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Not a fan of Elon.

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Mamdani could end this all now if he just said "You know who I think is sooo cool? Whoever killed Epstein 😍"

21.11.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 158    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his β€œI’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say β€œwhat the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

21.11.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 11624    πŸ” 2248    πŸ’¬ 236    πŸ“Œ 139

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark β€” and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

20.11.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 10325    πŸ” 3912    πŸ’¬ 151    πŸ“Œ 79
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items β€œpotentially divisive.”

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

20.11.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 846    πŸ” 342    πŸ’¬ 102    πŸ“Œ 290

Dead Wake. Knew what was going to happen and my heart was still pounding leading up to it

19.11.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Judges quick to end immigrants’ asylum cases as ICE agents wait outside courtroom Hundreds of people have seen their immigration case dismissed, only to be arrested outside a Fort Snelling courtroom and placed in expedited removal.

Hundreds of people have seen their immigration case dismissed, only to be arrested outside a Fort Snelling courtroom and placed in expedited removal.

17.11.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
Hendrick Motorsports is supplying ICE with deeply discounted vehicles for their current kidnapping campaign.

Hendrick Motorsports is supplying ICE with deeply discounted vehicles for their current kidnapping campaign.

Wondering where ICE buys their vehicles for their kidnapping operations? Ask Hendrick Motorsports in Charlotte.

17.11.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:

Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerkβ€”but the office dragged its feet.

So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

16.11.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 9715    πŸ” 2578    πŸ’¬ 114    πŸ“Œ 208

He has a new movie that came out this week

16.11.2025 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy birthday! Thank you for making me cry every week!!❀️❀️❀️

15.11.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€˜Father’ and β€˜dad’ are synonyms.

β€˜Figure’ and β€˜bod’ are synonyms.

But, a β€˜father figure’ and a β€˜dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…

14.11.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1976    πŸ” 423    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 48

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:

u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

13.11.2025 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 13499    πŸ” 1339    πŸ’¬ 196    πŸ“Œ 69

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

12.11.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 6270    πŸ” 937    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 64
DEAR MISS MANNERS: A couple of years ago, my wife and I attended the wedding of two people who had been friends of ours for years. One year ago, the woman left the man for another man. We heard all about it from the man but heard nothing from the woman as we live in separate towns.

We received a little Christmas package from the woman who, in her note, made no reference to her infidelity -- an act that considerably affected all who were friends of the pair.

I felt instinctively the need to thank her for the gift and card, but I didn't feel as if I should ignore the issue of her leaving
her husband. In the end, I wrote a thank-you note and told her what I thought of the situation - not in excoriating terms but in bluntly honest ones. In your opinion, was this boorish?

GENTLE READER: Yes. Had you wished to register your disapproval you could have written her a dry letter of thanks; had you wished to register extreme disapproval, you could have returned the present. Miss Manners is afraid that β€œThanks, slut," is not a proper communication.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A couple of years ago, my wife and I attended the wedding of two people who had been friends of ours for years. One year ago, the woman left the man for another man. We heard all about it from the man but heard nothing from the woman as we live in separate towns. We received a little Christmas package from the woman who, in her note, made no reference to her infidelity -- an act that considerably affected all who were friends of the pair. I felt instinctively the need to thank her for the gift and card, but I didn't feel as if I should ignore the issue of her leaving her husband. In the end, I wrote a thank-you note and told her what I thought of the situation - not in excoriating terms but in bluntly honest ones. In your opinion, was this boorish? GENTLE READER: Yes. Had you wished to register your disapproval you could have written her a dry letter of thanks; had you wished to register extreme disapproval, you could have returned the present. Miss Manners is afraid that β€œThanks, slut," is not a proper communication.

with the holidays upon us please enjoy my favorite miss manners column (circa 2002)

12.11.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 896    πŸ” 113    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 7
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Happy Veteran's Day! Did you know the Nebraska Department of Veterans' Affairs has a program to help cover pet adoption fees for veterans? The Vets Get Pets program disburses up to $350 to cover a veteran's pet adoption fees.

Meet our adoptable pets here: bit.ly/3q2yJ0a

11.11.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. β€œWe could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. β€œWe could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

09.11.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10288    πŸ” 5663    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 339

started from the bottom, now we here (a new bottom)

09.11.2025 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1443    πŸ” 232    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 0

Pelosi: β€˜Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find Congressional Leadership That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’

09.11.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 450    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
graphic in the mamdani font/colors saying:

CALL YOUR SENATORS
and TELL THEM NO SHUTDOWN DEAL WITHOUT ACA FUNDING
202-224-3121

graphic in the mamdani font/colors saying: CALL YOUR SENATORS and TELL THEM NO SHUTDOWN DEAL WITHOUT ACA FUNDING 202-224-3121

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

09.11.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3115    πŸ” 2141    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 75

I'm the spouse of an air traffic controller and I could not be more livid at the news that Dems might cave. I called and left voicemails for my Dem senators. If my family can hold the fucking line, so can they.

09.11.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2474    πŸ” 578    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 21
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

09.11.2025 09:23 β€” πŸ‘ 11057    πŸ” 7326    πŸ’¬ 878    πŸ“Œ 1757
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β€œI Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...

Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID.

He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.

By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social

09.11.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2721    πŸ” 1345    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 40

This is decoration for a dementia patient.

08.11.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 130    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

The military has nothing to do with it

08.11.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s privatized housing.

08.11.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it good politics to ask the Supreme Court if you can continue starving people?

08.11.2025 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1015    πŸ” 205    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 9
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You are about to see harrowing footage of a father in Fitchburg, MA being brutalized by masked ICE agents while holding his terrified, crying baby.

The Trump admin and every ICE agent who terrorizes our communities must be held to account for their inhumane, illegal actions.

07.11.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 231    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 11

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon AppΓ©tit.

06.11.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5521    πŸ” 2160    πŸ’¬ 104    πŸ“Œ 263

The guy on the floor is America.

06.11.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 128    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Armed federal immigration agents drive away with a toddler in the backseat Armed federal agents drive off with toddler in the back seat of car after arresting the child’s father, a U.S. citizen, who is accused of assault.

ICE detained a US citizen with a toddler in the backseat. ICE had to be bullied by the crowd to not do their usual MO and drive off with the man and just leave the car in the road. The crowd asked them to let the family come take the baby. Instead they drove off with the child

05.11.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 404    πŸ” 250    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 25

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