Aubrey Gilleran
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Episcopalian | North Carolinian | father | husband | English teacher | liberal | lost on Jeopardy! | IG: @aubreygilleran
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I’m a moron for not knowing it was this lucrative. Explains everything about why lefties bash Bluesky on Twitter. He’s paying them to do it. I’ll shut up about trying to understand these folks. They work for Elon. Got it.
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I’m a moron for not knowing it was this lucrative. Explains everything about why lefties bash Bluesky on Twitter. He’s paying them to do it. I’ll shut up about trying to understand these folks. They work for Elon. Got it.
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If you read the story, the actual culprits here are big agribusinesses contaminating the groundwater through nitrates in their fertilizers. That's where the cancer is coming from.
Insane that the headline and this piece essentially let them completely off the hook!
Insane that the headline and this piece essentially let them completely off the hook!
It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 AM
If you read the story, the actual culprits here are big agribusinesses contaminating the groundwater through nitrates in their fertilizers. That's where the cancer is coming from.
Insane that the headline and this piece essentially let them completely off the hook!
Insane that the headline and this piece essentially let them completely off the hook!
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My constructive question to this student is, how would you articulate your concerns and your reasoning to someone who does not share your faith in the Bible as an authority? Being able to do this is an important objective for education, both for self-awareness and for living in society.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
My constructive question to this student is, how would you articulate your concerns and your reasoning to someone who does not share your faith in the Bible as an authority? Being able to do this is an important objective for education, both for self-awareness and for living in society.
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Happy Advent! It's the beginning and the end.
For the First Sunday of Advent, the Office has St. Cyril lay out the basic theme of the season: the twofold coming of Christ.
November 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Happy Advent! It's the beginning and the end.
I actually do know some conservative researchers who can actually, you know, write. One was a Fulbright Scholar. The student absolutely could have presented her views in a way that was academically rigorous, but it's easier to whine to politicians.
idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I actually do know some conservative researchers who can actually, you know, write. One was a Fulbright Scholar. The student absolutely could have presented her views in a way that was academically rigorous, but it's easier to whine to politicians.
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
I really don't think campaign slogans matter. Does anyone remember the 2018 campaign slogan, when Democrats picked up 41 seats?
November 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I really don't think campaign slogans matter. Does anyone remember the 2018 campaign slogan, when Democrats picked up 41 seats?
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The reactionary worldview is shot through with a deep-seated disdain for America.
In this post, for example, the underlying assumption is that there is nothing special about America's institutions and laws, its civil services, its patterns of life and social norms, its historical developments.
In this post, for example, the underlying assumption is that there is nothing special about America's institutions and laws, its civil services, its patterns of life and social norms, its historical developments.
November 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The reactionary worldview is shot through with a deep-seated disdain for America.
In this post, for example, the underlying assumption is that there is nothing special about America's institutions and laws, its civil services, its patterns of life and social norms, its historical developments.
In this post, for example, the underlying assumption is that there is nothing special about America's institutions and laws, its civil services, its patterns of life and social norms, its historical developments.
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Now Senate Armed Services Committee and House Armed Services Committee - vow "vigorous oversight" and "full accounting" of Secretary Hegseth's alleged "kill them all" order and double-strike operation.
Rare joint statements by GOP Chairman and Ranking Member on both committees
Rare joint statements by GOP Chairman and Ranking Member on both committees
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Now Senate Armed Services Committee and House Armed Services Committee - vow "vigorous oversight" and "full accounting" of Secretary Hegseth's alleged "kill them all" order and double-strike operation.
Rare joint statements by GOP Chairman and Ranking Member on both committees
Rare joint statements by GOP Chairman and Ranking Member on both committees
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Our nation needs more immigration judges, not less. Yet the Trump administration just fired another.
“I never took my role as a judge for granted... I don’t just mourn the loss of a job but also the disintegration of a system.”
“I never took my role as a judge for granted... I don’t just mourn the loss of a job but also the disintegration of a system.”
Tears flowed in S.F. courtroom as immigration judge was fired mid-hearing
The San Francisco judge said the “dismantling” of the immigration court was preceded by “inhumane” workloads and trauma-filled workdays.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Our nation needs more immigration judges, not less. Yet the Trump administration just fired another.
“I never took my role as a judge for granted... I don’t just mourn the loss of a job but also the disintegration of a system.”
“I never took my role as a judge for granted... I don’t just mourn the loss of a job but also the disintegration of a system.”
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NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
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Neither is particularly likely compared to "this guy was cracked by trauma and then told he or some of his friends were going to be deported, and he broke"
What's more logical?
That the CIA directed one of its assets to perform the perfect false flag?
Or
That a jihadist played the long game by working with the CIA in Afghanistan to gain legal access to the country and then travel 3,000 miles to enact his plan of attacking National Guard soldiers?
That the CIA directed one of its assets to perform the perfect false flag?
Or
That a jihadist played the long game by working with the CIA in Afghanistan to gain legal access to the country and then travel 3,000 miles to enact his plan of attacking National Guard soldiers?
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Neither is particularly likely compared to "this guy was cracked by trauma and then told he or some of his friends were going to be deported, and he broke"
At a local greasy spoon in my hometown with my mom and sister. Overhearing some Gen Z hunters talking over their breakfast after a morning hunt. They're clearly local but do not have what I would recognize as eastern Carolina accents. Media has really flattened dialects.
November 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
At a local greasy spoon in my hometown with my mom and sister. Overhearing some Gen Z hunters talking over their breakfast after a morning hunt. They're clearly local but do not have what I would recognize as eastern Carolina accents. Media has really flattened dialects.
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Less than a day before Eva Gurtovaia was to become a U.S. citizen, federal agents detained her Kurdish husband, who was authorized to work in the country.
As the immigration blitz wound down, an Uptown couple breathed a sigh of relief. Then they were torn apart.
Less than a day before Eva Gurtovaia was to become a U.S. citizen, federal agents detained her Kurdish husband, who was authorized to work in the country.
trib.al
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Less than a day before Eva Gurtovaia was to become a U.S. citizen, federal agents detained her Kurdish husband, who was authorized to work in the country.
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This paragraph is a journey.
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This paragraph is a journey.
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Tom would like to remind you that political imagination ought only be limited to what he thinks is reasonable.
You as the reader are left to decide whether or not his past track record of political imagination is either useful or realistic based on his previous positions.
You as the reader are left to decide whether or not his past track record of political imagination is either useful or realistic based on his previous positions.
Dear Fellow Americans:
Please stop thinking about the ICC.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Please stop thinking about the ICC.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I can't imagine campaigning on this, but if grave breaches become operational policy and other war crimes are routinely pardoned when/if prosecuted, joining the ICC seems much more reasonable than my previous belief that we'd hold our own accountable.
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Tom would like to remind you that political imagination ought only be limited to what he thinks is reasonable.
You as the reader are left to decide whether or not his past track record of political imagination is either useful or realistic based on his previous positions.
You as the reader are left to decide whether or not his past track record of political imagination is either useful or realistic based on his previous positions.
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Writers of literally every procedural detective show vindicated.
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Our student theatre group had the bright idea of using actual knives on stage for authenticity. The blade missed my aorta by about a centimetre
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Writers of literally every procedural detective show vindicated.
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One story out of hundreds -- far from the worst. Do such deportations make us better as a country? Is this "who we want to be"? (I suppose it is -- for now. "A nation is a daily plebiscite.") apnews.com/article/babs...
College freshman is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order
A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was deported to Honduras in violation of a court order.
apnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
One story out of hundreds -- far from the worst. Do such deportations make us better as a country? Is this "who we want to be"? (I suppose it is -- for now. "A nation is a daily plebiscite.") apnews.com/article/babs...
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Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
She isn’t conscious much anymore, and one thing I’m grateful for is how dedicated, kind, and professional the hospice nurses are. It’s a noble vocation.
Leaving Thanksgiving with my husband’s family to get to my aunt’s bedside in hospice, where she is in her final hours after a three-year battle with cancer. Please pray for her and my mother, the soon-to-be only surviving sibling. It’s been a tough holiday.
November 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
She isn’t conscious much anymore, and one thing I’m grateful for is how dedicated, kind, and professional the hospice nurses are. It’s a noble vocation.
Who do they think is going to buy their products if everyone is unemployed?
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Who do they think is going to buy their products if everyone is unemployed?
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Kind of a horrific future we’ve stumbled into where you read a headline about people leaving Twitter for Reddit and immediately think “oh thank goodness”
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Kind of a horrific future we’ve stumbled into where you read a headline about people leaving Twitter for Reddit and immediately think “oh thank goodness”
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Kind of baffling how all the Serious People have converged on this notion that climate change is yesterday’s news right around the time it actually starts to have a visible, day to day impact that even regular people have to go out of their way to not notice.
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Kind of baffling how all the Serious People have converged on this notion that climate change is yesterday’s news right around the time it actually starts to have a visible, day to day impact that even regular people have to go out of their way to not notice.
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--The judge also revealed for the first time that one body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent using the AI tool ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based on a brief sentence about an encounter and several images.”--
Bodycam footage from Operation Midway Blitz released: ‘It’s all about arresting people’ (gift link) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...
Bodycam footage from Operation Midway Blitz released: ‘It’s all about arresting people’
The group of videos made public through the Loevy & Loevy law firm includes footage from agents who responded to controversial arrest operations in the Little Village and Irving Park neighborho…
www.chicagotribune.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
--The judge also revealed for the first time that one body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent using the AI tool ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based on a brief sentence about an encounter and several images.”--