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Craig Prentiss

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Religious studies prof, compulsive movie watcher, Fulbright alumn, recovering doomscroller

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Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.

02.03.2026 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 12402    πŸ” 4787    πŸ’¬ 655    πŸ“Œ 282
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White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡

27.02.2026 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 977    πŸ” 662    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 66

It's almost like the FIFA Peace prize means nothing to him.

28.02.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1215    πŸ” 169    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 5

And include the Trump administrations refusal to release all of the Epstein files in a timely manner as a key element of this Constitutional crisis.

21.02.2026 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Democratic response to the SOTU speech needs to be a demand for impeachment and removal w/ a clinical dissection of Republican weakness and obsequiousness in the face of a Constitutional crisis. Frame these new tariffs as a tax on the American people and a rallying cry to vote Republicans out.

21.02.2026 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The legal system is rigged... against shitty lawyers

19.02.2026 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pathetic

18.02.2026 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Seeking Pardon, Foreign Billionaire Allegedly Funneled Millions to Trump Super PAC

Trump pardoned a billionaire who had pledged to illegally route foreign money into U.S. elections as part of a scheme to bribe Puerto Rico’s governor β€” after the billionaire's daughter gave $3.5M to Trump's super PAC.

But the facts point to another legal violation. campaignlegal.org/update/seeki...

18.02.2026 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 259    πŸ” 152    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 14

By this warped reasoning I'm British since most of my ancestry is British. But I've never lived in Britain and the last of my ancestors to have lived there immigrated to the US in the early 1800s. I guess if we follow this to its logical end, we're all really Ethiopians. Blood & soil is bullshit.

17.02.2026 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

gotta do investigations into DHS β€œwaste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency

17.02.2026 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 7346    πŸ” 1885    πŸ’¬ 134    πŸ“Œ 59

The scene when the two sisters were talking while laying in the bed was one of the most raw and beautifully performed scenes I've ever seen. It will stay with me for a long time.

15.02.2026 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not exactly sure what form of mental illness this is, but this person is definitely sick in the head.

12.02.2026 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

12.02.2026 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4721    πŸ” 1787    πŸ’¬ 142    πŸ“Œ 91
Nazi concentration camp prisoner population by year

Nazi concentration camp prisoner population by year

ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.

10.02.2026 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1989    πŸ” 1019    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 74

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

09.02.2026 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 25104    πŸ” 5888    πŸ’¬ 104    πŸ“Œ 50
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Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

I am speechless.

"The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" πŸ—ƒοΈ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...

05.02.2026 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 861    πŸ” 392    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 48
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Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion In August, I reported that the President and his family had made $3.4 billion by leveraging his position. After his first year back in office, the number has ballooned.

The President and his family have made roughly $4 billion by leveraging his positionβ€”often while engaging in stark conflicts of interest. www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor...

06.02.2026 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 9
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Alabama schedules March execution for Charles Lee Burton | Alabama Reflector Charles Lee Burton was convicted and sentenced to death in 1992 for his role in the death of Doug Battle during a robbery in 1991.

Via Ralph Chapoco: Charles Lee Burton, 75, was convicted of the murder of Auto Zone employee Doug Battle during a robbery in 1991. Burton participated in the robbery but did not shoot Battle; the man who did had his sentence reduced to life without parole in 2002.

06.02.2026 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

03.02.2026 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 10021    πŸ” 5146    πŸ’¬ 278    πŸ“Œ 487
Tim Cook with Brett Ratner at the premiere screening of "Melania"

Tim Cook with Brett Ratner at the premiere screening of "Melania"

The same day Alex Pretti was murdered, Apple CEO Tim Cook, pictured here smiling with notorious sex pest and accused rapist Brett Ratner, enjoyed a gala screening of BRIBE: The Movie at the White House. Think Different, kids.

27.01.2026 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 228    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 13
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People are dying in Trump’s squalid concentration camps | Will Bunch Deaths are occurring in ICE detention facilities at nearly 10 times the rate of the Biden years. It will likely get worse.

How bad have things gotten in one year? People are now dying in "the camps" - with deaths in ICE detention at the astounding rate of 1 every 3 days, including a homicide by guards at the biggest tent city in Texas

Inside America's humanitarian crisis. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/deat...

23.01.2026 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 321    πŸ” 181    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 10

UPDATE: The US House just passed H.J.Res.140. The bill overturns the 20-year mining ban protecting the beloved Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northern Minnesota. It's the nation’s most visited wilderness, sustains 17,000 jobs, and generates more than $1 billion in sales every year.

21.01.2026 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 13

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insaneβ€”on about eleventy different levels.

Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

21.01.2026 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 7622    πŸ” 2891    πŸ’¬ 205    πŸ“Œ 63
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This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

22.01.2026 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 10383    πŸ” 6071    πŸ’¬ 756    πŸ“Œ 644

Oh, look. The white president who thinks that asylum seekers come from insane asylums, that the Norwegian government gives out the Nobel Peace Prize, that stealth bombers are invisible to the naked eye, and that windmills cause cancer is talking about which black people have a "low IQ" again.

20.01.2026 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 5492    πŸ” 1327    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 35
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Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noe...

Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters.

Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.

(Published Sept. 2025)

21.01.2026 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 605    πŸ” 235    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 14

He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.

20.01.2026 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 10107    πŸ” 3448    πŸ’¬ 230    πŸ“Œ 95

It's a bummer Mendoza is going to end up a Raider. He's a very talented player. That was fun to watch.

20.01.2026 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's nuts that he's only an 18 year old. Bright future.

20.01.2026 03:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Poor bastard

20.01.2026 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0