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ex-@MMFA researcher (https://www.mediamatters.org/author/brendan-karet), current gamer

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26.02.2026 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period." ERIN REED FEB 25, 2026 88 5 21 Share Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.

Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.

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www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

26.02.2026 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6337    πŸ” 3476    πŸ’¬ 241    πŸ“Œ 912

gj

26.02.2026 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RoundTable poll: Biss leads by single digits over Abughazaleh, Fine in congressional primary - Evanston RoundTable Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss leads the Democratic primary for Illinois' 9th Congressional District seat with 24% support, holding single-digit leads over

Update: New independent poll:

Biss 24
Kat 17
Fine 16

(But still 22 "not sure.")
evanstonroundtable.com/2026/02/24/r...

25.02.2026 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Will Stancil is agitating in Minneapolis In Minneapolis, he pursues ICE and annoys some of his neighbors.

Will Stancil, man of the people or just an annoying guy?

20.02.2026 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 258    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 161    πŸ“Œ 159
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Holy shit, Frederick Brennan is dead.

shows.acast.com/im-from-the-...

22.02.2026 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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✨ It’s a yes or no question ✨

21.02.2026 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 13231    πŸ” 2453    πŸ’¬ 1269    πŸ“Œ 549
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Trump tells soldiers to vote GOP in campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg Army policy prohibits partisan displays, and most service members refrained from cheering.

"You have to vote for us.”

14.02.2026 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 967    πŸ” 269    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 130
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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: β€œWe will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

13.02.2026 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1722    πŸ” 959    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 301

Life must be so easy if you just have absolutely no ethics, can you imagine

13.02.2026 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2317    πŸ” 293    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 8
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Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.

The Trump administration is dramatically expanding an effort to revoke U.S. citizenship for foreign-born Americans as it works to curb immigration, according to two people familiar with the plans.

12.02.2026 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 245    πŸ” 116    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 35

Newsmax stock hit an all-time low of $5.38/share today, down from its peak of $265.00/share ten months ago. It has lost 98.0% of its value.

12.02.2026 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 247    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 24
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Dog food contains β€˜alarming’ levels of lead, mercury and other contaminants | CNN Commercial dog foods contain high levels of lead, arsenic, mercury, cadmium and plastic toxins, according to laboratory tests by a nonprofit organization.

Samples of popular commercial dog foods contained β€œdangerous levels” of heavy metals, plastic contaminants, and acrylamide, a cancer-causing compound created when food is subjected to high heat, according to a new investigation: https://cnn.it/3ObMICl

12.02.2026 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

I haven't been following this story very closely, and omg

11.02.2026 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œIf all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.”

Works for me.

10.02.2026 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 20046    πŸ” 3723    πŸ’¬ 962    πŸ“Œ 563
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Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada

So if I read this right: a man who lied about his years-long practice of swelling around with his neighbor, the head of a global pedophile ring, met with a rent seeker whose finances depend on their monopoly on truck crossings of the U.S.-Canada border? And they cooked up an international incident?

10.02.2026 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

08.02.2026 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7168    πŸ” 3743    πŸ’¬ 167    πŸ“Œ 466
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Longevity guru Peter Attia keeps CBS News role despite showing up in Epstein files The physician and influencer was named as a paid contributor for the network on Jan. 28.

CBS News has no plans to drop health guru Peter Attia from his contributor role after his emails to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein surfaced last week.

07.02.2026 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 7
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everyone involved in this political movement needs to be humiliated and left destitute. the longer you let this play out, the more they will be encouraged to carve away whatever they can get their hands on

07.02.2026 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) β€” Alberto CastaΓ±eda MondragΓ³n says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) β€” Alberto CastaΓ±eda MondragΓ³n says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man β€œpurposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

07.02.2026 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 17919    πŸ” 9178    πŸ’¬ 493    πŸ“Œ 702
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Pentagon Kills 2 More in Another Boat Strike, Bringing Death Toll to 128 The attack comes a week after the Trump administration was sued by the families of two men killed in an earlier strike.

The attack comes a week after the Trump administration was sued by the families of two men killed in an earlier strike.

07.02.2026 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5

β€˜One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

05.02.2026 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6863    πŸ” 3677    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 176
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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like thatβ€”and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identityβ€”despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

05.02.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3115    πŸ” 1470    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 161
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Anti-ICE Antifa member arrested on federal charges of Cyberstalking and Threatening Communications after allegedly calling for the murder and assault of federal immigration officers in Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS – Self-identified Antifa member Kyle Wagner was arrested today on federal threat and cyberstalking charges following alleged murder and assault threats against ICE, announced United States...

Feds raided & arrested a man in Minneapolis who they claim is a β€œself-identified Antifa member” (Antifa is a shorthand for β€œantifascism” - it is a political opinion, not a group).

Wagner has become a prominent figure speaking out against ICE.
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/anti-...

05.02.2026 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 290    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 10

an explicit defense of sex trafficking, played off with classics like β€œit was a different time” and β€œoh so you WOULDN’T fuck a high schooler.” Just say that you have so much money that the rules don’t affect you anymore

05.02.2026 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

the default slur for conservatives is β€œpedophile”, but the second you tell them to do something about child molesters they hem and haw about how raping anyone older than a toddler could be permissible in certain cases

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