@equaloppcynic.bsky.social
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Periodic reminder: Trump has done everything imaginable to piss off senior military.
-Keep Hegseth who endangers their lives
-Favor whiteness/maleness over competence
-Self-aggrandize in speeches; ramble about trophy wives.
-Mock them on hallowed ground.
-Keep Hegseth who endangers their lives
-Favor whiteness/maleness over competence
-Self-aggrandize in speeches; ramble about trophy wives.
-Mock them on hallowed ground.
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Honestly, Trump's decision to offer pardons for $250,000 is his biggest move to reduce prices.
December 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Honestly, Trump's decision to offer pardons for $250,000 is his biggest move to reduce prices.
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Trump: We track Santa. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa. Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Trump: We track Santa. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa. Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election
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you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen
"A Miami Herald reporter witnessed the agents forcefully removing Dayana — who is 4-feet, 11-inches tall and weighs 85 pounds — from her white Toyota Corolla. The footage shows Dayana yelling at the reporter to help her and that she was a United States citizen"
only a bit above the paywall but you get the horrible gist www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
December 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen
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jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
![. . . very cooperative, but the police at that point had to let [redacted] know that what she had done that she could be facing charges.
Q And that was after they had told her earlier that she didn't need an attorney present, correct?
A Exactly.
Q Okay. So this happens to her with the Palm Beach Police Department and did the Palm Beach Police actually present or propose charging [redacted]?
A They did get a probable cause affidavit against [redacted].
Q And is that why Ms. [redacted] and her attorney were concerned about her testimony here?
A Yes.
Q Now was a subpoena issued for Ms. [redacted] on behalf of this grand jury?
A Yes, it was.
Q And before Ms. [redacted] would comply with that, did she -- did her attorney request some sort of order?
A Yes.
Q And what did he ask for?
A He asked for immunity for [redacted].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreiariijffjjrgfh26o22jjr76pwprinvnbpkcho5lyi2sucfbqlooy@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
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NEW: ICE will provide immediate medical attention to people in a California detention facility who were being denied care following our legal action last week.
People in government detention have a right to medical care, full stop.
People in government detention have a right to medical care, full stop.
December 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
NEW: ICE will provide immediate medical attention to people in a California detention facility who were being denied care following our legal action last week.
People in government detention have a right to medical care, full stop.
People in government detention have a right to medical care, full stop.
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One Christmas I was showing my Gen Z cousin around the house and upon seeing a floppy disc on my desk, he declared “Oh cool, you printed out the save icon.”
One thing I love is obsolete technology being encoded in our language. Words like “footage” and “rewind” and “dial (as a phone)” that literally describe a physicality that doesn’t exist anymore, yet lingers linguistically. Anybody have any other examples?
December 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
One Christmas I was showing my Gen Z cousin around the house and upon seeing a floppy disc on my desk, he declared “Oh cool, you printed out the save icon.”
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The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
December 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
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You can tell things are going poorly because they’re finding little treats with which to placate him.
BREAKING
The Kennedy Center board of directors has renamed the center to the “Trump Kennedy Center”
The Kennedy Center board of directors has renamed the center to the “Trump Kennedy Center”
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
You can tell things are going poorly because they’re finding little treats with which to placate him.
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🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
December 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
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Plus side of this is that I have some academic expertise in letters of marque and privateering and related albeit rather archaic state licensed piracy on the high seas so I could go on tv as an expert in something.
😳 On 12/18/25, Senator Mike Lee posted:
“Would you like to seize cartel assets as a privateer?
My bill would allow the president to issue you a letter of marque.
Time to take these pirates down. 🏴☠️” 1/ x.com/senmikelee/s...
“Would you like to seize cartel assets as a privateer?
My bill would allow the president to issue you a letter of marque.
Time to take these pirates down. 🏴☠️” 1/ x.com/senmikelee/s...
December 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Plus side of this is that I have some academic expertise in letters of marque and privateering and related albeit rather archaic state licensed piracy on the high seas so I could go on tv as an expert in something.
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This is obscene.
Marco Rubio (together with Trump & Musk) is to blame for the the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people already this year (& millions more to come) through disease & malnutrition because of the USAID shutdown.
Say that, not this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...
Marco Rubio (together with Trump & Musk) is to blame for the the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people already this year (& millions more to come) through disease & malnutrition because of the USAID shutdown.
Say that, not this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...
Opinion | How We Got to This Marco Rubio Moment
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This is obscene.
Marco Rubio (together with Trump & Musk) is to blame for the the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people already this year (& millions more to come) through disease & malnutrition because of the USAID shutdown.
Say that, not this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...
Marco Rubio (together with Trump & Musk) is to blame for the the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people already this year (& millions more to come) through disease & malnutrition because of the USAID shutdown.
Say that, not this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Beyond parody.
We have an attorney general who is covering up the Epstein Files and a President who is proud he could identify a giraffe
Beyond parody.
We have an attorney general who is covering up the Epstein Files and a President who is proud he could identify a giraffe
December 20, 2025 at 5:07 AM
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Beyond parody.
We have an attorney general who is covering up the Epstein Files and a President who is proud he could identify a giraffe
Beyond parody.
We have an attorney general who is covering up the Epstein Files and a President who is proud he could identify a giraffe
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Put it this way, there’s so much black in the DOJ’s release of the Epstein files that Stephen Miller is demanding they be deported.
December 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Put it this way, there’s so much black in the DOJ’s release of the Epstein files that Stephen Miller is demanding they be deported.
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I really do think that ICE and DHS goons just presumed all of white America would support their actions
Get his ass
December 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I really do think that ICE and DHS goons just presumed all of white America would support their actions
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With no shade to @asharangappa.bsky.social at all, because I understand where she's coming from, I disagree. SCOTUS already said people cannot be rapidly deported under the Alien Enemies Act a la the CECOT deportations, ICE can deport most Venezuelans anyway, and the AEA solves few logistics issues.
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
December 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
With no shade to @asharangappa.bsky.social at all, because I understand where she's coming from, I disagree. SCOTUS already said people cannot be rapidly deported under the Alien Enemies Act a la the CECOT deportations, ICE can deport most Venezuelans anyway, and the AEA solves few logistics issues.
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DNC's unreleased report says Dems need to take on immigration more directly, a DNC official tells me. But it's unclear what this means in practice. By failing to release the report, the DNC is effectively evading the public debate over how to address the issue at a time when Trump is tanking on it:
The DNC's failure to release the report also seems to evade taking a public stand on some of the biggest questions in the party right now, such as how to talk about immigration:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
December 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
DNC's unreleased report says Dems need to take on immigration more directly, a DNC official tells me. But it's unclear what this means in practice. By failing to release the report, the DNC is effectively evading the public debate over how to address the issue at a time when Trump is tanking on it:
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Food shortages, tents filled with sewage, and medical neglect are the grim norm at ICE's Fort Bliss detention center.
Every new facility that ICE rushes to open is destined to be plagued by the same inhumane conditions unless Congress takes action.
Every new facility that ICE rushes to open is destined to be plagued by the same inhumane conditions unless Congress takes action.
Immigrants Detained at Fort Bliss in Texas Report Abuse and Inhumane Conditions
Detained people at largest immigration detention facility in the country report accounts of physical and sexual abuse.
www.aclu.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Food shortages, tents filled with sewage, and medical neglect are the grim norm at ICE's Fort Bliss detention center.
Every new facility that ICE rushes to open is destined to be plagued by the same inhumane conditions unless Congress takes action.
Every new facility that ICE rushes to open is destined to be plagued by the same inhumane conditions unless Congress takes action.
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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Forget about the nonsense stories like the Kennedy Center being renamed or whatever Bari Weiss is doing
At least 3,800 immigrant children were detained in 2025. Now, kids are not supposed to be kept more than 20 days
At least 1,300 of them have been held longer than 20 days-some for over 4 months
At least 3,800 immigrant children were detained in 2025. Now, kids are not supposed to be kept more than 20 days
At least 1,300 of them have been held longer than 20 days-some for over 4 months
December 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Forget about the nonsense stories like the Kennedy Center being renamed or whatever Bari Weiss is doing
At least 3,800 immigrant children were detained in 2025. Now, kids are not supposed to be kept more than 20 days
At least 1,300 of them have been held longer than 20 days-some for over 4 months
At least 3,800 immigrant children were detained in 2025. Now, kids are not supposed to be kept more than 20 days
At least 1,300 of them have been held longer than 20 days-some for over 4 months
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a whole bunch of news outlets need to update their earlier 'it was a unanimous vote' headlines...
The Kennedy Center’s vice president of public relations said the renaming vote was unanimous.
Yet Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), an ex officio member of the board, said she was “muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition.” https://wapo.st/4schjzl
Yet Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), an ex officio member of the board, said she was “muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition.” https://wapo.st/4schjzl
December 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
a whole bunch of news outlets need to update their earlier 'it was a unanimous vote' headlines...
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I'll call it the Kennedy Center bc it'll get changed back eventually.
Nobody calls it "Ciudad Trujillo" - it's Santo Domingo.
Nobody calls it "Ciudad Trujillo" - it's Santo Domingo.
What are you going to refer to it as?
December 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I'll call it the Kennedy Center bc it'll get changed back eventually.
Nobody calls it "Ciudad Trujillo" - it's Santo Domingo.
Nobody calls it "Ciudad Trujillo" - it's Santo Domingo.
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FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
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people in white coats are surrounding Trump in the Oval Office
December 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
people in white coats are surrounding Trump in the Oval Office
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Really remarkable number in here: 62% of independents favor path to legalization over deportations. Trump and Stephen Miller are actively, relentlessly pushing the country in a pro-immigrant direction.
Maybe those who argued against attacking Trump on this due to "salience" fears got this wrong?
Maybe those who argued against attacking Trump on this due to "salience" fears got this wrong?
New Quinnipiac poll:
57% favor path to legalization for undocs vs 35% who back deporting them
Trump underwater on immigration (44-54) and on deportations (42-55)
Meanwhile DHS's Twitter feed is a white nationalist sewer pit and Gregory Bovino is swaggering around like an occupying general
57% favor path to legalization for undocs vs 35% who back deporting them
Trump underwater on immigration (44-54) and on deportations (42-55)
Meanwhile DHS's Twitter feed is a white nationalist sewer pit and Gregory Bovino is swaggering around like an occupying general
December 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Really remarkable number in here: 62% of independents favor path to legalization over deportations. Trump and Stephen Miller are actively, relentlessly pushing the country in a pro-immigrant direction.
Maybe those who argued against attacking Trump on this due to "salience" fears got this wrong?
Maybe those who argued against attacking Trump on this due to "salience" fears got this wrong?