Rumor has it Lindsey Graham is sacrificing a goat to the spirit of John McCain to restore his erection
odd repost, Glenn. She's Iranian. Criticism of Israel isn't anti-semitism, but they sure hang out a lot. Backtest your bias occasionally.
I did not expect this to win dumbest tweet of the year after the start we've had to 2025 but here we are
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"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart"
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Understand this and you will better understand the world.
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On the IRS.gov website, the "log in" button was not in the top right on the navbar like it is on most websites. It was weirdly placed in the middle of the page below the fold.
An IRS engineer explained that the *soonest* this change could get deployed is July 21st... 103 days from now.
This engineer worked with the DOGE team to delete the red tape and accomplished the task in 71 minutes. See before/after pictures below.
There are great people at the IRS, who are simply being strangled by bureaucracy.
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Few people understand this.
The freedom maximizing future is this:
Local atoms, global bits.
Eat local, learn global
Build local, develop global
Live local, speak global
Trying to pitch localism and globalism as opposites only ends in disaster. The world can be a fantastic space for positive-sum collaborations in idea-space so long as each participant is grounded in a local environment that is self sufficient so that true freedom can be guaranteed.
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NEW: "SPIKES" installed at turnstiles on 59th Street Subway station in Manhattan, in an attempt to deter fair evaders.
Fare evaders are still able to go through.
Video by Ken Lopez @FreedomNTV [email protected] to license
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Synchronized swimming champion Kristina Makushenko paid tribute to a legend by flawlessly performing Michael Jackson's moves underwater
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NBC last night aired a Trump message after a NASCAR race in an apparent effort to comply with the "equal time" rule after sparking controversy when it put Kamala Harris on SNL.
"A source familiar with the matter told the [Hill] Reporter the appearance was related to providing Trump with equal time."
It's a big victory that NBC acted. It shows that the public pressure we all brought to bear worked. X is game-changing. It's also further proof that NBC knew it was guilty.
But NBC still knowingly broke the law and interfered in the election, and it is still not in compliance with the law. That's because NBC promoted Harris and Kaine within seven days of election, the time was not comparable, and the other candidates, including Senator Tim Kaine's opponent, did not get comparable time.
There is no way that the time was comparable. The SNL skit was funny and humanizing and created by the best minds in television. The Trump campaign had to cobble something together at the last minute.
And, as of now, over 9 million people have watched the clip on YouTube. There's no way that 9 million people will see the Trump message that NBC put on after NASCAR.
As @BrendanCarrFCC notes, "The FCC adopted the seven-day rule to avoid gamesmanship by candidates (usually gamesmanship by the candidate seeking the Equal Time in the exemplar case) and for orderly planning (usually for the broadcaster)."
And, he notes, "NBC structured the SNL candidate appearance (just hours before an election) in a way that denies all other candidates their one week procedural right."
Finally, by law, NBC was required to give equal time to @HungCao_VA @RobertKennedyJr & @DrJillStein and it didn't.
NBC continues to act as though it is above the law. We should accept it as a victory that it felt the need to give Trump some time after NASCAR, but we should not let up the pressure.
Please, share this post to send a message to Congress and the FCC to hold @NBCUniversal accountable!
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NBC knew full well that it would be breaking at least two laws by interfering in the election in this way, and it did so anyway.
It's not just Harris. It's also @timKaine who could lose to @HungCao_VA
NBC constructed a sketch literally aimed at increasing Kaine's name recognition.
SNL could thus tip two elections.
People may not appreciate the significance of SNL. It has a huge young male audience — exactly the audience Harris and Kaine need.
By giving the FCC and Congress so little time before the election, NBC calculated that it could get away with, at most, a fine.
NBC's top lawyer, Kim Harris, worked for Obama and is thick as thieves with Biden admin and DNC.
NBC may not have calculated that this is flagrant election interference.
NBC may not have calculated that it is vulnerable because it depends on the US government for its license.
The American people have subsidized NBC for decades.
Congress and FCC should revoke NBC's license. They have violated the public's trust. It is not acting in the public's interest.
Our voices matter. Please share this post so the FCC and Congress will take immediate action against flagrant criminal conduct and election interference by NBC.
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“I smell a rat, and it’s not in the subway system. It’s New York’s Proposition 1, an Election Day ballot measure that pretends to fight for equality but in fact does the opposite.”
@Writes_Code reports on a political Trojan horse: thefp.pub/4fi96T2
So, does no one in this whole #WaPoMeltDown tantrum realize that cancelling their Amazon prime membership would be way more impactful? Or are they overcoming the trauma with some retail therapy and binging shows on Amazon?
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By the way: Victoria Nuland was Cheney’s foreign policy advisor for the Iraq War, then was Bush’s Ambassador to NATO where she urged expansion eastward toward Russia, then ran Ukraine for Obama and Biden:
For anyone confused about why Cheney/neocons are so comfortable with Dems.
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Victoria Nuland admits the Russians and Ukrainians were making significant progress at the start of the war toward a diplomatic resolution — but she and Boris Johnson vetoed it.
She proudly grins as she recounts her success in ensuring the war continued (via @I_Katchanovski:
"This should forever end any doubt about this obviously truthful historical narrative that the reason why this war wasn't diplomatically resolved at the beginning was because Victoria Nuland and Boris Johnson vetoed it because they knew they weren't going to be the ones who suffered. Instead they were going to be the ones who benefitted."
@ggreenwald on how Victoria Nuland and Boris Johnson prolonged the war in Ukraine: