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Tortured Typewriter

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Knee deep in the hoopla. This whole fascist takeover thing is more important than pop culture, so I'mma post about that a lot.

  1. The movie The Purge, but only super-rich people are allowed to commit crimes and get away with it, and it’s every day… and I’m just describing our country right now… never mind.

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  2. Reupping, bc I just saw NYT's coverage on this, and I promise, mine is better.

    Trump Confesses He Will Bankrupt the Country Unless SCOTUS Lets Him Break the Law

    www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/13/t...

    Scott Bessent confessed to Larry Kudlow how the Trump Administration is trying to sustain their illegal tariffs: by collecting enough revenue from them (and lying about how much they're really collect...

    Trump Confesses He Will Bankrupt the Country Unless SCOTUS Lets Him Break the Law - emptywheel

    Scott Bessent confessed to Larry Kudlow how the Trump Administration is trying to sustain their illegal tariffs: by collecting enough revenue from them (and lying about how much they're really collect...

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  3. NRCC is trying push "Dem Project 2026" lie Drafted fake memo that includes the words "Leaked Memo" at the top (eye roll) The memo includes "NRCC Note ..." at the end of it (prob to avoid prosecution) But the NRCC timeline since is a lot of Dem Project 2026 scaremongering about their own fake memo.

    Screenshot of an NRCC tweet from X announcing a "top secret" memo about Dem Project 2026. It includes a photograph of the two printed pages of the fake "leaked memo". 
The letterhead of the memo is the DCCC logo and a top text line of "LEAKED MEMO", but the memo writing style is very exaggerated and includes copious words with quotes around them that don't need them, such as describing Hakeem Jeffries as "leader" Jeffries (with the word leader in quotes, sarcastically). The memo also contains a block at the end that begins "NRCC Note:..." making it even more clear this memo was written by the NRCC and not the DCCC. Screen shot includes a community note that the document itself shows it's from the NRCC and is not a leaked DCCC memo.
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