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This book, I have been told, is a good balm for The Horrors. It will, however, make you hungry.

I spent the past week watching a few Facebook Groups Maine X Community and Maine Rising. It’s astonishing at the amount of blatantly false stories being shared and instantly believed. Anyone who tries to fact-check is assaulted with 6th-grade slurs and don’t get me started on the racism.

U.S. Trade Deficit Bounces Back as Tariffs Cause Volatility The monthly trade deficit and imports rebounded in November after shrinking significantly in prior months, new data show.

Breaking News: The U.S. trade deficit rose sharply in November, as President Trump’s tariffs generated intense volatility.

Anyone buying into Trump Accounts has clearly paid zero attention to his branded business history

Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

Yes, they are harkening back to a time when barbarity was the standard and celebrated with little trinkets of body parts. A fully formed unapologetic racial hierarchy as the founders wanted and encouraged.

Yanked "60 Minutes" episode aired in Canada. Here's what it showed The segment, anchored by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, caused uproar internally over whether it was pulled for political reasons.

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Vance refuses to set red lines over bigotry as conservatives feud at Turning Point Vice President JD Vance says the conservative movement should welcome anyone who loves America. He declined to condemn antisemitism that has divided the Republican Party.

"If we exclude bigots, who will we have left?'--JD Vance, basically

Turning Point showcases the discord that Republicans will need to navigate | AP News share.google/7RwA7e8HyHlG...

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Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.

Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show reut.rs/4qJTpdH

“I’m in the ‘Hitler sucks’ wing of the Republican Party,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said over the weekend at the R.J.C. event. “Here’s what I do know: You can sit in a basement with weird people and say weird things. It’s a free country.”

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Reminder, facial recognition scans are often incredibly bad/biased in recognizing non-white people

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

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Could ICE have 'lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago? At least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

Could ICE have ‘lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?

NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...

Trump administration moves to overrule state laws protecting credit reports from medical debt The Trump administration is moving to overrule state laws that protect consumers’ credit reports from medical debt.

This proposed change could devastate a lot of people

Trump administration moves to overrule state laws protecting credit reports from medical debt | AP News share.google/2M7fTbhSBdsa...

Red states are preparing for an end to the Voting Rights Act An end to the Voting Rights Act would free up Southern states to dramatically overhaul their congressional map.

This is so supremely messed up

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Grotesquely transparent racist.

US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic The U.S. government's gross national debt has surpassed $38 trillion during the federal shutdown, marking a record high.

So much for tariffs making money

US hits $38 trillion in gross national debt | AP News share.google/VJ2R9w6ixHi0...

a doctored photo of the back of a $20 bill featuring the White House being demolished by an excavator

ok who did this? ☹️

Does everyone in this administration demonstrate chronically online (and sociopathic) behavior?

Lindsey Halligan texts journalist Anna Bower over Letitia James indictment share.google/vrInjqCdSKUr...

Rainbowcrate book box surrounded by fall foliage and berries on a pumpkin background

The theme cards for September: Where The Magic Happens featuring an illustration of a door with magic sparkles. Card surrounded by foliage

Guess what arrived! September's box for @rainbowcrate.bsky.social featuring House of Frank by Kay Sinclair and To Hive And To Hold by @amysnotdeadyet.bsky.social

Spoilers in 🧵

#booksky📚💙 #promosky #queersky #diversebooksky #readersky #rainbowcrate

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FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws | CNN On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Z...

This remains the dumbest timeline

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"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

What could one bad Chicago cop cost the taxpayers, Michael? $90M, 200 years of people wrongfully imprisoned, plus his salary, overtime, benefits, retirement plan, guns, cars & everything he can fit in his pockets out of the evidence room for over a decade?

lethality!

If being antifascist is terrorist, than the state is fascist. That is exactly what they are declaring

After cost-cutting blitz, Trump administration rehires hundreds of laid-off employees Hundreds of laid-off federal employees who managed government workspaces are being called back to their jobs as the Trump administration walks back plans to slash its real estate portfolio.

You can't cut your way to good governance

White House rehires hundreds of employees terminated by DOGE | AP News share.google/qMnzdv95VQIB...

Trump’s Tylenol diatribe was rooted in frustration The president wants to solve the autism problem even if it means pregnant women don’t treat their pain and delay their kids’ vaccinations.

Let's go over all the ways in which this is bad journalism. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...