theinsomniachalf.bsky.social
@theinsomniachalf.bsky.social
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"I doubt Senator Kelly will see this blog, and if he does see it, I imagine he will not be pleased with it. He’ll probably find it embarrassing. His humility likely makes him bristle at stuff like this. Well, that’s just too damn bad, Senator."
The Extraordinary Military Career of Mark Kelly
Good lord, has this man done a lot.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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In a nutshell.
January 4, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going around, switching plates, trying to hide, trying to be undetectable,” said Sherman Austin.

Full story: lataco.com/ice-license-...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
December 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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this is an official Wikipedia content guideline, btw, and it's precisely two sentences.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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The most corrupt administration in American history.
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How federal agents hide their identities while making immigration arrests
Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests
Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.
www.npr.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The manager of the Chicago Laugh Factory, a US citizen, is arrested outside of the studio by Trump's secret police. The offense? Telling jokes about ICE that they don't like. This is what fascism looks like. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Laugh Factory Chicago night manager taken into custody by federal agents outside club
The night manager of the Chicago Laugh Factory was taken into custody by federal agents outside the North Side comedy club Friday.
www.cbsnews.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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One factory was contaminated with pigeon feces. At another, pathogens got into purified water used to produce drugs.

But when the FDA cites an errant factory, it conceals an important piece of information: the names of drugs made there.
Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won’t Tell You.
The agency’s decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures t...
www.propublica.org
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Donald Trump’s father destroyed Steeplechase Park, the iconic amusement palace of Coney Island. Before demolition, he hosted a party for his rich fuck friends where bikini clad waitresses gave them bricks to throw through Steeplechase’s famous stained glass windows
Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.
Trump Used His Dad’s Dirtiest Move on the East Wing
Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.
www.curbed.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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🚨 What no one is talking about is that not only was the Jaqueline Kennedy Garden torn up, but there are several commemorative trees that were taken down too. From the satellite pic it looks like only Laura Bush’s survived. 👇 www.nps.gov/whho/learn/h...
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
October 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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the most corrupt administration in my lifetime
October 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
October 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM