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This AP headline would still be true if they dropped the word “probe”:
“Justice Department sees no basis for civil rights in Minnesota ICE shooting, official says”
“Justice Department sees no basis for civil rights in Minnesota ICE shooting, official says”
January 14, 2026 at 12:39 AM
This AP headline would still be true if they dropped the word “probe”:
“Justice Department sees no basis for civil rights in Minnesota ICE shooting, official says”
“Justice Department sees no basis for civil rights in Minnesota ICE shooting, official says”
Just the clinical leverage the long cinema lobby and slow cinema lobby need to reverse neuronarrative decay.
With short-form video now dominant on social media, researchers are racing to understand how the highly engaging, algorithm-driven format may be reshaping the brain.
Is brain rot real? Researchers warn of emerging risks tied to short-form video
Research on the long-term impacts of short-form video consumption is still lacking, but recent studies show concerning associations with cognition and mental health.
nbcnews.to
January 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Just the clinical leverage the long cinema lobby and slow cinema lobby need to reverse neuronarrative decay.
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The Republicans cover our country in shame every day.
Trump: Don’t ask me who is in charge because I’ll give you an answer and it will be very controversial.
Reporter: What does that mean?
Trump: We’re in charge.
Reporter: What does that mean?
Trump: We’re in charge.
January 5, 2026 at 2:31 AM
The Republicans cover our country in shame every day.
Trump to pay Netanyahu for consulting contracts and ‘boots on ground’ advisors to share IDF’s tactical expertise with U.S. occupiers and resource extractors in Venezuela? And possibly other expertise electronicintifada.net/content/isra...
www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...
www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...
January 3, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Trump to pay Netanyahu for consulting contracts and ‘boots on ground’ advisors to share IDF’s tactical expertise with U.S. occupiers and resource extractors in Venezuela? And possibly other expertise electronicintifada.net/content/isra...
www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...
www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...
Wonder if representatives of all the various militias, paramilitary groups, crime gangs, armed revolutionaries of all kinds, and even Maduro’s own security and military are holding a summit in an undisclosed jungle to mount an anti-imperialist resistance to the incoming occupiers and oil pirates.
January 3, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Wonder if representatives of all the various militias, paramilitary groups, crime gangs, armed revolutionaries of all kinds, and even Maduro’s own security and military are holding a summit in an undisclosed jungle to mount an anti-imperialist resistance to the incoming occupiers and oil pirates.
Trump will solicit bribe from Maduro for a pardon.
January 3, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Trump will solicit bribe from Maduro for a pardon.
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My latest:
"Fascist Republicans are so thrilled with being in the public eye that they end up exposing their own ugliness. And until they succeed in crushing a free press, they’re going to be vulnerable to it, as the Wiles interviews show. ... May their narcissism be their undoing."
"Fascist Republicans are so thrilled with being in the public eye that they end up exposing their own ugliness. And until they succeed in crushing a free press, they’re going to be vulnerable to it, as the Wiles interviews show. ... May their narcissism be their undoing."
MAGA’s lust for publicity may be its undoing
The Wiles interviews give us hope that Republicans’ egos are their fatal flaw
www.stopthepresses.news
December 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My latest:
"Fascist Republicans are so thrilled with being in the public eye that they end up exposing their own ugliness. And until they succeed in crushing a free press, they’re going to be vulnerable to it, as the Wiles interviews show. ... May their narcissism be their undoing."
"Fascist Republicans are so thrilled with being in the public eye that they end up exposing their own ugliness. And until they succeed in crushing a free press, they’re going to be vulnerable to it, as the Wiles interviews show. ... May their narcissism be their undoing."
Sharpie for the Cartographer-in-Chief
December 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Sharpie for the Cartographer-in-Chief
Berman’s follow-up to Cotton could have been: “No idea whose question you just answered but it wasn’t my question. What question did you hear me ask you a half minute ago?”
BERMAN: Did you see any evidence of them trying to use a radio in the video you saw?
TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized
BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence?
COTTON: No, I didn't
TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized
BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence?
COTTON: No, I didn't
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Berman’s follow-up to Cotton could have been: “No idea whose question you just answered but it wasn’t my question. What question did you hear me ask you a half minute ago?”
Maybe the MRI was to check on his bone spurs.
Maybe Trump got the MRI as a follow up on his injured ear.
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Maybe the MRI was to check on his bone spurs.
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Ann Hermes spent six years photographing American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action. See her images. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YCzYut
The Offices Only a Newsperson Could Love
Ann Hermes spent six years documenting American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Ann Hermes spent six years photographing American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action. See her images. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YCzYut
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I’ll be on WTTW 11 tomorrow, Fri. 11/14 @5:30pm to discuss the news of the week as part of the Week in Review panel. Do tune in!
@blockclubchi.bsky.social
@blockclubchi.bsky.social
Border Patrol agents posed at "The Bean" for an apparent photo op after a weekend of clashes in Little Village. blockclubchi.co/4oUHKae
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I’ll be on WTTW 11 tomorrow, Fri. 11/14 @5:30pm to discuss the news of the week as part of the Week in Review panel. Do tune in!
@blockclubchi.bsky.social
@blockclubchi.bsky.social
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New Trump 2028 campaign slogan just dropped.
October 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
New Trump 2028 campaign slogan just dropped.
Andrew Niccol’s 2002 film “S1m0ne” about a virtual actor named “Simone” feels relevant in the now and here.
Link to my three-star review essay in the Chicago Reader:
chicagoreader.com/film/virtual...
Link to my three-star review essay in the Chicago Reader:
chicagoreader.com/film/virtual...
September 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Andrew Niccol’s 2002 film “S1m0ne” about a virtual actor named “Simone” feels relevant in the now and here.
Link to my three-star review essay in the Chicago Reader:
chicagoreader.com/film/virtual...
Link to my three-star review essay in the Chicago Reader:
chicagoreader.com/film/virtual...
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September 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Makes one wonder if ours is the only species de-diversifying the world like this or just the best at it.
September 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Makes one wonder if ours is the only species de-diversifying the world like this or just the best at it.
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We might have thought the biggest right-wing hoax was that Trump won the 2020 election. But the biggest hoax they perpetrated was that the media is “liberal.”
Sinclair, run by right-wing media mogul David Smith, says suspending the Jimmy Kimmel show isn’t enough. It is going to run a tribute to Kirk during Kimmel’s time slot.
Sinclair stations will run not consider putting Kimmel back on air until he apologizes and donates to Turning Point USA
Sinclair stations will run not consider putting Kimmel back on air until he apologizes and donates to Turning Point USA
September 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
We might have thought the biggest right-wing hoax was that Trump won the 2020 election. But the biggest hoax they perpetrated was that the media is “liberal.”
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We all know ‘tragedy’ comes from Greek.
‘tragos’ = goat
‘aeidein’ = to sing
So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.”
Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.
‘tragos’ = goat
‘aeidein’ = to sing
So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.”
Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.
September 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We all know ‘tragedy’ comes from Greek.
‘tragos’ = goat
‘aeidein’ = to sing
So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.”
Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.
‘tragos’ = goat
‘aeidein’ = to sing
So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.”
Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.
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That’s exactly what this feels like!
September 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
That’s exactly what this feels like!
Maybe old news or near-news. Even if fake news, it has its uses. As pseudo-kompromat para-kompromat meta-kompromat.
www.closertotheedge.net/p/what-putin...
www.closertotheedge.net/p/what-putin...
WHAT PUTIN HAS ON TRUMP
On August 12th, 2025, Alnur Mussayev, the former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin possesses a comprehensive kompromat file on Donald J.
www.closertotheedge.net
September 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Maybe old news or near-news. Even if fake news, it has its uses. As pseudo-kompromat para-kompromat meta-kompromat.
www.closertotheedge.net/p/what-putin...
www.closertotheedge.net/p/what-putin...
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Have been posting less bc writing a book. Will post more when not too tired to think of new sentences after long days of thinking of new sentences.
September 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Have been posting less bc writing a book. Will post more when not too tired to think of new sentences after long days of thinking of new sentences.
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I’ll stop comparing MAGA to Nazis when MAGA stops acting like Nazis.
September 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I’ll stop comparing MAGA to Nazis when MAGA stops acting like Nazis.
Did Kasie Hunt then ask RFK, Jr., “Why did you just lie to me on camera?” No.
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that?
RFK JR: “I never said that.”
KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.”
RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024)
ht: @cwebbonline.com
RFK JR: “I never said that.”
KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.”
RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024)
ht: @cwebbonline.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Did Kasie Hunt then ask RFK, Jr., “Why did you just lie to me on camera?” No.
Trump’s intent is to hurt California, of course.
As the Trump administration continues to ramp up immigration enforcement, industries key to the state’s $4 trillion economy like agriculture, construction and hospitality could be among those hardest hit by the loss of California’s immigrant workforce, new research suggests.
Trump’s immigration policy threatens key sectors of California’s economy, long reliant on immigrant workers
At stake are billions of dollars that fuel businesses large and small across the state, whose standalone economy is the fourth largest in the world after the U.S., China and Germany.
nbcnews.to
September 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Trump’s intent is to hurt California, of course.