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bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com
This AP news story is incredible from front to back but I wanted to flag something super serious and wildly illegal that may have flown under the radar. It’s called parallel construction and it’s when intel is washed from spy agencies and used by local cops. apnews.com/article/immi...

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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Former US military lawyers speak out:

"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."

Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

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• If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a “non-international armed conflict,” as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to “kill everybody,” which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give “no quarter,” and to “double-tap” a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes. • If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder. Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads: Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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dogfacedherman.bsky.social
What I like most about turkeys is that it's like having little dinosaurs running around the yard.
I have 6 sheep. This is Pancake, Waffles cousin.
November 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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dogfacedherman.bsky.social
Waffles is asking, "They're behind me, aren't they?"
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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jamalgreene.bsky.social
This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h
Might be kicking off.
Donald J. Trump O+ @realDonaldTrump To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
My health insurance premiums will more than double in January. I pay a little less than $500/month for my current silver plan.

I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.

And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.
November 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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vincentledvina.bsky.social
If you want to learn more about FAEs, please visit my blog post for more details: go.theauroraguy.com/fae
What are Fragmented Aurora-Like Emissions?
Fragmented Aurora-Like Emissions (FAEs) are small green blobs of aurora recently discovered by scientists that exhibit unusual characteristics. FAEs are not like usual aurora which are aligned with Ea...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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wiglet1981.bsky.social
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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dragonsofwales.bsky.social
(3/4) By the time I’d finished, I had become absolutely fascinated by these bizarre, ancient animals.
Dinosaurs get all the attention (and yeah, they are cool) but it’s worth remembering that the story of prehistoric life is much richer and more complex.
Digital illustrations of the jawless fish Pteraspis and Rhinopteraspis, and the shark-like (though not a shark) Cladoselache.
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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secondnaturemb.bsky.social
Breakfast with the neighbors. #birds 🌿
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Crab for breakfast!
Sea otter eating a crab in Morro Bay, California.
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Five-byline alert: 🚨

“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
I think people weirdly attribute their cultural identity to periods, people & geography they never had a prolonged experience with. Culture is a reflection of your lifetime of experiences. You can't be "50% Irish 20% Polish 30% Cherokee" with minimal formative exposure to either.
holboldoart.bsky.social HolBolDoArt🏳️‍🌈 @holboldoart.bsky.social · 16h
Always funny/incredibly infuriating when you get people claiming that they're "Anglo Saxon" (they are always highly questionable). You're not a time traveller. That identity died out over 1000 years ago. Nobody alive is "Anglo Saxon". The later Anglo Saxons called themselves "English".
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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rami.spaceaustralia.com
Almost forgot!

28 November = special day!

It's the day (1967) that Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell confirmed pulsars!

We've only known about them for <60 years.

Had a chat with 👑 JBB about this earlier this year 👇

www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/inte...

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#SpaceAustralia

📸 Uni. of Cambridge
Jocelyn Bell Burnell standing next to a field full of poles that have wires running across the top of them connecting them together. This is the radio telescope.
November 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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lalabote.bsky.social
A day in the life of ICE Air ethnic cleansing operations.
Friday 28 November 2025
00-00 UTC
7-7pm EDT
4-4pm PDT

* At least 24 planes.
* (3) Coast Guard C-27s
* Omni Air N225AX: After removals to India, Bangladesh & Vietnam, began return to US
* Eastern Air N703KW: Regular Friday flight to Venezuela
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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glengrambo.bsky.social
We had a couple wonderful encounters with Leopards in Kruger Park, SA. This female had finished eating and had just jumped down from a branch, when a Hyena came sniffing around.
I believe the hyena asked if he could have some of her kill, and I’m pretty sure this is a fairly emphatic “NO!”
#Mammals
A leopard walks towards us through some out of focus green leaves. She has stopped and is snarling, while looking to the left ( her right) A hyena is out of the picture and her snarl is telling it to go away!
November 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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jbfarthing.bsky.social
Yes please
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Here’s the “peaceful” Russia murdering civilians.
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
Jesus Christ. JESUS Christ. Jesus CHRIST. Yes, this person is correct, remigration is a white supremacy term for ethnic cleansing, basically. And the Department of Homeland Security, WHICH SHOULDN'T EVEN EXIST, just used the term. An official government account. That is...that is beyond fucked.
rtodkelly.bsky.social Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.

And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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secondnaturemb.bsky.social
I've heard from my friends in Churchill that the ice has arrived and the bears are finally heading out to break their over 150 day fast. (this photo is from a few weeks ago) Hudson Bay is still a long way from fully frozen, but at least they can get out and start hunting. #BearSeason2025 #Mammals 🌿
A polar bear walks on the ice on the tidal flats of Hudson Bay. This photo from a few weeks ago shows the water is still open.
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Suspensions are ricocheting around the legal immigration system in the last 48 hours. The broader picture so far has built out Trump's travel ban (the impact of which has been drowned out by other news).

Tl;dr: Miller and his team are working to block entire nationalities from getting legal status.
November 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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davmicrot.bsky.social
A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. The real migrant population is much higher. This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War II (Failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits, etc.). As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst “Congressman/woman” in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how “badly” she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation…
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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atrupar.com
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. The real migrant population is much higher. This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War II (Failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits, etc.). As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst “Congressman/woman” in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how “badly” she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation…
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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somuchpingle.bsky.social
#FrogFriday > BlackFriday - Here's a male Uakari Poison Frog (Ranitomeya uakarii) hauling two of its tadpoles to a location with permanent water, where they can continue development. Rainforest in the Rio Tahuayo drainage north of Iquitos, Peru. #herps #frogs #NaturePhotography 🌿
Side image of a brightly colored frog on the trunk of a small tree, captured as it climbs the tree. The frog's body has alternating stripes of black and orangish-red, while the limbs have reticulating patterns of black and yellow. The most notable feature are the two large, gray tadpoles clinging to the frog's back.
November 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM