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“The real lunatic fringe sanctions the execution of a citizen and then spends days smearing her and that imagines itself to be at war with its own people…That fringe is doubling down, and hiring and hiring and hiring. This is going to get much worse.”
newrepublic.com/post/205122/...
newrepublic.com/post/205122/...
In ICE’s Own Words, It’s “Wartime” in America
ICE just launched a “wartime recruitment” campaign and seeks agents who want to “defend” their “culture.” There will be more Renee Goods.
newrepublic.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:33 PM
“The real lunatic fringe sanctions the execution of a citizen and then spends days smearing her and that imagines itself to be at war with its own people…That fringe is doubling down, and hiring and hiring and hiring. This is going to get much worse.”
newrepublic.com/post/205122/...
newrepublic.com/post/205122/...
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This is exactly right.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
People might argue that ICE is not recruiting quality agents.
But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy.
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy.
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
Opinion | ICE's violence is no accident
Alan Elrod: The killing of a woman by an immigration enforcement officer in Minneapolis was the raw application of Trumpist authoritarianism.
www.ms.now
January 10, 2026 at 9:58 PM
This is exactly right.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
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They really killed that woman for disagreeing with them.
January 9, 2026 at 8:29 PM
They really killed that woman for disagreeing with them.
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With respect to Vance’s comments today on the killing of Renee Good:
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
January 8, 2026 at 7:28 PM
With respect to Vance’s comments today on the killing of Renee Good:
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
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I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks!
www.reddit.com/r/confession...
www.reddit.com/r/confession...
From the confession community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the confession community
www.reddit.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:55 PM
I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks!
www.reddit.com/r/confession...
www.reddit.com/r/confession...
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
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I've heard of pay for play, but pay for pardon is new to me.
October 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I've heard of pay for play, but pay for pardon is new to me.
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Q: On the pardon of Changpeng Zhao, Binance has significant business interests with World Liberty Financial, the president family's crypto company. How do you respond to criticisms that this is a corrupt act?
LEAVITT: I would respond and say the president is exercising his constitutional authority
LEAVITT: I would respond and say the president is exercising his constitutional authority
October 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Q: On the pardon of Changpeng Zhao, Binance has significant business interests with World Liberty Financial, the president family's crypto company. How do you respond to criticisms that this is a corrupt act?
LEAVITT: I would respond and say the president is exercising his constitutional authority
LEAVITT: I would respond and say the president is exercising his constitutional authority
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What a crock of shit from Marc Benioff — who appears willfully ignorant of news and facts and so thirsty for approval and attention from the Trump tech bros (who in the past mocked him relentlessly) that he is soiling himself in public www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
What a crock of shit from Marc Benioff — who appears willfully ignorant of news and facts and so thirsty for approval and attention from the Trump tech bros (who in the past mocked him relentlessly) that he is soiling himself in public www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
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If the Democratic Party hopes to become again the governing party of a dynamic, prosperous nation, it must become more comfortable with the free market—in policy, but also in temperament. It must embrace dynamism in the marketplace and within government itself…”
open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...
open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...
October 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
If the Democratic Party hopes to become again the governing party of a dynamic, prosperous nation, it must become more comfortable with the free market—in policy, but also in temperament. It must embrace dynamism in the marketplace and within government itself…”
open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...
open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...
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The thing about unchecked power is it often makes grave mistakes. One of the reason Putin decided on the folly of war with Ukraine was the lack of those willing to tell him he was making a grave error. I fear @realDonaldTrump will stumble into a war, costing troop’s their lives.
September 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The thing about unchecked power is it often makes grave mistakes. One of the reason Putin decided on the folly of war with Ukraine was the lack of those willing to tell him he was making a grave error. I fear @realDonaldTrump will stumble into a war, costing troop’s their lives.
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Safari 26 is here!!! Anchor Positioning, Scroll-driven animations, High Dynamic Range images, the new HTML element, the all-new Digital Credentials API, SVG icon support, WebGPU, WebKit in SwiftUI, every site can be a web app on iOS and iPadOS, and much more.
webkit.org/blog/17333/w...
webkit.org/blog/17333/w...
WebKit Features in Safari 26.0
We’re happy to share with you what’s arriving in Safari 26.0!
webkit.org
September 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Safari 26 is here!!! Anchor Positioning, Scroll-driven animations, High Dynamic Range images, the new HTML element, the all-new Digital Credentials API, SVG icon support, WebGPU, WebKit in SwiftUI, every site can be a web app on iOS and iPadOS, and much more.
webkit.org/blog/17333/w...
webkit.org/blog/17333/w...
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Donald Trump "isn’t just deploying America’s military into the streets; he’s deploying it into the American culture war." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Domestic Deployments Are Dangerous. For the Military.
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Donald Trump "isn’t just deploying America’s military into the streets; he’s deploying it into the American culture war." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/o...
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It's time to end DEI and bring the meritocracy.
by Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo, and RFK Jr.
by Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo, and RFK Jr.
August 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's time to end DEI and bring the meritocracy.
by Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo, and RFK Jr.
by Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo, and RFK Jr.
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I'm testing OpenAI's new open model, gpt-oss-20b, using Ollama on my MacBook Pro. I'm pretty sure this isn't great in terms of the best LLMs have to offer, especially larger models, but the fact I can get a dynamic Stack Overflow like experience on my laptop is pretty incredible.
August 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'm testing OpenAI's new open model, gpt-oss-20b, using Ollama on my MacBook Pro. I'm pretty sure this isn't great in terms of the best LLMs have to offer, especially larger models, but the fact I can get a dynamic Stack Overflow like experience on my laptop is pretty incredible.
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Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
www.citationneeded.news
July 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
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law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called yesterday's decision about nationwide injunctions "an existential threat to the rule of law."
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Supreme Court Put Nationwide Injunctions to the Torch
That isn’t the disaster for birthright citizenship that some fear.
www.theatlantic.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen
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More Democrats growing a spine in real time. This was unexpected from @governor.ny.gov but she delivered a great message.
Yeah you’ve got hochul uploading an official nygov social video calling lander’s arrest, and I’m quoting here, “bullshit.” They think the feds have overreached and are vulnerable.
June 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
More Democrats growing a spine in real time. This was unexpected from @governor.ny.gov but she delivered a great message.
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This is a superb speech by @governor.ca.gov just now.
Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump.
This is how you want a leader to talk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...
Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump.
This is how you want a leader to talk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...
'Weakness masquerading as strength': Hear Newsom's blistering speech on Trump as LA protests persist
YouTube video by CNN
www.youtube.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This is a superb speech by @governor.ca.gov just now.
Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump.
This is how you want a leader to talk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...
Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump.
This is how you want a leader to talk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...
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My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:
June 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:
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What’s the opposite of all in? One might say limp, perhaps flaccid, definitely anti-anaconda.
June 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
What’s the opposite of all in? One might say limp, perhaps flaccid, definitely anti-anaconda.
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The Trump administration's baseless deployment of the National Guard is plainly retaliation against California, a stronghold for immigrant communities, and is akin to a declaration of war on all Californians.
June 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The Trump administration's baseless deployment of the National Guard is plainly retaliation against California, a stronghold for immigrant communities, and is akin to a declaration of war on all Californians.
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The more I dig into generative AI from the prospective of a retired person, the less I want to be involved, or make use of the tools.
I want to focus on using my own model of the world to contribute to society for as long as possible.
I want to focus on using my own model of the world to contribute to society for as long as possible.
May 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The more I dig into generative AI from the prospective of a retired person, the less I want to be involved, or make use of the tools.
I want to focus on using my own model of the world to contribute to society for as long as possible.
I want to focus on using my own model of the world to contribute to society for as long as possible.
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I understand the narrative around losing to someone using AI, but that's not the game I want to play.
I'm working to be me; there is no competition.
I'm working to be me; there is no competition.
May 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I understand the narrative around losing to someone using AI, but that's not the game I want to play.
I'm working to be me; there is no competition.
I'm working to be me; there is no competition.