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November 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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Dear friends: "Dilexi te" is Pope Leo's rich meditation on the call from both Jesus and the church over the ages to love and care for the poor. It's an invitation to prayer and action. Take time and read it for yourself and bring it to prayer. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
October 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Dear friends: "Dilexi te" is Pope Leo's rich meditation on the call from both Jesus and the church over the ages to love and care for the poor. It's an invitation to prayer and action. Take time and read it for yourself and bring it to prayer. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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ICE has been paying private security for 24/7 guards to watch a guy with no record whose leg they fucked up so badly he has been in a hospital for over a month, and we wonder why people were handing Tom Homan bags of cash.
Via @kyledcheney.bsky.social
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Via @kyledcheney.bsky.social
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October 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
ICE has been paying private security for 24/7 guards to watch a guy with no record whose leg they fucked up so badly he has been in a hospital for over a month, and we wonder why people were handing Tom Homan bags of cash.
Via @kyledcheney.bsky.social
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Via @kyledcheney.bsky.social
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A friend at the gym thought it was suspiciously coincidental that a nuclear power plant was approved for the hill country in May and now land has been cleared by the floods. SHEESH! Conspiracy theory much?!?!? And the proposed expansion is in Seadrift, not the hill country.
July 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A friend at the gym thought it was suspiciously coincidental that a nuclear power plant was approved for the hill country in May and now land has been cleared by the floods. SHEESH! Conspiracy theory much?!?!? And the proposed expansion is in Seadrift, not the hill country.
Flagrant journalistic malpractice. It's not a "custom"; it's a constitutional RIGHT.
not to be the flyspeck nyt copy as if it's the most important thing guy, but seriously wtf is this?
July 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Flagrant journalistic malpractice. It's not a "custom"; it's a constitutional RIGHT.
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This is a real tweet from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
July 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This is a real tweet from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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Questions about the impact of Trump’s cuts to the NWS on the tragedy in Texas have now reached The NY Times— as the death toll climbs above 50. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
July 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Questions about the impact of Trump’s cuts to the NWS on the tragedy in Texas have now reached The NY Times— as the death toll climbs above 50. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
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TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood, incl girls still missing from a camp. In the time of climate change we need better weather prediction from fed’l resources, not the dramatic cuts Trump/Musk have imposed. joycevance.substack.com/p/when-the-c...
When the Cuts Hit Home
I am not an alarmist.
joycevance.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood, incl girls still missing from a camp. In the time of climate change we need better weather prediction from fed’l resources, not the dramatic cuts Trump/Musk have imposed. joycevance.substack.com/p/when-the-c...
I'm neither a scientist nor union member. However I WILL be sure to call Congress on July 16th.
If you're feeling powerless and looking for something to do, here's a training to teach you how to phonebank for science funding. tinyurl.com/UAWphone7-16
July 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I'm neither a scientist nor union member. However I WILL be sure to call Congress on July 16th.
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July 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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As the Fourth of July approaches, Jen Rubin turned to the Declaration of Independence—not for its famous opening lines, but for its list of grievances. Nearly 250 years later, the echoes of Trump are hard to miss.
Check out the Declaration’s list of grievances
It’s time to recapture our freedoms.
contrarian.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
As the Fourth of July approaches, Jen Rubin turned to the Declaration of Independence—not for its famous opening lines, but for its list of grievances. Nearly 250 years later, the echoes of Trump are hard to miss.
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@nytimes.com
Houston, we have a problem!
Houston, we have a problem!
A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️
Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated
U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts
michaelrlowry.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
@nytimes.com
Houston, we have a problem!
Houston, we have a problem!
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If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
June 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
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👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Harvard has some of the best scientists inventing new ways to early detect and cure cancer. But Trump’s ICE locks them in a detention center— for 2 months!
April 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Outrageous!
The Committee to Protect Journalists has issued a travel advisory for foreign journalists coming to 🇺🇸
cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-...
cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-...
April 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Outrageous!
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @BillBramhall @NYDailyNews )
(From @BillBramhall @NYDailyNews )
April 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @BillBramhall @NYDailyNews )
(From @BillBramhall @NYDailyNews )
This story is horrible.
powerful detailed account of ICE captivity
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This story is horrible.
Unfortunately, Sen. Cassidy has sold his soul.
March 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Unfortunately, Sen. Cassidy has sold his soul.
Killing children by denying aide isn't genocide? Maybe not technically but it feels like it.
Musk here isn’t simply being stupid.
He’s purposely defining Nazism down. The claim that there weren’t Nazis until, in effect, 1939, is ridiculous—but it is an attempt to stop people from correctly calling out elements of Nazism today as long as or until there’s not an actual world war or genocide.
He’s purposely defining Nazism down. The claim that there weren’t Nazis until, in effect, 1939, is ridiculous—but it is an attempt to stop people from correctly calling out elements of Nazism today as long as or until there’s not an actual world war or genocide.
Elon Musk says that as long as you aren't "committing genocide and starting wars" you are "not a Nazi"
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-te...
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-te...
March 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Killing children by denying aide isn't genocide? Maybe not technically but it feels like it.
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👇🏽🎯 scrap the cap
March 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
👇🏽🎯 scrap the cap
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So let's review. Over the last 24 hrs we've learned that two DOGErs embedded at IRS are finalizing a plan to share your tax data with people throughout the government; that's plainly illegal. Meanwhile Mike Johnson claims that Elon is already pouring your Social Security data into his AI and he's...
So two DOGEbros now embedded at IRS are, according to WAPO, finalizing an 'omnibus agreement' for IRS to share Americans' individual tax data with officials across the US govt, something that would appear to be plainly illegal. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
DOGE presses to check federal benefits payments against IRS tax records
Officials with Elon Musk’s group say they want to search for fraud. Privacy law bars the IRS from disclosing tax information to other parts of the government.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
So let's review. Over the last 24 hrs we've learned that two DOGErs embedded at IRS are finalizing a plan to share your tax data with people throughout the government; that's plainly illegal. Meanwhile Mike Johnson claims that Elon is already pouring your Social Security data into his AI and he's...
Sounds like a good idea as we enter tornado season quickly followed by hurricane season.
February 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Sounds like a good idea as we enter tornado season quickly followed by hurricane season.