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The EPSTEIN Files are a much quicker read than I expected.
December 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The EPSTEIN Files are a much quicker read than I expected.
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Goddammit.
ICE in Indio, CA chased a family, caused a car crash that injured everyone in the vehicle, kidnapped the father and left the hurt mother and children without providing medical attention (12/19/25)
December 20, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Goddammit.
>From bug still survives, since the esrly days of the internet!
Got an email from @nytimes.com with a >From. Oldtimers rejoice!
Got an email from @nytimes.com with a >From. Oldtimers rejoice!
December 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
>From bug still survives, since the esrly days of the internet!
Got an email from @nytimes.com with a >From. Oldtimers rejoice!
Got an email from @nytimes.com with a >From. Oldtimers rejoice!
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Saw the notifications. The dead include:
- A 39-year-old undocumented Nicaraguan man released by the Trump admin in 2018
- A 41-year-old Haitian man who entered legally through CBP One in 2023
- A 46-year-old Eritrean green card holder
- A 56-year-old Bulgarian man who at one point had a green card
- A 39-year-old undocumented Nicaraguan man released by the Trump admin in 2018
- A 41-year-old Haitian man who entered legally through CBP One in 2023
- A 46-year-old Eritrean green card holder
- A 56-year-old Bulgarian man who at one point had a green card
December 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Saw the notifications. The dead include:
- A 39-year-old undocumented Nicaraguan man released by the Trump admin in 2018
- A 41-year-old Haitian man who entered legally through CBP One in 2023
- A 46-year-old Eritrean green card holder
- A 56-year-old Bulgarian man who at one point had a green card
- A 39-year-old undocumented Nicaraguan man released by the Trump admin in 2018
- A 41-year-old Haitian man who entered legally through CBP One in 2023
- A 46-year-old Eritrean green card holder
- A 56-year-old Bulgarian man who at one point had a green card
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These are our most impressive institutions and crucial for our survival as a people and a species.
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
These are our most impressive institutions and crucial for our survival as a people and a species.
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"Among those granted clemency was Jared Wise, a former FBI agent himself. According to bodycam footage submitted in court, Wise urged rioters to kill police during the Capitol siege. Wise now serves in the Trump administration."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
They prosecuted the Capitol rioters. Now the rioters and the DOJ are after them.
After Trump’s mass pardons of the U.S. Capitol rioters, some have gained influence inside the Justice Department. The January 6 prosecutors describe mounting threats, harassment and fear of lasting da...
www.reuters.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"Among those granted clemency was Jared Wise, a former FBI agent himself. According to bodycam footage submitted in court, Wise urged rioters to kill police during the Capitol siege. Wise now serves in the Trump administration."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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I worked with NCAR when I was a physics/ meteorology undergrad at Colorado State University.
This is one of the most outrageous and destructive anti-science efforts yet from the Trump regime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
This is one of the most outrageous and destructive anti-science efforts yet from the Trump regime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I worked with NCAR when I was a physics/ meteorology undergrad at Colorado State University.
This is one of the most outrageous and destructive anti-science efforts yet from the Trump regime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
This is one of the most outrageous and destructive anti-science efforts yet from the Trump regime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
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Maduro é o que é, porém:
O governo Trump aterroriza um estado soberano, rouba seu petróleo e assassina seus cidadãos. Normal isso?
O governo Trump aterroriza um estado soberano, rouba seu petróleo e assassina seus cidadãos. Normal isso?
Wir beobachten einen Regime-Change in Echtzeit, völlig unverhohlen, völlig ungeniert.
Die Trump-Regierung terrorisiert einen souveränen Staat, stiehlt sein Öl, tötet seine Staatsbürger.
Was sagt eigentlich unser @aussenminister.diplo.de dazu? Bisher nämlich: Nichts.
Die Trump-Regierung terrorisiert einen souveränen Staat, stiehlt sein Öl, tötet seine Staatsbürger.
Was sagt eigentlich unser @aussenminister.diplo.de dazu? Bisher nämlich: Nichts.
"Totale Blockade": Trump droht diesem Land mit Einmarsch
Die USA erhöhen den Venezuela eskalieren zu wollen. Trump ordnet eine Blockade an – und droht dem Land zugleich mit Bodentruppen.
www.t-online.de
December 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Maduro é o que é, porém:
O governo Trump aterroriza um estado soberano, rouba seu petróleo e assassina seus cidadãos. Normal isso?
O governo Trump aterroriza um estado soberano, rouba seu petróleo e assassina seus cidadãos. Normal isso?
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Exactly the sort of tyrannical behavior that the Constitution was written to prevent. See the Fourth Amendment in particular.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Exactly the sort of tyrannical behavior that the Constitution was written to prevent. See the Fourth Amendment in particular.
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You have to scroll down about ten times on the Guardian liveblog to get a slight clue about what actually happened.
Small detail missing in this headline huh
Two people have been taken into custody as New South Wales Police responded to a reported shooting at Australia’s famous Bondi Beach.
A police operation is “ongoing” with people urged to avoid the area, New South Wales police said.
A police operation is “ongoing” with people urged to avoid the area, New South Wales police said.
December 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
You have to scroll down about ten times on the Guardian liveblog to get a slight clue about what actually happened.
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Revi Midnight in Paris, do Woody Allen.
Com toda situação ficcional de viagem no tempo, achei que a cena menos verossímil é a de um escritor perguntando pro outro "conte-me sobre seu livro".
uma coisa dessas jamais aconteceria fora de um filme.
Com toda situação ficcional de viagem no tempo, achei que a cena menos verossímil é a de um escritor perguntando pro outro "conte-me sobre seu livro".
uma coisa dessas jamais aconteceria fora de um filme.
December 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Revi Midnight in Paris, do Woody Allen.
Com toda situação ficcional de viagem no tempo, achei que a cena menos verossímil é a de um escritor perguntando pro outro "conte-me sobre seu livro".
uma coisa dessas jamais aconteceria fora de um filme.
Com toda situação ficcional de viagem no tempo, achei que a cena menos verossímil é a de um escritor perguntando pro outro "conte-me sobre seu livro".
uma coisa dessas jamais aconteceria fora de um filme.
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This lawless abuse needs to stop. That includes Congress demanding the end to masked agents. Every Republican is complicit.
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This lawless abuse needs to stop. That includes Congress demanding the end to masked agents. Every Republican is complicit.
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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"Tincher [a US citizen] has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours, where she saw about seven other detainees." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"Tincher [a US citizen] has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours, where she saw about seven other detainees." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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🕊️🇮🇷 La lauréate du prix Nobel de la paix 2023, Narges Mohammadi, a été arrêtée en Iran où elle était en liberté provisoire pour raisons médicales, a annoncé vendredi sur X son comité de soutien.
December 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🕊️🇮🇷 La lauréate du prix Nobel de la paix 2023, Narges Mohammadi, a été arrêtée en Iran où elle était en liberté provisoire pour raisons médicales, a annoncé vendredi sur X son comité de soutien.
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Bully backed down after running into resistance, indicating they hoped their target would weakly fold in the face of bluster and don’t have a back up plan?
Huh. That keeps happening. Maybe a lesson there.
Huh. That keeps happening. Maybe a lesson there.
Lol the US just abandoned their effort to get mad at the guy that threw Bolsonaro in prison. Big "my toddler tantrum didn't get me nothing so we're done here" energy.
*US REMOVES BRAZIL'S MORAES FROM SANCTIONS LIST
*US ALSO DELETES VIVIANE BARCI DE MORAES FROM SANCTIONS LIST
*US REMOVES BRAZIL'S MORAES FROM SANCTIONS LIST
*US ALSO DELETES VIVIANE BARCI DE MORAES FROM SANCTIONS LIST
December 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Bully backed down after running into resistance, indicating they hoped their target would weakly fold in the face of bluster and don’t have a back up plan?
Huh. That keeps happening. Maybe a lesson there.
Huh. That keeps happening. Maybe a lesson there.
I have just seen the worst talk ever in my 40 years of control conferences.
The scenarios in the “smart cities” paper make any form of mobility except individual automobiles impossible.
There is nothing safe and nothing smart about it. A sci fi dystopia.
The scenarios in the “smart cities” paper make any form of mobility except individual automobiles impossible.
There is nothing safe and nothing smart about it. A sci fi dystopia.
December 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I have just seen the worst talk ever in my 40 years of control conferences.
The scenarios in the “smart cities” paper make any form of mobility except individual automobiles impossible.
There is nothing safe and nothing smart about it. A sci fi dystopia.
The scenarios in the “smart cities” paper make any form of mobility except individual automobiles impossible.
There is nothing safe and nothing smart about it. A sci fi dystopia.
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US foreign policy also for sale in the Balkans:
"The Maga push overturning US policy in the Balkans"
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
"The Maga push overturning US policy in the Balkans"
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
December 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
US foreign policy also for sale in the Balkans:
"The Maga push overturning US policy in the Balkans"
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
"The Maga push overturning US policy in the Balkans"
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
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Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
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My Senator with a horrible development.
Unacceptable. Stand with him in resistance
Unacceptable. Stand with him in resistance
Immigrants were questioned about their country of origin and turned away while waiting in line for their citizenship ceremonies.
It sounds like a work of dystopian fiction. But it's not. This is exactly what happened at Faneuil Hall last week.
Unacceptable. Naturalize them now.
It sounds like a work of dystopian fiction. But it's not. This is exactly what happened at Faneuil Hall last week.
Unacceptable. Naturalize them now.
Unacceptable. Immigrants questioned and turned away from citizenship ceremonies.
Immigrants were questioned about their country of origin and turned away while waiting in line for their citizenship ceremonies.
It sounds like a work of dystopian fiction. But it's not. This is…
youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
My Senator with a horrible development.
Unacceptable. Stand with him in resistance
Unacceptable. Stand with him in resistance
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The Kremlin had to exhibit self-control to praise this only after it was published.
"Russia has welcomed Donald Trump's new US National Security Strategy, calling it "largely consistent" with Moscow's vision."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New US Security Strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The Kremlin had to exhibit self-control to praise this only after it was published.
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And America's don't
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
And America's don't
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What the US is doing to Europe it is also doing to its one time allies in the Indo-Pacific. There is one rule of action for the US government now. If you are a democracy, you will be abandoned; if you are a dictatorship, you will be praised and supported.
Japan has urged the US to give Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi more public support after expressing frustration at the level of backing she received following comments about Taiwan that enraged China: on.ft.com/4ppLWPW
Japan frustrated at Trump administration’s silence over row with China
Tokyo asks US to be more vocal in its support after Beijing reacted furiously to prime minister’s comments about Taiwan
on.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
What the US is doing to Europe it is also doing to its one time allies in the Indo-Pacific. There is one rule of action for the US government now. If you are a democracy, you will be abandoned; if you are a dictatorship, you will be praised and supported.
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Journalists and media: stop bothsidesing attacks on childhood vaccines. We look to you to report what is happening and what the effects will be, not repeat the administration’s rhetoric. The effects will be more sickness and more death. That is not something to bothsides. Hold power accountable.
December 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Journalists and media: stop bothsidesing attacks on childhood vaccines. We look to you to report what is happening and what the effects will be, not repeat the administration’s rhetoric. The effects will be more sickness and more death. That is not something to bothsides. Hold power accountable.