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Menace 2 cisciety
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.

Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.

Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Tatas for Toys benefit has made it rain $183,000 over the past 14 years.
Strippers Are Now No. 1 Donor of Toys to Children’s Hospital
Rachel Saslow
www.wweek.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Couple of things here:

1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently

2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"

3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"

4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
December 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Overnight, past 2 a.m., the Alberta United Conservative Party passed Bill 9, a bill to **strip away the right to life of trans youth** in order to impose on them a gender-affirming care ban.

We’re assisting to the beginning of a humanitarian crisis, in Canada, in real time.
December 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
When you get a bunch of typewriter collectors together, everyone swaps tales of their great finds in the wild. No one has a thrilling story of buying it on eBay.
For YEARS, I have been all about THE HUNT when it comes to toys and comics! I’d LOVE tracking them down in the wild and pouncing. These days, not so much. But it’s still a very relevant topic for a storyline. And also an excuse to go nuts on the rendering a little for fun.
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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With absolutely no expertise in Tarantino and lots of expertise in film bros, my theory has always been that he wasn’t the movie guru of that video store: one of his co-workers was and he has been coasting on regurgitating that guy’s taste for decades but he ran out ten, fifteen years ago.
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Self parody.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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In November 1990, LIFE Magazine ran a now-legendary photograph of AIDS activist David Kirby’s last moments. Just out of frame was another eventual victim of AIDS, and the reason Therese Frare was in the room at all; Peta, a two-spirit caretaker with their own story to tell.
By @piperbomb.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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To me the sign that Christmas is coming isn't the advertisements, songs on the wireless, or holiday cards...
It's me having to tell people that Coca Cola didn't invent or dress Santa 98342 billion times a day... ;)

More here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2021/12/03/c...
Coca-Cola did not create Santa
Every Christmas the same story goes around social media; Coca-Cola invented Santa or at least gave him a whole new look in the 1930s.They are the reason his suit is red, after all it’s the Co…
fakehistoryhunter.net
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I'm going to need $200,000.
All I want for Christmas. Thank you in advance!
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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This.
December 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Tucked inside the Republican bill for health care subsidies, a clause that would restrict the money from being used for abortion (with exception for rape, incest or life of the mother) or for "any sex trait modification procedure or service."
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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If many of us are quiet about politics online nowadays, it isn't that we don't care and we're not mobilized offline.

We talked about this for years. We warned them. So many who are upset now did not listen! They thought they knew better than we did.

So much of this suffering was preventable.
December 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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“This is absolutely a racist weaponization of ICE against an entire community.”
U.S. Citizens With Somali Roots Are Carrying Their Passports Amid Minnesota ICE Crackdown
ICE’s crackdown on Minnesota’s Somali community is seen not as an immigration raid, but as a racist intimidation campaign.
interc.pt
December 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Thinking of my spread out family and how I've sat in the lap of somebody (my grandpa) who sat in the lap of somebody (his grandma) who sat in Lincoln's lap.
December 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Oh wow there’s so many ways my toddler would absolutely destroy that bathroom
I want this woman thrown in prison for at least a decade.
December 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
All I'm saying is that in Minecraft you should be able to enchant cats.
December 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Poster from 1942, remembering the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December the year before.
Quote is from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Art by Allen Sandburg.
December 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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What an interesting coincidence.
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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6 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Labour bars trans women delegates from entering or voting in its 2026 Women’s Conference in UK.
Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026
All delegates will be able to attend fringe programme as party tries to find compromise while complying with supreme court ruling on gender
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Rob always does such a great job creating music for Chicago TARDIS. What other con can you say comes with its own original score?
It's replay Friday with two playlists of music featured throughout the weekend at Chicago TARDIS! 🎶

The first comes from Planet 14 Music who provided the soundtrack to Opening and Closing Ceremonies as well as Main Programming throughout the weekend:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
December 6, 2025 at 4:27 AM