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It’s 74 weeks until the next congressional election and 179 weeks until the next presidential election

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This is a good point. We don't *only see fascists cracking down--we also see people rising up

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"ICE officers tossed two flash bangs to back the crowd off. Black remnants of the bangs remained visible on the pavement outside the restaurant."

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every article about politics in every mainstream publication is flat out lying to you if it does not emphasize that our government has been taken over by freaks and lunatics

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I am listening to the 2010 audiobook for Joyce’s Ulysses, narrated by John Lee. It’s terrific. Force feeding is a necessary method for some difficult books. I just let the words wash over me. 26 hours left!

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So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!

submitted 6 days ago • 74 comments

since people give the nyt so much crap for milquetoast headlines, someone should acknowledge that this one is pretty 💅 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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New — Video shared with me that was taken yesterday at Manhattan Immigration Court (290 Broadway) shows ICE officers in the midst of an arrest putting on face masks once they realize they’re being filmed my witnesses.

submitted 6 days ago • 221 comments

Shakespeare In Gitmo

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This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…

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some people are asking what the better messaging would be, & it's calling the republicans weird perverts who want the government to go around inspecting people's genitals. walz was on to it before he got pulled backstage and told to knock it off

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In the most recent COVID wave, white people had more than twice the death rate of black people covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...

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I can’t believe the media covered up the fact that a clear mental incompetent was running the government while out of his mind on drugs, despite it being widely known in DC circles, to preserve their access to the White House. There should be huge recriminations for this.

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Have been asking around and it seems like the amount of ketamine you would need to take to damage your bladder would be more than one gram a day for months or years — a truly staggering amount of drugs www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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So it turns out that Elon Musk is 5X the sex-crazed, drug-addled freak that Republicans claimed Hunter Biden was...and whereas Hunter played no role in his dad's administration, Musk was basically running much of the country for the past 4 months. Lovely.

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The logical mind collides with paradoxical Zen vows palafo.org/posts/2025/5...

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From @nytopinion.nytimes.com: Elon Musk “apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad PR for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.

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You can’t threaten consequences that the Constitution says you can’t deliver. That’s not leverage; it’s make-believe. Perhaps that's why the Administration has failed to deliver on the deals it promised.

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In the alleged Land of the Free, your failure to have a social media account, or your decision to keep that account private, can and will be used against you. No Facebook, Insta, or X account? You're probably hiding something, according to the Trump admin, so maybe no visa for you.

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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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NEW—Rubio issues State Dept. cable instructing enhanced social media vetting for ALL people (students, faculty, etc) seeking travel visas to Harvard under guise of “antisemitism.” All social media profiles must be public, otherwise seen “as an effort to evade or hide certain activity.” Full cable:

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Some women want love. Some seek power and money. Some seek attention and fame. Me? I just want to know who the administrator of DOGE really is. My manifesto, my magnum opus—“The WITAOD Chronicles”—is out now. ⬇️ 👇 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

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NEW: Mahmoud Khalil alleges that the Trump administration and pro-Israel groups coordinated to target him. His team demands records of the government's communications with doxxing groups, a controversial Columbia alumni chat, and Senators John Fetterman & Ted Cruz.

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new loyalty tests for federal workers www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

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Lots of important stories today behind paywalls. As a reminder, there’s a gift link feed where you can usually find the major articles available to read for free: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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I don’t really understand what’s been suggested with the “lasers from space” line here.

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Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night. When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠

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The dirty truth about AI language models: their most reliable factual information comes from the reporting and writing in the archives of the NYT, WaPo and other vetted legacy media outlets. So this is probably a positive step 1/3 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/b...

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Like most teenage boys I am very interested in World War 2

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Great book

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We’ve been on a bender with the world’s wealthiest man baby www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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True

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It is monstrous

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An infuriating article on multiple levels. What did they think was going to happen? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

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These are both great acts of kindness. One of many things people from less-dense areas don’t understand about NYC is that they’re ignoring you to be nice.

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Judge roasts Trump admin on Columbia student: "You've got to be kidding" A write up of today's remarkable federal court hearing in Yunseo Chung's case, @AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/yunseo-chu...

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In normal times, DOJ wins most of its cases because it has the resources to ensure that presidential actions are lawful. But under Trump, the Department is run by a sycophantic election denying enabler. The result is DOJ's credibility with judges is in tatters and it is losing case after case.

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this is textbook structured transactions and as a former attorney who worked for years in money laundering criminal investigations i strongly encourage anyone considering doing something like this to simply not do that.

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In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

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