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Kevin Jerry Matthews Meiser
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From snow that melted only yesterday
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This report should have panicked everyone on the left into concerted, coordinated effort to address the information asymmetry. But as far as I can tell it just came & went & Dems are still in "buy TV ads about affordability" mode.
The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces
As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this conte...
www.mediamatters.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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A Democratic Party not having an explicit platform of reforming the Judicial Branch after today is not a party I want to vote for.

The strongly worded letters have to stop someday.
December 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Wins 2025 hands down
Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Witch: You will be one of the most famous Chief Justices ever.

Roberts: Wow!

Witch: Oh, not in that way.
December 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Style guide:

Alina Habba is not STEPPING DOWN.

She is ending her unlawful charade that she is US Attorney.
December 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?

A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
December 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT)

The price of aid cuts.
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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This really is a must read for anyone in academia.
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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For all their complaints that postmodern intellectuals have decoupled humans from basic realities, the right has fully committed to decoupling humans from basic realities.
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS.

The coup was over in hours because people said no.
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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New @ms.now: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social spoke to the Babson College student who Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported to Honduras after she tried to fly to visit her parents for Thanksgiving.

“It felt like if I was a criminal when I’m not,” she said of being shackled, arrested and deported.
'It felt like if I was a criminal when I'm not.'
First-year college student Any Lopez Belloza was caught up in President Trump's mass deportation campaign when ICE agents detained her in a Boston airport on the way home for Thanksgiving and deported...
www.ms.now
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Jacob Frey: "We are here to respond to credible reports relaying that there are as many as 100 federal agents that will be deployed to the Twin Cities with a specific focus on targeting our Somali community. To our Somali community -- we love you and we stand with you. That commitment is rock solid"
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Again, this is the cognitive test that Donald Trump thinks was very hard.
December 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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North Korean-style. A Potemkin village of fake journalists.
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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December 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.

But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.

The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Watching @alivitali.bsky.social and I’m begging folks to stop yielding to the idea that there are potential war crimes when there is no war— Congress hasn’t authorized military action. The DoD is simply ordering the execution of civilians in peace time. Crime against humanity is more apt.
December 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Pete Hegseth on Sept 3 talking about the strike on boats where 2 survivors were later killed in a second strike: “I watched it live.”
December 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM