Yeah Buddy
@angstymcgee.bsky.social
Hanging out on the border of introversion and extroversion. Views my own.
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Tomorrow at 3:00 House and Senate Democrats will be holding a "shadow hearing" on the detention of U.S. citizens. I'll be there testifying about the broader policy changes which led us to this moment.
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Blumenthal & Robert Garcia to Hold Forum to Receive Testimony from Five U.S. Citizens Assaulted, Illegally Detained by DHS | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
[WASHINGTON, DC] – On Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 3 PM ET in 216 Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal...
www.blumenthal.senate.gov
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Tomorrow at 3:00 House and Senate Democrats will be holding a "shadow hearing" on the detention of U.S. citizens. I'll be there testifying about the broader policy changes which led us to this moment.
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
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A day of mourning for a country.
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A day of mourning for a country.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
I am not a fan of consolidation whatsoever, and I am even less of a fan of consolidation under outspokenly right-wing mouthpieces like the Ellisons. So, despite my dislike generally, I would vastly prefer it for the Netflix deal to be the winner here.
December 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I am not a fan of consolidation whatsoever, and I am even less of a fan of consolidation under outspokenly right-wing mouthpieces like the Ellisons. So, despite my dislike generally, I would vastly prefer it for the Netflix deal to be the winner here.
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🚨 Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 840,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,390,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,050,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,510,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Graphics zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
• about 840,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,390,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,050,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,510,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Graphics zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
December 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🚨 Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 840,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,390,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,050,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,510,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Graphics zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
• about 840,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,390,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,050,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,510,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Graphics zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
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Because the difference is a social convention and it's been destroyed by the collapse of P/E ratios and the invention of obscure financial instruments, leaving financial markets less about raising capital and more about rent extraction?
Why It’s Harder to Tell Gambling From Investing Nowadays
With a tap on your phone, bet on football, elections and the price a stock will hit just hours from now.
www.bloomberg.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Because the difference is a social convention and it's been destroyed by the collapse of P/E ratios and the invention of obscure financial instruments, leaving financial markets less about raising capital and more about rent extraction?
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There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
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In 1996, President Clinton passed the Telecommunications Act.
This repealed New Deal restrictions on media consolidation.
It also continued industry deregulation stretching back to Carter and Reagan.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/on-jimmy-k...
This repealed New Deal restrictions on media consolidation.
It also continued industry deregulation stretching back to Carter and Reagan.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/on-jimmy-k...
On Jimmy Kimmel: It's Time to Destroy the Censorship Machine and Repeal the Telecommunications Act of 1996
In 1996, Bill Clinton set the stage for what Donald Trump is doing now by creating a censorship machine of consolidated media, broadband, and tech firms. It's time to break it apart.
www.thebignewsletter.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
In 1996, President Clinton passed the Telecommunications Act.
This repealed New Deal restrictions on media consolidation.
It also continued industry deregulation stretching back to Carter and Reagan.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/on-jimmy-k...
This repealed New Deal restrictions on media consolidation.
It also continued industry deregulation stretching back to Carter and Reagan.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/on-jimmy-k...
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I legitimately do not understand why this guy is popular
December 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I legitimately do not understand why this guy is popular
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For the last decade, the pervasive spread of bullshit & manipulation of online platforms have been widely recognized societal concerns. Now non US citizens studying those subjects can be labeled “censors” & denied visas or deported from the US. Censorship, indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa
An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
For the last decade, the pervasive spread of bullshit & manipulation of online platforms have been widely recognized societal concerns. Now non US citizens studying those subjects can be labeled “censors” & denied visas or deported from the US. Censorship, indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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it's just fucking embarrassing
a bizarre simulacrum of journalism by brunchlords with heads full of mashed potatoes desperately trying to get the GOP to like them by pretending any of this is important or interesting
a bizarre simulacrum of journalism by brunchlords with heads full of mashed potatoes desperately trying to get the GOP to like them by pretending any of this is important or interesting
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
it's just fucking embarrassing
a bizarre simulacrum of journalism by brunchlords with heads full of mashed potatoes desperately trying to get the GOP to like them by pretending any of this is important or interesting
a bizarre simulacrum of journalism by brunchlords with heads full of mashed potatoes desperately trying to get the GOP to like them by pretending any of this is important or interesting
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They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.
NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution.
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.
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I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
Feckless.
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Feckless.
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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The Republican Plan to kill kids is how we should be labeling this. It’s shocking, easy to digest, and 100% true
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 1:40 PM
The Republican Plan to kill kids is how we should be labeling this. It’s shocking, easy to digest, and 100% true
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The Trump administration is violating a court order to keep Voice of America alive.
Trump to Close Voice of America’s Overseas Offices and Radio Stations
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Trump to Close Voice of America’s Overseas Offices and Radio Stations
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Trump to Close Voice of America’s Overseas Offices and Radio Stations
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The Trump administration is violating a court order to keep Voice of America alive.
Trump to Close Voice of America’s Overseas Offices and Radio Stations
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Trump to Close Voice of America’s Overseas Offices and Radio Stations
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
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I've got a piece up today at @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World. Check it out: www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
A coordinated campaign to drive trans people out of public life
Parker Molloy on the latest Oklahoma anti-trans work
www.welcometohellworld.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I've got a piece up today at @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World. Check it out: www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
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In the Kids Onle Safety hearing going on right now they predictably called privacy and free speech concerns "a farce"
I think we should call and refute this shameful behavior extremely loudly
Watch it with me
democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/committee-ac...
I think we should call and refute this shameful behavior extremely loudly
Watch it with me
democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/committee-ac...
Hearing on "Legislative Solutions to Protect Children and Teens Online"
The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade of the Committee on Energy and Commerce will hold a hearing on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at 10:15 a.m. (EST) in the John D. Dingell Hearing Room...
democrats-energycommerce.house.gov
December 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
In the Kids Onle Safety hearing going on right now they predictably called privacy and free speech concerns "a farce"
I think we should call and refute this shameful behavior extremely loudly
Watch it with me
democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/committee-ac...
I think we should call and refute this shameful behavior extremely loudly
Watch it with me
democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/committee-ac...
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Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.