@barnes_law Maybe they should legalize bullfighting while they're at it.
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@annmarie I'll need to renew mine soon. Maybe I should get that done before I end up having to carry one of these embarrassments.
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“According to the images of the passport redesign provided to The Bulwark, the inside cover of the new State Department-issued document will feature a scowling Trump—taken from his second inaugural portrait—superimposed over the Declaration of Independence, as well as the president’s signature in gold.”
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline
EXCLUSIVE: The State Department is close to finalizing a radical redesign of the U.S. Passport to include a picture of President Donald Trump bit.ly/4eg2W8A
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@walterkirn My only social media use is X, and I cycle through the accounts I want to see one by one. It's laborious, but I never look at a "feed" of things an algorithm decides I should see. I'm astonished when people who should know better refer to "their feeds."
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What is there to prevent your spoken words being picked up by your devices (the way they often are before they feed back targeted ads to you) but instead of ads your words trigger social media posts that seem to have read your mind in some way?
Nothing. Nothing prevents that.
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@DavidSacks A super-lib NYC friend told me after the election that there was probably cheating because he'd believed the narrative that Harris would win. (He thought Elon might have hacked the machines.)
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Cole Allen didn’t need to go down a fringe rabbit hole to become radicalized. He just needed to believe the MSM’s inflammatory rhetoric, lies, and hoaxes about Trump.
KanekoaTheGreat@KanekoaTheGreat
🚨BREAKING: I found Cole Allen's archived tweets. He predicted "Kamala wins all swing states," compared Trump's win to “Nazis getting elected,” and moved to Bluesky. The scary part: he retweeted every mainstream Democrat on this platform. Thread below. 👇 What radicalized him were the same talking points repeated every day on the left.
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@JosephFordCotto Like so many others, you will not get what you voted for.
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I voted for the liberation of Iran.
No apologies.
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Alleged Chinese Spy Ship Lurking Near U.S. Base In Qatar Raises Questions zerohedge.com/geopolitical/a…
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@walterkirn Will there be group dances outside the court? (Trick question; we know there will be.)
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@texasrunnerDFW The best part is learning where the bank gets that $585,000 to lend you in the first place. When you find out, you won't believe it.
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@BowTiedBull I'm American and used to think this same thing exactly. It's no longer true though. USA remains high on the list but thinking 100% is utterly deluded.
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People are free to lament their station in life
That said if you’re born today and choose your country 100% of you are choosing the USA
No exception to the rule nonsense of rich family in another country
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@NakedHedgie How is it possible that these cretins look just like you'd expect them to at least 90% of the time?
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The apparatchik behind forced vaccinations in Ariege, France. He should be famous.
Charleville 1777@FNFL_Historique
Voilà à quoi ressemble Hervé Brabant le préfet de l’Ariège qui s'assoit sur la loi et qui agresse et harcèle ceux qu'il devrait protéger.
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@seanmdav You know why though really. Congress are honorary, low-level members of the Epstein class with access to some of its privileges, such as insider dealing. The Army guy is a normie who was acting above his station.
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I am conflicted about this whole thing. I think these betting markets are a cancer, but how is what this guy did any different than a U.S. senator buying up $50,000 in Chevron stock days before the Maduro raid (after liquidating his position in Chevron earlier in 2025)?
Are we supposed to believe it was just a coincidence one of the most notorious traders in Congress bought a bunch of stock in the only American company with oil operations in Venezuela just days before we black-bagged Maduro?
I don’t think what the Army guy did is good at all, but why we are throwing NCOs in prison for this when U.S. senators who do the same thing get cabinet secretary promotions instead of jail time?
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
A U.S. soldier who took part in the raid to capture Nicolás Maduro has been charged over using insider knowledge to make $400,000 betting on Polymarket on.wsj.com/4sWLARz
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@StopBeingPrey @walterkirn "Contrived boy band that doesn't write its own stuff."
Just wait until you learn more about the Beatles.
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Walter,
"Contrived boy band that doesn't write its own stuff" is the frame.
I published a 3,000-word breakdown of this exact thesis this afternoon.
Hasan isn't a contradiction to the regime. He's a function of it. Licensed to say what would destroy anyone else, because the regime needs him to sell the permission slip.
facebook.com/share/p/1DcZR7…
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I've been telling you since Dec 24 that this was where they'd take the Luigi thing, because this is how it was designed in the first place. Also, Hasan is an actor who was thrust on you by media engineers.
It's all a contrived boy band that doesn't write its own stuff.
Pirate Wires@PirateWires
In a new NYT interview, Hasan Piker says that many “understand” Luigi Mangione killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson because Thompson himself was guilty of “social murder”
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@Peoples_Pundit This serves as a reminder that insider deals are an exclusive privilege of the Epstein class. Others will be prosecuted for acting above their station.
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So, the official position of the Justice Department is that warmongers can insider trade BILLIONS off the war in the financial markets, but warfighters themselves cannot win $400k in prediction markets?
Neither are okay.
But only one is hypocritocal.
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@DisaffectedPod Good guitar players on a stage also have sex appeal beyond their physical appearance. This is a blind spot for men about women who go for wrinkly old guys like Mick Jagger. "She can't find him attractive!" Yes, she can, because he's a rock star.
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It's wrong, but it's true. I have a MASSIVE crush on Kyle. The humor and personality puts the sex appeal off the charts. He's not even close to my type. But MAN!
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These young men are some of the funniest I've seen in YEARS.
Soldiersgirl 🇺🇸@Hisbabygirl68
Alright y’all so why are these guys so spot on with influencers trying drinks 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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"Sheryl Cowan, 57, was making $272,000 a year as a senior VP at a U.S.A.I.D.-funded nonprofit when she was let go at the end of March 2025. Last month she had an online interview for a $19-an-hour job managing a Penzeys Spices store in Falls Church, Va."
nytimes.com/2026/04/21/us/…
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@ShaykhSulaiman Larry also claimed months ago that Lindsay Graham would be revealed to have received money laundered from Ukraine. I'm having doubts about Larry being quite what he appears to be.
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FMR CIA LARRY JOHNSON SAYS TRUMP WANTED THE NUCLEAR CODES ON SATURDAY - HE WAS DENIED THEM
He wanted them after a classified meeting where he was told that a ground invasion or any other mode to attack Iran would fail.
He then asked for the Nuclear codes.
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@zerohedge This reminds me of Howard Zinn's suggestion that the next time you eat at a diner, you should ask the waitress about the S&P 500.
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@ggreenwald @z0110110 If you don't like the secret China plan, there's an alternative in which it's really a secret plan to take on the globalist financial order, based in the City of London.
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@z0110110 A cult of personality emerges around every US president -- some people really just want to be led by a supreme leader -- but the most pathetic form of this is when a follower makes excuses for the leader that not even the leader makes (it's all a master plan to weaken China).
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In other words, this is a war for Israel. 👇
Some extremely rare albeit unintentional candor from Bari Weiss' Israeli state outlet.
The Free Press@TheFP
America has the luxury of walking away from conflict in Iran. Israelis aren’t so lucky, writes Haviv Rettig Gur. thefp.com/p/the-war-in-i…
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