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What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard. Tweets speak for myself only.
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Michael Clemens
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âIf the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.â Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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Weedle
about 9 hours ago
Person who hates Democrats and is ambivalent to positive about Republicans while loudly proclaiming themselves to be the biggest trans ally and therefore most progressive. Many such cases.
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Alejandra Caraballo
about 19 hours ago
The entire reactionary project in a nutshell. A bunch of elite rubes annoyed at anyone they view as beneath them being used by billionaires and oligarchs to crush opposition and be discarded when they're no longer useful.
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Osita Nwanevu
about 22 hours ago
Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university.
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L. Louise Lucas (mirror bot)
about 16 hours ago
I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need âcoachingâ on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1
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Vituperative Erb
about 13 hours ago
I am going to be honest that if you arenât sure whether or not it would be good if the fascists kill a prominent anti-fascist activist with whom you have developed an inscrutable parasocial antagonism, I really doubt the sincerity of your commitment to leftism or anti-fascism
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Roy Edroso
about 12 hours ago
"...itâs hard to get over the fact that [the author] didnât (and still doesnât) see this as an obvious right-wing grift from the get-go." Like I said: Itâs the institutional equivalent of Just The Tip Trumpers -- they were either lying to con the rubes, or to con themselves.
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Cancel culture at Bari Weiss U.
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Cancel culture at Bari Weiss U. - Lawyers, Guns & Money
When reading Evan Manderyâs report on the inevitable transition of UATX into an explicit copy of Prager U rather than one with the thinnest veneer of plausible deniability, itâs hard to get over the f...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/cancel-culture-at-bari-weiss-u
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LOL is this a bust of Niall Ferguson at Bari Weiss U?
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It is Hard Pundit Law that the Democratic Party is fully responsible for anything ever said by a Wesleyan sophomore, and the Republican Party is not responsible for anything said or done by its top political leadership
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Bearcat Catbear
about 15 hours ago
I like to keep track of Trump's wee little baby steps further down the road of absolute degradation. Like pardoning a woman for fraud and then pardoning her a second time for a new fraud three years later. I think most dictators would find this embarrassing?
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Hunter Biden painting sale update
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Hunter Biden painting sale update - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Iâm not sure that the Supreme Court using multiple strands of doctrine to make it legal for the president to get bribes and to quid pro quo favors in return was a good idea: In 2021, a convicted fraud...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/hunter-biden-painting-sale-update
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Sam Bagenstos
about 17 hours ago
Great
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dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
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The Left Needs Bureaucrats - Dissent Magazine
After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative stateânot as it was before Trump, but as something better.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-left-needs-bureaucrats/
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Massimo Faggioli
1 day ago
this image alongside the article: this woman wasnât even protesting. She was a U.S. citizen trying to drive to an appointment and then was dragged out of her car.
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Hamilton Nolan
about 17 hours ago
America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.
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Erika Uyterhoeven
about 18 hours ago
I need to apologize for something I did. The
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Ryan J. Reilly âpaints a vivid and urgent portrait of⊠disarrayâ
about 18 hours ago
A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:
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Andy Craig
about 19 hours ago
Transparent, open bribery.
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Jamison Foser
about 18 hours ago
shooting a woman in the face is not an optics problem, it is a *problem* problem
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A gentle reminder that poorly (if at all) sourced assertions that Democrats are about to do something only Rahm Emanuel would like are one of the quickest ways to drive engagement on social media and you should probably treat them with at least some measure of skepticism
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Virginia Democrats know what the shot is
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Virginia Democrats know what the shot is - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The era of unilateral disarmament seems to be over: The Virginia Senate passed a constitutional amendment Friday to pave the way for a mid-decade redistricting push, the final legislative step needed ...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/virginia-democrats-know-what-the-shot-is
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Jagged little shill
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Jagged little shill - Lawyers, Guns & Money
You will be extremely unsurprised to learn that Bari Weiss was deeply involved in the decision to launder administration propaganda to justify shooting an unthreatening soccer mom three times in the f...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/jagged-little-shill
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"The networkâs top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning" wow what are the odds?
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Rebecca Solnit
1 day ago
When you grovel before Trump and give him your Nobel medal and thank him for invading Venezuela you're pretty much guaranteeing you won't ever lead the country, right? In other news, pissed-off CBS staff are leaking like crazy.
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CBS News report on ICE officerâs injuries drew âhuge internal concernâ
Anonymously sourced report that Jonathan Ross âsuffered internal bleedingâ after killing Renee Good faced skepticism inside CBS newsroom
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/15/cbs-news-ice-officer-injuries?utm_source=www.status.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=business-insider-s-risky-business&_bhlid=fb59bbad940c271f832a85fa6f6ca87ee40ffbd1
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Adam Serwer
3 days ago
Congratulations to Brett Kavanaugh
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mtsw
2 days ago
The deck is stacked in about 10 different ways to give extra power and money to rural areas, but it's never enough. Right wing propaganda continues to tell them they are out upon victims powerless against the mighty cities.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST
2 days ago
Distressing number of the whatabouts here reduce to "but Donald Trump *is* the president, & he is very bad" & then constructing some scheme demanding a much smarter & more capable Donald Trump than anyone we've seen in years, if ever
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bmaz
1 day ago
Via
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"Let them eat (one piece of) broccoli to leave room for Trump to fund his invasions and soccer mom assassinations." Trump take beef
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/trum...
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Trump take beef - Lawyers, Guns & Money
At least the marginal Trump voter whose top issue was inflation and got a bunch of stuff they didnât want also got the food price increases they didnât want: Days away from the first anniversary of Pr...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/trump-take-beef
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Buying somebodyâs Super Bowl ring on eBay doesnât make you a Super Bowl champion
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Ned Resnikoff
2 days ago
Increasingly convinced that one of the main reasons the "Trump is going to cancel the midterms" meme won't die is because a lot of posting addicts don't want to accept that electoralism is still a necessary condition for beating Trump. It's a perverse sort of wishcasting.
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Marisa Ingemi
2 days ago
âIt literally had nothing to do with gymnastics anymore." Stanford gymnast Levi Jung-Ruivivar is one of several women's athletes who have spoken out about eating disorders in sports and the pressures behind them |
@sfchronicle.com
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âI have to be the sickest one hereâ: Stanford gymnast opens up about eating disorder
Less than a year after her Olympic debut in Paris, Levi Jung-Ruivivar was in treatment at an eating disorder recovery facility. Now the 19-year-old is back competing at Stanford.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/college/article/stanford-gymnast-eating-disorder-21286088.php
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Micah
2 days ago
begging people not to preemptively hand Trump powers he does not have and has no practical means of accomplishing the scope of his actual abuses is quite bad enough on its own
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Ambivalent on the Paul question myself, I enjoyed both point and counterpoint:
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jamelle
2 days ago
i actually live in a district that might be the kind of competitive that attracts attention, in a city that holds real significance for trump and his minions. there might be goons at my polling place and if i see them i'll give a smile and a wave and i'll cast my fucking ballot
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Burying the lede at the core of the Earth
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Burying the lede at the core of the Earth - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Reuters did a 30-minute interview with Donald Trump. Hereâs the LAST paragraph of their write-up of it: The president expressed frustration that his Republican Party could lose control of the U.S. Hou...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/burying-the-lede-at-the-core-of-the-earth
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Hunter Biden Laptop Update
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Hunter Biden Laptop Update - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The non-interventionist mindset is a many-splendored thing: The Trump administrationâs first sale of Venezuelan oil is valued at $500 million, an administration official told Semafor. The sale marks a...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/hunter-biden-laptop-update-12
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Aaron Rupar
3 days ago
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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Karl Bode
2 days ago
I still suspect that Bari Weiss gets replaced by a much bigger asshole by summertime
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Bari Weiss Is Sad That People Arenât Enjoying Her Clumsy Destruction Of CBS News
If you missed it, Trump-allied billionaire Larry Ellison and his nepobaby son David hired an unqualified troll named Bari Weiss to ârunâ CBS News. And by ârunâ CBS news, I mâŠ
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/14/bari-weiss-is-sad-that-people-arent-enjoying-her-clumsy-destruction-of-cbs-news/
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Brendan Nyhan
2 days ago
"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"
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EvolvingWild
2 days ago
We've lived in Minneapolis for almost 14 years, and I don't think people realize how close the communities are - *especially* people in the state who live in rural or exurban places. You fuck with our neighbors and we get big mad
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Mark Joseph Stern
3 days ago
Incidentally, KBJ just sniped at Kavanaugh over his Kavanaugh Stops opinion in a footnote today joined by Sotomayor. She isn't letting this one go.
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Katie Phang
2 days ago
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. âThere is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,â Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
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Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administrationâs plan following the ouster of NicolĂĄs Maduro.
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/14/2026/us-gets-first-500-million-venezuelan-oil-deal-holding-some-proceeds-in-qatar
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Acyn
3 days ago
Velazquez: The American people are upset. They did not sign on for this. The most fundamental principle for the American people is fairness and humane policies, not beating the shit out of people, especially vulnerable women and children.
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Kyle Griffin
2 days ago
"The federal government's narrative could not immediately be verified."
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Federal Agent Shoots Immigrant in Minneapolis, Homeland Security Says
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Jacob T. Levy
2 days ago
Cripes aâmighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. Heâs doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
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