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· Sep 23
Modern society makes hypocrites of us all.
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This is why we make it clear in Minnesota that it snows until June and all the lakes smell like death. It's a hellscape, really.
December 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is why we make it clear in Minnesota that it snows until June and all the lakes smell like death. It's a hellscape, really.
Make villages again
It's lame how US developers will build discrete new neighborhoods like this without a little town center. I think to most people, a little hub with a coffee shop, barber shop, post office, and/or convenience store would be a real amenity.
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Make villages again
When Arsenal bought Noni Madueke, I semi-joked to friends: “well, they just bought two wins against Wolves next season”
Lets see if I was correct…
Lets see if I was correct…
December 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
When Arsenal bought Noni Madueke, I semi-joked to friends: “well, they just bought two wins against Wolves next season”
Lets see if I was correct…
Lets see if I was correct…
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It's lame how US developers will build discrete new neighborhoods like this without a little town center. I think to most people, a little hub with a coffee shop, barber shop, post office, and/or convenience store would be a real amenity.
December 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
It's lame how US developers will build discrete new neighborhoods like this without a little town center. I think to most people, a little hub with a coffee shop, barber shop, post office, and/or convenience store would be a real amenity.
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A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
December 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
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🇸🇩 Nathaniel Raymond of the Yale Humanitarian Lab on RSF Killings in El-Fasher:
“The siege lasted 18 months. I want to put this in perspective — El Fasher was under siege for three and a half times Stalingrad, and three-quarters the siege of Leningrad during World War II.”
“Gaza was under IPC-5...
“The siege lasted 18 months. I want to put this in perspective — El Fasher was under siege for three and a half times Stalingrad, and three-quarters the siege of Leningrad during World War II.”
“Gaza was under IPC-5...
December 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM
🇸🇩 Nathaniel Raymond of the Yale Humanitarian Lab on RSF Killings in El-Fasher:
“The siege lasted 18 months. I want to put this in perspective — El Fasher was under siege for three and a half times Stalingrad, and three-quarters the siege of Leningrad during World War II.”
“Gaza was under IPC-5...
“The siege lasted 18 months. I want to put this in perspective — El Fasher was under siege for three and a half times Stalingrad, and three-quarters the siege of Leningrad during World War II.”
“Gaza was under IPC-5...
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The death toll at Srebrenica was about 8,400. At Katyn, about 22,000. At Babi Yar, about 34,000.
Add those together and you've just barely cracked the low-end estimate of the death toll at El Fasher.
Add those together and you've just barely cracked the low-end estimate of the death toll at El Fasher.
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The death toll at Srebrenica was about 8,400. At Katyn, about 22,000. At Babi Yar, about 34,000.
Add those together and you've just barely cracked the low-end estimate of the death toll at El Fasher.
Add those together and you've just barely cracked the low-end estimate of the death toll at El Fasher.
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In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Here's Sandra Day O'Connor endorsing News Max levels of voter fraud conspiracies in the 2000 election.
December 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
modern Meditations
And now to attend a stupid meeting I don’t want to be in with people who regularly lie
December 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
modern Meditations
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I can tell you exactly why, though:
Everyone else that they sent to the El Salvador torture prison is still there, and still being tortured, at this moment. Letting Kilmar "get away" from them allows the focus to shift back to that fact.
Everyone else that they sent to the El Salvador torture prison is still there, and still being tortured, at this moment. Letting Kilmar "get away" from them allows the focus to shift back to that fact.
December 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I can tell you exactly why, though:
Everyone else that they sent to the El Salvador torture prison is still there, and still being tortured, at this moment. Letting Kilmar "get away" from them allows the focus to shift back to that fact.
Everyone else that they sent to the El Salvador torture prison is still there, and still being tortured, at this moment. Letting Kilmar "get away" from them allows the focus to shift back to that fact.
They have always had to come after citizenship because one you do that, its open season for them to define citizen v resident v non-resident v visitor, etc
Giving the game away. he has more “scholarly ammunition” than he did in January because a bunch of professional bootlicks and liars who have never had real jobs started lying about birthright citizenship in January.
December 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
They have always had to come after citizenship because one you do that, its open season for them to define citizen v resident v non-resident v visitor, etc
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I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was taken to a detention center and held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care
December 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was taken to a detention center and held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care
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Don't skip this, it's 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗔𝗡𝗘.
These are the data the Trump Administration wants every visitor to the US from countries where a visa 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 required to provide. Imagine what the requirements will be for people required to have a visa. And remember, there were 72.4M visitors last year.
These are the data the Trump Administration wants every visitor to the US from countries where a visa 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 required to provide. Imagine what the requirements will be for people required to have a visa. And remember, there were 72.4M visitors last year.
December 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Don't skip this, it's 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗔𝗡𝗘.
These are the data the Trump Administration wants every visitor to the US from countries where a visa 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 required to provide. Imagine what the requirements will be for people required to have a visa. And remember, there were 72.4M visitors last year.
These are the data the Trump Administration wants every visitor to the US from countries where a visa 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 required to provide. Imagine what the requirements will be for people required to have a visa. And remember, there were 72.4M visitors last year.
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US jobless claims jumped 44,000 to 236,000 last week, biggest rise since pandemic began. Companies like PepsiCo and HP are cutting workers.
Most consumers also now expect unemployment to rise further.
Most consumers also now expect unemployment to rise further.
December 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
US jobless claims jumped 44,000 to 236,000 last week, biggest rise since pandemic began. Companies like PepsiCo and HP are cutting workers.
Most consumers also now expect unemployment to rise further.
Most consumers also now expect unemployment to rise further.
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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
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We buried it a bit towards the end of the piece but @bradmossesq.bsky.social was setting sneaky precedent this week.
www.courtwatch.news/p/155-fifa-r...
www.courtwatch.news/p/155-fifa-r...
#155: FIFA Receives DOJ’s Hand of God
A corruption case ends “in the interest of justice.” Plus: MAGA burgers, Ethan Klein, Tiffany Fong impersonator, Antifa, Laura Loomer and...Fish Games?
www.courtwatch.news
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We buried it a bit towards the end of the piece but @bradmossesq.bsky.social was setting sneaky precedent this week.
www.courtwatch.news/p/155-fifa-r...
www.courtwatch.news/p/155-fifa-r...
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As part of our TPM series on the realities of mass deportation in New York, I spent a lot of time over these past few months in ICE court.
Here is what I saw.
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
Here is what I saw.
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court
One day last month, a Peruvian mother and her daughter went into...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
As part of our TPM series on the realities of mass deportation in New York, I spent a lot of time over these past few months in ICE court.
Here is what I saw.
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
Here is what I saw.
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
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“Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured.” A stark message from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Berlin.
A must read speech www.nato.int/en/news-and-...
A must read speech www.nato.int/en/news-and-...
December 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured.” A stark message from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Berlin.
A must read speech www.nato.int/en/news-and-...
A must read speech www.nato.int/en/news-and-...
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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This is a fault line I wrote about for @liberalcurrents.com.
The right is united in their bigotry but divided over the best way to express it.
The right is united in their bigotry but divided over the best way to express it.
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is a fault line I wrote about for @liberalcurrents.com.
The right is united in their bigotry but divided over the best way to express it.
The right is united in their bigotry but divided over the best way to express it.
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“A federal agent tasked with immigration enforcement is being investigated as a serial rapist—and the FBI believes there are more victims. This is the workforce conducting Trump’s deportation operations.” migrantinsider.com/p/am-dispatc...
AM Dispatch: ICE and Border Patrol Agents Continue Raping and Beating Women
Plus, Noem buys more jets, USCIS joins deportation force, Trump plans mass dismissal of asylum cases, court finds 400 migrant children jailed for months, ICE drops migrants in the desert, and more.
migrantinsider.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“A federal agent tasked with immigration enforcement is being investigated as a serial rapist—and the FBI believes there are more victims. This is the workforce conducting Trump’s deportation operations.” migrantinsider.com/p/am-dispatc...