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Which tests?
Someone should ask him to specify WHICH cognitive tests. There are several that could be administered.
People online have generally joked about Trump fumbling the MoCA, but there are others (some much lengthier & in-depth). Knowing which ones will help us understand what's going on.
Someone should ask him to specify WHICH cognitive tests. There are several that could be administered.
People online have generally joked about Trump fumbling the MoCA, but there are others (some much lengthier & in-depth). Knowing which ones will help us understand what's going on.
He keeps looping about wars he stopped and his cognitive tests. And I say even if it is remotely true ( it’s not ) a President shouldn’t be begging for validation on an app.
December 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Which tests?
Someone should ask him to specify WHICH cognitive tests. There are several that could be administered.
People online have generally joked about Trump fumbling the MoCA, but there are others (some much lengthier & in-depth). Knowing which ones will help us understand what's going on.
Someone should ask him to specify WHICH cognitive tests. There are several that could be administered.
People online have generally joked about Trump fumbling the MoCA, but there are others (some much lengthier & in-depth). Knowing which ones will help us understand what's going on.
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Judge Paula Xinis just issued temporary restraining order barring Trump administration from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia when he reports to ICE this morning. ICE had demanded his appearance after judge freed him from custody yesterday.
December 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Judge Paula Xinis just issued temporary restraining order barring Trump administration from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia when he reports to ICE this morning. ICE had demanded his appearance after judge freed him from custody yesterday.
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U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Thursday ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration detention, finding that the Trump administration held him without a valid removal order and lacks the legal authority to continue detaining him.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Thursday ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration detention, finding that the Trump administration held him without a valid removal order and lacks the legal authority to continue detaining him.
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
Rufo says almost what he means: the RW media apparatus is how the right teaches its followers WHAT to think. "It does the thinking for you."
Also: garbage in, garbage out. 🧵
Also: garbage in, garbage out. 🧵
December 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Rufo says almost what he means: the RW media apparatus is how the right teaches its followers WHAT to think. "It does the thinking for you."
Also: garbage in, garbage out. 🧵
Also: garbage in, garbage out. 🧵
"I imagine it is the ultimate sign of success for a white supremacist when he can fundamentally convince a racialized person that racism is a myth.… He’s co-opted the perfect messenger, one who might… bring like-minded Others into the white supremacist fold."
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Inside race-ball
Captivity: the ultimate curve
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December 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"I imagine it is the ultimate sign of success for a white supremacist when he can fundamentally convince a racialized person that racism is a myth.… He’s co-opted the perfect messenger, one who might… bring like-minded Others into the white supremacist fold."
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.”
And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
December 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.”
And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
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Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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On Tuesday, Pritzker signed a bill that makes it easier for Illinois residents to sue federal immigration agents for up to $10,000 if they believe their rights have been violated, and also restricts those agents from enforcement outside courthouses.
Governor Pritzker Makes It Easier for People to Sue ICE
The Illinois governor has signed a major bill to rein in ICE agents.
newrepublic.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
On Tuesday, Pritzker signed a bill that makes it easier for Illinois residents to sue federal immigration agents for up to $10,000 if they believe their rights have been violated, and also restricts those agents from enforcement outside courthouses.
'White' is an invented category. Preference for 'White' candidates is just as much "identity politics" as the obverse.
Historian Gerald Horne has been hammering this point all year, in the wake of the backlash from the 2024 election.
Historian Gerald Horne has been hammering this point all year, in the wake of the backlash from the 2024 election.
Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
December 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
'White' is an invented category. Preference for 'White' candidates is just as much "identity politics" as the obverse.
Historian Gerald Horne has been hammering this point all year, in the wake of the backlash from the 2024 election.
Historian Gerald Horne has been hammering this point all year, in the wake of the backlash from the 2024 election.
Warner Bros. must spin off CNN, as Comcast/NBC spun off MSNBC (renamed MS NOW). How else to retain the barest of independence for the flagship cable news giant?
Reporter: What changes do you want to see done at CNN?
Trump: "I'm not involved in that, but I will be probably involved... I think it's imperative that CNN be sold... I think CNN should be sold because the people that are running CNN right now are either corrupt or incompetent."
Trump: "I'm not involved in that, but I will be probably involved... I think it's imperative that CNN be sold... I think CNN should be sold because the people that are running CNN right now are either corrupt or incompetent."
December 11, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Warner Bros. must spin off CNN, as Comcast/NBC spun off MSNBC (renamed MS NOW). How else to retain the barest of independence for the flagship cable news giant?
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#GVerse #FuckICE detain U.S. citizen for "looking" Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
December 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
#GVerse #FuckICE detain U.S. citizen for "looking" Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
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WATCH: U.S. forces seize oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
December 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
WATCH: U.S. forces seize oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
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The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
These findings might revolutionize neuropsychological care.
Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a specific set of genetic variants
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go.nature.com/3Ymtiwg
Huge genetic study reveals hidden links between psychiatric conditions
Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a specific set of genetic variants.
go.nature.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
These findings might revolutionize neuropsychological care.
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Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
![Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.
During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.
Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/bafkreiafbjju65esvo6htynkkl6or6muv4qqhwo5fghkkbyvclgnxxmchy@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
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"Over and over this year, DHS has assaulted opponents of ICE and then charged them for it. And these Signal texts sure seem to support that they knowingly did the same thing with Congresswoman McIver.
"And then buried it in a discovery violation."
"And then buried it in a discovery violation."
DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/d...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/d...
DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her - emptywheel
DOJ withheld Signal texts showing that before DHS started claiming that LaMonica McIver had assaulted two DHS guys, they had circulated video observing that their own actions look "bad."
www.emptywheel.net
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
"Over and over this year, DHS has assaulted opponents of ICE and then charged them for it. And these Signal texts sure seem to support that they knowingly did the same thing with Congresswoman McIver.
"And then buried it in a discovery violation."
"And then buried it in a discovery violation."
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College teachers and staff everywhere, take note
ICE raided Augsburg University in Minnesota and allegedly pointed guns at students.
They didn’t have a warrant to be on private property, and students are shaken and left feeling unsafe.
At least one was detained.
They’re not going after criminals.
They’re grabbing anyone they can.
They didn’t have a warrant to be on private property, and students are shaken and left feeling unsafe.
At least one was detained.
They’re not going after criminals.
They’re grabbing anyone they can.
December 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
College teachers and staff everywhere, take note
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Right wing parties across the world seem to really be leaning into comic book supervillainism www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mk...
Far-right MKs sport noose-shaped pins at hearing on controversial death penalty bill
Ben Gvir draws condemnation after display at Knesset meeting; MKs pushing bill mandating capital punishment are told its language may not be constitutional
www.timesofisrael.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Right wing parties across the world seem to really be leaning into comic book supervillainism www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mk...
None of this makes sense. Obama was a centrist in the final calculus & a pragmatist. He was neither inert nor standing still; rather, he was constrained by a hostile Congress.
Folks "primed" for Trump were cued by something other than Obama's worldview. It was more… on the surface, let's say. 🧵
Folks "primed" for Trump were cued by something other than Obama's worldview. It was more… on the surface, let's say. 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
None of this makes sense. Obama was a centrist in the final calculus & a pragmatist. He was neither inert nor standing still; rather, he was constrained by a hostile Congress.
Folks "primed" for Trump were cued by something other than Obama's worldview. It was more… on the surface, let's say. 🧵
Folks "primed" for Trump were cued by something other than Obama's worldview. It was more… on the surface, let's say. 🧵
Failing memory retrieval plus confabulation: you get this.
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Failing memory retrieval plus confabulation: you get this.
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Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
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December 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.