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The Trump Adm is arresting Don Lemon and overcharging disruptive protesters at Cities Church to posture as if it’s protecting Christians. It’s not. DHS is staging disruptive ops at other churches, at least one of which has had to go online. ...
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January 30, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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This was easily predicted by the writers of HBO's "Watchmen" series. One of its writers, Christal Henry, is a former Chicago police officer and discusses the dangers of law enforcement in masks in this Aug. 27, 2020 podcast about this show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_4Q...
January 30, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.

But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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Are John C*t*nz*ra and D*ante S*rv*n !CE agents yet?
October 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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The VERY MEAN AND NASTY Jesus Christ flipped over a bunch of tables in the temple and assaulted our fine money changers with a whip! HE WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH THIS. Jesus is a well-known leftist who has NO RESPECT for the businesses that make our houses of worship great!
January 30, 2026 at 2:38 PM
In an era of rapid media outlet ownership changes, consolidations, & shutdowns, and subsequent journalist layoffs and transition to freelance/pitch work for multiple outlets and/or self-published work, it will be easier than ever to arrest known journalists if they don't have a W-2 job.
“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.
January 30, 2026 at 4:24 PM
It's a good day for local arrest mad libs. Play along!

Fugitive [university, hospital, or other not-for-profit] [high profile job at that institution] arrested in [southern or eastern hemisphere country] on [geographic legal jurisdiction] [crime] charges
January 29, 2026 at 10:31 PM
All those shiny bloated $80,000 emotional support trucks with 6' grilles, blinding light bars, gun racks, Tr*ump flags, and Gadsden wraps, and when the literal federal jackbooted thugs & black helicopters that the right wing foretold actually show up it's a fleet of hatchbacks that answers the call.
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
January 27, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Well surprise, he was cut loose first.
If N*em was indeed hired to play aspirational Fascist Valkyrie Race Guardian to white Gen X women as B*vino plays aspirational PG-13 Kilgore to white Boomer men, it would follow that she would be ousted first. She has failed to deliver her segment of the market, and she's still not a white man.
I wonder whether N*em, who like B*vino seems to have been hired mostly to orchestrate and star in video content, was hired specifically to appeal to white women, to be a sort of aspirational Nordic Bombshell Sonnenrad Barbie (mixed iconography, but they love that so long as it's coded as white).
January 27, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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Guy wanted to be famous. He got his wish.
January 27, 2026 at 3:19 AM
If N*em was indeed hired to play aspirational Fascist Valkyrie Race Guardian to white Gen X women as B*vino plays aspirational PG-13 Kilgore to white Boomer men, it would follow that she would be ousted first. She has failed to deliver her segment of the market, and she's still not a white man.
I wonder whether N*em, who like B*vino seems to have been hired mostly to orchestrate and star in video content, was hired specifically to appeal to white women, to be a sort of aspirational Nordic Bombshell Sonnenrad Barbie (mixed iconography, but they love that so long as it's coded as white).
wouldn't necessarily assume inside information, but weiss is a reliable weathervane because she's a pure careerist and there has been a shift.
January 26, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I wonder whether N*em, who like B*vino seems to have been hired mostly to orchestrate and star in video content, was hired specifically to appeal to white women, to be a sort of aspirational Nordic Bombshell Sonnenrad Barbie (mixed iconography, but they love that so long as it's coded as white).
wouldn't necessarily assume inside information, but weiss is a reliable weathervane because she's a pure careerist and there has been a shift.
so bari definitely got the heads up that noem is being shitcanned, right?
January 26, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Tamir Rice both supposedly looked like an adult and supposedly looked like he had a gun in a time and place where it was legal for an adult to have a gun, and all these white American adults nodded sagely that it was tragic but understandable that he was shot and killed on sight.
Interesting how all the gun rights absolutism melts away in defense of federal death squads -- who are allegedly the reason for gun rights absolutism.
Early DHS spin (via Fox News) is that the person shot repeatedly by Border Patrol officers in Minneapolis was armed -- note that open carrying firearms is legal with a permit and notably, they are not (yet at least) claiming that the person fired or even brandished a gun, just had one.
January 24, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The Friend AI pendant and the Ro prescription-for-sale service have partnered to drive you into psychosis and down to 78 lbs so Rush can finish you off more efficiently, no waiting.

A shout out to all who improve the Friend ads when they are safely within human reach
January 24, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Youts behind me in Apocalypse Now: "It's in the 'ville. Wrigleyville, not Naperville."
January 24, 2026 at 1:27 AM
"He's a modern day El Chapo!"

The ancient forgotten crime lord, El Chapo, tried 2018-19.
January 23, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Just Following Orders is not an explanation the administration accepted from federal agents assigned to collect evidence to be used in due process indictments and trials, and now it tells its newly hired agents that they have "absolute immunity" of they kill. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
January 22, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Is he reading 1980s Christian premillennial dispensationalist books and identifying the Antichrist as an aspirational figure?
I’ve been reading Trump’s "Board of Peace Charter," and despite the name, this isn’t a multilateral institution, it’s a centralised structure built entirely around the authority of one person (Trump).
www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...
Full text: Charter of Trump’s Board of Peace
No mention of Gaza, which bolsters ToI's reporting that US also envisions panel helping resolve other conflicts worldwide; member countries must pay $1 billion for permanent spot
www.timesofisrael.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:51 PM
That's no egg; that's a space station.
January 15, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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Honest to goodness, he is the modern day Martin Luther. One of the greatest posters in all of human history, relentless, inability to let any argument go in responded to, on a mission for his cause, and supremely annoying to many many people.
January 13, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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January 6 isn't just the anniversary of the attempted coup, it's also the last time Twitter was Twitter. Because the jokes were like running water. Plentiful, refreshing, and sustaining. Now it's a Nazi pedophile machine.
January 6, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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I am constantly Googling "Lazarus Pit near me"
January 6, 2026 at 4:45 PM
There's a 15% chance that CPB sends a small boat full of armed thugs in fatigues zooming around on NYE, grinning madly. There's a 3% chance of them not only doing so but muzzle sweeping the crowd of revelers.
December 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This holiday season, you (plural) know who you (derogatory) are.
Don’t forget to think about what you’ve done this year. Me and titmouse hope you’re happy with your behavior.
December 30, 2025 at 4:29 AM
It's like GGers who swarmed targets with threats in 2014 now have federal jobs wherein they are queried by reporters, think back to when they spent 24/7 demanding that Anita S recant her editorials, Zoe Q enter a convent, or both cease living, and reply the way their targets did to harassment.
“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.
Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM