Asinus Pervicax
@knownagitator.bsky.social
Still fighting to cleanse the world of ancient evils, ancient ills.
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The precedent set here is the end of Congress, which I don't think Congress will even notice
Breaking: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to cancel $65 million in teaching grants.
one of the things i've been saying for years at this point is that the american republic ended in 1946, when the presidency was given sole control over nuclear weapons. like in post-augustus rome, what came after preserved the forms of the republic, but was fundamentally different in substance.
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I keep saying: states are going to have to step up their prosecutions, especially for white collar offenses. They can't rely on the feds to protect their residents.
A society where the law applies to some but not all cannot stand; selective justice is cancerous to the body politic, it destroys trust and stability wherever it takes root. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I keep saying: states are going to have to step up their prosecutions, especially for white collar offenses. They can't rely on the feds to protect their residents.
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This suuuuuckkkkssss so much
Trump, who is bombing boats said to carry drug runners, pardons the former president of Honduras who was convicted of supporting one of the largest, most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world. @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social Annie Correal Jeff Ernst www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This suuuuuckkkkssss so much
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"A longtime ICE official told me Bovino is “out of control,” and warned that his expanding role will lead to the detention of more U.S. citizens and “more hate and more violence.”"
NEW Every State is a Border Patrol State — why the Trump admin wants border agents to take over the mass deportation campaign and deliver the arrest numbers ICE has missed www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... @theatlantic.com
The Green Machine
Why the Border Patrol–not ICE—is taking over Trump’s mass-deportation campaign
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"A longtime ICE official told me Bovino is “out of control,” and warned that his expanding role will lead to the detention of more U.S. citizens and “more hate and more violence.”"
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"Elon Musk is personally responsible for the deaths of at least 400,000 children" is a stat that should be cited every time he and his pervert fanboys start yapping about birth rates
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
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...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
"Elon Musk is personally responsible for the deaths of at least 400,000 children" is a stat that should be cited every time he and his pervert fanboys start yapping about birth rates
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Universities paying into the protection racket.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Universities paying into the protection racket.
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They’re going to take anyone they can get their hands on. They’re evil, folks!
"They had submitted extensive paperwork and paid fees. The foreign spouses had been fingerprinted and passed medical exams. None had criminal records. None had entered the country illegally. They had already been granted employment authorization." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
They’re going to take anyone they can get their hands on. They’re evil, folks!
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Again, this is what state officials warned about when Congress passed Real ID in the middle of the night 20 years ago
Trump administration wants driver’s license data on millions of U.S. residents in every state.
Trump is building a powerful citizenship verification program amid the clampdown on voter fraud and illegal immigration.
via @jonshorman.bsky.social @stateline.org
stateline.org/2025/11/25/h...
Trump is building a powerful citizenship verification program amid the clampdown on voter fraud and illegal immigration.
via @jonshorman.bsky.social @stateline.org
stateline.org/2025/11/25/h...
Homeland Security wants state driver’s license data for sweeping citizenship program • Stateline
The Trump administration wants access to state driver’s license data on millions of U.S. residents as it builds a powerful citizenship verification program amid its clampdown on voter fraud and illega...
stateline.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Again, this is what state officials warned about when Congress passed Real ID in the middle of the night 20 years ago
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what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
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This is a really sick story.
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is a really sick story.
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
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why do they look like a married gay couple who are telling you that they're adopting you as a teenager
Altman and Ive tease a simple AI device aimed at calm, distraction-free computing, launching within two years.
Altman describes OpenAI's forthcoming AI device as more peaceful and calm than the iPhone | TechCrunch
Altman and Ive tease a simple AI device aimed at calm, distraction-free computing, launching within two years.
techcrunch.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
why do they look like a married gay couple who are telling you that they're adopting you as a teenager
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This one really is useful because you won’t see a more clear demonstration of one of the most damaging political phenomena of the era: the reactionary professional mind rejecting unacceptable reality, only able to process and comprehend it via something close to conspiracy theory.
Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz says Jewish students shouldn’t have smartphones until they finish high school — so they don’t see the “carnage” Israel and the U.S. have carried out in Gaza.
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This one really is useful because you won’t see a more clear demonstration of one of the most damaging political phenomena of the era: the reactionary professional mind rejecting unacceptable reality, only able to process and comprehend it via something close to conspiracy theory.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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I need a horse immediately
If you haven't heard the cover by The Hu, you should go listen. Mongolian Folk Metal and Maiden go together very very well.
youtu.be/2WrvFUZgHro?...
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The HU - "The Trooper" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by The HU
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November 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I need a horse immediately
I suspect this very much applies to politics across the anglosphere. regrettably, there will be a tendency to discuss this as if these operations 'caused' all of this awful shit, but it's merely catalyzing pre-existing contradictions in society rather than creating them.
God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I suspect this very much applies to politics across the anglosphere. regrettably, there will be a tendency to discuss this as if these operations 'caused' all of this awful shit, but it's merely catalyzing pre-existing contradictions in society rather than creating them.
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God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group
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i can finally talk about this! 20k more unredacted epstein emails available to journalists and researchers (there's lots of sensitive info in there and things like victims are not redacted)! this is the same trove bloomberg has been working with, which is different from the gmail dataset.
Epstein emails (2.5 GB)
Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years.
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Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
i can finally talk about this! 20k more unredacted epstein emails available to journalists and researchers (there's lots of sensitive info in there and things like victims are not redacted)! this is the same trove bloomberg has been working with, which is different from the gmail dataset.
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“North Carolina Republicans have broadly become moral ghosts in the Trump age. They ignore, or openly embrace, monstrous words and acts wildly contrary to their declared, and boasted upon, creeds, oaths, constitutional commitments and pledges of allegiance.”
www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
Two voices North Carolina needs to hear on the Border Patrol | Opinion
Gene Nichol: Two voices North Carolina needs to hear on the Border Patrol | Opinion
www.newsobserver.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
“North Carolina Republicans have broadly become moral ghosts in the Trump age. They ignore, or openly embrace, monstrous words and acts wildly contrary to their declared, and boasted upon, creeds, oaths, constitutional commitments and pledges of allegiance.”
www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
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This formerly regular Starbucks customer says #NoContractNoCoffee
Starbucks workers are still out on ULP strike! Support us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS anywhere until the strike is resolved!! We’re fighting for fair union contracts with better pay, better hours, and an end to union-busting - learn more at the link in our bio! #tobeapartner
November 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This formerly regular Starbucks customer says #NoContractNoCoffee
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Incredible reporting on the 1930s-style union-busting going on at Starbucks, including Schulz’s personal complicity and the company’s SHOCK, SHOCK I TELL YOU that $15.25/hr part-time with hours kept just under the threshold for benefits isn’t enough to satisfy some “partners”
How Starbucks tried to quash union activity in Colorado
The coffee giant shuttered a store in Colorado Springs in 2022 shortly after its workers voted to unionize. A federal agency later ordered Starbucks to reopen that store, along with 22 others.
www.dailycamera.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Incredible reporting on the 1930s-style union-busting going on at Starbucks, including Schulz’s personal complicity and the company’s SHOCK, SHOCK I TELL YOU that $15.25/hr part-time with hours kept just under the threshold for benefits isn’t enough to satisfy some “partners”
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
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Counterpoint: I also live in a country where, decades ago, an elected leader was shot in the street, and nobody knows who did it (to all intents and purposes who shot JFK is known), and trust in politics is relatively high; if jfk’s murder exposed anything, it was something that was already there.
My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
November 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Counterpoint: I also live in a country where, decades ago, an elected leader was shot in the street, and nobody knows who did it (to all intents and purposes who shot JFK is known), and trust in politics is relatively high; if jfk’s murder exposed anything, it was something that was already there.
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Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.