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Really you don't have to call it the Big Beautiful Bill. It's the Fuck You Over Bill. Not so catchy, maybe, but accurate.

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NEW: In @justsecurity.org, I assess the FBI's controversial new "nihilistic violent extremism" (NVE) framework. It's a worthwhile step forward — as long as it does not discount white supremacist violence, which remains America's gravest terrorist threat. www.justsecurity.org/113463/nihil...

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Hong Kong's independent news sector, including companies, staff and family members, are facing simultaneous tax audits and backdated demands, a press union says. In full: buff.ly/pYdy0Jo

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Pandan beer. Tastes better than I expected. Not sure I need another though.

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I guess this means "go to work sick and pretend you aren't until you collapse."

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I just don't like tanks in such proximity to the legislature en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Ru...

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"China Centric" WSJ recently laid off its Hong Kong bureau

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Checked out and wasting time on junkets is really a best case scenario here www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-f...

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😬

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Evo update: barricaded in a jungle fort guarded by coca farmers armed with bows and bamboo batons, and speaking about himself in the third person am-quickie.ghost.io/r/37edcb1c?m...

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I posted my way into the local newspaper. The Piprahwa gems aren't going to be sold today and shouldn't be sold at all. hongkongfp.com/2025/05/07/s...

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"bookended by mingling over drinks and charcuterie."

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To express how big this is: I just spoke to someone who has worked in migration services in Germany for several years, and their immediate reaction was to burst into tears of relief. Yes, this news has come late: but at least it is here. There is now no legal doubt about who and what the AfD are.

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

The major dailies, Beltway pubs, and broadcast news all covered this. I dunno what people want when they make this complaint in reference to stories that they learned about from the news. More yelling? All caps?

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

As I put it in today's amquickie.com newsletter, a question for conspiracy theorists: if they aren't state media, why do they have government protection?

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Get ready for surprise hurricanes and tornado warnings that sound after they've already torn through town

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Doesn't even mention the Nazi salute.

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Rock band REM releasing a remix of its first single, “Radio Free Europe,” to raise money for RFE/RL after the Trump administration froze its funding. www.instagram.com/reel/DJJluTO...

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Even if you think the circumstances of his deterioration make all this forgivable, the situation is untenable.

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Breaking News: Germany classified the right-wing Alternative for Germany party as an extremist group, giving intelligence officials more tools to monitor it.

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The @majorityreport.bsky.social newsletter by @coreypein.bsky.social is out! Read how a Trump appointee ruled that the ancient military invasion law he's using to deport people "can't be invoked when there is no real invasion" just because he "uttered certain magic words." Join us! Subscribe!

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Mixed in with the hemming and hawing are some nuggets of genuinely bad political advice. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...

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New- Chris Krebs’ “membership in Global Entry has been revoked. Krebs, who has repeatedly attested to the security of the 2020 election, told CNN he finds it hard to believe this isn’t another act of retribution…” @jaketapper.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/p...

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Living Word Church in Midland, Michigan, gifted Pastor Mark Barclay a gold-plated AR-15 engraved with President Donald Trump’s words, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” trinityfi.org/investigatio...

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Hard to reckon with. Gets me feeling paranoid like the universe is out to get us. Just can't put my head where those other people are at.

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Today on TAP, from me: This moment feels like February 2020. If you read closely, you know something bad will happen soon, but it's not visible yet. In this case, it's the dismantling of our supply chains, empty store shelves, and recession. It's a matter of time. 🧵 prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

Viet Thanh Nguyen on 50 Years After Vietnam War, Trump's "Ugly American" Politics, El Salvador & More

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Seems like it would be pretty easy to automate skimming pitch decks for buzzwords actually

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Late to post that the @majorityreport.bsky.social daily newsletter is OUT! JOIN US! Today we give you a break from the Trumpocalypse to discuss a diagnosed psychopath, former LA Sheriff Villanueva.

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"On background, you got it wrong" non sequitur

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Postwar US economy minus union density and pensions is just Dickensian England please sir may I have another

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Tool

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NEW: No one under 18 should be using any social AI companions, including CharacterAI, researchers warn in a new risk assessment. Potential risks to kids include bots encouraging destructive behaviors and exacerbating mental health conditions, among others. futurism.com/stanford-no-...

submitted 21 days ago • 17 comments

Boss Baby is a fucking crook

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I wrote for New York magazine about deportations to CECOT in El Salvador, which are bound up with a tradition of US extrajudicial actions in the Americas and further the long arc of concentration camps.

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To me the most surprising thing about it is that the wingers tried to kill her last time around

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Ow my eye oh God I can't see ahh help I'm bleeding but in a manly way www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/s...

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"slow down" = speed up

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BREAKING: A judge has ordered the immediate release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student detained amid Trump administration crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists. @liz_crampton was in the Vermont courthouse where the decision just camedown. Details TK

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