Matt Cameron
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Did anybody else see the new Nuremberg movie? I am still thinking about why i didn't like it, but also open to hearing why you did
November 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Did anybody else see the new Nuremberg movie? I am still thinking about why i didn't like it, but also open to hearing why you did
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This is nuts.
Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.
Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.
Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.
Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is nuts.
Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.
Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.
Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.
Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.
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Prison nurse sees inmates with serious health conditions being dismissed by prison staff. She brings it up with management.
She's quickly retaliated against and put in "prison jail" - sitting in a room monitoring inmate calls and emails.
Comes across comms from Ghislaine Maxwell and says fuck this.
She's quickly retaliated against and put in "prison jail" - sitting in a room monitoring inmate calls and emails.
Comes across comms from Ghislaine Maxwell and says fuck this.
There are so many people working in so many places who are quietly watching this corruption cross their desks daily, but so few willing to do what prison nurse Noella Turnage just did by sharing the receipts and accepting the consequences. What an absolute hero
www.kbtx.com/2025/11/18/f...
www.kbtx.com/2025/11/18/f...
Fired Bryan federal prison nurse says Ghislaine Maxwell is receiving special treatment — and she has the emails
Noella Turnage was fired from her job at the prison last week. On Monday, she sat down with KBTX’s Rusty Surette
www.kbtx.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Prison nurse sees inmates with serious health conditions being dismissed by prison staff. She brings it up with management.
She's quickly retaliated against and put in "prison jail" - sitting in a room monitoring inmate calls and emails.
Comes across comms from Ghislaine Maxwell and says fuck this.
She's quickly retaliated against and put in "prison jail" - sitting in a room monitoring inmate calls and emails.
Comes across comms from Ghislaine Maxwell and says fuck this.
This is probably one of my most annoying opinions but I refuse to believe that anyone who writes like they are in a constant state of smelling burnt toast could possibly be "insightful and articulate"
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This is probably one of my most annoying opinions but I refuse to believe that anyone who writes like they are in a constant state of smelling burnt toast could possibly be "insightful and articulate"
There are so many people working in so many places who are quietly watching this corruption cross their desks daily, but so few willing to do what prison nurse Noella Turnage just did by sharing the receipts and accepting the consequences. What an absolute hero
www.kbtx.com/2025/11/18/f...
www.kbtx.com/2025/11/18/f...
Fired Bryan federal prison nurse says Ghislaine Maxwell is receiving special treatment — and she has the emails
Noella Turnage was fired from her job at the prison last week. On Monday, she sat down with KBTX’s Rusty Surette
www.kbtx.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
There are so many people working in so many places who are quietly watching this corruption cross their desks daily, but so few willing to do what prison nurse Noella Turnage just did by sharing the receipts and accepting the consequences. What an absolute hero
www.kbtx.com/2025/11/18/f...
www.kbtx.com/2025/11/18/f...
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They are giving the raids on Charlotte the name of a beloved children’s novel about disparate members of a community working together to save someone vulnerable 🤬
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
They are giving the raids on Charlotte the name of a beloved children’s novel about disparate members of a community working together to save someone vulnerable 🤬
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we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we need a department of kerning
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The directors of this season should get props for their excellent use of diegetic music
Trump blares Phantom of the Opera at the White House with an empty Friday schedule
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The directors of this season should get props for their excellent use of diegetic music
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This just keeps happening that when a wealth tax is introduced, 1, the rich don't actually move out and 2, they are hoarding more wealth than people know. Tax the rich.
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This just keeps happening that when a wealth tax is introduced, 1, the rich don't actually move out and 2, they are hoarding more wealth than people know. Tax the rich.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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New most universally despised Boston resident just dropped.
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
New most universally despised Boston resident just dropped.
Of the many things that Trump--or really any president in history--ever could have been impeached for, I am starting to allow myself to believe that this attempted DOJ/FBI coverup has been so obvious, so corrupt, and about something *so universally toxic* that it could actually go to conviction
1/ THE EPSTEIN IMPEACHMENT
The Trump admin's *known* efforts to obstruct the release of information & evidence connecting the sitting president to the most notorious sex trafficker in modern history are as impeachable as anything a president has ever done.
Some drafting suggestions:
The Trump admin's *known* efforts to obstruct the release of information & evidence connecting the sitting president to the most notorious sex trafficker in modern history are as impeachable as anything a president has ever done.
Some drafting suggestions:
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Of the many things that Trump--or really any president in history--ever could have been impeached for, I am starting to allow myself to believe that this attempted DOJ/FBI coverup has been so obvious, so corrupt, and about something *so universally toxic* that it could actually go to conviction
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856
Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856
Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856
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We had a great time with Illinois Congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social talking about her unique campaign, what ICE is doing to Chicago right now, and what it is going to take for Democrats not to suck. All kinds of hope in here, you won't want to miss this one!
youtu.be/U7OEJJwsajA?...
youtu.be/U7OEJJwsajA?...
Kat Abughazaleh - Indicted by Trump's DoJ for Protesting ICE while running for Congress
YouTube video by Serious Pod Network
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We had a great time with Illinois Congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social talking about her unique campaign, what ICE is doing to Chicago right now, and what it is going to take for Democrats not to suck. All kinds of hope in here, you won't want to miss this one!
youtu.be/U7OEJJwsajA?...
youtu.be/U7OEJJwsajA?...
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no dem running in 2026 without a promise to abolish ICE and a to hold all involved (especially elected officials) accountable is a viable candidate.
Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari of Arizona’s 3rd District describes the “horrific conditions” she witnessed inside the Eloy ICE Detention Center near Phoenix — including a leukemia patient “vomiting blood,” detained in February and forced to wait eight months before finally seeing an oncologist...
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
no dem running in 2026 without a promise to abolish ICE and a to hold all involved (especially elected officials) accountable is a viable candidate.
Posting good Monday news not bc I did anything special here* but bc I need you to know that when we fight we win so let's all keep fighting
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*truly: New England judges are routinely granting release on habeas for ICE detainees being denied bond hearings under the latest ridiculous BIA precedent
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*truly: New England judges are routinely granting release on habeas for ICE detainees being denied bond hearings under the latest ridiculous BIA precedent
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Posting good Monday news not bc I did anything special here* but bc I need you to know that when we fight we win so let's all keep fighting
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*truly: New England judges are routinely granting release on habeas for ICE detainees being denied bond hearings under the latest ridiculous BIA precedent
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*truly: New England judges are routinely granting release on habeas for ICE detainees being denied bond hearings under the latest ridiculous BIA precedent
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This is the most comprehensive reporting released on the DHS-alleged shooting so far. Read the entire story (reminder: reporters don't usually choose headlines).
For folks asking if it's true an ICE agent was shot: no, that is a verifiably false rumor. No injuries. A lot else remains in question.
For folks asking if it's true an ICE agent was shot: no, that is a verifiably false rumor. No injuries. A lot else remains in question.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is the most comprehensive reporting released on the DHS-alleged shooting so far. Read the entire story (reminder: reporters don't usually choose headlines).
For folks asking if it's true an ICE agent was shot: no, that is a verifiably false rumor. No injuries. A lot else remains in question.
For folks asking if it's true an ICE agent was shot: no, that is a verifiably false rumor. No injuries. A lot else remains in question.
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While the government prosecutes this case “in some purported effort to keep law enforcement safe and free from food fights,” CBP employees “are joking about it.” The gov, she says, is trying to turn a “gag-gift worthy moment into a federal criminal offense. We ask you not to allow them to do that.”
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
While the government prosecutes this case “in some purported effort to keep law enforcement safe and free from food fights,” CBP employees “are joking about it.” The gov, she says, is trying to turn a “gag-gift worthy moment into a federal criminal offense. We ask you not to allow them to do that.”
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Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”
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It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history.
She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.
She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history.
She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.
She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.
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“Many of them, [the manager] said, held legal status, but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents.
‘Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,’ he said. ‘I could bring it to them & get them released. But I don’t know where they are.’” 2/
‘Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,’ he said. ‘I could bring it to them & get them released. But I don’t know where they are.’” 2/
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Many of them, [the manager] said, held legal status, but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents.
‘Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,’ he said. ‘I could bring it to them & get them released. But I don’t know where they are.’” 2/
‘Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,’ he said. ‘I could bring it to them & get them released. But I don’t know where they are.’” 2/
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With all the excitement about the election I don’t want this story to get lost. This morning 8 car wash workers in Boston were kidnapped by federal agents in the largest workplace raid in the area in recent memory.
The details are horrifying.
🧵
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/m...
The details are horrifying.
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www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/m...
Immigration agents raid Allston car wash and detain several workers - The Boston Globe
Many of them held legal status but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents, according to their manager.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
With all the excitement about the election I don’t want this story to get lost. This morning 8 car wash workers in Boston were kidnapped by federal agents in the largest workplace raid in the area in recent memory.
The details are horrifying.
🧵
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/m...
The details are horrifying.
🧵
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/m...
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Fight. Win.
New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani confronts Border Czar Tom Homan today in Albany 👇🏻
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Fight. Win.
The head of CBP proudly confirms under oath that he will continue to arrest Americans for Constitutionally protected speech in opposition to the most extreme and visibly public mass deportation operation since Operation Wetback (1954-1955)
From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.
November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The head of CBP proudly confirms under oath that he will continue to arrest Americans for Constitutionally protected speech in opposition to the most extreme and visibly public mass deportation operation since Operation Wetback (1954-1955)
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The public-facing side of American conservative politics more or less amounts to crashing out constantly about a bunch of shit that either you or the weird liars you listen to uncritically have made up. The non-public part, from what we've seen of the chat logs and such, is somehow much worse.
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The public-facing side of American conservative politics more or less amounts to crashing out constantly about a bunch of shit that either you or the weird liars you listen to uncritically have made up. The non-public part, from what we've seen of the chat logs and such, is somehow much worse.