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Formerly Libraryben on Twitter
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Glad to see some of the better parts of Twitter here. Formerly a library tech guy. Now doing library adjacent things but a little less adjacent than before. Wolves Twitter. Loons. Spurs. Disc golf nerd. Took up TTRPGs. Fully support 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Still mad that the football team picked on you in high school and no one would go to the prom with you? Well do I have the job for you. You are a fat uncoordinated loser NO MORE
SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A Third of ICE-Academy Recruits Are Failing Out
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.
www.theatlantic.com
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Holy shit.

Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs.

The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds.

What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.
Ronald Reagan narrates a new anti-tariff ad from Canada
The new commercial is part of a $75 million ad campaign by Ontario aimed at Republican voters.
www.fastcompany.com
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Tom Homan reportedly accepted $50,000 stuffed into a takeout bag from undercover F.B.I. agents. We must continue to ask where the money went, Ruth Marcus writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zn2Q1B
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The disqualifications have become qualifications, the destroyer of worlds.
Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump’s embattled nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be 'tossed into the seventh circle of hell' and said he has 'a Nazi streak'

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
www.politico.com
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The new army with the 7th largest budget in the world is ramping up arms.
1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information.

Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels
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It’s always intermittent fasting…
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Hello, 28th precinct, I was just yelling slurs at a bunch of people on a public sidewalk and some little skater kid snatched my transitions lenses and when I tried to chase him I fell flat on my face. Yes I’ll hold
MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters
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The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.
Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
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“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
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The first time I publicly criticized the NYT as being a horrible institution was on Twitter a month or so after I quit. I did it because of the Tom Cotton op-ed. The number of messages I got from ex and then current nyt employees about the abuse they had endured was... more than I could take in tbh
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One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends.

#NoKings #Manhattan
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For the wealth class to continue hoarding and consolidating resources it requires fascism.

The wealth class owns all corporate media, so the coverage normalizes fascism while vilifying even the most moderate reform or change.

That’s it. That’s the game.
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MUST SEE: San Francisco really spelled it out — literally. “NO KINGS. YES ON 50.” stretched across Ocean Beach.

A whole crowd just told Trump’s regime to fuck off without saying a word.
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Maybe all along it was a poop tape.
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We had it in Bethlehem, PA. There was a 2nd sign

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Men, women, children are separated." - Anne Frank (1943)
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So I’ve been busy with a ton of other stuff, but basically, China just purged, basically all, of the senior leadership of the military - He Weidong was CMC Vice Chair, Miao Hua was head of the political department. Seeing some stuff about key branch leadership also going.

x.com/ifenglobal/s...
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In the same article it says that Microsoft executes believe OpenAI would fail
www.theinformation.com/articles/mic...
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Trump responds to No Kings by posting video depicting him as a king
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The record protests are the 6th headline down on the NYT mobile app.
HOLD UP. George Santos is the lead story on the @nytimes.com website on Saturday night? Not the millions of Americans protesting Donald Trump today at 2,700 events in all 50 states? Come on.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/n...
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For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.
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In Minneapolis, a network of big $ political committees—All of Mpls, We Love Mpls, and Thrive Mpls—share donors, staff, and messaging.

In July, We Love Mpls was cited by the Campaign Finance Board (CFB) for violating disclosure rules.

Here's why all of them could be in violation of MN laws. 👇
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