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| Why conservatives are obsessed with this bad college essay Explaining the Right is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics—and why you need to know.
Conservatives have spent the last week ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/06/2025 | 45 |
| Trump rages as Fox News guest says life under Trump will be "more unaffordable" than with Biden Trump ran on being younger, fitter, and smarter than Biden. He said he had the cure to all that ails the nation. And he would build a great America in six days before working even harder in the seventh — because unlike God, he didn't take days off. It... |
TheCriticalMind | 12/06/2025 | 28 |
| Has Trump Already Pardoned the DC Pipe Bomber? It has been nearly five years since Donald Trump incited a violent insurrection against the United States, exhorting his MAGA cult followers to storm the Capitol in order to undermine democracy and retain his authoritarian grip on power. On that day... |
News Corpse | 12/06/2025 | 19 |
| HHS and its brain-wormed boss 'deadnamed' former Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine Lacking imagination, bigots and transphobe trolls ‘deadname’ trans people on social media by misgendering them or using their pre-transition name. They think they’re being clever, much like the close of drag shows or in older media when the wig is torn... |
annieli | 12/06/2025 | 4 |
| The quiet part out loud before Red States become Confederate States of America, Part Deux You don’t need to know the difference between Eros and Thanatos to perceive Trumpism as a death cult beyond its current rendition as a personality cult. One doesn’t even need to watch the still unreleased Hegseth kill shot of the two persons waving at... |
annieli | 12/06/2025 | 21 |
| Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for MLK day Dear Orange Leader Day must be celebrated as US official history gets whitewashed. In 2026, Americans will get free admission to national parks on President Donald Trump's birthday but no longer on Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, according... |
annieli | 12/06/2025 | 12 |
| Yeap, I do I don’t know why folks are so suspicious but I actually do donations and distributions So stuff your doubts. This ain’t about me. Really there’s nothing I like more than taking care of people specially kids in need it makes me happy. That’s the only... |
MurielVieux | 12/06/2025 | 18 |
| Samantha Fulnecky is the Riley Gaines of Charlie Kirks A set-up by reactionaries who believe that sex is biological, gender is ideology, and that if they ask people what women are, they will advance Christian Nationalism. This “pre-med” student wrote a reactionary rather than a reaction paper to an... |
annieli | 12/06/2025 | 98 |
| Tacky assisted living... when will Vance get TF off the couch and seek 25th Amendment solutions? Kaitlan Collins' December 5, 2025, post showcased new permanent "Oval Office" signs in the West Wing, part of President Trump's gold-themed renovations that echo his preference for opulent decor in official spaces like Mar-a-Lago. The reply targets a... |
annieli | 12/06/2025 | 41 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,386: The White House has become Russia House annex again Russian forces conducted a series of drone strikes against Ukraine overnight on December 4 to 5. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 137 Shahed-type, Gerbera-type, and other strike drones, of which about 90 were Shaheds, from... |
annieli | 12/06/2025 | 37 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: RV life ahead, maybe, or just getting an apartment. Venusian pasta and Martian waffles. How so easy it is to promote binary cognitive models that oppress entire populations using anachronistic�ideologies, because there’s always the promise of ... |
annieli | 12/05/2025 | 49 |
| Somali-American Trump voter just shocked to discover Trump thinks his kids are "garbage" On Friday, CNN Law Enforcement correspondent Whitney Wild interviewed a Minneapolis man who said he and his neighbors "campaigned for" Trump. The man, Mohamed Ahmed, is a Somali-American who voted for Trump. Ergo, he should be happy that Trump won.... |
TheCriticalMind | 12/05/2025 | 157 |
| The 'Trump Corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine is more about Teddy Roosevelt Sadly, Trump’s viewing of the Sicario movie sequel has not left his lizard brain. He confuses movies and reality. and he’s lazy Remember when he ordered the pardoning of J6 insurrectionists en masse because he simply got tired of looking at individual... |
annieli | 12/05/2025 | 4 |
| Trump FREAKS OUT Over a Democratic Plan to Add 12 New Supreme Court Justices - That Doesn't Exist The frequency with which Donald Trump deliberately lies in order to keep his glassy-eyed flock of MAGA disciples both dumbed down and fired up is really pretty impressive. It's a machine gun style of disseminating disinformation that his fellow... |
News Corpse | 12/05/2025 | 17 |
| Trump’s revenge plot unravels as another grand jury shuts him down President Donald Trump’s plans for revenge against his political enemies were disrupted yet again on Thursday after a grand jury declined to pursue charges against New York Attorney General ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/05/2025 | 46 |
| Trump is awarded (soccer's) Peace Prize...That plus a dollar buys coffee As FIFA Prez Gianni Infantino gave Trump a large gold-coloured trophy & a gold-coloured medal hanging from a blue ribbon, Trump responded, "This is truly one of the great honours of my life". Trump received an entirely made-up peace prize on Friday,... |
annieli | 12/05/2025 | 23 |
| Judge orders public release of Jeffrey Epstein-related grand jury records in Florida On Friday, Federal District Judge Rodney Smith ordered the release of the Grand Jury transcripts in Jeffrey Epstein's Florida case. He wrote: In its instant motion, the Government argues that the newly enacted Act overrides Rule 6's prohibition on the... |
TheCriticalMind | 12/05/2025 | 35 |
| Trump releases racist blueprint for the world The Trump administration released its “ National Security Strategy ”� on Thursday night, but the document reads more like a manifesto advocating for white supremacy than a supposed national ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/05/2025 | 145 |
| Gerrymandering ain't your biggest problem! Gerrymandering isn’t the problem I don’t care how much gerrymandering is done, if US Citizens voted with their brains for their self-interests and for people’s rights over their own bigoted, racism, sexist, and other ism, gerrymandering wouldn’t stand... |
MurielVieux | 12/05/2025 | 4 |
| Earth Matters: Fuel economy retreat feeds Trump's energy bonfire; plus a Stewart & Kolbert convo Crossposted from The Journal of Uncharted Blue Places You can also catch me at meteorblades.bsky.social The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration unveiled its plan Wednesday to slash Biden-era fuel-economy standards for passenger cars from... |
Meteor Blades | 12/05/2025 | 30 |
| Trump to Raise Tariffs On Venezuela to Fund War On Venezuela. The title was meant to be satirical, but as we know, satire is dead under his nibs. Then I remembered this from March: Imposing Tariffs on Countries Importing Venezuelan Oil- Whitehouse.gov Section 1. Findings. (a) The Tren de Aragua gang, a... |
LaFeminista | 12/05/2025 | 8 |
| How bad is the video of strike two? Will the 2026 election be GOP's strike three Video footage showing a U.S. military strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea shows two people attempting to flip their capsized vessel when they were attacked again, multiple lawmakers said Thursday after meeting with the Navy admiral... |
annieli | 12/05/2025 | 50 |
| Renewable Friday: I Get E-Mails I have mostly been getting Global Warming news from Bluesky lately, and I have been preoccupied with COP30. I find that I have a backlog of climate-related e-mails. So today I am giving you the best of what I have received in the last month, with links... |
Mokurai | 12/05/2025 | 9 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,385: Putin’s original war aims continue, despite the Alaska misadventure Russian forces conducted a series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of December 3 to 4. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles from Rostov Oblast and occupied Crimea and... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 26 |
| Ever on brand, Trump fires his ballroom architect, so perhaps it will never get built. Like most developers, Trump thinks firing “his” architect gives him some status as a designer, but like his other idiocy, he’s making a hash of his massive ballroom. It will remain a shopping mall’s anchor store, regardless of the architect. One source... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 195 |
| In Fox's bizarro world, huge layoffs mean 'good news’ for Trump Following a report that showed a spike in layoff announcements, a Fox Business reporter said it could be “good news” for President Donald Trump.
The consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/04/2025 | 58 |
| THE TRUMP REGIME Wants to Take America Back - To the 1970s So They Can Buy Crappy Cars and Stuff One of the most often repeated slogans from politicians of both parties is one that expresses their desire to regain control of government institutions that have been usurped by their opponents. They chant that they will "Take America Back" from the... |
News Corpse | 12/04/2025 | 26 |
| As predicted, after Trump racist rant, ICE comes for the Somalis in Minneapolis There are over 80,000 Somalis in the US, 42,000 in Minnesota with 700+ having Temporary Protected Status threatened. Most Somali immigrants in Minnesota are U.S. citizens, yet residents have been pulled over, asked for their passports and detained by... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 39 |
| JD Vance invites attendees to a VP Hanukkah observance to celebrate"50 Years of Christmas" In 2008, the Bush administration had to apologize when the White House Hanukkah party invitation featured a Christmas tree. The Trump administration scoffs at that slur as small potatoes. It is now metaphorically saying, "Hold my beer." To hell with a... |
TheCriticalMind | 12/04/2025 | 212 |
| Slenderman: US foreign policy is run out of a private equity firm stuffed with Saudi cash (again) Because crony capitalist weasels are now more open about their scams, and Secretary of State Rubio talks at a sleeping Trump. BREAKING: Jared Kushner gets caught performing illegal “diplomacy” on behalf of Trump in a shady backroom overseas. In the... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 31 |
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