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Thinking back on Watchmen (the original graphic novel), I think Osymandias was way too optimistic about humanity.
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Mean Jewish Woman Makes
about 15 hours ago
More poor people than rich people were killed by the guillotine btw
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Niko Bowie
3 days ago
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
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Anne Applebaum
2 days ago
I am told that internal Ukrainian army information shows that more than 26,000 Russian soldiers were killed or critically wounded in the month of November. Confirmed by videos. No wonder Putin wants to get Trump to give him territory for free
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Jacob Kaarsbo
3 days ago
Itâs in the Kremlinâs interest to keep the masquerade called âpeace negotiationsâ going. The intent is to keep Ukraineâs supporters on the back foot while continuing the war on đșđŠ. Trump is a witting asset waiting to pursue trillion dollar deals, Dimitriev has waved under his nose for months!
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ae
4 days ago
a lot of the urge to doom comes from the adminâs success at projecting confidence even when its delusional
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Brandon Friedman
5 days ago
Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.
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Nicholas Grossman
5 days ago
Well do government intervention in the economy and seizing some means of production like socialists, but for right-wing nationalist and corrupt ends. A âsocial nationalism,â if you will. We can workshop the name later.
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Justin Wolfers
7 days ago
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesnât claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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Yakov Feygin
7 days ago
Ok this is a sign
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Something something illegal orders
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Dare Obasanjo
8 days ago
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID âhas already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.â People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but itâs hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administrationâs decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/
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Nicholas Grossman
9 days ago
Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
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Michael Weiss
10 days ago
New:
@theins.press
saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft formâexcept it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov heâd pass along a Russian plan and the Americans âcan present it as their ownâ:
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Made in Moscow: The âU.S. peace planâ for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
https://theins.press/en/politics/287159
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Rutger Bregman
11 days ago
I wish I didnât have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as âthe most openly corrupt president in American history.â /1
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Dave Vetter
12 days ago
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have ÂŁ40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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The Economic Impact of Brexit
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https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/working-paper/economic-impact-brexit
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derek guy
13 days ago
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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ellie lockhart (she/they)
13 days ago
maybe if people don't want Jewish people to consider emigrating to Israel, they should try not making Jewish people feel unsafe in the US by protesting outside their synagogues and if you're gonna protest at a religious institution, start with the churches exporting homophobia to the global south
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Senator Elissa Slotkin
18 days ago
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Donât give up the ship.
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Dana Stevens
20 days ago
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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Glonzo the Great and Powerful
21 days ago
it's quite telling that they have to hopscotch around the country doing pop-up Gestapo because they don't actually have the numbers to hit more than one place at the same time.
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Michelle Goldberg
21 days ago
Watching right-wingers suddenly discover that Trump is a bad person is wild
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The BBC is funded from mandatory license fees paid by the British public to watch and stream. I canât even begin to imagine the reaction of people if their money was used to bribe Mangolini.
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21 days ago
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Ok, now I think the thing everyone is talking about is true.
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21 days ago
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When Mangolini trying to tie Bill Clinton to the release of the Epstein files has backfired spectacularly.
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Nah, people are still gonna talk about Mangolini and what the Epstein files say he did. And also, I think this will shore up support for the BBC.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president confirmed he intends to sue the broadcaster for at least $1bn over the Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c891jp9j79do
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Richard M. Nixon
22 days ago
Make the son of a bitch deny it.
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Someone had to pay the tariffs, and it wasnât Brazil.
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22 days ago
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Simon Donner
23 days ago
For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.
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Sean Morrow
24 days ago
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
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Sky Marchini
24 days ago
something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
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Rude Law Dog
23 days ago
What you have to understand is that during the preparation, interviewing, writing and editing of this story: everyone involved knew that Epstein was a sex pest. No way the extent or enough to credibly report on it, but they wrote about him as a Bon Vivant anyways. They all knew and always did
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Ali Velshi
24 days ago
BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) just signed the discharge petition to force a vote on making the DOJ release all of its Jeffrey Epstein files. She was the 218th signature, which means the petition is now frozen and no member can remove their name.
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Discharge Petition No. 9, Bill Number: H.Res. 581, 119th Congress
SPONSOR: Thomas Massie DESCRIPTION: Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XV, I, Thomas Massie, move to discharge the Committee on Rules from the consideration of the resolution entitled, a resolution providi...
https://clerk.house.gov/DischargePetition/2025090209
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Tim Dickinson
24 days ago
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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Richard
24 days ago
The fact that Trump and his lackeys are using the Situation Room to figure out how not to release the Epstein files should be THE headline in tomorrow's NYT.
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Adam Serwer
24 days ago
Hereâs what is interesting about this answer: It is not a âno.â
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Doghouse Reilly
24 days ago
âIn one of the messages, Mr. Epstein flatly asserted that Mr. Trump âknew about the girls,â many of whom were later found by investigators to have been underage.â
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein-emails.html
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ellie lockhart (she/they)
26 days ago
i advise everyone to consider that it is possible to be wrong about things i increasingly get the impression that a substantial amount of posters here sincerely do not ever expect to possibly be wrong
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Justin Wolfers
26 days ago
I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly. A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here. U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
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CalmKitty
26 days ago
There are two reasons people do this: 1. Hating Dems is "cool" and "hip" and the way to show that you're totally savvy and part of the in-group; and 2. It's just kind of assumed that the torches and pitchforks are already out for Republicans, so why actually bother to take them out? Both are dumb
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Bill Kristol
26 days ago
âDemocrats inarguably got at least one very important win: They have placed a glaring spotlight on Republicansâ refusal to renew the Obamacare healthcare subsidies, hanging the blame for spiking healthcare costs around their necks as the midterms draw near.â
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Dems Reward the Hostage-Taker
Perhaps ending the shutdown was the responsible thing to do. But by caving, Democrats risk legitimizing Trumpâs maximum-pain shutdown tactics.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/dems-reward-the-hostage-taker-republicans-trump-shutdown-snap-furlough-backpay-aca-subsidies
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Josh Spero
26 days ago
"The problem isnât that we have a deliberately biased BBC, itâs that we have a BBC that has been consciously reduced in its scope and bullied into dumbing down and retreating."
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Robert Smith
26 days ago
So make no mistake, this is a coordinated assault on one of the cornerstones of British civic life from people who want to weaken our democracy. Sadly, the BBC is so cowed it will actively abet them in its own destruction.
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Robert Smith
26 days ago
The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks. No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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UK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder âhumiliatingâ
A Times associate editor reportedly addressed situation in an email to staff, saying: âWe should have been on our guardâ
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/31/the-times-bill-de-blasio-fake-interview?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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ChrisO_wiki
27 days ago
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. âŹïž
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Yair Rosenberg
27 days ago
I wrote about how American politicians love to blame foreigners and external actors for domestic problems, and how this often prevents us from understanding the real causes of those problems and solving them. Gift link:
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Blaming Foreigners for American Failings Wonât Fix Them
Railing against Ukraine, Israel, and other outsiders is easy. Solving problems at home is not.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trump-ukraine-israel/684858/?gift=Y5UOGK3oJJO3esRHvDP7oRAaEdVPVK4DglzxNuqqiC8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Nicholas Grossman
27 days ago
Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen. Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
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Jay in Kyiv
27 days ago
Among Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, it was Hungary that exited Moscow's grip in 1990 with the highest GDP per capita. The Russian-backed Orban regime has since looted the country to the point that it's now the lowest.
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How long can the GOP keep from swearing in Adelita Grijalva?
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)
27 days ago
huh. this could be interesting.
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James Ball
27 days ago
The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldnât. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology wonât appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something? Wrote this on it earlier this week:
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The BBC was right about the Capitol riots. In a sane world, Trump would be in jail
The US President faced impeachment over the violence, and in a world where Republicans had more courage, he would have been found guilty
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/bbc-right-capitol-riots-sane-world-trump-jail-4020343
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