Milo Baynes and the Cowardly Caves of Centrist Senators
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If scaring 30,000 children in a school district into missing school is "the worst of the worst," then they nailed it.
As @people.com reported yesterday, more than 30,000 children in just one North Carolina district alone skipped class on Monday due to immigration raids: people.com/more-than-30...
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
If scaring 30,000 children in a school district into missing school is "the worst of the worst," then they nailed it.
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My copy of the Constitution appears to be missing the part of Article II that allows the president to “preempt state legislation” by imperial decree.
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The WH is considering an executive order preempting state legislation on AI if the moratorium does not pass in the NDAA, according to a person familiar with the matter. However, a WH official said until such an order is announced, "discussion about potential executive orders is speculation."
The WH is considering an executive order preempting state legislation on AI if the moratorium does not pass in the NDAA, according to a person familiar with the matter. However, a WH official said until such an order is announced, "discussion about potential executive orders is speculation."
News: Democrats seeking to block Trump’s state AI moratorium from NDAA. Top SASC Dem Reed says he “absolutely” wants to keep it out but it might be kicked up to leadership negotiation
www.semafor.com/article/11/1...
www.semafor.com/article/11/1...
November 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
My copy of the Constitution appears to be missing the part of Article II that allows the president to “preempt state legislation” by imperial decree.
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I think about this every g-ddamn day.
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I think about this every g-ddamn day.
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Trump is propping up the fossil fuel industry to please Saudi Arabia.
***According to Trump.***
***According to Trump.***
Trump: "I don't think Saudi Arabia would like me too much if we decided to kill oil and natural gas. There's nothing like it. It works. Windmills don't work. Other things -- I don't want to get it into too much -- but they don't work. What does work is natural gas, oil, nuclear, and other things."
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Trump is propping up the fossil fuel industry to please Saudi Arabia.
***According to Trump.***
***According to Trump.***
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desperately wish i had come up with it
calling TCW "wa-luigi coates" is... god.
Would hate to have to work with Wa-Luigi Coates on a group project
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
desperately wish i had come up with it
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The Wake County Public School System released data Wednesday showing how student enrollment has been affected by the federal immigration crackdown that began in the Triangle Tuesday. Some parents are worried about lasting trauma. ncnewsline.com/2025/11/19/a... #ncpol #Raleigh
As immigration raids descend on Triangle, focus turns to protecting children from trauma • NC Newsline
While no immigration enforcement activities were reported at any of its campuses, WCPSS recorded a 67% jump in absences on Nov. 18.
ncnewsline.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The Wake County Public School System released data Wednesday showing how student enrollment has been affected by the federal immigration crackdown that began in the Triangle Tuesday. Some parents are worried about lasting trauma. ncnewsline.com/2025/11/19/a... #ncpol #Raleigh
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Sex. They want sex robots.
one of the things I really do not understand is why so much of the development of robots seems to be focused on making them bipedal like humans. Why? It's an insane allocation of resources when it would be much easier to give them three or four "legs" or come up with some new system
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Sex. They want sex robots.
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Attendance drops in Wake, Durham, Chapel Hill schools during Border Patrol surge. On Tuesday, 19,471 Wake County students were absent, or nearly 1 in 9 kids. That was 7,841 more absences compared to a normal day. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e... #nced #ncpol #wcpss
Attendance drops in Wake, Durham, Chapel Hill schools during Border Patrol surge
Nearly 1 in 9 Wake County students were absent on Tuesday, far higher than the normal total.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Attendance drops in Wake, Durham, Chapel Hill schools during Border Patrol surge. On Tuesday, 19,471 Wake County students were absent, or nearly 1 in 9 kids. That was 7,841 more absences compared to a normal day. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e... #nced #ncpol #wcpss
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Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
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indeed, this is the one useful thing about Grok and Grokipedia nymag.com/intelligence...
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
indeed, this is the one useful thing about Grok and Grokipedia nymag.com/intelligence...
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Welcome to the loophole.
Bondi on the Epstein investigations that Trump demanded: "We're not gonna say anything else on that because now it is a pending investigation in SDNY"
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Welcome to the loophole.
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So Trump's Border Patrol invaded Charlotte, and then Raleigh, and other towns all over North Carolina.
What did it all accomplish? 🤬
What did it all accomplish? 🤬
November 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
So Trump's Border Patrol invaded Charlotte, and then Raleigh, and other towns all over North Carolina.
What did it all accomplish? 🤬
What did it all accomplish? 🤬
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The Trump White House sees Zelensky as the adversary who must be pressured, and Putin as the sympathetic partner whose demands deserve accommodation. Always has.
So they’re treating a corruption scandal in Ukraine as an opportunity to get Russia concessions that Russia cannot win on its own.
So they’re treating a corruption scandal in Ukraine as an opportunity to get Russia concessions that Russia cannot win on its own.
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The Trump White House sees Zelensky as the adversary who must be pressured, and Putin as the sympathetic partner whose demands deserve accommodation. Always has.
So they’re treating a corruption scandal in Ukraine as an opportunity to get Russia concessions that Russia cannot win on its own.
So they’re treating a corruption scandal in Ukraine as an opportunity to get Russia concessions that Russia cannot win on its own.
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Here's a strange story that may get little notice amid all the understandable crush of news about immigration raids: #ncpol www.wral.com/news/state/n...
NC Bar rebukes GOP push to publicize employees’ political affiliations
Republican operatives want to know the political parties and campaign contributions of state regulators who oversee lawyers in North Carolina. The State Bar said it doesn’t know that information and w...
www.wral.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Here's a strange story that may get little notice amid all the understandable crush of news about immigration raids: #ncpol www.wral.com/news/state/n...
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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Spent this weekend exploring some towns along the border between the Carolinas...so here's the photo thread no one asked for...
First up: Morven, NC
First up: Morven, NC
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Spent this weekend exploring some towns along the border between the Carolinas...so here's the photo thread no one asked for...
First up: Morven, NC
First up: Morven, NC
If a genie gave me 3 wishes…
…I’d have to pack Wishes #1 & #2 with a bunch of sub-clauses covering world peace & ending poverty, hate, etc.
Because wish #3 is that — outside of a very short list of cases — saying or writing “deconstruct” or “deconstruction” now fills your shower with skunks.
…I’d have to pack Wishes #1 & #2 with a bunch of sub-clauses covering world peace & ending poverty, hate, etc.
Because wish #3 is that — outside of a very short list of cases — saying or writing “deconstruct” or “deconstruction” now fills your shower with skunks.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
If a genie gave me 3 wishes…
…I’d have to pack Wishes #1 & #2 with a bunch of sub-clauses covering world peace & ending poverty, hate, etc.
Because wish #3 is that — outside of a very short list of cases — saying or writing “deconstruct” or “deconstruction” now fills your shower with skunks.
…I’d have to pack Wishes #1 & #2 with a bunch of sub-clauses covering world peace & ending poverty, hate, etc.
Because wish #3 is that — outside of a very short list of cases — saying or writing “deconstruct” or “deconstruction” now fills your shower with skunks.
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Seeing MattY’s incredibly shallow UK politics takes has me feeling like I owe an apology to a lot of Americans on here for getting annoyed at their comparatively in-depth understanding of our political dynamics
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Seeing MattY’s incredibly shallow UK politics takes has me feeling like I owe an apology to a lot of Americans on here for getting annoyed at their comparatively in-depth understanding of our political dynamics
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We will not report anything without confirmation which we do independently. If you see something, the best place to call is @siembranc.bsky.social’s hotline. Also please follow them.
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
We will not report anything without confirmation which we do independently. If you see something, the best place to call is @siembranc.bsky.social’s hotline. Also please follow them.
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& if they are obvious omissions, just keep banging on about those
it was the 'gap in the tapes' as much as the tapes that undermined nixon
it was the 'gap in the tapes' as much as the tapes that undermined nixon
lot of people on this app seem really committed to the notion that nothing damaging will come out of the Epstein files.
let yourself hope a little! it’s free!
let yourself hope a little! it’s free!
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
& if they are obvious omissions, just keep banging on about those
it was the 'gap in the tapes' as much as the tapes that undermined nixon
it was the 'gap in the tapes' as much as the tapes that undermined nixon
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Nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from the Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and cannot be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there:
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’
"Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all."
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from the Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and cannot be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there:
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
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Was just listening to a conversation between a VC and an author who writes about innovation, and they were discussing "why Elon couldn't successfully reform the government" and it was the dumbest conversation I've heard in a while. And I realized they were starting with the wrong premise...
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Was just listening to a conversation between a VC and an author who writes about innovation, and they were discussing "why Elon couldn't successfully reform the government" and it was the dumbest conversation I've heard in a while. And I realized they were starting with the wrong premise...
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I've been told voters choose who to support by carefully comparing their own policy preferences with the stated policy positions of the politician in question, which makes this chart quite confusing.
Zohran Mamdani has a higher favorability rating than Donald Trump, JD Vance or Chuck Schumer. The most popular political figures in America are Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
November 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I've been told voters choose who to support by carefully comparing their own policy preferences with the stated policy positions of the politician in question, which makes this chart quite confusing.
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The "men would rather do X than go to therapy" meme but for America not just reducing its use of fossil fuels
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The "men would rather do X than go to therapy" meme but for America not just reducing its use of fossil fuels