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a lot of general geekery and profanity. queer. trekkie. she/her 💗💜💙
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NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
@jpbrammer.bsky.social thought you might like to see... hung it today!!!
September 12, 2025 at 1:36 AM
@jpbrammer.bsky.social thought you might like to see... hung it today!!!
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Here's a drawing I did of the TNG episode "Rascals"
August 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Here's a drawing I did of the TNG episode "Rascals"
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usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
August 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
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slutty little shorts
Completely fix baseball with three words.
August 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
slutty little shorts
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Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.
“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.
Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn
“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.
Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn
July 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.
“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.
Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn
“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.
Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn
It cannot be overstated how much I hate AI
July 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It cannot be overstated how much I hate AI
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One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted.
These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.
These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.
‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants
Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted.
These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.
These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.
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You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.
July 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.
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Brad Lander's "The line in the Democratic Party right now is not between progressives and moderates — it's between fighters and folders" is truly *the* best diagnosis of what's needed right now. It also has the advantage of being backed up by public opinion.
Since we are in new round (it never ends) of what Dems ought to do while fascists power grab, a view from voters in our latest Research Collaborative/Data for Progress national survey (N=1199, July 18-20)
TLDR: Dems and independents want Dem candidate who fights for immigrant rights.
TLDR: Dems and independents want Dem candidate who fights for immigrant rights.
July 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Brad Lander's "The line in the Democratic Party right now is not between progressives and moderates — it's between fighters and folders" is truly *the* best diagnosis of what's needed right now. It also has the advantage of being backed up by public opinion.
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Our political media is simply not equipped to handle a situation where the voters were unambiguously wrong in a way which morally implicates the electorate.
A man coughing up blood. Men zip-tied face down on a wet floor. CCTV turned off. Men forced to eat off of a chair like animals while handcuffed. Solitary confinement if you complain. This is just three paragraphs from a new report.
July 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Our political media is simply not equipped to handle a situation where the voters were unambiguously wrong in a way which morally implicates the electorate.
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Maybe the most Axios brained you can be is when you look at things and go “he’s achieving so much evil, and yet people aren’t appreciating it”
![President Trump, in terms of raw accomplishments, crushed his first six months in historic ways. Massive tax cuts. Record-low border crossings. Surging tariff revenue. Stunning air strikes in Iran. Modest inflation.
Yet poll after poll suggests most Americans aren't impressed. In fact, they seem tired of all the winning, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write in a "Behind the Curtain" column.
Why it matters: Trump appears to be losing by winning. The more he does [link.axios.com] (including issues beyond his legislative wins), the more the general public, especially independents, shrug — or recoil.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5fbnzh57rn7xz65yjc36gxb/bafkreid7bfz6usem2jf2exo67cim52eu7qotw3bkjmmmjgb3dj4iopy6oe@jpeg)
July 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Maybe the most Axios brained you can be is when you look at things and go “he’s achieving so much evil, and yet people aren’t appreciating it”
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I feel like we owe Kojima an apology because he’s like “This is my villain, Corrupto Moneyguy. He controls the media and eats children.” As it turns out, this is a nuanced and accurate view of global politics.
July 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I feel like we owe Kojima an apology because he’s like “This is my villain, Corrupto Moneyguy. He controls the media and eats children.” As it turns out, this is a nuanced and accurate view of global politics.
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wow i wonder why everyone is so fractured and enraged and susceptible to propaganda gosh who can possibly expl
The United States summed up in two headlines.
July 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
wow i wonder why everyone is so fractured and enraged and susceptible to propaganda gosh who can possibly expl
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DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website
DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website
WASHINGTON—In the latest of a series of escalations in President Donald Trump’s highly publicized war on “woke,” the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly removed all mentions of justice from its webs...
theonion.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website
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Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead
March 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead
This country is beyond evil
July 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This country is beyond evil
Breathtakingly fascist and racist
Karoline Leavitt indicates the administration is open to a denaturalization-oriented investigation against Zohran Mamdani
June 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Breathtakingly fascist and racist
They truly are a horrific death cult
Q: "A 75 year old Cuban national died in ICE custody. He had lived in the U.S. for 60 years...Is there anything you can tell us about that?"
Border Czar Tom Homan: "People die in ICE custody. People die in county jails. People die in state prisons."
Border Czar Tom Homan: "People die in ICE custody. People die in county jails. People die in state prisons."
June 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
They truly are a horrific death cult
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there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.
June 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.
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these people think you're stupid and hold you in absolute fucking contempt
June 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
these people think you're stupid and hold you in absolute fucking contempt
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this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
June 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?