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This one hits hard.

Seve Sack, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

"Minnesota, especially the Twin Cities, has been—and still is—under a paramilitary occupation in which the federal government is at war with the population. 'War' is the operative word here."

@jvl.bsky.social on what he saw in Minneapolis: lnk.thebulwark.com/46kVMuT

Love the pic for this article was when Northside folks mocked ICE changing a tire.

"Eric Trump? Sorry you must have mistaken me for someone else haha. I'm Intersectionality Dave. No no problem at all. Yeah that's my tofu scramble."

aliens would have been more interesting 😆

Wow, Stephen Colbert truly has no more F***s to give.
Another jaw-dropping, blistering critique tonight of the FCC, CBS and the unprecedented interference with his show.
Go watch it!

By early evening the YouTube of Colbert and Talarico had more views than watched the Bad Bunny halftime show on broadcast….

Everything Trump lackeys do to curry favor ends up hurting him. It’s glorious.

The Pentagon's Laser Weapon vs a Party Balloon (Guess Who Won?) So let me get this straight.

“The real story here is about what happens when one part of the government decides that safety regulations are merely suggestions, and another part of the government has the audacity to disagree.”
open.substack.com/pub/logicall...

Guest Opinion | We at the Gallup Poll are ending our 80+ year tradition of polling presidential approval so we can focus on our core mission, such as ranking the top 10 Trump golf courses and the best meme coins from World Liberty Financial.

There are non US citizens influencing our elections, they’re called corporations.

The establishment wants us to not focus on this.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Connections everywhere, accountability nowhere.

'Obama was created': GOP lawmaker claims first Black president 'not organic' man Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) asserted that former President Barack Obama was "created" and not an "organic" person.During an interview with Burchett on Friday, MAGA influencer Benny Johnson suggested that...

He broke their brains, and they're never getting over America's first Black President, and why they're so hellbent on there never being a second. 1/

www.rawstory.com/tim-burchett...

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

The US Olympics Team wearing duffle coats. Most of them are in white duffle coats. The person in the middle is wearing a navy duffle coat and carrying the US flag. They are wearing them over USA sweaters, white pants with elasticated cuffs, and tan suede hiking boots.

Black and white photo of some men in the British Royal Navy wearing duffle coats on a ship. They are looking out into the distance.

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery waeirng a duffle coat over a turtleneck sweater. He appears to be reviewing plans.

A Royal Navy officer using a sextant aboard a destroyer on convoy protection duties, 1942. He's wearing a tan duffle coat.

Dig the duffle coats on the US Team. The rope toggles harken back to the original military design when the Allies fought fascists. Manufacturers such as Gloverall switched to leather after the war to make the civilian versions feel more "upscale."

in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits

The GOP has offered nothing this century except for catastrophic wars. No healthcare plan; no re-industrialization. Now they're losing their only issue, immigration, as people see the violence and havoc that comes with mass deportations.

The Nazis had even achieved a plurality in Berlin in one of the 1932 elections.

Republicans are a small minority in almost every major city in America, and unlike the comically fractured Weimar German political landscape, basically all of their opponents vote for the same party.

I understand folks are scared but I want you to think about the mechanics of this.

There are more polling places (>100k) than ICE and CBP agents combined, so they can only pick a few districts to try to intimidate.

Now what happens when cell phone footage of that goes online in the early morning?

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

What's been weird to learn is that other leaders of institutions act the same way. Some of them hoard and protect their influence like it's money because they, too, are rich. You don't get rich by giving your money away and (they seem to believe) you don't get powerful by exercising your power. But, in fact, that is often how power works: using power can help build power. At the very least, power holds no value unless it is exercised, which alone is a valid reason to exercise it. If you are powerful but never use your power, you are not powerful. I'm talking here primarily about the huge, obvious loci of power — the centers of power that exist in part to serve as checks on other centers of power. Congress vis-a-vis the presidency. The media relative to the government. Higher education in contrast to misinformation. But they often aren't serving as checks on what's unfolding, or are obviously and bizarrely using their power only sparingly, garden hoses aimed at protecting their own homes from the wildfire. So it's left to individuals, who have stepped up where institutions have not.

I wrote about Minnesota and ICE and how average Americans are reclaiming the power that the administration is abusing.
www.pbump.net/o/this-is-wh...

BREAKING: 8 more U.S. Attorneys in MN resign from Trump’s DOJ in protest as backlash grows.
This isn’t normal; isn’t routine reshuffling. It’s a rebellion.
Last month, 6 veteran prosecutors quit in protest. Normal staffing for the MN DOJ’s office is around 50 attorneys. They’re down to just 9.

Bro, what do you mean the AI-based avatar is out-of-network?

Chris Dudley Was Brett Kavanaugh’s College Drinking Buddy “When he went out Friday nights, I was usually with him,” Dudley says of Kavanaugh. “I never, ever saw him blacked out, never.”

Given that OR GOP gubernatorial candidate Chris Dudley was drinking buddies at Yale with the brilliant mind behind “Kavanaugh stops” like this, it seems like maybe he should be asked about abuses of Oregonians like this. www.wweek.com/news/2018/09...

DHS has been doing this for a long time—nearly since its inception. The reality is that much of their “intelligence” is literally just forwarded emails with the subject line line: “FW FW FW FW the daily mail EXPOSES antifa HQ”

This is not an exaggeration.

Folks, TCM is featuring several old Looney Tunes cartoons all week, including the immortal What's Opera, Doc?

THERE'S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME FOR ALL AMERICANS TO SIT BACK AND WATCH A RABBIT IN DRAG.