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It would've been really funny if Poland had been lying, and Netanyahu showed up and they arrested him, despite saying they wouldn't. Wouldn't that be an amusing subversion of stereotypes?

Netanyahu probably projected his own sense of honesty and ethics onto Polish leadership and so of course he wasn't going to go.

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Is there a minimum required amount for the donation? Wouldn’t it be worth donating a nickel or a dime to give them your views? Or even a buck. It’s also a comment on what you consider the worth of their services to be.

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Here ya go - a little fact known by almost no one

The deportation of immigrants took place

frequently under the Biden Admin. It went smoothly because Biden wasn’t an asshole. But the Dems didn’t think it was the optic they wanted to show.

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I’m guessing you mean, “wasn’t a world-class publicly front page asshole”. Certainly an asshole.

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Love to see spoilers for the next day's TFN...! ;)

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JFC, I read one respected Substack and it says no military planes in Colombia. You said military planes are ok.

It took me 3 hours to read about 5 things today because I had to suss out the truth.

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It changed very quickly and the sourcing wasn’t super reliable. This is why I generally like to let things breathe a bit before uncorking them. (Well there’s an analogy that doesn’t work.)

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Trump is fine with ethnic cleansing because Stephen Miller explained to him that it just means sending Palestinians to the showers.

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Yeah, maybe Trump thinks "the showers" are just a towel-snapping good time. But won't the Palestinians be tortured by the low water pressure???

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😟😟😟Too true.

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Do you need a couch in downtown DC? If not and the outer burbs work then we would love to have you stay.

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Thank you! Hoping for downtown…

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No problem. The offer is open if you ever need it (and the commute into town easy - we are in northern VA)

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Eh, we’ve got a nice spare bedroom in a New Orleans suburb if you ever wanna crash here for research…or fun.

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Thank you!

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Thanks Jonathan. Of course this was going to happen with a Trump win!! Did anyone outside of Dearborn doubt this??

And let me add to Linda Allen's post the latest by Jim Stewartson's SS-adjacent,

https://www.mind-war.com/p/how-hitler-called-me-a-jew

Just when you thought you heard it all about the Musk, wait till you find out where his father got the name Elon from...

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Britt is a master BS artist

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Can anyone tell us the gist, or the specifics, of the Ha’aretz article? It’s behind a paywall and I’d rather buy you a coffee with the five dollars I have left this month.

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The link I embedded was to an unpaywalled version. And thank you!

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This time it worked! Thanks. The first three times I tried, a paywall popped up - maybe some scam thing. You still get a coffee.

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If you run a paywalled URL through https://archive.ph/, you can read to your heart's delight. I don't tell this to everyone... Just Newsfuckers.

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Somebody encrypt that comment, stat!!

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I can’t be the only one who sees the subterranean salivation in trump’s words and mouth—he wants to take the coastline of Israel, develop it for himself/family, and license a golf course, hotel, and probably a casino.

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He wants to turn it into Miami

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Murder-a-Lago

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Murder A Lardo

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"The multiple-choice issues I could choose for Democrats to focus on didn’t include championing secularism. The list of concerning GOP actions didn’t include GOP theocratizing. And the campaign options conspicuously didn’t mention anything about democratizing primaries so that instead of mindlessly protecting incumbents, we’re opening primaries and pursuing better outcomes and representatives — incumbent or otherwise."

MOTHERFUCKERS!

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LOL, in fairness, I do believe there were options to write in "Other" or whatever. I guess I should've mentioned that in the writeup. On the other hand, your response is soooo satisfying.

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I give Ken White the satisfaction credit, because he reminded me right after the election that just because petty and sinister bullies are ascendant doesn't mean we have to give establishment cowards more passes to count them as 'allies'.

I'm trying to be more proactive every day because my normal reflexes amount to little more than "throw hands up in disgust" and "throw more money at DWB" ...

Speaking of which, i can't throw anymore at Planned Parenthood until i drop one or two Substack subscriptions...

Dance, Monkey, Dance!

j/k, you're not in that kind of jeopardy

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I have tried that; it doesn’t work. You were right the first time: it’s nothing but a donation scam using a narrow channeling of our beliefs and feelings into their prescribed choices. Like the conventions.

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To the DNCC

You have GOT to be kidding me! You have a survey in place. I, a democratic voter who wants to participate in getting the GOP out of government, cannot submit an answer unless I "DONATE"!!! You are not asking for a donation, you are extorting. And in a truly relevant survey, you would be cutting off a lot of people who genuinely care about this country.

People who care make choices about who we support, and honestly, your survey is so lame it doesn't even come close to establishing a baseline for actual strategies. If your survey is the best the DSCC can do, we are all in trouble.

Respectfully,

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Spoiler: we’re all in trouble. The Democratic Party is dead. Let’s move on.

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