Andy Watson
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Andy Watson
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Meat Popsicle
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ICE agent recognized out Christmas shopping—throws tantrum when citizens profile him.

"We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say.

"I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells.

"Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have."

Philadelphia, PA
December 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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we’re releasing the epstein files. the files are on my desk. actually there are no files. never mind here are some of them. ope there are a million
December 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:

"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.
December 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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a lot of that money billionaires have can be turned into political donations/power

wealth distribution is power distribution, and it's getting worse every day
From 2018 to 2024, the tax rate paid by eight major retailers was slashed from 30% to just 17.5%.

The CEOs of those major retailers were paid a collective $1.3 billion.

Meanwhile, the average worker at those stores was paid less than $32,000 in 2024.

Nothing trickled down.
December 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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SCOOP-2: Isabela Herrera donated $2.5m to MAGA Inc. on 12/31/2024.

At the time, her father, a Venezuelan-Italian banker, was being prosecuted for bribing Puerto Rico's governor.

In July, Trump's DOJ authorized a misdemeanor plea deal, overruling career prosecutors who had pushed a harsher sentence
December 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Can't believe Bari Weiss called the refs and said the MAGA quarterback had to win.
December 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Finished "A Shattering Peace" by @scalzi.com yesterday sitting in the Lincoln County Public Library in Oxford, MS of all places. It was really great! I'm going to read it again!
December 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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August 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Thanks to new rules that require reviewing social media of visa applicants creating month long backlogs for renewals, Apple & Google has warned employees not to leave the U.S. as they may be unable to return.

This expands the war on immigrants coming to the U.S. to foreign workers who travel home
Google and Apple are warning some visa employees not to leave the US due to 'significant' return delays of up to a year
The US State Department said it was "prioritizing thoroughly vetting" each visa case, which could cause delays.
www.businessinsider.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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picking the podcasters who’ve been some of the worst at true crime to head the FBI really has been a choice
December 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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when your plan was suicide by cop but then it turns out kash patel is in charge of the cops
December 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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This may not be a popular opinion but I don’t believe you should kill a Christmas tree unless you’re planning on eating the whole thing.
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Hegseth’s Pentagon “renaming” these bases after obscure veterans with the same names as the Confederates the bases were originally named for has all the subtlety of a school bully putting his hand in your face and yelling “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!”
December 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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man this is brutal. Just a reminder: Marc Andreessen took a man with zero experience in either tech or finance, and hired him at the most powerful and influential venture capital firm in the industry, solely on the basis that he strangled one of my neighbors to death for being Black.
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Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

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December 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."
December 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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counting down five fav articles from my year of reporting at @wired.com, starting with number five…

the Monday afternoon blog that Elon Musk hated so much he posted about it
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points
The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.
www.wired.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Raven and Steve, the two person shop behind @unraveledpress.com literally got shot at and arrested for covering the ICE and US Border Patrol onslaught on Chicago. It did not slow down their efforts to expose the abuses of the feds and stand up for communities across Chicago. Thank you for the work.
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Absolutely vile.

We've had presidents before who were terrible people, but never one who was so shamelessly, publicly terrible. This behavior should not be excused, much less celebrated.
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
Announcing the Inaugural Snooping Newsie Awards for Excellence in Independent Journalism | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM