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I guess Elon’s back in charge huh

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Orwellian www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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If Padilla was close enough to “lunge” at Noem (he wasn’t) then he was close enough for Noem to recognize one of the state’s two senators and tell the FBI not to shove him and handcuff him.

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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 14 days ago • 644 comments

How am I better informed than the Speaker of the House?

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Wow, that’s a real shock. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

I think there is little doubt that if Judge Xinis finds the sealed material to be wholly insubstantial (as I expect she will) she has full authority to say so on the public record.

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With no call-in line that I know of, this thread is the best way to find out what is happening in Judge Xinis’s courtroom on the Abrego Garcia case. @annabower.bsky.social is a national treasure.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Hooray! Subscribed.

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For me, a new journalistic home: "Onward and Upward." My column today touches on matters personal, political, artistic, and so on. I begin with Richard Nixon (believe it or not). And the opening line of his memoirs. He had a literary sense (he really did). jaynordlinger.substack.com/p/day-one-an...

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

My latest (the first in a while) is long. It covers Donald Trump's second administration, the concept of consequences, the Trump Brain Worm, and many other topics. It also features heroes like Navalny and Frederick Douglass and their lessons for us. patterico.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Daily Wire contributor Matt Walsh spent Monday's show grifting FIFY

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Oops

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

hey, you guys? am I the only one who cares that government officials are lying about who is really in charge of the organization that has dismantled multiple federal agencies?

submitted 47 days ago • 381 comments

I am the Administrator of DOGE WE ARE ALL THE ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE

submitted 47 days ago • 50 comments

Duckworth on if she's open to voting to confirm Mike Waltz: "I think everybody on that Signal chain needs to be fired ... he's failing up ... I'm not open to voting for him, no, because he's already demonstrated he's incapable of doing the most basic thing, which is handling classified information."

submitted 46 days ago • 509 comments

ALERT: I had not seen this article until this morning. It is a pretty big deal. Mike Waltz isn’t actually using Signal. He’s using a copy or third party version of Signal created by a company called TeleMessage the point of which is to allow archiving of messages. The app claims to preserve …

submitted 48 days ago • 121 comments

If the Supreme Court rules Trump’s approach to birthright citizenship unconstitutional, should that result apply to everyone—or just people who sue in court over the issue? (It’s a rhetorical question directed at big fans of limiting the results of litigation to the parties.)

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Pam Bondi is a walking violation of the DOJ manual on media contacts. t.co/HTlATCflOr

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They seem to want the judge to hold them in contempt. I wonder why that is.

submitted 58 days ago • 28 comments

Gee. That’s too bad.

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

Something to understand: The more the stock market tanks, the more many populists will be confirmed in the rightness of Trump's policies. Because the stock market is for Richie Riches, you see, not "The People." They are oblivious to the interconnectedness of things.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

How are things going with respect to the discovery before Judge Xinis in Abrego García? Well, the government describes as a “false premise” that it “has been ordered to facilitate Abrego García’s release.” (That’s literally what #SCOTUS held.) pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/84/578815/09...

submitted 58 days ago • 126 comments

How amazing that this fiend was never charged with any crime. Surely the government must have been eager to air its abundant evidence of his wrongdoing in court, under oath.

submitted 63 days ago • 28 comments

ROTFL.

submitted 64 days ago • 5 comments