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Did you know Trump has added 2.2 trillion to the national debt since taking office 10 months ago?
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Did you know Trump has added 2.2 trillion to the national debt since taking office 10 months ago?
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It's high time for a side-quest thread.
When I began listing all the books I finished, in 1994, the first book I wrote down was To the Lighthouse.
I kept up this practice until linear time ended, "as you may recall", in 2020.
I am resurrecting the practice by rereading "To the Lighthouse", slowly:
When I began listing all the books I finished, in 1994, the first book I wrote down was To the Lighthouse.
I kept up this practice until linear time ended, "as you may recall", in 2020.
I am resurrecting the practice by rereading "To the Lighthouse", slowly:
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It's high time for a side-quest thread.
When I began listing all the books I finished, in 1994, the first book I wrote down was To the Lighthouse.
I kept up this practice until linear time ended, "as you may recall", in 2020.
I am resurrecting the practice by rereading "To the Lighthouse", slowly:
When I began listing all the books I finished, in 1994, the first book I wrote down was To the Lighthouse.
I kept up this practice until linear time ended, "as you may recall", in 2020.
I am resurrecting the practice by rereading "To the Lighthouse", slowly:
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Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever
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On Saturday, goons broke a window of Willy Aceituno’s pickup truck outside the Pollo Campero restaurant in Charlotte. Aceituno, a U.S. citizen for approximately six years, reported the incident.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
On Saturday, goons broke a window of Willy Aceituno’s pickup truck outside the Pollo Campero restaurant in Charlotte. Aceituno, a U.S. citizen for approximately six years, reported the incident.
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This was Kyiv, Everyone already knows, but let me say it one more time, RUSSIA IS A TERRORIST STATE!
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This was Kyiv, Everyone already knows, but let me say it one more time, RUSSIA IS A TERRORIST STATE!
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#NorthCarolina
This injustice is coming your way. It will effect every aspect of day to day life in #Charlotte negativly.
I'd like to crunch those numbers to see how much of our tax money was spent to arrest these 16 people? 500k per person, a million per person....
#ICE
#BorderPatrol
#DHS
This injustice is coming your way. It will effect every aspect of day to day life in #Charlotte negativly.
I'd like to crunch those numbers to see how much of our tax money was spent to arrest these 16 people? 500k per person, a million per person....
#ICE
#BorderPatrol
#DHS
ICE has arrested about 600 immigrants in the city of Chicago. You know how many of them have criminal records? Sixteen.
They promised to secure the border and remove anybody who was violent — and they lied.
They promised to secure the border and remove anybody who was violent — and they lied.
November 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
#NorthCarolina
This injustice is coming your way. It will effect every aspect of day to day life in #Charlotte negativly.
I'd like to crunch those numbers to see how much of our tax money was spent to arrest these 16 people? 500k per person, a million per person....
#ICE
#BorderPatrol
#DHS
This injustice is coming your way. It will effect every aspect of day to day life in #Charlotte negativly.
I'd like to crunch those numbers to see how much of our tax money was spent to arrest these 16 people? 500k per person, a million per person....
#ICE
#BorderPatrol
#DHS
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A Charlotte pastor said Border Patrol came into his church and made an arrest in front of children. They cried “a lot,” he said.
“We are trying to clean the property. We didn’t know this is gonna happen.”
#borderpatrol #charlotte #nc
“We are trying to clean the property. We didn’t know this is gonna happen.”
#borderpatrol #charlotte #nc
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A Charlotte pastor said Border Patrol came into his church and made an arrest in front of children. They cried “a lot,” he said.
“We are trying to clean the property. We didn’t know this is gonna happen.”
#borderpatrol #charlotte #nc
“We are trying to clean the property. We didn’t know this is gonna happen.”
#borderpatrol #charlotte #nc
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#Charlotte
“I see a guy running from the tire shop being chased by 3 other guys with Border Patrol uniforms & taking him down to the ground, I’m like, this is not right. First thing in the morning, people are going to work. The guy at the tire shop is making a living, he’s not hurting nobody"
“I see a guy running from the tire shop being chased by 3 other guys with Border Patrol uniforms & taking him down to the ground, I’m like, this is not right. First thing in the morning, people are going to work. The guy at the tire shop is making a living, he’s not hurting nobody"
Residents react to Border Patrol in central and east Charlotte
Jonathan Martinez had heard about the operation, but when this lifelong Charlotte resident saw it, he was stunned and upset.
www.wsoctv.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
#Charlotte
“I see a guy running from the tire shop being chased by 3 other guys with Border Patrol uniforms & taking him down to the ground, I’m like, this is not right. First thing in the morning, people are going to work. The guy at the tire shop is making a living, he’s not hurting nobody"
“I see a guy running from the tire shop being chased by 3 other guys with Border Patrol uniforms & taking him down to the ground, I’m like, this is not right. First thing in the morning, people are going to work. The guy at the tire shop is making a living, he’s not hurting nobody"
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By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
www.bu.edu
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
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This is corrupt on so many levels.
November 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is corrupt on so many levels.
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Yes, an important test for the midterms.
If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Yes, an important test for the midterms.
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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
October 31, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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(money that Congress has already allocated for emergency use) if the shutdown continues into November. A reminder to the Trump administration: withholding funds already allocated by Congress is illegal, though they continue to act as if they are above the law.
Due to Federal Government Shutdown, USDA Notifies States that SNAP Benefits Won't Be Issued for November | Department of Health and Human Services
AUGUSTA-- Due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has notified every state that November funding for the Supplemental Nutr...
www.maine.gov
October 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
(money that Congress has already allocated for emergency use) if the shutdown continues into November. A reminder to the Trump administration: withholding funds already allocated by Congress is illegal, though they continue to act as if they are above the law.
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The Trump admin’s USDA issued new guidance stating it will not use existing funds to cover SNAP benefits if the government shutdown extends beyond October 31. This move effectively threatens to withhold billions of dollars in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) contingency funding
October 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The Trump admin’s USDA issued new guidance stating it will not use existing funds to cover SNAP benefits if the government shutdown extends beyond October 31. This move effectively threatens to withhold billions of dollars in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) contingency funding
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Also and again, GOP members of Congress are, by their actions, fine with this.
Pentagon staffers will now need to get prior approval before sharing any information with Congress, according to a new memo from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and his deputy that Axios reviewed.
After leaks, Hegseth limits Pentagon staff's interaction with Congress
The new directive could limit congressional oversight of department activities.
www.axios.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Also and again, GOP members of Congress are, by their actions, fine with this.
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Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.
October 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.
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Children are dying because Trump gutted USAID and cut lifesaving foreign aid — even though it took up less than 1% of the U.S. budget.
Meanwhile, he's preparing to dole out $40 billion to prop up Argentina's failing economy, all to help out his authoritarian pal.
Priorities.
Meanwhile, he's preparing to dole out $40 billion to prop up Argentina's failing economy, all to help out his authoritarian pal.
Priorities.
October 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Children are dying because Trump gutted USAID and cut lifesaving foreign aid — even though it took up less than 1% of the U.S. budget.
Meanwhile, he's preparing to dole out $40 billion to prop up Argentina's failing economy, all to help out his authoritarian pal.
Priorities.
Meanwhile, he's preparing to dole out $40 billion to prop up Argentina's failing economy, all to help out his authoritarian pal.
Priorities.
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There already aren’t enough dentists who accept Medicaid patients, said Kimberly Raleigh of the Michigan Oral Health Coalition, and “if there is a reduction in community water fluoridation, it’s just a downward spiral.”
On the Front Line of the Fluoride Wars, Debate Over Drinking Water Treatment Turns Raucous
After decades of fluoridating drinking water to improve public health, some communities are wavering on the practice. In one Michigan county, the medical director is mirroring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ...
www.propublica.org
October 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
There already aren’t enough dentists who accept Medicaid patients, said Kimberly Raleigh of the Michigan Oral Health Coalition, and “if there is a reduction in community water fluoridation, it’s just a downward spiral.”
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Across the street, also closed but lit brightly, Independence Hall sat catching the day’s last light. Benjamin Franklin remarked on these steps that we had “A republic, if you can keep it.” I wonder what Franklin would think of America today or if he’d just be astonished we made it this long.
October 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Across the street, also closed but lit brightly, Independence Hall sat catching the day’s last light. Benjamin Franklin remarked on these steps that we had “A republic, if you can keep it.” I wonder what Franklin would think of America today or if he’d just be astonished we made it this long.
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This is a profoundly absurd show of force that could put Californians directly in harm's way.
Flying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isn't just wrong — it's dangerous.
Flying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isn't just wrong — it's dangerous.
October 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
This is a profoundly absurd show of force that could put Californians directly in harm's way.
Flying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isn't just wrong — it's dangerous.
Flying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isn't just wrong — it's dangerous.
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If anyone wonders why we call them wannabe authoritarians, here you go.
They’re now shitting on the Bill of Rights.
They’re now shitting on the Bill of Rights.
“Policy says reporters cannot obtain or solicit any information the Defense Department does not explicitly authorize. Any media who does not sign by 5 p.m. Tuesday has 24 hours to turn in their media credentials and clear out.”
Absolute fucking abomination.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Absolute fucking abomination.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before deadline for signing
The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
If anyone wonders why we call them wannabe authoritarians, here you go.
They’re now shitting on the Bill of Rights.
They’re now shitting on the Bill of Rights.
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This is Colton. He started a fire at his house when he chewed through a lithium ion battery. He's not the first dog to do this, and he won't be the last, but unfortunately his dad is a firefighter, so it's probably going down as one of the most embarrassing instances. We're still giving him a 12/10
October 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This is Colton. He started a fire at his house when he chewed through a lithium ion battery. He's not the first dog to do this, and he won't be the last, but unfortunately his dad is a firefighter, so it's probably going down as one of the most embarrassing instances. We're still giving him a 12/10
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NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
October 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️🌈
October 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️🌈