wmaximonis
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The fury I feel right now cannot be properly expressed.
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Ghouls!
Times Square May Lose Its Beloved 50-Year-Old Boxing Bar
Jimmy’s Corner boxing bar in Times Square is being evicted
ny.eater.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Ghouls!
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A criminal president for criminals. www.thedailybeast.com/convicted-fr...
Convicted Fraudster Trump, 79, Frees Man Convicted of $1.6B Fraud
David Gentile, who scammed thousands of “hardworking, everyday people,” had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A criminal president for criminals. www.thedailybeast.com/convicted-fr...
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
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Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
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Dozens of Philadelphia-area Catholics rallied outside the Center City ICE office on Wednesday, joining a pro-immigrant push undertaken by fellow church groups around the country.
Protesters rally outside Philly ICE office as Catholics launch ‘One Church, One Family’ campaign for immigrants
A second day of prayer is set for Nov. 13, to coincide with the feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, an Italian immigrant who became the first U.S. citizen to be declared a saint.
www.inquirer.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Dozens of Philadelphia-area Catholics rallied outside the Center City ICE office on Wednesday, joining a pro-immigrant push undertaken by fellow church groups around the country.
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America has a dictator who loots the government for his private gain, locks up his opposition and launches dubious military strikes without any oversight.
October 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
America has a dictator who loots the government for his private gain, locks up his opposition and launches dubious military strikes without any oversight.
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the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
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SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A Third of ICE-Academy Recruits Are Failing Out
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9
October 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9
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For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
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anyway
Trump team ends $18m program designed to ID domestic terrorists before they attack
Administration is axing an $18 million program designed to identify and prevent attacks committed by individual perpetrators, an increasingly growing trend in domestic terrorism
www.independent.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
anyway
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Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
September 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
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As Trump/Republicans gut healthcare for 10 million + Americans - they are spending hundreds of millions to make the White House look like a tacky dictator's dream palace www.axios.com/newsletters/...
July 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
As Trump/Republicans gut healthcare for 10 million + Americans - they are spending hundreds of millions to make the White House look like a tacky dictator's dream palace www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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The National’s front page as Donald Trump is set to arrive in Scotland today.
July 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The National’s front page as Donald Trump is set to arrive in Scotland today.
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The Republican Party is shutting the government down in order to protect a ring of elite pedophiles that includes their leader, the President of the United States of America. How about that!
July 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The Republican Party is shutting the government down in order to protect a ring of elite pedophiles that includes their leader, the President of the United States of America. How about that!
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it's remarkable that Americans lived through Trump's covid response (with the exception of the million souls who didn't make it) and said, 'Sign me up for more, please!'
Leavitt: "The alerts imminently were sent out before the flood when people were sleeping because the flood hit in the very early hours of the morning. People were sleeping in the middle of the night when this flood came. This was an act of God, it is not the admin's fault the flood hit when it did."
July 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
it's remarkable that Americans lived through Trump's covid response (with the exception of the million souls who didn't make it) and said, 'Sign me up for more, please!'
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worth pointing out, again, that a 20% tariff on Vietnamese imports alone (our sixth-largest trading partner!) would have been considered the worst trade war in modern American history pre-Trump. Instead it is now treated as a "deal". How far we've fallen.
July 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
worth pointing out, again, that a 20% tariff on Vietnamese imports alone (our sixth-largest trading partner!) would have been considered the worst trade war in modern American history pre-Trump. Instead it is now treated as a "deal". How far we've fallen.
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The president and vice president, like most Republicans, think it is good that a christian fanatic murdered an elected Democrat, and they pretty clearly hope there will be more murders.
It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend
After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The president and vice president, like most Republicans, think it is good that a christian fanatic murdered an elected Democrat, and they pretty clearly hope there will be more murders.
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With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
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if constitutional rights only apply to individuals or states that have sued for relief, you don't actually have constitutional _rights_, you have _privileges_ that can sometimes (but not always) be secured for you by your lawyer
The upshot of this decision, for now, seems to be exactly the crazy patchwork scenario we were warned about:
- the lower-court injunctions continue to protect the parties (immigrant orgs, individuals and 22 states) from Trump's EO
- the EO can (and will) be enforced in the other 28 states
- the lower-court injunctions continue to protect the parties (immigrant orgs, individuals and 22 states) from Trump's EO
- the EO can (and will) be enforced in the other 28 states
June 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
if constitutional rights only apply to individuals or states that have sued for relief, you don't actually have constitutional _rights_, you have _privileges_ that can sometimes (but not always) be secured for you by your lawyer
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What happens when it’s family tree presentation day, do a bunch of kids leave the classroom when my daughter presents her family tree? Every time she recaps her weekend? If she wants to read her favorite book (My Moms Love Me) in class?
Breaking news: The Supreme Court ruled that religious parents can opt their children out of public school lessons with LGBTQ+ books, a case that could have implications for schools nationwide.
Supreme Court sides with religious parents seeking to opt out of LGBTQ storybooks
The case asked whether Montgomery County, Maryland could require children to participate in lessons with books that clash with parents’ religious beliefs.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
What happens when it’s family tree presentation day, do a bunch of kids leave the classroom when my daughter presents her family tree? Every time she recaps her weekend? If she wants to read her favorite book (My Moms Love Me) in class?
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This Supreme Court is not a judicial court, but a royal court.
They exist not to apply the laws of this nation fairly for all its citizens but rather to prop up the king and attend to his needs and his needs alone.
They exist not to apply the laws of this nation fairly for all its citizens but rather to prop up the king and attend to his needs and his needs alone.
this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
June 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This Supreme Court is not a judicial court, but a royal court.
They exist not to apply the laws of this nation fairly for all its citizens but rather to prop up the king and attend to his needs and his needs alone.
They exist not to apply the laws of this nation fairly for all its citizens but rather to prop up the king and attend to his needs and his needs alone.