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Political Columnist, Bloomberg.
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Scott MacFarlane
about 4 hours ago
Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
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jamelle
about 14 hours ago
i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight
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Iâm just trying to imagine Wallace â68 if Lurleen had been, say, Native American. It just doesnât convey the requisite commitment to the race message.
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George Pearkes
about 5 hours ago
Here we go Link from the post:
www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-...
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Long tradition of dog whistles and screeches in this country but as maga becomes ever more explicitly racist does this fella really have the chops to navigate his brown family and white supremacist politics?
www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/p...
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JD Vance tries to have it both ways on Nick Fuentes and antisemitism | CNN Politics
Vice President JD Vance has never looked more like the presumptive 2028 Republican presidential nominee.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/politics/jd-vance-nick-fuentes-antisemitism-analysis
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Guggenheim Collection
about 7 hours ago
Blue Mountain by Vasily Kandinsky, 1908
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137304
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Darth Putin
about 6 hours ago
OTD in 2016 Assange said there isn't a need for Wikileaks in Russia co competitors like Navalny "are permitted". The guy we tried to blind. Then tried to kill. More than once. Then jailed. Then disappeared. Then we actually killed him. So those were wise words.
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web_rant
about 24 hours ago
Your daily reminder from the oligarch currently buying all the media for more minority control. Because intimidation as well as manipulation is how fascism delivers it.
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jamelle
about 18 hours ago
bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
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Thrilled to hear that this ignorant old man with multiple pathologies and rapidly advancing dementia will be taking an active role in US Navy ship design.
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Who will Heritage get to make up stuff about voter fraud?
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about 18 hours ago
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
1 day ago
There are lots of vacation photos in these Epstein files including Maxwell and Epstein in Moscow, Russia in 2002.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Robert Jameson
2 days ago
Opinion
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, Columnist MAGAâs Book Bans Are Coming Back With a Vengeance The Trump administrationâs executive orders are fueling a wave of book bans, and South Carolina is leading the pack.
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MAGAâs Book Bans Are Coming Back With a Vengeance
The Trump administrationâs executive orders are fueling a wave of book bans, and South Carolina is leading the pack.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2025-12-21/south-carolina-book-bans-a-maga-dream-and-american-nightmare?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy
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Kevin M. Kruse
2 days ago
Right, this line Vance used was a very common line used by segregationists. Here's Rep. Mendel Rivers (D-SC) reacting to the Brown decision, which he said "would bring mongrelization of the Caucasian race. He added that he for one won't apologize for being a white man."
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Sunday is a lazy day devoted to napping on the sofa in anticipation of Monday, which is also a lazy day devoted to napping on the sofa.
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Mary Wood
2 days ago
Thank you,
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, for giving necessary attention to whatâs going on with public education attacks in South Carolina. My story is but a drop in the bucket of the broader plot to make America dumb again. Education strengthens democracy. Destroying it hurts us all.
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Lizzie O'Leary
2 days ago
They deported Yuanxin
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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Immigration Officials Deport Queens 6-Year-Old and Father Who Fled China
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/nyregion/child-father-deported-china-nyc.html
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Not yet finished renouncing his wife and kids.
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Katherine Stewart
2 days ago
Book bans are back with a vengeance. Great reporting from
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Jack Rakove
2 days ago
So to describe this in institutional terms rather than political ones is wrong. The continued degeneration of the GOP is the dominant independent variable in US politics, until Trump's re-election produced the culmination of the GOP's deterioration.
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Gift Link. "No Congressional legislation was passed to institute this MAGA control over every US public school. No public debate informed it. No evidence was offered for its preposterous assertions....Yet the word âfundsâ or âfundingâ appears 9 different times."
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...
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MAGAâs Book Bans Are Coming Back With a Vengeance
The Trump administrationâs executive orders are fueling a wave of book bans, and South Carolina is leading the pack.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2025-12-21/south-carolina-book-bans-a-maga-dream-and-american-nightmare?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NjMyMzEwOSwiZXhwIjoxNzY2OTI3OTA5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUN01FU0FLR0NURzkwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI5RDJCMDVGODdDMUU0MUU3OUJFNkE3MTEyQzJDNUE5NiJ9.5hZG4rLqyjMat3unvLEjkbIzaz5cnhkGBgrDLbbq_dE
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There is a sense, in this biography, of him tending his own flame while attempting to urinate upon it at the same time.â I do love Dwight Garner.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/b...
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A Writer Who Dazzled on the Page but Lived for the Margins
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/books/review/denis-johnson-flagrant-self-destructive-gestures.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Gift Link. "No Congressional legislation was passed to institute this MAGA control over every US public school. No public debate informed it. No evidence was offered for its preposterous assertions....Yet the word âfundsâ or âfundingâ appears 9 different times."
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...
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MAGAâs Book Bans Are Coming Back With a Vengeance
The Trump administrationâs executive orders are fueling a wave of book bans, and South Carolina is leading the pack.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2025-12-21/south-carolina-book-bans-a-maga-dream-and-american-nightmare?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NjMyMzEwOSwiZXhwIjoxNzY2OTI3OTA5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUN01FU0FLR0NURzkwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI5RDJCMDVGODdDMUU0MUU3OUJFNkE3MTEyQzJDNUE5NiJ9.5hZG4rLqyjMat3unvLEjkbIzaz5cnhkGBgrDLbbq_dE
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Holy shit
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Matt Novak
3 days ago
Looks like they're right. Data Set 1 / Photo 468, the image from yesterday's Epstein files release that included photos of Trump in a drawer, was removed.
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Brian Beutler
3 days ago
Weird how this keeps happening.
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Schooley
3 days ago
And may every day be another wonderful secret.
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Owens could have had a lucrative career telling white conservatives that Blacks and liberals are the real racists. She found an even bigger market.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...
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Opinion | Candace Owens Is the Conservative Movementâs Frankenstein Monster
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/opinion/candace-owens-erika-kirk.html
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The Tennessee Holler
4 days ago
FLASHBACK⊠Seems relevant todayâŠ
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âCanada has been boycotting American spirits since March in retaliation for President Trumpâs ongoing trade war and U.S. whiskey sales to that country are down by more than 60% through October.â
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Carl Quintanilla
3 days ago
CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 âwas greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify itâ on a chart. đ€Ą
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
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Hamilton Nolan
3 days ago
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
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Jon Keegan
4 days ago
Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.
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Acyn
4 days ago
Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. Itâs 100 pages. Itâs all black. Thatâs the transparency weâre getting.
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Eric Columbus
4 days ago
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture
4 days ago
Chaim Soutine, Portrait of Maria Lani, 1929
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135208
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Brandon Friedman
5 days ago
Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people
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The party of lies is now the party of murder.
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Charles Ornstein
4 days ago
STUNNING: Nearly a year since President Donald Trump took office, his education departmentâs Office for Civil Rights has not entered into a single new resolution agreement involving racial harassment of students, we found.Â
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Monkey Sounds, âWhite Powerâ and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Departmentâs civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that âpeople impacted by racial discriminat...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-civil-rights-racial-harassment
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Mike Luckovich
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The New York Times
5 days ago
President Trump has tried to minimize his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Documents and interviews that The New York Times conducted with more than 30 former Epstein employees, victims of his abuse and others who crossed paths with the two men reveal an intense and complicated relationship.
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âDonâs Best Friendâ: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Popular Science
5 days ago
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what.
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First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
https://www.popsci.com/science/transgender-children-gender-identity/
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Don Moynihan
5 days ago
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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âWell, Iâm not the worldâs most masculine man, but I know what I am and Iâm glad Iâm a manâŠ.â
#Lola
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The maga theory of the case requires believing that GOP leaders are so incompetent and stupid that after 5 years they still havenât managed to produce any evidence.
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Carl Quintanilla
5 days ago
NYT: âIn a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trumpâs election loss.â
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Chris Murphy
5 days ago
This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy. These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6. They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".
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Simon Rosenberg
6 days ago
Trump is, and will always be known as, a mass murderer.
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