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Dad, lover of cats, metal music, and most of all humanity. Peace and love always. Screw your hateful heart.☮️💙🇺🇸 ok dogs are pretty effin rad too!

Can I offer you some sage in these trying times?
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atrupar.com
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
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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davidandress.bsky.social
I don't care if you think that AI can do some really nifty things. It's being rammed down our throats by obscenely wealthy men who are also, obviously, both dangerously right-wing and mentally unstable, and no rational society should be allowing that to happen. End of discussion.
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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atrupar.com
"The 2 men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel did not appear to have radio or other communications devices, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers Thursday"
Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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atrupar.com
Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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wsj.com
Congressional Democrats found a video of a Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug boat that killed survivors “troubling,” leading to a renewed campaign to publicly release the entire footage.
Democrats ‘Troubled’ by Video of Second Strike on Alleged Drug Boat
Lawmakers were briefed by Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, who ordered the follow-up attack on Sept. 2 that killed two men.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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frakitall.bsky.social
I've been telling people for a while that the government is lying to us about these boats. These outboards can't travel 1000 miles on the fuel they carry along with cargo. This is a war crime and murder they are trying to cover up.
December 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Correct
mrsbettybowers.bsky.social Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6d
The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.

They are lying to us.
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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ms.now
BREAKING: Suspect in pipe-bombing case identified as 30-year-old Brian Cole of VA. Carol Leonnig has the latest.

www.ms.now/news/fbi-arr...
December 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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militarynewsua.bsky.social
❗️On 1 December 2025, immediately after Zelenskyy's plane landed in Dublin, four unidentified military-grade drones breached the no-fly zone, flew along the trajectory of his aircraft, and circled an Irish Naval Service ship. Ireland is investigating the incident as a possible hybrid attack.
December 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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mims.bsky.social
I wrote an entire book about how to get real value out of AI at work and my *first* piece of advice to anyone on this subject is to recognize where AI is *not* appropriate (spoiler -- 95% of what we do) and *avoid* trying to use it there.
erinkaylockwood.bsky.social Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 6d
"The real tragedy isn’t that students use ChatGPT to do their course work. It’s that universities are teaching everyone—students, faculty, administrators—to stop thinking. We’re outsourcing discernment."
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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404media.co
Guys… it looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets. @evystadium.bsky.social gets into it.

Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:

www.404media.co/unauthorized...
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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jerseybuckeyes.bsky.social
This is especially disgusting considering the ENORMOUS PUBLIC RECORD of just what Trump and Epstein were up to in the summer of 1994. The NY media covered it all, in real time. And yet we still pretend this is some “mystery.” Read a book!
“Hiding in Plain Sight” by Sarah Kendzior.
“Hiding in Plain Sight” by Sarah Kendzior It's hard to read this in 2019 knowing that it took officials over two decades to lock up Epstein-and that he died in prison before his accusers could confront him in court. It's hard to read it like it's hard to see Harvey Weinstein and many other Hollywood abusers living large and walking free. It's hard to read it as someone roughly the same age as Epstein's victims, a 1990s teenager with my own tales to tell, knowing how my words would be devoured and disbelieved if I ever dared speak. It's hardest to read it now that my daughter is the same age as Jane Doe, and I can't tell her that nothing has changed since the 1990s, because things have changed: the alleged rapist of a thirteen-year-old is now the president. The exploitation of women in 1990s tabloid culture reached its apotheosis under Epstein, and no one covered it in real time. When they covered it after the fact, in the 2000s, it was with amusement and disdain for the victims. When they cover it now, in 2019, it is with the knowledge that the complicity of their profession is part of what enabled Epstein, a convicted pedophile sex trafficker, to cover his tracks. For those still wondering why holding Epstein accountable is inextricable from holding Donald Trump accountable, I ask again: What was Donald Trump doing in the summer of 1994? Excerpts of "Jane Doe v. Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, complaint in the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York," give us one possibility: 7. Plaintiff [Jane Doe] was subject to acts of rape, sexual misconduct, criminal sexual acts, sexual abuse, forcible… “Hiding in Plain Sight” by Sarah Kendzior …touching, assault, battery, intentional and reckless infliction of emotional distress, duress, false imprisonment, and threats of death and/or serious bodily injury by the Defendants that took place at several parties during the summer months of 1994. The parties were held by Defendant Epstein at a New York City residence that was being used by Defendant Epstein at 9 E. 71st St. in Manhattan. During this period, Plaintiff was a minor of age 13 and was legally incapable under New York law of consenting to sexual intercourse and the other sexual contacts detailed herein. NY Penal L § 130.05(3)(a). [...] 9. Plaintiff was enticed by promises of money and a modeling career to attend a series of parties, with other similarly situated minor females, held at a New York City residence that was being used by Defendant Jeffrey Epstein. At least four of the parties were attended by Defendant Trump. Exhs. A and B. On information and belief, by this time in 1994, Defendant Trump had known Defendant Epstein for seven years (New York, 10/28/02, "I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy, Trump booms from a speakerphone. 'He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it-Jeffrey enjoys his social life?"), and knew that Plaintiff was then just 13 years old. Exhs. A and B. 10. Defendant Trump initiated sexual contact with Plaintiff at four different parties. On the fourth and final sexual encounter with Defendant Trump, Defendant Trump tied Plaintiff to a bed, exposed himself to Plaintiff, and then proceeded to forcibly rape Plaintiff. During the course of this savage sexual attack, Plaintiff loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop but with no effect. Defendant Trump responded to Plaintiff's pleas by violently striking Plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted. Exhs. A and B. “Hiding in Plain Sight” by Sarah Kendzior 11. Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened Plaintiff that, were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse of her by Defendant Trump, Plaintiff and her family would be physically harmed if not killed. This court document was made available to reporters multiple times during Trump's 2016 campaign. Despite Trump's long-documented history of misogyny, sexual assault, and threats, the press generally avoided the Trump and Epstein allegations, and when they did cover them, they often designated them as irrelevant gossip. One exception was Lisa Bloom, a high-profile attorney who said she was alarmed by the lack of coverage. She wrote in The Huffington Post: In covering a story, a media outlet is not finding guilt. It is simply reporting the news that a lawsuit has been filed against Mr. Trump, and ideally putting the complaint in context. Unproven allegations are just that-unproven, and should be identified that way. (Mr. Trump's lawyer says the charges are "categorically untrue, completely fabricated and politically motivated.") Proof comes later, at trial. But the November election will come well before any trial. And while Mr. Trump is presumed innocent, we are permitted—-no, we are obligated—to analyze the case's viability now. Bloom saw the case as viable, particularly given Epstein's documented crimes and the fact that Jane Doe maintained she had a witness, named in the lawsuit as Tiffany Doe. In fall 2016, Bloom agreed to represent Jane Doe in court. A press conference was scheduled for November 2, 2016, in which Jane Doe was going to tell her story in the same way dozens of other women had told their stories following the release of the Access Hollywood video showing Trump bragging of his history of sexual assault. The "grab 'em by the pussy" video gave credence to claims that… “Hiding in Plain Sight” by Sarah Kendzior were once dismissed. But the press conference never happened. According to Bloom, Bloom and Trump's alleged victim were both threatened with violence and Bloom's computer was hacked. Jane Doe, Bloom reported, was terrified into silence, and dropped her lawsuit on November 4, four days before the election. The Epstein case, the allegations that Trump raped a thirteen-year-old, and the threats toward those who tried to expose them are a shocking story, the sort of high-profile horror that we should expect to dominate cable news shows and inspire books. But much like other aspects of Trump's life that cross from the scandalous to the criminal, the media cowered until it was too late. James Patterson, the bestselling novelist, wrote a quick Epstein biography that received almost no press when it was published in fall 2016. It took #MeToo to get Epstein back into the headlines, and then back into the courts—where both the sex trafficking and the deals with the US government to cover it up are being reexamined. But a large portion of his story remains omitted. Epstein did not run his operation alone. He had an assistant named Ghislaine Maxwell. Ghislaine is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, a wealthy British publisher who died under mysterious circumstances after falling off a yacht in 1991. His family, and several biographers, claim he was murdered; the police at the time ruled it an accident. Maxwell was also alleged to be an operative for Mossad. His service to the Israeli government began in 1948, when he fought to aid Israel in the War of Independence with a unit from his native Czechoslovakia. His role as an alleged Mossad agent was not revealed until 1986, when a former employee of Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate, Ari Ben-Menashe, identified Maxwell as an agent.
December 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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404media.co
Flock exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using overseas workers. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Story by @josephcox.bsky.social:
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.

The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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frakitall.bsky.social
They lost, BIGLY!

Karen Kult “Moms For Liberty” suffered a humiliating defeat, losing ALL 31 of the races in which the hate group ran candidates!
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”

A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”

What are we doing?
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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ms.now
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits for November by Friday, rejecting the administration’s plan to partially fund the program during government shutdown.

@nicollewallace.bsky.social reports.
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Affordability is the new groceries
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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atrupar.com
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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atrupar.com
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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saltybitchables.bsky.social
Update on woman taken forcefully after masked ICE agents rammed her car in Chicago: she was forced into a van with guns drawn. After being brutalized, she wasn’t charged and was later released.
Dianne Figueroa is a citizen and works in a law office.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #ICE

youtu.be/eF46dNi7fkU?...
Update on US citizen in Chicago, rammed by ICE and dragged off in unmarked vehicle
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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November 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
dancingkatdad.bsky.social
It's gonna be ugly when this bubble busts.
November 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks
He was very much on the ballot last night.

The shutdown was on the ballot.
Medicaid was on the ballot.
Medicare was on the ballot.
SNAP was on the ballot.
The ACA was on the ballot.
ICE was on the ballot.
The whole Nazi agenda was on the ballot.

And we told you what we think of it.🖕🏼DT

#SheShed
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Last night was a thumping from coast to coast. Across the country, voters rejected chaos and cynicism – and chose leaders who are focused on the cost of everyday life.
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM