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Trump in Winter … Drift, Fragmentation and Just Low Energy talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Trump in Winter … Drift, Fragmentation and Just Low Energy
I’ve been under the weather. That partly explains missing two days of...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Trump in Winter … Drift, Fragmentation and Just Low Energy talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
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From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
December 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
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the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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Computer, enhance
December 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Computer, enhance
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NEW: Here's what's actually in the DOJ's Epstein dump, which at a first pass is more notable for what's not in it than for what is.
Here's What's in the DOJ's Epstein File Release—and What's Missing
From photos of former President Bill Clinton to images of strange scrapbooks, the Justice Department’s release is curious but far from revelatory.
www.wired.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
NEW: Here's what's actually in the DOJ's Epstein dump, which at a first pass is more notable for what's not in it than for what is.
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Just remembered the James OKeefe sting video with a DOJ official from early September: “They’ll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files [and] leave all the liberal, Democratic people”
December 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Just remembered the James OKeefe sting video with a DOJ official from early September: “They’ll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files [and] leave all the liberal, Democratic people”
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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Because I do a lot of takedowns of DW Griffith, I think people assume that I demand moral perfection from old movies and movie people. I don’t. What I am after is intellectual honesty from modern viewers.
Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.
Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.
December 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Because I do a lot of takedowns of DW Griffith, I think people assume that I demand moral perfection from old movies and movie people. I don’t. What I am after is intellectual honesty from modern viewers.
Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.
Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.
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May the odds be ever in your favor
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
May the odds be ever in your favor
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These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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The odds, I thought, were slim that any columnist could make sense of it all, not because there was too much in his speech, but because there was almost nothing. Certainly nothing that belonged on TV. But Zack is right. "The fact that they needed to try such a desperate move at all is notable."
Trump's ridiculous primetime address was yet another sign that his presidency is failing www.vox.com/politics/472...
The revealing pointlessness of Trump’s primetime speech
The president is a desperate man.
www.vox.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The odds, I thought, were slim that any columnist could make sense of it all, not because there was too much in his speech, but because there was almost nothing. Certainly nothing that belonged on TV. But Zack is right. "The fact that they needed to try such a desperate move at all is notable."
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The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)
December 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)
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To all marveling at photos of NYT columnist David Brooks dining with Jeffrey Epstein, 2 years after Epstein finished his sentence for procuring a child for prostitution, here's what it was: the 2011 "Edge Billionaire's Dinner". Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos were there too. 1/
www.edge.org/event/the-ed...
www.edge.org/event/the-ed...
December 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
To all marveling at photos of NYT columnist David Brooks dining with Jeffrey Epstein, 2 years after Epstein finished his sentence for procuring a child for prostitution, here's what it was: the 2011 "Edge Billionaire's Dinner". Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos were there too. 1/
www.edge.org/event/the-ed...
www.edge.org/event/the-ed...
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3/
News account tomorrow need to make clear that this is a public display of mental breakdown.
News account tomorrow need to make clear that this is a public display of mental breakdown.
December 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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News account tomorrow need to make clear that this is a public display of mental breakdown.
News account tomorrow need to make clear that this is a public display of mental breakdown.
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Also points to a culture that doesn’t prepare people for rejection or failure and no framework for handling it in a healthy way. Which also explains a lot.
December 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Also points to a culture that doesn’t prepare people for rejection or failure and no framework for handling it in a healthy way. Which also explains a lot.
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The fact that it at least anecdotally seems to be a semi-regular practice to tell white people a minority got the job in order to soften the blow of rejection really should put the elite woke panic into perspective.
December 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The fact that it at least anecdotally seems to be a semi-regular practice to tell white people a minority got the job in order to soften the blow of rejection really should put the elite woke panic into perspective.
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Donald Trump interrupted national tv today to promise a million people (with guns!) two billion dollars he doesn’t have on a timeline he cannot meet to buy Christmas gifts he has personally fought to make less affordable
he doesn’t and the most likely outcome of this is that it doesn’t happen
How does the president have independent authority to mail out Christmas bonuses?
December 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Donald Trump interrupted national tv today to promise a million people (with guns!) two billion dollars he doesn’t have on a timeline he cannot meet to buy Christmas gifts he has personally fought to make less affordable
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Reposting this because it's my personal Tom Holland/Umbrella, and possibly my favorite essay ever written as well.
"Do you ever want to just pick up a knife and stab him in the neck? Poison his food?"
Because I mentioned this during a phone call today, I ought to share my favorite essay, which is by @alexanderchee.bsky.social. longreads.com/2015/06/18/m...
Because I mentioned this during a phone call today, I ought to share my favorite essay, which is by @alexanderchee.bsky.social. longreads.com/2015/06/18/m...
Mr. and Mrs. B - Longreads
When Alexander Chee was a struggling young writer, working as a cater-waiter for William F. and Pat Buckley.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Reposting this because it's my personal Tom Holland/Umbrella, and possibly my favorite essay ever written as well.
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This is real. Note that the first response is from a neo-Nazi, to whom the EEOC chair politely and helpfully responds.
December 18, 2025 at 4:48 AM
This is real. Note that the first response is from a neo-Nazi, to whom the EEOC chair politely and helpfully responds.
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I’m generally not a fan of dark, ironic or snarky Christmas tunes but man The Kinks’ Father Christmas is such a fuckin banger I love it so much
open.spotify.com/track/6eiS2z...
open.spotify.com/track/6eiS2z...
Father Christmas
open.spotify.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I’m generally not a fan of dark, ironic or snarky Christmas tunes but man The Kinks’ Father Christmas is such a fuckin banger I love it so much
open.spotify.com/track/6eiS2z...
open.spotify.com/track/6eiS2z...
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“Antisemitic Touchdown Dance.”
This is where we are now.
This is where we are now.
Kudos to @jamesdator.bsky.social for writing the real story on Puka Nacua's streaming appearance. Everyone else is only talking about him criticizing the refs. The antisemitism is far more concerning.
sports.yahoo.com/articles/puk...
sports.yahoo.com/articles/puk...
Puka Nacua’s Adin Ross appearance results in antisemitic touchdown dance promise
If you’re both a fan of Puka Nacua and a decent human being you might not want to read any further — but also you should, because he doesn’t have a right to be free of criticism for engaging in antise...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
“Antisemitic Touchdown Dance.”
This is where we are now.
This is where we are now.
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The richest man in the world nodding along to @cumlasagna1
December 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The richest man in the world nodding along to @cumlasagna1
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president sundown got mad the other night in a sundown moment and wanted to have a big foreign war and then got spooked about rubio’s big war and the viziers came up with all this whining, haranguing fucking horseshit in the last two hours after snorting an 8-ball
December 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
president sundown got mad the other night in a sundown moment and wanted to have a big foreign war and then got spooked about rubio’s big war and the viziers came up with all this whining, haranguing fucking horseshit in the last two hours after snorting an 8-ball
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i sincerely think this is what happened, i am not shitposting
This has to be it, right? They had a big Venezuela announcement lined up for him to read but last second some other member of the imperial court walked him down so he just decided to riff.
December 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
i sincerely think this is what happened, i am not shitposting