U.S. Secretary of Hockey
@rariel81.bsky.social
DC refugee in Texas working on transportation planning, MPA candidate, car guy, TOD enthusiast, California native.
Former defense lobbyist, congressional/campaign staffer, federal employee.
Skeets represent only what’s in my brain.
Former defense lobbyist, congressional/campaign staffer, federal employee.
Skeets represent only what’s in my brain.
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Under the Trump administration, large parts of US biggest domestic law enforcement and intelligence agency have been directed to help its Immigration and ICE agents reach a target of 1mn deportations in the president’s first year. “Technologies used and managed for criminal investigative purposes
Trump’s immigration data dragnet
The US is pulling in vast amounts of personal information in its drive to deport 1mn people this year
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December 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Under the Trump administration, large parts of US biggest domestic law enforcement and intelligence agency have been directed to help its Immigration and ICE agents reach a target of 1mn deportations in the president’s first year. “Technologies used and managed for criminal investigative purposes
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Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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“‘Oh yea, it’s a fascist rally,’ said Shane Burley, author of the book ‘Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It.’”
At a 2019 Trump rally in Greenville, NC I saw Trump attack Omar in same way, prompting same “send her back” chants
Remember it feeling risky to call it a “fascist” rally in headline at the time, because mainstream outlets still weren’t comfortable with that word… www.huffpost.com/entry/fascis...
Remember it feeling risky to call it a “fascist” rally in headline at the time, because mainstream outlets still weren’t comfortable with that word… www.huffpost.com/entry/fascis...
December 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“‘Oh yea, it’s a fascist rally,’ said Shane Burley, author of the book ‘Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It.’”
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Hard to believe we went from the moon landing to this in the span of like two generations.
".. A measles outbreak that began in South Carolina at the start of October is showing no signs of slowing as officials on Tuesday reported 27 new cases since Friday. Those cases bring the outbreak total to 111."
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Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages
16 cases are linked to a church, which followed exposures at four schools last week.
arstechnica.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Hard to believe we went from the moon landing to this in the span of like two generations.
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This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.
December 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.
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Blaming immigrants leads nonimmigrants to believe they’re not at risk, which makes them less likely to protect themselves or to seek out testing when they become sick—harming themselves while infecting others. trib.al/CbDIaun
The Racist Worldview Behind the New Vaccine Recommendations
ACIP’s recent decision to scrap hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for infants is inextricable from its advisers’ apparent belief that immigrants bring disease.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Blaming immigrants leads nonimmigrants to believe they’re not at risk, which makes them less likely to protect themselves or to seek out testing when they become sick—harming themselves while infecting others. trib.al/CbDIaun
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“.. moving fast and breaking things, is at the heart of the Silicon Valley First mindset. .. When the midterms roll around, .. voters might wonder why so little attention has been paid to the impact AI might have on jobs and the economy ..”
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December 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“.. moving fast and breaking things, is at the heart of the Silicon Valley First mindset. .. When the midterms roll around, .. voters might wonder why so little attention has been paid to the impact AI might have on jobs and the economy ..”
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A 22% drop in deadly fine particle air pollution in NYC after traffic congestion pricing is astonishing.
Meanwhile, Trump‘s EPA has moved to kill a safer health standard for fine particles & reinstate an unsafe standard, & the House GOP votes today to take away Americans’ right to safe, clean air.
Meanwhile, Trump‘s EPA has moved to kill a safer health standard for fine particles & reinstate an unsafe standard, & the House GOP votes today to take away Americans’ right to safe, clean air.
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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NEW DATA: Where the teens are
YouTube 92%
TikTok 68%
Instagram 63%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 31% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 24%
Reddit 17%
X 16% (down from 33%)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-chatbots-2025/
YouTube 92%
TikTok 68%
Instagram 63%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 31% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 24%
Reddit 17%
X 16% (down from 33%)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-chatbots-2025/
December 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
NEW DATA: Where the teens are
YouTube 92%
TikTok 68%
Instagram 63%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 31% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 24%
Reddit 17%
X 16% (down from 33%)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-chatbots-2025/
YouTube 92%
TikTok 68%
Instagram 63%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 31% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 24%
Reddit 17%
X 16% (down from 33%)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-chatbots-2025/
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This article was just lying to you. California builds 25,000 ADUs per year because of state preemption. There are tens of thousands of homes built with state ministerial streamlining. There are now *hundreds of thousands* of homes that would not otherwise exist because of state preemption.
Statewide zoning reform isn’t producing the wins everyone expected. For example, state law can declare that small backyard cottages are legal. But unless cities can review them, permit them, and builders can finance them, legalization will remain largely symbolic.
December 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
This article was just lying to you. California builds 25,000 ADUs per year because of state preemption. There are tens of thousands of homes built with state ministerial streamlining. There are now *hundreds of thousands* of homes that would not otherwise exist because of state preemption.
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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
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The Marlins have designated RP Republican Gonzalez for assignment.
Laughing very strongly at "Republican Gonzalez."
Eileen Higgins just became the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years.
December 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The Marlins have designated RP Republican Gonzalez for assignment.
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This was expected to be close. In the end, it wasn't.
Republicans who don't turn on and reject Trump are toast. They might be toast even if they do.
Republicans who don't turn on and reject Trump are toast. They might be toast even if they do.
RESULTS: Democrat Tim Keller has won reelection as mayor of Albuquerque.
He defeats a former Republican sheriff, who took issue with Keller's executive order that limited collaboration with ICE.
And that's not all: Liberal faction seizes majority a city council.
He defeats a former Republican sheriff, who took issue with Keller's executive order that limited collaboration with ICE.
And that's not all: Liberal faction seizes majority a city council.
December 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This was expected to be close. In the end, it wasn't.
Republicans who don't turn on and reject Trump are toast. They might be toast even if they do.
Republicans who don't turn on and reject Trump are toast. They might be toast even if they do.
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MAGA shocked by tonight's election losses still don't understand bots don't vote.
December 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
MAGA shocked by tonight's election losses still don't understand bots don't vote.
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Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
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more of this please
Introducing Slop Detective!
Interactive game where you'll become fraud investigators, learning to spot AI-generated fakes and improve fact-checking skills.
Perfect for kids learning to investigate suspicious stories, images, and audio clips.
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Interactive game where you'll become fraud investigators, learning to spot AI-generated fakes and improve fact-checking skills.
Perfect for kids learning to investigate suspicious stories, images, and audio clips.
slopdetective.kagi.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
more of this please
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Woke catholicism vs reactionary federal gvt is not the conflict i wouldve expected a decade ago
ICE’s acting director ordered a Boston Catholic parish to tear down its Advent Nativity scene—stripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message “ICE WAS HERE.” The parish priest is refusing, citing he pope’s call to stand with migrants. It's another chapter in Kristi Noem's war on Christians.
“ICE Was Here”: Pope Leo-Inspired Nativity Scene Sparks MAGA Outrage
A Nativity scene missing Jesus — and marked with an “ICE was here” sign — has triggered cries of “politicizing Christmas.” The parish priest says he’s answering Pope Leo's call to welcome stranger.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Woke catholicism vs reactionary federal gvt is not the conflict i wouldve expected a decade ago
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Notice he only asks for sacrifice from others, not from himself, his family, or his friends, who are being enriched by his presidency
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Notice he only asks for sacrifice from others, not from himself, his family, or his friends, who are being enriched by his presidency
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Democratic candidate projected to have won Miami mayor race
Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the city of Miami, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak, CNN projects
Eileen Higgins will win Miami mayor’s race, CNN projects, breaking a nearly 30-year GOP hold | CNN Politics
Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the city of Miami, according to a projection from CNN’s Decision Desk, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak in holding the nonpartisan seat and giving D...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Democratic candidate projected to have won Miami mayor race
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MS-13 gang members told Hondurans to vote for the Trump-backed right-wing candidate or “we’ll kill you and your whole fucking family.”
MS-13 and Trump Backed the Same Presidential Candidate in Honduras
MS-13 told Hondurans to vote for the Trump-backed candidate or “we’ll kill you and your whole fucking family.”
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December 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
MS-13 gang members told Hondurans to vote for the Trump-backed right-wing candidate or “we’ll kill you and your whole fucking family.”
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the thing about delivery apps... www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/s...
Instacart's AI pricing tools drive up the cost of some groceries, study finds
Federal regulators and politicians have scrutinized companies' use of AI tools to set the cost of products or services, often called "surveillance pricing."
www.cnbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
the thing about delivery apps... www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/s...
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Here's a video of Jonathan's arrest, from his own Instagram account:
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December 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Here's a video of Jonathan's arrest, from his own Instagram account:
www.instagram.com/reel/DR_IQu_...
www.instagram.com/reel/DR_IQu_...
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An order to secure free housing on a military installation, Stephen Miller, and his wife served up an amazing slew of lies and fabrications, the Daily Beast writes
Katie Miller’s Excuse for Free House Falls Apart in Damning Police Report
The report flatly describes the supposedly “terroristic” sidewalk slogans outside the Millers’ home as “non-threatening.”
www.thedailybeast.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
An order to secure free housing on a military installation, Stephen Miller, and his wife served up an amazing slew of lies and fabrications, the Daily Beast writes
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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."