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Posts by Mark Affleck

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Bottom shelf back wash rot gut in suits.

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The four goals and outcomes

Discovery fishing into sources partial win; threat works, privilege shields most

Chilling future reporting wins; filing alone deters smaller outlets

Political signaling to base wins instantly; Fox coverage banked day one

Settlement/retraction he loses

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Religion Poisons Everything

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My congressman David Rouzer is BIG MAD about fertilizer prices.
He blames Hormuz “challenges.” Blames foreign traders. Blames the CFTC. Blames EPA red tape.
Know who he doesn’t blame?

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8 children killed in Louisiana mass shooting The alleged gunman, who is related to some of the children, was killed after a vehicle chase, according to police.

Thoughts and prayers is all you will get from GOP www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Behind Trump’s Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears The president’s impulsive style has never been tested in a sustained military conflict, and he’s been ruminating on Jimmy Carter’s failure in Iran.

Commander in chief is supposed to be in the room during a CSAR operation for a downed F-15E crew. That’s the Carter-in-1980 moment he was reportedly obsessing over. His own staff decided his presence was a liability during an active rescue
LMAO
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Pence, Sessions, Tillerson, Bolton, Kelly, Mattis, Barr, Esper, McMaster, Milley, Pompeo (eventually) every single one of them was “the best,” “tremendous,” “a real killer” until they weren’t.

The half-life on Trump loyalty is however long you’re useful minus one day.

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How did 77M vote for him?” You cannot expose a voter to reporting they never see. The median Trump voter’s diet: Fox, Rogan, X algo, YouTube shorts, group chats. The NYT fact-check never arrived. The adversarial press model assumes a captive audience. That audience walked.

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Scoop: U.S. considers $20 billion cash-for-uranium deal with Iran The U.S. and Iran are negotiating over a three-page plan with some very sensitive elements.

Obama deal had enforcement mechanisms, snapback sanctions, and multilateral backing. we bombed you, killed your Supreme Leader, you closed Hormuz, we paid you $20B to stop.

Obama’s “ransom” is now a loaded weapon pointed back at the White House.
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‘Popesplaining’ Vance out of depth in row over whether Iran is a just war Trump administration has riled head of Catholic church over use of theology to justify conflict in Iran

Macron. Zelensky. Carney. Now Pope Leo. Every independent moral voice gets measured against the genuflection standard and assigned a Fox segment when they fail. A pope saying war isn’t holy is now a “Trump-hating Democrat.” The world is tired. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Carnac says

Drone-proof ceilings,

ballistic glass, and

Top Secret Military Installations.

Name three things a President should never post on social media about his own ballroom.

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Trump Hormuz Claim: 'Xi will give me big, fat hug': Trump says he opened Hormuz for China ... 'and the world' - The Times of India US News: US President Donald Trump said China was “very happy” with his decision to permanently open the Strait of Hormuz, emphasising that he was “doing it fo.

Breaking: 25th Amendment exists for a reason. This is it.

The United States has officially opened a critical global chokepoint for China. As a gift. Because Xi sent a nice letter.

The president is now awaiting his hug. SMH
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Sotomayor makes one sharp comment, apologizes, and moves on. Kavanaugh clutches pearls. Meanwhile Trump calls judges “corrupt,” Alito gives partisan speeches, Thomas… exists. One side slips and corrects. The other trashes the judiciary daily. Spare me the outrage. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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Fun fact:
There has never been a liberal dictator in recorded history. Zero. Every authoritarian consolidation trends right Franco, Pinochet, Mussolini, Orbán, Erdoğan. Military. Clergy. Capital. Ethnic grievance. Those are the levers of state power. Right movements get handed the keys.

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Why we started the war?

121 empty tankers steaming to the Gulf Coast.
This isn’t energy dominance.

Start conflict. Block Hormuz. Control the alternative. Sell American oil at crisis prices.
The war was the sales infrastructure. en.cibercuba.com/noticias/202...

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WH is full of fifth graders go speak to them about how their immature actions impact fifth graders

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TACO will appear tomorrow to refute his tirade about his recent comments

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Second Epistle of Peter warned about leaders selling identity over truth and followers defending contradictions.
Totally unrelated to Donald Trump, of course.

As an atheist i’m not surprised with how

“Religion poison everything”

Christopher Hitchen

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Missing nuclear official becomes TENTH person tied to US secrets Another key official who reportedly had access to America's nuclear secrets has gone missing, as a disturbing web of deaths and disappearances grows.

US media is structurally incentivized to wait for official permission to cover these stories that make national security apparatus look incompetent or compromised. The British press has no such incentive. Americans will get the news weeks later.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Also meet Balázs Orbán. Age 40. No relation to Viktor. Chairman of MCC a $1.7B organization funded by Russian oil that trained the MAGA network.
Hungary just voted Orbán out.
MCC is still running.

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In Hungarian election, Trump and Putin are backing Viktor Orban He is trailing in the polls ahead of a national election on April 12.

Learn this name:

A covert network looks like when it wears a blazer and calls itself a university.

Mathias Corvinus Collegium. (MCC)

This is your 911 call.

No election touches it.

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God is not Great

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It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it

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We're living through the doom loop once again.

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Umm “Superior religion”

“Religion poisons everything”

Christopher Hitchen

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"A well-articulated argument against a new data center in Ohio"

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Melania’s “surprise” Epstein denial wasn’t triggered breaking news.
El Pais ran Ungaro’s story March 25
NYT ran the Zampolli/ICE story March 20.
She waited 3 weeks — then moved only when Ungaro went viral on X.
That’s not getting ahead of a story.
That’s getting caught by one.

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U.S. judge rules against Pentagon restrictions on press coverage The policy required media organizations to pledge not to gather information unless Defense officials formally authorized its release. A U.S. judge said the rules are at odds with the First Amendment.

Federal judge just called Hegseth’s press suppression “autocracy, not democracy.” The Framers didn’t flee the Crown to build a Christian nationalist Pentagon. Your freedom FROM government religion is the 1st Amendment’s core promise. Hegseth is shredding both. #EpicFury www.npr.org/2026/03/20/n...

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