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  • Rerun or sequel? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on end times fascism | How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future

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  • Hm, FT seems to be one of the few sites where the usual tricks (archive, unwall, reader mode) don't work.

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    ‘Homewrecker’ lawsuit against ex-senator Kyrsten Sinema can move forward, judge rules

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  • Sinema is almost a textbook example of why I don't really value representation as necessarily a measure of things that will move things forward.

    She supposedly ticks so many boxes that should have given her all these progressive bona fides (at least among people that tend to fall for identity politics stuff):

    She's a woman, relatively young, who claims to be bi, is an out atheist, AND she's vegan?! How exciting. I'm especially keen on the last two things.

    Well, spoiler alert, it turns out she was a total shit show for progress. Given the choice, I'd take an eighty-some year old white straight male who eats lots of meat and dairy and goes to church all the time, BUT votes for progressive policies...people on our side really, really need to work on looking beyond the surface-level bullshit.

    Oh, and ahem - she started out in the Green Party. If people wonder why I give them so much side-eye. Here's what she's been up to lately, according to Wikipedia:

    Career after elected office

    In January 2025, Sinema joined Coinbase's Global Advisory Council to advocate for the cryptocurrency industry and help it coordinate with US lawmakers.[39][40]

    In March 2025, Sinema joined the law and lobbying firm Hogan Lovells as a senior advisor.[41][42]

    In October 2025, Sinema failed in an attempt to lobby the city council of the Phoenix suburb Chandler, Arizona to allow the development of an AI data center.[43] Earlier in the year she founded and became the co-chair of the AI Infrastructure Coalition.[44]

    Sinema has since become a strong advocate for the Make America Healthy Again Movement and ibogaine.[45]

    She's also a poster child for the horseshoe theory, JFC.

  • Trump administration scrubs data on gender-based bullying from school civil rights survey

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  • LOL, the same people that fell for Qanon's "Save the Children" voted for a pedophile to get into office, so he could ATTACK the children.

    Oh, and to also cover up the Epstein files...

  • GOP Personality Complains DSA Members Think They're Like Jesus

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  • Teary Trump voters regret after brother who fought with US Special Forces dies in ICE custody

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  • I wonder how much the "manosphere" influenced their vote for the pedophile-in-chief.

    I mean, did these people not see all the Karens with their "Mass Deportation Now" and "Send Them Back" signs?

    What did they think those signs were about, after all? Did they think these Karens were really going to make a distinction? Did they think those that are the most ecstatic about this kind of thing, like Stephen Miller, would?

  • Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

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  • It's weird to see people that were soooo galvanized by this shit, especially during donnie's first failed term, and were on Parler, deep in the Pizzagate thing, then the Qanon thing, bought into the "save the children" psyop, etc.

    I mean, for some, it's nearly all they wanted to talk about during Covid. And during the run-up to the 2024 election. It was practically their identity.

    Only to have all that excitement fizzle out.

    It's kind of like talking to birthers. So many of them were just so sure that somehow, all their endeavors to "expose" Obama because the "liberal media" didn't "properly vet him" (lol) was going to mean he was going to be impeached in his first term. Or at least, the voters wouldn't be fooled the second time. And then he had two terms.

    Same thing: suddenly the birthers are almost nowhere to be found. These days, trying to find someone that will admit (at least in public) to being into Qanon or being a birther, is about as hard as finding someone that voted for W sometime after 2008...it's almost like the conservatives are great at falling for complete horseshit, never learning anything, and never owning up to it.

  • Panicked GOP insiders beg Trump family to realize 'they’re rich enough' already

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  • Well, they constantly trot out George Soros.

  • Panicked GOP insiders beg Trump family to realize 'they’re rich enough' already

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  • Panicked GOP insiders beg Trump family to realize 'they’re rich enough' already

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  • Haha. They are still GRRRRR so mad about Hunter.

    I think it was Adam Mockler just recently debating some conservative chud and that guy brought up the "Hunter Biden laptop" and how the government put their thumb on the scales when it came to having that just run wild on the platforms of Facebook and Xitter, etc.

    They are still SO butthurt that their bullshit story about a hard-drive, excuse me, "laptop" was not the October Surprise that they meant it to be.

    You can tell that many of them probably literally cried about it at the time that Biden won despite the "laptop". They seem to have emotional scars about it and they feel personally attacked that their ratfucking with the "laptop" didn't work out. I bet some of these people - this guy was probably in his twenties - will still be talking about that stupid "laptop" 50 years from now.

  • Panicked GOP insiders beg Trump family to realize 'they’re rich enough' already

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  • Also, what Hunter is accused of is a rounding error compared to the towering amount of fraud donnie and his family are doing.

    But since he has the last name of "Biden" he should be punished just for being an obvious beta-cuck. And of course people like Marge were clearly obsessed with his dong.

  • Panicked GOP insiders beg Trump family to realize 'they’re rich enough' already

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  • Which dem? You talking about Howard Dean or something else?

  • Panicked GOP insiders beg Trump family to realize 'they’re rich enough' already

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  • Translation: You can continue the multi-BILLION dollar grift for you and your family AFTER the mid-terms, donnie!

  • Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

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  • Imagine being such a galaxy brained conservative that in just over a year, you went from constantly talking about Epstein to not wanting to talk about it at all now while watching the Republican Party actively covering it up, because something something "the Democrats".

  • Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

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  • The 11% must have their head parked up their ass, since donnie is doing the billion-dollar cash grab right out in the open.

    And I bet about thirty+ percent or so of the 89% are thinking of Hunter's "laptop" or Obama's latte salute or tan suit or long form birth certificate or whatever the fuck, not the egregious shit this admin is doing.

  • Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths

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  • Oprah

    It's weird how she tends to get a pass on things, but how was she not the Joe Rogan for the daytime TV set?

  • Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths

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  • Republicans are the actual baby killers. After 50 years of bitching and whining about Roe.

  • Lutnick claims that data centers, known for water consumption, ‘don’t use water’

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  • I wondered exactly that when I see how water usage seems to have pierced the public consciousness.

    Feels like the perfect red herring to blunt opposition to these when people find out that they use a fraction of the water that is being claimed by some.

    But I now see data centers lumped in with golf courses, almonds, and "too much housing" in discussions involving normies when it comes to water usage...

  • Panicked GOP insiders beg Trump family to realize 'they’re rich enough' already

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  • Did these dumbfucks think tiny-d donnie ever gave a shit about any of them or this country? He's all about himself.

  • ‘Not feasible’: With ballots already in the mail, election officials say it is too late for Trump’s USPS order

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  • My local rank and file had a good hearty laugh when some customer said something funny about tiny-d donnie.

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    He wrote a scathing message to ICE. Federal agents showed up at his door.

    www.washingtonpost.com /nation/2026/07/06/he-wrote-scathing-message-ice-federal-agents-showed-up-his-door/
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    DC breaks heat record, 17,000 customers without power in NYC area | CNN

    www.cnn.com /2026/07/03/weather/heat-wave-nyc-dc-forecast-climate
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    A new plan to keep the Reflecting Pool clean – including annual purge of ‘nasty’ muck | CNN Politics

    www.cnn.com /2026/07/03/politics/reflecting-pool-new-maintenance-plan
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    Peak of heat reaches Mid-Atlantic as many records fall across East

    www.washingtonpost.com /weather/2026/07/03/peak-heat-reaches-mid-atlantic-many-records-fall-across-east/
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    Peak of heat reaches Mid-Atlantic as many records fall across East

    www.washingtonpost.com /weather/2026/07/03/peak-heat-reaches-mid-atlantic-many-records-fall-across-east/
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    White House deletes photos of sparse State Fair turnout after Trump pitches a fit: report

    www.rawstory.com /trump-fair-speeech/
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    Trump whisperer admits only massive turnout of 'lower information' voters can save GOP

    www.rawstory.com /steve-bannon-midterms-2677145621/
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    Trump ‘livid’ over crowd sizes at State Fair on National Mall report says

    www.independent.co.uk /news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-crowd-size-state-fair-national-mall-250-b3006937.html
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    Does Trump Worry About Conflicts of Interest? ‘I Found Out That Nobody Cared.’

    www.nytimes.com /2026/07/01/us/politics/trump-money-conflicts-presidency.html
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    Israel strikes southern Lebanon as Hezbollah condemns new deal

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cx2kpn0eeweo
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    Iran-US war latest: Tehran targets US Navy after Trump strikes Iran

    www.independent.co.uk /news/world/middle-east/iran-us-war-live-trump-hormuz-attack-strikes-b3004145.html
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    US and Iran may have agreed in negotiating rooms, but at sea, Hormuz remains “chaotic” | CNN

    www.cnn.com /2026/06/27/world/iran-us-hormuz-agreement-mou-intl
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    Texas State Board of Education votes to require millions of students to study Bible stories | CNN

    www.cnn.com /2026/06/26/us/texas-schools-bible-curriculum-vote
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    Reflecting Pool liner was cut with a sharp knife or razor, National Park Service says

    apnews.com /article/reflecting-pool-liner-cut-national-park-service-trump-98e11bfcb5899753c79bf55698dc958f
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    After Supreme Court’s TPS decision, more than a million immigrants face scramble to stay in US | CNN Politics

    www.cnn.com /2026/06/26/politics/supreme-court-temporary-protected-status-haitians
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    Trump’s Capitol visit devolves into shouting match with GOP senator he helped oust in primary fight | CNN Politics

    www.cnn.com /2026/06/24/politics/trump-cassidy-senate-republicans
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    Texas Jewish leaders object to “Judeo-Christian” Bible readings

    www.texastribune.org /2026/06/25/texas-education-board-judeo-christian-required-reading-list/
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    Centrist Democrats are freaking out about progressives’ winning streak

    www.politico.com /news/2026/06/25/progressive-moderate-democratic-party-battlegrounds-00975000
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    Trump claims vandals damaged D.C. Reflecting Pool, and says it will be drained again

    www.npr.org /2026/06/21/nx-s1-5865636/trump-reflecting-pool-dc-vandals-drain-green
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    Trump claims vandals damaged D.C. Reflecting Pool, and says it will be drained again

    www.npr.org /2026/06/21/nx-s1-5865636/trump-reflecting-pool-dc-vandals-drain-green