Lucian K. Truscott IV
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Refusing to vote to reopen the government unless the ACA subsidies are extended is maybe the single most popular thing Democrats have done since…jeez, I don’t even know when.
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Don’t lose sleep over the shutdown deal
Do not pass “Go.” Do not collect $200.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/dont-lose-sleep-over-the-shutdown
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The Republican perfect storm over Nazi Nick Fuentes
Here is what everyone’s favorite Nazi has done: He’s forcing the Republican Party to pick sides, and to absolutely no one’s surprise, they have picked the side of Fuentes and the Nazis.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-republican-perfect-storm-over
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We’ll be back to gazing at our newsfeeds and holding our breaths waiting to see if our Navy and Air Force have begun bombing Venezuela, or Delta Force special operators have rappelled from a helicopter into a drug lord compound somewhere in Mexico.
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WTF is wrong with these people?
I’ve been walking around all day with that headline in my head because it is applicable across such a broad range of stories that have made headlines over the past few days.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/wtf-is-wrong-with-these-people
9 days ago
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So long as there are Confederate flags and Nazi flags and Nazi salutes and Jew haters and white supremacists walk proudly among us, we are a fallen country. We need to save ourselves from this horror before it’s too late.
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MAGA extremism has shown its Nazi colors
Enough is never enough.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/maga-extremism-has-shown-its-nazi
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Time off for a chilly Halloween in Milford
But only some.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/time-off-for-a-chilly-halloween-in
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They’re shooting boats out of the waters off the coast of South and Central America. How long before someone walking down an American street carrying a sign with an “almost treasonous” criticism of Donald Trump is shot without warning?
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No defendants, no evidence, no lawyers, no courts, no judges, just dead people in the water
Trump’s rocket strikes on alleged drug boats in the Western Caribbean and Eastern Pacific are his dream of what law enforcement should be.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/no-defendants-no-evidence-no-lawyers
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The parade of cars and people and cans and boxes of food, and back in Washington D.C., the SNAP program, even with its struggles, amount to living proof that this country has a soul. Even with all its struggles, that soul is a good one.
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How I learned that having enough food to eat should be a right, not a privilege
Blissful ignorance.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-i-learned-that-having-enough
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Let this be a clarion call to Presidents Biden and Obama and Clinton and Bush. We need you. You were elected by your fellow citizens to lead us while you were in office. We need your leadership now more than ever.
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For Trump, our despair is the point
He does it every day, often several times a day.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/for-trump-our-despair-is-the-point
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Who called Black people “monkeys” and “watermelon people” and praised those who believe in slavery as a group of Young Republicans recently did in yet another group text? Yabbos, that’s who.
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A nation not of laws, not of men, but of yabbos
The question has arisen among sane people again and again over the last ten years: Who are these people?
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-nation-not-of-laws-not-of-men-but
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The two words are, chickenshit pretenders.
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In the real military, we had two words for toy soldiers like this
Chickenshit pretenders.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/in-the-real-military-we-had-two-words
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If you visit Washington D.C. today, or next week, or the week after that, you will see soldiers in the streets carrying rifles, and you will see a national monument, the White House, that has been vandalized by a madman.
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A pretend king commits real vandalism on the White House
Two Americans, Judith A.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-pretend-king-commits-real-vandalism
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This is why big countries should not go to war. They will lose because the leaders of their armies are delusional ignorant fuckwits with too many gold bathroom fixtures and too much desperately unearned self-importance.
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Why big countries shouldn’t go to war
Trump and Hegseth sure do like the word, “lethal.” But it’s a meaningless word in the context of the modern world.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-big-countries-shouldnt-go-to
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He’ll sell tickets to people who want to attend the dinners and kiss his ass. He’s going to tack a gaudy, disgusting display of bad taste onto the history of our country and make billions of it. He’s Donald Trump. It’s what he does.
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Destroying our history is not a metaphor anymore
They started by banning the teaching of critical race theory.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/destroying-our-history-is-not-a-metaphor
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I can guarantee this: No AI system would have put a headline on a column on the subject of artificial intelligence using the words “grilled cheese sandwich.”
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A grilled cheese sandwich and a glass of iced tea
That’s how much it’s taking to power the composition of this column.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-grilled-cheese-sandwich-and-a-glass
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I’m old enough to remember when going to a demonstration was a good time for guys to pick up chicks and for girls to check out some hot dudes. Today, we marched to save each other’s lives.
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People marched across the whole damn country, and we marched in our small Pennsylvania town
I’m old enough to remember when going to a demonstration was a good time for guys to pick up chicks and for girls to check out some hot dudes.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/people-marched-across-the-whole-damn
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Donald Trump wants a war with his “enemies within.” It might not happen this weekend, but American citizens will die in Trump’s undeclared war before this goes much further.
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Is Trump’s war on the cartels a dress rehearsal for a domestic war on his “enemies within?”
Donald Trump or whoever is running things for him in the White House – say hi to Keyboard Warrior Stephen Miller – has used the U.S.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/is-trumps-war-on-the-cartels-a-dress
26 days ago
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Welcome to 1964. Welcome to Jim Crow. That’s where we will be if the Supreme Court puts a torch to the Voting Rights Act. Not only will they ban the teaching of slavery, they’ll bring it back to life in all but name.
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Republican Supreme Court arsonists are ready to torch the Voting Right Act – again.
So, the immolation of the Voting Rights Act by Justice Roberts and his band of merry arsonists continues apace.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/republican-supreme-court-arsonists
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I’m sure that as a species we are not born with a death wish, but we have lived our lives for thousands of years as if we are, and that characteristic of human beings is a real tragedy.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/death-wish
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Death wish
Thinking that I would write about the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas over Gaza, the working title for this column until a few moments ago was, “Does land matter more than people’s lives, or do liv...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/death-wish
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Is there another national leader who has been all over the map about abortion to gay rights to free speech to Russia to its war in Ukraine to come-and-buy-your-drugs-from-me? Hmmmm…let me think…could his name be Donald Trump?
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Here is how Trump could stay in power after 2029 even if he’s not President
If there is one defining characteristic of the Trump second term in office, it is his naked mixing of the presidency with his personal business.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/here-is-how-trump-could-stay-in-power
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That’s a homemade tie-dyed t-shirt, bellbottoms from Brooklyn, and Acme boots. It was the 60’s, man.
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2nd Lt. Truscott relaxing during the Fort Benning Great Mustache revolt in September of 1969
That’s a homemade tie-dyed t-shirt, bellbottoms from Brooklyn, and Acme boots.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/2nd-lt-truscott-relaxing-during-the
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Kristi Noem visits "war ravaged" Portland, observes protester in a chicken suit from rooftop
“It’s like living in hell,” Trump said of the Oregon capital.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/kristi-noem-visits-war-ravaged-portland
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There will be nothing restraining Trump from using soldiers from the state of Texas as his own private army, following his orders and nobody else’s. This isn’t a slippery slope we’re on. Trump is following the playbook of Adolph Hitler in the 1930’s.
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Trump is using the National Guard as his own private army
Lots of news today on the ICE and National Guard front.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-using-the-national-guard
about 1 month ago
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Politics is the way we elect our representatives to run the governments of the country and the states. When federal soldiers become involved in enforcing the law in a state that has not requested them, politics ends and something else begins.
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The end of politics
Forest fires and tornados and hurricanes are the common enemies of all Americans.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-end-of-politics
about 1 month ago
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12 Noon Eastern today: I'll be doing Substack live on Steve Schmidt's "The Warning"
Steveschmidt.substack.com
about 1 month ago
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In the court room overseen by at least one female jurist in the state of Oregon, the rule of law still prevails. For how long that will hold true is a question not only for Oregon, but for the whole nation.
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Trump’s whack-a-mole militarism, part II
On Saturday, within hours of Federal District Judge Karin Immergut issuing her temporary restraining order against the federalization and deployment of Oregon National Guard in Portland, Secretary Pet...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-whack-a-mole-militarism-part
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Following plans laid down in the Heritage Foundation in “Project 2025,” Trump is inventing a war that does not exist in order to carry out repression using federalized state National Guard soldiers.
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“This is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law.”
That is a quote from the temporary restraining order issued by District Judge Karin Immergut blocking President Donald Trump from federalizing and deploying National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-a-nation-of-constitutional
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Trump’s masked and armed agents are already approaching people on the street in cities who look “suspicious” because of their race or ethnicity and requiring them to produce citizenship papers. This isn’t a slippery slope to fascism. We’re already there.
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The perfect fascism of a raid in Chicago
This is what we must guard against.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-perfect-fascism-of-a-raid-in
about 1 month ago
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I just gave myself a massive headache fixing a printer problem, so I'm taking the night off.
That’s me last night working on the Great Mustache Revolt column under the not very watchful tutelage of Tuli.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/i-just-gave-myself-a-massive-headache
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This story is about the obsession with grooming standards of some officers in the army. The obsession dates back decades, and it has a history that echoes the history of this country. It is extraordinary that we are still dealing with this problem.
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The Great Mustache Revolt and the racist history of grooming standards in the military
This story is about the obsession with grooming standards of some officers in the army.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-great-mustache-revolt-and-the
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In the end, the generals and admirals know that presidents come and go, but their job remains the same. The soldiers, sailors, airmen and airwomen and Marines under their command need them to do their jobs in spite of the madness at the top.
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Trump’s speech to the generals and admirals: I don’t even know where to begin
“Unhinged” is one word I heard on the news shows describing Trump’s speech this morning.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-speech-to-the-generals-and
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I don’t envy the generals and admirals and noncommissioned officers who will be there tomorrow. I would not want to have to maintain a straight face while Trump treats them as if they are his followers at a MAGA rally and bellows grievance and braggadocio.
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249 years. Nothing like this has happened before.
I’m speaking of tomorrow’s meeting between Hegseth and Trump and 800 generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/249-years-nothing-like-this-has-happened
about 1 month ago
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Our soldiers didn’t sign up to patrol American streets and arrest or help to arrest their fellow citizens. Martial law, in the end, will be more difficult to impose than Trump thinks it is.
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Will Portland be Trump’s first step toward martial law?
Let’s count down the steps.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/will-portland-be-trumps-first-step
about 1 month ago
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You would think that at some point, cooler heads might prevail, and things could go back to something approaching political normalcy. And then you look at Trump and his Supreme Court and you think... Not.
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Trump and Comey and the whirlpool of revenge politics
Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted yesterday by a grand jury in Richmond, Virginia on two lame-o made up counts – perjury and obstruction of justice by committing perjury.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-and-comey-and-the-whirlpool
about 2 months ago
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Secretary of Whatever Pete Hegseth is nervous. Everyone at the Pentagon knows it. How do they know Pete is shaking in his loafers? That five-sided building is just like a small town. And what they’re talking about is how weirdly frightened the boss is.
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What the hell is Hegseth up to?
Secretary of Whatever Pete Hegseth is nervous.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/what-the-hell-is-hegseth-up-to
about 2 months ago
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Trump knows he isn’t going to get the Nobel Prize for his phony claims of ending seven wars. Maybe he’s got his eye on the prize in Ukraine now. We, and Ukraine, can only hope.
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Trump didn’t pivot on Ukraine. He’s playing catch up.
Somewhere down in the bowels of the Pentagon, there is an office in which people actually know what they’re talking about.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-didnt-pivot-on-ukraine-hes
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But these are niggling details, and as we all know, Donald Trump doesn’t do niggling details. By this time next year, he will probably be bragging that he has ended six more wars, that windmills are blowing up off the coast of Great Britain.
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How long, oh Lord, how long? I endured Trump’s UN speech so you don’t have to
How many more times will we have to untangle and debunk another lip-wagging screed of Donald Trump like the one he blubbered through at the United Nations today?
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-long-oh-lord-how-long-i-endured
about 2 months ago
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If I were Brendan Carr, I would duck and cover. Kimmel will be coming for the easiest target he’s had in his career, with the sole exception of Orange Littlehands himself.
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Trump’s big gift to Jimmy Kimmel
One word: Ratings.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-big-gift-to-jimmy-kimmel
about 2 months ago
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My question is, why is he even bothering to ask for legislation that will allow him to commit murder when he’s already doing it?
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Using our military, Trump is committing murder on the high seas. Our streets could be next.
That’s a front-page headline from today’s New York Times.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/using-our-military-trump-is-committing
about 2 months ago
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Oh, my goodness, the entities! The entities!
I’m spending the evening having a reaction to a Covid booster and flu shot.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/oh-my-goodness-the-entities-the-entities
about 2 months ago
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Slavery and its descendants are everywhere in this country. All you have to do is look around. History is in our bodies and in our land. It cannot be denied because it is alive in all of us.
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Why Trump cannot write slavery out of our history
Donald Trump would like nothing better than to pretend that this country was not founded on the backs of slaves.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-trump-cannot-write-slavery-out
about 2 months ago
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Kimmel’s remarks were made with his vocal chords, forming sounds we normally refer to as “speech.” The First Amendment is supposed to protect remarks like Kimmel’s, even if people in power consider his words objectionable or offensive.
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Trump is trying to cancel the First Amendment and turn us into Putin’s Russia.
ABC just announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live will be suspended “indefinitely” over comments he made on Monday night about the killing of right-wing Christ figure, Charlie Kirk.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-trying-to-cancel-the-first
about 2 months ago
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Silly me. It’s not a lawsuit. It’s an 85-page tantrum.
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Whiny little bruised-ego baby blubbers a defamation lawsuit against the Times and book
I read his $15 billion claim so you don’t have to
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/whiny-little-bruised-ego-baby-blubbers
about 2 months ago
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I will not be cowed. I will not bend. I will stand up and be counted and be damned with Stephen Miller and his thought police.
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A few thoughts on the thought police
I really don’t know how George Orwell did it.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-few-thoughts-on-the-thought-police
about 2 months ago
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The next thing you know, he’ll be renaming the Rose Garden “Charlie’s Garden” and putting Kirk’s name under his on the Trump Bible.
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The new blasphemy: you can be fired or deported for being insufficiently worshipful of Charlie Kirk
I knew that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was an important guy on the Right and had a lot of friends in high places – hello there in the Oval Office – but I didn’t realize he had become a god...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-new-blasphemy-you-can-be-fired
about 2 months ago
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People paid to listen to his podcast and attend his Turning Point USA speeches on college campuses. Capitalism is perfect in that way. You get what you pay for. Martyrdom is its own reward, and the person now profiting is Trump, not Charlie Kirk.
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As a MAGA martyr, Charlie Kirk is worth more dead than alive
The death of Charlie Kirk is a tragedy.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/as-a-maga-martyr-charlie-kirk-is
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Guns kill people. There will be more Uvaldes and Sandy Hooks and Parklands and Columbines. We are at the mercy of killers who use guns, because we have allowed guns to rule us. Guns have more rights than we have.
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/gun
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Gun
Bullets don’t have a conscience.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/gun
2 months ago
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The whole thing was a stage, and his presentation was as much a play as anything on Broadway. Everyone had a role, and your first act in the drama of Jeffrey Epstein was to keep your mouth shut, or there would be consequences.
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I read, or looked at, or endured the Jeffrey Epstein birthday book so you don’t have to
It’s often the word that isn’t there that means the most.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/i-read-or-looked-at-or-endured-the
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Induction involves constantly reaching out. Deduction involves constantly taking in, which is why all those data centers are so enormous.
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Why artificial intelligence will not take over the world
There is an easy answer to this question, and a hard one.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-artificial-intelligence-will
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Fascism is turning out to be more complicated than Trump and his minions thought. It turns out that the people have a voice, and they don’t like it when Trump tries to rig the justice system against them.
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Fighting fascism one grand jury at a time
A federal grand jury is a kind of kangaroo court.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/fighting-fascism-one-grand-jury-at
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My personal favorite Thayer Award recipient is Cardinal Francis Spellman, who was given the honor in 1967, the same year he groped my thigh repeatedly in his quarters at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City.
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Politics causes West Point to cancel Thayer Award for Tom Hanks
The Association of Graduates (AOG), the official West Point alumni group, announced today that actor Tom Hanks will not be receiving the prestigious Thayer Award at a ceremony and parade that had been...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/politics-causes-west-point-to-cancel
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