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The Pentagon is said to have used a plane that looked like a civilian aircraft in a boat strike. The law prohibits combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called “perfidy.”
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”
nyti.ms
January 13, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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This is a desecration of a public shrine and I am furious.
Multiple National Guard vehicles at the Lincoln Memorial which is not a problem area for crime
August 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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there’s a popular digital guide written and used by police that recommends sharing links with URL tracking elements to capture people’s IPs.

Linkumori is a browser extension that purifies URLs before trackers can log you.
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
August 16, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Big fan of Mo Salah absolutely bodying UEFA.
Mo Salah is asking the right questions
August 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Seizing the property of private organizations to punish dissent is totalitarianism.

It is illegal, anti-Conservative, Soviet, and sickening.

Yet people who drool ‘freedom’ whisper not a word to object. Lift not a finger.
The Commerce Department threatening to take over Harvard's patents shows the extent to which the federal government is trying to pressure the university into a settlement. They are trying everything possible. (gift link)
Trump Administration Threatens to Take Over Harvard’s Patents
The move is the latest escalation in the White House’s battle with the Ivy League school.
www.wsj.com
August 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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August 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Grapes of Wrath. Again.
August 7, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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This really feels like a defining post of our time
August 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Trump pardoned the Jan. 6 rioters who injured more than 140 police officers in one of the biggest mass attacks on law enforcement in American history
May 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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So much for checks and balances. For 250 years, the president has not controlled the purse for the US government, to prevent exactly what is happening right now.
April 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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This is high art
April 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Erasing everyone in American history who wasn’t a white male.
March 18, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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This is not normal, or natural, or inevitable. youtu.be/ZfBkw0j-QIs?...
This Is Not Normal
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
youtu.be
January 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I did not believe these numbers when they came out, but I had no data to go on. Turns out the numbers were wrong. It is unconscionable for them to not double and triple check their data, especially when the news looked so bad for the industry they serve
www.studentclearinghouse.org/news/nationa...
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Finds a Methodological Error Affecting Preliminary Fall 2024 Higher Education Enrollment Reports | National Student Clearinghouse News
www.studentclearinghouse.org
January 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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gonna put a loop of that weah-mckennie connection on tv during the holidays and nobody is allowed to talk at the dinner table, just watch in silence and awe
December 11, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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The peaks of the Dolomites.
November 30, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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There is no feeling quite like your team scoring ❤️‍🔥
December 2, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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Oh man, this really got me. 😭❤️
December 5, 2024 at 2:25 AM