aquifolius
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I'd rather be a pig than a fascist
This is what we have always been.
5-year-old boy among four students detained by ICE, according to school leaders
School district leaders argue ICE agents are following students and their parents while driving to and from school.
www.kare11.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:21 AM
This is what we have always been.
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Hundreds Call For Accountability at Hartford Vigil For Minnesota Mom Killed By ICE Agent #ctnewsjunkie #ctpolitics
Hundreds Call For Accountability at Hartford Vigil For Minnesota Mom Killed By ICE Agent
Renee Good, a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, was shot and killed during an encounter with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota on Wednesday.
dlvr.it
January 11, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Hundreds Call For Accountability at Hartford Vigil For Minnesota Mom Killed By ICE Agent #ctnewsjunkie #ctpolitics
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Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
Brown shooting victim was pursuing dream of becoming brain surgeon
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, was one of two people killed at Brown University on Saturday.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
I thoroughly enjoyed Knives Out 3. I thought the framing was a little weaker than Glass Onion, but the mystery and cast interplay was more compelling.
December 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I thoroughly enjoyed Knives Out 3. I thought the framing was a little weaker than Glass Onion, but the mystery and cast interplay was more compelling.
I am uninterested in hearing any Democratic candidate for any federal legislative position that does not make Abolishing ICE a part of their platform.
I hope you feel the same.
I hope you feel the same.
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I am uninterested in hearing any Democratic candidate for any federal legislative position that does not make Abolishing ICE a part of their platform.
I hope you feel the same.
I hope you feel the same.
It's World AIDS day.
Do you fuck? Get tested!
Do you fuck? Get tested!
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
It's World AIDS day.
Do you fuck? Get tested!
Do you fuck? Get tested!
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this graphic is everything. this is why people overestimate the prevalence of violent crime and terrorism and support punitive police measures.
they are quite literally distorting reality in order to keep you scared of the wrong things.
they are quite literally distorting reality in order to keep you scared of the wrong things.
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
this graphic is everything. this is why people overestimate the prevalence of violent crime and terrorism and support punitive police measures.
they are quite literally distorting reality in order to keep you scared of the wrong things.
they are quite literally distorting reality in order to keep you scared of the wrong things.
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Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works
(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works
(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
One of the things I have been skewering local conservatives with is that their own protests were significantly smaller, and yet they'd like to treat the No Kings Protests (my own issues with them aside) as these tiny, aberrant gatherings.
Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
One of the things I have been skewering local conservatives with is that their own protests were significantly smaller, and yet they'd like to treat the No Kings Protests (my own issues with them aside) as these tiny, aberrant gatherings.
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Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
trib.al
October 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Hesgeth saying "no fats, no fems" to a bunch of generals like his Grindr profile doesn't already list that.
October 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Hesgeth saying "no fats, no fems" to a bunch of generals like his Grindr profile doesn't already list that.
Rest well, my queen.
September 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Rest well, my queen.
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is this not just kidnapping?
September 23, 2025 at 4:37 AM
is this not just kidnapping?
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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The video of Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk just goes to show that when you don’t let theater kids pursue what they’re born to do it backfires spectacularly
September 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The video of Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk just goes to show that when you don’t let theater kids pursue what they’re born to do it backfires spectacularly
I refuse to feel bad for someone who has repeatedly told me that being killed while shielding my students from gun violence was less important than preserving the 2nd Amendment as he interprets it.
Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah on Wednesday, officials said.
Videos circulating on social media appeared to show Kirk being struck in the neck while he was sitting on a stool addressing an outdoor crowd. Kirk’s condition was not immediately clear.
Videos circulating on social media appeared to show Kirk being struck in the neck while he was sitting on a stool addressing an outdoor crowd. Kirk’s condition was not immediately clear.
Conservative Influencer Charlie Kirk Shot In Utah
His condition was not immediately clear, but politicians on both sides of the aisle called for prayers and condemned the political violence.
www.motherjones.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I refuse to feel bad for someone who has repeatedly told me that being killed while shielding my students from gun violence was less important than preserving the 2nd Amendment as he interprets it.
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The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
September 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
Alright fellow nerds, I'm perfectly willing to make it (and have started) but someone please tell me there's a parody version of "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" but it's about Brian De Palma's "Carrie" already in existence.
September 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Alright fellow nerds, I'm perfectly willing to make it (and have started) but someone please tell me there's a parody version of "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" but it's about Brian De Palma's "Carrie" already in existence.
That's what happens when you design a program to make art, =P
It frankly boggles my mind that we have invented a computer that cannot do math.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
September 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
That's what happens when you design a program to make art, =P
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Yep a good-faith critique of learning loss would lead to proposals for a massive, New Deal-scale investment in public education. The people pushing the narrative are doing precisely the opposite.
'blue states closed too early' is said by the same people who are working to close public schools, so you know it's not that they care about children's education.
September 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Yep a good-faith critique of learning loss would lead to proposals for a massive, New Deal-scale investment in public education. The people pushing the narrative are doing precisely the opposite.
"We cannot do everything, but we must do what we can."
The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel
YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis
www.youtube.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"We cannot do everything, but we must do what we can."
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"My friend Victor like saved me though, because he laid on top of me. But he got hit."
10-year-old describes witnessing Minneapolis shooting.
10-year-old describes witnessing Minneapolis shooting.
August 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"My friend Victor like saved me though, because he laid on top of me. But he got hit."
10-year-old describes witnessing Minneapolis shooting.
10-year-old describes witnessing Minneapolis shooting.
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“‘Oh look, it's couch-fucker,’ one person shouted in a video shared on social media. Another added, ‘You gonna fuck a couch, buddy?’ As the heckling escalated, chants of ‘Go fuck a couch, JD Vance!’ and ‘pussy boy’ filled the busy train station.” www.complex.com/life/a/marke...
J.D. Vance Heckled With ‘Couch F*cker’ Chants During D.C....
JD Vance was confronted by angry hecklers at Union Statio...
www.complex.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“‘Oh look, it's couch-fucker,’ one person shouted in a video shared on social media. Another added, ‘You gonna fuck a couch, buddy?’ As the heckling escalated, chants of ‘Go fuck a couch, JD Vance!’ and ‘pussy boy’ filled the busy train station.” www.complex.com/life/a/marke...