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Aidan McLaughlin retweeted
“The lesson of the Last Ditch lesbian bar is that you can’t negotiate with terrorists—even ones with long Covid.”
@helenlewis is amazing, as always. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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🍸 New Party Animals: Don Jr. keeping the bar at Casa Tua open until 5 a.m., Brett Ratner leaving the White House with a large gift bag teeming with MAGA hats, and how Trump lost his latest battle with the press. Sign up here: vanityfair.com/newsletter/pa…
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Aidan McLaughlin retweeted
Ohhhhh my god you’re a communist but you love reading the Financial Times? should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party?should we invite Thomas Piketty
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Trump’s press ban never stood a chance, in part because his admin never bothered to try and justify it vanityfair.com/story/trump-b…
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Aidan McLaughlin retweeted
Trump disapproval officially hit 60% on average for the first time. This has never happened before, not even in the immediate aftermath of J6.
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You may have missed it this week but the senior senator from Alabama is on a jihad against furries because he saw a video of pilots making animal noises and concluded that the commercial airline industry has been infiltrated by hirsute perverts
I know the deranged Democrats don’t like the fact that I called out the insane FURRY CULTURE this week.
But the truth is, there is an ALARMING number of these DERANGED people working in our airline industry.
Don’t believe me? Just a few months ago, PILOTS were MEOWING and BARKING at each other over the radio at DCA.
Community note
The audio of pilots meowing and barking at DCA was a longstanding aviation joke/meme on the emergency guard frequency 121.5, unrelated to furries or any subculture, per reports and pilot accounts.
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Aidan McLaughlin retweeted
You come to me on the day of my daughter’s zine release
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Aidan McLaughlin retweeted
I still can’t get over Lindsey Graham bragging to the WSJ about how he sold a quick and easy middle east regime change war to the president by working with foreign intelligence and cable news pundits and talking to him as if he were a toddler
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“This is a president who feeds off of the press. It’s one of his basic needs. Air, water, and press coverage.”
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NEWS:
Billionaire Timothy Mellon, one of the biggest Trump and Republican donors in the country, has dramatically cut back his political giving this cycle.
Millions of dollars have gone poof.
Why? Mellon is unhappy about John Thune.
Details in new NYT story.
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Aidan McLaughlin retweeted
God tier AI slop from Trump this morning. A picture of his photo op with Xi, except the spouses are gone, a woman who looks like Natalie Harp is in the background, Trump is only wearing one glove, and what looks like a Russian TU-22 bomber is flying overhead. Pure brainrot.
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Aidan McLaughlin retweeted
A Chinese male photographer shoved an American female reporter while rushing through the briefing room door to the Oval Office bilateral.
This follows earlier clashes between U.S. and Chinese photographers during the arrival ceremony.
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Ivanka Trump and daughter with better seats than the Secretary of State at Xi’s White House welcome ceremony
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Aidan McLaughlin retweeted
Tucker Carlson tells NPR that when he told Trump that the Iran War was a mistake and he was being manipulated by Israel, Trump responded:
"We'll all die anyway."
W.H. response: a Trump tweet calling Tucker "stupid"
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Aidan McLaughlin retweeted
You have to read @Nate_Cohn on the NYT's Maine poll — the first that shows Collins ahead.
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Trump says Chinese President Xi Jinping looks “strong, vibrant, and fit - Better than ever.”
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The menu for Trump and Xi’s state dinner tonight, via Melania’s office.
Christopher Macchio, Trump’s favorite tenor, is performing.
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