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And many thanks to @marisakabas.bsky.social of TheHandbasket.co for breaking this story nationally TWO years ago and also to HCR for bringing Marisa to my/our attention.

@marisakabas.bsky.social: This is the story that put you on my “map” and I’ve been following you ever since. You are incredible, and I always pay attention when your name pops up in my “feed” 🥢🥣🍴🥄
Thank you for doing the work that you do!

Breaking Basket 11/11/25 — Marion County Record $3 million settlement Listen to Breaking Basket 11/11/25 — Marion County Record $3 million settlement by Marisa Kabas #np on #SoundCloud

NEW Breaking Basket (new short-form audio news update thing I’m testing out) on the Marion County Record settlement, with context and background on the unprecedented newspaper raid.

Listen here:

What happened yesterday was simple…

The donors were tired of seeing their portfolios dropping, and were getting annoyed with the simple inconveniences that the shutdown was causing in their lives.

Our healthcare wasn’t really a concern for them.

Our lives aren’t really a concern for them.

DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.

Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

If there is one thing Miami is known for, it is for refugees fleeing the communists in...checks notes...South Africa.

America becoming great again.

Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.

But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.

You can’t negotiate with people like that.

Four panel webcomic. Panel 1: Pepe the Alt Right Frog mascot is secured in a guillotine. The Portland Frog is superimposed over the French Revolutionary headsman, and asks, "Any last words?" Panel 2: Pepe, with a smug look, says, "So much for the tolerant left." Panel 3: Pepe mugs for the crowd, as if awaiting cheers. The Portland Frog seems unmoved. Panel 4: The Portland Frog impassionately releases the guillotine blade to a resounding *CHOP* as Pepe's head goes bouncing away with a dejected expression on its face.

Used my meager ability to point and click on my Android phone using Polish to update this gem of a comic.

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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undermine Elections Together, these actions form a concerted strategy to interfere with elections.

“This year, a new threat to free and fair elections has emerged: the federal government.”

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Timely question asked (again) by @timothysnyder.bsky.social: If America did suffer a major terrorist attack, how would Trump & his team react?

They have already crippled government agencies responsible for preventing terrorism, empowering officials with (as he says) “entertainment skills.”

THIS is the reason why I have consistently tried to emphasize that Border Patrol and ICE are different agencies with different duties and different leadership and different styles.

Border Patrol are the aggro cowboys compared to ICE. Now they're going to be the ones running the show.

A tweet from Morgan J. Freeman states: “FACT: Venezuela is NOT a major producer of cocaine. They do not have large cocaine factories. They do not produce fentanyl either. What Venezuela does have is the world’s largest oil reserves.”

Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.

The media is doing everything they can to dismiss and justify the destruction of the White House and pretending it is ok or people do not care specifically because they KNOW it is a horrifying and incredibly shitty thing trump is doing and it could really harm him if they do not protect him.

#ItRemindsMeOfMoney

#ItRemindsMeOfMoney

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

When dressing up as a Nazi for Halloween is even remotely acceptable then you know as a country we have lost the plot.

We can never normalize this:

Death Star

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

And so it begins…
(…or continues?)

to be clear i have zero doubt there are 'friends' of the president of the united states more than happy to write him personal checks of huge amounts as we have seen with the inauguration and that epstein ballroom

will there be any followup to this fascinating story by the president of the united states that a friend of his sent him a check for $130 million dollars and the president is going to give the money to the military because i for one am fascinated about the details tbh

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Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

Monday's photo from the Washington Post

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.

what about the murdered guys

If it's bad policy, a future Congress could repeal the law.

What you can't do is imagine away the text and original meaning of the 15th Amendment. You can't make Constitutional words mean whatever you want them to mean in the moment. That's not constitutional government. It's rule by judiciary.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert A Message From The Frog Resistance

FROGS OVER FASCISTS!

🐸 > 🧊

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Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?