V S
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You took the air, you took the time, you were fed and you were free; now you better put some beauty back, yeah, while you got the energy. -Ani DiFranco
Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. -The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. -The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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He could not find either Somalia or Afghanistan on a map, even if it was labeled. But he knows the people there have melanin, and are therefore obviously undesirable.
TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 AM
He could not find either Somalia or Afghanistan on a map, even if it was labeled. But he knows the people there have melanin, and are therefore obviously undesirable.
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Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
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The meal before the meal
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The meal before the meal
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They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
"Those two troops shot on Wednesday should have been home, getting ready for Thanksgiving — not helping create an image for an autocrat.
"I hope for swift and complete recoveries for them — and for a swift and complete end to [Tangerine Twitler]’s occupation of American cities w/American troops."
"I hope for swift and complete recoveries for them — and for a swift and complete end to [Tangerine Twitler]’s occupation of American cities w/American troops."
Gave this a lot more context in a full post at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/the-two-sh...
The two shot National Guard troops never should have been in DC. More troops is no answer.
The violence is horrible and unacceptable. Trump, Pete Hegseth, and West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey never should have put the troops in this position.
www.lawdork.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
"Those two troops shot on Wednesday should have been home, getting ready for Thanksgiving — not helping create an image for an autocrat.
"I hope for swift and complete recoveries for them — and for a swift and complete end to [Tangerine Twitler]’s occupation of American cities w/American troops."
"I hope for swift and complete recoveries for them — and for a swift and complete end to [Tangerine Twitler]’s occupation of American cities w/American troops."
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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
Essential.
"In every era, the fight was not about whether rulers had *any* involvement in prosecutions. They always did. The fight was over whether the ruler’s *personal desire to punish critics or spare allies* could decide how the law was used."
"In every era, the fight was not about whether rulers had *any* involvement in prosecutions. They always did. The fight was over whether the ruler’s *personal desire to punish critics or spare allies* could decide how the law was used."
Ok so you want to brush up on what to say to your uncle tomorrow who doesn’t get why he should care that Trump is on a retaliation tour. “Don’t they all do this? They did it to him!”
Here’s some history knowledge you can drop in response: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-oldest...
Here’s some history knowledge you can drop in response: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-oldest...
The oldest abuse in human government
Donald Trump and the ‘king’s justice’
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Essential.
"In every era, the fight was not about whether rulers had *any* involvement in prosecutions. They always did. The fight was over whether the ruler’s *personal desire to punish critics or spare allies* could decide how the law was used."
"In every era, the fight was not about whether rulers had *any* involvement in prosecutions. They always did. The fight was over whether the ruler’s *personal desire to punish critics or spare allies* could decide how the law was used."
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The people who do this, who conceived of it, who demand it, are real life monsters.
“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The people who do this, who conceived of it, who demand it, are real life monsters.
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wild that this happened within 24 hours of bolsanaro going to prison. will be a timeless textbook example of what works to save a democracy and what doesn’t
Breaking News: The last pending criminal prosecution against President Trump was dismissed by a judge in Georgia, effectively ending efforts to hold Trump criminally responsible for attempts to overturn the 2020 election. trib.al/EnJu57H
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
wild that this happened within 24 hours of bolsanaro going to prison. will be a timeless textbook example of what works to save a democracy and what doesn’t
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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Himes: "In combination with the Russia plan and the lethal strikes on drug boats, what the world is seeing is that the Trump administration is purely performative. It doesn't matter what really happens so long as in the moment when you're very mad at Mark Kelly, you threaten to Court-martial him."
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Himes: "In combination with the Russia plan and the lethal strikes on drug boats, what the world is seeing is that the Trump administration is purely performative. It doesn't matter what really happens so long as in the moment when you're very mad at Mark Kelly, you threaten to Court-martial him."
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It’s sad that “soldiers shouldn’t commit crimes” is a brave position for a Republican to take.
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It’s sad that “soldiers shouldn’t commit crimes” is a brave position for a Republican to take.
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THOSE ARE NOT CONCESSIONS!!
REPORTER: What kind of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?
TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
THOSE ARE NOT CONCESSIONS!!
“We are supposed to be a public space for everyone, and we feel like we can’t do our jobs ethically at this time when we get directives like this. … It feels completely unprecedented to have us close, lock the doors and remove a mass amount of books in secret — that’s scary.”
-a TN library employee
-a TN library employee
A Tennessee legislator has ordered all Tennessee public libraries to shut down for two weeks to review their childrens collections and ensure they do not contain any books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
The Harper's letter crew is going to be *furious* about this.
The Harper's letter crew is going to be *furious* about this.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“We are supposed to be a public space for everyone, and we feel like we can’t do our jobs ethically at this time when we get directives like this. … It feels completely unprecedented to have us close, lock the doors and remove a mass amount of books in secret — that’s scary.”
-a TN library employee
-a TN library employee
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-DHS agent Timothy Donahue's racist X account.
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-DHS agent Timothy Donahue's racist X account.
-DHS agents lied about killing Silverio Villegas Gonzalez
-IL Dems caved to RW law and order rhetoric and built a surveillance state using ALPRs
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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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Dave is who helped me after I got shot in the face. To hold a journalist for 30 hours on absurd charges is a very, very bad sign of things to come
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 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Dave is who helped me after I got shot in the face. To hold a journalist for 30 hours on absurd charges is a very, very bad sign of things to come
This is the quick read I needed today. Maybe you need it too.
In every way, Trump demands fealty to himself—and to his whims, wholly untethered to law—over fealty to federal officials’ oaths of office. So again: Are you effing kidding me? What Dems did here was patriotic. They forced the debate we need over Trump's lawlessness.
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This is the quick read I needed today. Maybe you need it too.
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A while back, a handful of ancient eulogies went viral. I saved a bunch and now they popped up in my phone memories. Here were the three that stood out most to me.
November 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A while back, a handful of ancient eulogies went viral. I saved a bunch and now they popped up in my phone memories. Here were the three that stood out most to me.
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Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
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Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
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I don’t know what the Supreme Court will do, but I am confident that at the District Court level it is still the case that the Pentagon cannot recall a sitting US Senator to active duty in order to court martial him for something he said. Article 1, Section 6, among other constitutional provisions.
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will do, but I am confident that at the District Court level it is still the case that the Pentagon cannot recall a sitting US Senator to active duty in order to court martial him for something he said. Article 1, Section 6, among other constitutional provisions.
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"The rulings from Senior U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie amount to a stunning rebuke of the [Tangerine Twitler] administration’s efforts to target [Twitler]’s political opponents as well as its legal maneuvering to hastily install a loyalist prosecutor willing to file the cases."
"The rulings from Senior U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie amount to a stunning rebuke of the [Tangerine Twitler] administration’s efforts to target [Twitler]’s political opponents as well as its legal maneuvering to hastily install a loyalist prosecutor willing to file the cases."
Judge dismisses Comey, James indictments after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed
A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at Presiden...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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"The rulings from Senior U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie amount to a stunning rebuke of the [Tangerine Twitler] administration’s efforts to target [Twitler]’s political opponents as well as its legal maneuvering to hastily install a loyalist prosecutor willing to file the cases."
"The rulings from Senior U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie amount to a stunning rebuke of the [Tangerine Twitler] administration’s efforts to target [Twitler]’s political opponents as well as its legal maneuvering to hastily install a loyalist prosecutor willing to file the cases."