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Most of America has absolutely 0 idea about any of this

Trump knew

WSJ breaks significant news reporting that Mar-a-Lago’s spa *for years* regularly sent young staffers to Epstein’s home purportedly to give him massages, contorts its scoop to find a more flattering angle for Trump, and still gets an icy blast of a comment from Leavitt. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years. we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this?? between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright

Palmer Luckey looks like Michael Shannon doing a character that somebody would call racist against white people.

Remember Erebor, the mountain where Smaug killed the dwarves and stole all their money? And then every nation in the world fought a bloody war to try to get their money back? Techrbos named their new bank after it.

HBO has begun airing a documentary about the 2010 death of an undocumented Mexican immigrant who died at the hands of Border Patrol agents. MORE: https://www.borderreport.com/hot-topics/border-crime/hbo-documentary-sheds-light-on-border-patrols-now-defunct-shadow-units/

Very bad: two German banks shut down accounts of Rote Hilfe (Red Aid), the main prisoner support group, because the U.S. designated “Antifa Ost” (a made-up group) an FTO - something which has no legal standing in Germany. www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/29/f...

Pretty simple answer to this question, it’s because Sam Alito is steeped in right-wing grievance culture and views himself as entitled to deference and respect from everyone he encounters

Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.

Mass non-cooperation like strikes and boycotts are the most effective means of fighting back against authoritarian regimes. Elites who oppose strikes and boycotts do not understand what it will take to revive democracy.

MAGA loves fraudsters... www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

#OnThisDay in 1875, state senator Charles Caldwell was assassinated by a mob of white men in Clinton, Mississippi. He participated in writing the 1868 Constitutional Convention, which gave the vote, integrated public schools & legalized interracial marriages. mississippitoday.org/2024/12/30/o...

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"Maybe the bill will hurt some people" do you hear yourself? It's not some abstract negative. People. Will. Get. Hurt. So fuck her, and fuck everyone defending her.

The story was the ultimate in a reporter being given access and falling in love with his subject, producing a story that omits context and important details. Draper wrote hagiography not journalism.

Imagine if this said judeo ideology. Maybe people would realize the genocidal nature of this headline.

The eliminationist fanatics crave a total victory (and vindication) that will never come

Suzanne Moore's feminism includes transing cis women who don't conform to her boundaries of acceptable femaleness archive.ph/rXtgp

There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

I genuinely think people are underestimating how much influence never Trump conservatives have in the Democratic coalition right now and how their influence is acutely felt by the people they’ve targeted throughout their political careers.

this is pure ghoul shit. trans people are people. not an ideology. my life is not an ideology. you trying to end my life is. go get fucked, suzanne.

"twitter started working better when we fired 85 percent of the staff" the search function has been completely broken for three years

DNA evidence is *very* extremely conclusive. There is a problem though: even though the odds of a false match are like one in a billion, laboratory error is not. It is illegal to mention this. www.cnn.com/2024/03/09/u...

Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience. Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense. They admitted it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Interesting so you think there should be a subsidy scheme for low income people that's interesting hey did you know about a neat little thing called the 'Affordable Care Act' and its various statutory provisions that you voted to defund

NEW from me — I broke down Trump's claim on local right wing radio that the US carried out a Christmas Eve land strike in Venezuela, how he doubled down Monday, the subsequent media reports with no substance, the potential role of social media rumors about an actual fire, and how we need the truth:

Did US Special Forces just inadvertently confirm there was a CIA operation in Venezuela?

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The wsj is owned by famous leftist Rupert Murdoch

This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books. Why are these people such freaks?

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Our 11th most-read piece of 2025 is this scathing open letter to RFK Jr.

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I am old enough to remember how Obamacare was death panels to kill grandmothers.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

JUST IN: The alleged J6 pipe bomber confessed, said he wanted to “speak up” for those who believed 2020 election was stolen, dislikes both parties and modeled his attack on the Troubles in Ireland. Says he wasn’t targeting the joint session of Congress storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous.

David Sacks, presumably, on the push by some in the tech and VC world to fund a primary challenge to Congressman Khanna.

question for phone hacking folks: I picked up a few e-waste android phones and tablets with the goal of using them as displays for my various video art pieces. UNFORTUNATELY, it seems like there's no way to auto-boot to an individual app, and bypassing the lockscreen, in Android.

The lecturer in question is our colleague in children’s literature studies. She is a brilliant scholar and from all accounts a gifted teacher. This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.

Families can’t catch a break — but Kash Patel, the Director of the FBI, just got a fleet of armored luxury BMWs on the taxpayer's dime. This comes AFTER reports he used the FBI’s private jet for personal travel and pushed for even more taxpayer-funded perks.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll" (2009)

Breaking News: Najib Razak, the former leader of Malaysia, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in a case related to the looting of a government fund.

The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.

Tell me again why we should support Democrats. Sure, he’s “only” a state representative, but this is a Democratic politician openly saying this. The amount of absolute scorn you have to feel towards people to feel secure to say this shit is astounding. Fuck you, Steve.