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Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer.
“I practically felt like an animal,” González told The Post.
“I practically felt like an animal,” González told The Post.
U.S. deportee, freed from Salvadoran prison, describes ‘horror movie’
Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer.
“I practically felt like an animal,” González told The Post.
“I practically felt like an animal,” González told The Post.
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We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
- Prof. Brian Cox
- Prof. Brian Cox
April 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
- Prof. Brian Cox
- Prof. Brian Cox
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Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
April 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
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starter packs and suggested accounts aren't enough. i want bluesky to show me users who buy similar groceries
April 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
starter packs and suggested accounts aren't enough. i want bluesky to show me users who buy similar groceries
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If you’re scratching your head over people getting upset about stocks rather than people being abducted and trafficked to El Salvador, recall that what upset people about “The Jungle” was that their meat might be tainted, not that children were falling into hot dog making machines.
April 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If you’re scratching your head over people getting upset about stocks rather than people being abducted and trafficked to El Salvador, recall that what upset people about “The Jungle” was that their meat might be tainted, not that children were falling into hot dog making machines.
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Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
March 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
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Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
March 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
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We don’t if they were gang members, only that Trump’s DOJ says they were. But they’ve had no trials. They are “accused.” They are “alleged” to be members of a gang that Trump has named. And now they are vanished.
This is an actual nightmare and we should be up in arms.
This is an actual nightmare and we should be up in arms.
250 Venezuelans have been disappeared into one of the worst prisons in Central America based on Trump’s invocation of a law only used 3 times in our history - the last time resulted in the Japanese-American internment. These men have had no due process. It’s monstrous.
nypost.com/2025/03/16/u...
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First 250+ migrant gang members from US arrive in El Salvador — where they’ll be held in a notorious mega-prison
The US has flown more than 250 accused migrant gang members to El Salvador, where they were sent to a notorious mega-prison — in direct defiance of a federal judge’s ruling against the Trump admini…
nypost.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
We don’t if they were gang members, only that Trump’s DOJ says they were. But they’ve had no trials. They are “accused.” They are “alleged” to be members of a gang that Trump has named. And now they are vanished.
This is an actual nightmare and we should be up in arms.
This is an actual nightmare and we should be up in arms.
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Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing that’s happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.
March 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing that’s happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.
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About half of all births are covered by Medicaid.
Over a third of all children are covered by Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
Republicans in Congress are making a big mistake targeting these families’ health care to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
Over a third of all children are covered by Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
Republicans in Congress are making a big mistake targeting these families’ health care to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
March 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
About half of all births are covered by Medicaid.
Over a third of all children are covered by Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
Republicans in Congress are making a big mistake targeting these families’ health care to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
Over a third of all children are covered by Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
Republicans in Congress are making a big mistake targeting these families’ health care to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
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In advance of the Oscars tonight: a lot of comedy heroes let you down. They become unfunny/bitter/closed minded. Conan is the exception. He has grown & evolved & is funnier than he’s ever been. He’s also an extremely kind and lovely human. Just a sincere post to say: Conan rules.
March 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
In advance of the Oscars tonight: a lot of comedy heroes let you down. They become unfunny/bitter/closed minded. Conan is the exception. He has grown & evolved & is funnier than he’s ever been. He’s also an extremely kind and lovely human. Just a sincere post to say: Conan rules.
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The Boys are Back in Town is joyful and exuberant as a concept, but 'the Men have Returned to the Village' is deeply unsettling, threatening even.
March 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The Boys are Back in Town is joyful and exuberant as a concept, but 'the Men have Returned to the Village' is deeply unsettling, threatening even.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy is EVERYTHING the civilian pukes in the White House wish they were: masculine, powerful and charismatic. They hate him because his presence reveals their cosplay.
Zelenskyy will go down as one of the great heroic figures of the 21st century
Zelenskyy will go down as one of the great heroic figures of the 21st century
February 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is EVERYTHING the civilian pukes in the White House wish they were: masculine, powerful and charismatic. They hate him because his presence reveals their cosplay.
Zelenskyy will go down as one of the great heroic figures of the 21st century
Zelenskyy will go down as one of the great heroic figures of the 21st century
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As a kid watching Red Dawn in the 80s, I definitely though the Russian takeover of the US would involve at least *some* tanks
February 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
As a kid watching Red Dawn in the 80s, I definitely though the Russian takeover of the US would involve at least *some* tanks
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They tell themselves it can’t happen here. That the courts will save us, that institutions will hold, that this is just another election. But history doesn’t wake the sleepwalkers gently. It shatters them.
The Comfort of Sleepwalkers
History Will Not Wake You Gently
www.notesfromthecircus.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:04 AM
They tell themselves it can’t happen here. That the courts will save us, that institutions will hold, that this is just another election. But history doesn’t wake the sleepwalkers gently. It shatters them.
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We're about to see a lot of people praising McConnell in the name of bipartisanship or because he voted against a couple of Trump’s nominees and I just want to be clear: the man is a ghoul who is as responsible for Trumpism and the suffering it causes as Trump himself.
February 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We're about to see a lot of people praising McConnell in the name of bipartisanship or because he voted against a couple of Trump’s nominees and I just want to be clear: the man is a ghoul who is as responsible for Trumpism and the suffering it causes as Trump himself.
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Elon Musk is systematically seizing control over our nation’s communications, financial systems and data and military infrastructures.
Musk isn’t a fourth branch of government, just another Silicon Valley who wants to be dictator of the world.
Musk isn’t a fourth branch of government, just another Silicon Valley who wants to be dictator of the world.
February 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Elon Musk is systematically seizing control over our nation’s communications, financial systems and data and military infrastructures.
Musk isn’t a fourth branch of government, just another Silicon Valley who wants to be dictator of the world.
Musk isn’t a fourth branch of government, just another Silicon Valley who wants to be dictator of the world.
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It's interesting how the immigrant most responsible for costing Americans their jobs is Elon Musk
February 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It's interesting how the immigrant most responsible for costing Americans their jobs is Elon Musk
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May the diss tracks written about you not be total bangers
February 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
May the diss tracks written about you not be total bangers
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I really don't want to see members of Congress posting on social media. I think you folks need to be in some meetings working on a plan to wrest control of our government back from that man from South Africa. Feels like there's nothing else you folks need to be doing.
February 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I really don't want to see members of Congress posting on social media. I think you folks need to be in some meetings working on a plan to wrest control of our government back from that man from South Africa. Feels like there's nothing else you folks need to be doing.
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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
February 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
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The most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices.
We hammered this time and time again and yet.
We hammered this time and time again and yet.
February 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices.
We hammered this time and time again and yet.
We hammered this time and time again and yet.
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I can only assume that everyone in the Trump administration and the voters supporting him must have watched every movie and heard every story and said to themselves “that villain seems cool”
How does one miss the point of the last 2000 years?
How does one miss the point of the last 2000 years?
February 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I can only assume that everyone in the Trump administration and the voters supporting him must have watched every movie and heard every story and said to themselves “that villain seems cool”
How does one miss the point of the last 2000 years?
How does one miss the point of the last 2000 years?