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She/her. Phillyish. Crone-age. So so late.
She/her. Phillyish. Crone-age. So so late.
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Here’s how we should all be reporting on the spurious claims from these agencies that have repeatedly been caught in lies and exaggerations:
Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago
Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Here’s how we should all be reporting on the spurious claims from these agencies that have repeatedly been caught in lies and exaggerations:
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"The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." 🥹
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." 🥹
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Shannon McChristian’s opposition to a new prison in her Arkansas community has changed her thoughts on incarceration generally. “As I’ve come to know more and more, I’ve just been horrified about our entire prison system.”
The Prison Next Door
How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered people in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.
boltsmag.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Shannon McChristian’s opposition to a new prison in her Arkansas community has changed her thoughts on incarceration generally. “As I’ve come to know more and more, I’ve just been horrified about our entire prison system.”
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November 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Whistle up Baltimore.
I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
ICE poised to ramp up raids in Baltimore by Thanksgiving
The Trump administration has rush-ordered infrastructure to conduct raids, abduct residents, and detain people for months.
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Whistle up Baltimore.
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So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
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in some ways i think the part where trump is a heathen with no personal theocratic views is actually key--since the theocrats behind him are an insane mix of catholic converts and evangelicals of numerous sects. he's a non-sectarian messiah to them
they'll fragment, but eventually one'll probably re-emerge & dominate once they find a charismatic leader.
how successful idk, seems clear the next direction goes more overtly theocratic. (Trump's a heather, whatever else, despite evangelicals being willing to worship the orange calf)
how successful idk, seems clear the next direction goes more overtly theocratic. (Trump's a heather, whatever else, despite evangelicals being willing to worship the orange calf)
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
in some ways i think the part where trump is a heathen with no personal theocratic views is actually key--since the theocrats behind him are an insane mix of catholic converts and evangelicals of numerous sects. he's a non-sectarian messiah to them
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just a tremendous irony here, given that adoptees are given fabricated documents making them “as if born” to their adopters, but intercountry adoptees do not have birthright citizenship. 🥚
did you know that intercountry #adoptees born before 1983 have no guarantee of US citizenship, and instead are treated as immigrants who must obtain citizenship through naturalization? That they are subject to deportation if they have committed a crime or are deemed to be in the US “illegally?”
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
just a tremendous irony here, given that adoptees are given fabricated documents making them “as if born” to their adopters, but intercountry adoptees do not have birthright citizenship. 🥚
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“The media is so strongly influenced by the images that are its own creation” - Robert Caro in The Power Broker on how the New York Times and other newspapers spent 35 years never questioning or investigating the most powerful man in New York
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“The media is so strongly influenced by the images that are its own creation” - Robert Caro in The Power Broker on how the New York Times and other newspapers spent 35 years never questioning or investigating the most powerful man in New York
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To put the Mamdani story in context, Peters did the exactly opposite work for Glenn Youngkin four years ago — in that case laundering right-wing operatives into his story under the guise of being regular voters (a thing he has done repeatedly) theracket.news/p/the-far-ri...
The far right's secret weapon
Have some extreme reactionism you need to sell? Call the politics desk of the New York Times.
theracket.news
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
To put the Mamdani story in context, Peters did the exactly opposite work for Glenn Youngkin four years ago — in that case laundering right-wing operatives into his story under the guise of being regular voters (a thing he has done repeatedly) theracket.news/p/the-far-ri...
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It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom
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Meet three of the high schoolers who saw their state reading bowl banned eight books in Georgia...and did something about it.
Kids should never have to do this kind of work, but they are absolutely worth celebrating when they do: bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
Kids should never have to do this kind of work, but they are absolutely worth celebrating when they do: bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025
A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.
bookriot.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Meet three of the high schoolers who saw their state reading bowl banned eight books in Georgia...and did something about it.
Kids should never have to do this kind of work, but they are absolutely worth celebrating when they do: bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
Kids should never have to do this kind of work, but they are absolutely worth celebrating when they do: bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
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All of these places Trump has threatened have a commonality—energy or rare earth metals
The stock of energy from the petroleum reserves is down below 50% of capacity
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
The stock of energy from the petroleum reserves is down below 50% of capacity
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
“A Nigerian official was told by a U.S. counterpart that, with Thanksgiving coming up, Nigeria should go quiet and wait for the president’s attention to shift, a Nigerian official said.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, the commander in chief of the U.S. military.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the commander in chief of the U.S. military.
November 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
All of these places Trump has threatened have a commonality—energy or rare earth metals
The stock of energy from the petroleum reserves is down below 50% of capacity
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
The stock of energy from the petroleum reserves is down below 50% of capacity
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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We asked Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL: Why set up a tip line as part of their “Mamdani Monitor”?
Has the ADL ever done this for a single official?
“We've certainly never had an elected official like this before,” he said.
Hear his answers at length:
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
Has the ADL ever done this for a single official?
“We've certainly never had an elected official like this before,” he said.
Hear his answers at length:
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
ADL creates new 'Mamdani Monitor' project to track his administration policies
After the ADL announced its scrutiny of Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect told reporters, "I take the issue of antisemitism incredibly seriously."
www.npr.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
We asked Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL: Why set up a tip line as part of their “Mamdani Monitor”?
Has the ADL ever done this for a single official?
“We've certainly never had an elected official like this before,” he said.
Hear his answers at length:
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
Has the ADL ever done this for a single official?
“We've certainly never had an elected official like this before,” he said.
Hear his answers at length:
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
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Trump threw another lavish party as his DOJ asked the Supreme Court to stop it from being forced to pay food stamps for 40 million Americans.
Yes, this is *different* from last week’s Gatsby party. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...
Yes, this is *different* from last week’s Gatsby party. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...
Trump Throws Decadent Opera and Truffles Rager at Mar-a-Lago
The president’s ragers show no sign of slowing down even amid the government shutdown.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Trump threw another lavish party as his DOJ asked the Supreme Court to stop it from being forced to pay food stamps for 40 million Americans.
Yes, this is *different* from last week’s Gatsby party. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...
Yes, this is *different* from last week’s Gatsby party. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...
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Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
Baby-faced men just need to grow facial hair to change their identities
November 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Baby-faced men just need to grow facial hair to change their identities
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Its actually worse, in the case of small airports its basically a subsidy to the private jet set
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Its actually worse, in the case of small airports its basically a subsidy to the private jet set
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There is something deeply rotten at the heart of modern tech that goes well beyond the corruptions produced by capitalism.
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
There is something deeply rotten at the heart of modern tech that goes well beyond the corruptions produced by capitalism.
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Just saw that an Indiana lectures was removed from teaching a “Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice” class for teaching THIS graphic.
November 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Just saw that an Indiana lectures was removed from teaching a “Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice” class for teaching THIS graphic.
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This is about 6 km from where I live. I wonder how this change is going to play with the locals.
On one hand, they're very proud of this cemetery. Families adopt a grave and tend it; the waitlist to do is very long. The annual commemorative concert is packed.
michaelerard.com/blog/at-the-...
On one hand, they're very proud of this cemetery. Families adopt a grave and tend it; the waitlist to do is very long. The annual commemorative concert is packed.
michaelerard.com/blog/at-the-...
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is about 6 km from where I live. I wonder how this change is going to play with the locals.
On one hand, they're very proud of this cemetery. Families adopt a grave and tend it; the waitlist to do is very long. The annual commemorative concert is packed.
michaelerard.com/blog/at-the-...
On one hand, they're very proud of this cemetery. Families adopt a grave and tend it; the waitlist to do is very long. The annual commemorative concert is packed.
michaelerard.com/blog/at-the-...
This one will come in handy, I'm afraid
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This one will come in handy, I'm afraid
For some reason, my brain keeps reading the Mamdani text to the cadence of the Ninja Turtles theme. This is very confusing
November 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
For some reason, my brain keeps reading the Mamdani text to the cadence of the Ninja Turtles theme. This is very confusing
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I don’t give a shit but I especially don’t give a shit because they could be constituents for all we know. Cory Booker bravely listened to the needs of Big Boobs Carly because Big Boobs Carly is a human being who is represented by him.
November 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I don’t give a shit but I especially don’t give a shit because they could be constituents for all we know. Cory Booker bravely listened to the needs of Big Boobs Carly because Big Boobs Carly is a human being who is represented by him.
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rather bold hyperlinking in the "see also" of cookie monster's article
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
rather bold hyperlinking in the "see also" of cookie monster's article