Journalist. Let me explain something to you, Walsh. This business requires a certain amount of finesse. christopherdhooks@gmail.com
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For the July issue of Harper’s, I tried to work through my feelings about the United States at this particular moment by surveying the America 250/Freedom 250 industrial complex and otherwise driving around the Keystone State: harpers.org/archive/2026/07/…
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Just talked to a pharmacist in the panhandle who’s currently watching 30 doses of the vaccine go bad because they can’t find enough “eligible” recipients. We had a year to figure this out
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historians are gonna be baffled that a country this stupid landed on the moon nitter.app/ARmastrangelo/status/1…
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It’s been two years and one week and the boys are still debating what happened to me on this night
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Had to get my car towed. Driver told me that his 26-year-long wife, who he’d known since high school, died in the cold during the 2021 winter blackout. Im never going to stop being angry about that week, and the lack of accountability that followed
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Some 150-200 people at a BLM rally in Vidor, an East Texas town that’s infamously associated with racism and the Klan
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Am I wrong or didn’t “doxing” used to mean dumping a person’s address, phone number, job, family members, contact info of close relations, ssn, etc. on the internet? When did it become “here is this person’s name?”
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Can’t believe that we invented an entirely new class of vaccine and got it to market in under a year after billions of dollars and superhuman scientific effort and we’re doing a third wave anyway
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Fetterman must look absolutely insane to Diane Feinstein. Imagine if an ogre in gym shorts just started showing up at your work place and you never remember meeting him
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france 24 so shocked by the exit poll they didnt have time to adjust the graphic
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can’t emphasize enough how much it distorts public policy that only the craziest people show up for open meetings
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Greg Abbott posts a fake item from the “Dunning Kruger Times” written by “Flagg Eagleton - Patriot”
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it's just so draining that the plan is 2-3k deaths indefinitely where other high-income countries have kicked this. not the worst case scenario, the *plan*
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I have some bad news for the President about south Texas
Trump told G7 leaders over dinner that Crimea Is Russian because everyone there speaks Russian buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli…
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This is key. Her candidacy won’t just be falling from some kind of tree. It will exist in a context of all that came before.
If one of Harris's weaknesses was organization building, the campaign infrastructure is already built, the ads are bought, many of the themes are set (abortion/democracy/freedoms, Project 2025), rate cuts are coming...just need to slot the game management QB into the system.
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there's a huge perception gap right now between what people with professional work-from-home jobs are feeling right now and what's actually happening to the american economy
The state police said it will be an 8 hour wait from the back of the line to speak to a state employee about unemployment.
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stormy daniels would have been the #1, legacy-defining scandal for any president since nixon and we'll have forgotten about it by monday
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Before COVID my cousin had a three-hour daily commute. Now he sees his kids every day. You have to be bone-thick to ask this question
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Zelensky must hate this stupid country so bad. He’s been at the center of eight of the 10 stupidest things to happen here over the last decade and a blown election here might mean the end of his nation
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BLACKTHORNE: We believe we owe it to the characters-and the fictional world we created. Though we’ll always be grateful to James Clavell for the source material, we believe we have a lot more stories to tell.
MARIKO: The Anjin says FX is cashing in.
FX is looking to make Season 2 of ‘SHOGUN’
Hiroyuki Sanada is closing a deal to return.
(Source: Deadline)
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sucks when they start to come for people you actually care about, huh
There's a video going around purporting to show Bosnians in Idaho cooking a dog. Bosnians and other people from the Balkans / eastern Europe do not traditionally eat dogs. They do cook lamb and sometimes goat on a spit like this, though.
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This really speaks to the conceptual limits of factchecking. You have no proof at all this man didn’t have sex with a couch.
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I get why folks are saying "it's not funny, but" to the president splattering the walls of his office with his burger and trying to wrestle his car away from the secret service but: you can say it. it's funny. it's really, really funny.
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the debate about shapiro as a vp pick has been about israel for i guess understandable reasons but i dont think he gets picked because the campaign doesnt want to see this image circulating every day for the next three months
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It is very, very funny that we spent a week discussing Joe Rogan’s endorsement of Bernie Sanders during the primary and then the party invited Colin Powell to the convention
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More than 80k Lebanese-American voters in Michigan. The administration is sleepwalking
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the shock and anger with which they’ve come down on Cawthorn for this vs. every other breach of decorum leads me to conclude, with a very heavy heart, that the orgies are real
NEWS: McCarthy says he told Madison Cawthorn during a meeting today that the freshman has lost his trust and he needs to take steps to turn his life around, or else there could be consequences.
Also says Cawthorn admitted his orgy & cocaine allegations were exaggerated/untrue.
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talk about "cancel culture" all you want, but there are some things a person shouldn't be able to come back from, and using police violence as a tool to keep racial minorities in line is one of them. yes, i'm talking about rahm emanuel
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feels like we need to have a public discussion about what ‘roid use looks like
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a cool thing about the last few years is that the U.S. became the leading exporter of the intellectual machinery of western fascism and one of the leading domestic debates about it is whether undergrads are treating the people behind it politely enough
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the fact that she didnt quit was sort of the problem, actually nitter.app/MattGoldberg/status/13…
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Strange phenomenon today where kids are calling their members of congress about an issue that affects them, like they say to do in schoolhouse rock, and everyone is calling them braindead morons
He also said banning TikTok would infringe on his “First Amendment rights — or Bill of Rights — I don’t know, I I don’t know, I just took a test on that today, bro.”
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firmly believe that if you rounded up random adults off the street, gave them a gun and gave them the opportunity to stop a school shooting, even without training, a significant number would try it
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I’ve held my tongue on this discourse, but I must disavow. Hyperpop is extremely earnest music which sounds ironic. Stomp clap is very cynical music which is trying to sound earnest
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google, i dont want your shitty ai. i want you to return search results that have the words i typed without me having to put quote marks around every individual one
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it's astonishing that we're alive. so much of human history turns on psychopathy and delusion. tonight a hot dog vendor with a private army is starting a totally doomed rebellion in a country with 6,000 nuclear warheads. turn it over to the orcas imo
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so happy CNN polled this, which i expect will surprise a lot of people cnn.com/election/2018/exit-p…
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SpaceX elected to build this launch site in the middle of a one-of-its-kind preserve for migratory sea birds, some of which travel thousands of miles to lay eggs there
Getting reports from multiple people now of “particulates” raining down in areas of Port Isabel after the nearby explosion of the SpaceX rocket stack Starship/Superheavy, 4 minutes after liftoff this morning from Boca Chica in the Rio Grande Valley.
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Huge respect to the art team for sifting through thousands of photos of this invariably smiling and neighborly man to find the one where he looks like Jafar from Aladdin
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the nation now waits for black or white smoke to emerge from the Tucson hot topic where Kirsten Sinema has entered into occultation
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The most extraordinary few months in politics in my lifetime, maybe. Three weeks ago the Democratic Party was on the verge of mass suicide and now they're in better fighting shape than they've been in 16 years.
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Meghan McCain says her dad’s legacy shouldn’t be used as a tool to get ahead. intriguing
On behalf of the entire McCain family - @amyklobuchar please be respectful to all of us and leave my fathers legacy and memory out of presidential politics.
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In Texas, you have to swear to the state you support the occupation of the West Bank before you can sell your local school district office supplies
Our founders designed a system that treated citizens as more than just children. Our grand experiment is designed for a free people. Yes, that entails risk. Yes, I’ll take risk and freedom over a paternalistic government any day.
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white nationalists say they want a world full of unitary ethnostates in which everybody goes "home" and stays there, and they're doing it by championing the cause of white farmers in Africa
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You know who else made a series of increasingly erratic and costly decisions, exacerbated by his insistence on middle-managing, while fucked up on amphetamine?
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there was no primary. there was no debate that might have served as an early warning sign. there was a coronation for a guy whose aides knew was no longer up to the job
Biden: “You voted for me to be your nominee, no one else. You, the voters did that. And despite that some folks don't seem to care who you voted for, well guess what, they're trying to push me out of the race. Well let me say this as clearly as I can: I'm staying in the race."
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Coup or not, the executive branch today encouraged a militia to attack the seat of the legislative branch and threaten the physical safety of Congress. it's the most alarming thing to happen to the country's constitutional order in 150 years
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one of the things about being at war for 18 years is eventually nobody remembers what it was about and you can kinda just say whatever
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if you work on this man's campaign, you should resign.
Stephanopoulos: If you stay in, and Trump is elected and everything you're warning about comes to pass, how will you feel in January?
Biden: I'll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did as good a job as I know I can do, that's what this is about.
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this is word-for-word what segregationists used to say about integration
.@SRuhle since you seem to care more about Twitter snark than facts, how about this: let’s admit an unlimited number of refugees as long as they live in your fancy apartment building & your rich Manhattan neighborhood. Planet Earth thanks you for your virtue-signaling.
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twitter has reached its highest potential in the ability to watch its owner cope, in real time, with having made a $44 billion mistake in the same tone I would take if I had drunkenly bought a jet ski
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Supreme Court ruling very, very bleak. now imagine you had a presumptive democratic nominee capable of speaking urgently and eloquently about the likely consequences of this
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the funniest thing about this admin is that the most competent and least corrupt cabinet secretary appears to be rick perry
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Asked if Plan B is an adequate option for women who have been raped, Abbott mumbles an answer and then says that Texas will provide “prenatal vitamins.” Cool!
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Daniel Perry was an explicit racist and white supremacist who posted repeatedly that he wanted to go to a BLM protests and shoot somebody, and eventually he did. This really sends a message.
BREAKING: The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has recommended a full pardon to Daniel Perry, convicted in the death of protester Garrett Foster, which Gov. Greg Abbott has previously said he will sign.
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buying sneakers made in a northern mariana islands sweatshop thousands of miles away in order to burn them in your backyard because you're mad at black people is the most american empire thing i can think of
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watergate is such a strong part of the public consciousness because it has a modestly happy ending, whereas iran-contra is a hundred times more revealing about power in America and it’s hardly ever told
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it does not bode well for the Republican Party that the donor class and activist base sanctified a Successor over the course of two years and several weeks of donald calling him "meatball ron" reduced him to nervous tears and chapter 11 bankruptcy
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dems should drop a new candidate in august in all future elections. it takes them months, years to get the agitprop machine running at full efficiency and they're absolutely clueless right now
Watters: Obama is still the godfather of this machine… That is why we will be sending Johnny to Hawaii to get the truth about the birth certificate. This time we will dig deep and find out what really happened.
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the shooter in Pennsylvania somehow disrupted Trump's life force and essences. im not a spiritual man but that teenager killed his qi
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hello folks—baby here. goo goo, ga ga. i've decided to come out with my first political opinion. have a look:
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we need to bring back trickster gods. monotheism is ok as far as it goes but it would be a lot better if it was mono and a half theism and the half was a little guy with a flute who steals stuff
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it kills me that there was not one major GOP official who thought, man, maybe I should sit this one out until we know more
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Ilhan Omar was wrong to say that the 9/11 hijackers were “some guys.” She should have said that they were predominantly Saudi, with documented ties to that country’s intelligence apparatus
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do you remember when Malcolm Gladwell wrote in a book that Korean airliners kept crashing because Koreans were uniquely culturally subservient to authority
🇰🇷 Presidents of South Korea
1. Syngman Rhee (1948–1960) – Overthrown.
2. Yun Bo-seon (1960–1962) – Overthrown.
3. Park Chung-hee (1962–1979) – Assassinated.
4. Choi Kyu-hah (1979–1980) – Removed by a military coup.
5. Chun Doo-hwan (1981–1988) – Sentenced to death after his presidency.
6. Roh Tae-woo (1988–1993) – Sentenced to 22 years in prison after his presidency.
7. Kim Young-sam (1993–1998) – Imprisoned during the term of President No. 3. As president, secured convictions against two of his predecessors.
8. Kim Dae-jung (1998–2003) – Imprisoned under President No. 3 and sentenced to death under President No. 5 (later pardoned). Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
9. Roh Moo-hyun (2003–2008) – Impeached (later overturned by the Constitutional Court). Investigated for corruption after his term and committed suicide.
10. Lee Myung-bak (2008–2013) – Arrested for corruption after his presidency; sentenced to 15 years in prison.
11. Park Geun-hye (2013–2016) – Impeached and arrested for corruption; sentenced to 24 years in prison.
12. Moon Jae-in – Recent president; no imprisonment.
13. Yoon Suk Yeol – Impeachment likely.
📸: Yoon Suk Yeol
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it appears @cryptoterra got banned shortly after posting the musk/ghislaine pic at musk
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Since people are asking, the reason tubing is included in the governor's order is that Texas rivers can look like this on the weekends, and the counties where this happens have seen spikes. Why this and not movie theaters, though, I couldn't tell you
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Classic Donnie-that quintessential Donald Trump stuff we love to love–to get every Republican elected official on the record calling the FBI the gestapo and then get caught with bunch of diagrams labeled “nuclear aircraft carrier exhaust port–fatal flaw (valuable secret)”
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This could be anyone, but I'm hoping this is him and that J.D. Vance has sunk a truly inhuman number of hours into Runescape
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also we had to stop at intersection to make way for a SWAT convoy on its way to an active shooter situation. things are going great here!
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Polish friend told me that growing up in the 90s she fixated on these things in American TV shows and movies. They seemed like the tokens of an impossibly cosmopolitan future
one very cool thing is europeans coming here and realizing that everything they see on tv — yellow school buses, red solo cups, diners where waitresses serve you coffee from the pot — are real
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Right after Hiroshima, the Allies put Germany's top nuclear scientists in a mansion and secretly taped their conversations after they learned about the bomb. Really chilling stuff
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by far the best subplot of the Trump administration is that we keep getting hints of extraterrestrial activity and everybody’s too busy to care haaretz.com/us-news/.premium…
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im not saying the saudis false flagged their own tankers but you are talking about a guy so bloodthirsty and audacious he fed a wapo columnist into a meat grinder in his own embassy in daylight while his fiance was waiting outside. ok, i guess i am saying that
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looking forward to being killed by an autonomous car because a hater repeatedly uploaded my photo to an image processing database with the tag "trash can"
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all you #resistance dweebs talking shit about texas can eat my shorts, the president is from manhattan, breitbart is from LA, and both of their state governments are towering palaces of structural racism and economic inequality and pain
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i don't believe in hell, but stephen miller is going to hell
Hundreds like Renard Oliver and his baby now have to get off the ferry from Freeport, Bahamas to Florida. He was trying to evacuate — told he could leave with Bahamian passport and police record like normal but then ferry crew says US Goverment called and changed plan last minute
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really beautiful metaphor for modern policing
The EPS' $500k armoured vehicle in action. Dealing with an intruder in @CJDwriter's home it rammed through her fence and then got stuck on a tree stump, spewing transmission fluid everywhere, which you can see. It then had to be towed away. #yegcc
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