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Posts by Luke Côté

And we have receipts. Jim Dolan's security team at Madison Square Garden surveilled this woman over the course of *years* and in the smallest detail ... because she was trans.

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Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

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Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

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You will know better, but is this perhaps a precursor to letting a certain police officer who murdered George Floyd out of jail?

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“The year is 2026. A rapper from your childhood with a big clock does more for vets than the Republican American government.”

The Twilight Zone?

Nah.

Just every day life in America.

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This statement didn’t even make sense from a self preservation sense.

-AI takes many jobs
-you have a job it hasn’t taken yet
-you should totally quit that job

What are you going tondo for income?
In American health care is tied to employment, what are you going to do for that?

AI bros are 💩

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CNN put together a montage of Trump saying as far back as March 9 that his war against Iran "is going to be finished pretty quickly," then him saying that same thing over and over for the past six weeks

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AR-15s. Hand guns.

Those are safety threats.

Alabama arrested an inflatable phallic costume.

Kids can now go to school safely.

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I know lots of people who go went to McGill.

All y’all need to start calling and emailing your current or former school and demand this change.

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Trump's trans healthcare ban is affecting Americans in Canada • Celeste Trianon U.S. international students studying at McGill now need to contend with the fact that if they are transgender, they can't get trans-specific healthcare on campus until they turn 19.

SCOOP: McGill University's on-campus doctors are now refusing to prescribe hormones to trans youth and adults under age 19... if they're U.S. citizens.

They claim liability issues, but this isn't the first time U.S. EOs have interfered with Canadian doctors.

My report: celeste.lgbt/en/2026/04/d...

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OnionWars | Parker Molloy Get more from Parker Molloy on Patreon

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An earlier version of this story said Bryce P. Tetraeder is the CEO of Global Tetrahedron. In fact, Ben Collins is the CEO, while Bryce P. Tetreader is the name of the fictional owner the company made up, and which it uses in various company communications.
Apr 20, 2026 4:34 PM EDT

Corrections An earlier version of this story said Bryce P. Tetraeder is the CEO of Global Tetrahedron. In fact, Ben Collins is the CEO, while Bryce P. Tetreader is the name of the fictional owner the company made up, and which it uses in various company communications. Apr 20, 2026 4:34 PM EDT

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"also I might need a pardon soon, just saying"

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Enjoy the flight.

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Many countries have freedom-fighters.
But the US has decided to go with Freedom Fighters.
Stopping freedom wherever it pops up.

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democrats attacking their prospective voters rather than their enemies.

These democrats might be able to help their own cause and win people back by say, I don't, getting rid of Chuck Schumer?

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I would say there's a choice:

Prepare for the battle ahead

Or

Fight the battles you've already lost online using social media

One of these two is a good choice and the other is a complete waste of time given, again what lies ahead.

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this is a win-win.

Discovery=Yay! we find out everything Kash likes to do

If the Atlantic loses= Yay! The Atlantic loses!

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Reminder that most people who didn't vote in 2024 didn't do so out of a desire to "smash Democrats," so maybe it's really stupid to constantly attack people who didn't vote and constantly smear them. Just a thought! www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

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Had an extended exchange with organizers who hated @katmabu.bsky.social. I explained that voting is literally a popularity contest and they were spending their time shitting on/insulting people they expected to vote for their candidate.

My pointing out this was a bad idea led to insults and blocks.

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A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago.

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Black cybertruck with a giant American flag sticker on the bed cover, with other stickers for Goodwrench, Burger King, and Infowars

Black cybertruck with a giant American flag sticker on the bed cover, with other stickers for Goodwrench, Burger King, and Infowars

Dude's gonna scratch his truck frantically trying to remove the Infowars sticker

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Extremely weird and revealing joke from Carney, even if he's riffing off the progressive conservative allegations. He's not beating em!

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Someone needs to ask who ‘they’ was every time they lie like this.

Ask them who was president at the time.

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Hungary Must Arrest Visiting Leaders Sought by ICC, Magyar Says Hungary’s incoming Prime Minister Peter Magyar said he would halt the departure from the International Criminal Court that his predecessor Viktor Orban initiated, affirming that Hungary would respect ...

After Netanyahu's office claimed that Peter Magyar had invited him to visit Hungary, the PM-elected says that he will enforce all ICC arrest warrants once the country re-enters the Rome Statute.

[Hungary will] "have a legal obligation to enforce the ICC rulings and I'm sure [Netanyahu] knows this".

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Yeah,We Need A New,More
Citizen Centered Congress,Right ?

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Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?
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Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections? Zoltan Miklosi

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Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters. Autocratic elections allow meaningful multiparty competition but are systematically unfair and partly unfree, and therefore, arguably, normatively illegitimate. The paper considers three objections to participation in autocratic elections. These objections hold, respectively, that participation has bad consequences for democratization, that it is normatively futile, and that it is morally wrong in itself. The paper argues that the objections are not decisive, and that participation is usually morally permissible and even preferable over alternative forms of challenge. However, the objections establish that the normative superiority of electoral challenge over the alternatives is only a matter of degree, and that participants often dirty their hands.

Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters. Autocratic elections allow meaningful multiparty competition but are systematically unfair and partly unfree, and therefore, arguably, normatively illegitimate. The paper considers three objections to participation in autocratic elections. These objections hold, respectively, that participation has bad consequences for democratization, that it is normatively futile, and that it is morally wrong in itself. The paper argues that the objections are not decisive, and that participation is usually morally permissible and even preferable over alternative forms of challenge. However, the objections establish that the normative superiority of electoral challenge over the alternatives is only a matter of degree, and that participants often dirty their hands.

Interesting open access paper on whether good citizens would participate in elections, as either candidates or voters, under electoral-authoritarian conditions (so, the process is unfair &/or unfree in some ways): doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Part of a growing body of work on non-ideal political ethics.

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In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

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Palantir Posts Very Long X Post Denouncing ‘Vacant and Hollow Pluralism’ Best case scenario: maybe Palantir is super psyched about abundant and solid pluralism.

Palantir should not be allowed to have any government contracts at any level because it is fundamentally opposed to the basic concepts of liberal democracy.

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