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Two stunning revelations this weekend.
WSJ: Trump crypto got half a billion from UAE “Spy Sheik” days before inauguration, then UAE got US-made AI chips
NYT: DOJ pubbed nude pics of young Epstein women after redacting for Trump and lecturing us about child porn, victims, & how hard they worked
WSJ: Trump crypto got half a billion from UAE “Spy Sheik” days before inauguration, then UAE got US-made AI chips
NYT: DOJ pubbed nude pics of young Epstein women after redacting for Trump and lecturing us about child porn, victims, & how hard they worked
February 2, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Two stunning revelations this weekend.
WSJ: Trump crypto got half a billion from UAE “Spy Sheik” days before inauguration, then UAE got US-made AI chips
NYT: DOJ pubbed nude pics of young Epstein women after redacting for Trump and lecturing us about child porn, victims, & how hard they worked
WSJ: Trump crypto got half a billion from UAE “Spy Sheik” days before inauguration, then UAE got US-made AI chips
NYT: DOJ pubbed nude pics of young Epstein women after redacting for Trump and lecturing us about child porn, victims, & how hard they worked
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Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
January 31, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
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it’s really remarkable to actually see the gulf between how seriously most non-cop public employees take their responsibilities to the public vs how seriously most cops seem to take them
The government: If you accept a gift over $20, we will shoot your dog, burn your house down, fuck your wife, and then throw you in jail
Also the government: The cop says he worked 14.5hrs/day for an entire year? Get Officer Stakhanov over here a raise.
Also the government: The cop says he worked 14.5hrs/day for an entire year? Get Officer Stakhanov over here a raise.
January 31, 2026 at 10:43 PM
it’s really remarkable to actually see the gulf between how seriously most non-cop public employees take their responsibilities to the public vs how seriously most cops seem to take them
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They used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:02 PM
They used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney
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I have a generalised version of this - while there are specific exceptions, it just feels like a _huge_ proportion of the American conservative movement revealed themselves to not really care about anything? Like, nothing concrete at least. It's all just vague ressentiments around Gender and Race.
tiktok deal and subsequent rebirth, coupled with generalized revelations that most china hawks don’t care at all about trump undermining their supposedly all important great power competition…..is tremendously blackpilling for me.
January 31, 2026 at 9:42 AM
I have a generalised version of this - while there are specific exceptions, it just feels like a _huge_ proportion of the American conservative movement revealed themselves to not really care about anything? Like, nothing concrete at least. It's all just vague ressentiments around Gender and Race.
Jesus Christ.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Jeffries demands ban on deportation of US citizens as part of DHS reforms
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation fun…
www.kget.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Jesus Christ.
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friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
January 29, 2026 at 9:34 PM
friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
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exercise your free speech in Maine and ICE will shoot shit at you
ICE agents in Maine fire projectiles at filming onlookers
One observer said ICE agents approached an older woman driving a Volkswagen, spoke with her, and then fired projectiles at her.
themainemonitor.org
January 29, 2026 at 3:42 AM
exercise your free speech in Maine and ICE will shoot shit at you
Oh no.
His memory will be a blessing. But, dammit, this news is still the worst: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector
Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...
defector.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Oh no.
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"well you see uh one of the officers forgot to take the gigantic electromagnet out of his pocket and it uh erased all the floppies"
hey everybody lifelong tech expert here
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
January 25, 2026 at 11:39 PM
"well you see uh one of the officers forgot to take the gigantic electromagnet out of his pocket and it uh erased all the floppies"
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Extremely funny that the champion of the revolutionary left/socialist boogeyman of Republicans everywhere is basically Leslie Knope.
One of the hardest things to do is bring campaign-level communications to the work of governance, and snowstorms are notoriously one of the biggest litmus tests that less-engaged voters use to judge mayoral administrations. This is an excellent way to communicate.
January 25, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Extremely funny that the champion of the revolutionary left/socialist boogeyman of Republicans everywhere is basically Leslie Knope.
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We need to get back to the founding principles that made this country great.
That’s why I support putting militarized troops in US cities and giving them the power to search anyone and enter any home at any time. And to rough up or possibly shoot anyone who objects.
Let’s do Boston next!
That’s why I support putting militarized troops in US cities and giving them the power to search anyone and enter any home at any time. And to rough up or possibly shoot anyone who objects.
Let’s do Boston next!
January 15, 2026 at 1:39 PM
We need to get back to the founding principles that made this country great.
That’s why I support putting militarized troops in US cities and giving them the power to search anyone and enter any home at any time. And to rough up or possibly shoot anyone who objects.
Let’s do Boston next!
That’s why I support putting militarized troops in US cities and giving them the power to search anyone and enter any home at any time. And to rough up or possibly shoot anyone who objects.
Let’s do Boston next!
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Trump said he'd bring down prices on day one. But now he's too busy passing tax breaks for billionaires, governing Venezuela, and plotting to invade Greenland.
Working Americans are facing skyrocketing costs and Trump is making it worse — not better.
Working Americans are facing skyrocketing costs and Trump is making it worse — not better.
Grocery prices see biggest spike since 2022 in December
The jump in costs highlights the challenge for the White House in the lead-up to midterm elections.
www.axios.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Trump said he'd bring down prices on day one. But now he's too busy passing tax breaks for billionaires, governing Venezuela, and plotting to invade Greenland.
Working Americans are facing skyrocketing costs and Trump is making it worse — not better.
Working Americans are facing skyrocketing costs and Trump is making it worse — not better.
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actual quote from a language company executive: “Why should we pay for higher quality translations when people will happily pay us for poorer quality translations?”
"ai is going to take your job" was just the capitalists admitting they can give us trash and we have to take it
huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun
January 2, 2026 at 1:58 AM
actual quote from a language company executive: “Why should we pay for higher quality translations when people will happily pay us for poorer quality translations?”
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to end off the year, I wrote about a special trip I took across america in february -- having conversations and looking out the window on amtrak's california zephyr.
howtobealone.substack.com/p/amtrak-the...
howtobealone.substack.com/p/amtrak-the...
amtrak, the beautiful.
the trip on the california zephyr, feb 2025
howtobealone.substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:31 AM
to end off the year, I wrote about a special trip I took across america in february -- having conversations and looking out the window on amtrak's california zephyr.
howtobealone.substack.com/p/amtrak-the...
howtobealone.substack.com/p/amtrak-the...
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On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
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Trans Char Aznable wouldn't "come out" she would show up somewhere someday as a mysterious blonde beauty named Cinco Benis having already fully transitioned. She'd say something about how the great man Char Aznable has died, how tragic, but humanity must move on. Honestly iconic of her
December 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Trans Char Aznable wouldn't "come out" she would show up somewhere someday as a mysterious blonde beauty named Cinco Benis having already fully transitioned. She'd say something about how the great man Char Aznable has died, how tragic, but humanity must move on. Honestly iconic of her
I miss those days of mccovey chron so much
garbanzo24 ... please share your vision of BEANS with the masses
December 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I miss those days of mccovey chron so much
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Sharp point from @donmoyn.bsky.social in here: Trump's immigration agenda is in no sense efficient management or successful crime fighting. It's massively wasteful, undermines public safety and harms the national interest in addition to being cruel. Read:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats need a theory of power, but democracies need a theory of accountability
No, the Trump administration is not a model for how to get things done
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Sharp point from @donmoyn.bsky.social in here: Trump's immigration agenda is in no sense efficient management or successful crime fighting. It's massively wasteful, undermines public safety and harms the national interest in addition to being cruel. Read:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...
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The Bezos Post: "Free markets, personal liberties, and suck it up and accept rapid inflation while the billionaire class gets even richer."
The Washington Post, everyone
December 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The Bezos Post: "Free markets, personal liberties, and suck it up and accept rapid inflation while the billionaire class gets even richer."
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one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true
My humanities dept was relevant. Majors were up. Courses were 100% enrolled. Revenue positive, GE serving, etc etc. We were still eliminated.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
'For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it. Indeed, the most useful lesson the humanities have to offer today is a profoundly countercultural one: Difficulty is good, an end in its own right.' 2/2
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true
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The tragedy of the Biden administration is it did not have to be a blip and interregnum in the Long Trump Era, but thanks to choices made, largely his own, it will at best be remembered as an attempt to govern without doing politics, a failure compounded by his disastrous support for genocide abroad
December 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The tragedy of the Biden administration is it did not have to be a blip and interregnum in the Long Trump Era, but thanks to choices made, largely his own, it will at best be remembered as an attempt to govern without doing politics, a failure compounded by his disastrous support for genocide abroad
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"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges."
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
Democrats Return Henry Cuellar to Powerful Spending Post After Trump Pardon
“We got ratified,” Cuellar told reporters after the vote.
www.notus.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges."
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
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We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).