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Opinion | Trump has made America into a ‘papers, please’ country — and U.S. citizens are not exempt Anthony L. Fisher: U.S. citizens have the right to not be manhandled in the streets by masked agents of the state. But that’s not how it’s working in Trump’s America.

My new @ms.now now column makes the case that "Kavanaugh stops" and the Trump admin's lawlessness and perpetual chaos have already turned America into a "papers, please" society.

School has been cancelled tomorrow and Friday across the city of Minneapolis, because our federal government has made it unsafe for children here.

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

"First day... first day, big problems here. Uh, are we going to Kelly here or are we gonna go..."

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The Free Speech Union commissioned a "security" report on us, so we tested their security. Turns out - it sucks.

We've now published the names of everyone who has donated to a FSU fundraiser, along with how much they gave and to which campaign.

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Sincere question and I hope we can make a safe place for this discussion, are there people out there who feel like they don't know how to get involved and make a difference?

What do you feel like the barriers are for you getting involved in organizing?

Have you tried and failed?

How extreme is Jim O’Neill, Deputy Health Secretary who just froze federal childcare funding to every state based on a viral video?

As a leader of the Seasteading Institute, he praised selling human organs on the free market b/c “There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused” 1/2

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

"If our pets could talk, they would most likely just ask for more of what they already have because even for us humans you can't be in love with something you haven't already experienced." -III

you gotta imagine that people protesting with NO KINGS signs in London, a city that very famously does in fact have a king, makes a whole other bonus group of people very mad

So much tear gas & flash grenades tonight at ICE in Portland. US Gestapo came out, pushed people back & held a line as other feds shot down tear gas canisters from the roof. People were dancing before this as an impromptu rave broke out

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

If you read the article itself there's a phenomenally gendered dynamic to it. All the examples he cites, real or hypothetical, are attempts to justify violence against uppity women specifically

Jack Posobiec walks out at Charlie Kirk’s memorial holding a rosary and lifting it into the air.

Posobiec compared Charlie Kirk to Moses in his remarks and said Charlie was his commander.

After watching the speech, Riley Gaines tweeted that she felt like she could run through a brick wall.

In the quest for nuance, empathy, and understanding, be careful not to inadvertently help sainthood Charlie Kirk Very rarely do I narrow the scope so tightly on whom I am speaking to in my essays, but this is going to be one of those cases.

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UPDATE: The firefighter Trump’s ICE goons arrested in Washington was on track for legal status.

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Ghislaine Maxwell says she never witnessed Clinton, Prince Andrew, or even Epstein himself do anything wrong. She also says there aren't any high-power individuals on any lists.

Anyone who says Trump is innocent must think Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Epstein are all innocent too?

The party of small government is now the party of big brother.

“Superman is too woke!”

Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

Here’s an idea: what if the United States had a legislature.

We are now in the fourth such cycle, each begun by a Republican President: Reagan/Bush 41, Bush 43, Trump 45 and, now, Trump 47.

You really have to be old enough to see how ingrained this pattern is to appreciate how diabolical it is.

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.

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Do not take legal advice from chatGPT.

Do not take medical advice from chatGPT.

Do not take financial advice from chatGPT.

In fact, stop using chatGPT. It’s destroying the environment, giving people terrible advice and lining tech bro pockets.

DA’s Office Announces Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program - District Attorney’s Office HERNANDO, Miss – Today, District Attorney Matthew Barton introduced the newly proposed Mississippi Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program (House Bill 1484), a significant piece of legislation a...

Highlights From January 22, 2025
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District Attorney Matthew Barton introduced the newly proposed Mississippi Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program (House Bill 1484), a significant piece of legislation aimed at expediting neo-confederate human trafficking operations.

I am not eating Scrooge McDuck, not because I am morally opposed to it but because his flesh belongs to the people of Duckburg who have lived under his iron shadow for so long