Brian Koppe
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🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Maybe, just maybe, it's a bad idea that 20% of the Internet is behind Cloudflare? Just saying...
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Maybe, just maybe, it's a bad idea that 20% of the Internet is behind Cloudflare? Just saying...
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excerpt: ^^^ After what Goodarzi called “the abduction,” everyone “was crying, terrified, huddled together.”
“To do it in a place where children are, with complete disregard for what children see, there’s no low these people won’t stoop to,” Goodarzi said.
“To do it in a place where children are, with complete disregard for what children see, there’s no low these people won’t stoop to,” Goodarzi said.
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
excerpt: ^^^ After what Goodarzi called “the abduction,” everyone “was crying, terrified, huddled together.”
“To do it in a place where children are, with complete disregard for what children see, there’s no low these people won’t stoop to,” Goodarzi said.
“To do it in a place where children are, with complete disregard for what children see, there’s no low these people won’t stoop to,” Goodarzi said.
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madness & daycare workers feared for their lives… www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/d...
Immigration agents take day care worker from inside North Center facility
In a video circulating on social media, agents in vests can be seen dragging the woman out of the school building shortly after 7 a.m.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 AM
madness & daycare workers feared for their lives… www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/d...
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Remember during oral argument on the presidential immunity case when conservative justices scoffed at and mocked the hypothetical that a president with immunity could just start killing whoever he wanted and there was nothing that could be done if he has immunity?
October 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Remember during oral argument on the presidential immunity case when conservative justices scoffed at and mocked the hypothetical that a president with immunity could just start killing whoever he wanted and there was nothing that could be done if he has immunity?
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I am motivated by the fact that I don’t think any president should get a blank check to murder as many people as he wants with zero oversight based on his opinion that they were transporting drugs without due process or proof presented to anyone. Jesus would agree with me. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Mike Johnson dismisses Democrats criticizing Trump's lawless strikes on boats: "They are motivated out of fear and Trump derangement syndrome."
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I am motivated by the fact that I don’t think any president should get a blank check to murder as many people as he wants with zero oversight based on his opinion that they were transporting drugs without due process or proof presented to anyone. Jesus would agree with me. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
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@dansinker.com is a good dude and this piece resonated incredibly hard.
What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:51 AM
@dansinker.com is a good dude and this piece resonated incredibly hard.
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When future generations speak of this cruelty, it will be in the same breath as the genocide of the indigenous or the internment of Japanese Americans. They will look at the Trump/MAGA era the way we look at McCarthyism.
History is repeating.
Let those who have ears to hear, be on the right side.
History is repeating.
Let those who have ears to hear, be on the right side.
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.
trib.al
October 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
When future generations speak of this cruelty, it will be in the same breath as the genocide of the indigenous or the internment of Japanese Americans. They will look at the Trump/MAGA era the way we look at McCarthyism.
History is repeating.
Let those who have ears to hear, be on the right side.
History is repeating.
Let those who have ears to hear, be on the right side.
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This lines up with what Pritzker spoke about over the weekend at a canvassing event.
Republicans are methodically planning a national voter suppression campaign for the midterms. Going to involve armed agents at polling places, etc
Republicans are methodically planning a national voter suppression campaign for the midterms. Going to involve armed agents at polling places, etc
Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."
October 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
This lines up with what Pritzker spoke about over the weekend at a canvassing event.
Republicans are methodically planning a national voter suppression campaign for the midterms. Going to involve armed agents at polling places, etc
Republicans are methodically planning a national voter suppression campaign for the midterms. Going to involve armed agents at polling places, etc
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Yep.
Trump will destroy something like that just because someone else wanted to preserve it.
He needs no other reason than doing so will hurt people, the more the better in his twisted mind.
He needed to be locked up in a padded room a long, long time ago.
Trump will destroy something like that just because someone else wanted to preserve it.
He needs no other reason than doing so will hurt people, the more the better in his twisted mind.
He needed to be locked up in a padded room a long, long time ago.
October 23, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Yep.
Trump will destroy something like that just because someone else wanted to preserve it.
He needs no other reason than doing so will hurt people, the more the better in his twisted mind.
He needed to be locked up in a padded room a long, long time ago.
Trump will destroy something like that just because someone else wanted to preserve it.
He needs no other reason than doing so will hurt people, the more the better in his twisted mind.
He needed to be locked up in a padded room a long, long time ago.
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I have my hunches.
When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead | Artnet News
Read an excerpt from the book 'Art and Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World.'
news.artnet.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I have my hunches.
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Is there any indication at all that they did any conservation of this interior or did they literally take the wrecking ball to it all?
October 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Is there any indication at all that they did any conservation of this interior or did they literally take the wrecking ball to it all?
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I know it’s not even in the top million worst parts of this, but in addition to the anger & outrage, this makes me really sad because entering the White House through that entrance, and going up the East Colonnade to the main house was something remarkable, and made you feel connected to history.
October 23, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I know it’s not even in the top million worst parts of this, but in addition to the anger & outrage, this makes me really sad because entering the White House through that entrance, and going up the East Colonnade to the main house was something remarkable, and made you feel connected to history.
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“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say
The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
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The decision of network editors to put this man on TV is evidence of just one thing: they are profoundly unserious people, just as George Santos/Anthony Devolder/Kitara Ravanche is a profoundly unserious person.
October 20, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The decision of network editors to put this man on TV is evidence of just one thing: they are profoundly unserious people, just as George Santos/Anthony Devolder/Kitara Ravanche is a profoundly unserious person.
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This person is paying OpenAI two hundred dollars a month to have a chatbot gaslight them about making an excel spreadsheet
October 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This person is paying OpenAI two hundred dollars a month to have a chatbot gaslight them about making an excel spreadsheet
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Trial shows that ICE agents lied, concealed evidence in an illegal effort to convict the "libtard" who filmed them.
October 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Trial shows that ICE agents lied, concealed evidence in an illegal effort to convict the "libtard" who filmed them.
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As of today, more than 50% of all US federal government shut down days in history have happened during Trump presidencies
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
As of today, more than 50% of all US federal government shut down days in history have happened during Trump presidencies