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The meaning of Life is the meaning you give to it.

Mike Johnson is suggesting that extending Obamacare subsidies isn't that important because it will only benefit 24 million Americans but Johnson and Republicans will work around the clock to pass legislation to only benefit 924 billionaires!!!

The four kids shot in Stockton, California were 8, 9, 14 and 21. Why isn’t that a national tragedy? Why doesn’t that provoke the outrage that we saw with Charlie Kirk or the National Guard shooting? This country doesn’t care about children. They don’t care about gun violence.

Doubling down on a failed policy that is increasingly unpopular and puts National Guard members at risk for a hateful white nationalist immigration policy? That's a bold strategy, Cotton.

Kristi Noem is conclusive proof that the sort of person who would murder a dog in cold blood is *exactly* the sort of person you think they are

While Venezuela is not a fentanyl-or-cocaine producing country according to the UN, the president of the United States has touted an illegal land invasion of that nation while pardoning the former Honduran president who an American jury convicted of protecting the flow of cocaine to the US.

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I'm sure she's fine with this—as if she's anything else, or takes any action to interfere in this situation, she needs to resign today. America can't have government officials who adopt one policy for their friends and family and one for strangers. She either needs to say this is fine or quit today.

If there's another pandemic during a Trump presidency, the death toll may well end up being in the tens of millions You will lose friends and neighbors who didn't have to die but did die purely because some incredibly mediocre, juvenile, largely uneducated dickwads wanted to play at being Big Men

🚨In a recent MS Now interview, former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb warned that President Donald Trump’s behavior goes far beyond incompetence, saying the Constitution "is not adequate" to restrain "a president as evil as Trump." theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/ex-trump-l...

TWO QUESTIONS FOR AMERICA 1. Do you agree that a child rapist can’t be POTUS? 2. If so, why do you not support an immediate DOJ and FBI investigation to determine if Donald Trump committed the same crime that two of his closest friends for 17 years committed thousands of times?

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

Nothing Says ‘Veterans Day’ Like Military Families in a Food Line www.truthdig.com/articles/not...

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Trump’s creed praises the cruel and mocks the harmed. Power poses as virtue, truth bends to grievance. But every nation that worships domination learns: when cruelty is the compass, ruin is the map. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

The richest 1% now own a third of all U.S. wealth. For everyone else, debt, automation, and high costs have made progress feel impossible. “The Prosperity Illusion” asks: who still gets ahead—and why? theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-prospe...

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The warning was there in 2016, if only we had taken it seriously and didn't think it couldn't happen to us...

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.” — G. Orwell, 1984 If you go to the website for Trump’s interagency DC Task Force—the personal Trump army designed to facilitate a *successful* January 6-style self-coup in 2029—this is its logo, I shit you not:

1/6: Picture the U.S. economy as a house of cards rising from vapor. Each layer gleams—silicon, code, confidence—yet nothing solid lies beneath. The foundation is vaporware: value built on promises, not products. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

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The parallel is almost too neat: a demolition of something sacred carried out under the auspices of improvement. In both cases, the act is cloaked in the language of renewal but animated by ego, sustained by spectacle, and shadowed by the pursuit of personal gain.

What Trump did to the East Wing of the White House is what he is doing to the United States itself.

Yes. The "they in the system" are We The People, each one of us.

In John 6:15, Jesus miraculously feeds 5,000 people and the crowd's so impressed they try to seize Jesus and make him their "king," by force. But Jesus "withdrew again to a mountain by himself" to avoid their attempt, bc he was not about earthly power. Jesus = "No Kings."

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No *Fucking* Kings

The richest 1% now own a third of all U.S. wealth. For everyone else, debt, automation, and high costs have made progress feel impossible. “The Prosperity Illusion” asks: who still gets ahead—and why? theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-prospe...

Following his September 10, 2025 arrest in Florida for failing to appear in court, former Congressman Madison Cawthorn, once of North Carolina, seeks a comeback to replace Byron Donalds, marking at least six legal incidents since 2020. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/madison-ca...

(🧵) A key irony in what is now happening in Portland, Chicago, Los Angeles, Memphis, and D.C. is something I have not heard much discussed: in order to meet the high legal standard for deployment of federal troops, Trump must not only argue but establish by evidence that his agents are... incapable.

Hmmm... weird.

This chart clearly shows that what Democrats believe about the economy lines up with objective reality, whereas Republicans will believe whatever they are told to believe by the charlatans in charge of their cult. Democratic opinions acknowledged the pandemic, the recovery, *and* the current market.

It was always easy for our military to terrorize citizens as Miller describes. That's not the point. The point is that this is America—not the Third Reich—and OUR MILITARY ISN'T TO BE USED THIS WAY. Anyone who can't understand and accept this was NEVER a fan of America, democracy, or rule of law.

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The question is whether citizens will continue to applaud the performance, or finally refuse the theater that sustains it. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/south-caro...

Within the legal community, every conceivable alarm bell is ringing. And all of them are too late. America has no meaningful federal law enforcement anymore. It has Trump personal lawyers and a Trump political machine that masquerades as rule of law. There *is* no DOJ or FBI now. Please share.

Robert Redford set out, 53 years ago, to alert America to the disruption of elections by big money, self-dealing interest groups, media-driven campaigns and contenders who sacrificed values for style. With “The Candidate,” he anticipated almost everything that has corrupted contemporary politics.

Donald Trump embodies avarice: whatever lies on the table must be seized. Scaled to world order, that reflex corrodes America’s alliances, reducing commitments to mere transactions, always vulnerable to the next grab. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/will-donal...

Violence is at the heart of MAGA to a degree the average person cannot possibly comprehend.

Why? What does this have to do with us? What sort of foreign policy is this? If something bad happens to a criminal Trump pal abroad, U.S. taxpayers have to pay for a war or a new tariff or some silly new overarching foreign policy agenda? What is that?

Nazi eugenics at work. Only those white with "perfect genes" would survive and breed the perfect race. Everyone else can die off. 2025 GOP, authoritarian fascist idiocracy.

🚨 Every year, 700,000 Americans die who wouldn’t if U.S. policies matched Canada’s. Ten miles or a bus ride can mean decades of life lost. Inequality isn’t fate—it’s a choice, and its cost is funerals, trauma, and stolen futures. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...

(🚨) In honor of Rep. Comer—congressional agent for adjudicated rapist Donald Trump—falsely claiming that Trump hasn’t been mentioned in the Epstein Scandal, I’m making the first 200 pages of PROOF OF DEVILRY: THE CRIMES OF DONALD TRUMP, GHISLAINE MAXWELL, and JEFFREY EPSTEIN free to all:

🚨 The U.S. still looks whole—but behind courts, elections, and laws, the republic is fracturing along old lines. We investigate this soft disunion: broken rights, weaponized media, and vanishing civic trust. This is a nation coming undone. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-new-se...

🚨Gun violence in America is not an act of nature. 1/2: It is the foreseeable outcome of laws and inequalities that turn grievance into carnage and leave families mourning futures that will never arrive. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/how-many-m...

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holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

Trump’s Treasury Secretary has admitted that the GOP tax law has “a backdoor to privatizing Social Security.” Republicans are still scheming to steal away our hard-earned & hard-won Social Security. Democrats are fighting to protect & enhance the benefits Americans have relied upon for 90 years.

Yep. Far-right discourse on crime has *nothing* to do with crime. It’s irrational cowards obsessed with myths, urban legends, and rank prejudice talking themselves into believing their delusions have an association with reality. Far-right fear of crime should be in the next edition of the DSM-VI.