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This is batshit crazy.
Trump is imitating Putin yet again by forcefully and unilaterally invading a foreign country in order to outright steal their natural resources.
And doing it not only in violation of international law but also of the United States Constitution.
Trump is imitating Putin yet again by forcefully and unilaterally invading a foreign country in order to outright steal their natural resources.
And doing it not only in violation of international law but also of the United States Constitution.
January 3, 2026 at 5:12 PM
This is batshit crazy.
Trump is imitating Putin yet again by forcefully and unilaterally invading a foreign country in order to outright steal their natural resources.
And doing it not only in violation of international law but also of the United States Constitution.
Trump is imitating Putin yet again by forcefully and unilaterally invading a foreign country in order to outright steal their natural resources.
And doing it not only in violation of international law but also of the United States Constitution.
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Today is the 15th day after the Epstein Files Transparency Act required DOJ to file a compliance report with Congress. Discussed here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
January 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Today is the 15th day after the Epstein Files Transparency Act required DOJ to file a compliance report with Congress. Discussed here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
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Very important signal here. You can say it's abt oil. And part of it is. But the White House is actually being forced to strongarm the oil companies to get involved. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Trump admin sends tough private message to oil companies on Venezuela
The White House has told companies they must rebuild Venezuela's crude-pumping infrastructure if they want compensation for assets seized by Caracas.
www.politico.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Very important signal here. You can say it's abt oil. And part of it is. But the White House is actually being forced to strongarm the oil companies to get involved. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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Trump Admin’s Nationwide Gerrymandering Assault Faces Setbacks talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
Trump Admin’s Nationwide Gerrymandering Assault Faces Setbacks
President Trump’s pressure campaign to get red states across the country to...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Trump Admin’s Nationwide Gerrymandering Assault Faces Setbacks talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
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A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.
A reminder: The perpetrators in the Epstein files are Oligarchs, and so are the ones protecting them.
November 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.
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In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
www.theatlantic.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Trump ups the ante from cutting Obamacare funds to abolishing Obamacare completely. I’m sure this will help his cratering numbers
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Trump ups the ante from cutting Obamacare funds to abolishing Obamacare completely. I’m sure this will help his cratering numbers
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No ballistic evidence. No one hit. No injuries. No damage from gunfire. Local cops can’t find a “crime scene.” DHS claims shots were fired. I don’t believe them. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Report of shots fired at federal agents during immigration enforcement in Little Village under investigation
The Chicago Police Department responded to a call of shots fired at federal agents in the 2500 block of South Kedzie Avenue Saturday morning, police said.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
No ballistic evidence. No one hit. No injuries. No damage from gunfire. Local cops can’t find a “crime scene.” DHS claims shots were fired. I don’t believe them. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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DOGE and others in the administration want to build a giant database of records by haphazardly combining info the government collected for one purpose, like paying taxes, and use it for another purpose, like targeting immigrants. We can't let this happen. takebackctrl.org/get-a-warrant
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
DOGE and others in the administration want to build a giant database of records by haphazardly combining info the government collected for one purpose, like paying taxes, and use it for another purpose, like targeting immigrants. We can't let this happen. takebackctrl.org/get-a-warrant
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Watch to the end
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Watch to the end
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Judge Immergut rules against the administration in the Portland Nat’l Guard case, granting a permanent injunction even after giving Trump’s decision “great deference.”
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Judge Immergut rules against the administration in the Portland Nat’l Guard case, granting a permanent injunction even after giving Trump’s decision “great deference.”
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Synagogue tragedy averted. He did not intend to be taken alive: www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/u...
Man arrested with body armor and a suitcase filled with ammunition after threatening multiple synagogues, officials say | CNN
In the latest antisemitic incident to rock a community, threatened attacks on synagogues in Alabama and surrounding states were thwarted when a person was arrested with a suitcase full of ammunition, ...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Synagogue tragedy averted. He did not intend to be taken alive: www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/u...
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message gets clearer and clearer
Breaking on MSNBC:
Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.
Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.
October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
message gets clearer and clearer
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October 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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This is relevant again today. The directive just went out. Keep in mind, it’s illegal for the president to use the military as police without invoking the insurrection act.
That’s interesting. Last time I heard the phrase “Quick Reaction Force” was during the January 6 investigations when the Oath Keepers stashed an arsenal at a Virginia hotel. Gift link: wapo.st/46UGmic
October 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is relevant again today. The directive just went out. Keep in mind, it’s illegal for the president to use the military as police without invoking the insurrection act.
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Wild. After Frank Bisignano, now running Social Security and IRS for Trump, leaves Fiserve, his successor says goals he set can't be met. Stock just fell 40%. Lucky for Bisignano, he sold all his stock at twice its current price. www.wsj.com/business/c-s...
Fiserv Erases $30 Billion in Market Value After New CEO Pulls Guidance
Shares tumbled after the payments company, formerly led by Trump appointee Frank Bisignano, said its previous outlook is unachievable.
www.wsj.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Wild. After Frank Bisignano, now running Social Security and IRS for Trump, leaves Fiserve, his successor says goals he set can't be met. Stock just fell 40%. Lucky for Bisignano, he sold all his stock at twice its current price. www.wsj.com/business/c-s...
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Google and Apple should add a device-level AI permission, just like it does for other potentially invasive privacy features, like location, to their phones. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
When AI and Secure Chat Meet, Users Deserve Strong Controls Over How
Both Google and Apple are cramming new AI features into their phones and other devices, and neither company has offered clear ways to control which apps those AI systems can access. Recent issues
www.eff.org
October 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Google and Apple should add a device-level AI permission, just like it does for other potentially invasive privacy features, like location, to their phones. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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ICE fired shots again, hitting a civilian and a U.S. marshal. DHS, once again, is claiming the man rammed ICE with his car. Let’s see how long before that version of events unravels. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Shooting by ICE officer in Los Angeles wounds motorist, U.S. marshal
Federal authorities said the driver had threatened officers with a vehicle while trying to flee an arrest.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ICE fired shots again, hitting a civilian and a U.S. marshal. DHS, once again, is claiming the man rammed ICE with his car. Let’s see how long before that version of events unravels. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.
Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
October 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.
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Jury Acquittal Hands Jeanine Pirro a Big L talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Jury Acquittal Hands Jeanine Pirro a Big L
Three-Time Loser In a closely watched case, a federal jury acquitted a...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Jury Acquittal Hands Jeanine Pirro a Big L talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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ICE isn’t just tapping into government databases — it’s also tapping into local police scanners, EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social said on an @nyu.edu panel. “ICE is buying millions of people’s geolocations and weaponizing all government data toward immigration.”
nyunews.com/culture/ieq...
nyunews.com/culture/ieq...
NYU’s annual Detention and Deportation Conference means something different this year - Washington Square News
“This conference on immigration and detention and deportation has become a radical act. It’s sad, but it’s true,” migration scholar and keynote speaker Allison Mountz told an audience of close to 200 people on Wednesday, who stood along the back wall and spilled out the conference room’s double doors. The radical act in question was...
nyunews.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
ICE isn’t just tapping into government databases — it’s also tapping into local police scanners, EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social said on an @nyu.edu panel. “ICE is buying millions of people’s geolocations and weaponizing all government data toward immigration.”
nyunews.com/culture/ieq...
nyunews.com/culture/ieq...
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Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
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This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time
You need to see this:
“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time