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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
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Blanche just straight up telling people this isn’t a justice department anymore
This is, straightforwardly, the threat of disparate treatment to stifle dissent. The DOJ's Deputy Attorney General is telling lawyers critical of administration policies that their clients will be singled out for harsher treatment.
Rule by law, not rule of law. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Rule by law, not rule of law. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Blanche just straight up telling people this isn’t a justice department anymore
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“table-sized”
December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“table-sized”
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Again, staying at the Nazi Bar & regularly interacting with the far right authoritarians is a central reason why Ezra Douthglesias has embraced or legitimized "birth tourism," "deportation abundance," repealing birthright citizenship & all kinds of other deeply ugly things.
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I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.
December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Again, staying at the Nazi Bar & regularly interacting with the far right authoritarians is a central reason why Ezra Douthglesias has embraced or legitimized "birth tourism," "deportation abundance," repealing birthright citizenship & all kinds of other deeply ugly things.
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perils of structuring your political beliefs according to political winds and issue polls
I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.
December 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
perils of structuring your political beliefs according to political winds and issue polls
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Compensating for the loss of PV capacity by going back to the crudest forms of carbon-based electricity generation to feed the machines – didn’t I see a movie about this as a kid? Surely pods are next?
US Eyes Diesel Generators to Meet Growing AI Power Demand
The US is looking to tap the nation’s network of large industrial diesel generators used at data centers, big box stores and elsewhere to help curb rising electricity costs and support the surge in po...
www.bloomberg.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Compensating for the loss of PV capacity by going back to the crudest forms of carbon-based electricity generation to feed the machines – didn’t I see a movie about this as a kid? Surely pods are next?
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Trump's dementia has grown so extreme that a select group of advisors are now running the country without his input. To find who those advisors are and what their plans are, buy my new book, which will appear in March 2029.
December 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Trump's dementia has grown so extreme that a select group of advisors are now running the country without his input. To find who those advisors are and what their plans are, buy my new book, which will appear in March 2029.
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The idea that they want only legal immigration was a lie from the start.
Routine naturalization ceremonies scheduled for this month in Putnam, Dutchess and Ulster counties to welcome new U.S. citizens were abruptly canceled last week by the federal government, surprising local officials. buff.ly/8emFeDU
Citizen Ceremonies Canceled
Dutchess, Putnam clerks say they have new dates for next year
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The idea that they want only legal immigration was a lie from the start.
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As awful as this, the focus on whether the woman was complying obscures the more important issue: in a democracy, there should not be armed agents demanding to see papers of every passing person.
“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 ⤵️
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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 3:27 PM
As awful as this, the focus on whether the woman was complying obscures the more important issue: in a democracy, there should not be armed agents demanding to see papers of every passing person.
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The failure of the press to note retail cocaine prices continue their decline under Trump is reminiscent of their failure to note during the occupation of Iraq that insurgent attacks were soaring amid the daily press releases about yet another "senior" insurgent commander being killed.
December 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The failure of the press to note retail cocaine prices continue their decline under Trump is reminiscent of their failure to note during the occupation of Iraq that insurgent attacks were soaring amid the daily press releases about yet another "senior" insurgent commander being killed.
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I didn't know this would be about Ben Shapiro when I started writing this. But I think it's fair to say it's about Ben Shapiro.
Monsters Everywhere
It didn't start out being about Ben Shaprio, but it's about Ben Shaprio.
www.notesfromthecircus.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I didn't know this would be about Ben Shapiro when I started writing this. But I think it's fair to say it's about Ben Shapiro.
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The Constitution is very straightforward on birthright citizenship. There's no ambiguity in the language, no other plausible interpretation.
The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit.
Read the text👇
The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit.
Read the text👇
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The Constitution is very straightforward on birthright citizenship. There's no ambiguity in the language, no other plausible interpretation.
The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit.
Read the text👇
The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit.
Read the text👇
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NYC: “I’m born here! Kings County Hospital! Suck my d*ck!”
Trump’s ICE goons grabbing brown and black people. Bounty hunters. Racial profiling is all they do.
Trump’s ICE goons grabbing brown and black people. Bounty hunters. Racial profiling is all they do.
December 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
NYC: “I’m born here! Kings County Hospital! Suck my d*ck!”
Trump’s ICE goons grabbing brown and black people. Bounty hunters. Racial profiling is all they do.
Trump’s ICE goons grabbing brown and black people. Bounty hunters. Racial profiling is all they do.
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"He has become, or is becoming, the Leviathan...Use this frame to think about and predict Trump's actions. He wants to replace Lincoln on the National Mall. He wants his face on Mt. Rushmore. He wants to be a Great Man, worshipped and obeyed."
December 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"He has become, or is becoming, the Leviathan...Use this frame to think about and predict Trump's actions. He wants to replace Lincoln on the National Mall. He wants his face on Mt. Rushmore. He wants to be a Great Man, worshipped and obeyed."
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"Trump’s eight power flows: expansion, destruction, rule by Executive Order, unification as forced capitulation, erasing inconvenient truths, retribution, militarization, and brand-marking the White House are an authoritarian consolidation of power in the person of Donald Trump."
December 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"Trump’s eight power flows: expansion, destruction, rule by Executive Order, unification as forced capitulation, erasing inconvenient truths, retribution, militarization, and brand-marking the White House are an authoritarian consolidation of power in the person of Donald Trump."
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This person was a news anchor at NBC and is now asking the director of the FBI if Charlie Kirk’s own organization assassinated him and if Macron put out a hit on Candace Owens. MAGA trajectories are wild.
December 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This person was a news anchor at NBC and is now asking the director of the FBI if Charlie Kirk’s own organization assassinated him and if Macron put out a hit on Candace Owens. MAGA trajectories are wild.
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trump admin approach to national security sounds like the kind of thing Charles Lindbergh would have written in 1939
Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
trump admin approach to national security sounds like the kind of thing Charles Lindbergh would have written in 1939
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If Virginia Democrats follow through with a new 10-1 congressional map and a couple of other Dem states make small changes, Trump's gambit to rig the 2026 maps will be remembered as an epic blunder.
December 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If Virginia Democrats follow through with a new 10-1 congressional map and a couple of other Dem states make small changes, Trump's gambit to rig the 2026 maps will be remembered as an epic blunder.
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Source is the Manhattan Institute, who emphasize that newer GOP voters drawn in by Trump are more conspiratorial.
manhattan.institute/article/the-...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Source is the Manhattan Institute, who emphasize that newer GOP voters drawn in by Trump are more conspiratorial.
manhattan.institute/article/the-...
manhattan.institute/article/the-...
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*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
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In remarks already sparking MAGA backlash, Pope Leo XIV called anti-Muslim panic a political weapon against immigration — and a betrayal of the Gospel.
His message directly challenges Elon Musk and MAGA leaders who frame Christian empathy as weakness.
His message directly challenges Elon Musk and MAGA leaders who frame Christian empathy as weakness.
Pope Leo to MAGA: Christians Must Stop Fearing Islam
On his first trip abroad, Pope Leo XIV extols Muslim-Christian friendship — delivering a pointed rejoinder to MAGA pundits who deride compassion as “suicidal empathy.”
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
In remarks already sparking MAGA backlash, Pope Leo XIV called anti-Muslim panic a political weapon against immigration — and a betrayal of the Gospel.
His message directly challenges Elon Musk and MAGA leaders who frame Christian empathy as weakness.
His message directly challenges Elon Musk and MAGA leaders who frame Christian empathy as weakness.
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A bit on the nose.
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Action taken by the Department of the Interior (U.S. Geological Survey) at or around 2025-12-06 06:11:36.
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Action taken by the Department of the Interior (U.S. Geological Survey) at or around 2025-12-06 06:11:36.
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Federal US website delisted. URL is not valid.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
A bit on the nose.
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FT has a piece on how particularly poisonous the Juan Orlando Hernández pardon was (but is a good overview and unlikely many pieces did note that Roger Stone himself needed a pardon).
www.ft.com/content/1dc4...
www.ft.com/content/1dc4...
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The Hernández pardon created “a tremendous disincentive for [overseas] prosecutors, police, judges and governments to take on the risk of investigating and assisting the extradition of officials who may be released arbitrarily by the US president”, said Ricardo Zúñiga, a former senior US state department official who focuses on Latin America.
“The US was seen as a place where justice would be done . . . it really undermines faith in the US justice system.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreicyrhntrhmeqvtgwwccd7mnqezzudjvz7grtujunjymvitzvolddm@jpeg)
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
FT has a piece on how particularly poisonous the Juan Orlando Hernández pardon was (but is a good overview and unlikely many pieces did note that Roger Stone himself needed a pardon).
www.ft.com/content/1dc4...
www.ft.com/content/1dc4...