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Chris Zombik
@chriszombik.com
· Dec 1
I love to see a local business with its phone number on the sign with no area code. Real street cred right there. A pillar of the community.
Louvre heist guys clearly played Blue Prince
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Louvre heist guys clearly played Blue Prince
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Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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I hope this ishmael finds you whale
September 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I hope this ishmael finds you whale
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Why be scared that Iran has nuclear weapons, since nuclear weapons don’t kill people, people kill people
June 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Why be scared that Iran has nuclear weapons, since nuclear weapons don’t kill people, people kill people
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If you say that America is poised to institutionalize a police state - that the reality of concentration camps and regularized disappearances will become an ongoing facet of life - you'll still receive eye-rolls and clucked tongues. But that is not a possibility of this budget, it is the purpose.
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
If you say that America is poised to institutionalize a police state - that the reality of concentration camps and regularized disappearances will become an ongoing facet of life - you'll still receive eye-rolls and clucked tongues. But that is not a possibility of this budget, it is the purpose.
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Cannot emphasize in how many different ways Zohran Mamdani seems to have answered the questions Democrats have been asking since November, and the response has been "no not like that"
June 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Cannot emphasize in how many different ways Zohran Mamdani seems to have answered the questions Democrats have been asking since November, and the response has been "no not like that"
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Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly
June 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly
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ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
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It will be a great injustice if ICE isn't abolished and its leaders imprisoned
Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported
He has no citizenship to any country, despite SCOTUS case
www.austinchronicle.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It will be a great injustice if ICE isn't abolished and its leaders imprisoned
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“hi i’m johnny knoxville, welcome to jackass.”
June 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“hi i’m johnny knoxville, welcome to jackass.”
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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
June 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
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The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.
June 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.
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assassins dress like cops bc that’s who’s allowed to murder people in broad daylight
June 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
assassins dress like cops bc that’s who’s allowed to murder people in broad daylight
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It certainly seems like a problem that the most direct contact I have with the Democratic Party and its various affiliates is texting S to Stop.
the whole weird passive-aggressive tone of fundraising emails seems incredibly offputting to me and I wonder if there's any evidence that it actually works or it's just legacy stuff
Less than 24 hours after what may have been the largest mass protest in American history, my opponent's fundraising email "wonders":
"Maybe progressives are too tired to put up a fight."
This wasn't a joke or sarcasm.
It was a reaction to below-expectation fundraising.
"Maybe progressives are too tired to put up a fight."
This wasn't a joke or sarcasm.
It was a reaction to below-expectation fundraising.
June 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
It certainly seems like a problem that the most direct contact I have with the Democratic Party and its various affiliates is texting S to Stop.
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Obama and Biden both failed to do anything about right wing extremists and the big change we need is someone willing to use the state to confront and dismantle their networks, including using state force. For this to be successful it won’t look very “liberal.”
June 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Obama and Biden both failed to do anything about right wing extremists and the big change we need is someone willing to use the state to confront and dismantle their networks, including using state force. For this to be successful it won’t look very “liberal.”
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Framing like this should be considered a form of misinformation. Antisemitism in America in 2025 overwhelmingly emanates from the political right.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/o...
June 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Framing like this should be considered a form of misinformation. Antisemitism in America in 2025 overwhelmingly emanates from the political right.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/o...
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It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
June 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
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California Protesters throw rocks at ICE
June 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
California Protesters throw rocks at ICE
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All of these violent, lawless ICE officers terrorizing communities and hiding their faces weren't just hired this year.
It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.
It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.
June 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
All of these violent, lawless ICE officers terrorizing communities and hiding their faces weren't just hired this year.
It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.
It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.
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Spent a couple of weekends with Zohran Mamdani on the campaign trail.
Come for one of Mamdani's canvassers calling him "our generation's Fiorello La Guardia." Stay for a retiree stopping him in the street to grill him on the viability of his tax plan. www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/31/z...
Come for one of Mamdani's canvassers calling him "our generation's Fiorello La Guardia." Stay for a retiree stopping him in the street to grill him on the viability of his tax plan. www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/31/z...
Zohran Mamdani’s surprising surge fueled by pocketbook promises, social media savvy
To the surprise of many in New York’s political establishment, Mamdani, 33, has leap-frogged other more-established candidates to become the leading progressive running in the June 24 NYC may…
www.nydailynews.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Spent a couple of weekends with Zohran Mamdani on the campaign trail.
Come for one of Mamdani's canvassers calling him "our generation's Fiorello La Guardia." Stay for a retiree stopping him in the street to grill him on the viability of his tax plan. www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/31/z...
Come for one of Mamdani's canvassers calling him "our generation's Fiorello La Guardia." Stay for a retiree stopping him in the street to grill him on the viability of his tax plan. www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/31/z...
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Ohtani bored watching Dodgers take BP vs the Yankees
June 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Ohtani bored watching Dodgers take BP vs the Yankees
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average comment section in 2025
May 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
average comment section in 2025
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for sociological reasons the public messaging from Democratic insiders about abandoning lines of conflict always pretends to be about strategy but it's important to be clear eyed that a core faction of Democrats are *ideologically* opposed to anything vaguely progressive
April 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
for sociological reasons the public messaging from Democratic insiders about abandoning lines of conflict always pretends to be about strategy but it's important to be clear eyed that a core faction of Democrats are *ideologically* opposed to anything vaguely progressive
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huge night for my "everyone hates that motherfucker" theory of politics, which has been in dire straits since november. willing to accept a "we are a uniquely dumb people" rider if the evidence bears it out
April 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
huge night for my "everyone hates that motherfucker" theory of politics, which has been in dire straits since november. willing to accept a "we are a uniquely dumb people" rider if the evidence bears it out