RuffLandings
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Every single city they've done these operations in have Black mayors. LA, Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans. 3 of which are Black women. This isn't a coincidence.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Federal Immigration Operation Starts in New Orleans
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Every single city they've done these operations in have Black mayors. LA, Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans. 3 of which are Black women. This isn't a coincidence.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
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Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.
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Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3270):
The answer is, a Kansas Republican with racist, antisemitic views joined a group chat
How a Kansas Republican Became Part of a Racist, Antisemitic Group Chat
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3270):
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Signs you might be far white authoritarian party (#3269):
Leavitt: "Refugee admissions into the country right now are essentially at 0, with the exception of Afrikaners fleeing persecution in South Africa."
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Signs you might be far white authoritarian party (#3269):
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I mean this, academics. If you don't feel capable of embedding a trans perspective into your class for time or expertise reasons, ask me and I will come talk to them for you.
I will even try to relate it to paleogeology (or history, English, drama...), god help me.
I will even try to relate it to paleogeology (or history, English, drama...), god help me.
I will come and do a guest lecture online for anyone, anytime, about this, for free. For any class.
I will tell your electromotor physics class about trans rights.
I will tell your paleogeology class about trans rights.
Just ask me. I will do this.
I will tell your electromotor physics class about trans rights.
I will tell your paleogeology class about trans rights.
Just ask me. I will do this.
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I mean this, academics. If you don't feel capable of embedding a trans perspective into your class for time or expertise reasons, ask me and I will come talk to them for you.
I will even try to relate it to paleogeology (or history, English, drama...), god help me.
I will even try to relate it to paleogeology (or history, English, drama...), god help me.
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Team Trump strips "renewable energy" from the name of an iconic national lab
Team Trump strips "renewable energy" from the name of an iconic national lab
A key driver of renewables research is now the National Laboratory of the Rockies.
www.motherjones.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Team Trump strips "renewable energy" from the name of an iconic national lab
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gift link to the new NYT story on exclusions to "no tax on tips," successfully pushed by Family Research Council, among others, targeting sex workers for IRS scrutiny by excluding tips earned from "pornography" without defining pornography
For ‘No Tax on Tips,’ the I.R.S. Gets Intimate
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
gift link to the new NYT story on exclusions to "no tax on tips," successfully pushed by Family Research Council, among others, targeting sex workers for IRS scrutiny by excluding tips earned from "pornography" without defining pornography
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Chicago Tribune found that during ICE’s “Operation Midway Blitz” the rate of 911 calls decreased w sharpest decline (21%) in Little Village, home to Chicago’s largest Mexican-American population. The city has experienced 14% decline in 911 calls. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/9...
Operation Midway Blitz linked to dip in 911 calls, especially in Little Village
The rate of 911 calls made in Chicago has dropped precipitously in the two months since the start of Operation Midway Blitz, a Tribune review of city data found, and nowhere is the decrease more pr…
www.chicagotribune.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Chicago Tribune found that during ICE’s “Operation Midway Blitz” the rate of 911 calls decreased w sharpest decline (21%) in Little Village, home to Chicago’s largest Mexican-American population. The city has experienced 14% decline in 911 calls. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/9...
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During the first two weeks of ICE operations in LA, LAPD calls for service saw a 28% decrease, roughly 1,200 fewer calls a day. They also saw a decrease in 911 calls for domestic violence and family disputes by 16% (3/4)
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
As ICE raids surged this summer, emergency calls to LAPD plummeted
Data obtained by The Times show a citywide decrease in calls for help to the LAPD during the months when immigration enforcement ramped up, causing concern about domestic violence and other crimes goi...
www.latimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
During the first two weeks of ICE operations in LA, LAPD calls for service saw a 28% decrease, roughly 1,200 fewer calls a day. They also saw a decrease in 911 calls for domestic violence and family disputes by 16% (3/4)
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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In May a Tennessee police chief reported that a child died because their noncitizen caretaker was too scared to call 911, given the recent immigration raids in the state at the hands of local law enforcement and federal agents (2/4)
www.wsmv.com/2025/05/22/t...
www.wsmv.com/2025/05/22/t...
TN police chief believes baby died due to caretaker being afraid to call emergency services
The chief says local police cannot deport people, but if they find out that someone is undocumented, they are required to report them to ICE.
www.wsmv.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
In May a Tennessee police chief reported that a child died because their noncitizen caretaker was too scared to call 911, given the recent immigration raids in the state at the hands of local law enforcement and federal agents (2/4)
www.wsmv.com/2025/05/22/t...
www.wsmv.com/2025/05/22/t...
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When communities view ICE, federal agents, and local police who collaborate with ICE as a political weapon, trust collapses. People become more afraid to report crime & everyone becomes LESS safe esp survivors of domestic violence. A 🧵 w data & examples (1/4) 👇🏽:
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
When communities view ICE, federal agents, and local police who collaborate with ICE as a political weapon, trust collapses. People become more afraid to report crime & everyone becomes LESS safe esp survivors of domestic violence. A 🧵 w data & examples (1/4) 👇🏽:
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There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
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“I might be second in line to take over the presidency from the oldest POTUS in history — but I have no idea what the laws of war are, nor do I read laws or the news, who has time — there’s all these tunnels here, I just wander the tunnels looking for empty cubbies to hide in”
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“I might be second in line to take over the presidency from the oldest POTUS in history — but I have no idea what the laws of war are, nor do I read laws or the news, who has time — there’s all these tunnels here, I just wander the tunnels looking for empty cubbies to hide in”
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Marshall should lose his medical license for these lies.
Sen. Roger Marshall on Trump's health: "I'll work 110 hours a week. He outworks me. He's the first person I've ever known that works harder than I do. He runs around that golf course. He's in incredible shape right now. And you talk about sharp! He's playing 4 dimensional chess"
December 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Marshall should lose his medical license for these lies.
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To me, this begs a question I have often asked myself: why do people who seem to hate students want to be professors?
If a journalist writing this story reached out to me, my response would be something like: “why on earth is this what you’re covering right now?”
If a journalist writing this story reached out to me, my response would be something like: “why on earth is this what you’re covering right now?”
The administration is extorting universities for billions of dollars and attempting to destroy free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought but the Atlantic talked to a few professors at elite universities who think the problem is that some students need a little extra time on exams
December 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
To me, this begs a question I have often asked myself: why do people who seem to hate students want to be professors?
If a journalist writing this story reached out to me, my response would be something like: “why on earth is this what you’re covering right now?”
If a journalist writing this story reached out to me, my response would be something like: “why on earth is this what you’re covering right now?”
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Not joking: has one reporter responded to his preposterous Sgt Schultz “I know nothing” schtick by immediately asking:
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Not joking: has one reporter responded to his preposterous Sgt Schultz “I know nothing” schtick by immediately asking:
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
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i think this is my favourite delivery of this joke
January 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
i think this is my favourite delivery of this joke
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ICE agents arrested a Chinese father and his 6-year-old son, separating the two and sending the father to Orange County Jail while the whereabouts of the son remain unknown as of Tuesday morning.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
ICE agents arrested a Chinese father and his 6-year-old son, separating the two and sending the father to Orange County Jail while the whereabouts of the son remain unknown as of Tuesday morning.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
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I was four years old when I came to the US. I cannot fathom what it would have been like to have been ripped apart from my family and detained by strangers. This makes me want to scream.
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I was four years old when I came to the US. I cannot fathom what it would have been like to have been ripped apart from my family and detained by strangers. This makes me want to scream.
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In what other job could someone repeatedly answer questions relevant to the work with "I have no idea what that is" and still keep the job
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
In what other job could someone repeatedly answer questions relevant to the work with "I have no idea what that is" and still keep the job
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They will not have made the slightest difference to a half-century ‘War on Drugs’ which the administration barely even pretends to care about. They will have dishonored a US military that deserves so much better from its civilian and professional leaders and tarnished the name of the United States.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
They will not have made the slightest difference to a half-century ‘War on Drugs’ which the administration barely even pretends to care about. They will have dishonored a US military that deserves so much better from its civilian and professional leaders and tarnished the name of the United States.
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When we look back on the horror of these years, these mid-ocean assassinations will be seen as particularly morally squalid episodes, militarily pointless exercises in cruelty in the service of amusing the regime’s online fans.
December 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
When we look back on the horror of these years, these mid-ocean assassinations will be seen as particularly morally squalid episodes, militarily pointless exercises in cruelty in the service of amusing the regime’s online fans.
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As RFK Jr.'s new vaccine panel ponders changing the hepatitis B vaccination schedule, some doctors recall past patients, including children, who died painful deaths before there was a vaccine. n.pr/3McwKqG
Doctors warn delaying hepatitis B shot for newborns could revive a deadly threat
As RFK Jr.'s new vaccine panel ponders changing the hepatitis B vaccination schedule, some doctors recall past patients, including children, who died painful deaths before there was a vaccine.
n.pr
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
As RFK Jr.'s new vaccine panel ponders changing the hepatitis B vaccination schedule, some doctors recall past patients, including children, who died painful deaths before there was a vaccine. n.pr/3McwKqG
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Hegseth has a high school football player's understanding of the Law of War.
Professionals understand that protecting civilians on the battlefield is a moral and legal obligation that often entails enhanced risk to combatants. That's part of the job.
Professionals understand that protecting civilians on the battlefield is a moral and legal obligation that often entails enhanced risk to combatants. That's part of the job.
“Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?” Pete Hegseth asked in 2024.
It’s almost as if there were signs!
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It’s almost as if there were signs!
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December 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Hegseth has a high school football player's understanding of the Law of War.
Professionals understand that protecting civilians on the battlefield is a moral and legal obligation that often entails enhanced risk to combatants. That's part of the job.
Professionals understand that protecting civilians on the battlefield is a moral and legal obligation that often entails enhanced risk to combatants. That's part of the job.
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A modern military does not need to prove how lethal and dangerous it is. That is obvious to any civilian.
It DOES need to prove how ethical and moral it is because that is very much in doubt for civilians on the battlefield.
It DOES need to prove how ethical and moral it is because that is very much in doubt for civilians on the battlefield.
December 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
A modern military does not need to prove how lethal and dangerous it is. That is obvious to any civilian.
It DOES need to prove how ethical and moral it is because that is very much in doubt for civilians on the battlefield.
It DOES need to prove how ethical and moral it is because that is very much in doubt for civilians on the battlefield.