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· Sep 18
Release 1.1.0-alpha1 · Open-Security-Mapping-Project/ice_detention_scraper
Large rewrite of the ice_detention_scraper, many thanks to @johnseekins and a couple volunteers who tested the many new refinements and additions. This brings us up to more than 190 facilities, man...
github.com
New release for ICE Detention Facilities scraper v 1.1.0-alpha1, a python script greatly enhanced. Now can collect prisoner data on each facility, carefully matched addresses & more. new contributor overhauled everything in detail. Volunteers tested!
Release notes:
github.com/Open-Securit...
Release notes:
github.com/Open-Securit...
im glad i dont listen to "pods"
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
im glad i dont listen to "pods"
always boggling what people want to actually shell out subscriptions for
Here's what her $150 million website is focused on at the moment.
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
always boggling what people want to actually shell out subscriptions for
great times in the rational capitalist allocation of resources department
starting to think that repeatedly sinking trillions into Silicon Valley's new favorite toy while tech companies spend millions to kill any meaningful regulation is actually not going to end well
November 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
great times in the rational capitalist allocation of resources department
are there any other sources about $300 billion treasury liquidity tightening (seemingly today) or is this slop? www.ccn.com/education/cr...
$300B Treasury Shock Could Drain Liquidity Today — Bitcoin Faces Bear Market Warning!
A $300B U.S. Treasury settlement could trigger a massive liquidity drain across markets. Here’s how it might impact banks, stocks and Bitcoin next.
www.ccn.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
are there any other sources about $300 billion treasury liquidity tightening (seemingly today) or is this slop? www.ccn.com/education/cr...
more confusing crypto happenings
This was one of the wildest double leverage market crash fiasco. Watching the treasury manager make out moves to monero live and turns out ceo knew he was quadriga scammer 😅 impacted the banking sector. decrypt.co/91968/how-wo...
'This Circus Needs to Stop Now': How DeFi Protocol Wonderland Avoided Shutdown After Scandal - Decrypt
After the co-founder of Wonderland was outed as a convicted felon with ties to Quadriga, the popular protocol looked like it was done for.
decrypt.co
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
more confusing crypto happenings
one thing i notice about the olivia nuzzi discourse is these guys love to trot out every vocab word they got in reference to it all .. as a lowly tech dork i have to look them up lol
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
one thing i notice about the olivia nuzzi discourse is these guys love to trot out every vocab word they got in reference to it all .. as a lowly tech dork i have to look them up lol
blender 5 release slated for tomorrow nov 18.. really it's come a long ways and a great piece of software. there's even a nonlinear video editor which is quite mature inside of it (a lot of feature parity with adobe premiere, somehow) ...
www.blender.org #blender #gamedev #blender5
www.blender.org #blender #gamedev #blender5
www.blender.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
blender 5 release slated for tomorrow nov 18.. really it's come a long ways and a great piece of software. there's even a nonlinear video editor which is quite mature inside of it (a lot of feature parity with adobe premiere, somehow) ...
www.blender.org #blender #gamedev #blender5
www.blender.org #blender #gamedev #blender5
this kind of recalcitrance .. intransigence is going to snowball
reminds me i learned the word 'recalcitrant' from the original 1990s Pax Imperia space strategy game
reminds me i learned the word 'recalcitrant' from the original 1990s Pax Imperia space strategy game
NEW: Trump is waging war on his own party in Indiana — threatening to primary any GOP lawmaker who refuses to gerrymander the state’s maps ahead of 2026.
His attacks have already had consequences, with one lawmaker he singled out later being swatted.
His attacks have already had consequences, with one lawmaker he singled out later being swatted.
Trump Intensifies Pressure on Indiana Republicans to Gerrymander
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
this kind of recalcitrance .. intransigence is going to snowball
reminds me i learned the word 'recalcitrant' from the original 1990s Pax Imperia space strategy game
reminds me i learned the word 'recalcitrant' from the original 1990s Pax Imperia space strategy game
www.splinter.com/trump-bankru...
bitcoin and solana leveraged cryptocurrency markets thrashed
bitcoin and solana leveraged cryptocurrency markets thrashed
Trump Bankrupted Tons of Crypto Bros and Caused Its Biggest Wipeout Ever With One TruthSocial Post
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
www.splinter.com/trump-bankru...
bitcoin and solana leveraged cryptocurrency markets thrashed
bitcoin and solana leveraged cryptocurrency markets thrashed
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I like that there's one space scientist making life harder on the other scientists because he keeps calling everything aliens
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I like that there's one space scientist making life harder on the other scientists because he keeps calling everything aliens
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The AI bubble is now consuming non-AI companies which have been borrowing tens of billions to build data centres they can rent back to the AI companies. So much hubris but of course when the crash comes they will all get bailed out and the rest of us will be screwed
Oracle hit hard in Wall Street’s tech sell-off over its huge AI bet
Company falls more than rivals over its borrowing and reliance on OpenAI contracts.
arstechnica.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The AI bubble is now consuming non-AI companies which have been borrowing tens of billions to build data centres they can rent back to the AI companies. So much hubris but of course when the crash comes they will all get bailed out and the rest of us will be screwed
glad i kept tf out of this nonsense
Bitcoin is very close to throwing the crypto markets into chaos and I for one cannot wait to see how they improve on the stupidity of the 2022 bear market
November 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
glad i kept tf out of this nonsense
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Don't forget how this crash began. With a Friday Trump post nuking people's levered positions to hell that he TACO'd on by Sunday before the grown up markets opened. www.splinter.com/trump-bankru...
Trump Bankrupted Tons of Crypto Bros and Caused Its Biggest Wipeout Ever With One TruthSocial Post
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Don't forget how this crash began. With a Friday Trump post nuking people's levered positions to hell that he TACO'd on by Sunday before the grown up markets opened. www.splinter.com/trump-bankru...
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While we're waiting for denouement of Comey GJ stuff, Tish James has filed egregious govt conduct challenge based on Bill Pulte's unlawful snooping into her. It largely serves as a vehicle to ask for reports on that which EDVA said they refused to share.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
While we're waiting for denouement of Comey GJ stuff, Tish James has filed egregious govt conduct challenge based on Bill Pulte's unlawful snooping into her. It largely serves as a vehicle to ask for reports on that which EDVA said they refused to share.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy.
Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:
Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:
193. The "War" on Judges
Deputy Attorney General Blanche's attack on lower courts is an impressive combination of light on substance; shamelessly hypocritical; and profoundly dangerous. More people should be condemning it.
www.stevevladeck.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy.
Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:
Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:
where tf are they dredging these dudes out of
watching these two Christian Nationalists have a conversation and see if you can spot the part where I spit coffee all over my screen.
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
where tf are they dredging these dudes out of
texas seat held vacant. a lot of GOP tactics on special elections this year
Abbott sets Jan. 31 special election runoff for North Texas Senate seat www.texastribune.org/2025/11/17/t... #ProudBlue. It only took Greg Abbott 13 days to set a Special Election for a Republican leaning House seat. While Democratic Texas District 18 has been vacant since March 2025. #DefeatAbbott
Abbott sets Jan. 31 runoff for North Texas Senate seat
Democrat Taylor Rehmet and Republican Leigh Wambsganss will face off to succeed Kelly Hancock after winning the most votes in the Nov. 4 election.
www.texastribune.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
texas seat held vacant. a lot of GOP tactics on special elections this year
here we go again
ofc they didn't learn anything from Iraq. The New York Times opinion pages will always be thirsty for bloodshed via endless wars.
Opinion | The Case for Overthrowing Maduro
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
here we go again
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The latest trend in Facebook’s ever downward spiral down the AI slop toilet are AI deportation videos. And the Facebook algorithm is rewarding creators for it. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The latest trend in Facebook’s ever downward spiral down the AI slop toilet are AI deportation videos. And the Facebook algorithm is rewarding creators for it. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
you can always tell when the real world is turning these guys go in on fanciful spam about Ba'al Demons or whatever
Out: conspiracies involving sex trafficking children. In: conspiracies involving sex trafficking *giants.*
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
you can always tell when the real world is turning these guys go in on fanciful spam about Ba'al Demons or whatever
exactly almost none of these people even join the Democratic party at all
you can notice this thing where a buncha republicans over the years will criticize their party, but by and large they won't ever actually become democrats. you don't get all the TV time and fawning and the desperate attempts to appeal to you if you, as a republican, actually become a dem.
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
exactly almost none of these people even join the Democratic party at all
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Real tweets from the White House are indistinguishable from anti-Trump AI slop.
Or, in this case, 1990s Adbusters parodies.
Or, in this case, 1990s Adbusters parodies.
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Real tweets from the White House are indistinguishable from anti-Trump AI slop.
Or, in this case, 1990s Adbusters parodies.
Or, in this case, 1990s Adbusters parodies.
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Trump encouraged House Republicans to vote to release the files just after he spent the weekend doing some 3-D chess to conceal the fact that the only reason the DOJ hasn’t released the documents from the Epstein case is because Trump doesn’t want them released.
Massie Revels in Trump’s Epstein Floundering
This is your TPM evening briefing.
wherethingsstand.talkingpointsmemo.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Trump encouraged House Republicans to vote to release the files just after he spent the weekend doing some 3-D chess to conceal the fact that the only reason the DOJ hasn’t released the documents from the Epstein case is because Trump doesn’t want them released.
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A flight plan has now been filed for ICE Air deportation flight OAE 3787, indicating that after refueling in Baltimore, the aircraft will continue on to Jasionka, Poland, near the Ukraine border. It is highly likely it is the reported flight of Ukrainians to Poland.
An ICE Air deportation flight (OAE3787) departed Phoenix, AZ at 14:45 EST and is en route to Baltimore, MD for refueling. It is still very early to confirm but this is possibly the reported deportation flight to Poland carrying Ukrainian nationals. We will be closely monitoring.
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A flight plan has now been filed for ICE Air deportation flight OAE 3787, indicating that after refueling in Baltimore, the aircraft will continue on to Jasionka, Poland, near the Ukraine border. It is highly likely it is the reported flight of Ukrainians to Poland.