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SlobberHog
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Razorback fan, international traveler, in search of fine charcuterie
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This is key. The diminishment of SCOTUS will become a sociological fact before it becomes codified in law. That process is now very well underway.
September 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Honey what’s wrong you’ve barely touched your Malort sno-cone
July 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
June 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Breaking:
 
WASHINGTON (AP) - Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.
June 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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So RFK Jr’s “special advisor” is claiming that the COVID vaccine “will be completely pulled off the market for EVERYONE very sooN. THEN an investigation” while abandoning the millions of Americans disabled by SARS-CoV-2.
May 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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New, by me: Data broker giant LexisNexis has revealed that its risk solutions unit (think "know your customer," risk assessing, due diligence, and law enforcement assistance) was breached, affecting the personal data and Social Security numbers of at least 364,000 people.
Data broker giant LexisNexis says breach exposed personal information of over 364,000 people | TechCrunch
The data collector said the stolen data includes Social Security numbers.
techcrunch.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Democrats don’t canvass in my rural community, but neither do Republicans.

The difference is that churches often do the work of the Republican Party three times a week…
May 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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In the (free to read) charts newsletter this week, I went long on age and death in Congress. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
May 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money.

This is murder.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
May 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
www.wired.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours:
April 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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2026:
"I'm going on an overseas vaccination."

"Don't you mean vacation?"
April 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
At this point, I think we can safely assume China, Russia, North Korea, any foreign intelligence service really, also has full access to every government system that DOGE has touched.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I feel like this isn’t getting talked about enough. White House is flooding the zone with tariff talk and covering up a lot of shocking stuff

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump authorizes US military to take control of land at US-Mexico border
Order allows armed forces to take ‘direct roll’ in securing southern border, which Trump memo says ‘is under attack’
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government
April 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...
April 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Trump Orders DOJ To Investigate Prominent Critic in Shocking Oval Office Remarks: ‘I Think He’s Guilty of Treason’
Trump Orders DOJ To Investigate Prominent Critic in Shocking Oval Office Remarks: ‘I Think He’s Guilty of Treason’
Trump went so far as to accuse Taylor of committing treason, a capital offense, for writing about what he saw during Trump’s first term. The post Trump Orders DOJ To Investigate Prominent Critic in Shocking Oval Office Remarks: ‘I Think He’s Guilty of Treason’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
April 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
@kenwhite.bsky.social seems like this is going to keep getting worse

www.freep.com/story/news/l...
April 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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If there is a right to notice and judicial review before being removed to a Salvadoran prison, but habeas is the only avenue for vindicating one’s rights not to be unlawfully removed, then what happens if the government *violates* one’s substantive and procedural rights before removing someone?
April 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Did you know that over 60% of medical devices used in the US are imports? And 61% of fresh fruit?

If you thought healthcare was already too expensive in the US, it’s only going to get worse.
open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...
These new US tariffs are silly. They're also potentially deadly.
The price of staying healthy just went up.
open.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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The Marshall Islands, the last UN member without a national football team, have locked in their first games 🇲🇭

Springdale, AR—home to the largest overseas Marshallese community—will stage the Outrigger Cup in August, also featuring Turks and Caicos, US Virgin Islands and Guam ⚽️
March 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.
DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread
Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.
wrd.cm
March 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM