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“For a little under an hour — 41 minutes, according to a separate US official — Bradley and the rest of the US military command center discussed what to do as they watched the men struggle to overturn what was left of their boat, the sources said.” —CNN
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My ancestors got here in 1639. My Ohio-born great grandfather used to say our family sacrificed for this country so that the immigrant who arrives here tomorrow would have the same rights we do.

Casey and his post-Civil War family can kindly fuck off.
For those not following at home, “Heritage American” is a category of white supremacy covering people whose ancestors were white folks who were pioneers.
December 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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“[Italians] are coming in waves and think they have a right to come….There has been a surfeit of unskilled illiterates for years and the people do not want any more of them.” — the Jersey (City) Journal, November 29, 1902, a year before Frank Sinatra‘s father arrived from Italy.
He’s punking us now.
December 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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the promise of America, to Miller, is that anyone might transcend the circumstances of their ancestry to become a Nazi
Relatedly, we obtained an unpublished history of Stephen Miller's ancestors' immigration to the US, written by his grandmother. People like them were attacked in terms very similar to the ones Miller and MAGA use about today's immigrants:

newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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RIP First Amendment
December 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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We revealed the existence of Mobile Fortfy, ICE's new facial recognition app that turns the system used to vet travelers at the border inwards to U.S. streets: www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
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December 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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December 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Trump's attacks on our Smithsonian museums undermine its mission to provide an accurate picture of our history—not a censored, whitewashed version.

@reppaultonko.bsky.social & I met with Smithsonian Secretary Bunch III on how to defend our museums and safeguard our shared history.
December 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.
December 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The Trump administration is putting extreme restrictions to Head Start programs, including preventing the use of words like “woman,” “disability,” and “race” when applying for grants.

We're taking President Trump to court to protect this critical program.
December 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post published stories about Trump writing 200 unhinged posts on Christmas Day
You almost have to feel bad for an ugly old man with no family or friends to keep him company on Christmas Day that he makes 200 crazy posts ranting about everything under the sun.

Almost.
December 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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“Today, ProPublica is launching Rx Inspector, a first-of-its-kind database that provides answers to what the FDA won’t tell us: where our generics are coming from and the track records of the factories that made them. The information is harder to find than you may think.”
Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t
We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.
www.propublica.org
December 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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The fact they treat prompt writing as a coveted skill is such a tragic self-own and they don’t even get it. Society is being pressed through cheesecloth by illiterati.
December 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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“A glitchy humanities robot” is a good way of thinking about the chatbots. @tyleraking.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
December 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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The DOJ identified at least 10 co-conspirators who worked with Epstein and Maxwell. It’s obvious to anyone with two eyes that Epstein and Maxwell were engaged in organized crime, yet NO ONE ELSE involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring has faced criminal charges. Why?
December 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I love that Shaq is on tv dressed as Santa’s bookie for Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Enjoying my last Merry Christmas!
Donald Trump wishes Merry Christmas to himself:
This is what's known as "consciousness of guilt"
December 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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fa-la-la-la-la

When we’re not knitting, sometimes we make ornaments.
December 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Good night to everyone except for the armed National Guardsman who, after clocking my sign, felt it necessary to leave his group, walk over to the curb, and aggressively shout Merry Christmas across the street at me until I finally acknowledged him. I feel super safe walking alone at night now.
December 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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DC has been occupied for 136 days. #freedc #endtheoccupation #noiseeverynight 🍒
December 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Tesla Takedown Georgetown DC Dance Against DOGE dancers spin the hits and move their hips! Still going strong after 43 weeks.
#TeslaTakedown
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December 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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If so, I wanna take a moment to say how insane it is if the NBA is doing a “tribute to the troops” for someone “deployed” to 14th and K St. NW. Like he just came back from Antietam. If true, it just normalizes Trump’s fascist contention that our cities demand military occupation. Free DC. Always.
December 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” speech *defended* conservatives.

Paraphrasing: “Some call all Republicans racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted, but that’s unfair to millions. It’s only half, the rest are good people.”

But the press made calling an openly bigoted campaign bigoted a scandal.
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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October 17, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.
December 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM