philtor
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Semi retired software developer in Oregon. Foodie. Gardener. Trying to make sense of <looks around> all of this.
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Those Epstein files must be bad.

#KY04
TRUMP: CONGRESSMAN THOMAS MASSIE MUST BE THROWN OUT OF OFFICE
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The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon.

Mark my words.
Agreed! Why turn them into mud? Just seems like a travesty.
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The war zone in Portland is out of control.
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I feel like not only are we the last generation to remember what it’s like to be bored and not constantly distracted by a phone, but we may be the last generation to remember what it was like for people to make decisions, especially military ones, without asking ChatGPT.
Major General Reveals Bonkers Relationship With ChatGPT
Chat, are we cooked?
newrepublic.com
I guess he's talking from personal experience?
If I didn't care about this country I wouldn't bother to protest tomorrow.
Mike Johnson on No Kings: "We refer to it by its more accurate description -- the Hate America Rally. You're gonna bring together the Marxists, the socialists, the antifa advocates, the anarchists, and the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party. That is the modern Democratic Party."
If I didn't care about this country I wouldn't bother to protest tomorrow.
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Important: Sen Chris Murphy just sent pointed questions to Kristi Noem about DHS's account of shooting of US citizen by Trump's paramilitary forces in Chicago. The official line is imploding. Murphy wants Noem to explain why DHS misled. More like this, Ds.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.
As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?
newrepublic.com
I'm gonna guess he won't be at his local No Kings rally tomorrow.
I'm going to guess that we've got intelligence that suggests this outcome. It makes for a nice show for Trump - flexing US military might and making it look like he's the hero when Maduro is deposed.
I guess he's betting on the unpopularity of Maduro. It seems like there's a good possibility that VE military will not want to face US forces. Gotta be a part of their military that would try to coup him instead of fighting, don't you think?
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Donald the dove
The U.S. military mobilization in the Caribbean:
• 8 Navy warships
• 10 stealth fighters
• About 10,000 troops
• New ammunition storage sites in Puerto Rico

The goal, officials say privately, is to oust Maduro from power.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Where the U.S. Is Building Up Military Force in the Caribbean
www.nytimes.com
Wait, so they're vegan eggs?
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Patriot Front and Active Clubs are working with a Russian fight promoter to sell pay-per-view tickets to its fight club events. The article includes previously unidentified PF/AC guys like Thomas Denton a former member of the accelerationist group the Base. 1/4

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Revealed: how a Russian fight club expanded into the US with the help of American neo-Nazis
Members of white supremacist ‘active clubs’ spearheaded a US expansion of a Russian fighting group that has raised money for the Kremlin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
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For no reason at all: I suggest you take time & watch footage from the Hong Kong democracy protests — specifically 2019-2020 protests. Get a sense of what tech-enabled anti-protest policing looks like. Those kids came up with wild stuff to withstand/neutralize “non-lethal” crowd control techniques.
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The amount of shocking abuse of power, abuse and misconduct we're not hearing about would be stunning right now
An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
Cat software running on dog hardware
I don't think those are strictly masculine value.
I guess I didn't understand this part from Vlad: "He estimates we won’t fully grasp the democratic decline that began in the early 2010s until the middle 2030s." I think the democratic decline really got started on October 26, 2001 with the passage of The Patriot Act.
And it's not even an economic threat if you... checks notes... welcome immigrants.
And it's not a security threat. It's not even an economic threat if you... checks notes... welcome immigrants.