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All this to fill private prison quotas in the contracts signed with those companies.
January 15, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
Mike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it.

“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
January 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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It just strikes me as incredibly limited thinking to insist ICE is the only way to do immigration enforcement. It borders on the imbecilic.

We can have immigration enforcement without this morally desiccated agency. DHS has only existed under four presidents.

Show some vision.
January 14, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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In other related news, Sioux are being rounded up by ICE.

apple.news/A74TA3mlLQGy...
Native Americans detained in Trump's Minnesota ICE raids — USA TODAY
On Jan. 13, the Oglala Sioux Tribe said three men are still in detention after being transferred to an ICE detention center.
apple.news
January 14, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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Elon Musk: "I'm a free speech absolutist!"

Also Elon Musk: "Anyone who teaches students that America was built on stolen land is guilty of treason and should be imprisoned."

Look, some of us tried to warn people that Elon Musk doesn't care one bit about free speech. But did anyone listen?
January 14, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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The Gestapo at their strongest had about 30,000 members IIRC. They can only show force in a select few locations at a time. The 24 Hour News cycle works to their favor by making it seem everywhere
January 10, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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They're just picking at the wound now because they want a strong reaction--that way he can declare martial law.
January 10, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
January 3, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work.”

From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
December 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at:

—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
December 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Putin picking his own US negotiator is the kind of thing you’d get called a hysterical conspiracy theorist had you predicted it
Putin calling all the shots. Witkoff either doesn’t understand Putin’s goals or doesn’t want to and doesn’t care. Ukraine deserves better. And so do we. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
How Putin Got His Preferred U.S. Envoy: Come Alone, No CIA
The Kremlin fueled the rise of Trump’s friend Steve Witkoff with a prisoner release, sidelining career diplomats.
www.wsj.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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cool cool cool
This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?

The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
December 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Hahaha ever since Craig of the Creek became the latest victim of Zaslav’s merger bloodbath I haven’t been able to find a steady job. This man has ruined careers, ruined peoples lives, and gets paid MILLIONS for it. Hahaha hahaha
December 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Rocky IV, but instead Ivan Drago casually leans on the ropes while Rocky repeatedly punches himself in the face.
December 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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We live in a political satire
December 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Ban Congressional Stock Trading
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

via @florianederer.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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This is insane. Any material a prof thinks is necessary but isn’t for formal licensing has to get the signoff of the chair, then dean, then provost?

This is an absolutely mockery of academic freedom.

I feel like Texas Tech HAS to lose its accreditation for this, no? It’s preposterous.
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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"Lane Kiffin had a dog just for PR purposes" is my Carl Hiaasen "I quit because Florida keeps making up real stories even I couldn't make up"
December 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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This is one of the most important exposés published in WSJ in several years, and it derives from intercepts and analyses by foreign intelligence services studying the conduct of Trump and his inner team. It's first and foremost a wake up call to the people of the United States.
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM