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vance is a genuine lunatic
JD VANCE THINKS BRITAIN & FRANCE ARE AMERICAS LIKELY ENEMIES.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
December 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
vance is a genuine lunatic
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Goodnight from Sue Bedwell, regretting taking the kids to The Babes In The Wood panto at The Mercury Theatre as its given them Master of Moss nightmares. Goodnight from Jo Hargate, gone to bed early to avoid the Boxing Day party getting to the séance stage. Goodnight from Hookland.
December 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Goodnight from Sue Bedwell, regretting taking the kids to The Babes In The Wood panto at The Mercury Theatre as its given them Master of Moss nightmares. Goodnight from Jo Hargate, gone to bed early to avoid the Boxing Day party getting to the séance stage. Goodnight from Hookland.
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writing a horror movie about a jewish exorcist whose catchphrase is “dybbuk stops here”
December 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
writing a horror movie about a jewish exorcist whose catchphrase is “dybbuk stops here”
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And if you want further proof that #Florida woman turned AG Pam Bondi is incompetent:
A leaked Justice Department memo directs federal prosecutors to press “domestic terrorism” charges against individuals who record immigration operations. Miller and Bondi must be stopped.
December 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
And if you want further proof that #Florida woman turned AG Pam Bondi is incompetent:
The federal statute dealing with terrorism doesn’t delineate penalties for domestic terrorism, it only defines it. This is unlike foreign terrorism, which is the first half of the statute, where penalties are delineated. It’s why it’s always been very hard to bring domestic terrorism charges.
A leaked Justice Department memo directs federal prosecutors to press “domestic terrorism” charges against individuals who record immigration operations. Miller and Bondi must be stopped.
December 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The federal statute dealing with terrorism doesn’t delineate penalties for domestic terrorism, it only defines it. This is unlike foreign terrorism, which is the first half of the statute, where penalties are delineated. It’s why it’s always been very hard to bring domestic terrorism charges.
This is not domestic terrorism.
A leaked Justice Department memo directs federal prosecutors to press “domestic terrorism” charges against individuals who record immigration operations. Miller and Bondi must be stopped.
December 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This is not domestic terrorism.
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Important correction to an otherwise good piece: Rubio is NOT the son of Cuban exiles. He passed himself off as one for many years, but his parents were economic refugees who fled to the U.S. before Castro took over. Receipts:
www.npr.org/2011/10/24/1...
www.npr.org/2011/10/24/1...
December 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Important correction to an otherwise good piece: Rubio is NOT the son of Cuban exiles. He passed himself off as one for many years, but his parents were economic refugees who fled to the U.S. before Castro took over. Receipts:
www.npr.org/2011/10/24/1...
www.npr.org/2011/10/24/1...
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I should correct myself above, because I don't know for certain that the graduate student (I'm not naming her, leave her the hell alone) has lost income/funding, only that she has been removed from the course.
December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I should correct myself above, because I don't know for certain that the graduate student (I'm not naming her, leave her the hell alone) has lost income/funding, only that she has been removed from the course.
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I would really like to see journalists and pundits get the language right here. Again, a transgender STUDENT has lost her job, her income, and her privacy because another student decided she could make a career off of a manufactured controversy.
December 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I would really like to see journalists and pundits get the language right here. Again, a transgender STUDENT has lost her job, her income, and her privacy because another student decided she could make a career off of a manufactured controversy.
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Yes, there is a power differential between an undergraduate student and the teaching assistant who grades their papers, but a grad student from a vulnerable minority is being victimized for doing her job exactly the way thousands of cisgender TAs would have. That's not an accident.
December 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Yes, there is a power differential between an undergraduate student and the teaching assistant who grades their papers, but a grad student from a vulnerable minority is being victimized for doing her job exactly the way thousands of cisgender TAs would have. That's not an accident.
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Something that's getting lost in this story is that the "instructor" in question is not a professor with a PhD; she is a Graduate Teaching Assistant, meaning the University of Oklahoma has thrown one of ITS OWN STUDENTS under the bus to appease a right wing grifter who tried to dunk on a trans woman
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Something that's getting lost in this story is that the "instructor" in question is not a professor with a PhD; she is a Graduate Teaching Assistant, meaning the University of Oklahoma has thrown one of ITS OWN STUDENTS under the bus to appease a right wing grifter who tried to dunk on a trans woman
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Stephen Miller is a horrible racist in the sense that he is actually not that good at being racist.
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Stephen Miller is a horrible racist in the sense that he is actually not that good at being racist.
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These inter-agency agreements and government contacts probably need to be FOIA. I would also begin to tie habeas review to these larger policy choices.
December 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
These inter-agency agreements and government contacts probably need to be FOIA. I would also begin to tie habeas review to these larger policy choices.
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The key story today is actually here: www.politico.com/news/2025/12.... The attempt to avoid the Privacy Act by centralizing data on U.S. citizens through agreements with various agencies and through pressuring state agencies is happening right now.
ICE’s interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: ‘What is it for?’
The immigration agency’s surveillance tools and increased access to government databases draws privacy concerns.
www.politico.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The key story today is actually here: www.politico.com/news/2025/12.... The attempt to avoid the Privacy Act by centralizing data on U.S. citizens through agreements with various agencies and through pressuring state agencies is happening right now.
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ICE saying that birth certificates, state ids like driver’s licenses, and U.S. issued ids are not not sufficient evidence of citizenship seems like a major question to me.
So the new admin policy is, apparently, if we don’t think you are a “citizen” because of your race or ethnicity, we claim your birth certificate is a fraud and deport you any way, even if a judge says “don’t you dare.” It’s Obama birtherism writ large.
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
December 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
ICE saying that birth certificates, state ids like driver’s licenses, and U.S. issued ids are not not sufficient evidence of citizenship seems like a major question to me.
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
👇!!!!!!!!
📖 „Hope is the Last to Die” by Halina Birenbaum
Memoirs of Halina Birenbaum, who survived the Warsaw Ghetto, from where she was deported to Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Neustadt-Glewe camps.
#ebook: https://books.auschwitz.org/en_US/p/E-BOOK-Halina-Birenbaum-Hope-is-the-Last-to-Die/678
Memoirs of Halina Birenbaum, who survived the Warsaw Ghetto, from where she was deported to Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Neustadt-Glewe camps.
#ebook: https://books.auschwitz.org/en_US/p/E-BOOK-Halina-Birenbaum-Hope-is-the-Last-to-Die/678
December 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
👇!!!!!!!!
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🧵 "Their explicit goal is to segregate kids into an online environment absolutely packed full of chatbots, instead of humans.
Chatbots created by nazi sex pests, which encourage people to kill themselves and churn out CSAM deepfakes and go into mental health crises etc."
Chatbots created by nazi sex pests, which encourage people to kill themselves and churn out CSAM deepfakes and go into mental health crises etc."
As the anglosphere gleefully sets fire to the internet out of virulent transphobia, one of its main tools is age verification: dividing the internet into one for adults, and one for kids.
And, the *exact same people* are desperately trying to cram genAI into the kids' internet.
And, the *exact same people* are desperately trying to cram genAI into the kids' internet.
December 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
🧵 "Their explicit goal is to segregate kids into an online environment absolutely packed full of chatbots, instead of humans.
Chatbots created by nazi sex pests, which encourage people to kill themselves and churn out CSAM deepfakes and go into mental health crises etc."
Chatbots created by nazi sex pests, which encourage people to kill themselves and churn out CSAM deepfakes and go into mental health crises etc."
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Change of plans! Listen to me discuss the Egyptologist and prolific British Museum “collector” E.A. Wallis Budge with John Roderick on the Omnibus Project today!
Plot twist! @rosejudson.bsky.social’s guest appearance on the Omnibus Podcast is out today! Please give it a listen (and follow that show if you already don’t—it has a great back catalogue). BoAT 43 will now air Sunday. #podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
Omnibus
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December 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Change of plans! Listen to me discuss the Egyptologist and prolific British Museum “collector” E.A. Wallis Budge with John Roderick on the Omnibus Project today!
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MechaHitler, M.D.
December 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
MechaHitler, M.D.
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remember when the democrats decided to tactically stop pointing out that these people are weird freaks no one likes
Indiana State Senator wishes you a Merry Christmas by… posting images of himself assaulting Santa Claus.
Are the fascists okay?
Are the fascists okay?
December 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
remember when the democrats decided to tactically stop pointing out that these people are weird freaks no one likes