Witty Librarian Resistance
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Many demonstrators were arrested; fewer were charged. And of those charged, most cases crumbled away. Federal prosecutors declined to pursue some cases; in others, judges or grand juries declined to let them proceed. But the hyper violent conduct of DHS goons intimidates their staunchest critics.
Chicago Protestors Reel After Fending Off Federal Charges
The administration governs by propaganda. There’s bluster, threats, and even real violence...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Many demonstrators were arrested; fewer were charged. And of those charged, most cases crumbled away. Federal prosecutors declined to pursue some cases; in others, judges or grand juries declined to let them proceed. But the hyper violent conduct of DHS goons intimidates their staunchest critics.
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“People assume hunger looks one way,” said Domm. “But hunger today looks like your neighbor, your coworker, a retired bus driver, a federal employee, a parent who skipped their own dinner so their kids could eat.”
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“People assume hunger looks one way,” said Domm. “But hunger today looks like your neighbor, your coworker, a retired bus driver, a federal employee, a parent who skipped their own dinner so their kids could eat.”
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Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it's already a bust
YouTube video by MS NOW
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November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
If you see this post an anime you love
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
If you see this post an anime you love
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Steve whitkoff is an actual traitor
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Steve whitkoff is an actual traitor
Hegseth is banning Boy Scouts and astronauts. How un-American can you get? He'll be banning moms and apple pies next.
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Hegseth is banning Boy Scouts and astronauts. How un-American can you get? He'll be banning moms and apple pies next.
I've known a family that cooked fish for Thanksgiving as that was the original meal of the Pilgrims. Others have gone with ham: my family did ham one Thanksgiving because my brother worked part-time at HoneyBaked that year.
it fascinates me how most everyone in the U.S. does turkey for Thanksgiving, but we are all over the map as to what we eat for Christmas (as is proper for a hugely diverse nation).
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I also use the bacon method. Although turkey is Christmas dinner where I come from.
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I've known a family that cooked fish for Thanksgiving as that was the original meal of the Pilgrims. Others have gone with ham: my family did ham one Thanksgiving because my brother worked part-time at HoneyBaked that year.
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I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?
More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.
nymag.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I wrote about the double-triple punishment given to an immigrant who had served his sentence for a serious crime, who was deported to a country where he was likely to be persecuted, and then quickly ejected from that country & rendered stateless.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
the only good thing about all three Rush Hour movies is that I never had to watch any of them.
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
the only good thing about all three Rush Hour movies is that I never had to watch any of them.
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Statement from Scouting America. If Congress can't stop its laws from being ignored for obviously pretextual reasons, they may as well wrap it up and go home. www.scoutingnewsroom.org/press-releas...
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Statement from Scouting America. If Congress can't stop its laws from being ignored for obviously pretextual reasons, they may as well wrap it up and go home. www.scoutingnewsroom.org/press-releas...
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This won't happen but it would be incredibly funny if the Canadian part of NORAD refused to work on the yearly Santa tracker thing by citing intelligence sharing risks
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
This won't happen but it would be incredibly funny if the Canadian part of NORAD refused to work on the yearly Santa tracker thing by citing intelligence sharing risks
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We should use this number as valuation for the open lawsuits against them.
Exclusive: OpenAI has projected 220 million people will be paying for a basic ChatGPT subscription by 2030 as it follows Slack’s and Spotify’s business playbook.
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OpenAI Projected at Least 220 Million People Will Pay for ChatGPT by 2030
To boost ChatGPT revenue, OpenAI is following a playbook enterprise apps Zoom and Slack have used to increase paid users. It’s hooking up most of its users—which now number more than 800 million—with ...
thein.fo
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
We should use this number as valuation for the open lawsuits against them.
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The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
instead of making Rush Hour 4 Hollywood should instead film a high-quality remake of The Beast of Yucca Flats.
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
instead of making Rush Hour 4 Hollywood should instead film a high-quality remake of The Beast of Yucca Flats.
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I’m still thinking about Bari Weiss saying that Hasan Piker (extremely popular influencer) is less of a measure of where Americans are than Alan Dershowitz (extremely unpopular Epstein associate, his own neighbors won’t sell him a pierogi)
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I’m still thinking about Bari Weiss saying that Hasan Piker (extremely popular influencer) is less of a measure of where Americans are than Alan Dershowitz (extremely unpopular Epstein associate, his own neighbors won’t sell him a pierogi)
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chastised Sen. Mark Kelly for incorrectly displaying his military uniform medals, not comprehending that photographs reverse images from left to right. Here’s what that says about Joe Biden’s cognitive state.
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chastised Sen. Mark Kelly for incorrectly displaying his military uniform medals, not comprehending that photographs reverse images from left to right. Here’s what that says about Joe Biden’s cognitive state.
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It says a lot about our country that the FBI had no interest in interviewing Brett Kavanaugh but wants to talk to Mark Kelly.
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It says a lot about our country that the FBI had no interest in interviewing Brett Kavanaugh but wants to talk to Mark Kelly.
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We now live in a country where a true, proven patriot like Senator/Veteran/Astronaut Mark Kelly has to defend himself against a bloated, babbling lunatic like President Bone Spurs and a drunken piece of garbage like Pete Hegseth.
Sen. Mark Kelly: “I’ve had a missile blow up next to my airplane. I’ve been nearly shot down multiple times. I’ve flown a rocket ship into space four times, built by the lowest bidder. I’m not going to be silenced by Donald Trump.”
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
We now live in a country where a true, proven patriot like Senator/Veteran/Astronaut Mark Kelly has to defend himself against a bloated, babbling lunatic like President Bone Spurs and a drunken piece of garbage like Pete Hegseth.
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
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Donald Trump sent more money to bail out Argentina than it would have cost to extend the ACA tax credits for just 1 year.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Donald Trump sent more money to bail out Argentina than it would have cost to extend the ACA tax credits for just 1 year.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
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Sure would be nice if we had a media establishment that felt doing something about that was part of their job maybe?
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Sure would be nice if we had a media establishment that felt doing something about that was part of their job maybe?
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Well done BBC News for covering Nigel Farage’s antisemitic bullying at school and his lies about it since.
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Well done BBC News for covering Nigel Farage’s antisemitic bullying at school and his lies about it since.
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Despite Trump’s talk about reshoring manufacturing, there are now 59,000 fewer manufacturing jobs than there were in April when Trump promised to boost US manufacturing.
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Despite Trump’s talk about reshoring manufacturing, there are now 59,000 fewer manufacturing jobs than there were in April when Trump promised to boost US manufacturing.
Can someone just honest to God pull the literal plug on this? We're looking at the worst Money Pit since the beanie baby craze.
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Can someone just honest to God pull the literal plug on this? We're looking at the worst Money Pit since the beanie baby craze.
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.