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NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law enforcement partnerships, Border Patrol is monitoring American drivers and detaining those exhibiting ‘suspicious’ travel patterns in the U.S. interior. w/
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law enforcement partnerships, Border Patrol is monitoring American drivers and detaining those exhibiting ‘suspicious’ travel patterns in the U.S. interior. w/
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
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"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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java.time.ParadoxException
October 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
java.time.ParadoxException
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That’s uhh insane.
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
That’s uhh insane.
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Look, I’ve been incredibly outspoken against the very real problems the gerontocratic Dem power structure has made for itself, including its submission to corporate interests, but if you keep a fucking Nazi tattoo on your fucking body for LONGER THAN A LITERAL DECADE that’s a *you* problem.
"It's really interesting to have this whole power structure essentially turn on to try to drag my name through the mud." Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner describes the resistance he has experienced within the Democratic Party.
www.threads.com/@thebriefing...
www.threads.com/@thebriefing...
The Briefing with Jen Psaki (@thebriefingwithpsaki) on Threads
"It's really interesting to have this whole power structure essentially turn on to try to drag my name through the mud." Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner describes the resistance he has experienc...
www.threads.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Look, I’ve been incredibly outspoken against the very real problems the gerontocratic Dem power structure has made for itself, including its submission to corporate interests, but if you keep a fucking Nazi tattoo on your fucking body for LONGER THAN A LITERAL DECADE that’s a *you* problem.
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However bad you think the police surveillance state has become, it’s worse. Here a tiny police force has blanketed a tiny town in a network of cameras to track every person and vehicle that goes through. Which leads a cop to this woman’s house to lie to her to coax a false confession.
October 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
However bad you think the police surveillance state has become, it’s worse. Here a tiny police force has blanketed a tiny town in a network of cameras to track every person and vehicle that goes through. Which leads a cop to this woman’s house to lie to her to coax a false confession.
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another day of trying not to succumb fully to doomerism
October 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
another day of trying not to succumb fully to doomerism
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Just for the record, in 2020:
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
October 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Just for the record, in 2020:
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
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whomst amongst us
October 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
whomst amongst us
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us-east-1 down is the same kind of fun event as big boat stuck
why is it always us-east-1?
October 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
us-east-1 down is the same kind of fun event as big boat stuck
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Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.
This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
October 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
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literally no need for this
the protesters were just standing there, not causing any problems. then here come the police, causing problems.
I need @govpritzker.illinois.gov to tell these goons to go home. And if he can't or won't do so, I need to know that, too.
the protesters were just standing there, not causing any problems. then here come the police, causing problems.
I need @govpritzker.illinois.gov to tell these goons to go home. And if he can't or won't do so, I need to know that, too.
State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.
October 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
literally no need for this
the protesters were just standing there, not causing any problems. then here come the police, causing problems.
I need @govpritzker.illinois.gov to tell these goons to go home. And if he can't or won't do so, I need to know that, too.
the protesters were just standing there, not causing any problems. then here come the police, causing problems.
I need @govpritzker.illinois.gov to tell these goons to go home. And if he can't or won't do so, I need to know that, too.
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If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc
30 people disappeared in this shaded area today.
October 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc
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Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
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I don’t think you can “abuse” your right to protest
Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.
"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.
"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.
October 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I don’t think you can “abuse” your right to protest
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I dunno, feels like reaching the “hiding your neighbors from the masked secret police” stage of things in like 9 months doesn’t bode well for the next couple of years.
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I dunno, feels like reaching the “hiding your neighbors from the masked secret police” stage of things in like 9 months doesn’t bode well for the next couple of years.
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Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.
This is terrifying!
ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)
This is Trump’s America.
ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)
This is Trump’s America.
October 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.
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ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.
October 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.
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It isn't just that you can't express verbal support for Palestine Action. You may also not even be free to simply question the government's decision to ban it. This is the most basic political expression — challenging how leaders govern. And yet.
Yeh, you can't even disagree with the action of declaring Palestine Action a terrorist group. Pretty sure they will just try to arrest anyone with the words Action & Palestine in what they deem to be the wrong order at this point. Some politicians are really in need of swift replacement.
Woman 'arrested' over 'I oppose proscription of Palestine Action' sign
A PROTESTER has claimed she was arrested for holding a sign saying “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”.
www.thenational.scot
October 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It isn't just that you can't express verbal support for Palestine Action. You may also not even be free to simply question the government's decision to ban it. This is the most basic political expression — challenging how leaders govern. And yet.
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Yeah I basically think Sora is poison and the people who made it are evil people.
Genuine question - what are OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation tools good for?
I am honestly trying to understand what is so important that it’s worth the cost. If you have examples, I would be interested to hear them.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
I am honestly trying to understand what is so important that it’s worth the cost. If you have examples, I would be interested to hear them.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized
People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.
futurism.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Yeah I basically think Sora is poison and the people who made it are evil people.
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It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x
October 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x
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“…bucking tradition…”??
You guys.
No
You guys.
No
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
n.pr
October 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“…bucking tradition…”??
You guys.
No
You guys.
No