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MarkTr
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'Yes, but, well, Baltimore.'

Engineer, dad, utility cyclist, runner.

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It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
Source: Measles outbreak reported at ICE's Dilley family detention facility
DPS troopers stand guard in front of the Dilley detention center during a protest last weekend. After a week of public outcry over the Dilley, Texas South
www.sacurrent.com
February 1, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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You can read the news and its sober people just straight up saying, “oh yeah the president of the United States is probably going to steal that oil money and we all kind of know it.” And apparently that’s just how it is now.
January 31, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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‘Abolish ICE’ has become an increasingly popular position and people are being shot in the streets over it why the fuck would you dillweeds roll over like this. Especially given that citizenship is much more friable than people think it is this is not as protective as dems want it to look.
January 30, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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Can they also pass a ban on strangling babies in their sleep? Because that would another thing that's already illegal being banned that sounds like a win.
January 30, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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Um, I know open primaries and if one candidate gets SEVENTY PERCENT OF THE VOTE AS A WRITE-IN, that mofo won the election. What’s this runoff bullshit.
Chicago is incredible. Of course it is: it is the city that made me!
January 29, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz, the top federal judge in Minneapolis, rips into ICE:

"ICE is not a law unto itself."

"ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence."
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January 29, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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I have somehow ended up with 7 bicycles
every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
January 29, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:

"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
January 28, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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in political comms, waking up to something like "she was a parttime yoga instructor who also runs a facebook group of 163 people who like old movies, but recent events have caused her to mobilize against you" is the equivalent of being woken up on a flight by the sound of someone starting a chainsaw
January 27, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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I know it doesn't matter what the movie does since the whole point of this was for Amazon to openly give trump a $40 million bribe, but I am a little happy because you know Melania didn't want it to suck THIS bad. She was probably like "oh you know, it's OK if it's only seen by a few million people"
January 27, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”
Alex Pretti’s Killer May Be Part of His Union
Border Patrol agents belong to the same federal workers union as VA nurses, a situation some of Pretti’s colleagues are determined to change.
jewishcurrents.org
January 26, 2026 at 11:06 PM
This was nonsense. Just glad I had a metal garden shovel available because the snow shovel wasn't cutting it.
January 27, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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This administration's gone woke. You can't even lead a murderous goon squad around the country anymore without being canceled
January 27, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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Greg Bovino sadly filling one steamer trunk after another with elaborate fashy overcoats, the teargas canisters he always has bouncing around on him like labubus, and dozens of "chest-belts." They will be shipped ahead of him as he prepares to return to his home, which is a men's size 10 boot.
January 27, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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"Plummeting" implies there is further to plummet

So don't stop
January 26, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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If you clear your driveway but not the sidewalk in front of your house you are a particular kind of asshole
January 26, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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To Gregory Bovino: This is what brandishing a firearm at a protest looks like.
January 26, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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'sir...the bourbon IG accounts have fallen' bsky.app/profile/mdlp...
One more datapoint - bourbon accounts? wow.
January 25, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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BREAKING: Now that TikTok is under US-based ownership, the social media app potentially collects more detailed information about its users, including precise location data.

My latest for @wired.com:

www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.
www.wired.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.

This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 25, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...

Arizona, November 2020
January 25, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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January 25, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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no self-respecting country should come compete here.
January 25, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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we didn't finish denazification. we didn't finish desegregation. we didn't finish reconstruction. every opportunity for transformative change was deliberately sabotaged by american leaders who knew their wealth would not survive a world freed from eugenics, white supremacy, and war profiteering.
January 25, 2026 at 8:36 PM