Brendan Karet
@badtakes.bsky.social
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ex-@MMFA researcher (
https://www.mediamatters.org/author/brendan-karet
), current gamer
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Ian Boudreau
1 day ago
House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
1 day ago
They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
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Open Measures
1 day ago
NEW: We've been looking at suspicious activity on Rumble. Our latest looks at networks of accounts impersonating the platform's top content creators and trying to lure their audiences into suspicious Telegram chatrooms. The most-impersonated figure? Dan Bongino.
openmeasures.io/dan-bongino-...
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Impersonation Scams Target Audiences of Rumble Creators - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.
https://openmeasures.io/dan-bongino-impersonation-scams
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Bobby Silverman
2 days ago
"The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika … as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month. Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as 'potentially divisive' under its new guidelines."
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/20/coast-guard-swastika-noose/
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Sam Biddle
4 days ago
Someday political commentators will all realize that Trump's "lack of basic decency" isn't a liability, but a major reason why so many Americans love him
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Kat Tenbarge
5 days ago
So if Olivia is 32 now, broke up with Lizza last year, was together with him for a decade, and then was living with you for 4+ years before that, how old was she when you moved her out of her (presumably parents’) house in the suburbs to live with you?
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Christopher Mathias
5 days ago
A big indicator of this fascist moment, for me, was exposing Hanania’s past as pseudonymous white supremacist blogger, him issuing a non-apology apology then writing gutter racist shit under real name, & nevertheless enjoying mainstream success reminder of who he is
www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
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Dave Weigel
5 days ago
This is real btw
www.popjustice.com/briefing/tha...
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That's Livvy alright • Popjustice
They say you should never judge a book by its cover and the same, sometimes, goes for songs. Well, meet Livvy. Livvy is proof that in some circumstances,
https://www.popjustice.com/briefing/thats-livvy-alright/
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Kat Abughazaleh
5 days ago
Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.” Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
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utopia deferred
8 days ago
Everyday I wake up and the most evil, vain, and banal losers in the world history of mankind are dabbing on us while their slavish and puerile collaborators print their confessions about dabbing on us in the newspaper in stories that are titled “I Am Dabbing On You, You Stupid Fuck Poor Peons”
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Dan O’Sullivan
10 days ago
What's weird is that there isn't, say, 15 years of evidence online of that lady being completely and utterly insane, either.
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southpaw
11 days ago
Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released.
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Joshua Erlich
10 days ago
Thiel, Summers, and Leon Black walk into a bar and the bartender says, "why are you here. the middle school is down the street"
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Ed Zitron
11 days ago
Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
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Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...
https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
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Brad Johnson
13 days ago
Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Nikki 'Samyazan Scion' Ophan
15 days ago
COMPLETE REDDITOR VICTORY 1000 YEAR FUNKO POP REICH
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Jack Jenkins
15 days ago
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.”
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
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Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/feds-tell-faith-leaders-no-more-prayer-outside-broadview-facility/
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Brad Heath
16 days ago
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages. Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Peter Labuza
16 days ago
barely a metaphor lmao
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Laura Bassett
16 days ago
A few men rush to help him as he faints and Bobby Kennedy scurries in the opposite direction
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Tim Onion
18 days ago
I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
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sounds nothing like someone on coke. this is a high dose of amphetamines combined with a lifelong inability to hold eye contact
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Alex Kaplan
19 days ago
A few days ago, Aldo DiBelardino, a candidate for Virginia Beach, Virginia, sheriff known as "Peacemaker Aldo," told a QAnon figure on their podcast that "if I get elected on Tuesday," it will be due to "the help of your viewers."
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David_j_roth
19 days ago
Getting hit in the chest from point blank range with a footlong sub and an enormous Peckinpah-style squib of sweet onion teriyaki sauce explodes from my chest.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
19 days ago
Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.
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hannah gais
20 days ago
I unpacked the implications of Nick Fuentes' collaboration with Tucker Carlson and the former Fox News host's willingness to portray the white nationalist livestreamer as a victim. Someone wants him in the mainstream. Why? And what does it mean?
postsfromunderground.ghost.io/on-tucker-ca...
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on tucker carlson, nick fuentes, the heritage foundation, and all that
If you had asked me in 2016 whether I thought I’d write a blog about the Heritage Foundation defending a former Fox News host after he hosted a friendly conversation with one of the country’s leading ...
https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/on-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-the-heritage-foundation-and-all-that/
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The Onion
21 days ago
$18 Mocktail Satisfies Craving To Waste Money
https://theonion.com/18-mocktail-satisfies-craving-to-waste-money-1851449216/
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Chris Sommerfeldt
22 days ago
Defend NYC, a pro-Cuomo super PAC operated by Trump adviser Jason Meister, is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on sending out this text message to NYC voters, hoping it'll convince them to vote Cuomo for mayor, new filings show.
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Matt Novak
23 days ago
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food. He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
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FinTwitter
23 days ago
FAA ISSUES GROUND STOP FOR WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT CITING AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER STAFFING
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Brandy Zadrozny
24 days ago
New: Progressive congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh has been indicted over protests outside Chicago-area ICE facility after videos of confrontations with federal agents have fueled right-wing calls for her arrest.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...
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Kat Abughazaleh indicted over protests outside Chicago-area ICE facility
The progressive Democratic congressional candidate's videos of confrontations with federal agents have fueled right-wing calls for her arrest.
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/kat-abughazaleh-indicted-protests-chicago-area-ice-facility-rcna240572
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Tim Onion
24 days ago
Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview. This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association. I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.
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Kat Abughazaleh
24 days ago
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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grimm 🍂
25 days ago
If you want to know how it's going in Texas, a GOP county chair just said this. This is not for a rural county, it's Fort Worth.
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Rebecca Fishbein
25 days ago
Literally cackling
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...
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Cuomo Blasts Mamdani for His Rent-Stabilized Unit. But He Had One, Too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/nyregion/cuomo-rent-stabilized-apartment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives
26 days ago
Frictionless brain activity
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David_j_roth
25 days ago
Bari absolutely rocks. Her two ideas for stories are "I have this famous person's phone number" and "I heard libs were doing some weird stuff out there." Absolutely replacement level suburban dunce.
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Sarah Weinman
25 days ago
Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)
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Matt Novak
26 days ago
lol Grokipedia science articles are literally just word-for-word copies of Wikipedia
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hannah gais
26 days ago
Two main conclusions from this Fuentes-Carlson interview: 1) MAGA has tried to keep Fuentes out of mainstream circles for years—and knows it failed. The movement’s shift to increasingly radical rhetoric, especially in TPUSA circles, was in part them trying to compete for the youth’s attention. 1/n
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Isaac Chotiner
26 days ago
New Interview:
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Alissa Azar
27 days ago
Portland City Councilor
@counciloravalos.bsky.social
woke up to her car and home engulfed in flames late last night. She had to grab her cat and escape to safety.
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Norm Charlatan
28 days ago
Met a mutual for the first time and drank some beers and watched the World Series, another good evening made possible by our friend, the internet.
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Carl Quintanilla
29 days ago
ROSENBERG: Today’s Univ of Michigan consumer confidence was “the third decline in a row .. the lowest since last May. This is in the lowest 1% share of readings of all time! “.. Auto and home buying plans have only been as weak as they are today less than 5% of the time in the past.”
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ceej
29 days ago
After a lengthy period of difficult reflection, I have reluctantly decided to endorse my own party’s nominee. Despite being overwhelmingly popular with voters, I will be extremely careful to frame my endorsement using bad faith language cribbed directly from their opponent’s attack ads
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mobject permanence
about 1 month ago
free line for democrats to use on the white house shit: donald trump has done what the flight 93 hijackers couldn’t
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David_j_roth
about 1 month ago
A nationwide search for "Observe And Report-type dudes." A whole new parallel armed force made up of guys who have described themselves as "a pretty serious DUI guy" in conversation. A qualification exam where the only task is getting upset and driving your truck into another truck. A new age.
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Joshua Erlich
about 1 month ago
#neverforget
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Sahil Kapur
about 1 month ago
MAINE Senate race, Democratic primary UNH/Pine Tree State Poll Graham Platner 58% Janet Mills 24%
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