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Hey @nytimes.com, not every grifter needs a glow up profile.
As an influencer, Nick Shirley had struggled to expand his reach. But after a missionary trip pushed him to try a new approach, he caused a sensation with a video claiming to expose fraud at Somali-run day care centers in Minnesota. nyti.ms/45GzJi4
February 4, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Hey @nytimes.com, not every grifter needs a glow up profile.
Awful, but here we are - what's next?
Fiction is more real than the real. We have to go to the fiction just to know what is real, so we can imitate it.
In 2009, this was the mask of a UK SAS character in “Call of Duty.” By 2015 it was de rigeur among Iraqi government commandos and Shiite militiamen. In 2018, in “Sicario 2,” it was what CIA surrogate characters wore to disguise themselves as cartel gunmen.
Now US law enforcement wears it.
Now US law enforcement wears it.
February 4, 2026 at 4:42 AM
Awful, but here we are - what's next?
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We already have a warrant requirement. It's called the US Constitution. If that's not fucking binding them, what the hell does your little agreement mean?
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the party agreed on three main goals:
° Require warrants in some cases and ICE coordination with state and local law enforcement
° Create a code of conduct and enforce it
° Require agents to wear body cams and not masks
° Require warrants in some cases and ICE coordination with state and local law enforcement
° Create a code of conduct and enforce it
° Require agents to wear body cams and not masks
Democrats demand new ICE restrictions as government shutdown looms
After federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Senate Democrats say they’ll block a massive government funding package without policy changes.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:26 AM
We already have a warrant requirement. It's called the US Constitution. If that's not fucking binding them, what the hell does your little agreement mean?
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Let's see... Nicolás Maduro will reveal that the ghost of Hugo Chávez manipulated voting machines on the request of Barack Obama to defeat Donald Trump in 2020... and Howard the Duck and Tulsi Gabbard's guru, Chris Butler, were involved too. Butler's fingernail clipping are found everywhere.
Gabbard’s role in Fulton raid highlights wild conspiracy theories fueling 2020 probe
"She has neither the authority nor the competence to assess anything in that voting site," a voting advocate said of Gabbard.
www.democracydocket.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Let's see... Nicolás Maduro will reveal that the ghost of Hugo Chávez manipulated voting machines on the request of Barack Obama to defeat Donald Trump in 2020... and Howard the Duck and Tulsi Gabbard's guru, Chris Butler, were involved too. Butler's fingernail clipping are found everywhere.
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"Overseeing" is incorrect. This federal parent union of CBP and ICE doesn't oversee any agency; they are dues-paying members. "Massive union overseeing Border Patrol demands ouster of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller." www.rawstory.com/trump-immigr...
Massive union overseeing Border Patrol demands ouster of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller
A massive union that represents some of President Donald Trump's immigration agents called on two of the administration's top officials to resign following the killing of an ICU nurse in Minneapolis o...
www.rawstory.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:27 AM
"Overseeing" is incorrect. This federal parent union of CBP and ICE doesn't oversee any agency; they are dues-paying members. "Massive union overseeing Border Patrol demands ouster of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller." www.rawstory.com/trump-immigr...
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I tried the lomo 800 speed color film for indoor, no flash pics and I like it a lot
December 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I tried the lomo 800 speed color film for indoor, no flash pics and I like it a lot
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Foreign Affairs told me that a 2nd Trump term may prove to have a surprisingly nuanced foreign policy.
At some point we might have to consider the fact that he might be mentally unstable.
November 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Foreign Affairs told me that a 2nd Trump term may prove to have a surprisingly nuanced foreign policy.
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in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them
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New GOP flag: "Yaaas, Tread on Meeee"
April 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
New GOP flag: "Yaaas, Tread on Meeee"
Wow, not great - but good point:
For those who sneer at this:
It doesn't fucking /matter/ if lawsuits like this are meritless. It doesn't matter if it'll get dismissed.
What matters is that companies now know that they will have to spend money defending expensive lawsuits like this from state AGs.
Because they hire women & POC.
It doesn't fucking /matter/ if lawsuits like this are meritless. It doesn't matter if it'll get dismissed.
What matters is that companies now know that they will have to spend money defending expensive lawsuits like this from state AGs.
Because they hire women & POC.
Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified"
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
February 15, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Wow, not great - but good point:
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Oh sure, "nobody is gonna question" an American plan to seize Gaza.
"Let bygones be bygones," that's the motto of the Middle East.
"Let bygones be bygones," that's the motto of the Middle East.
Trump on Gaza: "We're gonna have it. And we're gonna keep it ... nobody is gonna question it ... we'll have lots of good things built there, including hotels."
February 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Oh sure, "nobody is gonna question" an American plan to seize Gaza.
"Let bygones be bygones," that's the motto of the Middle East.
"Let bygones be bygones," that's the motto of the Middle East.
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Wow
Prompt engineering is about to be a real skill but it'll be finessing mentally ill chatbots into prescribing desperately needed chemotherapy drugs
January 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Wow
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Maybe this is some masterful negotiating technique, but Zelensky is out of his mind if he truly thinks the U.S. will deploy peacekeepers to Ukraine. IMO, many (most?) Americans who hear this boots-on-the-ground request will not welcome it at all. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Zelenskiy Says US Must Be Part of Ukraine Peacekeeping Force
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said any effective peacekeeping force deployed in Ukraine will need to include US troops, as he appealed to Donald Trump ahead of talks with Russia.
www.bloomberg.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Maybe this is some masterful negotiating technique, but Zelensky is out of his mind if he truly thinks the U.S. will deploy peacekeepers to Ukraine. IMO, many (most?) Americans who hear this boots-on-the-ground request will not welcome it at all. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The way to solve America’s RFK Jr. problem is to offer him a shot of Sputnik V and watch him collapse into an existential crisis, torn by his two allegiances.
January 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The way to solve America’s RFK Jr. problem is to offer him a shot of Sputnik V and watch him collapse into an existential crisis, torn by his two allegiances.
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This is more relevant today than when I wrote it 10 years ago.
"OLIGARCHY OF SPIES: The cyber intelligence ruling class of today is qualitatively different – and more dangerous - than the military intelligence complex identified by President Eisenhower in 1961." timshorrock.com/oligarchy-of...
"OLIGARCHY OF SPIES: The cyber intelligence ruling class of today is qualitatively different – and more dangerous - than the military intelligence complex identified by President Eisenhower in 1961." timshorrock.com/oligarchy-of...
January 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is more relevant today than when I wrote it 10 years ago.
"OLIGARCHY OF SPIES: The cyber intelligence ruling class of today is qualitatively different – and more dangerous - than the military intelligence complex identified by President Eisenhower in 1961." timshorrock.com/oligarchy-of...
"OLIGARCHY OF SPIES: The cyber intelligence ruling class of today is qualitatively different – and more dangerous - than the military intelligence complex identified by President Eisenhower in 1961." timshorrock.com/oligarchy-of...
@jeffreystclair.bsky.social
Thank you.
Shared this piece today, can't say that was a great thing to break to someone - but it was intensely received.
Me brain got pricked as I noticed a LIGO observatory is sited up at Hanford.
www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/02/d...
Thank you.
Shared this piece today, can't say that was a great thing to break to someone - but it was intensely received.
Me brain got pricked as I noticed a LIGO observatory is sited up at Hanford.
www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/02/d...
Down the Atomic River
The river is a strong brown god. So declared T. S. Eliot, anyway. Some rivers, perhaps. The Mississippi, the Ohio, the Platte, certainly the Colorado. But not this river. Not Nch’I’Wana. Not the Colum...
www.counterpunch.org
January 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
@jeffreystclair.bsky.social
Thank you.
Shared this piece today, can't say that was a great thing to break to someone - but it was intensely received.
Me brain got pricked as I noticed a LIGO observatory is sited up at Hanford.
www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/02/d...
Thank you.
Shared this piece today, can't say that was a great thing to break to someone - but it was intensely received.
Me brain got pricked as I noticed a LIGO observatory is sited up at Hanford.
www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/02/d...
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Sister Mary Elephant Gun.
January 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Sister Mary Elephant Gun.