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Time passes. In the morning we must each go swiftly on the ways appointed to us.
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Y’all know what to do. Bankrupt these MFs! #notofascism
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Y’all know what to do. Bankrupt these MFs! #notofascism
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Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵
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Someone just pointed out to me how much the Oversight committee is dropping the ball on this.
What are they even doing? They just dump thousands of emails and tell us to riff through them and find the significance?
What are our tax dollars paying for exactly??
What are they even doing? They just dump thousands of emails and tell us to riff through them and find the significance?
What are our tax dollars paying for exactly??
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Someone just pointed out to me how much the Oversight committee is dropping the ball on this.
What are they even doing? They just dump thousands of emails and tell us to riff through them and find the significance?
What are our tax dollars paying for exactly??
What are they even doing? They just dump thousands of emails and tell us to riff through them and find the significance?
What are our tax dollars paying for exactly??
This bit from The Nazis – A Warning from History by Laurence Rees, is incredibly relevant. It resonates with what is happening around us right now.
#BookSky
#BookSky
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This bit from The Nazis – A Warning from History by Laurence Rees, is incredibly relevant. It resonates with what is happening around us right now.
#BookSky
#BookSky
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Um, do federal prosecutors *really* want to take the position that it's not okay to receive something of value from … Qatar?
I can think of 747 reasons why they shouldn't. 🤔
I can think of 747 reasons why they shouldn't. 🤔
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Um, do federal prosecutors *really* want to take the position that it's not okay to receive something of value from … Qatar?
I can think of 747 reasons why they shouldn't. 🤔
I can think of 747 reasons why they shouldn't. 🤔
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NYC has fallen
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
NYC has fallen
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
This is essential listening! One of the best podcasts in America. Time to be even more alarmed.
Know Your Enemy: Break Glass in Case of Emergency
Episode webpage: know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/bre...
Media file: chrt.fm/track/F9DF47...
Know Your Enemy: Break Glass in Case of Emergency
Episode webpage: know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/bre...
Media file: chrt.fm/track/F9DF47...
Break Glass in Case of Emergency | Know Your Enemy
Matt and Sam are very worried.
know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This is essential listening! One of the best podcasts in America. Time to be even more alarmed.
Know Your Enemy: Break Glass in Case of Emergency
Episode webpage: know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/bre...
Media file: chrt.fm/track/F9DF47...
Know Your Enemy: Break Glass in Case of Emergency
Episode webpage: know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/bre...
Media file: chrt.fm/track/F9DF47...
I feel this way. Absolutely. It's an attack.
I would lean into this argument so hard if I were advising federal delegation Dems. First, that’s exactly what it looks like. Second, if you were trying to blow up the country would you be acting differently than the Trump admin right now? And third, this obviously gets to them. But what do I know.
October 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I feel this way. Absolutely. It's an attack.
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This isn't even true. Miller is in charge and the NYT knows it but they want focus on Vance because Miller is even more extreme than Vance.
Vice President JD Vance has taken on a far more visible role in recent weeks. To his allies, he is showing off the ability to defend his boss as the heir apparent to the political movement led by President Trump. But in the process, Vance has shifted his positions and promoted views he once opposed.
As Vance Takes on a Forceful New Role, His Positions Are Shifting
Vice President JD Vance has found himself defending or promoting positions that he once opposed, even as recently as the campaign.
nyti.ms
October 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This isn't even true. Miller is in charge and the NYT knows it but they want focus on Vance because Miller is even more extreme than Vance.
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In Chicago, an ICE Goon violently shoved a woman to the ground near a moving van.
October 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
In Chicago, an ICE Goon violently shoved a woman to the ground near a moving van.
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Have you ever seen a wren have a bath? No? Nor had I till just now. Filmed through a rain-spotted window & on my phone, so not perfect, but hope it brings you a spot of delight nonetheless 🪶
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Have you ever seen a wren have a bath? No? Nor had I till just now. Filmed through a rain-spotted window & on my phone, so not perfect, but hope it brings you a spot of delight nonetheless 🪶
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Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?
October 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?
I'm a gnarly old dude, but I think I'm channeling my inner 16-year-old. I think maybe(?) I read this book as a teenager, I don't even remember. And maybe she's not quite a seasoned full-bag-of-tricks novelist yet, but MAN, it's intense. This stabs right to the heart. #BookSky
October 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I'm a gnarly old dude, but I think I'm channeling my inner 16-year-old. I think maybe(?) I read this book as a teenager, I don't even remember. And maybe she's not quite a seasoned full-bag-of-tricks novelist yet, but MAN, it's intense. This stabs right to the heart. #BookSky
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When someone seeks to bring me down (had a bit of a rough time on twitter today) I have a strong urge to channel the grimness & angst into something positive. So, here’s a photo I took of some things I grew-really hope it makes your brain feel good🌿
October 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
When someone seeks to bring me down (had a bit of a rough time on twitter today) I have a strong urge to channel the grimness & angst into something positive. So, here’s a photo I took of some things I grew-really hope it makes your brain feel good🌿
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why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?
By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.
October 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?
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Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.
No mention at all of the fact that Trump doesn't have the legal authority to do this, that plans haven't even been reviewed (because the office is closed for the government shutdown), that the size and cost estimates keep changing, etc., etc.
Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place.
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.
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Know what? JD really IS white trash...
October 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Know what? JD really IS white trash...
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Amazing video from Chicago today.
No Kings
No Kings
October 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Amazing video from Chicago today.
No Kings
No Kings
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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
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So I started scouring the internet. TikTok, Instagram, court docs, and local news sites, in Spanish and English.
It was hardly scientific. But I found senior citizens tackled. Pregnant women handcuffed. Kids detained. A veteran pulled out of his car on the way to work.
The videos were everywhere
It was hardly scientific. But I found senior citizens tackled. Pregnant women handcuffed. Kids detained. A veteran pulled out of his car on the way to work.
The videos were everywhere
October 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
So I started scouring the internet. TikTok, Instagram, court docs, and local news sites, in Spanish and English.
It was hardly scientific. But I found senior citizens tackled. Pregnant women handcuffed. Kids detained. A veteran pulled out of his car on the way to work.
The videos were everywhere
It was hardly scientific. But I found senior citizens tackled. Pregnant women handcuffed. Kids detained. A veteran pulled out of his car on the way to work.
The videos were everywhere
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First, a bit of backstory. This spring, I started tracking how many times immigration agents detained American citizens.
I spoke to experts who warned that the scattered cases I initially found would only grow as Trump's aggressive deportation plans took shape.
www.propublica.org/article/more...
I spoke to experts who warned that the scattered cases I initially found would only grow as Trump's aggressive deportation plans took shape.
www.propublica.org/article/more...
Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in ...
www.propublica.org
October 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
First, a bit of backstory. This spring, I started tracking how many times immigration agents detained American citizens.
I spoke to experts who warned that the scattered cases I initially found would only grow as Trump's aggressive deportation plans took shape.
www.propublica.org/article/more...
I spoke to experts who warned that the scattered cases I initially found would only grow as Trump's aggressive deportation plans took shape.
www.propublica.org/article/more...