Randy Herman
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Randy Herman
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· Oct 6
Although it is entirely a coincidence without meaning, I still think it's funny that two of the major characters in the Omni-crisis are named Bove (cow) and Bovino (little cow)
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Avg swing in specials to Congress is 17 pts left since 2024. But bc they've been so low-turnout, the data b4 last night suggested a 100% turnout (relative to the past midterm) special would have swung closer to 6-7 points. So TN-7 (13 pts) is updating priors about the share of swing that's turnout
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Avg swing in specials to Congress is 17 pts left since 2024. But bc they've been so low-turnout, the data b4 last night suggested a 100% turnout (relative to the past midterm) special would have swung closer to 6-7 points. So TN-7 (13 pts) is updating priors about the share of swing that's turnout
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*giggles in NC dummymander*
An 18-point shift from 2024 would put every district on the newly proposed Indiana map into play.
December 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
*giggles in NC dummymander*
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This is ethnic cleansing.
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is ethnic cleansing.
Since Stranger Things is salient again, behold: the intersection of Cornwallis and Kerley, the location where Will canonically disappeared in Season 1
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Since Stranger Things is salient again, behold: the intersection of Cornwallis and Kerley, the location where Will canonically disappeared in Season 1
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Read these words. This is your country doing this:
“Pregnant & postpartum women report starving in ICE custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, their pleas for help going unanswered.”
Thank you @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social @the-independent.com for shining a light on these horrors
“Pregnant & postpartum women report starving in ICE custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, their pleas for help going unanswered.”
Thank you @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social @the-independent.com for shining a light on these horrors
(1/4) ICE detention has become a black box. Oversight has been gutted. Families are being separated. Pregnant and postpartum women report starving in custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, and their pleas for help going unanswered.
Miscarriages, infections, neglect: The pregnant women detained by ICE
Until last year, Congress required reports on the pregnant, postpartum or nursing women in ICE custody, including ‘detailed justification’ for their detention. This requirement no longer exists, Kelly...
www.independent.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Read these words. This is your country doing this:
“Pregnant & postpartum women report starving in ICE custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, their pleas for help going unanswered.”
Thank you @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social @the-independent.com for shining a light on these horrors
“Pregnant & postpartum women report starving in ICE custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, their pleas for help going unanswered.”
Thank you @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social @the-independent.com for shining a light on these horrors
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The official policy of the Trump Administration is ignorant bigotry. We’re asked, under principles including charity, to assume that people support the administration despite that policy, not specifically because of it. I am increasingly unwilling to extend that charity.
December 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The official policy of the Trump Administration is ignorant bigotry. We’re asked, under principles including charity, to assume that people support the administration despite that policy, not specifically because of it. I am increasingly unwilling to extend that charity.
I'm just going to say it: Sovereign Citizens are bad people
December 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I'm just going to say it: Sovereign Citizens are bad people
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If @aftynbehn.bsky.social pulls off a victory in this heavily gerrymandered, Trump +22 district, it would be the biggest upset in memory. Trump would have a complete meltdown, and it would send chills down the spines of Republicans from coast to coast.
Let’s do this, Tennessee! 💙 #TN07
Let’s do this, Tennessee! 💙 #TN07
TODAY IS THE DAY!
GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM
WE GOT THIS!!!!!!
GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM
WE GOT THIS!!!!!!
December 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
If @aftynbehn.bsky.social pulls off a victory in this heavily gerrymandered, Trump +22 district, it would be the biggest upset in memory. Trump would have a complete meltdown, and it would send chills down the spines of Republicans from coast to coast.
Let’s do this, Tennessee! 💙 #TN07
Let’s do this, Tennessee! 💙 #TN07
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There is really an unsustainable level of bigoted gutter trash in the United States.
Cammack: "Look no further than Minnesota and the disaster there where the Somalian community has been really the root of all of the waste, fraud, and abuse that we've seen in the last several years."
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
There is really an unsustainable level of bigoted gutter trash in the United States.
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President Trump is pardoning a convicted Honduran drug lord who openly boasted that he would "stuff the drugs right up the noses of the gringos," and push drugs into America.
This is the most pro-crime, pro-corruption administration in our country's history.
This is the most pro-crime, pro-corruption administration in our country's history.
Trump plans to pardon former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced to 45 years in prison for running a “narco-state” that helped send cocaine to the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
President Trump is pardoning a convicted Honduran drug lord who openly boasted that he would "stuff the drugs right up the noses of the gringos," and push drugs into America.
This is the most pro-crime, pro-corruption administration in our country's history.
This is the most pro-crime, pro-corruption administration in our country's history.
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all that money sloshing around the world financial system produced surprisingly bad effects
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
all that money sloshing around the world financial system produced surprisingly bad effects
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Border Patrol says it is targeting violent criminals, but by many reports, more than 70% of those detained have no prior convictions. Fátima Issela Velasquez-Antonio came to North Carolina as an orphaned child a decade ago and is working in and contributing to her community in Wendell.
Wendell woman caught in immigration sweep denied bond at hearing
Attorneys for Fatima Issela Velasquez-Antonio are hopeful they can persuade a federal district judge to release her.
www.newsobserver.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Border Patrol says it is targeting violent criminals, but by many reports, more than 70% of those detained have no prior convictions. Fátima Issela Velasquez-Antonio came to North Carolina as an orphaned child a decade ago and is working in and contributing to her community in Wendell.
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Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Tim Kaine — both on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — say that if Pete Hegseth did, in fact, order a follow-on attack to kill survivors of a September boat strikes, such orders would rise to the level of war crimes.
December 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Tim Kaine — both on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — say that if Pete Hegseth did, in fact, order a follow-on attack to kill survivors of a September boat strikes, such orders would rise to the level of war crimes.
I think the time has come to say it: no matter how sincerely held, your religious beliefs are not a "get out of civil society free" card. You still have obligations to your fellow citizens now matter how much you really really don't want to.
December 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I think the time has come to say it: no matter how sincerely held, your religious beliefs are not a "get out of civil society free" card. You still have obligations to your fellow citizens now matter how much you really really don't want to.
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This.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
December 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
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This is all true but
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is all true but
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
The turkey's final form
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The turkey's final form
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Journalism prof here.
No, this is not taught by us (or at least the mjoroty of us). It is taught by corporate overlords who decide that an accurate headline does not create enough "reader engagement." By creating disingenuous headlines - very often calibrated to be rage bait for your base - 1/
No, this is not taught by us (or at least the mjoroty of us). It is taught by corporate overlords who decide that an accurate headline does not create enough "reader engagement." By creating disingenuous headlines - very often calibrated to be rage bait for your base - 1/
November 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Journalism prof here.
No, this is not taught by us (or at least the mjoroty of us). It is taught by corporate overlords who decide that an accurate headline does not create enough "reader engagement." By creating disingenuous headlines - very often calibrated to be rage bait for your base - 1/
No, this is not taught by us (or at least the mjoroty of us). It is taught by corporate overlords who decide that an accurate headline does not create enough "reader engagement." By creating disingenuous headlines - very often calibrated to be rage bait for your base - 1/
Latest episode of Pluribus is basically an classic X-Files (laudatory)
November 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Latest episode of Pluribus is basically an classic X-Files (laudatory)
One thing that this period has reinforced to me is that there are many circumstances in life where most or all of the people involved are in agreement (or would be willing to assent) but all of them are afraid to be the first to say so. It is genuinely very hard to be first! But someone has to.
November 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
One thing that this period has reinforced to me is that there are many circumstances in life where most or all of the people involved are in agreement (or would be willing to assent) but all of them are afraid to be the first to say so. It is genuinely very hard to be first! But someone has to.
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
1/2
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
1/2
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
1/2
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Mostly, I'm bummed to see what I feel is a money grab. Why doesn't the product page say these are made in Hong Kong? Why does Roger claim this is not "off the rack?" These are made on block patterns and offered in standard sizes. They are functionally the same as OTR clothes.
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Mostly, I'm bummed to see what I feel is a money grab. Why doesn't the product page say these are made in Hong Kong? Why does Roger claim this is not "off the rack?" These are made on block patterns and offered in standard sizes. They are functionally the same as OTR clothes.
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I'm also surprised that Roger went with a Hong Kong factory (I called the factory today to confirm). If MAGA is about making America great again through reindustrialization, why not use a US factory? Over at O'Connell's, you can find MiUSA tailoring for half of Roger's prices
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I'm also surprised that Roger went with a Hong Kong factory (I called the factory today to confirm). If MAGA is about making America great again through reindustrialization, why not use a US factory? Over at O'Connell's, you can find MiUSA tailoring for half of Roger's prices