Silly Pseudonym
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Thinking of the late James C. Scott today.
February 3, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Thinking of the late James C. Scott today.
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“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..”
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February 3, 2026 at 11:09 PM
“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..”
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They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Judge orders release of suspects in alleged shovel attack on agent
Department of Homeland Security says agent fired in self-defense after being attacked with a snow shovel and broom.
www.startribune.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:25 PM
They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
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Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
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We were so afraid of the thought police that we created the thought police.
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:15 PM
We were so afraid of the thought police that we created the thought police.
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February 3, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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The dude weaponizes everything—including this nation's history—to serve his selfish desires. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump's war on history
As America's 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country's future by bulldozing its past.
www.motherjones.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:48 PM
The dude weaponizes everything—including this nation's history—to serve his selfish desires. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I don't mean to seem alarmed, but it appears Google's book search function is, just...gone.
In a sane country it would be a huge deal, front page news, that a privately owned utility that millions researches, from journalists to scholars, rely on every day to advance knowledge can just disappear.
In a sane country it would be a huge deal, front page news, that a privately owned utility that millions researches, from journalists to scholars, rely on every day to advance knowledge can just disappear.
February 3, 2026 at 5:36 PM
I don't mean to seem alarmed, but it appears Google's book search function is, just...gone.
In a sane country it would be a huge deal, front page news, that a privately owned utility that millions researches, from journalists to scholars, rely on every day to advance knowledge can just disappear.
In a sane country it would be a huge deal, front page news, that a privately owned utility that millions researches, from journalists to scholars, rely on every day to advance knowledge can just disappear.
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Fox News hasn't covered bombshell reports revealing that an Emirati royal secretly purchased a major stake in a company controlled by the Trump family for $500 million just four days before Trump’s inauguration.
Fox won’t tell viewers that the UAE bought off Trump
www.mediamatters.org
February 3, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Fox News hasn't covered bombshell reports revealing that an Emirati royal secretly purchased a major stake in a company controlled by the Trump family for $500 million just four days before Trump’s inauguration.
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This entire answer from Mike Johnson — the speaker of the House and a lawyer — must be seen.
It is fundamentally wrong on both points: as to administrative warrants (which need not be signed by immigration judges) and as to judicial warrants (which are not "new" for authorizing home entry).
It is fundamentally wrong on both points: as to administrative warrants (which need not be signed by immigration judges) and as to judicial warrants (which are not "new" for authorizing home entry).
February 3, 2026 at 4:40 PM
This entire answer from Mike Johnson — the speaker of the House and a lawyer — must be seen.
It is fundamentally wrong on both points: as to administrative warrants (which need not be signed by immigration judges) and as to judicial warrants (which are not "new" for authorizing home entry).
It is fundamentally wrong on both points: as to administrative warrants (which need not be signed by immigration judges) and as to judicial warrants (which are not "new" for authorizing home entry).
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"But my kids matter to me!"
I have a kid, and she matters to me, too.
Her genes are > 99.9% identical to mine, and also to her other dad's, even though neither of us is her biological dad.
I have a kid, and she matters to me, too.
Her genes are > 99.9% identical to mine, and also to her other dad's, even though neither of us is her biological dad.
February 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
"But my kids matter to me!"
I have a kid, and she matters to me, too.
Her genes are > 99.9% identical to mine, and also to her other dad's, even though neither of us is her biological dad.
I have a kid, and she matters to me, too.
Her genes are > 99.9% identical to mine, and also to her other dad's, even though neither of us is her biological dad.
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For decades, nativists have sold America this narrative that immigrant welfare is behind our deficits and debt. This figure shows how absurd that is. This is all government expenditures, federal, state, and local, for the last 3 decades. Immigrants are not to blame:
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
For decades, nativists have sold America this narrative that immigrant welfare is behind our deficits and debt. This figure shows how absurd that is. This is all government expenditures, federal, state, and local, for the last 3 decades. Immigrants are not to blame:
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Cat break! Saja the kitten is watching - appropriately enough - a video of Rei Ami, the singing voice of Zoey in K-Pop Demon Hunters, the movie which inspired his name.
February 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Cat break! Saja the kitten is watching - appropriately enough - a video of Rei Ami, the singing voice of Zoey in K-Pop Demon Hunters, the movie which inspired his name.
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Researchers mimicked the air-trapping tricks of diving bell spiders to create aluminum that stays afloat—even when punctured
Unsinkable metal discovery could build safer ships and harvest wave energy
Researchers mimicked the air-trapping tricks of diving bell spiders to create aluminum that stays afloat—even when punctured
www.scientificamerican.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Researchers mimicked the air-trapping tricks of diving bell spiders to create aluminum that stays afloat—even when punctured
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You all know my feelings on this, but virtually everything described as "free speech" or "open debate" for the last few decades has really been about the idea of a closed salon, where everybody has to follow the rules and be respectful to the host and nothing actually matters that much.
Kind of weird people get so agitated about criticism of the Harper’s Letter, which is a paean to the indispensable virtues of open debate, even when it upsets people.
Probably if I were an editor, author, journalist, researcher, or head of an organization I’d be able to follow along better.
Probably if I were an editor, author, journalist, researcher, or head of an organization I’d be able to follow along better.
February 3, 2026 at 5:16 AM
You all know my feelings on this, but virtually everything described as "free speech" or "open debate" for the last few decades has really been about the idea of a closed salon, where everybody has to follow the rules and be respectful to the host and nothing actually matters that much.
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No, no, no. The NYT assured me this very morning that this is a legitimate "fraud crackdown" that has sadly gotten slightly tainted by politics.
(Worth noting the NYT itself was the first to resurrect the years-old Minnesota fraud story in November with zero news hook. TikTokers followed the NYT)
(Worth noting the NYT itself was the first to resurrect the years-old Minnesota fraud story in November with zero news hook. TikTokers followed the NYT)
February 3, 2026 at 1:38 PM
No, no, no. The NYT assured me this very morning that this is a legitimate "fraud crackdown" that has sadly gotten slightly tainted by politics.
(Worth noting the NYT itself was the first to resurrect the years-old Minnesota fraud story in November with zero news hook. TikTokers followed the NYT)
(Worth noting the NYT itself was the first to resurrect the years-old Minnesota fraud story in November with zero news hook. TikTokers followed the NYT)
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Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $
NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$
Harvard: no
Trump: 1B
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations intensify
Trump: 200 million
NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal
Harvard: no
Trump: 0$
Harvard: ok
NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses.
Trump: How about 1B$
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations resume!
NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$
Harvard: no
Trump: 1B
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations intensify
Trump: 200 million
NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal
Harvard: no
Trump: 0$
Harvard: ok
NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses.
Trump: How about 1B$
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations resume!
February 3, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $
NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$
Harvard: no
Trump: 1B
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations intensify
Trump: 200 million
NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal
Harvard: no
Trump: 0$
Harvard: ok
NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses.
Trump: How about 1B$
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations resume!
NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$
Harvard: no
Trump: 1B
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations intensify
Trump: 200 million
NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal
Harvard: no
Trump: 0$
Harvard: ok
NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses.
Trump: How about 1B$
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations resume!
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Richard Hanania has already received hundreds of thousands of times the attention anything he's ever done or said merits. Unfollow people who talk about him. Spend the time engaging with other people's work, like, say, Toby's: www.liberalcurrents.com/author/toby/
February 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Richard Hanania has already received hundreds of thousands of times the attention anything he's ever done or said merits. Unfollow people who talk about him. Spend the time engaging with other people's work, like, say, Toby's: www.liberalcurrents.com/author/toby/
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There are literally emails between Epstein and gargantuan GOP donor Peter Thiel like "as discussed we shud distroy society" and yet the right wing propaganda machine is smearing Lutheran soccer moms as being on Soros's payroll.
February 3, 2026 at 12:22 PM
There are literally emails between Epstein and gargantuan GOP donor Peter Thiel like "as discussed we shud distroy society" and yet the right wing propaganda machine is smearing Lutheran soccer moms as being on Soros's payroll.
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i guess i would like to hear the theory on which setting fire to a random dumpster advances the cause of stopping ice
February 3, 2026 at 12:42 PM
i guess i would like to hear the theory on which setting fire to a random dumpster advances the cause of stopping ice
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It dawns on me that a huge swath of the powerful class does not consider sexual predation to be a crime; they believe it is their privileged birthright. And those around them are there to facilitate, protect and play defense for them. It’s quite the inherited rapist/protection racket.
February 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM
It dawns on me that a huge swath of the powerful class does not consider sexual predation to be a crime; they believe it is their privileged birthright. And those around them are there to facilitate, protect and play defense for them. It’s quite the inherited rapist/protection racket.
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"I understand why women are afraid to come forward. I didn’t call the cops on my rapist & I’ve never named him publicly. It’s sure not because I’m protecting him. I’m protecting myself. Nobody would've believed this trailer-park girl vs that Big Man On Campus," @donnerkay.bsky.social writes.
The Epstein Saga Is Not a Game. It’s About Protecting Women.
Donna Ladd reflects on her own story amid the still-unfolding Jeffrey Epstein saga of rape, retribution and the protection of sexual predators.
www.mississippifreepress.org
August 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"I understand why women are afraid to come forward. I didn’t call the cops on my rapist & I’ve never named him publicly. It’s sure not because I’m protecting him. I’m protecting myself. Nobody would've believed this trailer-park girl vs that Big Man On Campus," @donnerkay.bsky.social writes.
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New Cato study on the fiscal effects of immigrants, both legal and illegal, on federal budgets builds upon a National Academies model. First of its kind in 30 years, it finds that the fiscal effects of immigration remain strongly positive and have helped keep federal deficits from being even higher.
Cato study: Immigrants reduced deficits by $14.5 trillion since 1994
Immigrants have cut deficits by nearly one third over three decades.
www.alexnowrasteh.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
New Cato study on the fiscal effects of immigrants, both legal and illegal, on federal budgets builds upon a National Academies model. First of its kind in 30 years, it finds that the fiscal effects of immigration remain strongly positive and have helped keep federal deficits from being even higher.
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I commend County Executive Ball & local leaders in Howard Co for working to block ICE's attempt to set up another detention facility in Maryland.
We saw the inhumanity of ICE's operation in Baltimore & Marylanders have made clear: we do not want these facilities in our state.
We saw the inhumanity of ICE's operation in Baltimore & Marylanders have made clear: we do not want these facilities in our state.
February 3, 2026 at 1:25 PM
I commend County Executive Ball & local leaders in Howard Co for working to block ICE's attempt to set up another detention facility in Maryland.
We saw the inhumanity of ICE's operation in Baltimore & Marylanders have made clear: we do not want these facilities in our state.
We saw the inhumanity of ICE's operation in Baltimore & Marylanders have made clear: we do not want these facilities in our state.