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Retired English teacher. Interests include history, geopolitics, and kitties.
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Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
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America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids"
ICE crosses another big, important line.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
October 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...
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22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...
She Survived 141 Days in ICE Custody Thanks to a ‘Beautiful Sisterhood.’ Now She’s Fighting for Those Still Inside.
22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, talks about her experience in federal detainment.
thebarbedwire.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...
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Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Even for Trump, this is fucking insane.
EARHARDT: We have radicals on the right as well. How do we fix this country?
TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.
TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.
September 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Even for Trump, this is fucking insane.
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What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.
REPORTER: Why are troops stationed here at Union Station and at the National Mall instead of areas where crime is higher?
JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.
JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.
August 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.
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Remember all the members of the media who spent 2024 downplaying concerns that Trump would rule as an autocrat.
"This will go further"
Yeah, we know. That was always the plan.
"This will go further"
Yeah, we know. That was always the plan.
* TRUMP ON WASHINGTON, DC: PLACES UNDER DIRECT FEDERAL CONTROL
* TRUMP ON WASHINGTON, DC: DEPLOYING NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS
* TRUMP ON WASHINGTON, DC: THIS WILL GO FURTHER, STARTING WITH DC
@reuters.com
* TRUMP ON WASHINGTON, DC: DEPLOYING NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS
* TRUMP ON WASHINGTON, DC: THIS WILL GO FURTHER, STARTING WITH DC
@reuters.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Remember all the members of the media who spent 2024 downplaying concerns that Trump would rule as an autocrat.
"This will go further"
Yeah, we know. That was always the plan.
"This will go further"
Yeah, we know. That was always the plan.
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Jesus Christ
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Jesus Christ
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In a new lawsuit, Stephen Miller's old outfit is asking a federal judge to declare that the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and the Judicial Conference of the United States are independent agencies of the executive branch talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
Trump Allies Sue John Roberts To Give White House Control Of Court System
Close allies of President Trump are asking a judge to give the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In a new lawsuit, Stephen Miller's old outfit is asking a federal judge to declare that the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and the Judicial Conference of the United States are independent agencies of the executive branch talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
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Stephen Miller's 'American First Legal Foundation' has sued Chief Justice John Roberts arguing the White House should run the court system. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
May 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Stephen Miller's 'American First Legal Foundation' has sued Chief Justice John Roberts arguing the White House should run the court system. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
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NEW: TIME publishes interview with Trump.
This is a REAL section of the transcript.
It is impossible to read this and not conclude that Trump is suffering profound, cognitive decay.
This is a REAL section of the transcript.
It is impossible to read this and not conclude that Trump is suffering profound, cognitive decay.
April 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
NEW: TIME publishes interview with Trump.
This is a REAL section of the transcript.
It is impossible to read this and not conclude that Trump is suffering profound, cognitive decay.
This is a REAL section of the transcript.
It is impossible to read this and not conclude that Trump is suffering profound, cognitive decay.
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Japanese netizens are shocked by a tweet from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected].
Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.
Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.
April 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Japanese netizens are shocked by a tweet from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected].
Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.
Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.
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They violated a court order to keep the AP out of the event where they publicly violated a different court order
The AP says its journalists were barred from an Oval Office event featuring Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in defiance of a court injunction (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill)
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Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
April 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
They violated a court order to keep the AP out of the event where they publicly violated a different court order
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Trump calling for the impeachment of a judge who ruled against him. Calling him “crooked.” If this isn’t fascistic, what is?
(Also, the media will sanewash this but anyone else who talks or writes like this would be sent to one of the mental asylums Trump thinks migrants are coming from!)
(Also, the media will sanewash this but anyone else who talks or writes like this would be sent to one of the mental asylums Trump thinks migrants are coming from!)
March 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Trump calling for the impeachment of a judge who ruled against him. Calling him “crooked.” If this isn’t fascistic, what is?
(Also, the media will sanewash this but anyone else who talks or writes like this would be sent to one of the mental asylums Trump thinks migrants are coming from!)
(Also, the media will sanewash this but anyone else who talks or writes like this would be sent to one of the mental asylums Trump thinks migrants are coming from!)
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This morning’s @NPR coverage included a common misconception about Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport 137 alleged members of Tren de Aragua to El Salvador, where they are now being held in a prison notorious for human rights abuses. 1/11
March 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This morning’s @NPR coverage included a common misconception about Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport 137 alleged members of Tren de Aragua to El Salvador, where they are now being held in a prison notorious for human rights abuses. 1/11
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She's lucky this didn't happen a decade ago. They didn't even get a mat. They just had to sleep on the cold concrete floor.
Here's 2016 surveillance footage from one of the cells in the Tucson Sector Border Patrol that we joined several other organizations to sue over in 2015.
Here's 2016 surveillance footage from one of the cells in the Tucson Sector Border Patrol that we joined several other organizations to sue over in 2015.
March 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
She's lucky this didn't happen a decade ago. They didn't even get a mat. They just had to sleep on the cold concrete floor.
Here's 2016 surveillance footage from one of the cells in the Tucson Sector Border Patrol that we joined several other organizations to sue over in 2015.
Here's 2016 surveillance footage from one of the cells in the Tucson Sector Border Patrol that we joined several other organizations to sue over in 2015.
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The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
March 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
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A model is emerging, which is simply pretending the First Amendment doesn't exist
Florida mayor seeks to evict cinema for showing Oscar-winning documentary
Miami Beach mayor also proposes withdrawing grant after O Cinema screened Palestinian-focused film No Other Land
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A model is emerging, which is simply pretending the First Amendment doesn't exist
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This is *exactly* step one of the same strategy Russia and Hungary used to criminalize dissent.
After that, they began to label nonprofit and political organizations as foreign agents, then started to restrict and ban on that basis.
After that, they began to label nonprofit and political organizations as foreign agents, then started to restrict and ban on that basis.
March 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
This is *exactly* step one of the same strategy Russia and Hungary used to criminalize dissent.
After that, they began to label nonprofit and political organizations as foreign agents, then started to restrict and ban on that basis.
After that, they began to label nonprofit and political organizations as foreign agents, then started to restrict and ban on that basis.
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That is exactly true.
March 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
That is exactly true.
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The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
March 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
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After World War I, Germany had to fork over billions to cover damages. After World War II, Japan was forced to pay reparations. But with Ukraine, Trump is flipping history upside down by demanding that the invaded, not the invader, pay up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
With Trump, Alliances Come With Strings Attached
President Trump has little use for America’s traditional alliances, and tends to evaluate U.S. relationships according to whether countries are contributing economically to the United States.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
After World War I, Germany had to fork over billions to cover damages. After World War II, Japan was forced to pay reparations. But with Ukraine, Trump is flipping history upside down by demanding that the invaded, not the invader, pay up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
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It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.