Leila
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Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid
The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
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O'DONNELL: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?
TRUMP: No. I think they haven't gone far enough.
TRUMP: No. I think they haven't gone far enough.
November 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
O'DONNELL: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?
TRUMP: No. I think they haven't gone far enough.
TRUMP: No. I think they haven't gone far enough.
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In the past month, a serial child rapist has murdered 100 people in the Caribbean, destroyed the East Wing of the White House, neutralized our Congress, & stolen food from 20% of American children.
We pay him, house him, drive him, fly him, and pay for his bodyguards.
Call your reps
202-224-3121
We pay him, house him, drive him, fly him, and pay for his bodyguards.
Call your reps
202-224-3121
November 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
In the past month, a serial child rapist has murdered 100 people in the Caribbean, destroyed the East Wing of the White House, neutralized our Congress, & stolen food from 20% of American children.
We pay him, house him, drive him, fly him, and pay for his bodyguards.
Call your reps
202-224-3121
We pay him, house him, drive him, fly him, and pay for his bodyguards.
Call your reps
202-224-3121
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learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.
October 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.
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ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
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Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.
ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.
ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.
“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America
Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...
www.propublica.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.
ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.
ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.
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BREAKING: Stephen Miller—both Trump Administration capo and de facto head of DHS, ICE, and DOJ, has just declared that peaceful protesters are "street terrorists." Under an executive order signed by Trump just days ago, that means he is saying that all protesters in America can be arrested on sight.
October 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
BREAKING: Stephen Miller—both Trump Administration capo and de facto head of DHS, ICE, and DOJ, has just declared that peaceful protesters are "street terrorists." Under an executive order signed by Trump just days ago, that means he is saying that all protesters in America can be arrested on sight.
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One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.
Listen for dangerous words.
October 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.
Listen for dangerous words.
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"This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power — to the detriment of this nation," Judge Immergut wrote in 30-page opinion: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
October 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
"This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power — to the detriment of this nation," Judge Immergut wrote in 30-page opinion: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.
Version of original on left, updated on right:
Version of original on left, updated on right:
October 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.
Version of original on left, updated on right:
Version of original on left, updated on right:
I don’t actually support the death penalty, so no. I am capable of calling someone a fascist without wishing death on them, Stephen Miller. He might want to get that black and white thinking checked though. Maybe it would make him less of a fascist.
October 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I don’t actually support the death penalty, so no. I am capable of calling someone a fascist without wishing death on them, Stephen Miller. He might want to get that black and white thinking checked though. Maybe it would make him less of a fascist.
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Stephen Miller tells law enforcement in MEMPHIS: “You are unleashed”
October 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Stephen Miller tells law enforcement in MEMPHIS: “You are unleashed”
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This is who Chuck Schumer thought he was going to negotiate with
I am sick of Democratic leaders who have no idea the level of danger this country is in and how far we have fallen from the democracy we had just 12 years ago
I am sick of Democratic leaders who have no idea the level of danger this country is in and how far we have fallen from the democracy we had just 12 years ago
September 30, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This is who Chuck Schumer thought he was going to negotiate with
I am sick of Democratic leaders who have no idea the level of danger this country is in and how far we have fallen from the democracy we had just 12 years ago
I am sick of Democratic leaders who have no idea the level of danger this country is in and how far we have fallen from the democracy we had just 12 years ago
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Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?
September 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?
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Some preliminary thoughts on Trump's new executive order "Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence," which declares a law enforcement crackdown on some ill-specified blend of action and speech by his political adversaries, on grounds that they encourage and abet violence. /1
Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
www.whitehouse.gov
September 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Some preliminary thoughts on Trump's new executive order "Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence," which declares a law enforcement crackdown on some ill-specified blend of action and speech by his political adversaries, on grounds that they encourage and abet violence. /1
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Throughout yesterday's conference, Trump and RFK Jr. framed autism as something to eliminate rather than what scientists agree it is: a spectrum of neurological differences with a wide range of symptoms.
Disgust, horror, and "elimination": Trump and RFK Jr.'s eugenicist autism conference
The most striking omission from Monday's White House pageant: autistic people.
www.motherjones.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Throughout yesterday's conference, Trump and RFK Jr. framed autism as something to eliminate rather than what scientists agree it is: a spectrum of neurological differences with a wide range of symptoms.
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Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs
September 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs
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"This isn't who we are," says nation whose history books are a bunch of redactions
September 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"This isn't who we are," says nation whose history books are a bunch of redactions
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all of this makes me want to scream, but the part I'm going to be up all night rage-spiraling about is accusing her of "potentially endangering the physical safety of our staff"
just flippin' those narratives right around so the Black woman, a TARGET of violent hate speech, becomes the aggressor
just flippin' those narratives right around so the Black woman, a TARGET of violent hate speech, becomes the aggressor
WHAT THE HELL
September 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
all of this makes me want to scream, but the part I'm going to be up all night rage-spiraling about is accusing her of "potentially endangering the physical safety of our staff"
just flippin' those narratives right around so the Black woman, a TARGET of violent hate speech, becomes the aggressor
just flippin' those narratives right around so the Black woman, a TARGET of violent hate speech, becomes the aggressor
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wow
Opposition to RFKJr is ramping up.
Joint statement from Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and 21 other organizations 👇
Joint statement from Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and 21 other organizations 👇
September 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
wow
former philosophy major got a little too excited to see metaethics trending. but no. of course it's just meta. and their lack of ethics😩
August 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
former philosophy major got a little too excited to see metaethics trending. but no. of course it's just meta. and their lack of ethics😩
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Anyone else notice a pattern in the government officials Trump is firing?
August 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Anyone else notice a pattern in the government officials Trump is firing?
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twice today, when pressured, Stripe operators have said, plainly, that i cannot use stripe for the purchase of LGBTQ content. not just adult content, but explicitly LGBTQ.
August 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
twice today, when pressured, Stripe operators have said, plainly, that i cannot use stripe for the purchase of LGBTQ content. not just adult content, but explicitly LGBTQ.