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American in Japan. Observer of things.
"Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think." –Ursula K. Le Guin
"Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think." –Ursula K. Le Guin
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BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered that 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father be freed from ICE detention.
Families don't belong in detention.
Families don't belong in detention.
January 31, 2026 at 10:24 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered that 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father be freed from ICE detention.
Families don't belong in detention.
Families don't belong in detention.
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The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 30, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
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“bari weiss’s wife in the epstein files” is simply too perfect
If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss
January 31, 2026 at 4:12 PM
“bari weiss’s wife in the epstein files” is simply too perfect
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He really was a bad pedophile.
January 31, 2026 at 2:56 AM
He really was a bad pedophile.
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the best media criticism pod in the game
In this News Brief, "ICE, Senate Dems' Counterinsurgency PR, and the Limits of Body Cam Liberalism," we detail the fundamental problems with Senate Democrats' cosmetic reforms, the strategy of letting outrage blow over and the conspicuous absence of any proposal that touches ICE's obscene budget.
News Brief: ICE, Senate Dems' Counterinsurgency PR, and the Limits of Body Cam Liberalism
In this News Brief, we detail the fundamental problems with Senate Democrats' cosmetic reforms, the strategy of letting outrage blow over and the conspicuous absence of any proposal that touches ICE's
soundcloud.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:06 AM
the best media criticism pod in the game
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In this News Brief, "ICE, Senate Dems' Counterinsurgency PR, and the Limits of Body Cam Liberalism," we detail the fundamental problems with Senate Democrats' cosmetic reforms, the strategy of letting outrage blow over and the conspicuous absence of any proposal that touches ICE's obscene budget.
News Brief: ICE, Senate Dems' Counterinsurgency PR, and the Limits of Body Cam Liberalism
In this News Brief, we detail the fundamental problems with Senate Democrats' cosmetic reforms, the strategy of letting outrage blow over and the conspicuous absence of any proposal that touches ICE's
soundcloud.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:44 PM
In this News Brief, "ICE, Senate Dems' Counterinsurgency PR, and the Limits of Body Cam Liberalism," we detail the fundamental problems with Senate Democrats' cosmetic reforms, the strategy of letting outrage blow over and the conspicuous absence of any proposal that touches ICE's obscene budget.
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we don't have to accept these people plying their gruesome trades among us. we really don't! we don't have to let these people experiment on us and ruin our lives and take our livelihoods
New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car.
Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX.
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Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX.
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Tesla's own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor
Tesla’s nascent robotaxi program is off to a rough start. New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of...
electrek.co
January 31, 2026 at 4:36 AM
we don't have to accept these people plying their gruesome trades among us. we really don't! we don't have to let these people experiment on us and ruin our lives and take our livelihoods
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Despite a reticence to make this the Democrats' ask, we will now get every Senator on the record: should ICE have the budget they managed with in 2024/early 2025, or a supersized budget equivalent to an extra 7.5 years of funding, even if they are (allegedly) doing lower-cost targeted operations?
Shutdown update: Sen. Bernie Sanders wants an amendment vote on funding package to repeal $75 billion for ICE in big beautiful bill. Has another proposal to redirect that money into Medicaid
January 30, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Despite a reticence to make this the Democrats' ask, we will now get every Senator on the record: should ICE have the budget they managed with in 2024/early 2025, or a supersized budget equivalent to an extra 7.5 years of funding, even if they are (allegedly) doing lower-cost targeted operations?
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"I was 13 years old when Donald J. Trump raped me. Ghislaine Maxwell was also present."
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
"I was 13 years old when Donald J. Trump raped me. Ghislaine Maxwell was also present."
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Okay, so impeach when?
January 30, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Okay, so impeach when?
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This is infuriating. We've known that these datasets are rife with CSAM since at least 2023, and those are the ones that are public.
stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:k...
stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:k...
January 30, 2026 at 5:31 PM
This is infuriating. We've known that these datasets are rife with CSAM since at least 2023, and those are the ones that are public.
stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:k...
stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:k...
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SHUT IT THE FUCK DOWN THEN!!!!
The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort underscore the gravity of this moment. This has never happened before in our history. We shouldn't pretend it's normal.
More reason for us to hold the line and demand a DHS budget that stops funding lawlessness.
More reason for us to hold the line and demand a DHS budget that stops funding lawlessness.
January 30, 2026 at 7:48 PM
SHUT IT THE FUCK DOWN THEN!!!!
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"Lacked balance"
Everybody who perpetrated this while covering it up should be in the Hague
www.reuters.com/world/early-...
www.reuters.com/world/early-...
January 30, 2026 at 8:47 PM
"Lacked balance"
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One reason you can't just tinker with ICE/CBP is the whole thing is facially illegitimate. The intent is rotten. It's run by a white supremacist maniac and will continue producing white supremacist maniac results
January 30, 2026 at 1:38 AM
One reason you can't just tinker with ICE/CBP is the whole thing is facially illegitimate. The intent is rotten. It's run by a white supremacist maniac and will continue producing white supremacist maniac results
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Cities and states need to start getting creative. Run sobriety checkpoints every night looking for drunk ICE and CBP agents. Bet we could get rid of a whole bunch that way. sahanjournal.com/public-safet...
Border Patrol employee found ‘covered in vomit’ in St. Paul, charged with drunk driving
Border Patrol employee Alfredo Mancillas Jr. of Corpus Christi, Texas, was charged with drunk driving in St. Paul.
sahanjournal.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Cities and states need to start getting creative. Run sobriety checkpoints every night looking for drunk ICE and CBP agents. Bet we could get rid of a whole bunch that way. sahanjournal.com/public-safet...
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Graham objected to unanimous consent.
And he blocked the business of the Senate.
Any Senate Democrat could do this.
And he blocked the business of the Senate.
Any Senate Democrat could do this.
NO SENATE VOTE TONIGHT
Couldn’t get all senators to allow a speedy vote. Schumer tells reporters Lindsey Graham is blocking it. “That’s the holdup,” Schumer tells reporters. Graham wants to keep a provision letting him sue to pocket $500,000 over J6 phone records seized.
Couldn’t get all senators to allow a speedy vote. Schumer tells reporters Lindsey Graham is blocking it. “That’s the holdup,” Schumer tells reporters. Graham wants to keep a provision letting him sue to pocket $500,000 over J6 phone records seized.
January 30, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Graham objected to unanimous consent.
And he blocked the business of the Senate.
Any Senate Democrat could do this.
And he blocked the business of the Senate.
Any Senate Democrat could do this.
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im not worried about the optics of impeachment or the potential negative polarization or perverse effects of impeachment or any other bullshit. hear me out on this one: you should impeach them because they stink and they need to be out of there
January 30, 2026 at 1:18 AM
im not worried about the optics of impeachment or the potential negative polarization or perverse effects of impeachment or any other bullshit. hear me out on this one: you should impeach them because they stink and they need to be out of there
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That 27% figure in the kfmonkey blog is 21 years old and it continues to be dead on!
kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunc...
kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunc...
January 29, 2026 at 8:53 PM
That 27% figure in the kfmonkey blog is 21 years old and it continues to be dead on!
kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunc...
kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunc...
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there’s something about the fixation on polling when people are being brutalized in the streets by federal agents that doesn’t sit quite right
January 29, 2026 at 9:18 PM
there’s something about the fixation on polling when people are being brutalized in the streets by federal agents that doesn’t sit quite right
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Conservatives cannot imagine a relationship that is not hierarchical.
January 29, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Conservatives cannot imagine a relationship that is not hierarchical.
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Waited a night to see if “minority group stripped of right to exist in public, birth certificates invalidated, bounty offered on discovery in bathrooms” would make it into a push alert. But no. Why would it?
January 29, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Waited a night to see if “minority group stripped of right to exist in public, birth certificates invalidated, bounty offered on discovery in bathrooms” would make it into a push alert. But no. Why would it?
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I'd like Barack Obama to do a podcast on the downriver effects of his decision to "look forward, not back" vis-à-vis not prosecuting his lawless war criminal of a predecessor and that entire lawless administration.
January 29, 2026 at 10:31 AM
I'd like Barack Obama to do a podcast on the downriver effects of his decision to "look forward, not back" vis-à-vis not prosecuting his lawless war criminal of a predecessor and that entire lawless administration.
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Good news for everyone who thinks caregivers for the elderly have it way too easy.
The Labor Department has proposed rescinding an Obama-era rule that gave home care workers the right to overtime pay and other wage protections. The administration says the rule made care too costly. n.pr/4a1rrSZ
Caregivers for the elderly could lose wage protections under Trump proposal
The Labor Department has proposed rescinding an Obama-era rule that gave home care workers the right to overtime pay and other wage protections. The administration says the rule made care too costly.
n.pr
January 29, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Good news for everyone who thinks caregivers for the elderly have it way too easy.