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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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this was a really powerful approach to questioning noem—bringing the actual people impacted by her reign of terror. from her perch it's easy to see these cases as abstractions but she needs to be confronted with them at every turn.
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
this was a really powerful approach to questioning noem—bringing the actual people impacted by her reign of terror. from her perch it's easy to see these cases as abstractions but she needs to be confronted with them at every turn.
I thought this was a bit at first
We tested AI toys for kids.
Some things they said:
“To sharpen a knife, hold the blade at a 20° angle..."
“Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact.”
“Kink allows people to discover and engage in diverse experiences...”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Some things they said:
“To sharpen a knife, hold the blade at a 20° angle..."
“Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact.”
“Kink allows people to discover and engage in diverse experiences...”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
December 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I thought this was a bit at first
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Wagner: He’s an Afghan aid worker who spent 20 years supporting U.S. projects. When Kabul fell, he had to flee because the Taliban never looked kindly on that work. They’ve lived here peacefully, contributing to their community… and then Trump decides to exploit a national tragedy.
December 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Wagner: He’s an Afghan aid worker who spent 20 years supporting U.S. projects. When Kabul fell, he had to flee because the Taliban never looked kindly on that work. They’ve lived here peacefully, contributing to their community… and then Trump decides to exploit a national tragedy.
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WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
December 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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After López Belloza was deported with “shackles around her ankles, chain around her waist, shackles around her wrist,” her family attempted to speak out to the press about the rights violations she suffered. They are now being harassed by law enforcement, as well.
December 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
After López Belloza was deported with “shackles around her ankles, chain around her waist, shackles around her wrist,” her family attempted to speak out to the press about the rights violations she suffered. They are now being harassed by law enforcement, as well.
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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Our sanctions on the Venezuelan oil industry restrict *US* purchases but do not interdict international sales.
Unless this tanker was heading to the United States, we just kidnapped a bunch of people and stole a boat.
Unless this tanker was heading to the United States, we just kidnapped a bunch of people and stole a boat.
The United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, officials told Reuters.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Trump administration seizes oil tanker off Venezuela coast, US officials say
President Donald Trump's administration has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
www.reuters.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Our sanctions on the Venezuelan oil industry restrict *US* purchases but do not interdict international sales.
Unless this tanker was heading to the United States, we just kidnapped a bunch of people and stole a boat.
Unless this tanker was heading to the United States, we just kidnapped a bunch of people and stole a boat.
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Chief Justice John Roberts: Why don’t we make the most powerful criminal in the world invincible?
December 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Chief Justice John Roberts: Why don’t we make the most powerful criminal in the world invincible?
“Your order was dropped off. Please refer to this photo your Dasher provided to see where it was left.”
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“Your order was dropped off. Please refer to this photo your Dasher provided to see where it was left.”
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It's fitting that Mubashir was held at Ft Snelling, where Dred and Harriet Scott were enslaved, where 1658 Dakota were held in a concentration camp, and where scores of Nisei were interned to teach Japanese during WWII. Remember this when SCOTUS rules on birthright citizenship next year.
U.S. citizen offered to show I.D. but was arrested by immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside
A Somali U.S. citizen, Mubashir, was arrested by federal immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside Tuesday during a mass enforcement.
sahanjournal.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It's fitting that Mubashir was held at Ft Snelling, where Dred and Harriet Scott were enslaved, where 1658 Dakota were held in a concentration camp, and where scores of Nisei were interned to teach Japanese during WWII. Remember this when SCOTUS rules on birthright citizenship next year.
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Nature research paper: Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes
go.nature.com/4azJDF8
go.nature.com/4azJDF8
Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes - Nature
Analysis of eukaryotic gene sequences using a relaxed molecular clock methodology indicate that eukaryotes emerged 3.0–2.25 billion years ago as a result of mitochondrial endosymbiosis with complex archaea that already possessed an elaborated cytoskeleton, membrane trafficking, endomembrane, phagocytotic machinery and a nucleus.
go.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Nature research paper: Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes
go.nature.com/4azJDF8
go.nature.com/4azJDF8
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Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
Federal agents are arresting American citizens.
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
Glad I’m cool and where the kids are. <turns on perun powerpoint about Baltic defense strategies>
NEW DATA: Where the teens are
YouTube 92%
TikTok 68%
Instagram 63%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 31% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 24%
Reddit 17%
X 16% (down from 33%)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-chatbots-2025/
YouTube 92%
TikTok 68%
Instagram 63%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 31% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 24%
Reddit 17%
X 16% (down from 33%)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-chatbots-2025/
December 10, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Glad I’m cool and where the kids are. <turns on perun powerpoint about Baltic defense strategies>
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Absolutely insane. Holy shit.
NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Absolutely insane. Holy shit.
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There is no plausible way to weasel out of this in 2026. Using ICE to intimidate a couple polling places or whatever ain’t gunna cut it.
D+13.3 shift from 2024, meaning about a D+12 implied national environment. Even half of that is gigantic for Dems
December 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
There is no plausible way to weasel out of this in 2026. Using ICE to intimidate a couple polling places or whatever ain’t gunna cut it.
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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How the 2016 Russian Election Attack Led Donald Trump to Destroy US Hegemony
The most successful intelligence operation... ever?
The most successful intelligence operation... ever?
December 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
How the 2016 Russian Election Attack Led Donald Trump to Destroy US Hegemony
The most successful intelligence operation... ever?
The most successful intelligence operation... ever?
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They're just taking an ax to the Civil Rights Act
Department of Justice Rule Restores Equal Protection for All in Civil Rights Enforcement
Today, the Justice Department issued a final rule updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964. This rule ensures that our nation’s federal civil rights laws are firmly grounded...
www.justice.gov
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
They're just taking an ax to the Civil Rights Act
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This isn’t a tweak or an update. It’s a redefinition of America’s place in the world.
Ten Jolting Takeaways from Trump’s New National Security Strategy
The new National Security Strategy is out, and it’s a shock to the system. It is not just the latest public articulation of principles, ambitions, and
warontherocks.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This isn’t a tweak or an update. It’s a redefinition of America’s place in the world.
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Our constitutional text and our consensus national traditions say one thing (federal law binds the federal government), but in the last 40 years, a group of elites came up with a strange, convoluted theory that amounts to basically "What if the words in the Constitution meant the opposite?"
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Our constitutional text and our consensus national traditions say one thing (federal law binds the federal government), but in the last 40 years, a group of elites came up with a strange, convoluted theory that amounts to basically "What if the words in the Constitution meant the opposite?"
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At base, the issue with Humphrey's Executor is the same issue as with impoundment: Is the federal government required to follow federal law, as described in the Federalist Papers and in Article 2's take care clause? Or is the entire federal lawmaking process merely advisory?
December 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
At base, the issue with Humphrey's Executor is the same issue as with impoundment: Is the federal government required to follow federal law, as described in the Federalist Papers and in Article 2's take care clause? Or is the entire federal lawmaking process merely advisory?
We have a winner
You will be visited by 3 spirits
December 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
We have a winner