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I used to make sure your images were in focus. Now I just tinker and teach your college student how to keep things in focus.
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If you're wondering why this act of murder seems to be gaining more traction than others it's because politicians and the media decided to make it a big deal. You have to do that from time to time instead of always going "lol fml freal though" 24/7.
Pete Hegseth bears responsibility for THIS

(hat tip @natashabertrand.bsky.social)
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The headline references 2 instances but the article talks about even more. You cannot honestly believe in public safety and still support CPD in it's current form.

ground.news/article/chic...
Chicago Police Department promoted 2 cops after investigators found they engaged in sexual misconduct
One of Chicago’s newest police sergeants had been deemed “unfit to serve” after an investigation uncovered evidence that he created a fake Facebook account and distributed a nude photo of a woman he w...
ground.news
December 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It takes empathy to be a good actor.
watching Stranger Things 5.2, so Will’s actor is easily the worst performer on the show right? like, the other kids are fine, some have gotten pretty good, but he is actively bad now.
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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illinois secretary of state alexi giannoulias sent letters to 19 rental car companies warning them against letting feds swap out license plates on their vehicles.

nbc news reports giannoulias’s review of more than 600 complaints has so far led to … one license plate revoked.
Illinois officials warn rental car companies that it is illegal for immigration agents to swap license plates
The secretary of state sent a cease and desist letter to ICE head Todd Lyons, citing “multiple reports of federal ICE agents illegally swapping out the license plates displayed on vehicles.”
www.nbcnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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I Think Her Party Should Be Making Statements In Her Defense And The Greater Somali Community
December 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Incredible, hyperlocalized things are happening on Mr. Submarine's YouTube channel. (The thumbnail makes it look like the original Eagleman commercial, but it's so much more.)
It must be Eagleman
YouTube video by Mr. Submarine
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As a college professor, I am quite interested in the answer to this.
if this is discrimination, I’m genuinely unsure what you’re supposed to do when a student responds to a prompt with some religious gibberish
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936

Right: 1936 electoral map
November 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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i am not a christian but i have no idea why there isn't some big panic about a guy called "mr. beast" amassing tremendous amounts of fame and influence by literally getting people to do dangerous and degrading things
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Unlimited violence abroad, but none of that is allowed to make its way back home.
November 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Hello, I'm

The Books
The New Pornographers
Tori Amos
Yo La Tengo
Guided By Voices
introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

bjork
rammstein
NIN
thomas dolby
no doubt

special mention lollapalooza 1993:

rage
tool
primus
alice in chains
front 242
dinosaur jr
introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

Ratatat
Marika Hackman
Molchat Doma
My Chemical Romance
UPSAHL
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Normally I don't go much for the "this is humiliating" framework for what's happening in this country—I didn't do it, and my self-worth is not tied up in America in any way. Watching Bolsonaro get sent up for decades for committing the exact same crime of treason that Trump did? That's humiliating.
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Our natural state as humans is not hate. It may be something closer to fear or self preservation, but even that alone does not manifest into hatefulness. True hate takes cultivation and effort and those are things that hateful people cannot maintain.
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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many of them are in the democratic socialists of America dipshit
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)

The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Israel has violated the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire at least 497 times in 44 days, killing at least 342 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.

🔗: aje.io/65ptdp| #Infograph
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
LA, get ready for now dumb reasons to lament traffic.
November 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people.

This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.
DOJ is now recruiting for immigration judges by calling them “deportation judges.”

That’s seems really bad.
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.

We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.

By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM