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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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After signing up for self-deportation, Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved to an unfinished basement. But DHS never sent them the promised plane tickets.
Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent.
➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6
Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent.
➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6
October 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
After signing up for self-deportation, Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved to an unfinished basement. But DHS never sent them the promised plane tickets.
Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent.
➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6
Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent.
➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6
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The idea that when the Democrats are in charge they’re going to go after Fox is fucking crazy.
The Democrats were in charge when Fox lost a lawsuit and admitted they were making shit up and D’s FCC STILL didn’t go after Fox News
No, MAGA are the only pieces of shit that do this.
The Democrats were in charge when Fox lost a lawsuit and admitted they were making shit up and D’s FCC STILL didn’t go after Fox News
No, MAGA are the only pieces of shit that do this.
The ‘Manosphere’ Reacts to the Jimmy Kimmel News
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The idea that when the Democrats are in charge they’re going to go after Fox is fucking crazy.
The Democrats were in charge when Fox lost a lawsuit and admitted they were making shit up and D’s FCC STILL didn’t go after Fox News
No, MAGA are the only pieces of shit that do this.
The Democrats were in charge when Fox lost a lawsuit and admitted they were making shit up and D’s FCC STILL didn’t go after Fox News
No, MAGA are the only pieces of shit that do this.
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Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents
September 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
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So the sandwich guy ...
beat the wrap
beat the wrap
August 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
So the sandwich guy ...
beat the wrap
beat the wrap
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All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
July 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
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If Biden said this, there’d be multiple book deals commissioned about how old and out of touch he is
Trump drops UK-US trade deal
Starmer picks it up
Trump says it's a trade agreement with the EU
Trump congratulates Starmer
Starmer explains it's a UK-US trade deal (not with EU)
Starmer picks it up
Trump says it's a trade agreement with the EU
Trump congratulates Starmer
Starmer explains it's a UK-US trade deal (not with EU)
June 17, 2025 at 3:23 AM
If Biden said this, there’d be multiple book deals commissioned about how old and out of touch he is
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Arturo Obrego, a 77-year-old army veteran who hitchiked from Huntington Beach is going viral for getting hit with wooden baton by officers on horses and knocked down during today’s peaceful “No Kings” protest in DTLA. @TheGlutster ran into him at Union Station a couple of hours after the incident.
June 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Arturo Obrego, a 77-year-old army veteran who hitchiked from Huntington Beach is going viral for getting hit with wooden baton by officers on horses and knocked down during today’s peaceful “No Kings” protest in DTLA. @TheGlutster ran into him at Union Station a couple of hours after the incident.
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This election is in your hands. But only if you’re registered to vote in New York City.
The deadline is Saturday. zohranfornyc.com/vote
The deadline is Saturday. zohranfornyc.com/vote
June 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This election is in your hands. But only if you’re registered to vote in New York City.
The deadline is Saturday. zohranfornyc.com/vote
The deadline is Saturday. zohranfornyc.com/vote
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You can’t make this up.
Republicans snuck a “tanning bed tax break” in their bill—the same bill that’s going to make hospitals go under and take away hospital beds.
They’re too ashamed to even say it, too.
Republicans snuck a “tanning bed tax break” in their bill—the same bill that’s going to make hospitals go under and take away hospital beds.
They’re too ashamed to even say it, too.
May 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
You can’t make this up.
Republicans snuck a “tanning bed tax break” in their bill—the same bill that’s going to make hospitals go under and take away hospital beds.
They’re too ashamed to even say it, too.
Republicans snuck a “tanning bed tax break” in their bill—the same bill that’s going to make hospitals go under and take away hospital beds.
They’re too ashamed to even say it, too.
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"The crowd chants 'Don’t take the mother!' over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"The crowd chants 'Don’t take the mother!' over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
/Endgame Ronin meme
May 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
/Endgame Ronin meme
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You know the *only* reason he got out so fast was a reporter live posted about this for hours. And, a large amount of public pressure.
Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately.
Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately.
BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.
April 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
You know the *only* reason he got out so fast was a reporter live posted about this for hours. And, a large amount of public pressure.
Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately.
Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately.
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The two most powerful Republican politicians in America - the president and co-president of the United States - are publicly praising and defending and excusing the crimes of a far-right foreign politician who leads a party founded by a Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi.
We are in a very, very dark place.
We are in a very, very dark place.
April 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The two most powerful Republican politicians in America - the president and co-president of the United States - are publicly praising and defending and excusing the crimes of a far-right foreign politician who leads a party founded by a Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi.
We are in a very, very dark place.
We are in a very, very dark place.
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The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment.
Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.
Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.
March 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment.
Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.
Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.
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My latest post is now out.
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
Censor, purge, defund: how Trump following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come
christinapagel.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
My latest post is now out.
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
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It’s been a long day, but in short, bullies ain’t shit! I don’t care what title you hold! This isn’t some long gone reality tv show or failed casino; it is war!
How dare a draft dodging dumb dupe humiliate an ally & berate a brave man who has actually been on a battlefield for his people?!
How dare a draft dodging dumb dupe humiliate an ally & berate a brave man who has actually been on a battlefield for his people?!
March 1, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It’s been a long day, but in short, bullies ain’t shit! I don’t care what title you hold! This isn’t some long gone reality tv show or failed casino; it is war!
How dare a draft dodging dumb dupe humiliate an ally & berate a brave man who has actually been on a battlefield for his people?!
How dare a draft dodging dumb dupe humiliate an ally & berate a brave man who has actually been on a battlefield for his people?!
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We have to acknowledge the truth about MAGA: “They do not care about fixing anything. They do not care about running the government. They want to set the Constitution on fire, destroy the federal government, and torture and murder their enemies…” [kottke.org]
“Was Anyone Going to Say Anything?”
Will Stancil on Bluesky:
I don’t know how to say this any louder
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS MORE RADICAL, MORE FASCIST, MORE VIOLENT THAN ANYONE IN MAINSTREAM POLITICS OR MEDIA IS WILLING TO ADMIT OUT LOUD
THEY ARE F
kottke.org
January 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We have to acknowledge the truth about MAGA: “They do not care about fixing anything. They do not care about running the government. They want to set the Constitution on fire, destroy the federal government, and torture and murder their enemies…” [kottke.org]
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
January 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
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Heartbreaking. Inexcusable. Infuriating.
Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Heartbreaking. Inexcusable. Infuriating.
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Holy shit this filing update is wild! It states that:
1. Zuckerberg gave the ok to train off copyrighted works
2. Engineers wrote scripts to remove copyright info
3. Meta downloaded illegal torrents to train models of
GenAi is a house of cards, I swear.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/m...
1. Zuckerberg gave the ok to train off copyrighted works
2. Engineers wrote scripts to remove copyright info
3. Meta downloaded illegal torrents to train models of
GenAi is a house of cards, I swear.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/m...
Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims | TechCrunch
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team approval to train on copyrighted documents, according to a new court filing.
techcrunch.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Holy shit this filing update is wild! It states that:
1. Zuckerberg gave the ok to train off copyrighted works
2. Engineers wrote scripts to remove copyright info
3. Meta downloaded illegal torrents to train models of
GenAi is a house of cards, I swear.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/m...
1. Zuckerberg gave the ok to train off copyrighted works
2. Engineers wrote scripts to remove copyright info
3. Meta downloaded illegal torrents to train models of
GenAi is a house of cards, I swear.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/m...