Decimus
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𝙳𝚊𝚍, 𝚖𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎. 𝙸𝙰𝚃𝚂𝙴 𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛. 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚠 𝙱𝙱 𝙺𝚒𝚗𝚐. 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽
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“I’m sure she knows this is illegal," said one former Defense Department colleague. "She knows that you can’t summarily execute criminal suspects in peacetime and can’t summarily execute criminal suspects during war. Any JAG worth their salt knows this.”
Before ordering a second strike on their boat, Adm. Frank Bradley sought legal advice from JSOC’s top lawyer, Col. Cara Hamaguchi, The Intercept has learned.
U.S. Military Killed Boat Strike Survivors for Not Surrendering Correctly
Before ordering a second strike on their boat, Adm. Frank Bradley sought legal advice from JSOC’s top lawyer, Col. Cara Hamaguchi.
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December 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“I’m sure she knows this is illegal," said one former Defense Department colleague. "She knows that you can’t summarily execute criminal suspects in peacetime and can’t summarily execute criminal suspects during war. Any JAG worth their salt knows this.”
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Any of us that answer the phones will tell you that the publicly reported metrics are inaccurate but we don’t have the data to prove it. Except now we do have that data. Thank you, @almsnatalie.bsky.social for this story.
NEW: The phone metrics reported publicly by the Social Security Administration are way lower than actual wait times, a new watchdog report shows.
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
SSA phone wait times longer than publicly reported metrics, per OIG report
The agency’s “average speed of answer” metric masks longer call wait times, according to data in a recent OIG report.
www.nextgov.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Any of us that answer the phones will tell you that the publicly reported metrics are inaccurate but we don’t have the data to prove it. Except now we do have that data. Thank you, @almsnatalie.bsky.social for this story.
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Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.
(Published Oct. 2024)
(Published Oct. 2024)
Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm o...
www.propublica.org
December 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.
(Published Oct. 2024)
(Published Oct. 2024)
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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For ICE to do this on Christmas Eve—especially as part of an administration that postures as godly—is particularly cruel. trib.al/loxXKOw
December 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
For ICE to do this on Christmas Eve—especially as part of an administration that postures as godly—is particularly cruel. trib.al/loxXKOw
"You shall not fucking pass!"
It all fucking began with the forging of the Great Rings
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word?
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
December 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"You shall not fucking pass!"
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"Isolated strikes like the ones carried out by the United States last night are unlikely to significantly reduce the terrorist threat in the region or reverse Nigeria’s growing insecurity," write CSIS Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program experts.
Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/why...
Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/why...
December 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"Isolated strikes like the ones carried out by the United States last night are unlikely to significantly reduce the terrorist threat in the region or reverse Nigeria’s growing insecurity," write CSIS Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program experts.
Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/why...
Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/why...
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Please enjoy this borb who is hopefully enjoying life in another state right now 🥰 🪶
December 26, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Please enjoy this borb who is hopefully enjoying life in another state right now 🥰 🪶
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THREAD: 🧵 I woke up thinking about Quiet On The Set: a docuseries about Dan Schneider writing & directing Nickelodeon shows to make teens do sexually suggestive things.
He essentially directed children to do softcore skits & bake them into ordinary TV shows for his pervy friends to get off on.
He essentially directed children to do softcore skits & bake them into ordinary TV shows for his pervy friends to get off on.
December 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
THREAD: 🧵 I woke up thinking about Quiet On The Set: a docuseries about Dan Schneider writing & directing Nickelodeon shows to make teens do sexually suggestive things.
He essentially directed children to do softcore skits & bake them into ordinary TV shows for his pervy friends to get off on.
He essentially directed children to do softcore skits & bake them into ordinary TV shows for his pervy friends to get off on.
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As I detailed in ONE NATION UNDER GOD, the religious nationalism of the Cold War era was deliberately broadly drawn.
Invocations of a broadly drawn "God" were fine, but references to Jesus Christ were understood to be far beyond the pale.
Invocations of a broadly drawn "God" were fine, but references to Jesus Christ were understood to be far beyond the pale.
I don't think there's any understanding of the First Amendment under which this ("our Savior") is constitutional. Yet they don't care, and they've eliminated all the attorneys who would've objected.
Kudos to the Goldwater and Cato Institutes for condemning it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...
Kudos to the Goldwater and Cato Institutes for condemning it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...
Trump Administration Emphasizes Religion in Official Christmas Messages
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
As I detailed in ONE NATION UNDER GOD, the religious nationalism of the Cold War era was deliberately broadly drawn.
Invocations of a broadly drawn "God" were fine, but references to Jesus Christ were understood to be far beyond the pale.
Invocations of a broadly drawn "God" were fine, but references to Jesus Christ were understood to be far beyond the pale.
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Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Much of Todd Blanche's Perceived Cover-Up Is Actually Incompetence
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/26/m...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/26/m...
Much of Todd Blanche's Perceived Cover-Up Is Actually Incompetence - emptywheel
I have no doubt that Todd Blanche's actions will one day amount primarily to a cover-up -- such as when he is eventually cornered about his actions to silence Ghislaine Maxwell. But thus far, the chao...
www.emptywheel.net
December 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
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The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.
December 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.
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“.. The concert had been held at the Kennedy Center for 20 years ..”
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December 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
“.. The concert had been held at the Kennedy Center for 20 years ..”
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Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
Supreme Connections: Search Supreme Court Disclosures — ProPublica
Search Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
projects.propublica.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
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This is what it took to shame Kristi Noem into letting an Irish green card holder who bouncing $80 in 2 checks 10 years ago free after 5 months in detention:
A veteran, Trump-voting spouse
9 US descendants
Letter signed by 18 Senators
30 character witnesses
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
A veteran, Trump-voting spouse
9 US descendants
Letter signed by 18 Senators
30 character witnesses
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
ICE Releases Grandma With Green Card After 5 Months in Time for Christmas
Donna Hughes Brown's case was highlighted during a hearing with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
www.star-telegram.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is what it took to shame Kristi Noem into letting an Irish green card holder who bouncing $80 in 2 checks 10 years ago free after 5 months in detention:
A veteran, Trump-voting spouse
9 US descendants
Letter signed by 18 Senators
30 character witnesses
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
A veteran, Trump-voting spouse
9 US descendants
Letter signed by 18 Senators
30 character witnesses
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
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The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
December 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
Luna wants you to have a Merry Christmas
December 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Luna wants you to have a Merry Christmas
When you think power always protects power, things are forever and inevitable remember this … today in 1991 the Soviet Union voted to dissolve itself.
December 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
When you think power always protects power, things are forever and inevitable remember this … today in 1991 the Soviet Union voted to dissolve itself.
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BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena.
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
New, at Law Dork:
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
New, at Law Dork:
Breaking: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
www.lawdork.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena.
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
New, at Law Dork:
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
New, at Law Dork:
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Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
www.reuters.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
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"Feminism sucks! Feminism has destroyed women's value and role in society," shouts Erika Kirk as she stands on the platform built and delivered by Feminism.
December 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"Feminism sucks! Feminism has destroyed women's value and role in society," shouts Erika Kirk as she stands on the platform built and delivered by Feminism.
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VIDEO: 🎵 🤖 Musicians sound alarm over AI impersonators
Musical artists are sounding the alarm as fraudulent AI-generated tracks are increasingly appearing in their profiles on streaming platforms, presented as their original work
Musical artists are sounding the alarm as fraudulent AI-generated tracks are increasingly appearing in their profiles on streaming platforms, presented as their original work
December 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
VIDEO: 🎵 🤖 Musicians sound alarm over AI impersonators
Musical artists are sounding the alarm as fraudulent AI-generated tracks are increasingly appearing in their profiles on streaming platforms, presented as their original work
Musical artists are sounding the alarm as fraudulent AI-generated tracks are increasingly appearing in their profiles on streaming platforms, presented as their original work
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Thousands of Russians got fake Romanian passports — some using names of dead Ukrainian soldiers.
Le Monde reported that over 18,700 fraudulent entries in Romania’s system. One client paid €75,000 for a forged certificate, bypassing EU entry rules in weeks.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/25/l...
Le Monde reported that over 18,700 fraudulent entries in Romania’s system. One client paid €75,000 for a forged certificate, bypassing EU entry rules in weeks.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/25/l...
Le Monde: Romanian passport scam gave EU access to thousands of Russians — some stole names of fallen Ukrainian soldiers
As investigations spread, the scale of falsified documents and stolen histories paints a damning picture of legal failure.
euromaidanpress.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Thousands of Russians got fake Romanian passports — some using names of dead Ukrainian soldiers.
Le Monde reported that over 18,700 fraudulent entries in Romania’s system. One client paid €75,000 for a forged certificate, bypassing EU entry rules in weeks.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/25/l...
Le Monde reported that over 18,700 fraudulent entries in Romania’s system. One client paid €75,000 for a forged certificate, bypassing EU entry rules in weeks.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/25/l...
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Looks like Elon Musk, Bondi and now Rubio are conspiring to protect X now in its qwest to undermine Western democracies. I say this because what is happening is conspiratorial against CCDH and European leaders for standing up against algorithmically tricked out white nationalist propaganda. 🧵
UK campaigners among five denied US visas
The Trump administration bans five people who have called for tech regulation from entering the country.
www.bbc.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Looks like Elon Musk, Bondi and now Rubio are conspiring to protect X now in its qwest to undermine Western democracies. I say this because what is happening is conspiratorial against CCDH and European leaders for standing up against algorithmically tricked out white nationalist propaganda. 🧵