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Trump has openly said his motive for attacking Venezuela is to seize its oil. But recent explainers in WaPo, Politico, BBC, CNN pontificating about Trump's motives do not mention this fact at all. I wrote about western media's bizarre refusal to state the obvious, even after Trump says it himself.

@ahjohnson.bsky.social on Trump's imperialist motive for going to war with Venezuela www.columnblog.com/p/media-pont...

Grotesque migrantinsider.com/p/backlash-g...

One would think if someone was a recent catholic convert and the pope called then on their shit personally they'd freak out, but these types of catholic converts begin day 1 being pope of their own schism

Karl Jobst video on Captain Kirk cheating at the Kobayashi Maru test.

A "tariff" on *people* moving from one place to another? Why, are the Trumpists planning on restarting the slave trade?

This past weekend, communities gathered for Day of the Dead vigils to remember the growing number of immigrants who’ve lost their lives in federal custody. Families, clergy, and neighbors came together to say their names, light candles, and honor their memories. ✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social

Corrupt and unfit to serve. (by @molly.wiki) www.citationneeded.news/trump-binanc...

Reminder that Kavanaugh lied during his confirmation hearing and should not be on SCOTUS at all www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/09...

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It's been 15 years and nobody's leaked a single bit of this plan, my man

Because it’s cis kids. The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇 No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

I thought there would be some big blowup over insensitive Charlie Kirk Halloween costumes but it turns out everybody's just moved on from caring about him at all.

Brianna Wu has realized that trying to compromise with transphobes is futile. A genuinely positive turn of events. And her summary of how the "compromise" process fails is good.

The way to beat this tactic is to say “No, you’re trolling/lying/arguing in bad faith. You’re trying to do something malicious and we should treat you like that.”

It’s why “debate me bro” works: because you’re never actually going to win if the person isn’t arguing in good faith. People can always come up with some new sophistry, some new word game. You’ll never achieve a final victory and meanwhile the troll is getting attention and credibility.

Allowing people to raise bad-faith arguments in perpetuity without ever questioning their motives just validates those arguments and gives them a veneer of plausibility and acceptability.

gock is this bad? www.apolloacademy.com/k-shaped-eco...?

Kevin Roberts wants to normalize little Nazi lovers like Nick Fuentes, but also wants to destroy Harvard and other universities on Trumped up charges of antisemitism.🙄

Roberts went so Nazi his underlings are starting an Antifa cell inside the f***ing Heritage Foundation. What a time to be alive

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I don't know if it's heartening or depressing that so much of this was avoidable if Americans knew a year ago what they know now

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MAGA Overton Window shifting so far into "Literally Nazism" that *Ted Cruz* is getting uncomfortable. Dark

(I'm explaining football to a space alien) A hundred men argue over whether a leather egg belongs in *points* that rectangle or *swings arm to side* that other rectangle a hundred yards away

Allegations against Cuomo include: - forcibly kissing his own aide on the mouth - unwanted grabbing of a different aide's breast and butt en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

Hadn't thought of it this way before!

Coming back to this deranged Lovett tweet about Platner: - Yes, "highly disciplined", "humble", and "history of volunteering" are desirable attributes for a Senator - The "severe IBS" snark is just ableism?? Which is especially strange when Platner lives off veterans disability??

I don't think I learned much from this. These guys are exactly who you think they are. Entertaining read though. www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

Cat running for office: But we're going to get rid of the humans because they've been treating us very badly. And our bowls will be full in the morning- perhaps fuller than ever before

Platner’s actions are an embarrassment to our state on the national stage. He has no qualification whatsoever to run for this seat and a US Senate race is not the place to grow up.

We should not be having a debate about Nazi symbolism tattooed on the potentially top ticket Democrat in Maine. The fact we are even willing to entertain it shows desperation within the Party, not dedication, and how far we have fallen from rational thought.

Again, I do not understand why Platner defenders are dying on the hill of putting this unqualified self-centered erratic bozo in the UNITED STATES SENATE

New from me at Cato: The Trump administration lately has falsely asserted that ICE / CBP agents are immune from state law no matter what they do, and also that citizens have no right to videorecord, photograph or identify the agents. There's a pattern that links these two stories! /1

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What a dummy. Everyone knows mayonnaise is only for cooler months

@molly.wiki on Trump's corrupt pardon of crypto felon Changpeng Zhao www.citationneeded.news/issue-95/

Something that I wish got talked about more is that if you affirm your opponents' narratives AND LOSE, you've helped *them* with no benefit to yourself

Obvious to say this, but the actual function of the smear job isn't to make us ask about his aunt, it's to show us the words "hijab" and "9/11" in a headline with his photo.

SCANDAL: Mamdani didn't lie about something that doesn't matter. Can he really be trusted?

The Trump admin is reportedly set to slash refugee admissions to a historic low, stranding vetted individuals who’ve been waiting to begin new lives here. That is, unless you’re a white South African. americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/dozens-of-... #RefugeesWelcome

Our elites are betraying us by refusing to abandon Twitter.

The likely plan: 1. Copy a bunch of Wikipedia content into Grokipedia 2. Edit Grokipedia so it promotes bigotry on key issues 3. Destroy Wikipedia (perhaps using ruinous lawsuits and legal threats paid for by Elon's limitless wealth) so people have no choice but to use Grokipedia

this is actually a way more straightforward explanation of Musk's racist views than any actual quote from him

Another chance to observe that the way the press breathlessly repeats tech CEO pronouncements is ridiculous. It's like if the McDonald's CEO "predicted" that in four years 90% of human food consumption would be chicken nuggets.