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The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
dlvr.it
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
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My favorite part of Thanksgiving is when the whole family gets together and reads letters to me about my "coke addiction"
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My favorite part of Thanksgiving is when the whole family gets together and reads letters to me about my "coke addiction"
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So I said 'it sounds like youre just feeding companies to private equity' and the exec's daughter started crying.
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
So I said 'it sounds like youre just feeding companies to private equity' and the exec's daughter started crying.
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The last of the original Garbage Pail Kids has died in custody
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The last of the original Garbage Pail Kids has died in custody
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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i want someone to ask mike johnson "should we be worried that you are always learning the news at your own press conferences, which is exactly when you are supposed to be answering questions about the news"
October 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
i want someone to ask mike johnson "should we be worried that you are always learning the news at your own press conferences, which is exactly when you are supposed to be answering questions about the news"
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Dachau began as a "work-conditioned housing" facility. Auschwitz began as a "work-conditioned housing" facility. Majdanek began as a "work-conditioned housing" facility.
Utah has just approved a 1,300-person “mega camp” for homeless individuals,This camp lacks transportation, features locked units, and even imposes forced labor.
They refer to this facility as “work-conditioned housing,” but we simply call it what it is: modern-day internment.
They refer to this facility as “work-conditioned housing,” but we simply call it what it is: modern-day internment.
October 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Dachau began as a "work-conditioned housing" facility. Auschwitz began as a "work-conditioned housing" facility. Majdanek began as a "work-conditioned housing" facility.
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learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.
October 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.
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well, my autopsy came back negative. what does that mean
October 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
well, my autopsy came back negative. what does that mean
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America is being run by people whose social media presence would see them getting fired from a part time job stacking shelves.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
October 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
America is being run by people whose social media presence would see them getting fired from a part time job stacking shelves.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
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The author of this Arizona age-verification bill admitted that *he* would never upload a government ID to access but passed this law for the rest of us.
Adult content sites to cut off access or require IDs in Arizona
A law passed earlier this year is set to go into effect this week, cutting off access to adult content sites for Arizonans.
www.kold.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The author of this Arizona age-verification bill admitted that *he* would never upload a government ID to access but passed this law for the rest of us.
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YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool.
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI-Generated YouTube Channel Uploaded Nothing But Videos of Women Being Shot
YouTube removed a channel that posted nothing but graphic Veo-generated videos of women being shot after 404 Media reached out for comment.
www.404media.co
September 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool.
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
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all the people i've followed for years are all getting jobs nowadays
Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...
Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."
www.advocate.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:20 AM
all the people i've followed for years are all getting jobs nowadays
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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White nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes has never been more popular, and he has a plan in place to leverage that popularity to infiltrate all aspects of US society to spread his racist, antisemitic worldview.
And it's already happening...
www.wired.com/story/nick-f...
And it's already happening...
www.wired.com/story/nick-f...
Nick Fuentes’ Plan to Conquer America
For years, influencer Nick Fuentes was too extreme even for MAGA. Now he's working his way into the mainstream—and has a plan for his secret followers to seize the levers of power.
www.wired.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
White nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes has never been more popular, and he has a plan in place to leverage that popularity to infiltrate all aspects of US society to spread his racist, antisemitic worldview.
And it's already happening...
www.wired.com/story/nick-f...
And it's already happening...
www.wired.com/story/nick-f...
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A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
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Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
September 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”
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it's absolutely critical to understand in this moment that people aren't largely reacting to who Charlie Kirk was as a person, but who they knew him as because of what tiny pieces of him got clipped out and stuck in their newsfeeds.
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
September 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
it's absolutely critical to understand in this moment that people aren't largely reacting to who Charlie Kirk was as a person, but who they knew him as because of what tiny pieces of him got clipped out and stuck in their newsfeeds.
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It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.
September 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.
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What will happen is the same thing that happened when it turned out the Trump shooter was a disaffected young white man.
No corrections, no apologies, and within a month at most, they’ll be back to pretending that it was a radical trans leftist. Kirk was only ever a tool to them. So is his death.
No corrections, no apologies, and within a month at most, they’ll be back to pretending that it was a radical trans leftist. Kirk was only ever a tool to them. So is his death.
If in fact killer’s hate emanated from Kirk’s right, not left, and from *inside* not outside their movement, then what happens next?
Few if any of those who immediately targeted the wrong people will apologize or retract, sadly. That’s the Roy Cohn/Trump way.
More interesting is whether… 6/x
Few if any of those who immediately targeted the wrong people will apologize or retract, sadly. That’s the Roy Cohn/Trump way.
More interesting is whether… 6/x
September 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
What will happen is the same thing that happened when it turned out the Trump shooter was a disaffected young white man.
No corrections, no apologies, and within a month at most, they’ll be back to pretending that it was a radical trans leftist. Kirk was only ever a tool to them. So is his death.
No corrections, no apologies, and within a month at most, they’ll be back to pretending that it was a radical trans leftist. Kirk was only ever a tool to them. So is his death.
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you have to admit it’s funny that they cared about the Cracker Barrel logo as long if not longer than this
September 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
you have to admit it’s funny that they cared about the Cracker Barrel logo as long if not longer than this