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They did, it was called America
-@dr__james
@Noahpinion Why don’t the immigrants start their own countries?
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David Naughton
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David Naughton
@nihiliad
Not the actor. Not the Messiah. A very naughty boy.
Minneapolis, MN, USA Katılım Mayıs 2008
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David Naughton retweetledi
As one does when a member of the Cabinet about to face Congress
Ana Swanson@AnaSwanson
New: Howard Lutnick donated $5 mn to House Republicans on April 1. The donation came after Mr. Lutnick agreed to an interview with lawmakers about his connections with Jeffrey Epstein, and before that testimony took place. With @teddyschleifer nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/…
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What even does this first sentence mean? Obama literally negotiated with Iran. Whether you liked the outcome or not, it happened.
Speaker Mike Johnson@SpeakerJohnson
President Trump is the ONLY one who could have gotten Iran — the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism — to the negotiating table. We are greatly encouraged to learn a PEACE DEAL in Iran is underway — and look forward to learning more about the specifics. Under President Trump’s leadership, our nation is stronger, more respected on the global stage, and safer than ever before.
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I could have been even more corrupt and given myself even more money is … quite the defense!
Kaitlan Collins@kaitlancollins
Amid major backlash from the GOP, Trump defends the new $1.8 billion DOJ fund.
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Oh someone using government funds as a personal piggy bank? Where have I seen that lately???
Bill Melugin@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: DOJ announces 15 new indictments in their Minnesota fraud federal investigation, saying they uncovered $90 million in fraud in seven different state managed Medicaid programs that were being used as "personal piggy banks" by the fraudsters. "It's shocking", DOJ says.
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He promised to release his tax returns as soon as there were no more audits pending, and now there are no more audits pending.
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appreciate irony as much as the next guy but writing a book called The Future of Truth that uses artificial intelligence to insert a false quote from a real book called Artificial Unintelligence is really putting in on thick
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Q: The president's financial disclosures show a lot of stock trades in companies he has promoted, sometimes even putting the stock ticker symbol in his posts and encouraging people to buy their stock--
JD VANCE: This is a hell of a question
Q: How can you argue you are cleaning up corruption when the president is doing this?
VANCE: C'mon man. Have a little bit of objectivity in how you ask these questions
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When I was in law school, a job at the DOJ was considered one of the best and hardest-to-get jobs in the entire field. Now the DOJ has been forced to extend $25,000 signing bonuses because so many people have quit and lawyers with integrity aren't applying for any jobs.
Jesse Rodriguez@JesseRodriguez
There were around 30 attorneys in the DOJ’s Voting Section on the day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Three months later, all but two were gone. Now the election deniers are in control. wired.com/story/the-just…
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IN HONOR OF CALIFORNIA’S 175TH ANNIVERSARY, WE WILL BE ROLLING OUT A VERY SPECIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE FOR EVERY CALIFORNIAN THIS SUMMER! IT WILL FEATURE A HANDSOME, HIGH-QUALITY PHOTO OF ME, GAVIN C. NEWSOM. MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING IT’S THE BEST LICENSE EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. THIS IS ABOUT CELEBRATING OUR BEAUTIFUL STATE (IT IS NOT ABOUT ME, DESPITE THE VERY HANDSOME PHOTO!). ENJOY! — GOVERNOR GCN
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This is an inane and irresponsible thing to say. As if going to Caltech explains why this guy, years later, did anything. Especially without knowing almost anything else at this stage, less than 48 hours later.
Niall Ferguson@nfergus
For those wondering how on earth a @Caltech graduate becomes a would-be assassin, this is your reminder that the Great Awokening was especially demented in California, and that there is no pendulum magically swinging back to sanity in the established universities.
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I know it's a bit downmarket these days to point out Trump's crookedness and hypocrisy but MAGA simply cannot stop speedrunning the plot of Animal Farm, becoming everything they claimed to despise about the previous regime, except more so.
Like, for four years, a central attack on Joe Biden was that Hunter was trading on the family name. They even launched a congressional investigation, iirc.
Now they either say nothing or enthusiastically cheer on the president's kids as they run a cryptocurrency exchange, a bitcoin mining operation, a luxury real estate brand, and a social media company, all of which are getting money from foreign governments and sovereign wealth funds.
Here Eric Trump is appearing on TV as an adviser to a company that just won a $24 million Pentagon contract! And Fox Business is like: "way to go, Eric, we're proud of you, you really knocked this one out of the park."
Ryan Grim@ryangrim
So happy for everybody involved. Hard work paying off.
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Great @danengber piece on the missing-scientists conspiracy theory, which is unusually half-backed, even for its genre.
A lot of these conspiracy theories amount to a person looking at a board with a bunch of dots, drawing a circle around 10 of the dots, and then standing back and saying "holy shit what are the odds that these 10 dots would all fit inside ... one single circle?"
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This is absolute nonsense (by this reasoning any time you fight against a president you're fighting against the plan of God), but it's also dangerous nonsense. Trump is plainly absorbing the idea that God's on his side -- and he already had a grandiose sense of self.
Headquarters@HQNewsNow
Trump's White House Faith Office advisor Paula White: Trump has been raised up by God because God says that he raises up people and places them in positions of authority. It is God that raises up a king. When you fight against the plan of God you're fighting against the hand of God
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I often hear “one is too many” and it’s worth emphasizing that to go from a system that is 99.999% accurate to a system that is 100% accurate requires huge tradeoffs.
Take airport security. A full cavity search of each passenger would be far more effective; but who would travel?
American Anne@Anne8065
@ReichlinMelnick One is too many! And, illegals are counted in the census as USC's, don't get me started!
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It’s interesting how many aspects of modern political commentary hold up the 1945-1971 postwar period as the natural state of things that was broken by our weird new modernity, when instead maybe it’s more accurate to see this period as profoundly unusual.
I think about this with media commentary all the time: “Why can’t we get back to Walter Cronkite, shared sense of reality, etc”
A brief and strange information oligopoly created a scarce number of radio/TV stations, which enforced a news monoculture on radio/TV audiences. Whether that was altogether good or bad, it was extremely weird! Look at the 19th century. A zillion newspapers, many of them insane and terrible and partisan. The chaos is what’s normal.
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp
Private-sector unionization in the US was a temporary mid-20th century phenomenon:
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The threat - which had to be taken seriously unless we are now just going to ignore the President as a raving old man - turned out to be a major error, even alienating some Trump allies. Then Trump accepted a deal he had tried to ignore for weeks. Amateur hour all around.
Juan Forero@WSJForero
People worldwide — from presidents to the Pope to ordinary folks — spent the day trying to decipher whether Trump’s threat against Iran was a bluff or a prelude to an escalation. The @WSJ explains how it all went down from Washington to Rome to Tehran. wsj.com/world/middle-e…
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Jesus H. Christ. He's really thinking about it.
John T. Bennett@BennettJohnT
A White House official, granted anonymity to be candid, did not rule out the use of nuclear weapons. Asked how else Trump could make 90M people spread over the large Persian country “die” in one night, the official replied, “You’ll find out if Iran fails to make a deal by 8PM!”
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