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Why, why, why did I do it?
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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People in the intelligence community call Witkoff Dim Philby - both for his level of intelligence and because he’s working for the Russians.
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino responds “roger that” to a tweet reading “big or small, deport them all.”
November 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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ICE vs the clergy
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Let's start calling it the "Trump Murder Memo."

#TrumpMurderMemo
It is interesting to me how the media seems far less interested in Trump's Murder Memo than you'd expect. Only a few reporters seem to be even trying to get a hold of it, and very few commentators are talking about it. Contrast that with Bush's torture memo, which was a national obsession. Weird.
Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!

It gets even darker than that. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Immigration raids in Hawaiʻi are especially ironic since the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi was illegally overthrown and the Hawaiian Islands annexed by the United States against the will of the people.
Immigration arrests surge in Hawaii as federal agents target courthouses
Advocates and legal experts say many arrests are happening quietly, often when immigrants show up at state courts.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Before I was a novelist I was a newspaper columnist and while I loved that gig, I have this fear that over the course of time my whole shtick would have become a series of unpleasant "just asking questions" columns that would make people want to avoid me socially, I mention this for no reason
Did the New York Times ruin journalism?
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Laura Ingraham tried to convince her viewers that by winning, Democrats are actually losing.

It’s propaganda’s nightmare scenario: the mechanism exposed while it’s still running.
Laura Ingraham Tries to Repair the Simulation. Hilarity Ensues.
Within twenty-four hours of Republicans getting crushed in elections they’d convinced themselves were winnable, Fox News deployed the counter-move.
www.notesfromthecircus.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I dunno guys, kid makes some good points.
November 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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If Kristi Noem wants to be completely unrecognizable on Halloween, she should go as Kristi Noem in 2018.
October 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I received an email today from a woman who believes that the MMR vaccine caused her daughter’s multiple sclerosis.

Given my own personal experience with MS, I have looked into this.

There is no association between MMR vaccine and MS; in fact, the study below suggests that MMR may be protective.
A large case-control study on vaccination as risk factor for multiple sclerosis - PubMed
Results of the present study do not reveal vaccination to be a risk factor for MS. On the contrary, they consistently suggest that vaccination is associated with a lower likelihood of being diagnosed with MS within the next 5 years. Whether this is a protective effect needs to be addressed by future …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Secretary Rollins’ claim that the Trump Administration is unable to deliver November SNAP benefits during a shutdown is unequivocally false. The Administration is legally required to use contingency reserves to fund benefits for the 1 in 8 Americans who need SNAP to afford their grocery bill.
Trump Administration Is Legally Required to Provide SNAP in Shutdown, Contrary to Its Claims
Secretary Rollins’ claim that the Trump Administration is unable to deliver November SNAP benefits during a shutdown is unequivocally false. The Administration is legally required to use contingency r...
www.cbpp.org
October 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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"Even at this late date, the professionals at the Department of Agriculture and in states can make this happen. And, to state the obvious, benefits that are a couple of days delayed are far more help to families than going without any help at all."
Secretary Rollins’ claim that the Trump Administration is unable to deliver November SNAP benefits during a shutdown is unequivocally false. The Administration is legally required to use contingency reserves to fund benefits for the 1 in 8 Americans who need SNAP to afford their grocery bill.
Trump Administration Is Legally Required to Provide SNAP in Shutdown, Contrary to Its Claims
Secretary Rollins’ claim that the Trump Administration is unable to deliver November SNAP benefits during a shutdown is unequivocally false. The Administration is legally required to use contingency r...
www.cbpp.org
October 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I can’t believe it, but this is true. Nakedly Nazi iconography posted by the Department of Labor.
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
October 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor.

And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...
October 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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While walking near this architectural gem to a meeting at the Foreign Ministry, I was stopped by a Dushanbe cop.

In Russian, then garbled English:

“Sidewalk tax.”

I flashed my dip passport.

“For you, discount.”

I kept walking.

Giving into a shakedown from this sort of regime is a choice.
Been reminiscing today for no particular reason about this beauty which I encountered during a couple of extended work trips to Dushanbe.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_...
Palace of the Nation, Dushanbe - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Police have released bodycam footage from the first moments after yesterday’s Russian strike on a kindergarten in Kharkiv.

In it, officers are seen evacuating terrified children from the basement. The kids are visibly shaken. their building had just exploded above their heads.
October 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE
October 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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#NoKings vs Trump’s military parade
October 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM