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This AP headline would still be true if they dropped the word “probe”:
“Justice Department sees no basis for civil rights in Minnesota ICE shooting, official says”
“Justice Department sees no basis for civil rights in Minnesota ICE shooting, official says”
January 14, 2026 at 12:39 AM
This AP headline would still be true if they dropped the word “probe”:
“Justice Department sees no basis for civil rights in Minnesota ICE shooting, official says”
“Justice Department sees no basis for civil rights in Minnesota ICE shooting, official says”
Easy enough to check back when Penn shot his scenes and when Bovino began getting on TV.
January 13, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Easy enough to check back when Penn shot his scenes and when Bovino began getting on TV.
Just the clinical leverage the long cinema lobby and slow cinema lobby need to reverse neuronarrative decay.
January 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Just the clinical leverage the long cinema lobby and slow cinema lobby need to reverse neuronarrative decay.
Just the clinical leverage the long cinema lobby and slow cinema lobby need to reverse neuronarrative decay.
With short-form video now dominant on social media, researchers are racing to understand how the highly engaging, algorithm-driven format may be reshaping the brain.
Is brain rot real? Researchers warn of emerging risks tied to short-form video
Research on the long-term impacts of short-form video consumption is still lacking, but recent studies show concerning associations with cognition and mental health.
nbcnews.to
January 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Just the clinical leverage the long cinema lobby and slow cinema lobby need to reverse neuronarrative decay.
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The Republicans cover our country in shame every day.
Trump: Don’t ask me who is in charge because I’ll give you an answer and it will be very controversial.
Reporter: What does that mean?
Trump: We’re in charge.
Reporter: What does that mean?
Trump: We’re in charge.
January 5, 2026 at 2:31 AM
The Republicans cover our country in shame every day.
Trump to pay Netanyahu for consulting contracts and ‘boots on ground’ advisors to share IDF’s tactical expertise with U.S. occupiers and resource extractors in Venezuela? And possibly other expertise electronicintifada.net/content/isra...
www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...
www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...
January 3, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Trump to pay Netanyahu for consulting contracts and ‘boots on ground’ advisors to share IDF’s tactical expertise with U.S. occupiers and resource extractors in Venezuela? And possibly other expertise electronicintifada.net/content/isra...
www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...
www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...
Wonder if representatives of all the various militias, paramilitary groups, crime gangs, armed revolutionaries of all kinds, and even Maduro’s own security and military are holding a summit in an undisclosed jungle to mount an anti-imperialist resistance to the incoming occupiers and oil pirates.
January 3, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Wonder if representatives of all the various militias, paramilitary groups, crime gangs, armed revolutionaries of all kinds, and even Maduro’s own security and military are holding a summit in an undisclosed jungle to mount an anti-imperialist resistance to the incoming occupiers and oil pirates.
Trump will solicit bribe from Maduro for a pardon.
January 3, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Trump will solicit bribe from Maduro for a pardon.
Complete with Midwest upper middle class incompetence in typing English monosyllabic verbs.
December 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Complete with Midwest upper middle class incompetence in typing English monosyllabic verbs.
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My latest:
"Fascist Republicans are so thrilled with being in the public eye that they end up exposing their own ugliness. And until they succeed in crushing a free press, they’re going to be vulnerable to it, as the Wiles interviews show. ... May their narcissism be their undoing."
"Fascist Republicans are so thrilled with being in the public eye that they end up exposing their own ugliness. And until they succeed in crushing a free press, they’re going to be vulnerable to it, as the Wiles interviews show. ... May their narcissism be their undoing."
MAGA’s lust for publicity may be its undoing
The Wiles interviews give us hope that Republicans’ egos are their fatal flaw
www.stopthepresses.news
December 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My latest:
"Fascist Republicans are so thrilled with being in the public eye that they end up exposing their own ugliness. And until they succeed in crushing a free press, they’re going to be vulnerable to it, as the Wiles interviews show. ... May their narcissism be their undoing."
"Fascist Republicans are so thrilled with being in the public eye that they end up exposing their own ugliness. And until they succeed in crushing a free press, they’re going to be vulnerable to it, as the Wiles interviews show. ... May their narcissism be their undoing."
so JD, how many days did it take to build Rome and is that your revision of Trump’s undelivered “day one” promises?
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
so JD, how many days did it take to build Rome and is that your revision of Trump’s undelivered “day one” promises?
Sharpie for the Cartographer-in-Chief
December 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Sharpie for the Cartographer-in-Chief
Berman’s follow-up to Cotton could have been: “No idea whose question you just answered but it wasn’t my question. What question did you hear me ask you a half minute ago?”
BERMAN: Did you see any evidence of them trying to use a radio in the video you saw?
TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized
BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence?
COTTON: No, I didn't
TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized
BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence?
COTTON: No, I didn't
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Berman’s follow-up to Cotton could have been: “No idea whose question you just answered but it wasn’t my question. What question did you hear me ask you a half minute ago?”
Think we need to see exactly what the approved press is reporting from the Pentagon. Anyone out there good at gathering transcripts of what these reporters, podcasters, influencers, paid mouthpieces are putting out?
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Think we need to see exactly what the approved press is reporting from the Pentagon. Anyone out there good at gathering transcripts of what these reporters, podcasters, influencers, paid mouthpieces are putting out?
Patel just attacked all the J6 attackers pardoned by Trump, then and afterwards!
December 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Patel just attacked all the J6 attackers pardoned by Trump, then and afterwards!
The follow-up we never hear: “Fine, I see, that’ll be all for now. But will you come back once you research the details and can speak on it?”
December 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The follow-up we never hear: “Fine, I see, that’ll be all for now. But will you come back once you research the details and can speak on it?”
Maybe the MRI was to check on his bone spurs.
Maybe Trump got the MRI as a follow up on his injured ear.
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Maybe the MRI was to check on his bone spurs.
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Ann Hermes spent six years photographing American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action. See her images. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YCzYut
The Offices Only a Newsperson Could Love
Ann Hermes spent six years documenting American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Ann Hermes spent six years photographing American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action. See her images. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YCzYut
Maybe germane: “Cynicism and Christianity in Antiquity” 2019 English translation
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Maybe germane: “Cynicism and Christianity in Antiquity” 2019 English translation
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I’ll be on WTTW 11 tomorrow, Fri. 11/14 @5:30pm to discuss the news of the week as part of the Week in Review panel. Do tune in!
@blockclubchi.bsky.social
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Border Patrol agents posed at "The Bean" for an apparent photo op after a weekend of clashes in Little Village. blockclubchi.co/4oUHKae
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I’ll be on WTTW 11 tomorrow, Fri. 11/14 @5:30pm to discuss the news of the week as part of the Week in Review panel. Do tune in!
@blockclubchi.bsky.social
@blockclubchi.bsky.social
Pictures fine. Take more.
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Pictures fine. Take more.
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New Trump 2028 campaign slogan just dropped.
October 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
New Trump 2028 campaign slogan just dropped.
and fewer than, too
October 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
and fewer than, too
You didn’t hear? That checkup in April was “rigged” by “fake news” so need a re-do.
October 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
You didn’t hear? That checkup in April was “rigged” by “fake news” so need a re-do.
