hyperpathy.bsky.social
@hyperpathy.bsky.social
PNW native, relocated to somewhere even darker and rainier. For some reason. Mostly lurking and politics reposts.
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This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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"Skånska politiker avskyr dem – liksom näringslivet, Skånetrafiken, EU och många pendlare.

Ändå finns de ”tillfälliga gränskontrollerna” kvar efter tio år. Samtidigt visar en ny rapport att bara 0,03 procent av alla som kollas saknar id." www.sydsvenskan.se/skane/bara-3...
Bara 3 av 10 000 saknar id – tillfälliga kontrollerna kvar efter tio år
Kostar 47 miljoner om året • Nytt förslag: låt polisen åka till Triangeln.
www.sydsvenskan.se
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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If this graph does not send chills up your spine, you may be a statistic already.
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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One of the most shameful incidents of WW2 was when the government and press scapegoated refugees, then decided to pack them off an a cramped ship, The HMT DUNERA and ship them to Australia.

As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards.

Now government policy
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Someone tag the Labour party: ““This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats.””

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Centre-left tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history
Political rivals say PM’s divisive politics have encouraged voters to ditch the Social Democrats for the far right
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I understand why some white liberals from the Deep South want to insist that there isn't something distinct (and bad) about Southern political culture but the problem with this is that we wouldn't even have this idea of "The South" as distinct from the rest of the US if there wasn't a there there
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The line “vote for us or you’ll get the far right” doesn’t really work when the policies you’re enacting are barely distinguishable from what the far right propose.
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Bovino’s rant fits the authoritarian indicators in our assessment: empowered security forces acting with impunity, militarized immigration raids, executive overreach through federalized enforcement, and loyalty-driven ops unmoored from oversight. His tone isn’t an outlier but a symptom.
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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that our policies are expressly designed to avoid paying people more money so we can stash it away in a few psychos' bank accounts is just so aggravating when you consider how boneheaded this is. but no lets round up 30M immigrants and impose crippling consumption taxes and see if that helps
Was reminded that Costco is treated like a woke company but in the end it is simply a corporation, just one that actually understands the value of reputation and symbiotic relationships with other businesses and it pisses off righties for doing it correctly.
How A Single Costco Changes Its Local Economy
YouTube video by Micro
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time getting over that the owner of the NY Times is in the Epstein files thing and they haven't even acknowledged this in any reporting.
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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I have some great news about this guy
The Border Patrol agent was the same one seen arresting a US citizen in Los Angeles at a Walmart
November 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Refugees & asylum seekers are largely a vulnerable, traumatised & disadvantaged group of people so to keep demonising & scapegoating them for political gain is disgusting & despicable. The end doesn’t justify this punching down means & in any case the end here seems to be the propaganda itself.
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Establishing an authoritarian state while simultaneously destroying state capacity was never going to work; it's just going to be massively unpleasant to live through, and for those of us who aren't young it will probably consume the remaining years we have.
I am well aware that they are and will continue to do massive damage to this country

but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not
November 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Essential reading from the report of the SARS Commission - although note the report itself has been made harder to find. Funny how that is 🤔.

So the old links won't work, you have to go here now: wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...

We could have stopped COVID in 2020, but for a few egos:
🧵 Excerpts from the 2006 report of Canada's SARS Commission. An inquiry into the mismanagement of SARS-CoV-1, it was the most essential read for any competent IPC / Public Health professional attempting to avoid mismanaging SARS-COV-2.

So…mostly ignored.

www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/e_records...
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."

Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:

www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM