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“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
- Mark Twain

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@WUTangKids They are learning how to military cosplay like their dear old, dad

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@PierrePoilievre PP GTFOH

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@Ryan_Parkerrr Is that a promise?

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump actually posted this AI slop video at 8 am this morning. This is not normal. This is someone who is clearly mentally deranged. Impeach and remove the felon ASAP.

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@rospigge60559

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@SecWar You insult their memory with your shitty performance. Shame on you.

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@CBSNews It was a disgusting performance.

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@Martina Very concerning

[Brian J. Karem @BrianKarem]

LIE. I was there. They were walking through the building, destroying property, spreading feces on the walls, stealing things, rioting and threatening to kill the Vice President. But other than that . . .

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@DOWResponse He is Secretary of Defense. https://t.co/VkiLtIbh3g

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In its best scene yet, South Park just humiliated Pete Hegseth. This is amazing.

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@DanLamothe https://t.co/VkiLtIbh3g

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In its best scene yet, South Park just humiliated Pete Hegseth. This is amazing.

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@atrupar No mention of Ukraine. Real people are fighting and dying every day for freedom. No mention of that. The US is siding with the tyrant not for those fighting for free freedom.

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@nafoviking https://t.co/4KRHSfXGUk

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@Ilhan Sounds like bullshit to me

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Nick Bilton walked into the 60 Minutes newsroom four days after Bari Weiss fired the people who built the show. He tried to pretend he didn't know about the firings. Scott Pelley, in front of the remaining staff, would not let that stand.

"She loves 60 Minutes," Bilton said. "She's murdering 60 Minutes," Pelley said back. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it - and she's doing exactly that."

One of Weiss's lieutenants kept interrupting to say Pelley was being rude. Pelley kept going.

JVL's framing is the right one. The corrupter depends on the existing institution being too polite to say the obvious thing out loud. Christopher Wray resigned quietly to "preserve the integrity of the FBI." John Kelly gave print interviews after he left. Thom Tillis, John Cornyn, Mitch McConnell, Jim Mattis, Bill Barr - all of them saw it. All of them objected privately. None of them said it in the room where it was happening, to the person doing it, while the cameras were still running.

Pelley said it in the room. To the person's face. In front of witnesses. While he still worked there.

That is a different thing entirely. Not a memoir. Not an anonymous source in a tell-all. Not a carefully worded statement issued after the resignation letter was already filed. The true thing, said out loud, to the people who needed to hear it, at the moment it could still matter.

Authoritarianism counts on politesse. It counts on people deciding the fight isn't worth the awkwardness, the career risk, the label of being difficult. Scott Pelley decided it was worth it. The republic needs more of that calculation to come out the same way.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"People sometimes ask me why I’m so hung up on Bari Weiss and the answer is that it’s because her project is essentially the same as Donald Trump’s project." Scott Pelley gets it, too. Today's Triad from JVL (link in reply):

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@JayinKyiv @smc429 @sseagalofficial Well he does like Chinese food.

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@DonaldJTrumpJr Your dad is the king of fraud.

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@TheRickWilson @MalcolmNance I think the guy on the right is Peter hegseth

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@Microinteracti1 https://t.co/4NA3TOge0x