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Exiled in central PA
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At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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In a world of Jeffs, be like MacKenzie.
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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This is so crazy; expensive; inhumane; maniacal; Trumpian.
ICE has now sent at least 72 people to prisons in African countries where they have no ties.

Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan.

Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...
Prosecuting the Powerful
Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice.
foreignpolicy.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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The great actress Diane Keaton has left us at the age of 79. Too soon to say good-bye to the woman who made us smile at the quirky Annie Hall, and who broke our hearts in Reds. Your charm and talent will be sorely missed.
October 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/
October 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Green? They’re outlawing the word “green”?
September 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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September 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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You’re probably tired of hearing this but the “unitary executive theory” that the Supreme Court is using to hand Trump absolute control over the government is demonstrably false nonsense cooked up by Republican lawyers after Watergate to create an American monarchy. slate.com/news-and-pol...
September 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Trump: Bobby wants to be very careful with what he says. I’m not so careful with what I say. Certain groups, the amish, as an example. They have essentially no autism
September 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Eggsy and Jimmi were both just excited to see the neighbor’s cat (who came by for treats) but for some reason the pic ended up looking like a scene in an 80s movie where the nerd shows up with flowers and the girl he loves is already on a date with someone else
September 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Where is it written in the Constitution that the president can murder people at will as long as he accuses them of drug running while offering zero evidence?
A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19

What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us?
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
U.S. naval forces have sunk a fourth suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, Trump says
U.S. naval forces have conducted another lethal strike on a vessel President Donald Trump said was tied to a designated terrorist organization involved in drug trafficking in the Caribbean.
www.miamiherald.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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A Chinese journalist jailed for four years after reporting on the outbreak of Covid in Wuhan has been sentenced to a further four years behind bars

Zhang Zhan imprisoned for another four years for ‘picking quarrels and causing trouble’

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
China extends Covid whistleblower’s prison sentence for ‘provoking trouble’
Zhang Zhan imprisoned for another four years for ‘picking quarrels and causing trouble’
www.telegraph.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
September 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.
September 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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The Trump Administration on Epstein: A Timeline

1) Release the list
2) The list is on our desk
3) There is no list
4) The list was fabricated by Democrats
5) Only Jeffrey Epstein is on the list
September 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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⚡️ Russian oppositioner Navalny killed 'by poisoning' in 2024, widow cites Western labs.

Yulia Navalnaya said Alexei Navalny's team managed to secure biological samples of her deceased husband and transport them abroad.
Russian oppositioner Navalny killed 'by poisoning' in 2024, widow cites Western labs
Yulia Navalnaya said Alexei Navalny's team managed to secure biological samples of her deceased husband and transport them abroad.
kyivindependent.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Mike Fanone: "No American politician has done more to normalize political violence in this country than Donald J. Trump."
September 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵
September 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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If this became a weekly series, it would run longer than The Simpsons.
September 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM