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“This was the trauma that they wanted, that they planned, that they promised us. And, for once, they did a great job of delivering.” - CDC employee
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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
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September 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“This was the trauma that they wanted, that they planned, that they promised us. And, for once, they did a great job of delivering.” - CDC employee
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...Karoline's cross doesn't burn and Mike Johnson isn't a Premium PornHub member...
Thinking Trump has empathy is like thinking Marco has a soul or Ted Cruz has a spine or Tim Scott has a girlfriend or Stephen Miller eats garlic or Pete Kegsbreath is sober or RFK jr stopped doing heroin or Jeanine Pirro is competent or Pam Bondi knows the law
What you see is what you get
What you see is what you get
September 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
...Karoline's cross doesn't burn and Mike Johnson isn't a Premium PornHub member...
"Essentially, a man is posing as a woman to an audience of women who are trying to protect themselves from, at best, deceptive men."
Avoid the Tea app. Stick with the FB groups for Are We Dating the Same Man? Imperfect but far safer.
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Avoid the Tea app. Stick with the FB groups for Are We Dating the Same Man? Imperfect but far safer.
www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...
How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World
A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.
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August 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"Essentially, a man is posing as a woman to an audience of women who are trying to protect themselves from, at best, deceptive men."
Avoid the Tea app. Stick with the FB groups for Are We Dating the Same Man? Imperfect but far safer.
www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...
Avoid the Tea app. Stick with the FB groups for Are We Dating the Same Man? Imperfect but far safer.
www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...
Typical buyer is a kid who has no idea this is illegal.
Typical seller absolutely knows it's illegal, and they're cashing in, because USDA-APHIS just lost most of its entomologists.
Invasive ant species. What could go wrong?
www.wired.com/story/usda-a...
Typical seller absolutely knows it's illegal, and they're cashing in, because USDA-APHIS just lost most of its entomologists.
Invasive ant species. What could go wrong?
www.wired.com/story/usda-a...
Government Staffing Cuts Have Fueled an Ant-Smuggling Boom
“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”
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August 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Typical buyer is a kid who has no idea this is illegal.
Typical seller absolutely knows it's illegal, and they're cashing in, because USDA-APHIS just lost most of its entomologists.
Invasive ant species. What could go wrong?
www.wired.com/story/usda-a...
Typical seller absolutely knows it's illegal, and they're cashing in, because USDA-APHIS just lost most of its entomologists.
Invasive ant species. What could go wrong?
www.wired.com/story/usda-a...
Do you want this in your neighborhood?
It's in mine.
Spoiler: in case you were wondering, this fucking sucks.
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It's in mine.
Spoiler: in case you were wondering, this fucking sucks.
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“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
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August 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Do you want this in your neighborhood?
It's in mine.
Spoiler: in case you were wondering, this fucking sucks.
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It's in mine.
Spoiler: in case you were wondering, this fucking sucks.
projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
Release the Epstein files.
Protect the victims.
Show everything else - ALL of the other names.
Gift article
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Protect the victims.
Show everything else - ALL of the other names.
Gift article
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A Look Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Lair
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August 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Release the Epstein files.
Protect the victims.
Show everything else - ALL of the other names.
Gift article
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
Protect the victims.
Show everything else - ALL of the other names.
Gift article
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"Here are nine unanswered questions about the Epstein case - ones that a curious, non-conspiracy-minded citizen might have - that the files might help answer..."
Gift article.
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Gift article.
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Opinion | I Covered the Epstein Case for Decades. These Are the 9 Questions We Actually Need Answered.
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July 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"Here are nine unanswered questions about the Epstein case - ones that a curious, non-conspiracy-minded citizen might have - that the files might help answer..."
Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Gift article.
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"...Israel could be accused of carrying out war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing or genocide. This silence has made a mockery of the slogan 'Never again...'”
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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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July 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"...Israel could be accused of carrying out war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing or genocide. This silence has made a mockery of the slogan 'Never again...'”
Gift article
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Gift article
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Fucking thugs
Propaganda: trans women are going to assault you in the ladies’ room
Reality: Drunk armed border patrol agents are going to assault you in the ladies’ room
Reality: Drunk armed border patrol agents are going to assault you in the ladies’ room
Hodgson, the agent, was allegedly off-duty, intoxicated, and armed with a handgun while at a restaurant in the Shoreline Village in Long Beach. Hodgson allegedly entered the women’s restroom, where he approached a female who observed his handgun and firearm magazine.
July 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Fucking thugs
"Slaves were the single largest, by far, financial asset of property in the entire American economy.”
"At the end of World War I, black veterans returning to their homes were assaulted for daring to wear the American uniform."
Gift article
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"At the end of World War I, black veterans returning to their homes were assaulted for daring to wear the American uniform."
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The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America w...
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July 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Slaves were the single largest, by far, financial asset of property in the entire American economy.”
"At the end of World War I, black veterans returning to their homes were assaulted for daring to wear the American uniform."
Gift article
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"At the end of World War I, black veterans returning to their homes were assaulted for daring to wear the American uniform."
Gift article
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It's been happening in my community for a couple of months.
I am always aware of what's going on around me. Always. It's not a nice feeling.
Having some idea of what's coming does not make me feel prepared, at all. I hope I'm wrong.
I am always aware of what's going on around me. Always. It's not a nice feeling.
Having some idea of what's coming does not make me feel prepared, at all. I hope I'm wrong.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It's been happening in my community for a couple of months.
I am always aware of what's going on around me. Always. It's not a nice feeling.
Having some idea of what's coming does not make me feel prepared, at all. I hope I'm wrong.
I am always aware of what's going on around me. Always. It's not a nice feeling.
Having some idea of what's coming does not make me feel prepared, at all. I hope I'm wrong.
Reposted
1/23 🚨🧵This should be a MUCH bigger story.
The White House, under pressure from Bukele, quietly dismissed U.S. terrorism-related charges against MS-13 leaders, undoing the U.S.-led Joint Task Force dismantling the transnational gang.
THIS is why the deportations had to be a show.
The White House, under pressure from Bukele, quietly dismissed U.S. terrorism-related charges against MS-13 leaders, undoing the U.S.-led Joint Task Force dismantling the transnational gang.
THIS is why the deportations had to be a show.
June 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
1/23 🚨🧵This should be a MUCH bigger story.
The White House, under pressure from Bukele, quietly dismissed U.S. terrorism-related charges against MS-13 leaders, undoing the U.S.-led Joint Task Force dismantling the transnational gang.
THIS is why the deportations had to be a show.
The White House, under pressure from Bukele, quietly dismissed U.S. terrorism-related charges against MS-13 leaders, undoing the U.S.-led Joint Task Force dismantling the transnational gang.
THIS is why the deportations had to be a show.
"for people in ICE custody - who have no say in where they’re being held - being placed in areas with scarce medical infrastructure only deepens their vulnerability."
Free Wired article based on FOIA (Wired intro subscription = $10/year - worth it)
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Free Wired article based on FOIA (Wired intro subscription = $10/year - worth it)
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‘They're Not Breathing’: Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...
www.wired.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"for people in ICE custody - who have no say in where they’re being held - being placed in areas with scarce medical infrastructure only deepens their vulnerability."
Free Wired article based on FOIA (Wired intro subscription = $10/year - worth it)
www.wired.com/story/ice-de...
Free Wired article based on FOIA (Wired intro subscription = $10/year - worth it)
www.wired.com/story/ice-de...
"Darby and his sister Flora had both been separated from their family by their enslavers as young children... when his enslaver died by injuries sustained at the battle of Bunker Hill, six-year-old Darby walked 10 miles home to his family."
10,000 descendants
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10,000 descendants
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Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’
When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired
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June 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"Darby and his sister Flora had both been separated from their family by their enslavers as young children... when his enslaver died by injuries sustained at the battle of Bunker Hill, six-year-old Darby walked 10 miles home to his family."
10,000 descendants
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10,000 descendants
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Early AM Saturday June 28, 1969 police arrived and announced they were raiding the Stonewall bar.
The patrons and community said, fuck you.
Free streaming documentary about life before Stonewall.
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The patrons and community said, fuck you.
Free streaming documentary about life before Stonewall.
archive.org/details/tele...
Television - PBS - Before Stonewall : PBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
ripped from VHS
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June 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Early AM Saturday June 28, 1969 police arrived and announced they were raiding the Stonewall bar.
The patrons and community said, fuck you.
Free streaming documentary about life before Stonewall.
archive.org/details/tele...
The patrons and community said, fuck you.
Free streaming documentary about life before Stonewall.
archive.org/details/tele...
I lived and worked in NYC for 5 years, in the early 1990s. On some level I will always feel like a New Yorker.
Fuck YES I am cheering for Zohran.
Fuck YES I am cheering for Zohran.
On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
June 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I lived and worked in NYC for 5 years, in the early 1990s. On some level I will always feel like a New Yorker.
Fuck YES I am cheering for Zohran.
Fuck YES I am cheering for Zohran.
"...reverence for Lee relies on replacing the actual Lee with a mythical figure who never truly existed."
"White supremacy does not 'violate' Lee’s 'most fundamental convictions.' White supremacy was one of Lee’s most fundamental convictions."
Gift article
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"White supremacy does not 'violate' Lee’s 'most fundamental convictions.' White supremacy was one of Lee’s most fundamental convictions."
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The Myth of the Kindly General Lee
The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.
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June 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"...reverence for Lee relies on replacing the actual Lee with a mythical figure who never truly existed."
"White supremacy does not 'violate' Lee’s 'most fundamental convictions.' White supremacy was one of Lee’s most fundamental convictions."
Gift article
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"White supremacy does not 'violate' Lee’s 'most fundamental convictions.' White supremacy was one of Lee’s most fundamental convictions."
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"There aren't a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way, where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bankrolling whoever they want... and what it means is ordinary Americans are shut out of the process."
15 fucking years
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSFv...
15 fucking years
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSFv...
ENOUGH
YouTube video by End Citizens United
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June 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"There aren't a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way, where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bankrolling whoever they want... and what it means is ordinary Americans are shut out of the process."
15 fucking years
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSFv...
15 fucking years
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"Everyone knows that 79 is the tank birthday. One is paper, 77 is emoluments, 78 you get to destroy one constitutional amendment of your choosing, 80 you get to become the state, but 79 is tanks, and I was so looking forward to my tank birthday."
Gift article
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My Super-Special 79th Was Not Super Special
A diary entry by a disappointed president
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June 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"Everyone knows that 79 is the tank birthday. One is paper, 77 is emoluments, 78 you get to destroy one constitutional amendment of your choosing, 80 you get to become the state, but 79 is tanks, and I was so looking forward to my tank birthday."
Gift article
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"Nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere grants citizenship to children born in its territory irrespective of the nationality of their parents. It’s part of the promise of the New World."
Gift article
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The Revolutionary Idea That Remade the New World
Birthright citizenship is distinctly American—but not in the way Trump thinks.
www.theatlantic.com
June 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
"Nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere grants citizenship to children born in its territory irrespective of the nationality of their parents. It’s part of the promise of the New World."
Gift article
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Gift article
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I absolutely know who was working in hotels during COVID when I traveled for business and was often one of the only guests.
Always tip housekeeping. Always, even if the front desk at one of your regular stays tells you, you're the only one who leaves something.
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Always tip housekeeping. Always, even if the front desk at one of your regular stays tells you, you're the only one who leaves something.
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4K reactions · 28 shares | They are right!! ICE is staying at hotels where immigrants provide services cleaning the rooms, cooking the food, maintaining the building, running the businesses etc.. In t...
They are right!! ICE is staying at hotels where immigrants provide services cleaning the rooms, cooking the food, maintaining the building, running the businesses etc.. In this video you will see ICE....
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June 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I absolutely know who was working in hotels during COVID when I traveled for business and was often one of the only guests.
Always tip housekeeping. Always, even if the front desk at one of your regular stays tells you, you're the only one who leaves something.
www.facebook.com/reel/7471259...
Always tip housekeeping. Always, even if the front desk at one of your regular stays tells you, you're the only one who leaves something.
www.facebook.com/reel/7471259...
A few years ago I spent a month working in Los Angeles.
Sending ❤️
Sending ❤️
This is the spirit of Los Angeles.
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
June 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
A few years ago I spent a month working in Los Angeles.
Sending ❤️
Sending ❤️
Horses will do almost anything to avoid stepping on a human.
Put objects or signs in between you and the horse.
Push off the shoulder, never directly in front or behind.
I've worked with horses for 40+ years. They're big but they avoid contact whenever possible.
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Put objects or signs in between you and the horse.
Push off the shoulder, never directly in front or behind.
I've worked with horses for 40+ years. They're big but they avoid contact whenever possible.
www.facebook.com/reel/2888339...
95 reactions · 74 comments | How to try to keep yourself safer around police horses during protests.
If anyone has any other tips, feel free to comment below.
The biggest thing is to try to keep a b...
How to try to keep yourself safer around police horses during protests.
If anyone has any other tips, feel free to comment below.
The biggest thing is to try to keep a barrier, whether artificial...
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June 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Horses will do almost anything to avoid stepping on a human.
Put objects or signs in between you and the horse.
Push off the shoulder, never directly in front or behind.
I've worked with horses for 40+ years. They're big but they avoid contact whenever possible.
www.facebook.com/reel/2888339...
Put objects or signs in between you and the horse.
Push off the shoulder, never directly in front or behind.
I've worked with horses for 40+ years. They're big but they avoid contact whenever possible.
www.facebook.com/reel/2888339...