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concerned citizen of Armageddon.
unprofessional. bullshit detector.
queer as in "bashes back."
public deathwish proponent.
the difference between traffic stops & being robbed at gunpoint is that the cop doesn't need your money.
concerned citizen of Armageddon.
unprofessional. bullshit detector.
queer as in "bashes back."
public deathwish proponent.
the difference between traffic stops & being robbed at gunpoint is that the cop doesn't need your money.
Pinned
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I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
Michigan ICE detention center owner reports $254 million profit, record new business in 2025
The company that owns Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Midwest, reported $254 million in profit last year, up nearly 700 percent from $32 mill...
www.michiganpublic.org
February 17, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
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Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good."
'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes...
www.404media.co
February 17, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good."
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Every decision in our society is being made based on the calculus of whether it will enrich tech billionaires on the front end, and allow corporate polluters to profit on the back end.
Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good."
'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes...
www.404media.co
February 17, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Every decision in our society is being made based on the calculus of whether it will enrich tech billionaires on the front end, and allow corporate polluters to profit on the back end.
Post your contextless photoshops (lol memories)
February 17, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Post your contextless photoshops (lol memories)
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Folks, even scholars, keep thinking it was only [the will of the people/individuals] to deny each other the dignity of health protection when in reality, we have the well researched Reuters article on the antivax campaign from the Pentagon.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
what a mess.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
what a mess.
February 17, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Folks, even scholars, keep thinking it was only [the will of the people/individuals] to deny each other the dignity of health protection when in reality, we have the well researched Reuters article on the antivax campaign from the Pentagon.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
what a mess.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
what a mess.
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The adult provocateur here - Daniel Vrosh aka "Danny Rebel" - is part of a regional MAGA crew whose express purpose is to "trigger" the left, then run to the police & publish rage bait for money or clout.
Local reporting shows Danny doing exactly this ... to fucking kids.
bsky.app/profile/uzza...
Local reporting shows Danny doing exactly this ... to fucking kids.
bsky.app/profile/uzza...
February 17, 2026 at 12:50 PM
The adult provocateur here - Daniel Vrosh aka "Danny Rebel" - is part of a regional MAGA crew whose express purpose is to "trigger" the left, then run to the police & publish rage bait for money or clout.
Local reporting shows Danny doing exactly this ... to fucking kids.
bsky.app/profile/uzza...
Local reporting shows Danny doing exactly this ... to fucking kids.
bsky.app/profile/uzza...
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This is interesting. In other words, Minneapolis is producing an overall strengthening of the social contract, including towards the undocumented. That's a stark rebuttal to MAGA theory, which holds that the silent majority agrees that foreign invaders threaten national social cohesion
February 17, 2026 at 1:23 PM
This is interesting. In other words, Minneapolis is producing an overall strengthening of the social contract, including towards the undocumented. That's a stark rebuttal to MAGA theory, which holds that the silent majority agrees that foreign invaders threaten national social cohesion
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Imagine this — you finally get approved for disability by in 2020 (after years of trying) but the moment you get a job that is no longer contract (2022) they say you owe them 45,000 in back pay (2023) because you can’t be disabled and work.
This is disability in America. This is my actual life.
This is disability in America. This is my actual life.
February 17, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Imagine this — you finally get approved for disability by in 2020 (after years of trying) but the moment you get a job that is no longer contract (2022) they say you owe them 45,000 in back pay (2023) because you can’t be disabled and work.
This is disability in America. This is my actual life.
This is disability in America. This is my actual life.
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So many people don't understand the reality of what it means to be disabled, financially, in this country.
The amount of times I've heard fellow disabled people called lazy or mooches because "they recieve checks instead of working" is too high. Especially because one can barely work on disability
The amount of times I've heard fellow disabled people called lazy or mooches because "they recieve checks instead of working" is too high. Especially because one can barely work on disability
Imagine this — you finally get approved for disability by in 2020 (after years of trying) but the moment you get a job that is no longer contract (2022) they say you owe them 45,000 in back pay (2023) because you can’t be disabled and work.
This is disability in America. This is my actual life.
This is disability in America. This is my actual life.
February 17, 2026 at 1:23 PM
So many people don't understand the reality of what it means to be disabled, financially, in this country.
The amount of times I've heard fellow disabled people called lazy or mooches because "they recieve checks instead of working" is too high. Especially because one can barely work on disability
The amount of times I've heard fellow disabled people called lazy or mooches because "they recieve checks instead of working" is too high. Especially because one can barely work on disability
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“Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive”
Remember this history as we remember this man.
Remember this history as we remember this man.
Jesse Jackson – a life in pictures
The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:12 PM
“Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive”
Remember this history as we remember this man.
Remember this history as we remember this man.
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It's interesting that if *you* got publicly caught doing heinous horrific shit to children, you'd get arrested and go to jail
When a billionaire does it, at most he'll simply resign and get a new job somewhere else where the job mysteriously involves still talking to all the same people he used to
When a billionaire does it, at most he'll simply resign and get a new job somewhere else where the job mysteriously involves still talking to all the same people he used to
Thomas Pritzker will retire as the executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels after details of his affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein were revealed in documents.
Pritzker steps down from Hyatt board saying he deeply regrets association with Jeffrey Epstein
Thomas Pritzker is retiring from his role as executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels and says he deeply regrets his association with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
bit.ly
February 17, 2026 at 1:27 PM
It's interesting that if *you* got publicly caught doing heinous horrific shit to children, you'd get arrested and go to jail
When a billionaire does it, at most he'll simply resign and get a new job somewhere else where the job mysteriously involves still talking to all the same people he used to
When a billionaire does it, at most he'll simply resign and get a new job somewhere else where the job mysteriously involves still talking to all the same people he used to
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Funny to post this while multiple Israeli officials are wearing yellow noose pins as part of their call for further state violence against Palestinians.
February 17, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Funny to post this while multiple Israeli officials are wearing yellow noose pins as part of their call for further state violence against Palestinians.
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Normally this would be a 24/7 news story and instead it's like the 47th craziest thing happening right now.
Much of Cuba Goes Dark as Trump Chokes Oil Supply
A Bloomberg News analysis of satellite imagery finds the level of light at night has dropped as much as 50% across Cuba amid Trump's oil blockade
www.bloomberg.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Normally this would be a 24/7 news story and instead it's like the 47th craziest thing happening right now.
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As of this morning, only one of the men who was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel that fateful evening is still living.
Since Brother Jesse passed at 84 this morning.
Since Brother Jesse passed at 84 this morning.
February 17, 2026 at 12:11 PM
As of this morning, only one of the men who was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel that fateful evening is still living.
Since Brother Jesse passed at 84 this morning.
Since Brother Jesse passed at 84 this morning.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
February 17, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
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One reason Republicans are so laser targeted on trans kids existing, is that trans kids existing requires accepting the bodily autonomy and consent of children.
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
February 16, 2026 at 11:34 PM
One reason Republicans are so laser targeted on trans kids existing, is that trans kids existing requires accepting the bodily autonomy and consent of children.
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
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The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 16, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
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Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.
The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
February 17, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.
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I’d love to get every single Democrat on board with “abolish ICE and dismantle DHS” but you’re going to need some votes from folks who don’t want to embrace that particular rhetoric and good news “there’s just too much corruption we’ve got to dismantle it to solve the problem” is sitting right there
gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
February 17, 2026 at 4:48 AM
I’d love to get every single Democrat on board with “abolish ICE and dismantle DHS” but you’re going to need some votes from folks who don’t want to embrace that particular rhetoric and good news “there’s just too much corruption we’ve got to dismantle it to solve the problem” is sitting right there
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definitely seems like you're safer from any kind of punishment for being in the Epstein Files than for, say, just to pick two examples totally at random, attending a college protest for Gaza or tweeting that you weren't very sad Charlie Kirk died
Has anyone in the Epstein Files who didn’t do anything wrong been punished? Maybe someone who was at a meeting Epstein was at. Never went to the island, didn’t get money from him, nor had a bunch of friendly emails.
Anyone get arrested, fired, etc.? Because moral panics feature that sort of thing.
Anyone get arrested, fired, etc.? Because moral panics feature that sort of thing.
Noah Rothman on the Epstein files: "It is a witch hunt. It‘s a moral panic."
February 17, 2026 at 1:46 AM
definitely seems like you're safer from any kind of punishment for being in the Epstein Files than for, say, just to pick two examples totally at random, attending a college protest for Gaza or tweeting that you weren't very sad Charlie Kirk died
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gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:53 AM
gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency
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Absolutely no reporters should ever do this because it's so, so easy to do right back to you, as most people constantly hesitate!
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Absolutely no reporters should ever do this because it's so, so easy to do right back to you, as most people constantly hesitate!
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hey serious question do you get a lobotomy as a perk of going to Yale Law
The other Ohio State nutty professor, exposed: Yale Law-educated Christopher Green tried to claim that I “assaulted him” after he blocked my attempt to board a public elevator.
These are Ohio State’s apparent thought leaders.
These are Ohio State’s apparent thought leaders.
February 16, 2026 at 8:00 PM
hey serious question do you get a lobotomy as a perk of going to Yale Law
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Here's where your money is going! Don't listen to the incrementalists, they're working for the Nazis. We got the leverage, baby.
February 16, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Here's where your money is going! Don't listen to the incrementalists, they're working for the Nazis. We got the leverage, baby.