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Even before Polymarket and Kalshi, I know lobbyists who would bet on legislation passing using PredictIt.
It’s all rife for abuse by DC insiders.
It’s all rife for abuse by DC insiders.
they should categorically ban people with Kalshi and Polymarket accounts from having security clearances
December 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Even before Polymarket and Kalshi, I know lobbyists who would bet on legislation passing using PredictIt.
It’s all rife for abuse by DC insiders.
It’s all rife for abuse by DC insiders.
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"Although AIPAC’s campaign and lobbying machine have attracted more critical attention, paid trips offer another way to provide policymakers with a curated perspective on America’s most controversial ally."
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mondoweiss.net/2025/12/insi...
Inside the Israel lobby’s lesser-known tool for influencing Congress: free travel
This year, Israel will account for nearly one-quarter of all free travel gifted to Congress members, and AIPAC is overwhelmingly setting the agenda.
mondoweiss.net
December 13, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"Although AIPAC’s campaign and lobbying machine have attracted more critical attention, paid trips offer another way to provide policymakers with a curated perspective on America’s most controversial ally."
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Trump, Noem, and Miller are precisely effectuating the Richard Spencer/Nick Fuentes immigration agenda. Their disagreements are merely about the pace and means of remigration. #AbolishICE
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 3:03 PM
Trump, Noem, and Miller are precisely effectuating the Richard Spencer/Nick Fuentes immigration agenda. Their disagreements are merely about the pace and means of remigration. #AbolishICE
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I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
"Miles said the men, whom she worried could have been bounty hunters, did not identify themselves when she asked for their names and badge numbers while they detained her at a bus stop by the shopping center." #AbolishICE
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"Miles said the men, whom she worried could have been bounty hunters, did not identify themselves when she asked for their names and badge numbers while they detained her at a bus stop by the shopping center." #AbolishICE
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A racist TV show made with the assistance of Sora has attracted millions of viewers. Tyler Austin Harper argues that it could be “the harbinger of a new entertainment landscape where extremist AI shows will jockey for our attention with more anodyne ones”:
The Will Stancil Show Could Be the Future
A racist TV series making fun of a minor social-media celebrity has attracted millions of viewers—and demonstrates the alarming possibilities of AI.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
A racist TV show made with the assistance of Sora has attracted millions of viewers. Tyler Austin Harper argues that it could be “the harbinger of a new entertainment landscape where extremist AI shows will jockey for our attention with more anodyne ones”:
Imagine a family applying for Medicaid. DHS will now know where to send ICE--assuming that when a married Latina and her children apply, they will find an undocumented spouse.
#AbolishICE
#AbolishICE
A new federal directive by Mehmet Oz allows the sharing of Medicaid applicant data with DHS effective immediately, rescinding previous “interagency integrity” firewalls. This forces mixed-status families into an impossible calculus: access life-saving medical care or remain invisible to enforcement.
NEWS: Medicaid Data Now Flows to ICE
Effective today, a new federal directive allows immigration enforcement to access state healthcare enrollment data, TPS ends for thousands of Burmese war refugees, plus Kristi Noem explainer video.
migrantinsider.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Imagine a family applying for Medicaid. DHS will now know where to send ICE--assuming that when a married Latina and her children apply, they will find an undocumented spouse.
#AbolishICE
#AbolishICE
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Less than $1600 until we hit the matching threshold, meaning another $35k gets sent to us. Let’s see if we can’t get there in the next half hour! gofund.me/b62d52480
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Less than $1600 until we hit the matching threshold, meaning another $35k gets sent to us. Let’s see if we can’t get there in the next half hour! gofund.me/b62d52480
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There’s a long-term increase in housing costs combined with an acute shortage in California, NYC, a few other places. We should build lots more housing but this idea of a population living in a desperate universal shortage, where no one young will ever own a house, is clearly wrong
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
There’s a long-term increase in housing costs combined with an acute shortage in California, NYC, a few other places. We should build lots more housing but this idea of a population living in a desperate universal shortage, where no one young will ever own a house, is clearly wrong
The next Democratic administration cannot simply return to the pre-Trump status quo. #AbolishICE
"For example: Price Modern, LLC, based here in Charm City, received $14 million to furnish new ICE offices in Baltimore, with an additional $68 million awarded to outfit expanded ICE facilities in cities across the country." michaelwriston.substack.com/p/i-have-the...
I have the data, and I must scream
Three weeks tracing DHS contracts through Baltimore, the Mid-Atlantic, and beyond
michaelwriston.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The next Democratic administration cannot simply return to the pre-Trump status quo. #AbolishICE
Love seeing ICE being criticized on late night TV #AbolishICE www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4...
"Join ICE" - Jesse Welles (LIVE on The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Love seeing ICE being criticized on late night TV #AbolishICE www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4...
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Charts Will Stancil Doesn’t Want You to See (THREAD)
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The America we lived in a year ago, and today, is an America where many grieve loved ones who have been sacrificed to keep the economy open during a pandemic. Many of those loved ones were primary household incomes and caregivers and their loss has caused serious to catastrophic financial setbacks
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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The America First solution to the housing crunch isn’t a 50-year mortgage. It’s 100+ million deportations.
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
Don’t Build Housing, Just Deport People: The Nativist Right Recoils at Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Proposal
The backlash against Trump's proposal reveals the characteristics of his base's reactionary housing politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The America First solution to the housing crunch isn’t a 50-year mortgage. It’s 100+ million deportations.
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
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listen we all know how to solve this
make 👏 Platner 👏 do 👏 an 👏 interview 👏 with 👏 Chotiner 👏
make 👏 Platner 👏 do 👏 an 👏 interview 👏 with 👏 Chotiner 👏
October 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
listen we all know how to solve this
make 👏 Platner 👏 do 👏 an 👏 interview 👏 with 👏 Chotiner 👏
make 👏 Platner 👏 do 👏 an 👏 interview 👏 with 👏 Chotiner 👏
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It will probably not come as a surprise to learn that Pete Hegseth is a member of the church with which Haymes is affiliated.
October 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It will probably not come as a surprise to learn that Pete Hegseth is a member of the church with which Haymes is affiliated.
Fuentes won and Charlie Kirk lost the ideological battle for young Republicans. Kirk himself would go on to support the great replacement theory by 2024. www.gq.com/story/white-...
October 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Fuentes won and Charlie Kirk lost the ideological battle for young Republicans. Kirk himself would go on to support the great replacement theory by 2024. www.gq.com/story/white-...
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>”It begs the question of who’s funding it.”
To account for the lavish self-funding of my own #NoKings participation: poster board cost me about $8.00 at Staples, I already had Sharpies, and gas downtown and back runs maybe a buck & a half. Same with my friends. I feel like we’re all mini-Soroses.
To account for the lavish self-funding of my own #NoKings participation: poster board cost me about $8.00 at Staples, I already had Sharpies, and gas downtown and back runs maybe a buck & a half. Same with my friends. I feel like we’re all mini-Soroses.
October 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
>”It begs the question of who’s funding it.”
To account for the lavish self-funding of my own #NoKings participation: poster board cost me about $8.00 at Staples, I already had Sharpies, and gas downtown and back runs maybe a buck & a half. Same with my friends. I feel like we’re all mini-Soroses.
To account for the lavish self-funding of my own #NoKings participation: poster board cost me about $8.00 at Staples, I already had Sharpies, and gas downtown and back runs maybe a buck & a half. Same with my friends. I feel like we’re all mini-Soroses.
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I agree with Patrick intellectually, but practically I think any statement - especially from the Right - that violence is un-American is good right now, however untrue it is.
Speaker Johnson saying "This is not who we are" is about the dumbest thing someone could say at this moment. This is exactly who were have become, often several times a week.
September 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I agree with Patrick intellectually, but practically I think any statement - especially from the Right - that violence is un-American is good right now, however untrue it is.
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The “pro family” party platform: anti child credit, anti childhood vaccination, anti parental leave
September 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The “pro family” party platform: anti child credit, anti childhood vaccination, anti parental leave
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no. we shouldn't. there is no evidence that the election was anything but free and fair, and this conspiracy theory bullshit helps no one.
the entire history of this country makes it clear that many, many people are fine with or affirmatively prefer fascism. stop making excuses.
the entire history of this country makes it clear that many, many people are fine with or affirmatively prefer fascism. stop making excuses.
I mean, I think we should seriously entertain the possibility that we DIDN'T vote for the rapist. Or that he cheated in ways that would invalidate whatever votes he got. Most of the people waving away this idea also spent years waving away his history with Epstein.
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It’s disastrous that the Respectable Left won’t talk honestly about Trump’s “I don’t need votes” and “vote-counting computers” remarks. It’s really disgraceful. He’s a known insurrectionist. OF COURSE we need to take his boasts about election theft seriously and call for audits, probes, lawsuits.
August 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
no. we shouldn't. there is no evidence that the election was anything but free and fair, and this conspiracy theory bullshit helps no one.
the entire history of this country makes it clear that many, many people are fine with or affirmatively prefer fascism. stop making excuses.
the entire history of this country makes it clear that many, many people are fine with or affirmatively prefer fascism. stop making excuses.