River_Tam
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The local rapid response policy, which I first learned today when I was permanently removed, is “No press allowed ever.” I just think this is incredibly short-sighted and almost intrinsically self-defeating. Who are we observing FOR?
January 30, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Addicted to losing
People do take the ASVAB seriously, it's just hard for them.
I did well on the (easy) ASVAB, and the recruiter said "you can have any school you want". I responded that "everybody probably gets a high score" and this was an engagement trick. Nope, and he showed me some other results. All I can say is that many people don't take the ASVAB seriously.
January 29, 2026 at 11:58 PM
People do take the ASVAB seriously, it's just hard for them.
Meghan McCain has had Poster's Madness for a while.
January 29, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Meghan McCain has had Poster's Madness for a while.
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You could do not ask for a more damming inducement of a certain subculture than this person who lives in *Michigan* scolding Stancil, who is actually in MN, for asking people to not LARP like they’re fucking antifa Jason Bourne and actually talk to media.
January 29, 2026 at 10:35 PM
You could do not ask for a more damming inducement of a certain subculture than this person who lives in *Michigan* scolding Stancil, who is actually in MN, for asking people to not LARP like they’re fucking antifa Jason Bourne and actually talk to media.
Must be nice to have that privilege
i just kind of decided to not fight with anybody online this week and it turns out you can do that and it mostly works?
January 29, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Must be nice to have that privilege
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I don't want to be too down about the people concerned, but I hope they understand this is a risk they have *already* assumed by doing a large, public response network.
Threat modeling is *really* hard, but it seems like they are being driven by fear at the moment.
Threat modeling is *really* hard, but it seems like they are being driven by fear at the moment.
January 29, 2026 at 9:55 PM
I don't want to be too down about the people concerned, but I hope they understand this is a risk they have *already* assumed by doing a large, public response network.
Threat modeling is *really* hard, but it seems like they are being driven by fear at the moment.
Threat modeling is *really* hard, but it seems like they are being driven by fear at the moment.
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this is also tactically absurd in even the most grim scenario because will is a good lightning rod.
I’m not totally sure how to address this but apparently I’m getting kicked out of ICE rapid response for the moment because I’m allowing press ridealongs, with an extremely strict condition that no other observer be identified. Lots of observers have allowed ridealongs and they benefit us.
January 29, 2026 at 10:48 PM
this is also tactically absurd in even the most grim scenario because will is a good lightning rod.
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Ok people are misunderstanding what happened with Colin Wright. This isn't just a regular grift. What happened is Colin Wright's PhD advisor was Jonathan Pruitt who got caught perpetrating massive academic fraud. Pruitt was a coauthor on virtually everything Colin had published.
This guy *admits* he applied for "countless" tenure-track positions and ultimately had to leave academia because nobody would hire him. He claims, though, that Ivy League Cornell filled their position with a Black person who couldn't possibly be more qualified than him.
www.wsj.com/opinion/corn...
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Opinion | Cornell University Discriminated Against Me
I was excluded from a candidate search on the basis of my race and have filed an EEOC complaint.
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August 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Ok people are misunderstanding what happened with Colin Wright. This isn't just a regular grift. What happened is Colin Wright's PhD advisor was Jonathan Pruitt who got caught perpetrating massive academic fraud. Pruitt was a coauthor on virtually everything Colin had published.
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January 29, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Catan isn't even the best version of Catan (cities & knights / seafarers)
Catan would like a word
Chess is the perfect board game
January 29, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Catan isn't even the best version of Catan (cities & knights / seafarers)
Thank u sir
Trump: "I spoke with Macron. He was not at that time wearing sunglasses. He said, 'No no Donald. I will not do this. You're asking me to double drug prices?' I said, 'If you don't, I'm gonna charge you a 25% tariff on your wines, champagnes, & everything else.' He said, 'Like I said, I will do it.'"
January 29, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Thank u sir
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ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 4:58 PM
ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
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A few weeks back ICE agents ate at a Mexican restaurant and then *detained the restaurant's workers* and they're complaining about how they can't eat out anymore?
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 2:59 PM
A few weeks back ICE agents ate at a Mexican restaurant and then *detained the restaurant's workers* and they're complaining about how they can't eat out anymore?
Chess is the perfect board game
I know I need to be the change and everything but we need more board game discourse on here. It could mostly be the same cast!
January 29, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Chess is the perfect board game
If men want to marry early they should move out of the city with the worst gender ratio this side of Alaska
January 29, 2026 at 1:17 PM
If men want to marry early they should move out of the city with the worst gender ratio this side of Alaska
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This is all stupid bullshit but I remain pretty disgusted at how things like marriage and having children are treated like Xbox achievements instead of actually loving and caring for someone else. Yeah I’m going to work 70 hours a week but definitely need a spouse, her name is Beth or something idk
January 29, 2026 at 1:07 PM
This is all stupid bullshit but I remain pretty disgusted at how things like marriage and having children are treated like Xbox achievements instead of actually loving and caring for someone else. Yeah I’m going to work 70 hours a week but definitely need a spouse, her name is Beth or something idk
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January 29, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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Counterpoint
i am wondering how many people really get what exactly these agents are experiencing from us. like - they're all being told to kill themselves quite regularly. they're getting pelted with snowballs outside mcdonalds. way, way more than just Alex pretti has spit on them.
I know Stancil doesn't want to encourage the idea that Pretti was targeted but can you rule it out?
January 29, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Counterpoint
We're deep into Blue Tea Party territory where voters will follow the most problematic people simply because they will say the most cathartic things.
January 29, 2026 at 11:30 AM
We're deep into Blue Tea Party territory where voters will follow the most problematic people simply because they will say the most cathartic things.
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"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...
Philly DA vows to prosecute ‘wannabe Nazi' ICE agents who violate the law
YouTube video by NBC10 Philadelphia
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January 29, 2026 at 3:50 AM
"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...
I know Stancil doesn't want to encourage the idea that Pretti was targeted but can you rule it out?
News Movement posted this video of Alex Pretti on Jan 13, showing him spitting at ICE agents and kicking their taillight.
Now conservatives are suggesting this changes things.
That would mean they are suggesting he deserved to be target of an extrajudicial execution.
The video changes nothing.
Now conservatives are suggesting this changes things.
That would mean they are suggesting he deserved to be target of an extrajudicial execution.
The video changes nothing.
January 29, 2026 at 10:29 AM
I know Stancil doesn't want to encourage the idea that Pretti was targeted but can you rule it out?
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this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 12:44 AM
this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough
To rephrase this slightly to make it correct - grading of assignments in courses for math and physics courses tends to be more objective than grading of assignments in the arts and humanities. That's not the same as the discipline itself being objective but it's also not nothing.
Maths and physics are objective and humanities is subjective.
That's the difference.
That's the difference.
January 29, 2026 at 1:49 AM
To rephrase this slightly to make it correct - grading of assignments in courses for math and physics courses tends to be more objective than grading of assignments in the arts and humanities. That's not the same as the discipline itself being objective but it's also not nothing.
Heckuva job Bari
Below is the buyout offer all CBS Evening News staff received today.
"We hope you are excited about this vision, but we understand that some of you may not be, and we want to provide support. As such, we are offering an extraordinary chance to leave CBS News with an enhanced separation payment."
"We hope you are excited about this vision, but we understand that some of you may not be, and we want to provide support. As such, we are offering an extraordinary chance to leave CBS News with an enhanced separation payment."
January 29, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Heckuva job Bari