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#RemoveTheRegime protesters hold signs at WKFL Park in Homer, Alaska.

#RemoveTheRegime protesters hold signs at WKFL Park in Homer, Alaska.

A sign with a quote from #TimothySnyder reads “People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both.”

A sign with a quote from #TimothySnyder reads “People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both.”

Homer, Alaska artist Gary Lyon holds a sign he drew himself that shows Smokey the Bear and the words “Only you can prevent fascism.”

Homer, Alaska artist Gary Lyon holds a sign he drew himself that shows Smokey the Bear and the words “Only you can prevent fascism.”

A person in a snow man costume holds a sign reading “The wrong ICE is melting.”

A person in a snow man costume holds a sign reading “The wrong ICE is melting.”

Protesters showed up on a sunny but chilly day for the #RemoveTheRegime rally in Homer, Alaska.

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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago

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I think it's really bad that news outlets hide in the pack this way, all behaving the same way, nobody brave enough to stand out. This is set by executives and editors, and reporters internalize it because nobody wants to get fired.

23.11.2025 17:05 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Khan said she is going to index all the laws on the books to see what powers are available. Will we get a report on that? Are there any she's uncovered yet? When will we know?

23.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

personally, I would like to know what creative ideas he is considering to keep feds from abducting New Yorkers and stashing them in disgusting ICE detention centers indefinitely. What else can we do besides just record instances of this abuse? When is that extra $ going to hit for legal aid?

23.11.2025 16:58 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

it's embarrassing when all these high-placed journalists ask the same questions over and over. can't you think of anything new to ask? he's already answered this repeatedly

23.11.2025 16:54 — 👍 47    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0
Cameron Kasky Congressional Launch Video
YouTube video by Cameron Kasky For Congress Cameron Kasky Congressional Launch Video

Parkland shooting survivor Cameron Kasky is running for Congress in NY-12, to replace the retiring Jerry Nadler. He came out as queer in 2021 and identifies as a democratic socialist. And he pulls no punches in this campaign launch video.

23.11.2025 11:09 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2
A reader comment that goes "Mr. Brooks' editorials of late have been a bit - how shall I put it -- weird. This one  ascends to new heights of weirdness."

A reader comment that goes "Mr. Brooks' editorials of late have been a bit - how shall I put it -- weird. This one ascends to new heights of weirdness."

lolol

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This is the column they're discussing.

www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/o...

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🫠

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If this stops one person from being disappeared by the Gestapo in the city the future mayor has already done more to protect his people than most dems in power.

21.11.2025 21:52 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I wonder how Don Jr. and Eric are doing this afternoon

21.11.2025 21:22 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

dogg look at this.

21.11.2025 21:19 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
There Is No Spoon - The Matrix (5/9) Movie CLIP (1999) HD
YouTube video by Movieclips There Is No Spoon - The Matrix (5/9) Movie CLIP (1999) HD

maybe there really is no spoon, idk man

21.11.2025 21:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

oh

21.11.2025 21:06 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh my god Patti, that is awful. I am so sorry.

21.11.2025 19:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

LETS GO STARBUCKS UNITED! YES!!

21.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Oh my god, I'm so sorry. That is awful. I'm so sorry.

21.11.2025 18:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OMFG you incompetent freaks. Kim there's people that are dying!!!

21.11.2025 17:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All of our coverage reflects that we need a single-payer healthcare system. We need to join the rest of the developed world and put an end to this wasteful, inefficient and deadly system. As one person I talked to put it, our current setup is like a war on everyone.

21.11.2025 17:11 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Republicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement - The American Prospect The GOP is too wedded to free markets and scornful of the welfare state to ever make anything in health care work.

@ryanlcooper.com covered how the Republicans have zero plan to help Americans afford modern medicine, never have, never will.

21.11.2025 17:09 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Obamacare Boiler Room - The American Prospect Perhaps no Florida health care scam has so concisely illustrated the burning need to rethink our broken health care system.

My story is part of a week of coverage about the disastrous end of ACA subsidies. Moe Tkacik wrote about a healthcare scam in Florida that’s bleeding workers dry.

21.11.2025 17:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Panic Tears Through U.S. as Health Insurance Costs Spike - The American Prospect The end of expanded subsidies for the Affordable Care Act exchanges means more people will go without health insurance.

The healthcare crisis is here and working people are struggling. In my story today @prospect.org I covered just a few of the crushing scenarios people are facing. @ddayen.bsky.social and I are going to talk about it at 12:30 ET on his Weekly Roundup. I'd love if you joined us.

21.11.2025 17:05 — 👍 48    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 2

That's so rough. That's about what I was making at my first couple newspaper jobs too. 😕

21.11.2025 16:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Dear everyone commenting about how this is low pay: lol/lmao/sob. Please understand that very very few people are getting rich off their gigs in journalism.

21.11.2025 15:27 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Here is the incredible story by @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social about that day. She covered this story tirelessly for months, highlighting severe injustice and corruption that other news outlets wouldn't touch.

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She was able to obtain permission to view the execution, so she flew to Oklahoma City and woke up at 4am last Thursday to drive the two hours to the penitentiary in McAlester. She and others close to Wood then waited in a “gathering zone” in the predawn hours, where “very nice, friendly” staff from the Department of Corrections made small talk while offering them “chips and crackers and coffee.”

They expected to be loaded into a van about an hour before the 10am execution, but nothing was happening. “I just kind of obsessively was refreshing my phone and trying to get in the mental headspace of ‘You’re here—you’ve got to do your job.’” Then, at 9:58, a message popped onto everyone’s phones: the governor had stopped the execution. Said Schulberg: “To experience that level of relief, and to see other people experiencing that level of relief—it was the most intense happiness I’ve ever felt in my life. I was like, this is ecstasy. Like, I’m never going to feel this happy again.”

Schulberg’s decision to go to Oklahoma for the execution hadn’t come easily. Her brother and mother advised her not to. “You’re never going to be able to unsee this,” her brother told her. But when it was over, her brother said, “Your willingness to witness the worst thing ever meant that you got to see the most wonderful thing ever.”

She was able to obtain permission to view the execution, so she flew to Oklahoma City and woke up at 4am last Thursday to drive the two hours to the penitentiary in McAlester. She and others close to Wood then waited in a “gathering zone” in the predawn hours, where “very nice, friendly” staff from the Department of Corrections made small talk while offering them “chips and crackers and coffee.” They expected to be loaded into a van about an hour before the 10am execution, but nothing was happening. “I just kind of obsessively was refreshing my phone and trying to get in the mental headspace of ‘You’re here—you’ve got to do your job.’” Then, at 9:58, a message popped onto everyone’s phones: the governor had stopped the execution. Said Schulberg: “To experience that level of relief, and to see other people experiencing that level of relief—it was the most intense happiness I’ve ever felt in my life. I was like, this is ecstasy. Like, I’m never going to feel this happy again.” Schulberg’s decision to go to Oklahoma for the execution hadn’t come easily. Her brother and mother advised her not to. “You’re never going to be able to unsee this,” her brother told her. But when it was over, her brother said, “Your willingness to witness the worst thing ever meant that you got to see the most wonderful thing ever.”

In today's Laurels/Darts, I interview Jessica Schulberg, the Huffpost reporter who has extensively covered an unjust Oklahoma death-penalty case.

She was at the penitentiary when the the convict was spared -- exactly 2 minutes before he was scheduled to die.

www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

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Detention Management

After more than two months with no updates, ICE has finally released new detention statistics.

ICE reports a total of 65,135 detainees as of Nov. 16, 2025.

www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

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Beautiful view of the Alaska range on my drive into town today

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