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NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
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It’s cool the government is strong arming companies for stakes in enterprises while also trying to figure out how to give up the government’s ownership of Fannie and Freddie
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
It’s cool the government is strong arming companies for stakes in enterprises while also trying to figure out how to give up the government’s ownership of Fannie and Freddie
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The blog post is generally correct (poverty line is an outdated measurement that doesn't adequately capture actual cost of sustenance) but I'm charmed that this economist is discovering that long-standing left observations are true... and being precious about it www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The blog post is generally correct (poverty line is an outdated measurement that doesn't adequately capture actual cost of sustenance) but I'm charmed that this economist is discovering that long-standing left observations are true... and being precious about it www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
more interesting Q: who else kinda surprisingly digging the idea of green-skinned women, like the navi catpeople freakers who want to live in Avatar
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
It’s not the sexiest of garments. It arguably looks more like a discarded fishing net. And yet it has cast a spell over the internet
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
more interesting Q: who else kinda surprisingly digging the idea of green-skinned women, like the navi catpeople freakers who want to live in Avatar
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RIP Sean Connery you would have loved saying this headline
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
It’s not the sexiest of garments. It arguably looks more like a discarded fishing net. And yet it has cast a spell over the internet
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
RIP Sean Connery you would have loved saying this headline
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They don't pay us enough to upgrade our handheld computers every year
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
They don't pay us enough to upgrade our handheld computers every year
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guys i dont think i defrosted my turkey right
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
guys i dont think i defrosted my turkey right
i can't wait to hear the deep state conspiracy theories he concocts to cope with his FBI spin-out
(MSNOW) - President Trump is considering removing Kash Patel as FBI director in the coming months, as he and his top aides have grown increasingly frustrated by the unflattering headlines Patel has recently generated, according to three people with knowledge ..
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November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
i can't wait to hear the deep state conspiracy theories he concocts to cope with his FBI spin-out
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Also, no one seems to talk about all the MeToo accusations leveled at Ratner anymore.
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Also, no one seems to talk about all the MeToo accusations leveled at Ratner anymore.
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He also really liked Rush Hour
So now that we know that the President can revive film franchises, do you think Obama has any regrets?
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
He also really liked Rush Hour
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I keep saying, Google intentionally making its search worse is a world-historical fumble, and it's a huge opportunity for so many others across the internet, if they'll just seize it..
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I keep saying, Google intentionally making its search worse is a world-historical fumble, and it's a huge opportunity for so many others across the internet, if they'll just seize it..
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This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the South’s resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers to a place under white control.
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the South’s resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers to a place under white control.
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“Vagrancy” was a term long used in the United States to crack down on workers not doing what employers or the police wanted them to do. In this case, it meant not working for a white person.
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“Vagrancy” was a term long used in the United States to crack down on workers not doing what employers or the police wanted them to do. In this case, it meant not working for a white person.
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The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
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This is partly true but moreso DOGE teams have become fully part of the departments they were integrated with and are very much alive and a part of normal processes now
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is partly true but moreso DOGE teams have become fully part of the departments they were integrated with and are very much alive and a part of normal processes now
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i feel like tiktok makes Postman's complaints about television quaint by comparison
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
i feel like tiktok makes Postman's complaints about television quaint by comparison
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The guy who coined the term meritocracy meant it as a joke as people with advantages and connections would assume they got there on merit and then he had to intervene so his son could get into Oxford
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The guy who coined the term meritocracy meant it as a joke as people with advantages and connections would assume they got there on merit and then he had to intervene so his son could get into Oxford
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you know how in some places in Europe it's not actually a crime to try to break out of jail? I think that should be true for "resisting an officer." Like I don't think resisting arrest should be a crime.
Freelance photojournalist @davedeckerphoto.bsky.social was arrested while reporting on an immigration protest outside an ICE facility in Miami on Nov. 22.
He was held in custody for 30-plus hours and released with charges of trespassing and resisting an officer.
He was held in custody for 30-plus hours and released with charges of trespassing and resisting an officer.
Photojournalist arrested at Miami immigration protest, gear seized
Freelance photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies while documenting anti-deportation protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
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November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
you know how in some places in Europe it's not actually a crime to try to break out of jail? I think that should be true for "resisting an officer." Like I don't think resisting arrest should be a crime.
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I feel like an important news media personality incredulously asks this question every six months and gets the same answer.
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I feel like an important news media personality incredulously asks this question every six months and gets the same answer.
by a difference of about two whole decades!
latest personal "wanna feel old?" mindblower: listening to Led Zeppelin & realizing those tracks are now older than Robert Johnson's were when Jimmy Page was copying them 🥴
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
by a difference of about two whole decades!
latest personal "wanna feel old?" mindblower: listening to Led Zeppelin & realizing those tracks are now older than Robert Johnson's were when Jimmy Page was copying them 🥴
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
latest personal "wanna feel old?" mindblower: listening to Led Zeppelin & realizing those tracks are now older than Robert Johnson's were when Jimmy Page was copying them 🥴
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
i ever so *slightly* scorched a batch of caramel yesterday by trying to skip using a double-boiler for the flavoring juice reduction so now they taste more like toasted marshmallow than blueberry & i'm so fuckin mad 😖
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
i ever so *slightly* scorched a batch of caramel yesterday by trying to skip using a double-boiler for the flavoring juice reduction so now they taste more like toasted marshmallow than blueberry & i'm so fuckin mad 😖
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This is an excruciating read. Read it.
“We are no longer even talking about bad apples anymore — we are talking about a bad culture."
“We are no longer even talking about bad apples anymore — we are talking about a bad culture."
This is the context you have to keep in mind when you see these people hyperventilating about addressing this system. This is what they are demanding we preserve literally at any and every cost.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is an excruciating read. Read it.
“We are no longer even talking about bad apples anymore — we are talking about a bad culture."
“We are no longer even talking about bad apples anymore — we are talking about a bad culture."