@patricktbrooks.bsky.social
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Bennie Thompson, everybody! 👏 👏 Listen and learn how to release the air out of the "Antifa is the top domestic terrorist threat" balloon.
There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat.
The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.
Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.
Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
December 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Bennie Thompson, everybody! 👏 👏 Listen and learn how to release the air out of the "Antifa is the top domestic terrorist threat" balloon.
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A lifetime of "thoughts & prayers" have done JACK-SQUAT to reduce or eliminate gun violence. We need to do MORE.
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
December 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A lifetime of "thoughts & prayers" have done JACK-SQUAT to reduce or eliminate gun violence. We need to do MORE.
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
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🚨Gregory Bovino, a U.S. Border Patrol commander who calls himself a “commander at large,” says border security is a personal responsibility. But reporting confirms that his own family immigrated from Calabria, a region of Southern Italy, to Pennsylvania in 1909.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
The Public Face of Trump’s Chicago Deportation Blitz Is the Grandson of Immigrants
Reporting by WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times traces Gregory Bovino’s Italian family’s 1909 arrival from Calabria and his high-visibility role in Chicago’s 2025 “Operation Midway Blitz.”
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
🚨Gregory Bovino, a U.S. Border Patrol commander who calls himself a “commander at large,” says border security is a personal responsibility. But reporting confirms that his own family immigrated from Calabria, a region of Southern Italy, to Pennsylvania in 1909.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
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Trump has escalated his attacks on Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar to a disturbing new level. Yesterday, federal immigration agents pulled over her son and demanded proof of his citizenship.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship.
www.cbsnews.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Trump has escalated his attacks on Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar to a disturbing new level. Yesterday, federal immigration agents pulled over her son and demanded proof of his citizenship.
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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You voted for “concepts of a plan”. Yes, you voted for this.
December 14, 2025 at 3:20 AM
You voted for “concepts of a plan”. Yes, you voted for this.
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Donald, STFU, you obsessive, brain-addled old fool. There are many horrible things happening right now (shootings, a bad economy, murdering fishermen, kidnappings), and all you can think about is your sore-loser lies about winning an election five years ago. You're not well.
December 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Donald, STFU, you obsessive, brain-addled old fool. There are many horrible things happening right now (shootings, a bad economy, murdering fishermen, kidnappings), and all you can think about is your sore-loser lies about winning an election five years ago. You're not well.
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“Instead of 3% or 4% GDP, it should be able to 20% or 25%. I don’t know why it can’t be.”
Anyone with even a modicum of knowledge about economics knows but the Stable Genius clearly does not.
Anyone with even a modicum of knowledge about economics knows but the Stable Genius clearly does not.
December 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“Instead of 3% or 4% GDP, it should be able to 20% or 25%. I don’t know why it can’t be.”
Anyone with even a modicum of knowledge about economics knows but the Stable Genius clearly does not.
Anyone with even a modicum of knowledge about economics knows but the Stable Genius clearly does not.
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TIME recently invited me to share my perspective on the past year in AI development.
We've seen major growth in AI capabilities & risks, but as
@law-zero.bsky.social continues its research, I'm increasingly confident that technical solutions are possible to make AI safer.
time.com/7339687/yosh...
We've seen major growth in AI capabilities & risks, but as
@law-zero.bsky.social continues its research, I'm increasingly confident that technical solutions are possible to make AI safer.
time.com/7339687/yosh...
We're Not Ready for AI's Risks
It’s possible that we’re nearing the limits of our current approach to frontier AI, says Yoshua Bengio
time.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
TIME recently invited me to share my perspective on the past year in AI development.
We've seen major growth in AI capabilities & risks, but as
@law-zero.bsky.social continues its research, I'm increasingly confident that technical solutions are possible to make AI safer.
time.com/7339687/yosh...
We've seen major growth in AI capabilities & risks, but as
@law-zero.bsky.social continues its research, I'm increasingly confident that technical solutions are possible to make AI safer.
time.com/7339687/yosh...
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They’re cute, they’re charismatic, they’re all over TikTok: @wire-wildlife.bsky.social's Rene Ebersole spent over a year investigating how internet fame has intensified the illegal trade of African grey parrots: buff.ly/O987jaJ
December 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
They’re cute, they’re charismatic, they’re all over TikTok: @wire-wildlife.bsky.social's Rene Ebersole spent over a year investigating how internet fame has intensified the illegal trade of African grey parrots: buff.ly/O987jaJ
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Amount of time Brennan spent asking Cassidy about mifepristone:
2 minutes, 30 seconds.
Amount of time Brennan spent asking Cassidy about vaccines (which his man RFK Jr has done so much to stymie):
0 minutes, 0 seconds.
Welcome to the new @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy
www.cbsnews.com/news/sen-bil...
2 minutes, 30 seconds.
Amount of time Brennan spent asking Cassidy about vaccines (which his man RFK Jr has done so much to stymie):
0 minutes, 0 seconds.
Welcome to the new @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy
www.cbsnews.com/news/sen-bil...
Sen. Bill Cassidy says "there's a deal to be had" on health care after failed Senate votes
Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, said "there's a deal to be had" on a plan to address health care costs after a pair of bills failed to secure enough support to advance in the Senate last we...
www.cbsnews.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Amount of time Brennan spent asking Cassidy about mifepristone:
2 minutes, 30 seconds.
Amount of time Brennan spent asking Cassidy about vaccines (which his man RFK Jr has done so much to stymie):
0 minutes, 0 seconds.
Welcome to the new @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy
www.cbsnews.com/news/sen-bil...
2 minutes, 30 seconds.
Amount of time Brennan spent asking Cassidy about vaccines (which his man RFK Jr has done so much to stymie):
0 minutes, 0 seconds.
Welcome to the new @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy
www.cbsnews.com/news/sen-bil...
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The Washington Post, everyone
December 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The Washington Post, everyone
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“People would’ve lost their minds if Obama did this to Fox… I’m walking right out of there the day they get there. There’s no way I’m working for these terrible people.”
@karaswisher.bsky.social tells @profgalloway.com if Ellison buys CNN to censor Trump criticism she’ll cut ties with the network
@karaswisher.bsky.social tells @profgalloway.com if Ellison buys CNN to censor Trump criticism she’ll cut ties with the network
December 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“People would’ve lost their minds if Obama did this to Fox… I’m walking right out of there the day they get there. There’s no way I’m working for these terrible people.”
@karaswisher.bsky.social tells @profgalloway.com if Ellison buys CNN to censor Trump criticism she’ll cut ties with the network
@karaswisher.bsky.social tells @profgalloway.com if Ellison buys CNN to censor Trump criticism she’ll cut ties with the network
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So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
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Donald Trump is on live TV addressing the shootings at Brown University and in Australia. He quickly shifted to bragging about all of the tariff based money pouring into the US “more than four times as much as ever before.“ The network cut away from it.
December 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Donald Trump is on live TV addressing the shootings at Brown University and in Australia. He quickly shifted to bragging about all of the tariff based money pouring into the US “more than four times as much as ever before.“ The network cut away from it.
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"SNL" mocked gussied-up year-end features such as Spotify “Wrapped" with a sketch about data-mining the most embarrassing parts of your life, Paula Mejía writes:
'SNL' Knows Everything You’ve Been Up to This Year. Do You?
The show mocked prettily packaged year-end features, such as Spotify “Wrapped,” that spit data collected about consumers back at them.
bit.ly
December 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"SNL" mocked gussied-up year-end features such as Spotify “Wrapped" with a sketch about data-mining the most embarrassing parts of your life, Paula Mejía writes:
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*Literally all investigations of firms with ties to Trump crypto businesses or involving Trump donors have been dropped.
*The pattern of non-enforcement for crypto is different from other SEC cases
*The pattern of non-enforcement for crypto is different from other SEC cases
December 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
*Literally all investigations of firms with ties to Trump crypto businesses or involving Trump donors have been dropped.
*The pattern of non-enforcement for crypto is different from other SEC cases
*The pattern of non-enforcement for crypto is different from other SEC cases
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Trump grifters and AI scammers support one another.
AI slop makes the information landscape unusable, which helps hide the various Trump cons; the lack of regulation from an administration too busy lining its own pockets gives the AI slop lords free rein to do whatever they want.
AI slop makes the information landscape unusable, which helps hide the various Trump cons; the lack of regulation from an administration too busy lining its own pockets gives the AI slop lords free rein to do whatever they want.
The titans of artificial intelligence have fired the first shot in a regulatory battle poised to dominate the 2026 midterms, and the industry’s prospects for victory are already looking good.
AI Billionaires' 2026 Intimidation Campaign Is Already Working
bit.ly
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Trump grifters and AI scammers support one another.
AI slop makes the information landscape unusable, which helps hide the various Trump cons; the lack of regulation from an administration too busy lining its own pockets gives the AI slop lords free rein to do whatever they want.
AI slop makes the information landscape unusable, which helps hide the various Trump cons; the lack of regulation from an administration too busy lining its own pockets gives the AI slop lords free rein to do whatever they want.
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A familiar pattern. Trump's sycophants only cherry-pick positive news to show him because they are afraid to show him the truth, providing rocket fuel to his natural predisposition to lie about everything. bsky.app/profile/atru...
BRENNAN: The president said 'prices are coming down tremendously.' But the latest data shows the consumer price index up 3% year over year. What data is he looking at?
HASSETT: He went through the individual items that we've already made a bunch of progress on
HASSETT: He went through the individual items that we've already made a bunch of progress on
December 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A familiar pattern. Trump's sycophants only cherry-pick positive news to show him because they are afraid to show him the truth, providing rocket fuel to his natural predisposition to lie about everything. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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Bari Weiss got rid of John Dickerson, but kept this "hard hitting" journalist.
really weird -- Margaret Brennen presses Bill Cassidy on why the White House isn't doing more to crack down on mifepristone and what he's doing to encourage them to do it
December 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Bari Weiss got rid of John Dickerson, but kept this "hard hitting" journalist.
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This, too, is domestic terrorism. Conducted by the state.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This, too, is domestic terrorism. Conducted by the state.