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evil doll kristi noem

i look forward to thomas chatterton williams tut tuting a U.S. Senator for having the temerity to ask a question at a press conference without a press credential.

whining about how the protestors need to mind their manners sure looks fucking stupid now

A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference. But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

A US senator is assaulted and cuffed for asking a question at a press conference held by the Sec of Homeland Security. We now live in an authoritarian regime where the political opposition can be detained and rounded up.

they just assaulted a sitting united states senator and dragged him out of a press conference "opposition legislator violently removed by regime thugs" would be an accurate description if you saw it anywhere else.

Trump -21 already, immigration unpopular. But yea pundits and WelcomeFest organizers lets cede the “80-20” issue

They published my author’s note for DROP OF CORRUPTION over here. check it out

greatest to ever do it

I talked to someone from LA just the other day and their take was “the news is insane but LA is huge, and I haven’t experienced anything different besides some traffic”

I live here lol

Wow the meta ai app is fucking insane just like people said, because they for some reason have a ‘discover’ feed and you can see conversations that (probably older) people obviously think are private that they’re having with this thing. Extremely exploitative!

it is amusing that Utah, arguably the most religious state in America, is also the one that has the most per capita plastic surgery, which suggests it is also the most sexualized state in America

I told you we’d be back

A THEORY LIKE GRAVITY IS A THEORY

This is a really good point. Whatever gripes anyone might have about discourse here, I have never gotten threatening calls to myself or my family, which is something that did happen a few times from Twitter.

Happening in Spokane now. ICE abducted a Venezuelan kid here legally and 500-ish protestors are blocking the vehicles. Tear gas has since been deployed

also this site does not exult in the reality that is horrifying and bad, unlike others

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

This is why I keep argue, at every possible point, that Trump is failing. Not to create a sense of complacency, but to show people that resistance to authoritarianism *is working*

does feel interesting that there's a common trope in horror movies that's basically "wise native tries to warn the civilized whites but they don't take heed" and liberal audiences eat it up despite it being, you know, real basic magic negro stuff

imagining a MAGA guy who decides Michael Corleone is the good guy because his baby got aborted

the thing I love about Lauren’s account is that without it my For You feed would just be [ghoulish human rights violation] [Bluesky is dying] [here’s what a bad man did] on loop

New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped

I like the idea of a platform that is a little more localized and focused but i do not appreciate the self appointed HOA lot going around with bats and chains terrifying the people trying to move in here

one thing that sucks about the internet is you know about fetishes, so now you see them surfacing in all kinds of movies, books, shows. “oh yeah, the screenwriter was definitely jackin it when they wrote this part”

Almost everyone: "Electric cars are too expensive and are all SUVs. We need smaller, cheaper ones." *BYD launches new compact, high-quality electric car in the UK at £18,000* BBC: No, not like that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It sounds hyperbolic, I know, but I genuinely believe that wikipedia incorporating LLM-produced article summaries, or sanctioning LLM-produced articles, would signal the end of the internet as we've known it.

barber: number two on top? me: i'd rather you just cut it, tbh barber: me: barber: me: just a trim please

I wonder when ICE is gonna hit Texas.

Yeah if I thought there was even a 5% chance of being renditioned to Gitmo or El Salvador for the crime of leaving my passport at the hotel, I would simply not travel. This is going to kill tourism.

i regret to say that yet again i must tearfully call for decorum

this guy did not use his first name, and, lol en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonar_Law

Oh my fucking GOD

A friend at Disneyland is reporting ICE agents in the employee parking lot stopping cast members as they leave.

a new washington post / GMU poll finds trump 15 points net negative on immigration, soft disapproval of his handling of LA protests (with lots of don't knows). the narrative that these protests are good for trump is not supported by data at this point. see: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/why-the-la...

interesting overlooked note: the city of Paris was dark after 10 pm for months after the end of WWI due to the lack of coal to run the coal plants