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It’s October, Halloween is coming, and it’s time to look at the graveyard of Trump’s administration. Stephen Miller. Dead. I mean, you’ve looked at his face. He's dead inside. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

Donald Trump’s walking dead

It’s October, Halloween is coming, and it’s time to look at the graveyard of Trump’s administration.

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Here is how Hegseth described his ideal military: “No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals” luciantruscott.substack.com/p/testostero...

Testostero-Pete thinks he’s Patton in his button-popping skinny legs little boy suit. He needs to be impeached NOW.

Let’s get this out of the way right now: General George S.

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The shit details just keep on coming. The presidents keep starting the wars. The generals keep getting promoted. It never ends. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/soldiers-h...

Soldiers have a way of knowing

Especially when it comes to shit details, tasks or missions that have no purpose other than polishing the brass of the senior commanders and the egos of the politicians who give the orders.

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And what about evidence that Comey and Smith and Brennan and sundry other commie Democrats were doing bad things to Donald Trump? Do we have any of that? Let me sort through these DOJ resignations and failed grand juries and I'll get back to you. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/before-the...

Before there was Mar a Lago Botox, there were Mar a Lago boxes

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith underwent several hours of stupidly aggressive and just plain stupid and just plain aggressive questioning from Republicans at a hearing of the Judiciary Committee on...

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Wait a minute! Grovelmeister Donnie wants to sell what’s left of our dwindling military arsenal to China?

I’ve been wondering what was behind Chinese President Xi’s trip to see Trump at the White House, haven’t you?

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Somebody is going to have to be responsible for AI systems, or as AI researchers told us a couple of weeks ago, the machines will take over the humans and we’re all fucked. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/who-is-goi...

Who is going to pay when things go very, very wrong with AI?

Haven’t we had enough rogue AI agents escape from the company systems that run and own them already?

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I have a partner in crime

This is how the front of the living room looks all day long — me at the keyboard, Little the Christmas rescue cat on her desk perch.

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We may see people pulled out of voting lines and asked for their citizenship papers. That’s how bad it could get after today’s Supreme Court order. Buckle up. Election day is going to be a fight like we have never seen. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court just sicced ICE on our voting rights

This by far the most dangerous thing that could possibly happen before the midterm elections.

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Here is what happens when authoritarians decide that controlling the press is a better idea than providing reporters with information. The reporters work harder to learn what’s going on and report what they discover from unofficial sources. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-uninte...

The unintended consequences of lighting your ass on fire and having no idea how to put it out

The White House credentials of CNN, MSNOW, and Politico were restored at noon today, eight minutes after a lawyer for the three news outlets had filed an emergency motion to Judge Timothy J.

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We Jefferson descendants are all one family, complicated and strained and sometimes misunderstanding of and nasty to one another, as America has long been to itself. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/for-the-fi...

For the first time, a Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson has been buried in the Monticello graveyard

It is not everything that my family and my cousins in the Hemings family have been working on for more than 25 years, but it is a step in the right direction. Earlier this month, Cedric Jessup Jr.

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That it took the DNA study of 1998 to bring most historians kicking and screaming into admitting that Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings. The new DNA study will be disputed as well. Abhorrent as that racism is, you can count on it. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/when-human...

When human beings owned other human beings in America: Smithsonian releases new Jefferson-Hemings DNA study

Here we go again.

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It’s heartening to see the networks show a spine in the face of Trump’s authoritarian violation of the First Amendment. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/major-netw...

Major networks stand up to Trump and suspend White House pool coverage

It has finally happened.

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Trump wouldn’t know a round of sniper ammunition if it was served to him in a bun with ketchup. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/there-is-a...

There is an obvious tell in Trump’s “military complex/triumphal arch” announcement

Let’s get right to it: He claimed the arch will be used to “hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage.”

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You stand up for your fellow journalists, or your failure to do so tells us about your lack of courage and dedication to the job. Donald Trump shredded the First Amendment today, and the White House Press corps stood there and watched him do it. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/white-hous...

White House press corps misses an opportunity to stand up to tyranny

This is what the White House press room could have looked like after MS NOW, CNN, and Politico reporters were turned away at the security gate of the White House today.

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Is there an extreme imbalance between what these companies think this technology is capable of and the people who are going to end up being victimized by it? Or am I just hallucinating? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/laziness-a...

Laziness and greed: the deadly fault at the heart of Artificial Intelligence

Two threads of the AI story came together today with the revelation of the amount of money OpenAI paid to the hackers who exposed the vulnerabilities of its system last July. It was $6,500.

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He wants to tear down anything he can’t put his name on in the nation’s capital and turn it into Mar a Lago north. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/we-must-no...

We must not allow Donald Trump to dishonor President Kennedy and the brave men and women buried in Arlington National Cemetery

He’s not just out to dishonor one of our greatest presidents by cursing the Kennedy Center with his name. He doesn’t just intend to destroy the People’s House and turn it into Trump Tower II. He also ...

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When you were a child, you were treated kind But you were never brought up right You were always spoiled with a thousand toys But still you cried all night… Here it comes, here it comes Your 19th nervous breakdown. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/waaaaaaaaa...

Waaaaaaaaaaaaa! Trump throws a tantrum over the Kennedy Center.

It will hardly surprise you to learn that Donald Trump had his 19th nervous breakdown yesterday over the John F.

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It took him 25 years, but Osama bin Laden is winning his war on the Great Satan. He wanted to bring to an end the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, and it is happening. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/osama-bin-...

Osama bin Laden’s dream come true: U.S. bases on the Arabian Peninsula are gone.

It took him 25 years, but Osama bin Laden is winning his war on the Great Satan. He wanted to bring to an end the U.S.

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Tired of high gas prices? Be glad you’re not driving a diesel truck.

I was going to write a column over the weekend about how tired I am of typing the names of places in the Middle East, such as the Bab-el-Mandeb strait at the mouth of the Red Sea, or Al Jubail, the na...

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