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There has been no breathless roadblock coverage of this shooting on cable channels or in major newspapers, afaik. wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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The Trump administration effectively says that no one should ever work with Americans during wartime; that our promises mean nothing, our word is dust, and we will throw our allies under the bus the moment we want.

In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Nov 27th 2007 - Studio executive Les Grossman appeared on the cover of Forbes.

📽️📅 Tropic Thunder (2008)
November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.

And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it's already a bust
YouTube video by MS NOW
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November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Phew, NYT finally makes good for their absurd anti-Biden/Harris, pro-Trump 2024 coverage.

With this article NYT now has done about 1,000 articles on Biden’s age and 1 article on Trump’s age.
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Still depressing that this isn’t THE story of his first year.
The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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38 years ago...
PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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The inflation-adjusted number hits hard.

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November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Fucking Secretary of the Army told Ukraine and Europe that it had to accept Russia's terms for surrender by Thanksgiving. Traitorous loon.
Politico much confirms everything Marcy says between the lines of this report. And this also appears to be a thumb wrestling match for the future of the GOP between JD and Marco.
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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OK so wait. Trump talked to Bolsonaro last night and was planning to meet him “in the very near future”? Sounds to me like he was in on the escape plan. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Says He Plans To Meet With Bolsonaro Before Learning In Real Time That He's Been Arrested
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November 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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This NYT article is a complete misreading of Trump, who was taken by surprise by Bolsonaro's arrest and clearly had been planning to spirit Bolsonaro out of the country until then. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/w... See below
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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They truly believe this! Like when they arrest a noncitizen who committed a crime years ago and has been out of prison for a decade, they put out a press release claiming they saved the public from a serious threat, even if the person has been law-abiding for years and is a random ex-con doing well.
To paraphrase what an ICE field director said at a Texas hiring event earlier this year: what makes ICE different from other law enforcement officers is that we catch criminals "before" a crime is committed.
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Twitter Conservatives finding out all the hot MAGA mom accounts they've been gooning to are actually run by men in developing nations
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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FWIW, a court reporter's account, submitted *by the govt* on 11/19 in the Comey case--before it switched positions on 11/20—shows that the full grand jury could not possibly have approved the operational 2-count indictment.
The jury was "released" when deliberations ended.
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
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November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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One other point I didn't make here: Allies like Britain believe the US is carrying out illegal bombings. Who are we effing kidding? Of course its reasonable to think Trump is issuing illegal orders! Why is this being treated as such a controversial suggestion?
Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*

The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:

newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Democratic messaging to our military about killing civilians extrajudicially is too polite. Soliders, sailors and Marines need fair warning that at a future point, a restored military judicial process will review these slayings, and those executing an unlawful order will be subject to that process.
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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“The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol.”

WTAF, America?
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Corporate Media will ignore this as Trump being Trump, but we need to stop them from normalizing & obfuscating fact that Trump is *insane* and calling for murder of Democrats. This is not normal, this cannot be ignored, he is US President and his words must be treated seriously & literally.
🚨 Trump calls for the death of Democratic senators and representatives who produced a video advising members of the military and intelligence communities not to follow illegal orders:
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM