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Axon Spark
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Forger of Photons, Wrangler of Bits, and All Around Odd Man.
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PSA: I have a pretty high standard for people I let follow me. If I don't already know you, then you better believe I am scrutinizing your profile. Some real people might get blocked, but I'm not taking any chances over here.
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The third time in 2 months that the official DHS account has tweeted a Nazi term which means "ethnic cleansing" of all people of color from America and Europe.
December 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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NEW: The government admitted in text messages that Rep. LaMonica McIver didn't assault a federal agent in Signal chat messages that DOJ failed to hand over until this past week. That story and more on today's Breakdown. Free to subscribe: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-admitt...
DOJ Admitted LaMonica McIver Didn't Assault ICE in Withheld Signal Chat
Plus, DOJ's ridiculous response to my Epstein FOIA, Trump's corrupt collusion with a hand-picked immigration judge to re-arrest Kilmar Abrego, and more embarrassing DOJ losses!
www.muellershewrote.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Usually, when I need an appointment at the VA, I can get one within 2 weeks. Today, I called for an appointment and the next available is in May, 2026. Firing 35K people will do that. The Trump administration hates veterans.
December 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.

His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."

He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing,” Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, tells me. "Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to create a life for themselves, to prosper, to build community...to live a rewarding life.”
Finally, Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, gave us her first interview. It's powerful stuff:

newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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I jumped a month or so after Elon took over when he announced he was unblocking accounts that had been shunted for harassment.

I had 150,000 followers when I jumped, but the return of the person who doxxed my home is not someone I will ever voluntarily share space with again.

Also Nazis.
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.

They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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#GVerse Rob Reiner spent decades defending democracy and fighting for equality - even when it wasn’t easy or popular. At a moment when silence is safer, his willingness to speak out is a reminder that protecting democracy requires courage.

#Repost to honor Reiner's legacy of justice ♥️
December 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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I’m horrified by the terror attack in Australia targeting a celebration of Hanukkah. We all must stand against this hatred. No one should be targeted for their religion.
December 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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I made it through my entire childhood education, college and law school before Columbine.

My kids had their first lockdown drill in pre-k.

It absolutely doesn’t have to be like this.
December 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.
what the fuck are you talking about man
December 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Folks, the Dem establishment must be culled. They aren't your fighters. They don't care about you. They will not champion reform.

Here's Exhibit 429

prospect.org/2025/12/12/d...
Democratic Voters Are Clamoring for AI Regulation. Their Leaders Aren’t Interested. - The American Prospect
A new AI commission established by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries includes several corporate-friendly legislators.
prospect.org
December 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans.
bsky.app/profile/jare...
Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.

So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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ICYMI, new piece/thread from me on the remarkable new turn in the Abrego Garcia case. Everyone should read the judge's latest ruling. It goes deep. It neatly captures the essential lawlessness and state terror of the Trump era:
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Abrego Garcia Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.
newrepublic.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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It will have to be a different party to do this, not the Democratic party.
It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
If He Builds It, Tear It Down
Pendulums must swing.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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This story & his sister's telling of it is a master class in how deeply sick family dynamics are rationalized under white male power.

His father killed a woman in a drunken stupor, and then started "boxing" with Bovino as a kid, punching him out.

This isn't toughness. It doesn't make men heroes.
Gregory Bovino’s sister, on him being mad at The Border:

“Greg was so psyched because he'd read all these articles and loved the toughness and the values of all these old timers. Then he went to the movie, and the Border Patrol person was a criminal.” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.

He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.

www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Eight days ago I said one of the signs the bubble was bursting was if data center REITs like Fermi were in trouble. Yesterday Fermi had a $150m tenant pull out and its stock dropped 40%. All roads lead to The Smiling Man!
sherwood.news/markets/ferm...

www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
December 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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When we say “billionaires should not exist,” what we mean is:

Instead of billionaires…
Everyone should have healthcare.
Everyone should have housing.
Everyone should have access to healthy food and clean water.

Billionaires are a policy failure.
December 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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The "1/3 women outside a major city" claim is just straight up baseless. OF doesn't release data like that and the numbers would have to be astronomical.

This is weird male anxiety used as justification for censorship and repression.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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online gambling is essentially legal and open money fixing and laundering at this point
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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When you call for the full release of the unredacted Epstein files, please remember the survivors want their personally identifiable information redacted.
December 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM