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Pretty much the definition of cruel and unusual by any reasonable standard if the 8th Amendment existed.
NEW: President Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office.
President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
This story was produced by Bolts and published in partnership with The Nation. Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high desert, prisoners spend 22 to 24 hours a day... Read More
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November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Pretty much the definition of cruel and unusual by any reasonable standard if the 8th Amendment existed.
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As your President, I'll make this day a federal holiday & give Joel Hodgeson the Presidental Medal of Freedom.
Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
As your President, I'll make this day a federal holiday & give Joel Hodgeson the Presidental Medal of Freedom.
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My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
Are kids these days still into the og Wizard of Oz or are they all about Wicked now?
November 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Are kids these days still into the og Wizard of Oz or are they all about Wicked now?
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This is the closest humans have gotten to achieving the Star Trek replicator
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is the closest humans have gotten to achieving the Star Trek replicator
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The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
heads up, gmail has a new setting automatically on that allows their a*i to be trained on your emails so make sure to turn off the 'Smart Feature' checkbox in your settings
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
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Trump says he’s ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somali refugees in Minnesota “immediately.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Trump says he’s ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somali refugees in Minnesota “immediately.”
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im SCREAMING
Mamdani had less than 30 minutes with our Dear Sundowning Leader
and Trump liked him SO MUCH he said “you can tell the press im Hitler its cool”
Mamdani had less than 30 minutes with our Dear Sundowning Leader
and Trump liked him SO MUCH he said “you can tell the press im Hitler its cool”
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
im SCREAMING
Mamdani had less than 30 minutes with our Dear Sundowning Leader
and Trump liked him SO MUCH he said “you can tell the press im Hitler its cool”
Mamdani had less than 30 minutes with our Dear Sundowning Leader
and Trump liked him SO MUCH he said “you can tell the press im Hitler its cool”
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Ummm, were you all aware of this bullshit???
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Ummm, were you all aware of this bullshit???
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
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Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
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Entertaining utterly meaningless votes like this shows you how serious the democrats are about fighting fascism.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Entertaining utterly meaningless votes like this shows you how serious the democrats are about fighting fascism.
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But no resolutions condemning fascism, huh?
The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
86 Dems joined Republicans in supporting the measure, incl. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
86 Dems joined Republicans in supporting the measure, incl. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
But no resolutions condemning fascism, huh?
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“Several prisoners said their facilities had become stingier than usual with toilet paper, and women incarcerated in Carswell in Texas reported a shortage of tampons. “I was told to use my socks,” one said.”
NEW: The exodus of corrections officers from federal prisons to ICE comes amid shortages of critical supplies, from food to personal hygiene items, for both staff and inmates.
It threatens to make the already grim conditions in these prisons even worse.
It threatens to make the already grim conditions in these prisons even worse.
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“Several prisoners said their facilities had become stingier than usual with toilet paper, and women incarcerated in Carswell in Texas reported a shortage of tampons. “I was told to use my socks,” one said.”
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Get on your library board, folks. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Get on your library board, folks. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Trump-branded handgun seemed destined for countless family annihilations
this morning's Fox & Friends featured commercials for Trump Watches *and* Trump-branded handguns. a level of presidential grifting that was unfathomable a decade ago.
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Trump-branded handgun seemed destined for countless family annihilations
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WE DID IT www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
WE DID IT www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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The Trump administration is overhauling the annual US reports on human rights around the world to focus on issues like individual liberty rather than the persecution of groups and minorities.
Under Trump, U.S. human rights reports will flag abortion, gender care
In a dramatic break, the State Department intends to scrutinize other countries’ abuses by emphasizing entitlements “given to us by God.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The Trump administration is overhauling the annual US reports on human rights around the world to focus on issues like individual liberty rather than the persecution of groups and minorities.
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So this is happening outside of the Heritage Foundation right now
"Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE! Fuck Project 2025! Fuck Alligator Alcatraz!"
"Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE! Fuck Project 2025! Fuck Alligator Alcatraz!"
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
So this is happening outside of the Heritage Foundation right now
"Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE! Fuck Project 2025! Fuck Alligator Alcatraz!"
"Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE! Fuck Project 2025! Fuck Alligator Alcatraz!"
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The leaders of a church community in Duluth enabled a child abuser for years by encouraging his victims to “forgive and forget” his sins — and never speak of them again.
Young girls were sexually abused by a Duluth church member. They were told to forgive and forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away,” they could never speak of them again.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The leaders of a church community in Duluth enabled a child abuser for years by encouraging his victims to “forgive and forget” his sins — and never speak of them again.
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