Drew Starr
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Getting your hot takes in Finance, Politics, Economics & Law - Tax Consultant & Golf Nerd ⛳️
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
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🎁 Home for Christmas 🎁
806 days. Can live with cats, no dogs. She needs an amazing, kind, loving, patient human who will be her forever. Quiet adult only home. 3.5 years old, 50 lbs
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
💻Adoption@hempsteadny.gov
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
806 days. Can live with cats, no dogs. She needs an amazing, kind, loving, patient human who will be her forever. Quiet adult only home. 3.5 years old, 50 lbs
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
💻Adoption@hempsteadny.gov
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🎁 Home for Christmas 🎁
806 days. Can live with cats, no dogs. She needs an amazing, kind, loving, patient human who will be her forever. Quiet adult only home. 3.5 years old, 50 lbs
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
💻Adoption@hempsteadny.gov
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
806 days. Can live with cats, no dogs. She needs an amazing, kind, loving, patient human who will be her forever. Quiet adult only home. 3.5 years old, 50 lbs
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
💻Adoption@hempsteadny.gov
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
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It's got racism. It's offensive to people with intellectual disabilities. It's Islamophobic. Happy Thanksgiving from the president
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
It's got racism. It's offensive to people with intellectual disabilities. It's Islamophobic. Happy Thanksgiving from the president
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What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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They recall children's toys for far far less than this shit.
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
They recall children's toys for far far less than this shit.
Aww - they left me room 🥹😂
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Aww - they left me room 🥹😂
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ESPN app viewers are falling behind live action because of extended commercial breaks.
ESPN app ad-insertion seemingly causing viewers to fall behind live programming
The ad-insertion on the new ESPN app is seemingly causing viewers to unknowlingly fall several minutes behind live programming.
dlvr.it
October 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
ESPN app viewers are falling behind live action because of extended commercial breaks.
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queen shit, rest in peace
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
queen shit, rest in peace
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Trump is cancelling an annual government survey that measures hunger in America, rather than allow it to show hunger increasing under his tenure.
This follows the playbook of many non-democracies that cancel or manipulate reports that would otherwise show less-than-perfect news.
This follows the playbook of many non-democracies that cancel or manipulate reports that would otherwise show less-than-perfect news.
Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”
www.wsj.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Trump is cancelling an annual government survey that measures hunger in America, rather than allow it to show hunger increasing under his tenure.
This follows the playbook of many non-democracies that cancel or manipulate reports that would otherwise show less-than-perfect news.
This follows the playbook of many non-democracies that cancel or manipulate reports that would otherwise show less-than-perfect news.
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Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
September 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
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Breaking News: The EPA moved to stop requiring polluters to report their emissions of greenhouse gases. The proposal would end a key tool the government uses to track carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that are driving climate change.
E.P.A. to Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters
The data, from thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities, is the country’s most comprehensive way to track greenhouse gases.
nyti.ms
September 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Breaking News: The EPA moved to stop requiring polluters to report their emissions of greenhouse gases. The proposal would end a key tool the government uses to track carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that are driving climate change.
Nothing will make you miss your pets more on vacation than table scraps 🥺
September 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Nothing will make you miss your pets more on vacation than table scraps 🥺
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EXCLUSIVE: Immigration agents arrested two Mexican contractors helping to tackle a wildfire in Olympic National Forest in Washington, a supervisor who oversees the crews said.
Border Patrol agents arrest fire crew members at Washington wildfire
The two Mexican men were contract workers who were in the U.S. illegally, immigration officials said.
nbcnews.to
August 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
EXCLUSIVE: Immigration agents arrested two Mexican contractors helping to tackle a wildfire in Olympic National Forest in Washington, a supervisor who oversees the crews said.
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Reed Sheppard treating some kids from the basketball program at Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston to a shopping spree at Dick’s in Katy. (The kids didn’t know he’d be here).
Sheppard said he’s been in the gym with Rockets teammates, including new addition Clint Capela.
Sheppard said he’s been in the gym with Rockets teammates, including new addition Clint Capela.
August 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Reed Sheppard treating some kids from the basketball program at Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston to a shopping spree at Dick’s in Katy. (The kids didn’t know he’d be here).
Sheppard said he’s been in the gym with Rockets teammates, including new addition Clint Capela.
Sheppard said he’s been in the gym with Rockets teammates, including new addition Clint Capela.
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This is flat out unacceptable. Shut the whole fucking thing down immediately
![Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his
parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him
"[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jkj7qm4o4kwjbk6geoatopu3/bafkreicpqmrgkbhd2a3lqfyvutjutevlborsiodcomvcachphtv25f3fbe@jpeg)
August 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is flat out unacceptable. Shut the whole fucking thing down immediately
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"Massachusetts has collected about $1.8 billion from a voter-approved surtax on the state's highest earners through the first nine months of the fiscal year."
It's going to be used for education and transportation.
See? Equitable taxation benefits everyone.
www.wgbh.org/news/politic...
It's going to be used for education and transportation.
See? Equitable taxation benefits everyone.
www.wgbh.org/news/politic...
Millionaires tax revenue reaches $1.8 billion, on pace to double estimates
Massachusetts has collected about $1.8 billion from a voter-approved surtax on the state's highest earners through the first nine months of the fiscal year, the Department of Revenue said Monday in a ...
www.wgbh.org
August 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Massachusetts has collected about $1.8 billion from a voter-approved surtax on the state's highest earners through the first nine months of the fiscal year."
It's going to be used for education and transportation.
See? Equitable taxation benefits everyone.
www.wgbh.org/news/politic...
It's going to be used for education and transportation.
See? Equitable taxation benefits everyone.
www.wgbh.org/news/politic...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“I wish we still lived at a time when people trusted their state’s health commissioner more than a random mom next door or a toned lady in matching athleisure on TikTok,” Jessica Grose writes.
“I wish we still lived at a time when people trusted their state’s health commissioner more than a random mom next door or a toned lady in matching athleisure on TikTok,” Jessica Grose writes.
Opinion | Moms Need to Give MAHA a Taste of Its Own Medicine
Peer-to-peer persuasion is a necessary tool right now.
nyti.ms
August 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“I wish we still lived at a time when people trusted their state’s health commissioner more than a random mom next door or a toned lady in matching athleisure on TikTok,” Jessica Grose writes.
“I wish we still lived at a time when people trusted their state’s health commissioner more than a random mom next door or a toned lady in matching athleisure on TikTok,” Jessica Grose writes.