Buttes
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We've updated our running catalogue of Trump 2.0's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes. The total now stands at 637 since he returned to office.
Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: December 2025: Atrocities 581- 637
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...
buff.ly
January 22, 2026 at 4:15 PM
We've updated our running catalogue of Trump 2.0's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes. The total now stands at 637 since he returned to office.
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⚠️~132 million: Number of people under alerts for snow, sleet, & freezing rain.
A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, & freezing rain from the Southern Rockies & Plains beginning Friday (Jan. 23), spreading eastward toward New England this weekend.
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A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, & freezing rain from the Southern Rockies & Plains beginning Friday (Jan. 23), spreading eastward toward New England this weekend.
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January 22, 2026 at 4:17 PM
⚠️~132 million: Number of people under alerts for snow, sleet, & freezing rain.
A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, & freezing rain from the Southern Rockies & Plains beginning Friday (Jan. 23), spreading eastward toward New England this weekend.
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A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, & freezing rain from the Southern Rockies & Plains beginning Friday (Jan. 23), spreading eastward toward New England this weekend.
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this is not a tiktok it is a documentary
January 22, 2026 at 8:22 PM
this is not a tiktok it is a documentary
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If you live in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont save these numbers for the various ICE watch hotlines
January 22, 2026 at 5:31 PM
If you live in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont save these numbers for the various ICE watch hotlines
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In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.
January 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.
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Peanut butter face jelly hands
January 22, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Peanut butter face jelly hands
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One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
January 22, 2026 at 3:30 AM
One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
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That is an ICE agent pepper spraying a restrained victim in the face at close quarters; it's an unquestionable and indefensibly abusive use of excessive force that should (but won't) be criminally prosecuted as assault
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 10:15 PM
That is an ICE agent pepper spraying a restrained victim in the face at close quarters; it's an unquestionable and indefensibly abusive use of excessive force that should (but won't) be criminally prosecuted as assault
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🔥 Ex-Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb: “Trump is demented. His narcissism has run amok. I don’t think anyone outside 🇺🇸 believes Trump is sane… and those in 🇺🇸 are in denial or so invested in him they can’t accept what their lying eyes tell them.”
January 22, 2026 at 2:26 PM
🔥 Ex-Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb: “Trump is demented. His narcissism has run amok. I don’t think anyone outside 🇺🇸 believes Trump is sane… and those in 🇺🇸 are in denial or so invested in him they can’t accept what their lying eyes tell them.”
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January 22, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.
January 21, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.
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I'm sorry if this sounds radical, but I don't think Dems should be voting to give this deeply unpopular, lawless, fascistic secret police force billions more dollars.
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
bit.ly
January 21, 2026 at 9:44 PM
I'm sorry if this sounds radical, but I don't think Dems should be voting to give this deeply unpopular, lawless, fascistic secret police force billions more dollars.
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January 21, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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it's bizarre to see both CNN and CNBC run with chyrons reporting that Trump said he won't "use force" to take Greenland, when the comments in question were clearly a threat to take Greenland by force. How naive are we at this point?
January 21, 2026 at 3:01 PM
it's bizarre to see both CNN and CNBC run with chyrons reporting that Trump said he won't "use force" to take Greenland, when the comments in question were clearly a threat to take Greenland by force. How naive are we at this point?
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I know the Twin Cities are on another level but when these sort of school ICE look-outs sprang up around here in the fall, we had parents volunteering to take corners in the dads WhatsApp group that primarily existed to run fantasy sports and plan things like chili cook-offs.
ICE agents will come to the school patrol asking who the organizers are believing they’re like Soros shadow figures, and it’s like a bespectacled software engineer who didn’t know the names of more than 5 parents two weeks ago.
January 21, 2026 at 4:47 PM
I know the Twin Cities are on another level but when these sort of school ICE look-outs sprang up around here in the fall, we had parents volunteering to take corners in the dads WhatsApp group that primarily existed to run fantasy sports and plan things like chili cook-offs.
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Policies that abolish ICE need to also dismantle these facilities. Infrastructure for ethnic cleansing cannot just be left lying around.
New internal documents show ICE is planning a major expansion of its detention and transfer network centered in Minnesota with capacity across five Midwest states.
ICE Details a New Minnesota-Based Detention Network That Spans 5 States
Internal ICE planning documents propose spending up to $50 million on a privately run network capable of shipping immigrants in custody hundreds of miles across the Upper Midwest.
www.wired.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Policies that abolish ICE need to also dismantle these facilities. Infrastructure for ethnic cleansing cannot just be left lying around.
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The Democratic approach to building back power is:
1. Avoid contentious issues;
2. Pivot all discourse to unobjectionable appeals like costs;
3. Leave moral opposition to citizens of conscience, who have lost all trust in the party, but hope they vote Democrat anyhow.
Wrong top to bottom.
1. Avoid contentious issues;
2. Pivot all discourse to unobjectionable appeals like costs;
3. Leave moral opposition to citizens of conscience, who have lost all trust in the party, but hope they vote Democrat anyhow.
Wrong top to bottom.
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
On expecting a different result.
www.offmessage.net
January 21, 2026 at 5:13 PM
The Democratic approach to building back power is:
1. Avoid contentious issues;
2. Pivot all discourse to unobjectionable appeals like costs;
3. Leave moral opposition to citizens of conscience, who have lost all trust in the party, but hope they vote Democrat anyhow.
Wrong top to bottom.
1. Avoid contentious issues;
2. Pivot all discourse to unobjectionable appeals like costs;
3. Leave moral opposition to citizens of conscience, who have lost all trust in the party, but hope they vote Democrat anyhow.
Wrong top to bottom.
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쿠팡보다 더하네.
회사가 설명없이 150 입금해서 무슨 돈인지도 몰랐다가 기자통해 조의금인거 알았다고.
[단독]"상습 폭언에 11㎏ 빠진 딸 사망"…ABC마트에서 무슨 일 있었나
m.nocutnews.co.kr/news/6459298
회사가 설명없이 150 입금해서 무슨 돈인지도 몰랐다가 기자통해 조의금인거 알았다고.
[단독]"상습 폭언에 11㎏ 빠진 딸 사망"…ABC마트에서 무슨 일 있었나
m.nocutnews.co.kr/news/6459298
[단독]"상습 폭언에 11㎏ 빠진 딸 사망"…ABC마트에서 무슨 일 있었나
"일이 힘들어서 11㎏이나 빠졌던 애가 그날은 밥이 너무 맛있다고 두 공기나 먹는 거예요.
m.nocutnews.co.kr
January 21, 2026 at 1:22 PM
쿠팡보다 더하네.
회사가 설명없이 150 입금해서 무슨 돈인지도 몰랐다가 기자통해 조의금인거 알았다고.
[단독]"상습 폭언에 11㎏ 빠진 딸 사망"…ABC마트에서 무슨 일 있었나
m.nocutnews.co.kr/news/6459298
회사가 설명없이 150 입금해서 무슨 돈인지도 몰랐다가 기자통해 조의금인거 알았다고.
[단독]"상습 폭언에 11㎏ 빠진 딸 사망"…ABC마트에서 무슨 일 있었나
m.nocutnews.co.kr/news/6459298
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Here's how WaPo and the Times
handled this.
The Times didn't mention the anti-Somali racism. WaPo simply said Trump "revealed his thoughts about Somalia."
WaPo cited Trump praising Hell's Angels without noting he did it while attacking "vicious people" from "the Congo."
An alternate universe
handled this.
The Times didn't mention the anti-Somali racism. WaPo simply said Trump "revealed his thoughts about Somalia."
WaPo cited Trump praising Hell's Angels without noting he did it while attacking "vicious people" from "the Congo."
An alternate universe
January 21, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Here's how WaPo and the Times
handled this.
The Times didn't mention the anti-Somali racism. WaPo simply said Trump "revealed his thoughts about Somalia."
WaPo cited Trump praising Hell's Angels without noting he did it while attacking "vicious people" from "the Congo."
An alternate universe
handled this.
The Times didn't mention the anti-Somali racism. WaPo simply said Trump "revealed his thoughts about Somalia."
WaPo cited Trump praising Hell's Angels without noting he did it while attacking "vicious people" from "the Congo."
An alternate universe
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Interesting that this received a round of applause...on "The View"... quite, quite interesting...
Mamdani: I am in support of abolishing ICE… I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life.
January 20, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Interesting that this received a round of applause...on "The View"... quite, quite interesting...
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fwiw i think his obsession with the nobel prize is entirely about obama getting it (setting aside whether or not obama ought to have received it)
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:31 PM
fwiw i think his obsession with the nobel prize is entirely about obama getting it (setting aside whether or not obama ought to have received it)
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This is deranged. Trump is threatening to deploy our military, blow up the NATO alliance, & spend billions all because he didn't win a prize.
This man has control of our nuclear arsenal.
At what point will Republicans join us to stop him from putting our nation in harm's way?
This man has control of our nuclear arsenal.
At what point will Republicans join us to stop him from putting our nation in harm's way?
January 20, 2026 at 12:19 AM
This is deranged. Trump is threatening to deploy our military, blow up the NATO alliance, & spend billions all because he didn't win a prize.
This man has control of our nuclear arsenal.
At what point will Republicans join us to stop him from putting our nation in harm's way?
This man has control of our nuclear arsenal.
At what point will Republicans join us to stop him from putting our nation in harm's way?
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as a white voter without a college degree, it's good to see i am part of the working class. a common man of the people. engaged in that oldest and most respectable of the manual trades, podcasting.
January 19, 2026 at 11:38 PM
as a white voter without a college degree, it's good to see i am part of the working class. a common man of the people. engaged in that oldest and most respectable of the manual trades, podcasting.
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An absolute disgrace.
Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket.
He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.
Notice the suppressors
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He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.
Notice the suppressors
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January 19, 2026 at 10:17 PM
An absolute disgrace.