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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
gonna lay a marker rn that the first person who shoots an ICE agent (deservedly) dead won't be a chicano antifa leftist, but a white libertarian right-winger who doesn't like the feds trespassing on his lawn
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
gonna lay a marker rn that the first person who shoots an ICE agent (deservedly) dead won't be a chicano antifa leftist, but a white libertarian right-winger who doesn't like the feds trespassing on his lawn
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A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on brown youth across the U.S.
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on brown youth across the U.S.
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
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"New York City's police watchdog agency retroactively altered thousands of records of police misconduct allegations."
"[A] host of sexual misconduct allegations [..] were all recategorized after the fact to the generic 'abuse of authority–other' category."
#NewYork #USA #Policing
"[A] host of sexual misconduct allegations [..] were all recategorized after the fact to the generic 'abuse of authority–other' category."
#NewYork #USA #Policing
The NYPD’s Watchdog Whitewashed More Than 10,000 Misconduct Allegations in Public Data, New Evidence Shows
Allegations of lying, sexual misconduct, bigoted statements, and racist policing were among those quietly reclassified by the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
💯 it's been 40+ years & they still have developed no instinctual or strategic responses to counter a telegenic leader enacting horribly cruel, destructive policies
IMHO, most of the Dem leadership came up through the ranks during the Reagan years and started getting seniority during the 1994 shellacking so a fighting retreat is their standard tactic. They don’t do brinksmanship well.
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
💯 it's been 40+ years & they still have developed no instinctual or strategic responses to counter a telegenic leader enacting horribly cruel, destructive policies
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IMHO, most of the Dem leadership came up through the ranks during the Reagan years and started getting seniority during the 1994 shellacking so a fighting retreat is their standard tactic. They don’t do brinksmanship well.
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
IMHO, most of the Dem leadership came up through the ranks during the Reagan years and started getting seniority during the 1994 shellacking so a fighting retreat is their standard tactic. They don’t do brinksmanship well.
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You're right, it's my fault the elected Democratic senators folded. My anger at their lack of will to fight made them so sad that they lost their will to fight.
The defeatism on the left after we just had one of the most high profile primary upsets ever, is absolutely insane. The path forward is right there, we just saw a huge step work
Explains so much about why elected Dems roll over and surrender immediately. That's what most of the voter base does too.
Explains so much about why elected Dems roll over and surrender immediately. That's what most of the voter base does too.
Yes, and now everyone realizes we can't win with this team. Time to blow it up and rebuild. Tank for some picks.
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
You're right, it's my fault the elected Democratic senators folded. My anger at their lack of will to fight made them so sad that they lost their will to fight.
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LOT going on here obviously so i will add my own specialist knowledge, which is the penguin classics versions of the odyssey and iliad are terrible prose translations that do not benefit from being read aloud
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
LOT going on here obviously so i will add my own specialist knowledge, which is the penguin classics versions of the odyssey and iliad are terrible prose translations that do not benefit from being read aloud
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Much like 2024, Democrats seem to think there’s a binary choice in the 2026 election between voting for Republicans (evil) and voting for Democrats (feckless).
They rarely acknowledge the third option which inevitably harms them the most: staying home.
They rarely acknowledge the third option which inevitably harms them the most: staying home.
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Much like 2024, Democrats seem to think there’s a binary choice in the 2026 election between voting for Republicans (evil) and voting for Democrats (feckless).
They rarely acknowledge the third option which inevitably harms them the most: staying home.
They rarely acknowledge the third option which inevitably harms them the most: staying home.
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Online “sedition hunters” correctly identified Banuelos, 40, and gave his name to the FBI in February 2021. Months later, on July 4, 2021, Banuelos stabbed a man — Christopher Thomas Senn — to death in Salt Lake City, but was not charged after claiming self-defense.
Former Jan. 6 defendant arrested on kidnapping and aggravated assault charges
The Utah man was previously charged with firing a gun outside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
www.nbcnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Online “sedition hunters” correctly identified Banuelos, 40, and gave his name to the FBI in February 2021. Months later, on July 4, 2021, Banuelos stabbed a man — Christopher Thomas Senn — to death in Salt Lake City, but was not charged after claiming self-defense.
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an underrated part of this turducken of garbage is Elon posting an image of the Odyssey while discussing the Iliad, but it's all so terribly, terribly pathetic
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
an underrated part of this turducken of garbage is Elon posting an image of the Odyssey while discussing the Iliad, but it's all so terribly, terribly pathetic
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I wonder at what point they will realise that they aren’t going to be regarded as ‘one of the good ones’
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I wonder at what point they will realise that they aren’t going to be regarded as ‘one of the good ones’
the really sickening & hilarious thing is that so many of these dudes (like this one) could easily get yoinked to El Salvador themselves when unmasked & off-duty, bc 1) not visibly "white" & 2) packing a gun => i.e. "dangerous criminal gang member"
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
the really sickening & hilarious thing is that so many of these dudes (like this one) could easily get yoinked to El Salvador themselves when unmasked & off-duty, bc 1) not visibly "white" & 2) packing a gun => i.e. "dangerous criminal gang member"
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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I waited a day to say this bc I respected everyone's right to vent some anger, but *remember to focus on what you can do*. Whether it's defending your community, taking action around what you've been venting about, whatever — but don't let all of your energy get captured in the social media space.
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I waited a day to say this bc I respected everyone's right to vent some anger, but *remember to focus on what you can do*. Whether it's defending your community, taking action around what you've been venting about, whatever — but don't let all of your energy get captured in the social media space.
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Guys:
The Senate is a Confederate institution. That means even when you *can* manage to elect red state "Democrats," they will *still sympathize more with the Confederacy than with the United States.*
Schumer sucks, get rid of him. But that won't fix the Senate, which must be yeeted into the sun.
The Senate is a Confederate institution. That means even when you *can* manage to elect red state "Democrats," they will *still sympathize more with the Confederacy than with the United States.*
Schumer sucks, get rid of him. But that won't fix the Senate, which must be yeeted into the sun.
the caucus gets how this is *worse* right? if you're just going around Schumer, what's the point of leadership
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Guys:
The Senate is a Confederate institution. That means even when you *can* manage to elect red state "Democrats," they will *still sympathize more with the Confederacy than with the United States.*
Schumer sucks, get rid of him. But that won't fix the Senate, which must be yeeted into the sun.
The Senate is a Confederate institution. That means even when you *can* manage to elect red state "Democrats," they will *still sympathize more with the Confederacy than with the United States.*
Schumer sucks, get rid of him. But that won't fix the Senate, which must be yeeted into the sun.
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It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.
lmao, right, cuz every small business owner's favorite thing about entrepreneurship is negotiating their own health insurance
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
lmao, right, cuz every small business owner's favorite thing about entrepreneurship is negotiating their own health insurance
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My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
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The whole point is to make it seem as if any talk of race/gender is designed to shame white people
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The whole point is to make it seem as if any talk of race/gender is designed to shame white people
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“Race ideology,” the draft of the proposal says, would encompass any concept that “attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity” or “promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction."
Ok so nothing that anyone actually teaches, got it
Ok so nothing that anyone actually teaches, got it
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“Race ideology,” the draft of the proposal says, would encompass any concept that “attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity” or “promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction."
Ok so nothing that anyone actually teaches, got it
Ok so nothing that anyone actually teaches, got it
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Dick Durbin needs to not just resign from leadership, he needs to resign from office.
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Dick Durbin needs to not just resign from leadership, he needs to resign from office.
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every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
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I've watched that video a number of times and the best part is that Nicolae has read enough books to know what's coming and Elena hasn't so she's still screaming at everyone like she's in charge.
Never gets old.
Never gets old.
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I've watched that video a number of times and the best part is that Nicolae has read enough books to know what's coming and Elena hasn't so she's still screaming at everyone like she's in charge.
Never gets old.
Never gets old.