this is a bid for authoritarian governance and at this point it is clear it is failing
We know in other countries, such failures generally end with "and then he fled to Russia" or "and then he went to trial" or "and then he and his entire family were murdered."
Why would we be different?
We know in other countries, such failures generally end with "and then he fled to Russia" or "and then he went to trial" or "and then he and his entire family were murdered."
Why would we be different?
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We know this is a bid for authoritarian governance and at this point it is clear it is failing
We know in other countries, such failures generally end with "and then he fled to Russia" or "and then he went to trial" or "and then he and his entire family were murdered."
Why would we be different?
We know in other countries, such failures generally end with "and then he fled to Russia" or "and then he went to trial" or "and then he and his entire family were murdered."
Why would we be different?
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It’s an all hands on deck. Different tribunals must be assigned different investigations. T&C for the worst crimes (DOGE, ICE, etc) The Hague for war crimes (Venezuela and the boat strikes), DOJ for corp bribes, state AGs, Congress committees. Someone must bring logic and coordination to it all.
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
It’s an all hands on deck. Different tribunals must be assigned different investigations. T&C for the worst crimes (DOGE, ICE, etc) The Hague for war crimes (Venezuela and the boat strikes), DOJ for corp bribes, state AGs, Congress committees. Someone must bring logic and coordination to it all.
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Social engineering -- the art of tricking people into doing stupid shit -- has always been the most reliable way to hack anything. Now with AI browsers and agentic this and that, we've actually built social engineering into the code. So it can be used to trick others but also trick itself […]
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November 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Social engineering -- the art of tricking people into doing stupid shit -- has always been the most reliable way to hack anything. Now with AI browsers and agentic this and that, we've actually built social engineering into the code. So it can be used to trick others but also trick itself […]
How the NFL went to Bernabau and didn't have the Dolphins in their throwback all whites is just criminally idiotic.
November 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
How the NFL went to Bernabau and didn't have the Dolphins in their throwback all whites is just criminally idiotic.
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With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 AM
With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...
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New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
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A very large faction of one of America's two major parties is about to start openly saying "well as long as she wasn't PRE-pubescent it's fine" with their whole chest.
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A very large faction of one of America's two major parties is about to start openly saying "well as long as she wasn't PRE-pubescent it's fine" with their whole chest.
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I say this a lot, no one believes me, but the right is obsessed with Pedophilia but it means something different to them then it does to you.
To them its about the liberal permissive society allowing queers to corrupt our culture and brainwash their kids
To them its about the liberal permissive society allowing queers to corrupt our culture and brainwash their kids
A very large faction of one of America's two major parties is about to start openly saying "well as long as she wasn't PRE-pubescent it's fine" with their whole chest.
It’s monsters all the way down.
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I say this a lot, no one believes me, but the right is obsessed with Pedophilia but it means something different to them then it does to you.
To them its about the liberal permissive society allowing queers to corrupt our culture and brainwash their kids
To them its about the liberal permissive society allowing queers to corrupt our culture and brainwash their kids
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The Epstein list isn’t like team sports
We don’t care if it takes down Democrats
We don’t care if it takes down progressives
We don’t care if it takes down our fave celebrity
If you raped children, you must be held accountable
If you trafficked children, same
I don’t care what side you’re on
We don’t care if it takes down Democrats
We don’t care if it takes down progressives
We don’t care if it takes down our fave celebrity
If you raped children, you must be held accountable
If you trafficked children, same
I don’t care what side you’re on
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The Epstein list isn’t like team sports
We don’t care if it takes down Democrats
We don’t care if it takes down progressives
We don’t care if it takes down our fave celebrity
If you raped children, you must be held accountable
If you trafficked children, same
I don’t care what side you’re on
We don’t care if it takes down Democrats
We don’t care if it takes down progressives
We don’t care if it takes down our fave celebrity
If you raped children, you must be held accountable
If you trafficked children, same
I don’t care what side you’re on
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All judgments of the effectiveness of midterms strategy must be considered in the context of Trump doing a YMCA dance party while under federal indictment & winning the popular vote
Yes - this is a loss because Democrats have now signed on to ACA cuts as a complicit party and once again made it a less effective issue for the mid terms
From that perspective, this would be a failure, right? Because the Dems lose the narrative that they did everything to stand in the way of ACA cuts.
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
All judgments of the effectiveness of midterms strategy must be considered in the context of Trump doing a YMCA dance party while under federal indictment & winning the popular vote
One. Trillion. Dollars. For what?
The ludicrousness of that would have inspired riots in a more reasonable age. It would have inspired revolution in even unreasonable ages
The ludicrousness of that would have inspired riots in a more reasonable age. It would have inspired revolution in even unreasonable ages
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
One. Trillion. Dollars. For what?
The ludicrousness of that would have inspired riots in a more reasonable age. It would have inspired revolution in even unreasonable ages
The ludicrousness of that would have inspired riots in a more reasonable age. It would have inspired revolution in even unreasonable ages
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"Looking into a mirror that makes you insane" is the sort of story that has been told in countless iterations for centuries and yet here he were
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"Looking into a mirror that makes you insane" is the sort of story that has been told in countless iterations for centuries and yet here he were
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Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin.
How times change.
How times change.
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin.
How times change.
How times change.
Mamdani has done the easy part. Now, actually implementing his policies amid the entrenched interests, petty fiefdoms, and jealous privileges of NYC governance with a hostile President and little support from his own party ia the hard part. Esp knowing that ANY failure or imagined scandal ia fatal
November 6, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Mamdani has done the easy part. Now, actually implementing his policies amid the entrenched interests, petty fiefdoms, and jealous privileges of NYC governance with a hostile President and little support from his own party ia the hard part. Esp knowing that ANY failure or imagined scandal ia fatal
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Tonight, was another reminder: there is no single mold for a Democratic winner.
Progressives won. Moderates won. Rural, suburban, urban —they all won. Black, White, Latino, AAPI — they all won. We won in the East, South, Midwest and West. Victories in races from City Council to Governor.
Progressives won. Moderates won. Rural, suburban, urban —they all won. Black, White, Latino, AAPI — they all won. We won in the East, South, Midwest and West. Victories in races from City Council to Governor.
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Tonight, was another reminder: there is no single mold for a Democratic winner.
Progressives won. Moderates won. Rural, suburban, urban —they all won. Black, White, Latino, AAPI — they all won. We won in the East, South, Midwest and West. Victories in races from City Council to Governor.
Progressives won. Moderates won. Rural, suburban, urban —they all won. Black, White, Latino, AAPI — they all won. We won in the East, South, Midwest and West. Victories in races from City Council to Governor.
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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Here it is, the Constitutional crisis people feared, Trump openly and flagrantly defying a court order. And it's over... denying Americans food. We are literally facing a Constitutional breakdown over SNAP funds.
This administration is making mistake after mistake. They can be beaten.
This administration is making mistake after mistake. They can be beaten.
Trump says the SNAP money that he’s been ordered by a court to release won’t be released until the government shutdown ends.
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Here it is, the Constitutional crisis people feared, Trump openly and flagrantly defying a court order. And it's over... denying Americans food. We are literally facing a Constitutional breakdown over SNAP funds.
This administration is making mistake after mistake. They can be beaten.
This administration is making mistake after mistake. They can be beaten.
No, Cheney does not deserve any flowers for voting against Donald Trump at the end after creating and accelerating the conditions that lead to him. Ditto his personal soft spot for gay marriage when he publicly opposed it for personal/political gain.
He was a war criminal and vile politician. Bye.
He was a war criminal and vile politician. Bye.
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
No, Cheney does not deserve any flowers for voting against Donald Trump at the end after creating and accelerating the conditions that lead to him. Ditto his personal soft spot for gay marriage when he publicly opposed it for personal/political gain.
He was a war criminal and vile politician. Bye.
He was a war criminal and vile politician. Bye.