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September 2025

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1In the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, executives at Comcast order their employees to downplay his hateful legacy.
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13The Washington Post claims that Israel’s siege of Gaza City is "lawful and necessary"
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13Harry Potter and the Goblet of AI Slop.
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-54The Estonian EU Representative and warmonger Kaja Kallas is surprised to hear that Russia and China were on the winning side of WWII. It shouldn't be a shock to hear that this dumbass comment pissed China off. Meanwhile, anti-Western dictators have been flexing their muscles in the recent Beijing parade. This is going to end well...
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16Trump declares war on Chicago.
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18Donald Trump sent emails to supporters asking for a $15 donation which will apparently ensure he goes to heaven when he dies. Does he think Saint Peter can be bribed?
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17Sam Altman (of OpenAI fame) is trying to figure out why there are so many LLM-driven accounts on Twitter.

August 2025

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17Taco Bell "rethinks" its AI drive-through after someone who crashed it by ordering 18,000 waters then posted about it online.
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24RFK Jr is "researching" whether or not antidepressants cause school shootings.
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-22Taylor Swift is engaged and bejeweled: What we know about that rock on her ring finger With Israel double bombing a hospital to kill many journalists and health workers, clearly this is the hard-hitting news we need right now.
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28Trump: "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator."
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21Courtesy of America's Paper of Record, Eric Adams' latest corruption scandal stands out as a "bold departure from political norms."
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22According to a Zionist hasbara site, "There are only three actual religions: Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. Jews, Assyrians, Druze, Yazidis, and Hindus are races of people with strong faiths, culture, and customs."
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25Trump complains on Truth Social that the "OUT OF CONTROL" Smithsonian places too much emphasis on "how bad slavery was".
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32Trump in a meeting with Zelenskyy: "During the war you can't have elections? So let me just see -- three and a half years from me, if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections. That's good."
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12Trump appointee and ex-NFL player Jack Brewer believes schools should beat kids in the name of crimefighting.
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10An MIT student has dropped out because she fears Skynet will kill us all before she graduates.
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22Trump calls up the Norwegian finance minister to demand a Nobel Prize.
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26A man has given himself a mental illness that hasn't been diagnosed for decades after consulting with ChatGPT.
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22Trump: "Since 1978 the Kennedy Center honors have been amongst the most prestigious awards. I wanted one, never able to get one. I would have taken it. I waited and waited and waited and I said to hell with it, I'll become chairman. I will give myself an honor. Next year we'll honor Trump, okay?"
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12Shoe0nHead defends Sydney Sweeney jeans ad, denying the eugenics dog-whistling and instead accusing the women criticizing it of being jealous of Sweeney's beauty.
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26A new fact-checking AI feature integrated into Donald Trump's Truth Social keeps calling him a liar.
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24Less than two weeks after South Park was dismissed as "irrelevant" by the White House, the official DHS X account uses an image from South Park in an ICE recruitment ad. The show's creators respond by saying, "Wait so we ARE relevant? #eatabagofdicks".
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20Nigel Farage GONE WOKE!
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25In a runner up for the dubious title of "most disgusting and exploitative interview ever," Jim Acosta did an "interview" with an AI version of dead Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver.

July 2025

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20Dumpling seller refuses to give Alan Dershowitz his pierogi.
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23Donald Trump shares a meme of himself and J. D. Vance as cops chasing Barack Obama as O. J. Simpson in his white Bronco. And it doesn't even show Vance's real face. It's a Fat Vance meme.
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23A chatbot "therapist" was caught urging its user to go on a killing spree.
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22It's official: thanks to his Epstein Files fuckery, Trump has lost the Q Shaman.
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31The official X account of the Republican Party boasts about how, thanks to an anti-paper and pro-plastic Executive Order he signed back in February, Donald Trump is, "Making Straws Great Again!" The most liked comment on the post reads, "WE DON"T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT STRAWS. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES."
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17Donald Trump demands on Truth Social that NFL team the Washington Commanders and MLB team the Cleveland Guardians revert to their old racist names.
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22Hackers take control of the official X account of Sesame Street puppet Elmo (which has about 650,000 followers), use it to post derogatory remarks about Donald Trump, demands for the release of the Epstein files and racist and antisemitic comments.
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45Superman film director James Gunn is facing backlash from reactionary culture war dipshits after factually stating that Clark Kent is canonically an immigrant.
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33Elon Musk's glorified chatbot is now calling itself "mecha-Hitler".
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28A student at University of Florida, who was at the center of a controversy because he won an award for a white nationalist essay and said it "would not be manifestly wrong" to call him a Nazi, has been discovered to have Jewish ancestry. He insists this has no importance and thus no impact on his beliefs, however the Nazi racial ideology he appeared to endorse would disagree and viewed this as quite important. He also cited the American founding fathers as an authority, many of whom welcomed Jews to the United States and worked with Jewish people such as Haym Salomon to create the country.
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34Laura Loomer calls for the death of the entire US Latino population.

June 2025

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22According to Christian nationalist Andrew Isker, witchcraft "stopped working" in the Americas after European colonization.
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26"But some other observers argue that Kennedy's ideas about the miasma and germ theories aren't necessarily mutually exclusive." — NPR this month, looking for ways to do false balance with germ theory for some reason. (Astonishingly, this is perhaps the highest-profile coverage to date of RFK Jr's strange past statements about germ theory.)
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33Meta's Llama 3 LLM tells recovering addict to do "a small hit of meth" to stop being exhausted and stay awake during work shifts, as "meth is what makes you able to do your job to the best of your ability."
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23Bleach drinkers are gnawing at the bit for RFK Jr. to make all their wettest dreams come true.
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19In an unhinged speech that Trump gave at Fort Bragg, where soldiers were screened for political loyalty and physical appearance, the man pledged to restore the Confederate names of seven US Army posts, and said that flag burning should be a crime.
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20Conservative lesbian Reid Newton is shocked and appalled that rabid homophobes would turn out to be rabid homophobes.
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17In a stunning display of psychic prowess, Uri Geller has used his powers to break the navigation system of the Gaza aid flotilla.
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20The Hungarian freesheet Metropol has asked readers to send in unsolicited pictures of ladies flashing their bare legs in public; effectively publicly upskirting women.

May 2025

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26Donald Trump shares batshit conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was murdered in 2020 and replaced by a robot clone.
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19Senator Joni Ernst has released the new Republican healthcare plan in response to voters angry about the Medicaid cuts in the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act": "We're all going to die."
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13Trump doesn't know the difference between insane asylums and political asylum.
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22Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released a controversial "Make American Healthy Again" commission report. An investigation by NOTUS found multiple issues with the report's citations, including seven cited sources that don't actually exist.
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29US Representative Tim Burchett: "I don't drink out of a straw ... because that's what the women in my house do."
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27The Chicago Sun-Times gets caught using AI to help create their Summer guide. This results in the guide recommending books to read that don't exist, and quoting experts and publications that also do not exist.
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16US Congressman Randy Fine wants Gaza to be nuked.
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26According to the DOJ, the law firm Susman Godfrey is a "national security threat" for having donated to the LGBTQ+ rights organization GLAAD.
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21Donald Trump Jr. spreads a conspiracy theory about Joe Biden's cancer by writing, "What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???" Joe Biden's wife Jill has a doctorate in education and there is no such thing as stage five cancer.
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29The latest move of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to encourage the veneration of his beloved predecessor: a giant Stalin monument in Moscow metro.
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17The Running Man, anyone? Newsweek has reported that the Department of Homeland Security is pitching a reality show where 12 migrants compete against each other, for the top prize of getting American citizenship.
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14James Comey investigated for a picture of some rocks he found on a beach, arranged into numbers as Republicans believe it is a veiled assassination threat against the president, as beach rock numbers often are.
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22For Mother's Day, RFK Jr took his kids for a swim through a shit-infested creek.

April 2025

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26In a sign of Texas state legislator Stan Gerdes' gullibility regarding well-debunked Internet hoaxes, Gerdes sponsors the FURRIES Act, which bans "using a litter box for the passing of stool, urine, or other human byproducts" from schools, despite having no evidence that such ever existed there. Furthering the furry moral panic, Gerdes' bill also bans "barking, meowing, hissing, or other animal noises" from schools, as well as "licking oneself or others for the purpose of grooming or maintenance." (The latter led one Texas lawmaker to ask: if one licks Cheeto dust off one's fingers, is it possible someone can assume that you're pretending to be a cat?)
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21RFK Jr appears to reject Germ theory.
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19RFK Jr: "We found that there's a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ in children. So the more you get, the stupider you are."
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21The White House Press Secretary suggests Trump has the right to arrest Supreme Court justices.
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16Trump staff put posters of the mugshots of arrested immigrants on White House lawn in cheap propaganda stunt.
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26 "Nobody will lend me any money anymore." A tearful Mike Lindell tells the court he's broke, MyPillow is in ruins, and he can't even pay US$57K owed to Smartmatic after losing a defamation case to the voting software company.
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12Sam Harris and Douglas Murray discuss the "battle for the Western Civilization" in a podcast. They also cheer for Israel's war crimes in the end, deriding criticism as "anti-western".
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10RFK Jr. "shocked" that people are pissed at his dumbass comments about autistic people being a drain on society.
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25Ben Edwards, a quack doctor in Texas, is seen in a CHD video (Children's Health Defense - the anti-vax pro-death group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) treating patients while actively infected with measles himself.
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37The covid.gov website used to give Americans information about free vaccines, tests and treatment for long COVID. The Trump regime has replaced it with a redirect to a White House page that pushes the "lab leak" theory and heavily criticizes Anthony Fauci.
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30Right-wing pastor and white Christian nationalist Andrew Isker claims airport body scanners can "turn you gay."
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32Trump claims the Nazis treated Jewish prisoners with "love."
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36 J. D. Vance suggests that a father of 3 with no criminal record that was deported in error to a Salvadoran gulag was a bad person because of traffic violations.
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32Kanye "IM A NAZI" West wears a Klan outfit to an interview with Akademics.
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27State media? Cheap TV screensavers are playing anti-immigration screeds from the Trump administration on loop.

March 2025

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19According to Trump, offshore wind energy drives whales "loco."
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33Thanks to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "advice" on "treating" measles with Vitamin A megadoses, doctors in West Texas have reported a handful of cases where unvaccinated children were given so much vitamin A, they had signs of liver damage.
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29Fox News ghouls want to get rid of the constitutional right to due process for illegal immigrants because it's "too cumbersome."
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19Chuck Schumer: "I am hopeful that our Republican colleagues will resume working with us. And I talk to them. One of the places is in the gym. When you're on that bike in your shorts, panting away next to a Republican, a lot of the inhibitions come off."
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22According to Trump, Biden's pardons are "null and void" because of autopens.
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39Elon Musk courts controversy again on Twitter by sharing a murderous dictator apologist post by an alt-right meme account: "Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn't murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did."
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24Trump's authoritarian border czar regarding Mahmoud Khalil: "There are limits to free speech."
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27Trump, who is obsessed with trans people, complains that "everything is transgender."
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16Trump reposted a Nazi-era Pink Triangle on his Truth Social account.
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32Trump blames "globalists" for the recent stock market sell-off.
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23The John Birch Society: "Gamers are the unseen backbone of modern America. It's not even close."
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24"Canada has been taken over by Mexican cartels," claims Trump's trade advisor.
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18One of Pete Hegseth's "anti-DEI" initiative for the military is to purge online posts and images that have the audacity to show those in service who are not white, straight, or male. Among the casualties of this purge is the WWII aircraft that dropped the first atom bomb... the Enola Gay.
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32Ben Shapiro wants Trump to pardon George Floyd's murderer.
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28"Evil, chosen solely because she checked identity politics boxes. Another DEI hire": right-wing pundits and social media figures launch sexist attacks at Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett for ruling against Trump's foreign aid freeze.
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24Newsmax host Greg Kelly says he's "tempted to call the cops" on Senator Elissa Slotkin because "the LGBTQ agenda that she is pursuing is radical and weird and I think should be criminalized."
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26On March 3, the Los Angeles Times introduced an AI-driven "Insights" feature that adds summaries and "AI-enabled perspectives" on their news articles. One day later, on an article about how Anaheim citizens fought back against the KKK in the 1920s, the AI tool attempted to downplay the racism and hatred behind the KKK... even tut-tutting the mere mention of the 1920s Klan as a distraction "from Anaheim's modern identity".
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31Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unexpectedly endorses the MMR vaccine in order to fight the current measels outbreak in Texas. (Truer to form, however, Kennedy simultaneously endorsed Vitamin A "treatment" in the same op-ed.) This did not amuse anti-vaccination movement members such as Mike Adams, Stew Peters, and Candace Owens, with some of them responding to the op-ed by saying that Kennedy now is colluding with DA JEWS!!!

February 2025

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28"Epstein Files" link shared by House Republicans redirects to a Rickroll video.
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22Oklahoma Republican cites the Bible to justify beating disabled students.
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25Trump shares bizarre AI-generated video promoting his proposed "Trump Gaza" resort, featuring Trump sunbathing with Netanyahu, Musk throwing money at children, and Trump still managing to be unfaithful to his wife even in AI form.
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20Christopher Rufo: "There is a battalion of male-to-female transgenders within the American intelligence apparatus. They hate Italians and LibsofTikTok. They fantasize about pseudo-vaginas and butthole lazers. They are in charge of the most sophisticated spying machine in human history."
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8Want to look younger? LED face masks are in vogue for anti-aging.
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21"God has a plan" for federal employees fired by Musk, GOP Representative Mark Alford told a hostile crowd at a Kansas City town hall. "You are not a victim, you are a victor. And you will be able to get another job..." Predictably, this only made the crowd angrier.
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23Trump about Canada: "They get 95% of their product from the United States, so I think they have to become the 51st state. You heard the people booing the national anthem, but I think ultimately they'll be praising the national anthem ... I call him Governor Trudeau ... we're looking at Greenland."
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27Aleksander Dugin has a message for Germany: Vote AfD or we will occupy Germany once more and divide it between Russia and USA.
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23The White House posted an "Illegal Alien Deportation Flight ASMR" video featuring the sound of jingling handcuffs and chains.
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17A sycophantic New York Congresswoman wants to make Trump's birthday a federal holiday.
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36Elon Musk, self-styled "free speech absolutist" and one of the whiniest motherfuckers on the planet, is calling for the team behind CBS' 60 Minutes to be "imprisoned."
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27Racist asshole and contributor to far right internet network BlazeTV John Doyle: "AOC is Puerto Rican. Ilhan Omar is Somalian. Go away. Like, you're not part of the club."
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22Trump: "Like on tractors that can handle anything from hurricanes to lightning to anything. They use magnets. It's a new theory -- magnets. They're gonna lift the planes up. And it doesn't work."
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33Raging transphobic Congresswoman Nancy Mace shouts anti-trans slur three times in a row at a Congressional hearing.
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27A Musk goon has resigned from the "Department of Government Efficiency" over racist social media posts. UPDATE: And he's back.
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25An "anti-DEI" (read: racist) webshite has published a list doxing federal workers for being "DEI hires."
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15According to a January 6th defendant, Trump's pardon covers conspiracy to murder FBI agents.
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9Trump renames the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America" via executive order. Google and Chevron have quickly caught on.

January 2025

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32Disgraced Senator Gold Bar Bob Menendez goes full MAGA after his sentencing on corruption charges and says "Trump was right" while denouncing his conviction as a "political witch hunt." But that's not the funny part. The funny part is this amazing quote: "I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system."
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20Trump has declared that White House press credentials are open to independent journalists, podcasters, and social media influencers. Nazis and fundamentalists are only too eager to take him up on his offer.
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23Ted Cruz wants to restrict access to the internet for kids... so that Conservative viewpoints do not get censored? Seriously.
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27Matt Walsh: "If we're being honest, female cops are absurd. It's an absurdity. I'm sorry. It's just ridiculous. It's cartoonish."
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26Recently released J6 ringleaders Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio are calling for retribution against the cops, prosecutors, and politicians who held them accountable for their involvement in January 6th.
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36The signal Musk sent out when he gave a Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration is being received loud and clear by Neo-Nazis.
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35Setting new records, Oklahoma may be the first state to ban renewable energy.
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30By his own admission, Itamar Ben-Gvir has tanked numerous hostage deals, and wants to tank this latest one as well.
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40Pope Francis says nuns should smile more instead of having "nasty vinegar faces" and also recommends that they stop gossiping and speaking to the Devil. "To ask this of a woman is heroic but, come on..."
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22Facebook has ruled speech deeming women to be "household objects" as permissible.
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19California man seeks reimbursement from the raw milk fad industry after he gets sick and two of his cats die.
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24Megyn Kelly thinks the Los Angeles Fire Department is struggling to deal with the ongoing deadly wildfires because of diversity initiatives.
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18Right-wing UK media bare-face lie about the proposed amendment to the Childrens Wellbeing and Schools Bill neglecting to say it would have killed the bill dead by preventing a second reading. The Tories and their allied press dancing to Musk's tune and directly aiding and abetting abuse of children.
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16The leader of the Neo-Nazi terrorist cell The Base used ChatGPT to conduct research on power grid attacks.
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36Fox News host Jesse Watters says that he wants to invade Canada just to own the libs. "I wanna quench my imperialist thirst". In the same video he says that Panama is a "stupid country run by cartels" and that Denmark has no option but selling Greenland to the US because they are much richer and can take it by force anyway.
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37Musk "asks" if the "people of America should liberate Britain."
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39Musk spams Twitter with calls for Charles III to dissolve parliament.
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23Musk calls for Tommy Robinson to be released from prison. This comes less than a week since Musk posted about AfD being the only party that can "save" Germany.