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Usually the woman have the the splatfest

Alexander Hamilton is mentioned a mere ~2,500 times in the book Alexander Hamilton.

Pentagon says it will ‘refocus’ Stars and Stripes content The Pentagon suggested it would take over editorial decision making for Stars and Stripes, which has long retained independence under a congressional mandate.

📌URGENT: Trump's regime is trying to turn Stars & Stripes into state-run media.
I was the ME of S&S.

It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops.

So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.

Stephen Miller's Big Shift: Mother-Shooting Goons Replace VA Nurses and Psychologists - emptywheel Donald Trump is taking services away from veterans, and then hiring them to invade blue cities as if they were Fallujah.

Trump's big makeover: gone is a state that renders support and services to its citizens. In its place is a still larger state, to be more specific, a police state that exists to threaten and intimidate its citizens. www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/11/s...

What You’re Watching Isn’t What You’re Really Watching “Federal and local officials dispute the circumstances that led an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer to fatally shoot a 37-year-old woman...

“You think you’re watching an innocent woman being shot and killed in cold blood by the federal government, but what you’re really watching is the death of the United States of America.”

@mcsweeneys.net gahhhh dammnnn this goes hard.

Trump Has Odd Views on Domestic Terrorism The president seems to think that beating police officers is “peaceful,” but attempting to flee from them is terrorism.

“There is no objective standard of conduct that could possibly explain why beating police officers [in the January 6, 2021, insurrection] is peaceful but attempting to flee from them is terrorism,” writes Jonathan Chair in _The_Atlantic_. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Such a busy week for skating - thanks for doing both US and Canadian Championships.

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.

If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.

Voting rights advocates in Ohio worry that voters won’t realize the state has now banned grace periods for ballots sent through the mail. Lawmakers have not appropriated any money for educating the public on this change.

Call your senators! (Sorry, I know everything is on fire. It’s a lot.)

The Senate hasn’t voted on this, & probably won’t.

BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast.

BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
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YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.

Until last month, Forrest Smith was the only person at the National Park Service tracking and plugging leaking oil wells across U.S. national parks.

Now he’s gone — and the methane is still spewing.

Read the full story: https://nyti.ms/4hD6rWg

President Piggy This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.

Trump’s unfiltered vulgarity and misogyny are indisputably on display as his dementia-related disinhibition increases

The first reporter who responds to Trump by saying, "Why are you such a jerk?" will become a folk hero.

So here’s what apparently happened: they tried to indict Comey on the last day of the statute with a three-count indictment. The grand jury rejected one. Rather than cross it out or indicate on the indictment that only two of the three counts were voted upon, Halligan creates…/1

VAN EPPS: “I fully support ICE”

TN-7 candidate Matt Van Epps (R) makes it clear he will be a rubber stamp for Trump’s lawless masked racial profiling army currently terrorizing brown people across the country a grabbing people with no due process, including citizens

Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution. OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.

ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.

@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.

My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC

Bailing out Argentina is—if any rules of politics still exist—so mind-bogglingly stupid.

$40 BILLION. More than what was cut from USAID. Enough to pay for about half of what's cut from SNAP.

Meanwhile, US farmers are awaiting their bailout, which is Trump-inflicted and will not make them whole.

@anntelnaes.bsky.social

Donald Trump and Republicans have nothing to offer the American people. So they feed their base lies about immigrants. Pathetic.

Leader Hakeem Jeffries lays it out.

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure

Here's how the whole Jimmy Kimmel fiasco went down, step by step. Read this gift article for free. This is a major downgrade of what this country once stood for.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Reposting this.....

The right side of Trump's face was drooping during a 9/11 commemoration today (Getty)

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023

www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

Hidden camera FTW

How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes A clever new paper puts concrete numbers to the taxes paid by members of the Forbes 400.

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.