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Nobody touches my peppers.
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You can read all of the different Bari Weiss analyses by various press outlets or you could just read this
January 19, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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If ICE is stopping and detaining people based on their skin color and/or accent, what they are doing is essentially an ethnic cleansing campaign.
January 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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It’s ok, they won their Super Bowl last week
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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Wanna know something? Right before migrants get loaded onto an ICE removal flight, they return their gray jumpsuit and get deported in whatever they were wearing when captured. Have heard from many migrants that the planes are freezing and some shackled people are in summer tank tops and flip flops.
Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota.

(Photo via Reuters)
January 19, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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The best video game music of 2025: SOUTH OF MIDNIGHT!!
January 19, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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Writing for Nikkei, Sophia University professor Kariya Takehiko makes an obvious point: Japan can't afford xenophobic immigration policies when it's increasingly dependent on foreign labor. Even CURRENT immigration rates won't meet the demand for workers.
January 18, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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Who could have predicted this outcome.
Trump Snubs Machado After Explaining Why He Took Her Nobel Prize
It seems the Venezuelan opposition leader’s gambit hasn’t paid off.
newrepublic.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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men will unironically say they can't be friends with someone they might want to fuck, avoid any intimacy with their male friends because it might be gay, then complain about a loneliness epidemic
My favorite thing dumb guys used to ask all the time was “can men and women ever *really* be friends?” Wild skill issue.
January 18, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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One death every three days
This is the sixth death in ICE custody in 18 days. This isn’t enforcement, it’s a system that cages people, outsources care, and shrugs when they die. Abolish ICE.
January 18, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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Yesterday I went back to Broadview for the first time since being federally indicted to stand in solidarity with the hundreds of people who braved the cold to speak with one voice:

Abolish ICE.
January 18, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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This David French article shows the analytic peril of ignoring the way normal policing and repression work in communities of color. The so-called "dual state" he's highlighting (laws applied unequally, non-compliance met with violence) is *exactly* what Black Lives Matter was protesting.
Opinion | An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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"Unlike in Nazi Germany, our emerging prerogative state was often built by well-meaning people operating with the best of intentions."

aaaaaaand I'm peacing out on this David French joint

Fuck David French, all my homies hate David French
This IS indeed very much worth reading.

[Gift article]

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
January 18, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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That David French NYT op-ed people are raving about is the problem with white punditry. Talking about the Nazi dual state without ever mentioning that Nazis learned from white America and its treatment of Black people. Jesus Christ it is painful waiting for y'all to catch up
January 18, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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OOP: “While Fetterman is supporting Trump’s use of American tax dollars to ‘run’ Venezuela or buy Greenland, 500,000 Pennsylvanians are about to see their health care premiums rise because of the Republican budget bill he supported,” said Nick Gavio [of the WFP] and *a former Fetterman staffer*.
Progressive effort to primary Sen. John Fetterman ramps up
The Working Families Party launched a website where, among other efforts, voters can request refunds from Fetterman’s campaign.
www.nbcnews.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Is this the first one I’m just gonna not watch?
For my sins I am watching the second episode of starfleet academy and I am struck by how just shallowly thought out this entire world is. The teachers on this school that supposedly was established five minutes ago act like they've been doing this forever.
January 18, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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Wait. The CDC closed its FOIA office?!?
How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
HHS Gave a $1.6 Million Grant to a Controversial Vaccine Study. These Emails Show How That Happened
Two Danish researchers faced accusations of “questionable research practices” as RFK Jr.’s top appointees made their study a “funding priority.”
www.rollingstone.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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Watching Stephen Miller's all-consuming desire for respect and authority shrivel into a tiny raisin of failure every time he appears in public is a nice feeling
Borders expert here! This ia a steaming pile of horseshit.
January 18, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare | Mara Wilson
I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same danger
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Absolutely disgusted by your reaction to a local reporter extending less than thirty seconds of kindness to a coach, Mark Long, you should be ashamed of your behavior. Sports reporter who doesn’t even understand why people watch the game in the first place. “Fake media?” Shame. @apnews.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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January 18, 2026 at 12:07 AM
I'm just screaming into a pillow at this point
NYT publishes audio of Karoline Leavitt threatening CBS over its Trump interview: “He said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...
‘We’ll Sue’: White House’s Warning to CBS Is Sign of a New Media Status Quo
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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FURRIES RISE UP
January 18, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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Bat singnal for every third or fourth engineer bsky.app/profile/leav...
Well that’s one way to get every online ICE database and hacked
January 18, 2026 at 12:16 AM