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"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.

With respect to Vance’s comments today on the killing of Renee Good:

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world

And by design LLMs destroy shared context

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

Thanks for the pic, @dailycaller.bsky.social !

Be sure to tag me and @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social with your best, most fun #NoKings content!

“Willing to consider viewpoints even if they don’t conform to the norm” is open-mindedness. “Compelled to take a contrary viewpoint without respect to merit” is a personality disorder.

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin The draft design of the coin, which was overseen by the Office of the U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach, features Trump’s profile on one side of the coin.

As a kid, I got into politics partly to do my bit fighting the Soviet Union.

Now we have a president who wants to turn us into a country that mimics the Soviet Union.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts.

Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

Free Speech Was Meant for the Speech We Hate—Not the Words We All Agree On Why Charlie Kirk’s murder and today’s crackdowns prove the First Amendment’s real purpose is to protect unpopular voices and stop violence before it starts

The First Amendment was never written to shield polite talk. It exists to protect the words we despise—because silencing them only breeds more danger.

open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Trump's stain on America may be permanent - Salon.com Panicked by the Epstein "hoax" he can't explain away, the president declares war on his own country

It may be a long time before the United States can look at itself in the mirror and see what it saw after World War II: the proverbial shining city on a hill, a model for other democratic nations.
www.salon.com/2025/09/12/t...

Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because

a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked

b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books

Putting the military on the street will lower crime. It does in North Korea, did in Nazi Germany, and in the book 1984.

The question isn’t will it lower crime. The question is do we want to be a nation governed like this. Until 6 minutes ago the GOP believed in LOCAL control.

I want a presidential candidate who promises to construct Union memorials and statues all over the country.

And yeah, North and South. Blanket Virginia with statues of Thomas, who actually chose the right side.

Hell, put one of Sherman in the middle of Peachtree Park.

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada

This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government.

(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

It's important you notice what Trump's Treasury Secretary said the other day.

He slipped and admitted that the new Trump accounts - with a measly $1,000 per person - are "backdoor for privatizing Social Security."

He actually said that. I need to explain to you what it means.

Fine. Release the files.

General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument in Southeast corner of Central Park, New York City.

General William Tecumseh Sherman, forever looking South, always vigilant.

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

Hannity 2019: I have zero doubt that Russia meddled in the 2016 election…I’m certain they did. Devin Nunes was warning Obama in 2014

Hannity 2025: They all lied. I’m proud that this show got it right. The rest of the media went along with the lie.

These stories are horrific, as is the realization that around 35% of Americans would respond “GOOD!”

Trump wants to shift critical infrastructure protection responsibilities to the states. What would that mean for cybersecurity? Less support, more vulnerabilities, and more attacks, experts and industry leaders told me.

My new story: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/critica...

So let me get this straight. In two days we went from “the Epstein list doesn’t exist” to “the Epstein list that certainly exists was created by Obama n such”

Ya ok

There are actually quite a few undocumented Russians in the US.

Anyone have any videos of ICE forcefully deporting them?

Or just the brown people?

The issue isn’t that there are revolting deranged bigots in America. The issue isn’t even that they have their own following. The issue is that they are prominent advisors and friends to the President of the United States and his team.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.