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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has told a judge Sunday he violated his ankle monitor due to a nervous breakdown and hallucinations.
Brazil's Bolsonaro says 'hallucinations' led him to violate ankle monitoring and cause his arrest
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has told a judge Sunday he violated his ankle monitor due to a nervous breakdown and hallucinations.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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A friend has alerted me to this pressing and very real international incident involving the very sane Candace Owens.
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Butterball CEO: friends I come to you with both challenging and exciting news about my proposed changes for the Butterball company to meet the modern world
Good morning. In the past 24 hours, more Americans have Googled “felching” than have searched for “turkey recipes”
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Everybody involved will need to go to prison and if democrats in congress don’t have the stomach for punishing these people they should just resign now.
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114.

This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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alright I'm done and my take is: 1) I need a shower after reading that 2) crazy how lizza still comes off as a huge piece of shit when he's trying to paint himself as the Rational One and 3) imagine the poems cheryl hines has in a little scrapbook somewhere
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Are their board members in the files?
The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting.
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”

👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor
Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said on a podcast with Jon Stewart it's a "great idea."
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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if you know anything, i’m marisakabas.04 on signal
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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New details from a text shared with @thebaltimorebanner.com: “The trip back home was extremely tiring,” Tran told Nash in a text message shared with The Banner. “We were in shackles the entire trip. ... I felt like we were less than animals.”
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Did you know: Eric Adams could temporarily thwart Zohran's plan to freeze rents by appointing a "tenant member" of the RGB who's willing to raise rents?

That's why the Rent Justice Coalition—incl. Crown Heights Tenant Union + Met Council on Housing—is organizing to make that politically untenable.
November 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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All of Bluesky this morning:
a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat
Alt: a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat
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November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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This is some scary shit you guys. Two pillars of the community—middle aged white guys no less—arrested because some off duty cop bastard sitting several booths away in a restaurant claims to have heard them “plotting against law enforcement.” We’re in the “ears everywhere, trust no one” stage of it.
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Trying to flee to the nearest hospital
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Brazil's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Jair Bolsonaro, with a judge claiming the former president was intent on escaping as he was set to begin his prison sentence for leading a coup attempt. n.pr/48l5ldE
Brazil's Bolsonaro arrested for allegedly plotting escape ahead of prison term
Brazil's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Jair Bolsonaro, with a judge claiming the former president was intent on escaping as he was set to begin his prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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A former New York state trooper accused of ramming his car into an SUV that crashed during a high-speed chase faces a new trial in the death of a 11-year-old passenger after a jury acquitted him of murder but failed to reach a verdict on manslaughter.
Ex-NY trooper acquitted of murder in chase that killed 11-year-old, faces retrial for manslaughter
A former New York state trooper accused of ramming his car into an SUV that crashed during a high-speed chase faces a new trial in the death of a 11-year-old passenger after a jury acquitted him of murder but failed to reach a verdict on manslaughter.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I'm sure that means something but not what you think.
Liz and Dick voted for VP Harris against Trump. Mamdani did not
November 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene Practiced Politics the Right Way
-Ezra Klein
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Hahahahahahaha
Huh — Marjorie Taylor Greene says she doesn't want "to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms. And in turn, be expected to defend the President against impeachment after he…tried to destroy me."

…Any reason she assumes Trump will soon be impeached?

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November 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM