Cricquette
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At least one ICE officer fired gunshots during a traffic stop in L.A., striking a motorist who authorities said threatened them with a vehicle while trying to flee an arrest. A U.S. marshal also was struck by the gunfire.
Shooting by ICE officer in Los Angeles wounds motorist, U.S. marshal
Federal authorities said the driver had threatened officers with a vehicle while trying to flee an arrest.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
At least one ICE officer fired gunshots during a traffic stop in L.A., striking a motorist who authorities said threatened them with a vehicle while trying to flee an arrest. A U.S. marshal also was struck by the gunfire.
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I don’t understand why anyone’s debating this — a Nazi tattoo is a non starter, full stop.
This is a race for a U.S. Senate seat. The bar for candidates to clear doesn’t have to be insanely high, but it should at least be off the ground
This is a race for a U.S. Senate seat. The bar for candidates to clear doesn’t have to be insanely high, but it should at least be off the ground
October 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I don’t understand why anyone’s debating this — a Nazi tattoo is a non starter, full stop.
This is a race for a U.S. Senate seat. The bar for candidates to clear doesn’t have to be insanely high, but it should at least be off the ground
This is a race for a U.S. Senate seat. The bar for candidates to clear doesn’t have to be insanely high, but it should at least be off the ground
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ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.
October 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM
ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.
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The “methods for doing so” are (1) getting two thirds of Congress and three fourths of the states to repeal the 22nd Amendment and (2) declaring himself king.
That’s it.
Stop treating this despotic bullshit as if it’s some worthwhile thought experiment we have to consider as legitimate.
That’s it.
Stop treating this despotic bullshit as if it’s some worthwhile thought experiment we have to consider as legitimate.
President Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying in an exclusive interview with NBC News that there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was “not joking.”
Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so
President Donald Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call that he was “not joking” about a third term, adding that “it is far too early to think about it.”
nbcnews.to
March 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The “methods for doing so” are (1) getting two thirds of Congress and three fourths of the states to repeal the 22nd Amendment and (2) declaring himself king.
That’s it.
Stop treating this despotic bullshit as if it’s some worthwhile thought experiment we have to consider as legitimate.
That’s it.
Stop treating this despotic bullshit as if it’s some worthwhile thought experiment we have to consider as legitimate.
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I'm not sure that trying to weasel your way out of this by saying "oh the so called war plans weren't actschually war plans" is gonna be particularly compelling to people
March 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I'm not sure that trying to weasel your way out of this by saying "oh the so called war plans weren't actschually war plans" is gonna be particularly compelling to people
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Here’s an unctuous toady who has zero scruples around caring about what could have happened to troops due to the morons running national security and confuses luck with what her actual job is, which is making sure people don’t have to rely on luck to stay alive www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
Bondi Suggests Signal Chat Episode Is Unlikely to Be Criminally Investigated
The attorney general said the focus should be on the success of the U.S. military strike in Yemen, not on military information being shared in advance in a group text among top officials.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Here’s an unctuous toady who has zero scruples around caring about what could have happened to troops due to the morons running national security and confuses luck with what her actual job is, which is making sure people don’t have to rely on luck to stay alive www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
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Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was detained March 25 by Department of Homeland Security agents in masks and plainclothes.
“We should all be horrified at the way DHS spirited away Rumeysa in broad daylight,” Mahsa Khanbabai, Ozturk’s lawyer, said. wapo.st/3QPfoiA
“We should all be horrified at the way DHS spirited away Rumeysa in broad daylight,” Mahsa Khanbabai, Ozturk’s lawyer, said. wapo.st/3QPfoiA
March 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was detained March 25 by Department of Homeland Security agents in masks and plainclothes.
“We should all be horrified at the way DHS spirited away Rumeysa in broad daylight,” Mahsa Khanbabai, Ozturk’s lawyer, said. wapo.st/3QPfoiA
“We should all be horrified at the way DHS spirited away Rumeysa in broad daylight,” Mahsa Khanbabai, Ozturk’s lawyer, said. wapo.st/3QPfoiA
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UC Berkeley speaks up for the rule of law. The letter is also fascinating for implying "top" law schools are less willing to speak out. None of the top schools (in, yes, imperfect rankings) signed. No Stanford, Yale, UChicago, Duke, Harvard. But then we have #12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 24 signing.
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Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."
March 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
UC Berkeley speaks up for the rule of law. The letter is also fascinating for implying "top" law schools are less willing to speak out. None of the top schools (in, yes, imperfect rankings) signed. No Stanford, Yale, UChicago, Duke, Harvard. But then we have #12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 24 signing.
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Who could have seen this coming? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
Bondi Suggests Signal Chat Episode Is Unlikely to Be Criminally Investigated
The attorney general said the focus should be on the success of the U.S. military strike in Yemen, not on military information being shared in advance in a group text among top officials.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Who could have seen this coming? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
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With the Signal leak, a normal White House would admit error, promise to get to the bottom of it, fire some high profile people, and move on.
But as @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social point out, this combative cult of personality can’t do that. Worse for them and the country.
But as @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social point out, this combative cult of personality can’t do that. Worse for them and the country.
In Signalgate, Trumpworld is demonstrating exactly what's wrong with authoritarian populism: Refusal to admit error, walling out of constructive criticism, the cult-like defense of the leader at all costs.
Transcript of discussion w/ @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/article/1932...
Transcript of discussion w/ @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/article/1932...
March 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
With the Signal leak, a normal White House would admit error, promise to get to the bottom of it, fire some high profile people, and move on.
But as @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social point out, this combative cult of personality can’t do that. Worse for them and the country.
But as @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social point out, this combative cult of personality can’t do that. Worse for them and the country.
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"That’s why the CIA guards don’t allow cell phones, or even Fitbits, into their buildings. Which brings us back to Bill Murray’s question: Why was the director of the CIA using a cell phone at CIA headquarters?"
www.spytalk.co/p/signalgate...
www.spytalk.co/p/signalgate...
SignalGate: Did CIA Boss Ratcliffe Use a Cell Phone in Headquarters?
And why were these clowns texting secrets on Signal at all?
www.spytalk.co
March 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"That’s why the CIA guards don’t allow cell phones, or even Fitbits, into their buildings. Which brings us back to Bill Murray’s question: Why was the director of the CIA using a cell phone at CIA headquarters?"
www.spytalk.co/p/signalgate...
www.spytalk.co/p/signalgate...
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Five years after the pandemic began, the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling.
And some may extend to people who quickly recovered.
And some may extend to people who quickly recovered.
‘Something was wrong with my brain’: How covid leaves its mark on cognition
Five years after the pandemic began, the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling. And some may extend to people who quickly recovered.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Five years after the pandemic began, the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling.
And some may extend to people who quickly recovered.
And some may extend to people who quickly recovered.
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March 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Disappearing people to avoid the jurisdiction of the court in which they were taken by the state is authoritarian to the core and runs afoul of the spirit of Article III, the Due Process Clause, and the principles that emerged from the Glorious Revolution and the American Revolution. Arbitrary rule.
NEW: Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk had already been transferred out of state before a federal judge ordered that she not be removed from Massachusetts, federal officials told the court today www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/27/m...
March 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Disappearing people to avoid the jurisdiction of the court in which they were taken by the state is authoritarian to the core and runs afoul of the spirit of Article III, the Due Process Clause, and the principles that emerged from the Glorious Revolution and the American Revolution. Arbitrary rule.
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RFK Jr is an ignorant racist who buries his genuinely life-threatening agenda under a vague, fluffy rhetorical coat of bullshit pseudo-science and nobody should give credence to even the most anodyne things he says
Here is how you discuss RFK Jr
He is a fraud who is lying to everyone because he currently has the power to do all the things he claimed he wanted to do for decades but now won’t because the people he claimed to be against bankroll the political movement he is now part of. Fuck RFK jr the wet clown
He is a fraud who is lying to everyone because he currently has the power to do all the things he claimed he wanted to do for decades but now won’t because the people he claimed to be against bankroll the political movement he is now part of. Fuck RFK jr the wet clown
March 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
RFK Jr is an ignorant racist who buries his genuinely life-threatening agenda under a vague, fluffy rhetorical coat of bullshit pseudo-science and nobody should give credence to even the most anodyne things he says
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"The Department of Health and Human Services will be firing 10,000 employees—nearly a quarter of the workforce."
a quarter of the workforce. jfc
a quarter of the workforce. jfc
Amidst the spread of measles, RFK Jr. is cutting employees in the disease outbreak, drug approval, and insurance departments.
These firings—combined with the 10,000 employees who’ve already quit—leaves the critical public health department with just 62,000 employees for 340.1 million Americans.
These firings—combined with the 10,000 employees who’ve already quit—leaves the critical public health department with just 62,000 employees for 340.1 million Americans.
RFK Jr. Plans Chilling Mass Firing at Health Department
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ready to slash thousands of jobs at HHS.
newrepublic.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"The Department of Health and Human Services will be firing 10,000 employees—nearly a quarter of the workforce."
a quarter of the workforce. jfc
a quarter of the workforce. jfc
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Pete Hegseth recklessly disclosed sensitive military attack plans that jeopardized American lives.
And previously embarrassed us in front of our NATO allies in Brussels.
Why does this guy still have a job?
And previously embarrassed us in front of our NATO allies in Brussels.
Why does this guy still have a job?
March 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Pete Hegseth recklessly disclosed sensitive military attack plans that jeopardized American lives.
And previously embarrassed us in front of our NATO allies in Brussels.
Why does this guy still have a job?
And previously embarrassed us in front of our NATO allies in Brussels.
Why does this guy still have a job?
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“A @WIRED.com review of public data exposed on Venmo accounts associated with senior officials suggests the Signal group chat was not an isolated mistake, but part of a broader pattern of…reckless behavior by some of the most powerful people in US government.”- @dmehro.bsky.social
Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public
A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
www.wired.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
“A @WIRED.com review of public data exposed on Venmo accounts associated with senior officials suggests the Signal group chat was not an isolated mistake, but part of a broader pattern of…reckless behavior by some of the most powerful people in US government.”- @dmehro.bsky.social
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What the actual fuck:
March 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
What the actual fuck:
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This is Tellen. She went to work with her human today. The only agenda item on her calendar is dropping toys in the hallway until someone plays with her. 14/10
March 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is Tellen. She went to work with her human today. The only agenda item on her calendar is dropping toys in the hallway until someone plays with her. 14/10
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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
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Historically, members of Congress have jealously guarded their own power and prerogatives, standing the line even against presidents of their own party.
But this Republican Congress just bent the knee immediately, without even a word of protest.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
But this Republican Congress just bent the knee immediately, without even a word of protest.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
February 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Historically, members of Congress have jealously guarded their own power and prerogatives, standing the line even against presidents of their own party.
But this Republican Congress just bent the knee immediately, without even a word of protest.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
But this Republican Congress just bent the knee immediately, without even a word of protest.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
February 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
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We are at the point of the fascist autocoup where the interim US Attorney is replying to an anonymous pro-Nazi account who wants to see someone punished for simply sharing the names of Elon Musk's lackeys who have gotten access to extremely sensitive government data systems.
February 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
We are at the point of the fascist autocoup where the interim US Attorney is replying to an anonymous pro-Nazi account who wants to see someone punished for simply sharing the names of Elon Musk's lackeys who have gotten access to extremely sensitive government data systems.
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the plan is to shoot people, including children
Tom Homan: "It's gonna become violent. You're gonna see violence on the border. It's unfortunate, but we know it's coming. Border Patrol is prepared. It's great to have the military on the southern border. They're prepared."
February 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
the plan is to shoot people, including children