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On a never ending quest to find the perfect balance of journalists, wonks, pet pics and internet weirdos. Louisville, then Brooklyn, and now Louisville again.
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I really need some of y'all to stop fat shaming the nazis and focus on nazi shaming them.
January 11, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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The Greenland fixation feels like a personal insult to anyone who's spent more than about five minutes thinking about national security. "Hey, let's demolish our most valuable alliance so we can get get access to arctic territory we already have access to!"
January 11, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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(And for those who are not Jewish: a small touch is to give in multiples of $18 rather than rounding to the nearest $5 or $10, because 18 is the number associated with life.)
January 11, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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I went to look and the synagogue's website does have a donation option: www.bethisraelms.org I've donated with a note that it's for fire recovery and I encourage others to do so as well!
Beth Israel Congregation
www.bethisraelms.org
January 11, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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(Letting you know so you can be braced for it, and because some of the headlines and link card snippets are not clear there were no injuries. Two Torah scrolls were destroyed and several were damaged, but the one that survived the Holocaust is fine because it was in a glass case.)
January 11, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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My Jewish friends, be warned there's articles going around about an arson in a Jacksonville MS synagogue. The link card image for most stories I've seen shows a severely fire-damaged library. No one was hurt and they've arrested a suspect.
January 11, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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once again we are all tapping the sign
January 9, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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Bob Weir loved music and gave his entire life to it. 78's a good age, though from where I'm at now it doesn't sound like enough. But he left something behind that will never stop giving people pleasure and comfort. That's a legacy to cherish. You stayed 61 years on the road, Bob Weir. Rest now. 4/4
January 11, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:

* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon

The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire

www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
www.wsj.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...
January 10, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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A deleted tweet by a Toronto Sun national politics reporter.
January 10, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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Hard to find any outlet than more propagandistic about supporting ICE and smearing its victims than the NY Post , owned by an Australian who lives in the UK.
January 10, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣
January 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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In all seriousness, when Daniel Perry shot and killed Garret Foster in Austin in 2020, we figured out who Perry was and we were watching his social media posts get deleted in real time WHILE he was allegedly in APD's custody. Fortunately we archived them in the Wayback Machine before he did it.
January 10, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Prof. Michael Mannheimer (author of a leading article on the subject) explains why federal officers do NOT have anything like absolute immunity from prosecution for violating state law: reason.com/volokh/2026/...
What Kind of Immunity for ICE Agents?
Professor Michael Mannheimer (Northern Kentucky University) is the author of an important new article on "Unpacking Supremacy Clause Immunity." The…
reason.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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You cannot tell voters that this regime is an existential threat one day and aid and abet it every other day. Either you're lying or you are complicit, neither of which makes you fit for office.
7 Democrats just voted today to confirm a Trump judicial nominee who refused to say what happened on January 6 or answer who won the 2020 election:

Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Shaheen
Welch
January 10, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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My love language is reading the phrase "love language", looking it up, discovering it's some American Christian thing, saying aloud "who am I, Billy Graham?" and watching the movie "Ronin" (1998, Directed by John Frankenhiemer) instead.
January 10, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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Last night, 64-year-old Denise Lamont attended the first protest of her life. She said watching the video of Good’s death in Minneapolis “changed her” and the quick federal defense of the ICE agent angered her. She marched in Louisville, KY with a piece of cardboard taped to a soup spoon.
January 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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A lot of replies here (obviously from people not already aware of The Discourse on this point) were genuinely confused variants on "But why, they're right, that's a valid concern." Let me leave a short thread for future readers explaining why that stuff is always unwelcome on here. (1/n)
January 8, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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"Paywalled" is the word you're looking for. They didn't turn it off. The only thing that changed is X now explicitly makes money off CSAM.
January 9, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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i had eight hours of sleep and stayed off twitter and my depression went away
January 9, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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The Guardian doing inexplicable voluntary free public relations work for a corporation profiting from sexual abuse by headlining this as the image gen being "turned off". It isn't off: they've just monetised it. What the fuck are we doing here people, come on.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:18 AM
“They” who, asshole?
Kentucky GOP Rep. Shane Baker on his bill to ban immigrant citizens from holding any elected office: “You can see the direction they're trying to take New York… we don't want to face those things in Kentucky. We want to make sure to head things off before they get here.” #kyga26
Latest from me: A GOP Rep has filed a duo of bills aimed at blocked naturalized and dual citizens from running for state or local office (the former requires a constitutional amendment) #KYGA26
January 9, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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Pastor: I saw ICE agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic. I said, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The next thing I knew, they put handcuffs on me and put me in the back of an SUV. I asked if I was under arrest. They said to me, 'Well, you're white, you won't be any fun anyway.'
January 8, 2026 at 9:38 PM