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    February 25, 2026 Listen to the silence. Can you hear the eggs scramblin’? Peter Thiel has gone to cash. One hundred percent liquid. The founder of Palantir, the architect of the modern surveillance state, the seed investor in Facebook and the patron saint of the “based” tech right, has liquidated his entire equity portfolio—including a…

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  • The Banality of Excuse-Making (and the Ideology Laundromat)

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  • Potentially Positive News for 12/10/2025

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    Kneeling agents, banned teens, and the Epstein files Three signals from the control system in one news cycle This week the system quietly flipped three major switches: On paper, these look unrelated: a workplace lawsuit, a “child-safety” law, and a sex-trafficking transparency push. Structurally, they’re the same thing:the empire adjusting its control surface around legitimacy,…

  • [Art Piece, Humor] Pete Hegseth is what happens when women are so collectively terrified of a guy that – for twenty years straight – they just nod, laugh politely, and never once say, “You scare me.”

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