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I get a regular stream of right-wing talking points in my email, from a source that labels itself conservativeintel. I'm not very impressed by pleas to fund Hillsdale College, or to thank ICE for all the good work they're doing. Nonetheless, I wonder why there is no such thing as a progressiveintel

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It's also remembering that the Shah had been overthrown earlier, and then the CIA went tand put him back again

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But they wouldn't been detaining without due process or deporting to hellholes in El Salvador. Both-sidesism is bullshit

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portside.org/2025-06-14/w... Preventative action? Then why timed to prevent talks?Attempted regime change? Advancing Netanyahu's own interests? (Yes of course) Israel acting as American's agent? (Probably no. No one is making US policy right now, and these days it seems to work the other way round)

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There is no such thing as an uninteresting number. For if there are any uninterested numbers, there must be the smallest uninteresting number, which would make it interesting

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“Nato drafts one-page communiqué to suit Trump’s attention span.” No, this is not the Borowitz Report, but the right-leaning (London) Daily Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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You are too kind. ICE doesn't even ask about papers, it just lifts you

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If even Schumer is taking notice, it really must be quite something. And Padilla's not merely (!) a Senator, but the ranking member of the Senate Rules Committee.

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Or be primaried

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And in addition, demand an answer to the question that Padilla seems to have been in the middle of asking; how many pardoned January 6 rioters are now employed by ICE?

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And while they're at it, they might also ask why she said she was going to remove the elected mayor and governor

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Indeed. See also rightingamerica.net/built-to-fai... The US-based aid system *guarantees* that the killing of people trying to get to food will continue. As it has, four times so far this week

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www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... No, he did not interrupt. He tried to ask a very good question; how many January 6 rioters have been recruited by ICE. But Mike Johnson thinks *he* should be censured

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Easy not to notice that Noem promised to liberate the city from its elected mayor and governor. And notice also the question that Senator Padilla was trying to ask!

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It will be declared unfortunately impossible to conduct elections in those states. That's what we need to be planning for

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Be fair! He can't know what doesn't exist

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Don't say skepticism when you mean denialism

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So even the New York Times is noticing. Not before time. This is not a drill, but a dress rehearsal paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-no...

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paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-no... This is not a drill. Nor is it about the removal of aliens. It is a dress rehearsal for the use of force to suppress opposition, in preparation for similar suppression during the 2026 and 2028 elections, if they are even allowed to take place

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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... See also rightingamerica.net/built-to-fai... There are only FOUR distribution centers, poorly located. All this is no accident

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ICE are breaking the law. The protestors are protecting people from unlawful abduction. The police are protecting the lawbreakers. Why is no one sayng this?

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There is a great shortage of good UK based open access no pay wall news coverage outside the legacy media, so I have just signed up as a supporter of novaramedia.com. (Good Wikipedia artice aboiut them: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novara_...)

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Means tests for benefits are irrational, because they act as 100% income tax at cutoff, on people who need help more than others, since otherwise they wouldn't have qualified for benefit anyway. The rational thing would have been to leave the benefits universal, but count them as taxable income

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

rightingamerica.net/built-to-fai...

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Cassidy could have derailed this nomination. But he chose to pretend to believe what JFK jr was saying. He has blood on his hands

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"Border czar" simply means adviser, with no official partners. All part of the confusarama

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Ignores Britain? How about USSR?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I thought Santa Barbara and other places have been recycling sewage for years

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I like it. Infallible timing

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Vance, not Trump. A straw in the wind?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

At what point do law-enforcement officers decide that it is smarter to obey the law than to obey the President?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Seen online:

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At what point does it become the sworn duty of US military personnel and National Guard to disobeyed illegal orders? Asking for a friend.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

How about dressed as chickens, offering tacos, and standing in front of the tanks? (Says he, from a safe distance)

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Sorry, can't resist; I think you need to add "exhausting" to your list

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