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Remember where you are. This is Thunderdome, and death is listening.
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Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
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Remember the part in the old Peter Pan play where Peter tells the boys and girls in the audience that if they all just clap harder they can save Tinkerbell?
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Remember the part in the old Peter Pan play where Peter tells the boys and girls in the audience that if they all just clap harder they can save Tinkerbell?
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
into it.
John Waters’s annual list of the best of cinema is finally here. ‘My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today’s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for.’
The Best Movies of 2025, According to John Waters
John Waters’s annual list of the best of cinema is finally here. ‘My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today’s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for.’
www.vulture.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
into it.
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
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Who was paid how much donor cash to confect “Strong floor, no ceiling”
December 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Who was paid how much donor cash to confect “Strong floor, no ceiling”
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It’s a start.
“.. American Bitcoin, which was co-founded by Eric Trump, is now down 75% after the big drop on Tuesday.”
@bloomberg.com #crypto
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com #crypto
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
It’s a start.
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Oh!
The Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia was hit again, this time near Kazinskiye Vyselki on the Taganrog-Lipetsk section, Ukraine’s intelligence reports. The pipeline supplies Russian oil to Europe, including Hungary. The attack used a remotely triggered explosive device with incendiary compounds.
December 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Oh!
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The Moral Arc of the Universe is Long, But It Bends Toward Profits
December 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The Moral Arc of the Universe is Long, But It Bends Toward Profits
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🚨NYC 🚨 The Australian bogan gothic phantasmagoria A GRAND MOCKERY plays in December, which Ben Wheatley called "a living hangover bad party breakup nightmare [that] drags you through the mud and sediment of regret and the sweet shame of a three-day bender"
www.spectacletheater.com/a-grand-mock...
www.spectacletheater.com/a-grand-mock...
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
🚨NYC 🚨 The Australian bogan gothic phantasmagoria A GRAND MOCKERY plays in December, which Ben Wheatley called "a living hangover bad party breakup nightmare [that] drags you through the mud and sediment of regret and the sweet shame of a three-day bender"
www.spectacletheater.com/a-grand-mock...
www.spectacletheater.com/a-grand-mock...
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Loved this little movie theater in my old neighborhood in Chicago and this is such great news: blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/01/r... - I saw soooo many movies here.
Rogers Park's New 400 Theaters Is Reopening As New Operator Revives 113-Year-Old Movie House
The operator of three historical movie theaters in Michigan has leased the shuttered Rogers Park theater, which was the city's oldest continually running movie theater when it closed in 2023.
blockclubchicago.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Loved this little movie theater in my old neighborhood in Chicago and this is such great news: blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/01/r... - I saw soooo many movies here.
That would be cool, but too many of us voted for fascism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
That would be cool, but too many of us voted for fascism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
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Michael and Susan Dell are donating $6.25 billion to fund "Trump Accounts" for 25 million U.S. children. The gift would put $250 into each eligible child's account. n.pr/4rzXG3L
Michael and Susan Dell commit $6.25 billion for investment accounts for kids
Michael and Susan Dell are donating $6.25 billion to fund "Trump Accounts" for 25 million U.S. children. The gift would put $250 into each eligible child's account.
n.pr
December 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Michael and Susan Dell are donating $6.25 billion to fund "Trump Accounts" for 25 million U.S. children. The gift would put $250 into each eligible child's account. n.pr/4rzXG3L
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THE CONVERSATION (1974) screens in 35mm this coming Wednesday & Thursday, December 3rd & 4th, at 7:30pm. Tickets: buff.ly/xoGxkTv
December 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
THE CONVERSATION (1974) screens in 35mm this coming Wednesday & Thursday, December 3rd & 4th, at 7:30pm. Tickets: buff.ly/xoGxkTv
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One by one, each of the nine prisoners appeared virtually before a special panel of the Louisiana parole board.
“Today you’ve been paroled,” the chair said at the end of every hearing, “to go straight into an ICE facility for deportation.”
With @veritenews.org
“Today you’ve been paroled,” the chair said at the end of every hearing, “to go straight into an ICE facility for deportation.”
With @veritenews.org
Louisiana Made It Nearly Impossible to Get Parole. Now It’s Releasing Prisoners to Deport Them.
Gov. Jeff Landry eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those already in prison. Then he set all of that aside for one group: undocumented imm...
www.propublica.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
One by one, each of the nine prisoners appeared virtually before a special panel of the Louisiana parole board.
“Today you’ve been paroled,” the chair said at the end of every hearing, “to go straight into an ICE facility for deportation.”
With @veritenews.org
“Today you’ve been paroled,” the chair said at the end of every hearing, “to go straight into an ICE facility for deportation.”
With @veritenews.org
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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"if only Tsar Nicolas knew of the horrors of the front" ayup
The "If only Trump knew about this" response is such medieval peasant behavior. He knows: he's happy that he is taking stuff away from you.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"if only Tsar Nicolas knew of the horrors of the front" ayup
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Congress and the supreme court gave their power away to Trump, everything that comes next falls squarely on their shoulders.
November 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Congress and the supreme court gave their power away to Trump, everything that comes next falls squarely on their shoulders.
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So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.
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@theatlantic.com offers an AI “summary” of this article in case you don’t want to read it. 🙄
“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.”
“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“
November 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
@theatlantic.com offers an AI “summary” of this article in case you don’t want to read it. 🙄
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
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🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
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A lawsuit previously alleged that David Gentile—just pardoned by Trump— was an associate of Russian organized crime figure and oligarch Michael Cherney.
A business news outlet found that Cherney’s daughters benefited from some of Gentile’s earliest dealings.
A business news outlet found that Cherney’s daughters benefited from some of Gentile’s earliest dealings.
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A lawsuit previously alleged that David Gentile—just pardoned by Trump— was an associate of Russian organized crime figure and oligarch Michael Cherney.
A business news outlet found that Cherney’s daughters benefited from some of Gentile’s earliest dealings.
A business news outlet found that Cherney’s daughters benefited from some of Gentile’s earliest dealings.