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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
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“Big tech has made their choice”
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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
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“Big tech has made their choice”
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Remember the last time a candidate for New York City Mayor proposed eliminating fares on city buses? Yes, I am talking about Michael Bloomberg in 2009. archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blo...
Bloomberg Calls for Free Crosstown Buses
The mayor appeared to be trying to assert a greater role for the city in mass transit as he seeks a third term in the November election, but he faces hurdles.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Remember the last time a candidate for New York City Mayor proposed eliminating fares on city buses? Yes, I am talking about Michael Bloomberg in 2009. archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blo...
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NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25"
(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!
(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!
Chris Rufo "a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal"
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NYT front page coverage all the time!
By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege
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NYT front page coverage all the time!
By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege
November 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25"
(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!
(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!
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a helpful guide to bsky moderation:
Johnny Cash lyrics:
- 🚫
- bad
- very threatening
- dangerous rhetoric very scary
- bannable
"Enjoy the camps":
- ✅
- actually good
- not threatening at all
- definitely not intimidation predominantly used on minorities
- not bannable
Johnny Cash lyrics:
- 🚫
- bad
- very threatening
- dangerous rhetoric very scary
- bannable
"Enjoy the camps":
- ✅
- actually good
- not threatening at all
- definitely not intimidation predominantly used on minorities
- not bannable
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
a helpful guide to bsky moderation:
Johnny Cash lyrics:
- 🚫
- bad
- very threatening
- dangerous rhetoric very scary
- bannable
"Enjoy the camps":
- ✅
- actually good
- not threatening at all
- definitely not intimidation predominantly used on minorities
- not bannable
Johnny Cash lyrics:
- 🚫
- bad
- very threatening
- dangerous rhetoric very scary
- bannable
"Enjoy the camps":
- ✅
- actually good
- not threatening at all
- definitely not intimidation predominantly used on minorities
- not bannable
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Adding this to point out that the NYT is now on the record saying "editors *discovered* his failure to abide by our ethical standards" (emphasis mine)
This strongly suggests a termination for cause, which typically involves an internal investigation. So, what else did his editors "discover"?
This strongly suggests a termination for cause, which typically involves an internal investigation. So, what else did his editors "discover"?
Landon Thomas’s behavior seems to be embarrassing enough to the Times hierarchy that they had their spokesman go on record insinuating to the Post that he was fired for cause. I wonder whether legal signed off on that. nypost.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Adding this to point out that the NYT is now on the record saying "editors *discovered* his failure to abide by our ethical standards" (emphasis mine)
This strongly suggests a termination for cause, which typically involves an internal investigation. So, what else did his editors "discover"?
This strongly suggests a termination for cause, which typically involves an internal investigation. So, what else did his editors "discover"?
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They should study journalists’ brains like they do with football players after they die.
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
They should study journalists’ brains like they do with football players after they die.
I never saw the remastered version of this before.
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I never saw the remastered version of this before.
Just realized I accidentally did some journalism.
Seems easier to ask you.
How many stories _did_ Jared try to kill?
How many _did_ you let him kill?
How many times _did_ he threaten to fire you when you didn't let him kill a story?
How many stories _did_ Jared try to kill?
How many _did_ you let him kill?
How many times _did_ he threaten to fire you when you didn't let him kill a story?
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Just realized I accidentally did some journalism.
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One thing that has sort of surprised me is that it does really seem like the desire to be ruled by a powerful fascist daddy is stronger in the median elite journalist than in the median voter.
August 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
One thing that has sort of surprised me is that it does really seem like the desire to be ruled by a powerful fascist daddy is stronger in the median elite journalist than in the median voter.
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I'm not asking Emily Flitter or anyone else to publish an accusation of rape against a President or a candidate without adequate sourcing! I'm just asking you to report honestly on espionage attacks by famous against your own damn paper when you blow them up!
November 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I'm not asking Emily Flitter or anyone else to publish an accusation of rape against a President or a candidate without adequate sourcing! I'm just asking you to report honestly on espionage attacks by famous against your own damn paper when you blow them up!
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“It was a complete victory in the war to protect our girls” —Megyn Kelly after Trump banned trans girls from playing sports
“There’s a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old…” --Megyn Kelly on how Jeffery Epstein liked to fuck “barely legal types” (15 isn’t barely legal in any state).
“There’s a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old…” --Megyn Kelly on how Jeffery Epstein liked to fuck “barely legal types” (15 isn’t barely legal in any state).
November 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“It was a complete victory in the war to protect our girls” —Megyn Kelly after Trump banned trans girls from playing sports
“There’s a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old…” --Megyn Kelly on how Jeffery Epstein liked to fuck “barely legal types” (15 isn’t barely legal in any state).
“There’s a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old…” --Megyn Kelly on how Jeffery Epstein liked to fuck “barely legal types” (15 isn’t barely legal in any state).
"Not excusing the NYT's political coverage, but"
Not excusing the NYT's political coverage, but this person makes an important point. The reason legacy media falls all over itself to cover BS like Benghazi, Hunter Biden's laptop, Hilary's server, etc. is because the entire GOP and their media apparatus takes official actions to make them a story.
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"Not excusing the NYT's political coverage, but"
Whereas a guy emailing a reporter about Zohran Mamdani ticking the black-or-African-American box on his college application warrants _multiple_ NYT stories? Come on.
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Whereas a guy emailing a reporter about Zohran Mamdani ticking the black-or-African-American box on his college application warrants _multiple_ NYT stories? Come on.
I do not play Dwarf Fortress, but I do respect it.
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I do not play Dwarf Fortress, but I do respect it.
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I note how central Me Too was to the great backlash against The Tyranny Of The Left, and I again wonder how good everyone feels about having helped the great anti-wokeness backlash against people saying police shouldn’t racistly murder people and rich men should be prosecuted for their sex offences.
“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I note how central Me Too was to the great backlash against The Tyranny Of The Left, and I again wonder how good everyone feels about having helped the great anti-wokeness backlash against people saying police shouldn’t racistly murder people and rich men should be prosecuted for their sex offences.
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The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
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And one of the first survivors to step forward to try to stop Epstein? A trans woman, who was promptly mocked and villified by the New York Post, New York Magazine, the courts and law enforcement.
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
And one of the first survivors to step forward to try to stop Epstein? A trans woman, who was promptly mocked and villified by the New York Post, New York Magazine, the courts and law enforcement.
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Whenever Ken Starr returns to the news, it's fun to remember that one deputy investigating Bill Clinton (and Vice Foster) was ... Brett Kavanaugh!
Extra fun to remember that GWBush FL Recount team in 2000 included Brett K, J Roberts, AC Barrett.
Plus help from FL gov Jeb Bush. Good times!
Extra fun to remember that GWBush FL Recount team in 2000 included Brett K, J Roberts, AC Barrett.
Plus help from FL gov Jeb Bush. Good times!
Ken Starr emailing with Epstein in 2018 is a really interesting thing to learn about!!!!!!
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Whenever Ken Starr returns to the news, it's fun to remember that one deputy investigating Bill Clinton (and Vice Foster) was ... Brett Kavanaugh!
Extra fun to remember that GWBush FL Recount team in 2000 included Brett K, J Roberts, AC Barrett.
Plus help from FL gov Jeb Bush. Good times!
Extra fun to remember that GWBush FL Recount team in 2000 included Brett K, J Roberts, AC Barrett.
Plus help from FL gov Jeb Bush. Good times!
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This week on Reveal: A ‘Goon Squad’ of sheriff’s deputies roamed Rankin County, Mississippi, beating and choking people until they confessed to drug crimes.
Signs of the violence went ignored for years.
Signs of the violence went ignored for years.
How a ‘Goon Squad’ of Mississippi deputies got away with years of brutality
A “Goon Squad” of Rankin County sheriff’s deputies spent years brutalizing people until their reign of terror was exposed.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This week on Reveal: A ‘Goon Squad’ of sheriff’s deputies roamed Rankin County, Mississippi, beating and choking people until they confessed to drug crimes.
Signs of the violence went ignored for years.
Signs of the violence went ignored for years.
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I think "adults in the room" takes on a very different vibe now.
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I think "adults in the room" takes on a very different vibe now.
The gender(-and-sexuality) solidarity is clear enough, but "across [...] race"? Trump, Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon, Larry Summers, Michael Wolff: all _white_ men.
(Anyone else notice how the black President between Clinton & Trump wasn't super tight with Epstein?)
(Anyone else notice how the black President between Clinton & Trump wasn't super tight with Epstein?)
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The gender(-and-sexuality) solidarity is clear enough, but "across [...] race"? Trump, Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon, Larry Summers, Michael Wolff: all _white_ men.
(Anyone else notice how the black President between Clinton & Trump wasn't super tight with Epstein?)
(Anyone else notice how the black President between Clinton & Trump wasn't super tight with Epstein?)
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Reminded that the "ring boy" scandal did not stop Trump from installing Linda McMahon as Education Secretary (overseeing, among other things, enforcement of Title IX).
PAUL "TRIPLE H" LEVESQUE: see this wrestling promotion? i got it by Pedophiles. my car? pedophiles. my beautiful wife? Pedophiles. My political connections? Pedophiles. now get the fuck out of my office 🤼
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Reminded that the "ring boy" scandal did not stop Trump from installing Linda McMahon as Education Secretary (overseeing, among other things, enforcement of Title IX).
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Epstein was obviously the story of the day but it’s wild that we got confirmation the CIA was engaged in biological warfare in Afghanistan for at least a decade
Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
In a decade-long operation, the CIA modified poppy seeds and dropped them by the billions from aircraft over Afghanistan in an attempt to weaken the potency of the country’s opium crop.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Epstein was obviously the story of the day but it’s wild that we got confirmation the CIA was engaged in biological warfare in Afghanistan for at least a decade
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UNICEF says Israel blocking one million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children
www.reuters.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
UNICEF says Israel blocking one million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children