Tom Tilley
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“.. We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said .. as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”
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December 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“.. We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said .. as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”
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The director of Minnesota’s Driver and Vehicle Services is warning U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that they’re violating state law and could be cited if they switch out or remove license plates on their unmarked vehicles.
Minnesota DVS warns ICE agents they’re violating state law by switching license plates
The director of Minnesota’s Driver and Vehicle Services told federal homeland security officials to stop license plate switching immediately. Gov. Tim Walz called tampering with plates “criminal activ...
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December 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The director of Minnesota’s Driver and Vehicle Services is warning U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that they’re violating state law and could be cited if they switch out or remove license plates on their unmarked vehicles.
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Through obtained video footage, the New York Times has exposed a pattern of Border Patrol agents causing accidents, falsifying reports, and arresting innocent individuals to cover up systemic abuse.
December 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Through obtained video footage, the New York Times has exposed a pattern of Border Patrol agents causing accidents, falsifying reports, and arresting innocent individuals to cover up systemic abuse.
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I got the names and details, hence the article has been rewritten
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December 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I got the names and details, hence the article has been rewritten
www.onestnetwork.com/post/u-s-vis...
www.onestnetwork.com/post/u-s-vis...
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".. In the last four months, the European Union spent 7% less on buying oil and gas from the United States, despite Donald Trump’s pledge to purchase American energy resources worth $750 billion over three years."
#PinkyPromise @financialtimes.com
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#PinkyPromise @financialtimes.com
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EU spent less on US energy after $750bn Trump trade deal
Member states’ spending on US oil and gas fell 7 per cent over the past four months
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December 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
".. In the last four months, the European Union spent 7% less on buying oil and gas from the United States, despite Donald Trump’s pledge to purchase American energy resources worth $750 billion over three years."
#PinkyPromise @financialtimes.com
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#PinkyPromise @financialtimes.com
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Holy shit!
On the morning of the Delaney Hall confrontation, an ICE thug who would shove @replamonica.bsky.social later in the day used a racial slur.
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On the morning of the Delaney Hall confrontation, an ICE thug who would shove @replamonica.bsky.social later in the day used a racial slur.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Holy shit!
On the morning of the Delaney Hall confrontation, an ICE thug who would shove @replamonica.bsky.social later in the day used a racial slur.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
On the morning of the Delaney Hall confrontation, an ICE thug who would shove @replamonica.bsky.social later in the day used a racial slur.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Yes, the U.S. vaccinates more than European countries, but look at the results! Europe never eliminated measles. Measles was eliminated for 25 years not just in the U.S., but the entire Western Hemisphere.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...
Viewpoint: The myth of an over-vaccinated America: The US DOES follow global consensus
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December 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Yes, the U.S. vaccinates more than European countries, but look at the results! Europe never eliminated measles. Measles was eliminated for 25 years not just in the U.S., but the entire Western Hemisphere.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
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December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
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Hilarious. Michael Shellenberger, who has spent years spewing made up nonsense about a "censorship industrial complex" involving close ties between gov't & industry to "censor" speech is out there running cover for Bari Weiss censoring speech on behalf of the gov't.
December 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hilarious. Michael Shellenberger, who has spent years spewing made up nonsense about a "censorship industrial complex" involving close ties between gov't & industry to "censor" speech is out there running cover for Bari Weiss censoring speech on behalf of the gov't.
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No!
Most presidents do not in fact name anything after themselves while they’re in office, because they’re not toddlers who constantly need to be the center of attention.
Most presidents do not in fact name anything after themselves while they’re in office, because they’re not toddlers who constantly need to be the center of attention.
Has any other president named this much stuff after himself?
December 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
No!
Most presidents do not in fact name anything after themselves while they’re in office, because they’re not toddlers who constantly need to be the center of attention.
Most presidents do not in fact name anything after themselves while they’re in office, because they’re not toddlers who constantly need to be the center of attention.
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This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
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CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”
December 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”
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ICE is arguing that construction sites are like “open fields” that don’t require search warrants because they’re freely “accessible to the public and the police.”
Here are two sites that they went into without a warrant.
Do these homes look like open fields?
Here are two sites that they went into without a warrant.
Do these homes look like open fields?
December 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
ICE is arguing that construction sites are like “open fields” that don’t require search warrants because they’re freely “accessible to the public and the police.”
Here are two sites that they went into without a warrant.
Do these homes look like open fields?
Here are two sites that they went into without a warrant.
Do these homes look like open fields?
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
December 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
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And there it is...
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
And there it is...
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As if we didn't know.
Weiss said it was b/c the WH hadn't commented. But as correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi noted, "If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch' for any reporting...
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said it was b/c the WH hadn't commented. But as correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi noted, "If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch' for any reporting...
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
As if we didn't know.
Weiss said it was b/c the WH hadn't commented. But as correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi noted, "If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch' for any reporting...
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said it was b/c the WH hadn't commented. But as correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi noted, "If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch' for any reporting...
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The fact that random people on the Internet are outsmarting Trump's DOJ in detecting the removal of Epstein Files shows just how amateurish Pamela Jo Bondi and her D-list team are.
There are competent coverups and sloppy, easily detected coverups. This is the latter.
There are competent coverups and sloppy, easily detected coverups. This is the latter.
December 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The fact that random people on the Internet are outsmarting Trump's DOJ in detecting the removal of Epstein Files shows just how amateurish Pamela Jo Bondi and her D-list team are.
There are competent coverups and sloppy, easily detected coverups. This is the latter.
There are competent coverups and sloppy, easily detected coverups. This is the latter.
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Gets to key point. Letters of marque are most often issued by powers without a robust navy. It's the ultimate privatization. You take your seized vessel to a prize court at a port of the issuing power. Are you going to sell the cocaine? The boats themselves hardly look like valuable assets.
December 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Gets to key point. Letters of marque are most often issued by powers without a robust navy. It's the ultimate privatization. You take your seized vessel to a prize court at a port of the issuing power. Are you going to sell the cocaine? The boats themselves hardly look like valuable assets.
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The redactions will continue until morale improves
JUST IN: DOJ appears to acknowledge taking down some photos from Epstein files release Friday. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The redactions will continue until morale improves
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🚨People employed to work for ICE are not educated. They are so woefully ignorant, they see brown skin and assume. Colonizers came and stole everything from Native Americans/Indigenous people. The thought of them being detained/questioned by ICE in 2025 is infuriating. Shameful.
December 21, 2025 at 5:34 AM
🚨People employed to work for ICE are not educated. They are so woefully ignorant, they see brown skin and assume. Colonizers came and stole everything from Native Americans/Indigenous people. The thought of them being detained/questioned by ICE in 2025 is infuriating. Shameful.