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My latest: Charlie Kirk was a gutter bigot who built his career on censorship and bussed insurrectionists to the Capitol on J6. Why are liberals like Ezra Klein trying to paint him as a paragon of reason and dialogue?
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Why are some liberals turning Charlie Kirk into a martyr for liberal democracy?
Holding him up as a champion of dialogue paints him in a false light to millions who might only know him in death, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
https://www.editorialboard.com/why-are-some-liberals-turning-charlie-kirk-into-a-martyr-for-liberal-democracy/
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Congressional Budget Office believed to be hacked by foreign actor
The Congressional Budget Office formulates economic projections for lawmakers, and every bill taken up in Congress gets a CBO âscoreâ of how much it would add to the national debt.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/06/cbo-hack-congress-foreign/
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The Trump regime is not only withdrawing the US from climate efforts, it's threatening other countries that try to make climate deals. This is one of the greatest crimes of the Trump administration:
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U.S. skips COP30 climate conference, lobbies to sink new global deals
The Trump administration is using lobbying and economic threats to thwart emissions-cutting and environmental initiatives around the world.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/07/cop30-climate-summit-brazil-us-trump/
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Another scumbag Trump will swear he doesn't know anything about.
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Trump pardons former Tennessee House speaker, top aide awaiting prison
Trump has granted clemency in the opening year of his term to several former elected officials convicted on corruption-related charges.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/06/glen-casada-cade-cothren-trump-pardon/
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jael holzman
about 3 hours ago
Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers? For
@heatmap.news
I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
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This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers
John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers â and won.
https://heatmap.news/plus/the-fight/spotlight/john-mcauliff-virginia-data-centers-politics
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josh (oldfriend99)
about 3 hours ago
This is what they took from you
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Wesley Morgan
about 3 hours ago
Latest Army general to be jammed up over alleged wokeness is Pat Work, who led the Ranger company that fast-roped into the Korengal to recover the bodies during Operation Red Wings and was the 82nd brigade commander who dug ISIS out of Mosul
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Hey, baby, we're going so far back we're rejecting Thomas Hobbes.
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post malone ergo propter malone
about 1 hour ago
one wonders how old Bethany's kids will be when they learn that they need to apologize for their mother's behavior
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Transferring counterintelligence to a non-law enforcement agency is what you do if you don't intend to prosecute the spies you catch, if any.
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Quinta Jurecic
about 1 hour ago
Tulsi Gabbard is trying to take control over counterintelligence from the FBI. It's not going great. A scoop with
@shaneharris.bsky.social
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Tulsi Gabbardâs Quest to Bring the âDeep Stateâ Under Her Control
A memo circulating within the federal government lays out her officeâs reasoning for wanting to transfer counterintelligence work away from the FBI.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/odni-trump-national-security/684859/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9TvxbT140weVvaoxEW8qcT0k&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Max Read
about 1 hour ago
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis
maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
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Aaron Sojourner
about 3 hours ago
I admire his honesty in this case but I do not love it when the president's closest economic adviser fails to predict the massive negative impact of the administration's policy choices
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Reconstructionist
about 2 hours ago
This might be one of the most monumentally insane things a government has done
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It's such a dumb stunt, too, because it's obvious that only Trump is responsible.
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39 minutes ago
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Aaron Rupar
about 2 hours ago
photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
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Noah Shachtman
about 4 hours ago
George Santos lived in Huntington, Long Island before becoming a member of Congress. He lived in the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton, New Jersey after that.
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Courtney Milan
about 4 hours ago
Every time a tech entrepreneur says âwe donât need to stop global warming because AI willâ I want to slap them with a fish that says, âif a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say âstop burning fossil fuels, you fools.ââ
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually
about 3 hours ago
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Gift link: How Ric Grennel is killing the Kennedy Center. Great piece that doesn't even get into the time Grenell gave Log Cabin Republicans free tickets to shout down a Kennedy Center performance by an artist who clashed with Grenell on socials.
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The Kennedy Center Crackup
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/the-kennedy-center-crackup.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8.04i1.DbPzOAigA-ro&smid=url-share
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jamelle
about 3 hours ago
ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature â and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption â then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
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The right only played nice with Jews because of a theological belief that Israel is necessary for the end times. There's a deep well of antisemitism roiling underneath the Zionist alliance.
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about 2 hours ago
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Christopher Webb
about 3 hours ago
Nothing says âfit to leadâ like napping through your own medical endorsement. Get Grandpa Don to bed. đ€Šđœââïž
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southpaw
about 3 hours ago
The note is pretty good evidence that the sandwich guy jurors carefully evaluated the legal merits of the DOJâs case and werenât collectively engaged in a nullification exercise.
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Marisa Kabas
about 3 hours ago
NEWS â The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts.
www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
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Jacqueline Sweet
about 2 hours ago
SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentenceâraising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...
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FBI Informant Who Lied About Bidens Quietly Released From Jail Sparking Trump Pardon Fears
Alexander Smirnov was quietly furloughed from prison months ago.
https://jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-informant-who-lied-about-bidens
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Chris Hayes
about 4 hours ago
Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.
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ryan cooper
about 3 hours ago
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
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Kat Abughazaleh
about 3 hours ago
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. Weâve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Donât look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
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Jason Rabinowitz
1 day ago
LGA Terminal B sent an email last night to its tenant airlines (United, Air Canada, JetBlue, Southwest, etc) that basically says "hey if you know wtf is going on, let us know?" Meetings between airlines and FAA didn't happen until *last night* for operational impacts starting *Friday*. Unreal.
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From the Department of Nothing Ever Fucking Changes, a look at a book-banning campaign of yore. Yore in this case being 1976.
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Aparna Nair
about 6 hours ago
Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
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G Elliott Morris
about 6 hours ago
Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
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Trump's winning 2024 coalition has evaporated
Claims of a conservative realignment of non-whites, the working class, and young voters have been highly exaggerated
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-winning-2024-coalition-has
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post malone ergo propter malone
about 5 hours ago
we're gonna have the best sports fixing scandals
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Carl Quintanilla
about 6 hours ago
(Forbes) - The Trump Organizationâs second-term push to monetize Donald Trumpâs presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. đ€Ą
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
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Mike Black
about 6 hours ago
Open secret is that Palantir is the only one of these companies that makes anything that isn't vaporware, and also it still sucks ass Very easy arguments (without even broaching the even easier drug use) to lock these guys out, for any Dems willing to go back to first principles of "fascists bad"
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Just Jack
about 6 hours ago
800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump wonât pay the remaining airport personnel. Elonâs on his way to becoming a trillionaire. Trumpâs net worth has more than doubled inside a year. Glad everything worked out for them. How about you?
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Andrew Lawrence
about 5 hours ago
things that arent the future of civilization - chatbots - crypto - robot butlers - cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people things that actually are the future of civilization - free clean energy
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2.9 million people fly in the US every day and Donald Trump is throwing that system into chaos after promising to fund his own priorities during the shutdown.
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Tim Onion
about 4 hours ago
Read this thread. This is what
@katmabu.bsky.social
was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.
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Bill Grueskin
about 6 hours ago
Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
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New College of Florida shows soaring expenses as state targets 'woke waste'
A report by Florida DOGE found that Sarasota's New College is the most financially inefficient school in the university system.
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2025/11/05/sarasota-new-college-soaring-expenses-as-florida-targets-woke-waste/87017060007/
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Oliver Willis
about 6 hours ago
I think democrats should push for a thorough review of all Elon Musk govt contracts as part of their 2026-8 portfolio. Why are taxpayers financing the work of a racist near-trillionaire? Leaving that unexamined was one of the biggest failures of the last Dem majority.
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CEO of Frontier Airlines says passengers better buy a backup ticket on a different carrier if they actually need to be somewhere.
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What Travelers Need to Know About the Flight Cuts Tied to the Shutdown
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/travel/shutdown-faa-flight-delays-cancellations.html?searchResultPosition=1
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kentropic
about 6 hours ago
Yes, theyâll always give him what he wants, because they know itâs only way they can keep their overinflated stock afloat.
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Ron Filipkowski
about 7 hours ago
He spent Bidenâs entire presidency calling him âSleepy Joeâ. Still does. But this guy nods off in the middle of the day in meetings almost every day. Fell asleep in court all the time too.
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When I think of the hurdles Elon Musk has to clear to get his $1 trillion payday, I'm reminded of the joke that "God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things, I am so far behind I will never die."
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Brendel
about 7 hours ago
It shouldnât be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdaniâs campaign was simply âcities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in themâ which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
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Elon Musk is not set to become the world's first trillionaire because this pay package has a bunch of preconditions he will never meet. The 600,000 people he killed are dead for real, though.
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Trump was bragging about all the emergency funds he has to fund his priorities. Why isn't air travel for millions of Americans a priority?
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Live Updates: Hundreds of U.S. Flights Are Canceled as Shutdown Hits Air Travel
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/07/us/shutdown-airports-flight-cuts
about 7 hours ago
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Sailor Michael
about 15 hours ago
Man, this shit is out of hand and someone need tell us why in the fuck we are blowing up fucking boats? This ain't the shit we are fucking supposed to be doing. Someone please explain why in the entire fuck we are just blowing up fucking people? It needs to happen now
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...
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US military strikes another boat in the Caribbean, killing 3 | CNN Politics
The US military conducted a strike against a vessel in the Caribbean on Thursday, killing three people, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/politics/us-military-caribbean-boat-strike-kills-3
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