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In the belly of the beast, prodding around, trying to give it gastrointestinal distress.
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All I hear when I learn about another one of these fail children is Al Pacino to Kevin Spacey in glengarry glen ross: "When I find out whose fucking cousin you are...."
The reporter, Kellen Browning, is about 28 years old and his first job out of college was with The New York Times.
Google results on his name are filled with references to his stint as a member of the Pomona College track team. He graduated in 2019.
Google results on his name are filled with references to his stint as a member of the Pomona College track team. He graduated in 2019.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 8:27 PM
All I hear when I learn about another one of these fail children is Al Pacino to Kevin Spacey in glengarry glen ross: "When I find out whose fucking cousin you are...."
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HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
February 16, 2026 at 6:32 PM
HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
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ICE doesn't ever "leave" any state. There will continue to be ICE and CBP enforcement actions as there were during previous presidents. Hillary Clinton was saying this in her remarks. She doesn't like the visible violence but she is fine with "regular" violence.
February 16, 2026 at 5:23 PM
ICE doesn't ever "leave" any state. There will continue to be ICE and CBP enforcement actions as there were during previous presidents. Hillary Clinton was saying this in her remarks. She doesn't like the visible violence but she is fine with "regular" violence.
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I'd go 1 further, The Powers That Be will actively suppress, at every avenue, information related to true size and organization of any opposition to those in power. They understand class solidarity all too well, and know what it means if the masses organize in the same way they have.
February 16, 2026 at 8:09 PM
I'd go 1 further, The Powers That Be will actively suppress, at every avenue, information related to true size and organization of any opposition to those in power. They understand class solidarity all too well, and know what it means if the masses organize in the same way they have.
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"The revolution will not be televised" means - among many other things - "the powers that be will not tell you that it's happening."
February 16, 2026 at 8:06 PM
"The revolution will not be televised" means - among many other things - "the powers that be will not tell you that it's happening."
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the thing is that there are lots of modest, tedious, repetitive tasks in many of our jobs and lives where we might be happy to pay a fee for an ethically developed standalone tool to do only that task. but we can’t have that because it won’t make people rich enough
Every time I try to question my kneejerk skepticism on LLMs because they seem like they might have some potentially interesting use cases, some company shoves them into a product I use all the time, and it absolutely sucks shit.
February 16, 2026 at 7:08 AM
the thing is that there are lots of modest, tedious, repetitive tasks in many of our jobs and lives where we might be happy to pay a fee for an ethically developed standalone tool to do only that task. but we can’t have that because it won’t make people rich enough
His name is Donald Plainview, and he is an oil man.
Venezuela has the largest oil supplies in the world.
Iran has the 3rd largest oil supplies in the world.
Donald Trump's aggression is one oilmensional.
Iran has the 3rd largest oil supplies in the world.
Donald Trump's aggression is one oilmensional.
February 16, 2026 at 8:11 PM
His name is Donald Plainview, and he is an oil man.
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Because in the discourse conservative = White and liberal = nonwhite.
If conservatives are upset with coverage, one must re-configure the paper so they never for a second feel like they are condescended to. If libs are upset with coverage, they’re stupid and can’t read.
February 16, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Because in the discourse conservative = White and liberal = nonwhite.
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Mandelson "conducted unofficial diplomacy with Israel on behalf of the last Conservative government after fresh details of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein had emerged."
"[R]evelation comes as the Conservatives are heavily criticising Labour."
#UK #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Aid #Genocide #Trafficking
"[R]evelation comes as the Conservatives are heavily criticising Labour."
#UK #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Aid #Genocide #Trafficking
Mandelson 'lobbied Israel for Tory government' during Gaza genocide
Disgraced Labour grandee appears to have kept ties with Conservatives long after his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein emerged.
www.declassifieduk.org
February 15, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Mandelson "conducted unofficial diplomacy with Israel on behalf of the last Conservative government after fresh details of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein had emerged."
"[R]evelation comes as the Conservatives are heavily criticising Labour."
#UK #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Aid #Genocide #Trafficking
"[R]evelation comes as the Conservatives are heavily criticising Labour."
#UK #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Aid #Genocide #Trafficking
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ICE/CBP have gone unfunded for 3 days; how about 3 years? The best way to claw back the $170 billion immigration enforcement surge in the Big Beautiful Bill is to just claw it back. The 2nd-best way is to slowly drain it by never funding the underlying appropriation. @ryanlcooper.com makes the case:
The Case for Keeping ICE and CBP Defunded - The American Prospect
Democrats should not provide one thin dime to MAGA storm troopers.
prospect.org
February 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM
ICE/CBP have gone unfunded for 3 days; how about 3 years? The best way to claw back the $170 billion immigration enforcement surge in the Big Beautiful Bill is to just claw it back. The 2nd-best way is to slowly drain it by never funding the underlying appropriation. @ryanlcooper.com makes the case:
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Well, Keir Starmer promised "change", and here we are, he changed Tory anti-migrant hate into Labour's racist policy.
The change you voted for?
#Remigration #ILR #C4News
The change you voted for?
#Remigration #ILR #C4News
“Over 2 million people will face much tougher requirements to remain in the country than they expected when moving here. The majority are people who came to work.”
'The new rules won’t simply mean a longer wait for ILR. They will mean many people don’t qualify for ILR at all and have to leave the country'. @jamesbowes01.bsky.social on the government's earned settlement proposals ukandeu.ac.uk/remigration-...
February 16, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Well, Keir Starmer promised "change", and here we are, he changed Tory anti-migrant hate into Labour's racist policy.
The change you voted for?
#Remigration #ILR #C4News
The change you voted for?
#Remigration #ILR #C4News
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The Epstein files make clear how easy it is for "elite" academics to get away with lying for personal gain.
In 2011, for ex, Harvard professor Shing-Tung Yau asked Epstein for $1.5M to keep 6 professors from leaving Harvard, adding "of course, I shall come up with some serious proposal." 1/
In 2011, for ex, Harvard professor Shing-Tung Yau asked Epstein for $1.5M to keep 6 professors from leaving Harvard, adding "of course, I shall come up with some serious proposal." 1/
February 14, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The Epstein files make clear how easy it is for "elite" academics to get away with lying for personal gain.
In 2011, for ex, Harvard professor Shing-Tung Yau asked Epstein for $1.5M to keep 6 professors from leaving Harvard, adding "of course, I shall come up with some serious proposal." 1/
In 2011, for ex, Harvard professor Shing-Tung Yau asked Epstein for $1.5M to keep 6 professors from leaving Harvard, adding "of course, I shall come up with some serious proposal." 1/
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See the same ridiculous argument on here all the time.
"The richest don't have any money it is all assets."
Yes because money is taxed and money doesn't make money.
Even if they own the whole world, they will still choose to have no money.
Doesn't mean they can't be taxed.
"The richest don't have any money it is all assets."
Yes because money is taxed and money doesn't make money.
Even if they own the whole world, they will still choose to have no money.
Doesn't mean they can't be taxed.
February 16, 2026 at 7:48 PM
See the same ridiculous argument on here all the time.
"The richest don't have any money it is all assets."
Yes because money is taxed and money doesn't make money.
Even if they own the whole world, they will still choose to have no money.
Doesn't mean they can't be taxed.
"The richest don't have any money it is all assets."
Yes because money is taxed and money doesn't make money.
Even if they own the whole world, they will still choose to have no money.
Doesn't mean they can't be taxed.
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Voting in a rigged system captured by capital isn't going to change anything, but it's very revealing that the folks who are the most vocal about their dedication to "democracy" always demand that you support whoever they anoint and say that you must settle for the opposite of what you actually want
February 16, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Voting in a rigged system captured by capital isn't going to change anything, but it's very revealing that the folks who are the most vocal about their dedication to "democracy" always demand that you support whoever they anoint and say that you must settle for the opposite of what you actually want
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The world does not exist without the working class. There is no room for the parasitic ruling class.
We made the world, and we should be the ones governing it.
The capitalist class has done nothing but leech off our sweat and blood and take credit from those who work.
We made the world, and we should be the ones governing it.
The capitalist class has done nothing but leech off our sweat and blood and take credit from those who work.
February 16, 2026 at 5:56 PM
The world does not exist without the working class. There is no room for the parasitic ruling class.
We made the world, and we should be the ones governing it.
The capitalist class has done nothing but leech off our sweat and blood and take credit from those who work.
We made the world, and we should be the ones governing it.
The capitalist class has done nothing but leech off our sweat and blood and take credit from those who work.
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This and the incident where they arrested staff at a Mexican restaurant, but only after letting said staff first serve them a meal are just diabolical. They’re assaults on basic humanity and decency. Publicize the hell out of this stuff. Let Republicans try to defend it.
Minnesota family says ICE agents faked car trouble to lure man out of home
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
February 16, 2026 at 7:04 PM
This and the incident where they arrested staff at a Mexican restaurant, but only after letting said staff first serve them a meal are just diabolical. They’re assaults on basic humanity and decency. Publicize the hell out of this stuff. Let Republicans try to defend it.
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Turns out the headline the editor chose for my report on the location of the proposed ICE detention center in Hutchins, Texas was wrong. A massive public uproar followed our reporting and the owner said they will not be selling the warehouse to ICE as of today.
www.dmagazine.com/micropost/br...
www.dmagazine.com/micropost/br...
February 16, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Turns out the headline the editor chose for my report on the location of the proposed ICE detention center in Hutchins, Texas was wrong. A massive public uproar followed our reporting and the owner said they will not be selling the warehouse to ICE as of today.
www.dmagazine.com/micropost/br...
www.dmagazine.com/micropost/br...
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White supremacist bigots don’t actually care about any of the peoples or histories they claim to admire - they erase all cultural specificity in a racist attempt to divide the entire world into “white” and “not white”.
February 16, 2026 at 7:44 PM
White supremacist bigots don’t actually care about any of the peoples or histories they claim to admire - they erase all cultural specificity in a racist attempt to divide the entire world into “white” and “not white”.
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Given some of the stuff in the Epstein files, the bonus for the Predator Elite of making trans lives really difficult is that, while some trans kids will kill themselves, others will just accept sexual availability/ servitude as the price paid for being able to transition at all.
Cass acknowledges "There are a tiny number of people who will never be comfortable with their biological sex, with the gender associated with their biological sex.
"And for them, a medical pathway is the only way they're going to live their life comfortably. And we don't understand why that is"
"And for them, a medical pathway is the only way they're going to live their life comfortably. And we don't understand why that is"
February 16, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Given some of the stuff in the Epstein files, the bonus for the Predator Elite of making trans lives really difficult is that, while some trans kids will kill themselves, others will just accept sexual availability/ servitude as the price paid for being able to transition at all.
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The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.
“By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week” is such a strange sentence to read.
February 16, 2026 at 5:13 PM
The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.
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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
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An imperial core ruled by semi-allied, decadent vampire clans, playing people chess against one another as they fight for more, literally and figuratively draining the world of resources
An empire of eternal failsons good at nothing but inflicting misery
An empire of eternal failsons good at nothing but inflicting misery
February 16, 2026 at 7:31 PM
An imperial core ruled by semi-allied, decadent vampire clans, playing people chess against one another as they fight for more, literally and figuratively draining the world of resources
An empire of eternal failsons good at nothing but inflicting misery
An empire of eternal failsons good at nothing but inflicting misery
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This is just open, unabashed white nationalist rhetoric at this point.
February 16, 2026 at 6:57 PM
This is just open, unabashed white nationalist rhetoric at this point.
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Did Florence give the world Beethoven? Or did Germany paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Also, why is Rubio focusing on building the physical Chapel and not on the ceiling painting that everyone actually knows? Is this because Michelangelo was 🌈?
Also, why is Rubio focusing on building the physical Chapel and not on the ceiling painting that everyone actually knows? Is this because Michelangelo was 🌈?
This is just open, unabashed white nationalist rhetoric at this point.
February 16, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Did Florence give the world Beethoven? Or did Germany paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Also, why is Rubio focusing on building the physical Chapel and not on the ceiling painting that everyone actually knows? Is this because Michelangelo was 🌈?
Also, why is Rubio focusing on building the physical Chapel and not on the ceiling painting that everyone actually knows? Is this because Michelangelo was 🌈?
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Trump's longtime confidant Thomas Barrack, now serving as U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria, was in regular, close contact with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor, a CBS News analysis of over 100 texts and email exchanges shows.
Trump insider Tom Barrack kept in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein for years, files show
Tom Barrack, a top U.S. diplomat and longtime friend of President Trump, networked and socialized with Epstein for years, CBS News found.
www.cbsnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Trump's longtime confidant Thomas Barrack, now serving as U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria, was in regular, close contact with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor, a CBS News analysis of over 100 texts and email exchanges shows.