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I would say he has declined 600 or 700 percent. Some people say 1400 percent. No one has ever seen such declines. They say it took George Washington almost 250 years to decline as much. Huge decline.
Trump is 'declining noticeably' and could soon have a 'health event': ex-RNC spokesman
www.alternet.org
Trump is 'declining noticeably' and could soon have a 'health event': ex-RNC spokesman
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December 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I would say he has declined 600 or 700 percent. Some people say 1400 percent. No one has ever seen such declines. They say it took George Washington almost 250 years to decline as much. Huge decline.
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A grandmother will spend Christmas with her family after ICE held her for nearly five months. She’s had a green card for 30+ years and lived in the U.S. since childhood. Her detention ended only after public and congressional pressure.
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December 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A grandmother will spend Christmas with her family after ICE held her for nearly five months. She’s had a green card for 30+ years and lived in the U.S. since childhood. Her detention ended only after public and congressional pressure.
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
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"These people honor me with their lips but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain. Their teachings are rules made by men." Jesus⬇️
December 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"These people honor me with their lips but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain. Their teachings are rules made by men." Jesus⬇️
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As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
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Interrupting my hateposting for a moment to plug my starter of verified news outlets that avoid Generative AI!
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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
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My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
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December 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Interrupting my hateposting for a moment to plug my starter of verified news outlets that avoid Generative AI!
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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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For 2026, media could commit to not laundering the administration’s talking points in their headlines. The EU bans were not triggered by censorship but about misleading X users.
December 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
For 2026, media could commit to not laundering the administration’s talking points in their headlines. The EU bans were not triggered by censorship but about misleading X users.
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This is pretty egregious when you look at the actual context of the quote. And people are praising that book?
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is pretty egregious when you look at the actual context of the quote. And people are praising that book?
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First line of 39-page opinion from Judge Amir Ali in DC:
"The Constitution forbids government officials from using their power to retaliate against people for their speech.. even when the speech is critical of the government"
Judge restores security clearance to whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid
"The Constitution forbids government officials from using their power to retaliate against people for their speech.. even when the speech is critical of the government"
Judge restores security clearance to whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid
December 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
First line of 39-page opinion from Judge Amir Ali in DC:
"The Constitution forbids government officials from using their power to retaliate against people for their speech.. even when the speech is critical of the government"
Judge restores security clearance to whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid
"The Constitution forbids government officials from using their power to retaliate against people for their speech.. even when the speech is critical of the government"
Judge restores security clearance to whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid
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All the kids are doing heroin, so it only makes sense that teachers do it too
We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.
At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
All the kids are doing heroin, so it only makes sense that teachers do it too
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look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
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“National security concerns” isn’t a magical incantation. There have to be real, plausible national security concerns.
A swarm of drones becoming undetectable by flying through an offshore wind farm is not plausible. Laughably so.
Even if radar had trouble there, how’d they get to the wind farm?
A swarm of drones becoming undetectable by flying through an offshore wind farm is not plausible. Laughably so.
Even if radar had trouble there, how’d they get to the wind farm?
Burgum claims "national security concerns" created by wind turbines are detailed in a "classified report" & pertain to "radar interference," adding that "if you wanted to attack a population center on the east coast our country, you would send a swarm of drones right through one of these wind farms"
December 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“National security concerns” isn’t a magical incantation. There have to be real, plausible national security concerns.
A swarm of drones becoming undetectable by flying through an offshore wind farm is not plausible. Laughably so.
Even if radar had trouble there, how’d they get to the wind farm?
A swarm of drones becoming undetectable by flying through an offshore wind farm is not plausible. Laughably so.
Even if radar had trouble there, how’d they get to the wind farm?
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Global TV is a low-effort conservative-leaning private network, and this wasn’t “treachery” this was “it was the weekend before Christmas and they just broadcast the episode that was sent to them digitally by CBS on Friday”, no one in the office on the weekend even if CBS tried to warn them
From the Atlantic attempt to justify Bari Weiss' decision. What's Canadian for "perfidious Albion?"
December 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Global TV is a low-effort conservative-leaning private network, and this wasn’t “treachery” this was “it was the weekend before Christmas and they just broadcast the episode that was sent to them digitally by CBS on Friday”, no one in the office on the weekend even if CBS tried to warn them
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Kavanaugh tries to put the "Kavanaugh Stops" genie back in the bottle
Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
December 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Kavanaugh tries to put the "Kavanaugh Stops" genie back in the bottle
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Betcha a shiny nickel this is because they told their LLM to redact all the initials used to identify minor victims and so it also redacted S.D.N.Y
December 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Betcha a shiny nickel this is because they told their LLM to redact all the initials used to identify minor victims and so it also redacted S.D.N.Y
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The guy who famously crosses every border in one night without documentation?
ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.
December 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The guy who famously crosses every border in one night without documentation?
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call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else.
unplug the machine.
unplug the machine.
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else.
unplug the machine.
unplug the machine.
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Weiss might want the show's stars to quit so she can replace them with someone like Matt Taibbi or that Free Press lightweight who bragged about reading all of Mamdani's tweets.
‘It’s not a part time job.’
Oof.
Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi absolutely leveled Bari Weiss at an emergency 60 Minutes staff meeting today.
Oof.
Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi absolutely leveled Bari Weiss at an emergency 60 Minutes staff meeting today.
December 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Weiss might want the show's stars to quit so she can replace them with someone like Matt Taibbi or that Free Press lightweight who bragged about reading all of Mamdani's tweets.
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Interesting and important 9th Circuit decision about the free speech rights of professors at public schools, just won by FIRE, likely to be subject of culture war disputes.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Interesting and important 9th Circuit decision about the free speech rights of professors at public schools, just won by FIRE, likely to be subject of culture war disputes.
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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AI is just scraping what already exists while historians are putting the materials of the past together in new and unexpected ways. Drawing on the insights, teaching, and ways of knowing that are intangible. No comparison.
Absolutely right.
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.
December 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
AI is just scraping what already exists while historians are putting the materials of the past together in new and unexpected ways. Drawing on the insights, teaching, and ways of knowing that are intangible. No comparison.
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"expertise" for them is simply cobbling enough fact-nuggets together to sound like they know what they're talking about, to be a convincing facsimile of a smart person. Which is exactly what LLMs do, so it's no coincidence they're so in the tank for that technology. It's like a mirror.
December 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"expertise" for them is simply cobbling enough fact-nuggets together to sound like they know what they're talking about, to be a convincing facsimile of a smart person. Which is exactly what LLMs do, so it's no coincidence they're so in the tank for that technology. It's like a mirror.
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This is HILARIOUS.
By the way, this is a childish idea of research. Just focus on primary sources for a moment. You make discoveries and place facts in context by using your human imagination and understanding of historiography. The "garbage you don't need to read" is exactly what's interesting.
By the way, this is a childish idea of research. Just focus on primary sources for a moment. You make discoveries and place facts in context by using your human imagination and understanding of historiography. The "garbage you don't need to read" is exactly what's interesting.
(standing in the NARA reading room, “feeding” a raft of unpublished government documents into AI somehow, as the archivists are definitely applauding me, telling it to find the important stuff)
“Look at me, I’m a historicalian!”
“Look at me, I’m a historicalian!”
December 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is HILARIOUS.
By the way, this is a childish idea of research. Just focus on primary sources for a moment. You make discoveries and place facts in context by using your human imagination and understanding of historiography. The "garbage you don't need to read" is exactly what's interesting.
By the way, this is a childish idea of research. Just focus on primary sources for a moment. You make discoveries and place facts in context by using your human imagination and understanding of historiography. The "garbage you don't need to read" is exactly what's interesting.
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when someone seems to suddenly and inexplicably jump on the maga train, you will almost never be wrong in assuming it’s about money
minaj is on the verge of having her $20M home forcibly sold by the court to cover a $500K debt, in case you wonder what’s going on here
Nicki Minaj: “For young men, don’t be Newscum (Gavin Newsom) .. Dear young men, you have amazing role models like our handsome, dashing president...”
December 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
when someone seems to suddenly and inexplicably jump on the maga train, you will almost never be wrong in assuming it’s about money