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More or less my take

Always have

Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

If That’s a donation, it goes to the treasury and only congress can decide how to spend it. No such (lawful) thing as private payment of government obligation.

Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Justice Department Will Monitor Elections in California and New Jersey

The reshaping of the playing field is underway
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

To be clear:
These donations are bribes, made anonymously to conceal Trump’s corruption.

Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure.

Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.

EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...

Something else

This is actually really bad for Zohran- Adams throwing in for Cuomo is gonna be a significant factor in swinging key demographics like the Turkish Airlines employee vote

Weimar is back, baby!

Read more: www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

A Virginia couple is suing to stop Trump’s $300 million White House ballroom, calling it unlawful and historically reckless.

Russia’s ‘human safari’ in southern Ukraine is a warning to the world Russia's escalating campaign of drone attacks on the civilian population of Ukraine's Kherson region highlights the destructive power of modern drone technologies, writes Oleksandr Tolokonnikov.

“For local residents, Russia’s human safari has made sudden death from above an everyday fact of life. During the first nine months of 2025, more than a hundred people were killed and over one thousand were wounded in drone attacks.”

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

the right will do it first, so then the leftist shaming will start

this is disgusting, and because it's unnecessary, fundamentally immoral

Like a fascist Reno 911

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"Top. Men."

Kim Jong Un is jealous.

For context, I’m barely even able to read works of history anymore, just mainlining Agatha Christie mysteries like they’re Otis Spunkmeyer muffins on a 12-hour convoy stuck behind route clearance

Posted by Block Club Chicago: "Cycling x Solidarity's latest mutual aid effort takes cyclists on group rides through Pilsen and other neighborhoods to buy out tamale vendors so they can stay home as ICE swarm the city. They pass out to food to people in need."

Forgive me, Chicago, I was not aware of your game

Tool to report ice violence

good god they can't do math

sheer corrupt lawlessness

Wut

Poster for Conchair O'Choimbair, a balding guy with a beard, staff, and long hair. The slogan reads: "finally a druid candidate for Ireland", and also, "bring back brehon law"

I thought Connolly was the most Stoneybatter candidate until I saw this poster in the neighbourhood.

Everyone remembers the Toronto Rangers title in 2019, when the whole of Toronto cheered their favourite basketball team, the Toronto Rangers

prolly subsidies and such are fine, right? I'm guessing tariffs against importing beef are cool, totes.

I'm happy people say this publicly in Nebraska, of course, but color me a tad cynical.

Ohio National Guard member Sgt. Devon Beck was not amused by this satire. On September 11, 2025, Mr. O’Hara saw Sgt. Beck, along with several other Guard members, walking in uniform in the Logan Circle neighborhood, near the intersection of 14th and R Streets NW. Mr. O’Hara calmly walked behind the Guard members, began playing The Imperial March aloud on his phone, and started recording. In less than two minutes, Sgt. Beck turned around and threatened to call D.C. police officers to “handle” Mr. O’Hara if he persisted. Mr. O’Hara continued recording and playing the music. Sgt. Beck contacted the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Defendant MPD Officers Brown, Campbell, Reyes-Benigno, and Lopez Martinez came to the scene and, in essence, did what Sgt. Beck had threatened, putting Mr. O’Hara in handcuffs and preventing him from continuing his peaceful protest.

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

suddenly appeared, 4 followers, following 5. Up to nothing good.

US firearms examiners declared ‘essential’ shutdown workers after gun-lobby pressure Americans able to buy deadly ‘gangster weapons’ again as lobbying forces key concession from Trump officials

Not essential: food stamps
Essential: guns

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

respect!