Every accusation is a confession
The agent, who’s assigned to another HSI office and is in Minnesota on “temporary detail for an operation,” is unfamiliar with the Twin Cities, did not know where they were going, and “was in fear that he was being abducted.”
FBI: Man, woman drive to police station with Homeland Security agent trapped in vehicle
A man and a woman are facing charges of assaulting a federal officer after Homeland Security Investigations agents tried to arrest the man Wednesday for overstaying his student visa. The pair drove to...
www.mprnews.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Every accusation is a confession
Thinking back to all of the people fired after the deaths of Billy Graham, Jerry Fallwell, Anita Bryant, and James Dobson
September 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Thinking back to all of the people fired after the deaths of Billy Graham, Jerry Fallwell, Anita Bryant, and James Dobson
Lysenkoism and world ice theory all over again
welcome to the era of Aryan public health. I imagine it will go about as well as Aryan physics, only with a vastly higher death toll
August 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Lysenkoism and world ice theory all over again
Who could forget Hitler’s masterful negotiating move of committing suicide with his wife on their honeymoon in an underground bunker…
JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
August 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Who could forget Hitler’s masterful negotiating move of committing suicide with his wife on their honeymoon in an underground bunker…
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Can we now stop dismissing the Jade Helm stuff as a silly conservative theory, and instead see it as an unintentionally revelatory form of projection by aspirationally authoritarian conservative, “freedom fighters” who were battling against tyrannical phantoms that existed only in their own psyches?
Rep. Troy Downing on Trump's takeover of DC: "Hopefully this is a harbinger in what we see in these liberally run cities across the country ... we need to send in the troops, which is exactly what we're doing."
August 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Can we now stop dismissing the Jade Helm stuff as a silly conservative theory, and instead see it as an unintentionally revelatory form of projection by aspirationally authoritarian conservative, “freedom fighters” who were battling against tyrannical phantoms that existed only in their own psyches?
I wish The Onion could go back to publishing satire
Happy Monday, Everyone! Looking Forward To Another Week Of Infecting Every Aspect Of Your Daily Lives! theonion.com/happy-m...
July 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I wish The Onion could go back to publishing satire
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Finally, a chance to acquire bird flu or the parasite Cyclospora free from big government interference.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
July 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Finally, a chance to acquire bird flu or the parasite Cyclospora free from big government interference.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.politico.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
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55 years ago today, four Kent State students were killed on campus by Ohio National Guardsmen for protesting the Vietnam War
Why does it feel like this is what Trump means by Make America Great Again?
Why does it feel like this is what Trump means by Make America Great Again?
May 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
55 years ago today, four Kent State students were killed on campus by Ohio National Guardsmen for protesting the Vietnam War
Why does it feel like this is what Trump means by Make America Great Again?
Why does it feel like this is what Trump means by Make America Great Again?
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“Shipping ports are empty across the United States. Nothing is coming in. Businesses have cancelled the remainder of their 2025 orders.”
(h/t FreightWaves)
(h/t FreightWaves)
May 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
“Shipping ports are empty across the United States. Nothing is coming in. Businesses have cancelled the remainder of their 2025 orders.”
(h/t FreightWaves)
(h/t FreightWaves)
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"I like Trump: 32%"
"I *hate* Trump: 51%"
Good luck in the 2026 midterms any Republicans who think they can win on riding on Donald's wrinkled, baggy, sloppy 1980s suit coattails.
"I *hate* Trump: 51%"
Good luck in the 2026 midterms any Republicans who think they can win on riding on Donald's wrinkled, baggy, sloppy 1980s suit coattails.
April 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"I like Trump: 32%"
"I *hate* Trump: 51%"
Good luck in the 2026 midterms any Republicans who think they can win on riding on Donald's wrinkled, baggy, sloppy 1980s suit coattails.
"I *hate* Trump: 51%"
Good luck in the 2026 midterms any Republicans who think they can win on riding on Donald's wrinkled, baggy, sloppy 1980s suit coattails.
A great example of what NOT to do. Idealist disengagement is one of the reasons we are in this mess. If you can’t stand Schumer & Co, then this is The Time to be engaged.
Don’t give Democrats a dime until this guy is gone.
Schumer on CNN stops short of saying impeaching Trump would be a priority for Dems if they retake Congress
April 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
A great example of what NOT to do. Idealist disengagement is one of the reasons we are in this mess. If you can’t stand Schumer & Co, then this is The Time to be engaged.
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The only thing genAI is useful for is letting other people know you want to have fewer teeth.
April 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The only thing genAI is useful for is letting other people know you want to have fewer teeth.
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The Trump Administration has made a shocking claim: that it can declare living people dead to cut off their access to government benefits and the broader U.S. financial system.
Thread on my colleagues’ new blog 🧵
www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...
Thread on my colleagues’ new blog 🧵
www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...
Trump and DOGE Claim Power to Falsely List Living Persons as Dead in Social Security Records | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Trump Administration has made a shocking claim: that it can declare living people dead to cut off their access to government benefits and the broader U.S. financial system. According to reporting....
www.cbpp.org
April 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The Trump Administration has made a shocking claim: that it can declare living people dead to cut off their access to government benefits and the broader U.S. financial system.
Thread on my colleagues’ new blog 🧵
www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...
Thread on my colleagues’ new blog 🧵
www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...
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Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes. More details here, but this is... really bad. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...
April 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes. More details here, but this is... really bad. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...
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I can’t get over the fact that Trump disappeared a legal U.S. resident to a gulag in El Salvador and is refusing to bring him back despite a unanimous Supreme Court decision ordering him to
April 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I can’t get over the fact that Trump disappeared a legal U.S. resident to a gulag in El Salvador and is refusing to bring him back despite a unanimous Supreme Court decision ordering him to
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Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely.
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines
Emergency Triad: Are we now a country of political prisoners and gulags?
www.thebulwark.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely.
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
So, with a 145% tariff somehow Chinese cars are still too competitive for Detroit?
Today I introduced my first official bill as a U.S. Senator. It will ban Chinese vehicles from entering the U.S. and ban Chinese parts that transmit Americans' personal data back to Beijing.
April 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
So, with a 145% tariff somehow Chinese cars are still too competitive for Detroit?
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BREAKING: Germany is considering the withdrawal of approximately 1,200 tons of gold, valued at around $124 billion, from a U.S. Federal Reserve vault in New York.
April 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: Germany is considering the withdrawal of approximately 1,200 tons of gold, valued at around $124 billion, from a U.S. Federal Reserve vault in New York.
More institutions are going to be tested. Pressure is already being publicly directed at Powell to lower rates.
Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell has warned Donald Trump’s tariffs will stoke 'higher inflation and slower growth', adding unemployment was also at risk of rising on.ft.com/4cmQZec
April 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
More institutions are going to be tested. Pressure is already being publicly directed at Powell to lower rates.
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Hello world! My name is Marcy Rheintgen and I recently became the first person to be arrested under the transgender bathroom bills!
April 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hello world! My name is Marcy Rheintgen and I recently became the first person to be arrested under the transgender bathroom bills!
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.