CaffinatedOne
@caffinatedone.com
Typical Computer geek, video game player, sci-fi aficionado, and amateur haver of opinions... all with a hearty dose of too much caffeine....and cats, many cats (they don't generally care for coffee, however).
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It’s amusing how the US business elite still thinks it’s 1968 and there’s an abundance of useless regulations we can trash when all what we have now is the stuff written in blood
December 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It’s amusing how the US business elite still thinks it’s 1968 and there’s an abundance of useless regulations we can trash when all what we have now is the stuff written in blood
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My view continues to be that the US has in power a movement dedicated to ending democracy & replacing it with consolidated one-party authoritarian rule under the Republican banner. They are currently struggling to do that because of the US political system's complexity & their own incompetence.
December 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My view continues to be that the US has in power a movement dedicated to ending democracy & replacing it with consolidated one-party authoritarian rule under the Republican banner. They are currently struggling to do that because of the US political system's complexity & their own incompetence.
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The prospect of fired ICE agents becoming a freikorp is really quite concerning
December 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The prospect of fired ICE agents becoming a freikorp is really quite concerning
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I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
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In one article, I bring the receipts to debunk the NRA's 9 favorite gun myths, including:
#2 Criminals don’t obey laws
#4 It’s a mental health crisis
#5 Women need guns for self-defense
#8 Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
#9 What about Chicago?
www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-...
#2 Criminals don’t obey laws
#4 It’s a mental health crisis
#5 Women need guns for self-defense
#8 Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
#9 What about Chicago?
www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-...
Debunking the NRA's 9 Favorite Gun Myths
As Brown University marks the 389th mass shooting of 2025, we are way beyond the point of needing critical federal gun safety legislation
www.qasimrashid.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
In one article, I bring the receipts to debunk the NRA's 9 favorite gun myths, including:
#2 Criminals don’t obey laws
#4 It’s a mental health crisis
#5 Women need guns for self-defense
#8 Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
#9 What about Chicago?
www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-...
#2 Criminals don’t obey laws
#4 It’s a mental health crisis
#5 Women need guns for self-defense
#8 Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
#9 What about Chicago?
www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-...
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Maybe Susie Wiles just mistakenly assumed the Vanity Fair journalist was going to release all of these details in a book several years later, following the standard access journalism practices
December 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Maybe Susie Wiles just mistakenly assumed the Vanity Fair journalist was going to release all of these details in a book several years later, following the standard access journalism practices
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The Constitution guarantees your right to follow, record, protest, and notify others about the agents and what you see. These are core First Amendment rights, and DHS has clearly ordered its agents to threaten and violate those rights. cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
December 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The Constitution guarantees your right to follow, record, protest, and notify others about the agents and what you see. These are core First Amendment rights, and DHS has clearly ordered its agents to threaten and violate those rights. cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
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President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.
Trump doubles down on his Rob Reiner attack: "I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person... He became like a deranged person, Trump Derangement Syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country."
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.
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A recurring theme:
Fire sci and tech experts, including some on public service leave from the private sector. Announce policy goals requiring expertise. Realize you don't have the institutional capacity to govern. Create a new program to recruit those same experts back into government.
Fire sci and tech experts, including some on public service leave from the private sector. Announce policy goals requiring expertise. Realize you don't have the institutional capacity to govern. Create a new program to recruit those same experts back into government.
The White House today unveiled a new AI-focused "Tech Force," in an apparent attempt to pick up the pieces after Musk's DOGE swept through the federal government and wiped out existing tech expertise.
Trump turns to Big Tech for AI government workforce
The White House is trying to pick up the pieces after Elon Musk's DOGE.
www.axios.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A recurring theme:
Fire sci and tech experts, including some on public service leave from the private sector. Announce policy goals requiring expertise. Realize you don't have the institutional capacity to govern. Create a new program to recruit those same experts back into government.
Fire sci and tech experts, including some on public service leave from the private sector. Announce policy goals requiring expertise. Realize you don't have the institutional capacity to govern. Create a new program to recruit those same experts back into government.
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So, this happened😱 no one is talking about it.
December 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
So, this happened😱 no one is talking about it.
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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The president is using this apparent family tragedy, which as far as we know had absolutely nothing to do with him, to convey the message that if his fans brutally murder his critics, they will receive his support and approval.
Q: A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Rob Reiner. Do you stand by it?
TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
December 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The president is using this apparent family tragedy, which as far as we know had absolutely nothing to do with him, to convey the message that if his fans brutally murder his critics, they will receive his support and approval.
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Thou shalt not condemn “violent rhetoric” after your ally is murdered and then mock the murder of someone who criticized you.
December 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Thou shalt not condemn “violent rhetoric” after your ally is murdered and then mock the murder of someone who criticized you.
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
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This person should not & cannot be normalized as an acceptable representative of the US government in international negotiations over anything.
For more than two years, Jared Kushner has sought to build a Trump-branded complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO.
But the plans are running into resistance in Serbia.On Monday, a special prosecutor indicted four officials including a cabinet minister over the project.
But the plans are running into resistance in Serbia.On Monday, a special prosecutor indicted four officials including a cabinet minister over the project.
Jared Kushner’s Plan to Build a Trump Hotel in Serbia Is Running Into Resistance
For more than two years, the U.S. president’s son-in-law has sought to build a complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO.
www.wsj.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This person should not & cannot be normalized as an acceptable representative of the US government in international negotiations over anything.
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Today in the casual media normalization of personalist, nepotistic authoritarianism.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Donald Trump says Ukraine peace deal ‘closer than ever’ after talks in Berlin
Germany says US to provide security guarantees as Kyiv and Washington admit differences on territorial issues
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December 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Today in the casual media normalization of personalist, nepotistic authoritarianism.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
Jared Kushner holds no senior Senate-confirmed post in the US government. He is the son-in-law & business partner of the president. This is unprecedented, massive corruption & media outlets should treat it as such.
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The internet is now absolutely *jam packed* with AI slop, endless reams of videos and articles and images.
We achieved infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters and so I ask: where is Hamlet?
Perhaps art was more than letters and pixels after all. Who knew?
We achieved infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters and so I ask: where is Hamlet?
Perhaps art was more than letters and pixels after all. Who knew?
December 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The internet is now absolutely *jam packed* with AI slop, endless reams of videos and articles and images.
We achieved infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters and so I ask: where is Hamlet?
Perhaps art was more than letters and pixels after all. Who knew?
We achieved infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters and so I ask: where is Hamlet?
Perhaps art was more than letters and pixels after all. Who knew?
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This is a real headline on the New York Times website.
Support independent media.
Support independent media.
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is a real headline on the New York Times website.
Support independent media.
Support independent media.
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Some highlights from our Stephen Miller piece:
First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Some highlights from our Stephen Miller piece:
First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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I know I've been beating this drum for over seven years now, but Donald Trump is a very and truly sick man who should be in a mental or penal institution and certainly not the White House.
December 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I know I've been beating this drum for over seven years now, but Donald Trump is a very and truly sick man who should be in a mental or penal institution and certainly not the White House.
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With this piece of bread on the ground in Ottawa, Canada and the one below in Perth, Australia, @drstip.bsky.social and I have successfully created an Earth sandwich.
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
December 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
With this piece of bread on the ground in Ottawa, Canada and the one below in Perth, Australia, @drstip.bsky.social and I have successfully created an Earth sandwich.
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
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absolutely the fuck not
Private equity has found a new source of profit: volunteer fire departments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
absolutely the fuck not
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Where I live, in the United States, people on the right wing often claim that they didn’t WANT to become fascist bigots - that they were FORCED to become fascist bigots by the failures of liberalism.
This is the same situation. Bigots want to say that their actions aren’t their fault. But they are.
This is the same situation. Bigots want to say that their actions aren’t their fault. But they are.
December 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Where I live, in the United States, people on the right wing often claim that they didn’t WANT to become fascist bigots - that they were FORCED to become fascist bigots by the failures of liberalism.
This is the same situation. Bigots want to say that their actions aren’t their fault. But they are.
This is the same situation. Bigots want to say that their actions aren’t their fault. But they are.
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Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.
The richest man on the planet has a pinned tweet that's just straight up white nationalism. I can't say I miss Twitter!
December 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.
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If you're of the opinion that the founding fathers intended to protect a right to bear arms, even for the insane, you should read up on how insanity was dealt with in the 18th C.
December 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If you're of the opinion that the founding fathers intended to protect a right to bear arms, even for the insane, you should read up on how insanity was dealt with in the 18th C.