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Yup, they got the sanctioned tanker. THANK GOD, I was legit worried he just ordered the US Navy to commit actual piracy. Lololol. This is 100% defensible, even tho a lot of people are gonna really hate hearing that.
December 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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“In 2019, researchers estimated that CBP officers are 5 times more likely to be arrested than local and state law enforcement personnel. CBP personel have been arrested for corruption, sexual assault, aggravated assault, domestic violence, and sex crimes against children.”
December 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.

Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.

Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I’ve been working on this for a long time and I’m excited to finally share it publicly! Follow along as we get everything ready @soccerhouse.com or join the mailing list at soccerhouse.com! Can't wait to welcome everyone through the doors in the spring.
December 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Noteworthy, too, that the Indiana GOP didn't come anywhere close to maxing out the available "yes" votes.

The measure still fails if it gets five more GOP votes, which means five GOP senators could have had cover if they needed it.

They decided they didn't need it.
December 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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We need to stop being so institutionally provincial! For every seemingly intractable institutional problem we face, other countries have pioneered multiple alternatives, some of which might even be quite trivial to implement!
"One thing that presidential countries have done to give impeachment teeth is to make the removal trial a secret ballot. South Korea does this, and that is why they were successful in removing their president after he attempted to impose martial law on the country on a thin pretense."
Impeach and Remove the Bastards
A scenario for 2027.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Saying "it's good that this is happening" isn't the same as saying "the people who are doing this are good."

Scumbag politicians figuring out what the progressive base wants and giving it to them is an essential part of making the country better. Always has been, always will be.
December 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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People are dying over who gets to steal from a dude in Iowa who thinks the model who "accidentally" texted him has fallen in love with him.
December 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Brett Kavanaugh sees no problem with this woman being forced to do this every day for the rest of her life
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”

The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.

It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.

Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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If you are born here, and you are subject to our laws, you're one of us. You're an American, and you have all the rights that Americans have, from the moment of your birth. Period. No exceptions.

That's what the Fourteenth Amendment says, and it's fucking beautiful.
December 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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When a driver slows from 30 mph to 8 mph to roll through a stop sign, they’ve reduced their speed by 75% so it <feels> to them like they’re complying, whereas

A bicyclist slowing from 10 mph to roll through at the same speed of 8 mph looks to drivers like “they barely slowed down”
I’m always confused when people complain about cyclists not stopping at stop signs.

The vast majority of drivers do a “rolling stop” (i.e., they don’t actually stop) when possible.

This is so normal people don’t even see it as breaking the law, but when cyclists do the same thing, it stands out.
November 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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This.

I beg folks, especially everyone who's understandably given up on the Dems, to at least vote in the upcoming Democratic primary. Voting against do-nothing centrist Dems in the primary can actually make a difference, if there's a better person running. (This is how AOC won.)
it's very plausible that the fractures in the right will, short term, lead to a loss in the 2026 elections. i think i believe that will happen. however whether that leads to *any good results* is different and depends very much on what the democrats do after taking one or more chambers of congress.
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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The truth is that the sentence wasn’t inaccurate – it was removed because of legal fears. And that’s exactly the concern my lecture raises: when institutions start censoring themselves out of fear of those in power. /3
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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i think if your marriage is getting blown up by a chatbot, it was already on its way out the door
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Just putting it out there that I’m expecting someone from Chicago to use Gotham winning this title as the 8 seed as an example for not doing more this offseason #WithTheStars #NWSL
November 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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NEW: Body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent in Chicago using ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images,” Judge Ellis reveals in a scathing written ruling.
Story here:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/i...
Injunction ruling provides new look at ‘Blitz,’ from tear gas to agent using ChatGPT to help write report
A federal judge on Thursday issued a scathing opinion that takes a deep dive into the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” revealing new information glean…
www.chicagotribune.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Cw: suicide
This article is devastating.

Earlier this month, a 15-year-old died by suicide the day after posting about a substitute teacher insisting on misgendering him.

Suicide can have many contributing factors. His family is speaking out about bullying and misgendering as two.
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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This is not in disagreement with OP at all, but I think we all quietly, lowkey imagine the very funny "are we the baddies" bit could be a real thing. But like, they know they're the bad guys. They think it makes them cool. Later, after you destroy them and their movement, they'll pretend otherwise
Is there any point, when you’re threatening to break a judge’s car windows so you can detain the teenage Supreme Court intern he’s driving home for protection, that you’re like huh, maybe I’m the bad guy?
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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In my near-35 years of existence, I struggle to think of a single equivalent event which so clearly illustrates the sheer rewards of remaining flexible and diplomatic yet true to your own values.

and Mamdani isn’t even sworn into office yet
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?

TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Understanding this dynamic is key to understanding what the endgame is for a whole suite of GOP policies, including the rash of anti-trans attacks.

It's about creating a permission structure for random people to do awful things to disfavoured groups, and less about using state capacity to do so.
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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As trans people, living openly as ourselves often requires immense courage-and that courage inspires others to live more fully and authentically.

When we lose trans people, everyone loses so much.
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM