Townerr
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i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
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Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6
January 22, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6
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This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
Looking into Eternally Sunshining myself so I can watch Trailer Park Boys for the first time again
October 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Looking into Eternally Sunshining myself so I can watch Trailer Park Boys for the first time again
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It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all
One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all
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It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters
October 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters
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i think it's pretty clear at this point that trump cannot be dissuaded from the idea that asylum simply means that these are insane people from other countries entering ours
The thing about unchecked power is it often makes grave mistakes. One of the reason Putin decided on the folly of war with Ukraine was the lack of those willing to tell him he was making a grave error. I fear @realDonaldTrump will stumble into a war, costing troop’s their lives.
September 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
i think it's pretty clear at this point that trump cannot be dissuaded from the idea that asylum simply means that these are insane people from other countries entering ours
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More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center.
That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents. https://to.pbs.org/46d1uiJ
That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents. https://to.pbs.org/46d1uiJ
1.2 million immigrants are gone from the U.S. workforce under Trump, preliminary data shows
As parades and other events celebrating the contributions of workers in the U.S. are being held for the Labor Day holiday, experts say President Donald Trump’s stepped-up immigration policies are impa...
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September 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center.
That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents. https://to.pbs.org/46d1uiJ
That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents. https://to.pbs.org/46d1uiJ
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Emil Bove’s norm-breaking behavior at the Department of Justice alarms some observers
July 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Emil Bove’s norm-breaking behavior at the Department of Justice alarms some observers
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He doesn’t self identify as at war you guys
Getting an explainer on CNN just now that this is "not necessarily at odds" w Trump promising not to get into any Mideast wars.
("He sees bombing as separate from entering a war.")
("He sees bombing as separate from entering a war.")
June 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
He doesn’t self identify as at war you guys
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Pretty sure America just went to war because nobody liked Donald Trump's military parade.
June 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Pretty sure America just went to war because nobody liked Donald Trump's military parade.
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Unironically yes because “socialism” in U.S. politics has always been a racialized, gendered, nationalistic, classed, and contingent construct rather than a stable theory of the appropriate size and scope of government
Universal health care: socialism
Student loan debt relief: socialism
Green energy investment: socialism
Joe Biden: Senile socialist
Barack Obama: Black socialist
Hillary Clinton: Female socialist
Kamala Harris: Black Female socialist
State ownership of US Steel:
Capitalism! Free markets! America!
Student loan debt relief: socialism
Green energy investment: socialism
Joe Biden: Senile socialist
Barack Obama: Black socialist
Hillary Clinton: Female socialist
Kamala Harris: Black Female socialist
State ownership of US Steel:
Capitalism! Free markets! America!
US Steel has effectively been nationalized (by the political party supposedly fighting American socialism)
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/b...
June 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Unironically yes because “socialism” in U.S. politics has always been a racialized, gendered, nationalistic, classed, and contingent construct rather than a stable theory of the appropriate size and scope of government
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A serious study from a Harvard University political scientist presents a statistic worth remembering: Around the world, once 3.5% of the population became engaged in sustained, non-violent campaigns of resistance, change has always happened.
Democracy is inevitable, when the people are determined.
Democracy is inevitable, when the people are determined.
June 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
A serious study from a Harvard University political scientist presents a statistic worth remembering: Around the world, once 3.5% of the population became engaged in sustained, non-violent campaigns of resistance, change has always happened.
Democracy is inevitable, when the people are determined.
Democracy is inevitable, when the people are determined.
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“We came to the United States for protection because of what we encountered in Russia,” he said. “It seems that we are encountering here what we fled.” -- Russian asylum seeker who was detained and, he says, beaten by ICE agents.
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown
After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”
www.wsj.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“We came to the United States for protection because of what we encountered in Russia,” he said. “It seems that we are encountering here what we fled.” -- Russian asylum seeker who was detained and, he says, beaten by ICE agents.
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
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Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits
June 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits
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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
June 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
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June 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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May 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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AI art really is the aesthetic of new fascism
May 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
AI art really is the aesthetic of new fascism
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I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.
April 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.
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Agree w this. But fwiw, I don’t think there are adverse political consequences on this front. And I think I have pretty good antennae for political impact. There’s a pretty broad discomfort w the whole disappearing people w no due process agenda. The escalation from WH is actually the tell on that.
I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
April 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Agree w this. But fwiw, I don’t think there are adverse political consequences on this front. And I think I have pretty good antennae for political impact. There’s a pretty broad discomfort w the whole disappearing people w no due process agenda. The escalation from WH is actually the tell on that.
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In 2019 a BYU Japanese PhD student helped organized a fishing outing. The group caught more fish than they were allowed, but prosecutors decided not to charge him.
Now, his visa is being revoked.
Kudos to Rubio for keeping America safe.
www.deseret.com/utah/2025/04...
Now, his visa is being revoked.
Kudos to Rubio for keeping America safe.
www.deseret.com/utah/2025/04...
BYU grad student from Japan has visa revoked
Attorney for computer science Ph.D. candidate believes a fishing license incident from years ago may have triggered visa revocation.
www.deseret.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
In 2019 a BYU Japanese PhD student helped organized a fishing outing. The group caught more fish than they were allowed, but prosecutors decided not to charge him.
Now, his visa is being revoked.
Kudos to Rubio for keeping America safe.
www.deseret.com/utah/2025/04...
Now, his visa is being revoked.
Kudos to Rubio for keeping America safe.
www.deseret.com/utah/2025/04...
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in D.C. today: "And let’s usher in, as President Trump says, a ‘Golden Age’ of American manufacturing.'”
This is nuts. Democrats really, really have to learn, as Robert Frost put it, to take their own side in a fight.
www.thebulwark.com/p/clown-in-a...
This is nuts. Democrats really, really have to learn, as Robert Frost put it, to take their own side in a fight.
www.thebulwark.com/p/clown-in-a...
A Clown in a China Shop
Our perfectly smooth-brained president is having a perfectly wonderful time.
www.thebulwark.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in D.C. today: "And let’s usher in, as President Trump says, a ‘Golden Age’ of American manufacturing.'”
This is nuts. Democrats really, really have to learn, as Robert Frost put it, to take their own side in a fight.
www.thebulwark.com/p/clown-in-a...
This is nuts. Democrats really, really have to learn, as Robert Frost put it, to take their own side in a fight.
www.thebulwark.com/p/clown-in-a...