Smith816
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Then fight for us and with us.
Call for Schumer to step down and take his place.
Call for Schumer to step down and take his place.
I just voted NO on the bill that fails to prevent the looming health care crisis and fails to rein in Trump’s lawless actions, but I won’t give up — and I urge the American people to stay in the fight despite this disappointing outcome.
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Then fight for us and with us.
Call for Schumer to step down and take his place.
Call for Schumer to step down and take his place.
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NEW: I tried to explain why there are so many victims of spyware, despite the fact that its makers have been telling us for years that the tech is only intended to be used in limited cases.
There are several reasons, including how the spyware systems are designed, and how powerful they are.
There are several reasons, including how the spyware systems are designed, and how powerful they are.
Why a lot of people are getting hacked with government spyware | TechCrunch
Government surveillance vendors want us to believe their spyware products are only used in limited and targeted operations against terrorists and serious criminals. That claim is increasingly difficul...
techcrunch.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
NEW: I tried to explain why there are so many victims of spyware, despite the fact that its makers have been telling us for years that the tech is only intended to be used in limited cases.
There are several reasons, including how the spyware systems are designed, and how powerful they are.
There are several reasons, including how the spyware systems are designed, and how powerful they are.
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Trump’s suggestion of military action in Nigeria met reality with AFRICOM, which expressed doubts that a military response to violence would do anything.
Free to read: wapo.st/3JECubO
Free to read: wapo.st/3JECubO
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Trump’s suggestion of military action in Nigeria met reality with AFRICOM, which expressed doubts that a military response to violence would do anything.
Free to read: wapo.st/3JECubO
Free to read: wapo.st/3JECubO
Five days after Republicans suffered a shellacking at the ballot box.
Senate Democrats asked for a year of ACA subsidies and were told to fuck off.
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
From what I have seen so far this does not seem like a good deal:
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Five days after Republicans suffered a shellacking at the ballot box.
Too good.
“I go to school like this.”
“I go to school like this.”
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Too good.
“I go to school like this.”
“I go to school like this.”
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Though private jets make up about 16% of the flights handled by the FAA, they contribute just 2% of the taxes that make up the FAA's Airport and Airway Trust Fund, which pays air traffic controllers' salaries. www.fastcompany.com/91437451/faa...
These millionaires have a suggestion for the FAA: Cancel all private jet flights during the shutdown
Private jets make up one in six flights handled by the FAA, and taxpayers already foot the bill for their 'jet setting,' says Patriotic Millionaires.
www.fastcompany.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Though private jets make up about 16% of the flights handled by the FAA, they contribute just 2% of the taxes that make up the FAA's Airport and Airway Trust Fund, which pays air traffic controllers' salaries. www.fastcompany.com/91437451/faa...
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They could keep all commercial flights in the air by instead grounding private jets. Harming airlines and regular flyers is a choice.
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
They could keep all commercial flights in the air by instead grounding private jets. Harming airlines and regular flyers is a choice.
I’ll do this campaign ad…
“Regrets?”
“Regrets?”
Former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones appears to be headed for another political showdown against current Sen. Tommy Tuberville, this time for the governor’s office.
🔗: https://www.al.com/politics/2025/11/alabama-democrat-hints-at-2026-rematch-with-tommy-tuberville-stay-tuned.html
🔗: https://www.al.com/politics/2025/11/alabama-democrat-hints-at-2026-rematch-with-tommy-tuberville-stay-tuned.html
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I’ll do this campaign ad…
“Regrets?”
“Regrets?”
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Looks like Tucows is most likely going to comply w/ the FBI subpoena -- it'll be interesting to see whether the Archive[.]is owner is using a proxy registrant/took some OPSEC steps w/ Tucows
tbh I'm a little surprised the archive[.]whatever paywall circumvention sites haven't received any attention before this www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
www.404media.co
November 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Looks like Tucows is most likely going to comply w/ the FBI subpoena -- it'll be interesting to see whether the Archive[.]is owner is using a proxy registrant/took some OPSEC steps w/ Tucows
Inspired by this and the Columbia news, I’ve decided to start a business.
If you’re too weak and pathetic to tell Trump no, for a small fee I will do it for you.
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
If you’re too weak and pathetic to tell Trump no, for a small fee I will do it for you.
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
Sources: Trump wants D.C. stadium named for him
A senior White House source said there have been back-channel communications with a member of the Commanders ownership group, led by Josh Harris, to express Trump's desire to have the $3.7 billion dom...
www.espn.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Inspired by this and the Columbia news, I’ve decided to start a business.
If you’re too weak and pathetic to tell Trump no, for a small fee I will do it for you.
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
If you’re too weak and pathetic to tell Trump no, for a small fee I will do it for you.
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
Tomorrow.
A Israeli military court will weigh the fate of a 16-year-old Palestinian-American facing up to 20 years in prison for allegedly throwing rocks in the West Bank. U.S. lawmakers have urged his release. n.pr/3XjfC4I
An Israeli military court considers fate of U.S. teen charged with stone-throwing
A Israeli military court will weigh the fate of a 16-year-old Palestinian-American facing up to 20 years in prison for allegedly throwing rocks in the West Bank. U.S. lawmakers have urged his release.
n.pr
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Tomorrow.
Shades of Iraq. The government murdering people and justifying it based on false intelligence.
The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists.
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Shades of Iraq. The government murdering people and justifying it based on false intelligence.
As sophisticated as the Secretary of Defense/War saying lol.
Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
As sophisticated as the Secretary of Defense/War saying lol.
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In Aug., DHS told us it hadn’t preserved officials’ texts since April—when it began some of its most controversial actions.
That would be against the law. We sued.
DHS now says it gave us “erroneous” info—but hasn’t confirmed if it’s following the law.
americanoversight.org/dhs-admits-i...
That would be against the law. We sued.
DHS now says it gave us “erroneous” info—but hasn’t confirmed if it’s following the law.
americanoversight.org/dhs-admits-i...
DHS Admits It Provided “Erroneous” Information on Texts of Noem and DHS Brass, Hasn’t Confirmed It Followed Law - American Oversight
Thursday, following a court filing in American Oversight’s lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the agency’s initial claim that it failed to preserve the text messages of…
americanoversight.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
In Aug., DHS told us it hadn’t preserved officials’ texts since April—when it began some of its most controversial actions.
That would be against the law. We sued.
DHS now says it gave us “erroneous” info—but hasn’t confirmed if it’s following the law.
americanoversight.org/dhs-admits-i...
That would be against the law. We sued.
DHS now says it gave us “erroneous” info—but hasn’t confirmed if it’s following the law.
americanoversight.org/dhs-admits-i...
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This is happening in a community with many Holocaust survivors and their descendants.
CBP has been hitting Skokie, outside of Chicago, hard today. At 10:45 today, they jumped out of their vehicles and arrested a man on Lincoln Ave.
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is happening in a community with many Holocaust survivors and their descendants.
Nothing like a physician getting healthcare on the taxpayer dime being committed to depriving Americans of medical care.
“It’s a horrible idea,” says Sen. Roger Marshall of Dems’ proposing one-year extension of ACA subsidies on CR. “We might as well go home and start over again. It's disappointing that they think that this is what's going to open the government”
www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
Republicans pan Democrats’ ‘horrible’ offer as shutdown chaos grows
A week that began with signs of real momentum in dealmaking talks ended with a stalemate.
www.semafor.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Nothing like a physician getting healthcare on the taxpayer dime being committed to depriving Americans of medical care.
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A thread detailing the absolutely illegal shit feds are doing in the name of racist authoritarianism. And they are charging multiple people with crimes for daring to protest this.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
A thread detailing the absolutely illegal shit feds are doing in the name of racist authoritarianism. And they are charging multiple people with crimes for daring to protest this.
“It is time to ask a very simple question: Why? Why me? How is it possible that such a sophisticated and complex tool was used to spy on a private citizen, as if he were a drug trafficker or a subversive threat to the country?”
techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/i...
techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/i...
Italian political consultant says he was targeted with Paragon spyware | TechCrunch
WhatsApp notified the consultant, who works for left-wing politicians, that his phone was targeted with spyware made by Paragon.
techcrunch.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“It is time to ask a very simple question: Why? Why me? How is it possible that such a sophisticated and complex tool was used to spy on a private citizen, as if he were a drug trafficker or a subversive threat to the country?”
techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/i...
techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/i...
Otto Warmbier, only this time were the North Koreans.
You just know someone working for Krisi Noem pushed his deportation so the death would not be on US soil.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
![Eventually, “someone at the detention center said he had a health issue, and that’s why he wasn’t answering us,” Gamboa’s sister, Greidy Mata, told El País. “But they didn’t give us any more information.”
McLaughlin’s statement said “medical professionals diagnosed [Gamboa] with unspecified psychosis and hospitalized him at Valley Baptist Hospital so he could get proper mental health and medical care”.
Gamboa’s family described not being able to find him until August, after they were scammed by two attorneys and then actually located him with the help of a third lawyer. By then, Gamboa was bedridden in a vegetative state, and his family’s attorney began the process of having him sent to Costa Rica.
An air ambulance paid for by ICE flew Gamboa to Costa Rica on 3 September, El País wrote. Stricken with encephalopathy, the muscle ailment rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own, he was admitted to an emergency room in the Costa Rican capital of San José before being transferred to a hospital in his home town of Pérez Zeledón.
Gamboa then died in that hospital on 26 October.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreibg4a7fpc7jdreeuox6eofrmryazfqcabzxwm52inc6dugtyipnpq@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Otto Warmbier, only this time were the North Koreans.
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Breaking on MSNBC:
The Trump Justice Department is preparing to issue a series of grand jury subpoenas as part of a South Florida-based investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan and the probes by the CIA and FBI into 2016 Russian election interference — Ken Dilanian reports
The Trump Justice Department is preparing to issue a series of grand jury subpoenas as part of a South Florida-based investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan and the probes by the CIA and FBI into 2016 Russian election interference — Ken Dilanian reports
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Breaking on MSNBC:
The Trump Justice Department is preparing to issue a series of grand jury subpoenas as part of a South Florida-based investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan and the probes by the CIA and FBI into 2016 Russian election interference — Ken Dilanian reports
The Trump Justice Department is preparing to issue a series of grand jury subpoenas as part of a South Florida-based investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan and the probes by the CIA and FBI into 2016 Russian election interference — Ken Dilanian reports
It’s more than an attempt to control media access.
It’s another attempt to erase history.
It’s another attempt to erase history.
The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It’s more than an attempt to control media access.
It’s another attempt to erase history.
It’s another attempt to erase history.
The least surprising violation.
It’s politicization and weaponization of the FBI that warrants the most outrage.
It’s politicization and weaponization of the FBI that warrants the most outrage.
Inside the bureau, there is “across the board outrage” over Patel’s use of FBI aircraft for fun and pleasure, said O’Leary. “At the end of the day, it’s theft of government resources. I mean, people have been thrown out of the bureau for this.”
www.spytalk.co/p/kash-patel...
www.spytalk.co/p/kash-patel...
Kash Patel Wouldn't Be the First FBI Boss to Go Down By Turning His Official Plane Into a Private Jet
Investigative reporter Ron Kessler recounts how another FBI boss's term was short circuited by his personal use of the bureau's executive jet.
www.spytalk.co
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The least surprising violation.
It’s politicization and weaponization of the FBI that warrants the most outrage.
It’s politicization and weaponization of the FBI that warrants the most outrage.
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Today here in the Senate Press Gallery at 12:15 p.m.
Senator @kaine.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov will hold a pen and pad briefing to discuss their War Powers Resolution that would block the use of U.S. Armed Forces to engage in hostilities within or against Venezuela.
Senator @kaine.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov will hold a pen and pad briefing to discuss their War Powers Resolution that would block the use of U.S. Armed Forces to engage in hostilities within or against Venezuela.
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Today here in the Senate Press Gallery at 12:15 p.m.
Senator @kaine.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov will hold a pen and pad briefing to discuss their War Powers Resolution that would block the use of U.S. Armed Forces to engage in hostilities within or against Venezuela.
Senator @kaine.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov will hold a pen and pad briefing to discuss their War Powers Resolution that would block the use of U.S. Armed Forces to engage in hostilities within or against Venezuela.
I reject the premise.
Johnson: I don't think the loss last night was any reflection about Republicans at all
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I reject the premise.