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Marylander based in Hong Kong. Former journo. Used to be an optimist.
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Trudeau: "He talked about banking again today in a tweet, which doesn't make any sense because 16 banks are currently active in Canada holding about $113b worth of assets in this country... what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us."

submitted 9 days ago • 420 comments

“The truth is that men are tired of liberty.” - Benito Mussolini

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Spreading chaos and confusion will not lower costs for Americans or deliver much-needed solutions that working families need. We need action, not corruption.

submitted 33 days ago • 115 comments

NEW: Mexico, Canada, and China cutoff Elon Musk’s supply of ketamine.

submitted 38 days ago • 191 comments

"Here's the plan, fellas: First, we hit the animal shelters. Any dog that looks like Cricket gets it." - Kristi Noem

submitted 41 days ago • 751 comments

As chilling a meme as I have seen. But I agree.

submitted 44 days ago • 1033 comments

If you think only billionaires can control social media, You are absolutely wrong. Social media is completely dependent on its users. Think about why you do or did use FB, ThreadsTik tok or Twitter. It's because they have enough users. Take away all the "normies" and they all are worthless

submitted 66 days ago • 1408 comments

Glad Liz got the Presidential Citizens Medal. Sad it was for doing her duty - putting the American people over party. Maybe one day we'll get back to such acts of patriotism not being so rare.

submitted 70 days ago • 192 comments

Last week, William Webster, the only person to have served as both the Director of the FBI and of the CIA, wrote a letter to all Senators urging them not to confirm Kash Patel or Tulsi Gabbard to the FBI and DNI, respectively. Here is his statement on Pres. Carter's passing:

submitted 72 days ago • 118 comments

Wait - We were told California is a burning hellscape? 🫤

submitted 72 days ago • 419 comments

100% agree. We need people like @destiny.gg to go on those pods. #dgg

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

Why paying for a newspaper (or real journalism) is worth every penny. Florida is no longer the Sunshine State. To get a public record, you often have to hire a lawyer.

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Also what’s all this talk I’ve been hearing about “gay apparel” and what are Mike Johnson and Nancy Mace gonna do about it, especially now that we get to say “Merry Christmas” again?

submitted 78 days ago • 421 comments

"How a handful of outraged Scottish women changed our world", by Iain MacWhirter; and so the UK MSM feel finally free enough again to start saying that water is wet, fire burns, and so on: archive.ph/2024.12.22-2...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

I will post this everyday for the next 4 years as a reminder that Jan 6th was a day of insurrection.

submitted 81 days ago • 291 comments

Love to work in journalism, where you can deputy edit a political magazine, write multiple books, and write long investigative features, and a senior man in your industry still assumes you only write fluff because you’re a woman.

submitted 82 days ago • 37 comments

Last I heard, the U.S. Congress does not answer to the President-Elect’s chief campaign donor. But I may now be mistaken.

submitted 84 days ago • 8 comments

Judith Butler is a queer theorist not a feminist philosopher. Feminism analyses the power relations between the sexes. Butler obscures them. JB refers to 'trans people' but means 'males'. See comments on sport. english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

Me and others: “Hey America don’t worry, it’s not drones or Iran. It’s airplanes. You and your family are fine.” Some Americans: “Great thanks i can relax.” MAGA:

submitted 88 days ago • 260 comments

It will never not be unnerving to watch fellow “conservatives” reveling in the unrestrained power of the state.

submitted 89 days ago • 16 comments

Yep. Biden, wanting to Uphold the Norms, agreed to keep on a Trump-appointed prosecutor who was probing his son. Created a special counsel to probe his own post-VP document retention. Kept on Durham so he could finish a Trump-ordered probe of 2016. What did he get? Nothing. So here he goes.

submitted 102 days ago • 82 comments

In a nutshell:

submitted 103 days ago • 3 comments

This is completely incoherent. Any country can issue a currency, and most do. Trump himself is issuing a currency. Countries chose to use the U.S. dollar in international trade for a variety of reasons, and the practice comes with both pros and cons for the U.S. economy.

submitted 103 days ago • 46 comments