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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
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1. Maduro is not a good guy by any stretch of the imagination.
2. But capturing him through an extra-legal action that violates international law undermines any US credibility with Russia in Ukraine and China with Taiwan.
3. We have a terrible history with topping leaders without a post-war plan.
2. But capturing him through an extra-legal action that violates international law undermines any US credibility with Russia in Ukraine and China with Taiwan.
3. We have a terrible history with topping leaders without a post-war plan.
January 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM
1. Maduro is not a good guy by any stretch of the imagination.
2. But capturing him through an extra-legal action that violates international law undermines any US credibility with Russia in Ukraine and China with Taiwan.
3. We have a terrible history with topping leaders without a post-war plan.
2. But capturing him through an extra-legal action that violates international law undermines any US credibility with Russia in Ukraine and China with Taiwan.
3. We have a terrible history with topping leaders without a post-war plan.
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Greenland, gurl, you better start preparing now.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Greenland, gurl, you better start preparing now.
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2026 will be decided by margins, and Black voters are often the margin. That’s why voting rights are under attack. This isn’t random, it’s strategic. They know our votes matter. We’ve fought for our power before and won. 2026 starts now. #ProtectTheVote #BlackVotersMatter #BlackPoliticalPower
January 2, 2026 at 3:49 PM
2026 will be decided by margins, and Black voters are often the margin. That’s why voting rights are under attack. This isn’t random, it’s strategic. They know our votes matter. We’ve fought for our power before and won. 2026 starts now. #ProtectTheVote #BlackVotersMatter #BlackPoliticalPower
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Whether it's liberal musicians encouraging people to send aid to starving Africans at Christmas or conservative politicians bombing African hospitals on Christams, both sides have made some provocative Christmas African statements.
December 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Whether it's liberal musicians encouraging people to send aid to starving Africans at Christmas or conservative politicians bombing African hospitals on Christams, both sides have made some provocative Christmas African statements.
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I was fired, ostensibly for 'counting money too slowly', but really for showing discomfort when my manager made me turn away a Black active duty army guest traveling with his wife and baby. When I tried to report anon, **** *** would not allow me to report, and [state] DoJ couldn't help
December 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I was fired, ostensibly for 'counting money too slowly', but really for showing discomfort when my manager made me turn away a Black active duty army guest traveling with his wife and baby. When I tried to report anon, **** *** would not allow me to report, and [state] DoJ couldn't help
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Due to our state's demographics vs. the demographics of out of state guests, this policy amounted to racial discrimination. Most in-state guests (black, Native, Hispanic), if they got rooms at all, got worse rooms. Out of state guests were mostly white and got renovated rooms.
December 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Due to our state's demographics vs. the demographics of out of state guests, this policy amounted to racial discrimination. Most in-state guests (black, Native, Hispanic), if they got rooms at all, got worse rooms. Out of state guests were mostly white and got renovated rooms.
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This is similar to rules I had to follow when I worked at hotels. Where I worked, the hotel had half renovated, half un-renovated rooms. I was barred from giving a renovated room to anyone with a [my state+a neighboring state] driver's license because they 'cause trouble'.
December 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This is similar to rules I had to follow when I worked at hotels. Where I worked, the hotel had half renovated, half un-renovated rooms. I was barred from giving a renovated room to anyone with a [my state+a neighboring state] driver's license because they 'cause trouble'.
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So the hotel is basically saying they don't want locals to rent the hotel for weddings, anniversary parties or any event where there might be drinking into the night.
December 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
So the hotel is basically saying they don't want locals to rent the hotel for weddings, anniversary parties or any event where there might be drinking into the night.
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Is there a word for refusing service to someone because they’re a member of a group you don’t like?
December 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Is there a word for refusing service to someone because they’re a member of a group you don’t like?
A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
December 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Modern day slavery under the 13th amendment:
“In 2022, seven states, all in the South, paid no wages at all for regular (non-industrial) jobs: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas.”
“In 2022, seven states, all in the South, paid no wages at all for regular (non-industrial) jobs: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas.”
December 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Modern day slavery under the 13th amendment:
“In 2022, seven states, all in the South, paid no wages at all for regular (non-industrial) jobs: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas.”
“In 2022, seven states, all in the South, paid no wages at all for regular (non-industrial) jobs: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas.”
Also known as enslavement. I wonder which states allow this. Hmm…
Some state constitutions still contain explicit exceptions that allow forced labor for incarcerated people, a direct legacy of the 13th Amendment’s “exception clause.”
The Past and Present of Prison Labor: Your Questions Answered
A historian answers <i>Bolts</i> readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and efforts to challenge it.
boltsmag.org
December 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Also known as enslavement. I wonder which states allow this. Hmm…
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Didn’t get everything you wanted for Christmas? These single-digit billionaires can increasingly relate.
December 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Didn’t get everything you wanted for Christmas? These single-digit billionaires can increasingly relate.
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What do people like Scott Bessent, Peter Thiel and Bari Weiss think would happen if the day ever came that the bigots got everybody who isn’t white and right-leaning out of the country (which won’t happen)?
They think it would then be a harmonious union of non-woke white folks, gay and straight?
They think it would then be a harmonious union of non-woke white folks, gay and straight?
And there are quite a few LGBT high-profile allies of the current regime. They’re fine with the idea of going on a rampage against diversity. The racism isn’t a dealbreaker. But they haven’t figured out yet that the people who hate all these other people almost always hate them too.
December 25, 2025 at 4:24 AM
What do people like Scott Bessent, Peter Thiel and Bari Weiss think would happen if the day ever came that the bigots got everybody who isn’t white and right-leaning out of the country (which won’t happen)?
They think it would then be a harmonious union of non-woke white folks, gay and straight?
They think it would then be a harmonious union of non-woke white folks, gay and straight?
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I’ll say one thing for her: Bari Weiss is not a procrastinator. She killed CBS News in record time.
December 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I’ll say one thing for her: Bari Weiss is not a procrastinator. She killed CBS News in record time.
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the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.
jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
![. . . very cooperative, but the police at that point had to let [redacted] know that what she had done that she could be facing charges.
Q And that was after they had told her earlier that she didn't need an attorney present, correct?
A Exactly.
Q Okay. So this happens to her with the Palm Beach Police Department and did the Palm Beach Police actually present or propose charging [redacted]?
A They did get a probable cause affidavit against [redacted].
Q And is that why Ms. [redacted] and her attorney were concerned about her testimony here?
A Yes.
Q Now was a subpoena issued for Ms. [redacted] on behalf of this grand jury?
A Yes, it was.
Q And before Ms. [redacted] would comply with that, did she -- did her attorney request some sort of order?
A Yes.
Q And what did he ask for?
A He asked for immunity for [redacted].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreiariijffjjrgfh26o22jjr76pwprinvnbpkcho5lyi2sucfbqlooy@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.
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Women simply aren't full citizens of the US, though we're sure as hell expected to be fully paid-up taxpayers. We lack a phrase in English to convey the systematic political project of excluding women from human and civil rights, and the protection of the law. "Gender apartheid," perhaps.
December 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Women simply aren't full citizens of the US, though we're sure as hell expected to be fully paid-up taxpayers. We lack a phrase in English to convey the systematic political project of excluding women from human and civil rights, and the protection of the law. "Gender apartheid," perhaps.
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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
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www.kqed.org/news/1206821..., Rest In Power
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...
www.kqed.org
December 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
www.kqed.org/news/1206821..., Rest In Power
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My wife was born in Thailand and my dad is from southern Italy. Here's why I support the concept of Heritage Americans.
by Christopher Rufo
by Christopher Rufo
December 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
My wife was born in Thailand and my dad is from southern Italy. Here's why I support the concept of Heritage Americans.
by Christopher Rufo
by Christopher Rufo
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President Kennedy has done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more
December 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Awwww…
December 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Awwww…
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ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
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Y'all wanna warn your friends before you get on the "AI companion" bandwagon and warn your friends, help them get informed.
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Y'all wanna warn your friends before you get on the "AI companion" bandwagon and warn your friends, help them get informed.