Peter Cruz
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How local sheriffs deport people: traffic stops.
"The spokesperson, Sam Salzwedel, likened the operations to drunk driving patrols around the holidays."
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"The spokesperson, Sam Salzwedel, likened the operations to drunk driving patrols around the holidays."
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December 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
How local sheriffs deport people: traffic stops.
"The spokesperson, Sam Salzwedel, likened the operations to drunk driving patrols around the holidays."
archive.ph/3pcOn#select...
"The spokesperson, Sam Salzwedel, likened the operations to drunk driving patrols around the holidays."
archive.ph/3pcOn#select...
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According to the Federal Reserve, the richest 1% of Americans are now worth $52 TRILLION.
And most of us can't afford gas, groceries, rent, or healthcare.
“Trickle-down economics” is the greatest trick the wealthy and powerful have ever pulled.
And most of us can't afford gas, groceries, rent, or healthcare.
“Trickle-down economics” is the greatest trick the wealthy and powerful have ever pulled.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
According to the Federal Reserve, the richest 1% of Americans are now worth $52 TRILLION.
And most of us can't afford gas, groceries, rent, or healthcare.
“Trickle-down economics” is the greatest trick the wealthy and powerful have ever pulled.
And most of us can't afford gas, groceries, rent, or healthcare.
“Trickle-down economics” is the greatest trick the wealthy and powerful have ever pulled.
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This is basically permitting reform: reducing administrative burdens for businesses and individuals. See also Pennsylvania: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/permitting...
November 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This is basically permitting reform: reducing administrative burdens for businesses and individuals. See also Pennsylvania: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/permitting...
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When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
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But pardons for pedophiles, rapists, thieves, Al-Qaeda financiers, and everyone who violently tried to overthrow the government and destroyed tens of millions of dollars of federal property
The President of the United States promising a policy of mass denaturalization of citizens "who undermine domestic tranquility"
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
But pardons for pedophiles, rapists, thieves, Al-Qaeda financiers, and everyone who violently tried to overthrow the government and destroyed tens of millions of dollars of federal property
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We're drowning in passwords & multi-factor authentication & chatbots & "unusually high call volume" & robots ignoring "representative!"
We should think more carefully about how Social Security uses these tools with our parents & grandparents.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
We should think more carefully about how Social Security uses these tools with our parents & grandparents.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
Ain't No Party Like an Administrative Burden Party
You are cordially invited to Admin Night - bring your paperwork
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We're drowning in passwords & multi-factor authentication & chatbots & "unusually high call volume" & robots ignoring "representative!"
We should think more carefully about how Social Security uses these tools with our parents & grandparents.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
We should think more carefully about how Social Security uses these tools with our parents & grandparents.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
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This new policy from NIH is concerning.
It looks like a way to weaponize administrative burden, one of Russell Vought's favorite moves to break gov't.
Background: Program staff / NIH institute directors can move grants around outside peer review order. 1/
It looks like a way to weaponize administrative burden, one of Russell Vought's favorite moves to break gov't.
Background: Program staff / NIH institute directors can move grants around outside peer review order. 1/
This is concerning.
NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
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NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
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November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
This new policy from NIH is concerning.
It looks like a way to weaponize administrative burden, one of Russell Vought's favorite moves to break gov't.
Background: Program staff / NIH institute directors can move grants around outside peer review order. 1/
It looks like a way to weaponize administrative burden, one of Russell Vought's favorite moves to break gov't.
Background: Program staff / NIH institute directors can move grants around outside peer review order. 1/
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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FYI, there are over 300,000 pages of Epstein files.
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
FYI, there are over 300,000 pages of Epstein files.
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Update on California's Mystery Gasoline Surcharge: holding steady around $0.50 per gallon. In last 6 weeks, however, mostly due to higher spot prices, not downstream margins. Worrisome given one recent and one impending refinery closure. For context: energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/c...
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Update on California's Mystery Gasoline Surcharge: holding steady around $0.50 per gallon. In last 6 weeks, however, mostly due to higher spot prices, not downstream margins. Worrisome given one recent and one impending refinery closure. For context: energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/c...
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In this week's Energy Institute blog, Andy Campbell digs into the debate over how to use money from California's cap and trade auctions to support clean energy and electrification.
energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/c...
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energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/c...
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Choosing Between Increasing Subsidies or Lowering Rates for Electrification
With California’s cap-and-trade program renewed, policymakers have choices about how to effect change. Just a year ago, the transition from fossil-fueled to electrified transportation and buildings…
energyathaas.wordpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
In this week's Energy Institute blog, Andy Campbell digs into the debate over how to use money from California's cap and trade auctions to support clean energy and electrification.
energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/c...
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energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/c...
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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BREAKING: Fewer Americans Plan to Travel for Thanksgiving Despite Gas Prices Near Multi-Year Lows www.gasbuddy.com/newsroom/pre...
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
BREAKING: Fewer Americans Plan to Travel for Thanksgiving Despite Gas Prices Near Multi-Year Lows www.gasbuddy.com/newsroom/pre...
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Tricia trying to edit the tweet to say “young children,” like they’ve had to do every other time they’ve said, “we don’t do x to children.”
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Tricia trying to edit the tweet to say “young children,” like they’ve had to do every other time they’ve said, “we don’t do x to children.”
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Bari Weiss, the contrarian Substacker turned editor-in-chief of CBS News, appears ready to hollow out or eliminate the outlet’s standards and practices team, claiming that they have “too much power.”
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
CBS News may soon have no standards—literally
Bari Weiss, the contrarian Substacker turned editor-in-chief of CBS News, appears ready to hollow out or eliminate the outlet’s standards and practices team, claiming that they have “too much ...
www.dailykos.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Bari Weiss, the contrarian Substacker turned editor-in-chief of CBS News, appears ready to hollow out or eliminate the outlet’s standards and practices team, claiming that they have “too much power.”
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Fascinating inside baseball. The omission of those seven words is easy to miss, but it points toward a sharp dispute behind the scenes—KBJ wanted to make it as clear as possible that she did not support extending this stay any further.
Indeed, the text of the order doesn’t include the usual “and by her referred to the Court.” So Jackson clearly got overruled here.
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Fascinating inside baseball. The omission of those seven words is easy to miss, but it points toward a sharp dispute behind the scenes—KBJ wanted to make it as clear as possible that she did not support extending this stay any further.
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One thing I have marveled at is the way that crowds have been disciplined in capturing immigration enforcement’s lack of discipline.
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
One thing I have marveled at is the way that crowds have been disciplined in capturing immigration enforcement’s lack of discipline.
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For context: the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) said the debt reached $38.019 trillion, and that it added $1 trillion in about two months.
Link: www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...
Link: www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...
U.S. Debt Hits New Record High, tops $38.019 Trillion; Added $1 Trillion in Only 71 Days, Almost $383 Billion During the Government Shutdown Alone
Joint Economic Committee Chairman David Schweikert released the following statement after the total public debt of the United States reached a new record high of $38.019 trillion.
www.jec.senate.gov
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
For context: the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) said the debt reached $38.019 trillion, and that it added $1 trillion in about two months.
Link: www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...
Link: www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...
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It's fascinating. The deficit of one sector emerges as the surplus of another. Basically, 30% of wealth is held by the top 1%, 67% by the top 10%, and just 2.5% by the bottom 50% of households. One sector rises to the extent the others sink.
Not politics. Just accounting.
Not politics. Just accounting.
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
It's fascinating. The deficit of one sector emerges as the surplus of another. Basically, 30% of wealth is held by the top 1%, 67% by the top 10%, and just 2.5% by the bottom 50% of households. One sector rises to the extent the others sink.
Not politics. Just accounting.
Not politics. Just accounting.
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Brother Warnock lays it plain.
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Brother Warnock lays it plain.
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‼️ WE NEED YOUR HELP! We’re still getting reports of long lines at the polls, and we need your support to keep the pizza coming 🍕🗳️ Because no one should have to skip dinner to do their civic duty.
Donate at polls.pizza/donate & help us spread the word!
Donate at polls.pizza/donate & help us spread the word!
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
‼️ WE NEED YOUR HELP! We’re still getting reports of long lines at the polls, and we need your support to keep the pizza coming 🍕🗳️ Because no one should have to skip dinner to do their civic duty.
Donate at polls.pizza/donate & help us spread the word!
Donate at polls.pizza/donate & help us spread the word!
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Notably, @royalpratt.bsky.social appears to have gotten his hands on the unredacted copy of the preliminary injunction motion seemingly filed in error yesterday before being deleted and replaced with a redacted version.
Here's what that bit looks like in the public filing vs. the unredacted.
Here's what that bit looks like in the public filing vs. the unredacted.
![In fact, Defendants used gas in a residential neighborhood multiple times without audible warnings, after residents protested their arrest of a person in the front yard of a residence. See Dkt. 140; Dkt. 140 at 1 n.1; Exs. 90-93, 95-96 (available at Dkt. 140 at 1 n.2). Defendants’ own videos show [REDACTED] (cite to an Axon video). [REDACTED]. The gas [REDACTED]. There was no threat when gas was deployed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreibzmlnn7gk7ku3r22tllfvol2gb4qxadzmlvjkq2b2usrdntgyel4@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Notably, @royalpratt.bsky.social appears to have gotten his hands on the unredacted copy of the preliminary injunction motion seemingly filed in error yesterday before being deleted and replaced with a redacted version.
Here's what that bit looks like in the public filing vs. the unredacted.
Here's what that bit looks like in the public filing vs. the unredacted.
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House