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Cephaloplod
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peterclines.bsky.social
Giving this a little bump because apparently a lot of folks missed it and some other folks are *really determined* to find someone to blame for it. Despite me explaining it's just crap luck and there's no one to blame.
peterclines.bsky.social Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 14d
*sigh* Yeah. About that.

If you hadn’t already seen, as of this morning the audiobook version of GOD's JUNK DRAWER has been pushed back to January 20th because it’s been dealing with a sort of rolling technical difficulty. I’m so very sorry.
catfission.science PartlyAtomic @catfission.science · 14d
Ahhhh, audiobook delayed?
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Here's the post Benny released that day, accusing all 11 -- none of whom were charged -- with being domestic terrorists.
A CBP officer, kitted out, standing in front of a woman with very short hair wearing a red "Make Fascists Afraid" t-shirt. Benny claims he saw "dozens of Democrat [sic] terrorists arrested today for VIOLENT ASSAULT on federal law enforcement." I've written, "Benny defamed these people to his millions of followers" in pink.
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Benny staged a photo of what he said were 11 "rioters" who were arrested. Bovino tackled one of them for...nothing.

Only they weren't arrested. They were held all day, asked some Qs, then dropped off at a gas (petrol) station nearby.

These people don't show up on list of people arrested that day.
Agents moved Muñoz, Blackburn, Toerpe, and other arrestees to sit on a guard rail when several SUVs approached. Doc. 73-3 ¶ 11; Doc. 73-9 ¶ 18–19; Doc. 73-18 ¶ 13. Secretary Noem exited one vehicle and YouTuber Benny Johnson started to interview her with the arrestees as a backdrop. Doc. 73-9 ¶ 19; Doc. 73-18 ¶ 13. Other photographers and videographers who were not wearing press credentials were with the agents. Doc. 73-9 ¶ 17; Doc. 255 at 62:5–16. THEN A video Benny posted of people in handcuffs. Doc. 73-9 ¶ 19. Once Secretary Noem finished the interview and drove away about forty minutes later, agents asked the arrestees for basic information and then led them away. Id. ¶¶ 23–24; Doc. 73-3 ¶ 13. They escorted Muñoz, Blackburn, Toerpe, and the other arrestees into the facility, where FBI agents interviewed them and they remained for almost eight hours. Doc. 73-3 ¶¶ 13–17; Doc. 73-9 ¶¶ 22–23; Doc. 73-18 ¶¶ 15–21; Doc. 255 at 60:8–10. Blackburn recalls agents asking him about how he got to the facility, if he came across state lines, which social media accounts told him to go there, and who paid him. Doc. 73-18 ¶ 20. Eventually, around 4:30 p.m., agents transported Blackburn, Muñoz, Toerpe, and others to a Qwik Trip gas station about 1.5 miles away from the Broadview facility and released them without formal charges, paperwork, or comment. Doc. 73-3 ¶ 18; Doc. 73-9 ¶¶ 22–23; Doc. 73-18 ¶¶ 36–37; Doc. 255 at 60:13–61:2; see also Doc. 22-8 ¶¶ 18–19 (Kunkel describing agents throwing her fiancé to the ground outside the Broadview facility, arresting him, holding him from approximately 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., driving him to a gas station, and releasing him with no charges).
November 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Benny Johnson shows up 8 times in Sara Ellis' opinion, partly by capturing Noem and Bovino saying illegal shit.

xcancel.com/bennyjohnson...
On October 3, 2025, Secretary Noem spoke to agents at the Broadview facility before they began their shift. She said: When we leave here, we’re going to go hard. We’re going to hammer these guys who are advocating for violence against the American people. What they are doing is advocating to harm not just you and your colleagues but your families and they’re doxing your identities and victimizing people every day by the way that they’re talking, speaking, who they’re affiliated with, who they’re funded with, and what they’re talking about as far as consequences for what we’re doing by protecting this country. So we’re going to go out there and we’re going to make sure that there’s consequences for the way that they’re behaving, and then we’re going to prosecute them. We’re going to bring them to justice. We’re not taking this anymore. . . . We’re going to give you guys all the authority that you need to arrest these individuals who are advocating for violence against you. Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson), X (Oct. 3, 2025 1:05 p.m.), https://x.com/bennyjohnson/ status/1974174065985470970. Bovino followed up by telling the agents: You’re going to be put in full effect . . . That crowd there is, is an unsafe crowd on either side. . . . And when they resist, what happens? They get arrested. So it’s now going to be a free arrest zone. And, I’ll give them one warning that that’ll be for safety of, of us and the Secretary to leave. So they’re getting it here as soon as we leave. Id. Secretary Noem finished by stating, “[m]ake sure that these individuals are not allowed to conduct this kind of activity anymore.” Id.
November 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Here's the initial report from the Marimar Martinez shooting.

Lots in here we now know to be bullshit.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A description of the Marimar Martinez shooting that largely tracks the false claim that DHS offered. It details her gunshot wounds.
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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dexanderson.com
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November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
The only response is, "So you're saying service members SHOULD comply with illegal orders?"
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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maddmac.bsky.social
This should be embarrassing.

"Senators, did you or did you not plainly state the law and direct service members to resources that will protect them?"

Also, the vast majority of folks at the FBI really are quite professional (hasn't always been true) and are the first to recognize what bs this is.
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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naomialderman.bsky.social
gorgeous to do this interview with @comradecupcake.bsky.social

www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Finally some good buyout news: A writer just bought back the game she co-created from a blockchain company so it 'doesn’t end up being turned into AI slop'
Novelist and game writer Naomi Alderman has bought back the rights to the Zombies, Run! exercise app she's been writing episodes of for more than a decade.
www.pcgamer.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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halduncan.com
Do you *want* Eloi and Morlocks? Because this is how you get Eloi and Morlocks.
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee 52A @ MICE @alexandragallant.com · 3h
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
Al is also changing how we communicate. With so little free time and so much pressure to be perfect, many who've never cooked a turkey might have a chatbot walk them through the steps, feeling safer asking "stupid questions" in private. People even report using Al conversation prompts to get lively discussions going at the table. Al can generate the toast, the prayer, the party games and the poem read before dessert.
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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gregpak.net
i mean not the main point but a beard doesn't just... rip off? like i guess you could tear out some hair or whatever, but it doesn't just rip away in a big clump like in a cartoon or whatever?
emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3h
The depositions from the batshit CBP and ICE officials in Chicago have been unsealed. Here's how Russ Hott denied actually knowing anything about one of the weirder claims they made: that a protestor had ripped someone's beard off.

legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Q Thank you. You say that -- in your 3 declaration that "There was an incidence where 4 somebody was pulling the face mask and personally" 5 -- "and forcefully ripping off an officer's beard." 6 Do you see that? 7 A Yes. 8 Q What does that mean? 9 A Well, there was an officer that was 10 wearing a gas mask and a protestor had ripped the 11 gas mask off. This officer had a large beard. They 12 grabbed it and forcefully ripped the beard out of 13 his chin. 14 Q His beard was ripped off of his face? 15 A Yes, a good portion of it. 16 Q Okay. Did you take any pictures of it? 17 A I did not. 18 Q Did somebody else? 19 A I'm not aware. 20 Q How do you know that this happened? 21 A From the officer reporting it. 22 Q Okay. Who is he? A I don't recall the officer's name. 2 Q Was it somebody that you were familiar 3 with before you began work on Midway Blitz? 4 A No. 5 Q Do you know whether a report was written 6 about this incident? 7 A I don't know that. 8 Q Do you know whether or not the person who 9 allegedly ripped off an officer's beard was charged 10 with a crime? 11 A I don't know that specifically.
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
For those saying there will be no consequences for Bovino.

Maybe.

But DOJ has had to dismiss a slew of cases bc of this, and Bovino seems to now spend his time trolling on Xitter (he likes to call me "empty tire" when I note he's an adjudged liar).
emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3h
Here's how Greg Bovino denies tackling Scott Blackburn, while watching a video showing him tacking Scott Blackburn.

legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
A 5-question exchange in which Greg Bovino is asked if he sees an older gentleman, "expressing his disagreement with [Bovino's] presence in Chicago [who] doesn't like the fact that you are instructing him to move down, right?" Bovino responds, no, "That individual is failing to follow instructions to vacate the area." The follow-on of earlier exchange. Bovino is asked, "then you got over the barrier, tackled this man to the ground, and arrested him, right? No. Did you not tackle him? No.
November 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
We have two - count that, TWO - Solaris books on @NPR's Best Books of 2025 list!

Pinch us, we must be dreaming

🌊 THE DOOR ON THE SEA, epic fantasy by Caskey Russell https://geni.us/doorsea

🖤 THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ, standalone horroromance by @isabelcanas.bsky.social https://geni.us/palbad
Image desciprtion: Against a red star background, white text "NPR's Best Books of 2025." Below, the book covers for THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ by Isabel Canas
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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rutgerbregman.com
The BBC's has responded in The Guardian that this was a routine editorial decision, but also that it was made on legal advice. Those two explanations don’t fit together. /1
rutgerbregman.com Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 10h
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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jonseidel.bsky.social
Good morning. The full transcript of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino's deposition has been released.

Three volumes, 400+ pages.

Volume 1: cst.brightspotcdn.com/30/6c/1349ab...

Volume 2: cst.brightspotcdn.com/b7/fb/4afdf1...

Volume 3: cst.brightspotcdn.com/a3/e0/a520af...
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
When I think "where the vast majority of Americans actually are," I think about the millionaire lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein & Harvey Weinstein & Donald Trump who was recently in the news for threatening to sue a pierogi seller in Martha's Vineyard, where he has one of his homes.
thelincoln.bsky.social Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 16h
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"

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Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic” figures such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch who reflect “where the vast majority of Americans actually are.”
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
Meanwhile, a neighbor who attended the presser (and asked not to be named for safety concerns) voiced the concern that immigration raids would be used to clear South Shore and similar communities of people of color and low-income residents.
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
archytoothless.bsky.social
Pitch meeting: “It’s Ashley Madison, but for racism!”
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h
“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”

@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”

@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
Stein's Law remains undefeated, AI infrastructure edition
Herbert Stein: If something cannot go on forever, it will stop
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
archytoothless.bsky.social
Better headline: How many children will die due to this snake-oil salesman?
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?

Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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stephenblackmoore.com
They're from the tests in Yucca Flat 300 miles away. Bright enough that they were visible all the way out here.

And they happened often enough that there are a lot of these photos. The LA Public Library and USC photo collection have a bunch of them.
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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stephenblackmoore.com
Two photos taken from Downtown L.A.

They're from the L.A. Herald Examiner in 1951 and 1952. One from the Herald's roof, the other, I don't know, west of Downtown, maybe?

Not particularly remarkable. Kind of boring, really. Unless you know what they are.

They're nukes.
A picture taken from the roof of the LA Herald Examiner in 1951 facing east showing a bright sky in the distance almost like a sunrise. Kind of boring, really. Another picture showing a bright sky in the distance almost like a sunrise, taken by the LA Herald Examiner in 1952 also facing east but from somewhere west of Downtown L.A., I think. Also, really kind of boring, really.
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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jennycohn.bsky.social
Even Rod Dreher, who attended JD Vance’s baptism, is skeptical of the “Department of War’s” statement regarding Senator Mark Kelly. 1/ x.com/roddreher/st...
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM