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Trump Compensates with His New Toys
#trump Apparently the strongman starter kit now comes with surface-to-air missiles. Batteries included. Self-awareness sold separately.
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Commentary
#trump Apparently the strongman starter kit now comes with surface-to-air missiles. Batteries included. Self-awareness sold separately.
Activism
Rumors, threats, and strongman theater all carry the same message: stay home. From Orbán’s defeat to America’s voting-rights movement, history offers a better answer: organize, show up, and never mistake intimidation for an election result. Go vote now.
Satire
The Pentagon’s strategy: fewer plans, more glands. Exit strategies are out, leg day is mandatory, and forever war comes with automatic renewal. Operation Enduring Manhood delivers testosterone-fueled foreign policy and premium-priced chaos. No exit plan. No unsubscribe button. Just endless invoices.
Commentary
#elections2026 Are you as pissed at Ramaswamy as we are?
Satire
#hhs Ending press conferences as a means to deter transmission of disease.
Commentary
#bluepill “There is no version of masculinity, brotherhood, loyalty, partying, fraternity culture or male bonding that makes sexual violence acceptable.”
Commentary
Trump says AI should be called “Super Intelligence”—because apparently “artificial” sounded too fake. We were worried about AI; now we’re only worried about being killed by SI. Or a raccoon. Neither threat is zero, and neither cares what we call it.
Original Music
#resist Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Satire
#trump Premier Trump wants a massive Belarusian potash deal. Lukashenko is delighted. Yuri checks the ledger. Then he checks the other page.
Satire
#trump The authors oppose evidence that requires public investment. This has had no influence on their findings, because the findings came first.
Original Music
#resist Vigilance is cheaper than regret.
Commentary
#bluepill Consenting adults deserve privacy. Abuse of authority deserves scrutiny. Sexual coercion and assault deserve zero excuses. And if you publicly preach a moral standard, don't act shocked when somebody remembers what you said.