Tucker Drake
@tuckerdrake.bsky.social
I'm yet another annoying podcaster, and I just happen to live in a beer can. tparkpodcast.com is the home of the show and you can support it on https://www.patreon.com/tntucker if you choose.
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DHS says
1) This was targeted enforcement & this woman fit the description
2) They determined she wasn't the target & left. But they didn't get her name so how did they decide in 10 seconds she wasn't the target?
FAR more likely their target was "brown people"
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
1) This was targeted enforcement & this woman fit the description
2) They determined she wasn't the target & left. But they didn't get her name so how did they decide in 10 seconds she wasn't the target?
FAR more likely their target was "brown people"
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Video shows masked Border Patrol agent chasing woman back to her Louisiana home
Jacelynn Guzman said she is a U.S.-born citizen. The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it "determined the individual in question was not the target."
www.nbcnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
DHS says
1) This was targeted enforcement & this woman fit the description
2) They determined she wasn't the target & left. But they didn't get her name so how did they decide in 10 seconds she wasn't the target?
FAR more likely their target was "brown people"
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
1) This was targeted enforcement & this woman fit the description
2) They determined she wasn't the target & left. But they didn't get her name so how did they decide in 10 seconds she wasn't the target?
FAR more likely their target was "brown people"
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Not including Border Patrol, ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records.
This data is compiled by ICE internally and was obtained by
UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project via a lawsuit.
ICE is currently holding 65,000 migrants in detention centers around the country.
This data is compiled by ICE internally and was obtained by
UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project via a lawsuit.
ICE is currently holding 65,000 migrants in detention centers around the country.
ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows
The figures do not include arrests made by Border Patrol, which has launched aggressive immigration operations in several cities in recent months.
www.nbcnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Not including Border Patrol, ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records.
This data is compiled by ICE internally and was obtained by
UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project via a lawsuit.
ICE is currently holding 65,000 migrants in detention centers around the country.
This data is compiled by ICE internally and was obtained by
UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project via a lawsuit.
ICE is currently holding 65,000 migrants in detention centers around the country.
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To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
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Last night, I went outside just to look at the stars and my rapist was out there just staring at me.
I had to call the cops, again.
So I’m begging yall. To help me get this.
Please
I had to call the cops, again.
So I’m begging yall. To help me get this.
Please
Hey everyone 🚀
I have an urgent request. I was running from my rapist and got in a wreck. I can rent a vehicle while my insurance is worked out.
But it’s $309. Can anyone help me get it? I can pick it up tomorrow.
My v e n m o is : @astrotoya
My c a s h a p p : $astrotoya
or PayPal.me/toyamck
I have an urgent request. I was running from my rapist and got in a wreck. I can rent a vehicle while my insurance is worked out.
But it’s $309. Can anyone help me get it? I can pick it up tomorrow.
My v e n m o is : @astrotoya
My c a s h a p p : $astrotoya
or PayPal.me/toyamck
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Last night, I went outside just to look at the stars and my rapist was out there just staring at me.
I had to call the cops, again.
So I’m begging yall. To help me get this.
Please
I had to call the cops, again.
So I’m begging yall. To help me get this.
Please
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NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes.
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
OPINION: The Chicago Public Library budget is under threat. Let’s remember what libraries do for us • The TRiiBE
Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources.
thetriibe.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes.
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
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This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
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Lecturing Europe on the importance of free speech.
🚨Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list" of Americans who may be extremists, per signed memo leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
LEAK: FBI List of “Extremists” Is Coming, Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Lecturing Europe on the importance of free speech.
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“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Amnesty International released findings from its investigation into the Everglades Concentration Camp (Alligator Alcatraz), which was built by the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations.
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations.
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
December 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Amnesty International released findings from its investigation into the Everglades Concentration Camp (Alligator Alcatraz), which was built by the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations.
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations.
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
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WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
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What’s interesting here is that, despite the best efforts of unhinged lawmakers, there’s no legal reason for any of this. It’s coming from administrators desperate to avoid a fight.
December 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
What’s interesting here is that, despite the best efforts of unhinged lawmakers, there’s no legal reason for any of this. It’s coming from administrators desperate to avoid a fight.
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Warning: dog bite images
Tacoma ICE agents lured Wilmer Martinez out of his home, released their dog on him, he received bites and gashes, was denied medical attention for hours.
Senator Murray @murray.senate.gov is demanding his release. Stop this inhumanity
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeyB...
Tacoma ICE agents lured Wilmer Martinez out of his home, released their dog on him, he received bites and gashes, was denied medical attention for hours.
Senator Murray @murray.senate.gov is demanding his release. Stop this inhumanity
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeyB...
Sen. Murray urges release of man allegedly mauled by ICE dog
YouTube video by KING 5 Seattle
m.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Warning: dog bite images
Tacoma ICE agents lured Wilmer Martinez out of his home, released their dog on him, he received bites and gashes, was denied medical attention for hours.
Senator Murray @murray.senate.gov is demanding his release. Stop this inhumanity
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeyB...
Tacoma ICE agents lured Wilmer Martinez out of his home, released their dog on him, he received bites and gashes, was denied medical attention for hours.
Senator Murray @murray.senate.gov is demanding his release. Stop this inhumanity
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeyB...
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Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
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This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
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Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
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If Trump and Musk had a falling out, and if Musk is no longer involved in politics, why is the Trump admin using levers of US foreign policy to get Musk’s company out of well deserved fines?
This is the moment, Europe. Stand up for yourself, your laws, your freedom against foreign interference.
This is the moment, Europe. Stand up for yourself, your laws, your freedom against foreign interference.
Trump administration officials banded together to denounce the European Union after the bloc fined Elon Musk’s X, with some suggesting a US response is warranted, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports: www.techpolicy.press/trump-admini...
Trump Administration Locks Arms with Musk’s X Against EU Tech Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press
Senior Trump administration officials banded together against the EU for fining Elon Musk's X on transparency grounds.
www.techpolicy.press
December 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
If Trump and Musk had a falling out, and if Musk is no longer involved in politics, why is the Trump admin using levers of US foreign policy to get Musk’s company out of well deserved fines?
This is the moment, Europe. Stand up for yourself, your laws, your freedom against foreign interference.
This is the moment, Europe. Stand up for yourself, your laws, your freedom against foreign interference.
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☢️🇺🇦 Today marks another anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum.
Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for assurances of support in the event of aggression…
History has shown that without effective guarantees, international law often fails to work in practice.
Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for assurances of support in the event of aggression…
History has shown that without effective guarantees, international law often fails to work in practice.
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
☢️🇺🇦 Today marks another anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum.
Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for assurances of support in the event of aggression…
History has shown that without effective guarantees, international law often fails to work in practice.
Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for assurances of support in the event of aggression…
History has shown that without effective guarantees, international law often fails to work in practice.
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worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants
Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants
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Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
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Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Twin Cities: ICE is out terrorizing people. Please be aware. If you see them, call 612-441-2881 and then pull out your phone to record. Comply if they tell you to step aside but keep recording. You are legally allowed to film them.
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Twin Cities: ICE is out terrorizing people. Please be aware. If you see them, call 612-441-2881 and then pull out your phone to record. Comply if they tell you to step aside but keep recording. You are legally allowed to film them.
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BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
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The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
December 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
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A massive step back for the United States
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
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Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A massive step back for the United States
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...