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It’s a new “feature” where they’re hiding replies they’ve decided are “toxic” or from “bad actors” but:

- The AI that’s determining that is terrible

- it’s a massive pain in the ass to go find those hidden replies

- they’re not letting us have any control over it

Yes, Trump’s cruelty IS staggering.

Border Patrol’s strong-arm tactics are the new norm in Chicago as Trump moves to sideline ICE leadership “What we’re seeing now is what the rest of the nation can expect,” said Fred Tsao, senior policy counsel at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

NEWS: Trump administration’s Chicago immigration raids are coming to a city near you as Homeland Security sidelines old ICE leadership. “What we’re seeing now is what the rest of the nation can expect. This is the new model.” Our story on what that means www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/b...

can't find a better example of "police cause riots" than the cops turning off the TV at a bar to make a bunch of drunk sports fans extremely angry.

Los Angeles, CA -

LAPD has commanded The Douglas, the nearest bar to Dodger Stadium to turn off the televisions. They are now calling unlawful assembly, though as far as I can tell the only signs of anything are people on the sidewalk. It is the 9th inning.

Report: Trump Admin to Propose Blocking Hospitals From Offering Trans Youth Care Medicaid and Medicare programs are he subject of the drafts.

Get ready for more court battles... Most trans care for youth is NOT pharmacological OR surgical. It is social, psychological... But sure, ban it all. Waiting to hear the screams of "Out, out, damned spot!" from the halls of HHS.

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YouTube video by The Bulwark Fox News Falls for Fake “Welfare Queens”

1/2 The old Reagan welfare queen trope updated for 2025...

@timmiller.bsky.social on how Fox News ran w/a totally fake #SNAP story—racist AI videos pretending to be real “Black women”—& then quietly changed the headline *instead of admitting they make a mistake*.
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The Trump Administration is basically claiming the right to kill anyone anywhere for any reason or for no reason, with no evidence provided or accountability to Congress or the American people.

The deeply unprofessional masked goons are now going to subcontract their bounties to completely unprofessional armed goons. Awesome.

Turns out the sweetheart deal that Trump's former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta gave Epstein back in 2008 was even worse than we thought. Epstein's emails show Acosta tanked an investigation that had Epstein dead to rights on money laundering, and other financial crimes.

The person who is currently running our country has lost his mind and it’s time we start talking about it.

From MeidasTouch Legal AF: The Convicted FElon DOJ is now deleting court documents on J6 terrorists who have been in trouble with law repeatedly. The DOJ was caught when a judge noticed a document missing on a J6'er, who wanted to bomb Obama's home & was convicted for it. I bet these are ICE now.

'No due process': L.A. nurse, veteran among citizens forcefully arrested by ICE amid immigration crackdown | CBC News Two U.S. citizens whose forceful arrests by ICE were caught on video say federal agents violated their constitutional rights. As backlash against the administration's escalating immigration raids grow...

Fuck ICE www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/53277-new-second-term-low-donald-trump-job-approval-government-spending

Maybe it was way more than seven million? "8% of Americans say they participated in a No Kings protest on October 18."

p.s. Older people are really showing up.

LSU Needs a New Football Coach. The Governor Wants Trump to Make the Pick. In an address from the Louisiana state capitol, Gov. Jeff Landry asked for the president’s help in solving a statewide emergency: finding a new head coach for the Tigers.

Are you kidding me

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ICE detained a Virginia mom while she was driving her 16yo daughter to school bc she couldn’t recall her SS#.

“The agent got flustered and lunged at her,” said her daughter.

ICE arrested her even after she showed proof of legal status.

“I want this video out there because I want my mother home.”

I find this distraction discourse unhelpful. Trump's video was appalling and significant and should be analyzed and denounced, and part of the work of politics is to turn it into a major controversy in its own right, as a symbol of Trump's autocratic disdain for the people.

Trump: Seth Meyers of NBC may be the least talented person to "perform" live in the history of television. In fact, he may be the WORST to perform, live or otherwise. I watched his show the other night for the first time in years. In it he talked endlessly about electric catapults on aircraft carriers which I complain about as not being as good as much less expensive steam catapults. On and on he went, a truly deranged lunatic. Why does NBC waste its time and money on a guy like this??? - NO TALENT, NO RATINGS, 100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!! 26 ReTruths 85 Likes 11/1/25, 1:01 PM

Trump sets his sights on Seth Meyers.

“NO TALENT, NO RATINGS, 100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!!”

Dancers at Trump’s Halloween party as people begin losing food stamps under his administration

Obamas speech was good and as usual way better than 99% of politicians but the “distraction” thing is once again mainstream Dems not coming to terms with what they are up against.

The “distraction” is a part of the thing, not separate from it. It’s all part of the fight.

I’ve been saying this for weeks. Pritzker, has been playing the aw shucks billionaire, but he has TOTAL control over these state police monsters and he hasn’t done shit about it.

There are no good billionaires.

Another host, Eugene Daniels, asked Mr. Cuomo what he meant by diversity being a “weakness.” “Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black.

You can't make this up.

You should watch this with the sound on to hear how matter-of-fact dystopian the Illinois State Police "warning" is.

Again, not ICE. Pritzker's state police. Who we're told are not assisting ICE.

If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, “guns-a-blazing,” to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!

Trump posts crazy stuff like this at times where he feels like he’s not getting enough attention and wants people to start talking about him again. It’s deranged, narcissistic behavior.

On Saturday, November 1, the real pain of the shutdown starts for people. Donald Trump and the Republicans have screamed: We. Don’t. Care. trib.al/htVqaaF

"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

Opinion | Can Economic Populism Save the Democratic Party?

This is an important conversation but I am struck that nowhere does the power of conservative media come up; indeed media is described as “progressive.” No mention of Rush Limbaugh and talk radio, Fox News, Twitter, or right-wing influencers with huge audiences.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

Trump’s Armed Force to Take Over Democratic Cities Is Nearly Ready to Deploy - The American Prospect On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Federal Appeals Court voted to hear the case of the Trump administration’s attempted deployment of the National Guard to Portland, Oregon. The president then declared he was prepared to send “more than the National Guard” into American cities.

Trump seems confident that nothing is going to stop him from sending more forces into American cities. “The courts wouldn’t get involved. Nobody would get involved,” he told the press on Wednesday. From Harold Meyerson:

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Every headline is a moral injury Every single post is like a punch in the face. Every headline is a moral injury. Could be I’m extending too much grace here but it occurred to me recently that maybe all of the people who “don’t pay ...

There are bonafide monsters stalking the earth eagerly and enthusiastically distributing suffering to anyone they please. And with no recourse on our end but to film them and shout and beg for anyone with power to stop them. How convenient that the monopoly on violence always also acts as a shield.