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I don't usually post about TV, but a few years ago, I cancelled Netflix after the Season 4 finale of Stranger Things. It ended on a cliffhanger, and I was annoyed. I knew how long it had been since the previous season, and didn't like the idea of waiting that long to see the next installment.
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I don't usually post about TV, but a few years ago, I cancelled Netflix after the Season 4 finale of Stranger Things. It ended on a cliffhanger, and I was annoyed. I knew how long it had been since the previous season, and didn't like the idea of waiting that long to see the next installment.
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Radley Balko is always worth reading, but when he talks about police militarization, he’s speaking as one of the most qualified journalists we have. He’s rather apocalyptic about where we are with a huge ICE force. He’s right.
open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
The police militarization debate is over
Quaint disputes about the proper role of police and military have been superseded by a more urgent threat: Donald Trump is creating his own, personal paramilitary force
open.substack.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Radley Balko is always worth reading, but when he talks about police militarization, he’s speaking as one of the most qualified journalists we have. He’s rather apocalyptic about where we are with a huge ICE force. He’s right.
open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
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With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
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"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."
-Omar El Akkad
It's not anti-semitic to oppose genocide.
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"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."
-Omar El Akkad
It's not anti-semitic to oppose genocide.
June 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Non pay walled version
archive.is/3LjoW
"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."
-Omar El Akkad
It's not anti-semitic to oppose genocide.
archive.is/3LjoW
"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."
-Omar El Akkad
It's not anti-semitic to oppose genocide.
I'm at work, and about to get back to work, but before I do, I'm yelling into the void at how INSANE it is that it seems like we're about to have WW3, yet I STILL have to be concerned with my day job building cloud-based marketing software.
TBF, if WW3 DOES break out, I'mma take a personal day. 🫤
TBF, if WW3 DOES break out, I'mma take a personal day. 🫤
June 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm at work, and about to get back to work, but before I do, I'm yelling into the void at how INSANE it is that it seems like we're about to have WW3, yet I STILL have to be concerned with my day job building cloud-based marketing software.
TBF, if WW3 DOES break out, I'mma take a personal day. 🫤
TBF, if WW3 DOES break out, I'mma take a personal day. 🫤
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Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
June 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
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The mass deportation scheme is probably the most immediately scary part of Trump 2025. It’s not just the just the forcible deportation of millions of people and accompanying family disruption That’s bad enough. Nor is the let’s-see-what-pulling-this-lever-does-hurr economic recklessness./1
Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.”
Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back.
Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.
Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back.
Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.
"Wait until 2025. They ain't seen shit yet." www.semafor.com/article/07/0...
July 13, 2024 at 9:28 PM
The mass deportation scheme is probably the most immediately scary part of Trump 2025. It’s not just the just the forcible deportation of millions of people and accompanying family disruption That’s bad enough. Nor is the let’s-see-what-pulling-this-lever-does-hurr economic recklessness./1
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Now is a good time to bump this. It makes it extra hard for the National Guard and soldiers to fire at you if you are literally waving the fucking stars and stripes flag.
Using the American flag to symbolic effect at protests against the Musk/Trump regime isn’t appealing to fascism, and it is incredibly counterproductive and stupid to believe to is.
June 8, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Now is a good time to bump this. It makes it extra hard for the National Guard and soldiers to fire at you if you are literally waving the fucking stars and stripes flag.
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Trump says he'd like to deport US citizens to El Salvador: "I'd like to go a step further. I don't know what the laws are, we always have to obey the laws, but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways... I'd like to include them in the group of people to get out of the country"
April 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Trump says he'd like to deport US citizens to El Salvador: "I'd like to go a step further. I don't know what the laws are, we always have to obey the laws, but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways... I'd like to include them in the group of people to get out of the country"
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Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why.
Here is what this means:
Here is what this means:
March 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why.
Here is what this means:
Here is what this means:
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This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.
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Are you paying ATTENTION, yet? 👇
Well, are you?!
Better start. ✨
Well, are you?!
Better start. ✨
March 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Are you paying ATTENTION, yet? 👇
Well, are you?!
Better start. ✨
Well, are you?!
Better start. ✨
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mRNA vaccines are the biggest breakthrough in disease prevention and treatment in decades. We're curing *cancer* with mRNA vaccines. To eliminate research in this field, at this moment, is fall-of-the-empire-grade stuff.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
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Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
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March 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
mRNA vaccines are the biggest breakthrough in disease prevention and treatment in decades. We're curing *cancer* with mRNA vaccines. To eliminate research in this field, at this moment, is fall-of-the-empire-grade stuff.
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
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Some cold hard truths we have to accept here. I'm not going down a slippery-slope of choosing fascism, but this is clearly a sign the Democratic party, "just don't get it".
Course correct and figure out the reality people live in, or they will continue to vote away their rights.
Course correct and figure out the reality people live in, or they will continue to vote away their rights.
Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.
www.politico.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Some cold hard truths we have to accept here. I'm not going down a slippery-slope of choosing fascism, but this is clearly a sign the Democratic party, "just don't get it".
Course correct and figure out the reality people live in, or they will continue to vote away their rights.
Course correct and figure out the reality people live in, or they will continue to vote away their rights.
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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
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FAA says a military helicopter collided with the American Airlines passenger jet from Wichita near DCA.
There must be immediate hearings on how the federal government/Department of Defense allowed this to happen and if removal of safety protocols and recent personnel changes led to this incident.
There must be immediate hearings on how the federal government/Department of Defense allowed this to happen and if removal of safety protocols and recent personnel changes led to this incident.
January 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
FAA says a military helicopter collided with the American Airlines passenger jet from Wichita near DCA.
There must be immediate hearings on how the federal government/Department of Defense allowed this to happen and if removal of safety protocols and recent personnel changes led to this incident.
There must be immediate hearings on how the federal government/Department of Defense allowed this to happen and if removal of safety protocols and recent personnel changes led to this incident.
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Why do I get the feeling that in 30 years Chinese AI will be freeing them of labor and making the population more prosperous, and American AI will be selling us McDonald's when we ask it literally anything?
January 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Why do I get the feeling that in 30 years Chinese AI will be freeing them of labor and making the population more prosperous, and American AI will be selling us McDonald's when we ask it literally anything?
@jarek-azevedo.bsky.social Hey, it's Mason.
January 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
@jarek-azevedo.bsky.social Hey, it's Mason.
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Men will literally complain about the male loneliness epidemic and then not join the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
December 15, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Men will literally complain about the male loneliness epidemic and then not join the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.