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"This extreme proposal rigs the game before a single vote is cost, weakens trust in our elections, and tears down the reforms Virginians enacted to prevent exactly this kind of political manipulation. "In her inaugural address, Gov. Spanberger quoted Patrick Henry: 'Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs. "That is wise counsel. "Virginians chose redistricting reform to end partisan map drawing. Reopening the Constitution mid-decode will weaken the guardralls voters deliberately put in piace. "The question is simple: Do constitutional limits apply when they are inconvenient? "Voters should choose their representatives, not the other way around. "Virginia chose fairness in 2020. That decision deserves respect." For media inquiries, please contact campaign@robwittman.com. ### L. Louise Lucas @SenLouiseLucas Replying to @ReElectWittman Will miss you Kiss emoji 9:32 PM 06 Feb 26
February 7, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Rob Wittman @ReElectWittman Voters should choose their representatives - not the other way around. A 10-1 congressional map isn't democracy, it's political engineering. Virginians voted for fairness and independent redistricting in 2020 and they deserve competitive elections, not rigged outcomes. Wittman Responds to Richmond Democrats' Ultra-Blue Map "Democrats in Richmond, led by Speaker Don Scott and Senate Majority Leader Louise Lucas, are advancing a congressional map designed to force a 10-1 partisan split in Virginia's U.S. House delegation a proposal that has been described as the most aggressive gerrymander in the nation. "Virginia is a competitive Commonwealth. Our current 6-5 delegation reflects that reality. A 10-1 map does not reflect voters. It reflects political engineering. This proposal is not driven by census changes. It is not required by a court. It is happening because the 2026 elections are approaching. When politicians redraw districts to guarantee outcomes before voters cast a ballot, that is not democracy. It is a power grab. "In 2020, nearly two-thirds of Virginians amended our Constitution to establish an independent redistricting commission to stop politicians from drawing their own districts. Current Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger, like me, voted for that independent redistricting commission. Now, Richmond leadership wants to bypass that reform. The question is simple: Do constitutional guardrails remain in place when they become politically inconvenient? "Speaker Scott argues Republicans elsewhere are 'manipulating election maps to override the will of the peopie. Yet Republican legislatures in indiana, Kansas, and New Hampshire had the authority and opportunity to redrow congressional maps for political advantage, but they held back. Democrats in Maryland also resisted similar pressure. Those states demonstrated that political competition elsewhere does not require abandoning the established process at home. "This extre…
February 7, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Congress of the United States Washington, DC 20515 February 4, 2026 The Honorable Mike Johnson Speaker United States House of Representatives. H-232, The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable John Thune Majority Leader United States Senate S-230, The Capitol Washington, DC 20510 Dear Speaker Johnson and Leader Thune: We write with respect to fiscal year 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). For months, the American people have watched in horror as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has terrorized communities across the country. After months of escalation against everyday Americans and law-abiding immigrant families, two U.S. citizens were killed in the streets of Minneapolis. Federal immigration agents cannot continue to cause chaos in our cities while using taxpayer money that should be used to make life more affordable for working families. The American people rightfully expect their elected representatives to take action to rein in ICE and ensure no more lives are lost. It is critical that we come together to impose common sense reforms and accountability measures that the American people are demanding. We believe Congress needs to enact the following guardrails: 1. Targeted Enforcement-DHS officers cannot enter private property without a judicial warrant. End indiscriminate arrests and improve warrant procedures and standards. Require verification that a person is not a U.S. citizen before holding them in immigration detention. 2. No Masks Prohibit ICE and immigration enforcement agents from wearing face coverings. 3. Require ID-Require DHS officers conducting immigration enforcement to display their agency, unique ID number and last name. Require them to verbalize their ID number and last name if asked. 4. Protect Sensitive Locations Prohibit funds from being used to conduct enforcement near sensitive locations, including medical facilities, schools, child-care facilities, churches, polling places, courts, etc. 5…
February 5, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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Elena Gadjanova @elliegadjanova.bsky.social 1.7K followers 2.1K following 184 posts Political scientist at Exeter. Ethnic politics, political communication, and social media in Africa. Writing a book on cross-ethnic outreach in highly diverse states. British Academy Innovation fellow 2025-2026.
February 2, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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February 2, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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I've seen him a few things, none Downfall, but know him first and foremost from Wings Of Desire (first watched in '89), but I truly appreciate all the great Downfall parodies. All that said, I will never forget the wonder & joy he brought to his performance in WOD.
Bruno Ganz as an immortal (angel) in Wings of Desire. His face is still, yet filled with quiet emotion & longing. Bruno Ganz as a mortal (human) in Wings of Desire. He's looking at something on his hand with joy and amazement.
January 27, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Chrome gave me an https warning. Duck Duck Go returned dhs dot gov.
nazis.us doesn't support a secure connection with HTTPS Attackers can see and change information you send or receive from the site. It's safest to visit this site later if you're using a public network. There is less risk from a trusted network, like your home or work Wi-Fi. You might also contact the site owner and suggest they upgrade to HTTPS. Learn more DHS.gov homepage
January 25, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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Gun Owners of America @GunOwners * GOA STATEMENT ON MN SHOOTING We are saddened by the loss of life in Minneapolis, Minnesota earlier today during a federal law-enforcement operation. Because details remain limited and facts are still emerging, it is essential that @theJusticeDept conduct a complete, transparent, and prompt investigation so the public can fully understand what occurred and maintain confidence in the rule of law. ... Furthermore, we condemn the untoward comments of @USAttyEssayli. Federal agents are not "highly likely" to be "legally justified" in "shooting" concealed carry licensees who approach while lawfully carrying a firearm. The Second Amendment protects Americans' right to bear arms while protesting-a right the federal government must not infringe upon. Finally, the Left must stop antagonizing @ICEgov and @CBP agents who are taking criminals off the streets and play a crucial role in protecting communities and upholding the rule of law. ------ F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli @USAttyEssayli If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you. Don't do it! x.com/dhsgov/status/...
January 25, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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National Rifle Association of America 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, VA 22030 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 24, 2026 NRA Statement on Minnesota Shooting Fairfax, VA - The National Rifle Association released the following statement regarding the recent officer-involved shooting in Minnesota: "For months, radical progressive politicians like Tim Walz have incited violence against law enforcement officers who are simply trying to do their jobs. Unsurprisingly, these calls to dangerously interject oneself into legitimate law-enforcement activities have ended in violence, tragically resulting in injuries and fatalities. As there is with any officer-involved shooting, there will be a robust and comprehensive investigation that takes place to determine if the use of force was justified. As we await these facts and gain a clearer understanding, we urge the political voices to lower the temperature to ensure their constituents and law enforcement officers stay safe."
January 25, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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January 24, 2026 at 18:42 Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti "We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the 'hero' term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
January 25, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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r/greenland u/Sapotis 15h Sweden To Every American Who's Sorry We're getting at least 10 posts a day from Americans apologising, and saying things like they didn't vote for Trump or don't support his policies. To be blunt, none of that actually matters. You can say you're different from the rest of Americans, but to the rest of the world, that distinction doesn't exist. To us, your country is a single entity on the world stage, and it's threatening its allies. Think about how you view other countries. For example, Russian opposition doesn't change what Russia does, because that's their domestic politics. The same thing applies to the US too, except you had the power to choose your president, and you may still have it. So instead of coming here nonstop to apologise on behalf of your country for your constant need for sympathy, focus on actually changing something while you still can.
January 22, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Attempting to calm my brain so I can eventually sleep. Chose a Fat Tire and old Stones. Currently listening...
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Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet album cover, 1968. Photo of a spare, grimy looking WC. Top half of a toilet with seat up, a vertical pipe runs up the corner next to toilet, exposed toilet paper roll with excess sheets hanging down. Wall behind toilet is covered with pen and marker graffiti. Includes what looks like a hand reaching up from the toilet tank. The Rolling Stones is part of the graffiti, but larger and in red. A dark yellow-gold filter colors the entire photo, adding to the grimy appearance.
January 19, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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Of course. Well before the "Monroe doctrine" 🙄 there was the Treaty of Tordesillas. 🤦🏽‍♀️
A world map showing the world divided per the Treaty of Tordesilla, 1494. Latitudinal divisions give most of the Americas, the Pacific and small sections of Russia and Australia to Spain. Everything else belonged to Portugal.
January 5, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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REPORTABLE / James LaPorta, Jennifer Jacobs President Trump gave the U.S. military the green light to conduct land strikes in Venezuela days before the actual operation occurred, according to two U.S. officials who spoke to CBS News under condition of anonymity to discuss national security matters. Military officials were going to conduct the mission on Christmas but U.S. airstrikes in Nigeria against ISIS targets took precedence, the sources said. The days following Christmas opened more potential strike windows to U.S. military officials but the operation was postponed due to weather conditions. The officials said the U.S. military wanted weather conditions that were advantageous to mission success.
January 3, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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January 1, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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Illustrated poster for original Night Of The Living Dead. Main characters are in the foreground in a V formation. The hero is at the point brandishing a rifle. Huge zombies loom in the background. The poster is all in grayscale except the movie's name which is in green.
December 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Al brings truth to Truth Social for the very first time. [Photo of Donald Trump] Truth Social 's Al chat bot went live today and IMMEDIATELY turned State's Evidence. Q: "Do Trump's Tariffs cost the American people money?" Truth Search AI: "Yes. Tariffs are taxes on imports that U.S. importers pay and largely pass on through higher prices, so the costs are borne mainly by American businesses and consumers." Q: "Did Donald Trump lie about the 2020 election being 'rigged' and 'stolen?"" Truth Search AI: "Yes. Courts, Trump's own advisers, and official investigations found no evidence that the 2020 election was 'rigged' or 'stolen, despite his repeated claims." Q: "Did people storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2020, because of Donald Trump?" Truth Search AI: "Yes. Multiple official and contemporaneous records attribute the January 6, 2021, Capitol breach to a pro-Trump crowd mobilized around his false election-fraud claims and pressure campaign to stop certification." Q: "How many wars has Trump ended since taking office in 2025?" Truth Search AI: "None. There is no verified instance of President Trump
December 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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This is the richest and most powerful country which ever occupied the globe. The might of past empires is little compared to ours. But I do not want to be the President who built empires, or sought grandeur, or extended dominion. I want to be the President who educated young children to the wonders of their world. I want to be the President who helped to feed the hungry and to prepare them to be taxpayers instead of taxeaters. I want to be the President who helped the poor to find their own way and who protected the right of every citizen to vote in every election. I want to be the President who helped to end hatred among his fellow men and who promoted love among the people of all races and all regions and all parties. I want to be the President who helped to end war among the brothers of this earth.
December 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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4 The State's opposition to deployment of the National Guard appears to stem in part from the State's underlying objections to the activities of federal immigration officers when they make immigration stops and arrests in Illinois. The State and the Government disagree about whether the immigration officers have violated the Constitution in making certain immigration stops and arrests. The basic constitutional rules governing that dispute are longstanding and clear: The Fourth Amendment requires that immigration stops must be based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence, stops must be brief, arrests must be based on probable cause, and officers must not employ excessive force. Moreover, the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity. Cf. Whren v. United States, 517 U. S. 806, 813 (1996) ("[T]he Constitution prohibits selective enforcement of the law based on considerations such as race"). This application does not require us to delve into the parties' underlying dispute and to determine whether any particular immigration encounter or series of encounters in Illinois has violated those basic constitutional principles.
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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See the police badge and subway sign. They're garbled nonsense.
Video still showing an AI generated police badge. The letters are an approximation, resulting in garbled nonsense. Video still showing a subway location sign. The word is composed of approximations of letters resulting in nonsense.
December 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Eh, I figured the word demonic was a cringey reference to Sympathy For the Devil. The problem with the text & photo was a questionable posting choice. If you read the full first paragraph and headline, it makes more sense and the photo doesn't seem incongruous with the text.
The Wisdom of Keith Richards at 82 Solving the mystery of the guitarist's longevity may be our best hope of aging gracefully By Rich Cohen Dec. 11, 2025 10:00 am ET [Photo] Keith Richards performing in 2024. JASON KEMPIN/GETTY IMAGES FOR COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM In America, the average man can expect to live 75.8 years. Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts had gone five years past that and was still playing for audiences shortly before he died in 2021. Stones founder Brian Jones died young in his swimming pool, but several of the band's other iconic members, from Ronnie Wood, 78, to Bill Wyman, 89, have won the battle with the actuarial tables. Mick Jagger, the demonic frontman, was barely slowed by the replacement of his aortic valve in 2019. An octogenarian, Mick can still be seen dancing on the ashes of Western Civilization. And yet, for some reason, it is the band's rhythm guitarist who personifies immortality. As the
December 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 2:19 PM Subject: Fwd: radical breakthrough To: jeffrey epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com> > 1 beards and long hair are meant to catch and hold smells. ? fft . for sound. equivament. does it make a coeherent concept.? 2. visiual system cohernant image. making a coherentt sound. . ? 3. a mental object ie mobject. action on mental objects. ? 4. hope opposite of despair. bias internal system reserves. . accesing 5. writing is unnatural. assymentrc speed. not good for eveeryone. linear. slow. rule based. 6. nose test. telepathy. 7 skin as part of brain? memebrane. ? 8. ideas or brain connections as knots. slices. tangles links loops. space knottted. and the speed of light simply mean one time around obviously a constant. is 9. intelltignce on surface needs larger surface area. hence replication. . 10. does the eye tranmsit information. 11/ fear is pain in the future. . 12. music is horizontal and vertical inforamtion? melody prosgy harmony all amials. can it be looked at to reengineer the brain. harmony FFT. symphonic learning. 13 individulal VS the group ?? 14. all senses act in a narrow band. survival. fitness. 15. drive motivation. goal? 16. deception and its role in biollogy. 17 power. financail. physical mental. 18. power lawws and probabality. gravity.? 19. plants. communication. plant diseases. ? surface area. similairy tohumnas. do we get 20. biolgy, np complete? 21 gesture. sound receiver and transionni sense calculation matrix. tounch temp.pressure. location. sight. frequnecey. (temp_. location. movement., smell. transmit. recieve. volatile. amplitude. disgust? is location a sense. near food? direction. to food. ? 22 derivation of the power llaws. 23 power of words 24. questions = AI to the minus 1 25. belief, survival. meachinsim for some. placebo. 26. taste? food? kissing? 27. mortaltiy tables. why. points on the distribution. wittegenstein. 26. money. agreements. debt pwer. value wealth. cost. 27 dreaming all day long 28 only 6 senses? 29. micro bioome anti biotics. recall smell. ? psyche. memory etc. 30/ eye transmission 31. numbers, not good for many things 32. luck what is it mortality tables 33 signal processing. noise. excription gromov deepak. church. martin. hopkins.danny, joscha watson, chomsky. thiel.hoffman, sinofsky. terje. ehud. bannon. barrak. ruemmler. reid. karp. woody, blaine. cavett. sultan jabor raafat. anas joi, reid. wolf. lang. ang. deepakbarnaby ben masha. melz eva mosc. bernie. rony, merill. attia, chen, farkas leon membrane computing. FFT. energy to deconstruct. harmony. knots. explainer. ( survival) matrix algebra, senses. face /image recogniton. / focus, accupnutre presure massage. pain. placebo illusions, visula aurel. honest signals. the evolution. resource. rate of loss. payoff matrix. cooperation.
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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By the way, let me say something slightly political. And I'm not saying other people agree with this, but when people are attacking our soldiers for stopping fentanyl from coming to this country, I want people to remember if fentanyl was killing 60,000 Yale grads instead of 60,000 working-class people, we'd be dropping a nuclear bomb on whoever was sending it from South America. So it's slightly like we in this -- in this, at Palantir, we are on the side of the American -- average American, who sometimes gets screwed because all the empathy goes to elite people and none of it goes to the people who are actually dying on our streets. And that's why it's like when you have an open border, it means that the average poor American earns less. I know my fellow progressives believe having an open border is going to make things, but that's because they're actually repping elite people instead of the working class. And the same thing in South America, we -- it's like to believe our constitution does not give us a right to stop 60,000 deaths a year of working-class men and women is insane. And this company -- this country is right to stop that. And I am very proud -- I don't know all the efforts we're involved in, but to the extent we're involved in these efforts, I, and most Palantirians are very proud of this.
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I just received this after trying from my phone. 🤷🏽‍♀️
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October 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Seen yesterday in Northern New Mexico
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Woman in a red, white and blue sparkly cowboy hat and holding a sign with various anti-Trump slogans. The power of the people is greater than the people in power Hands Off We Will Not Be Quiet Super Callous Super Fragile He's Atrocious I think Therefore I'm Not A Trump Supporter The problem isn't that Trump is an unethical criminal dirt bag. Everyone knows that. The problem is that his supporters don't care.
October 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM