The government’s statement is a flex, not a confession of error. The important elements of the flex are these:

1. We send enemies to brutal foreign labor camps.
2. We decide who enemies are.
3. We may decide you are an enemy based on a secret informant, or our view of your tattoos.
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Rep. Mikie Sherrill and Jen Rubin on Signalgate and Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill joins Jen Rubin to discuss the recent national security scandal Signalgate and her recently-announced run for New Jersey Governor.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill and Jen Rubin on Signalgate and
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

‘Ain’t I an Athlete?’: ‘Protecting Women’s Sports’ Has Never Been About Protecting Black Women The fight over who belongs in women’s sports will only increase the scrutiny of all female athletes — especially Black women and girls.

Today on ContrabandCamp, Dr. Brigette Burpo –a professor & scholar on the intersection of race, gender & sports – explains why the people obsessed with trans athletes & legislating gender (and, by proxy, their humanity) don't really care about "protecting women."

Ex-NFL punter Chris Kluwe calls MAGA 'a Nazi movement' in protest that led to his arrest Chris Kluwe was arrested Tuesday on a charge of disturbing an assembly. He staged an anti-MAGA protest during a Huntington Beach city council meeting.

"MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is." www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

DeepSeek: The Biggest Splash in AI Right Now The little company is making seismic waves in the AI industry with massive geopolitical ramifications. Or, it's lying.

DeepSeek: The Biggest Splash in AI Right Now
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