Paul Messina
Paul Messina
@messina.bsky.social
Rocketry and D&D nerd. He/Him
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ICE threw a flash bang at a car and it had six kids in it.

All six children are in the hospital now.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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With 2026 under way, the need for truly independent reporting remains crucial. The Guardian doesn't have a billionaire owner – we're backed by our readers. Support us today. theguardian.com/support/ny-sc
January 13, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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let's hope people remember this come the General Election...#reform lies and fails to deliver
Reform told you reducing council tax was easy. They just had to slash Woke policies, and a billion or two would be saved. They wouldn't even need to close care services.

They promise you that.

And then every single Reform-led council cut care services and increased council tax.
January 13, 2026 at 9:02 AM
From the NHS to our energy grid, we are too reliant on US tech. Sign the petition to stop Trump's kill switch and demand digital independence: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop the "Kill Switch": Demand the UK takes back control of our technology.
From the NHS to our energy grid, we are too reliant on US tech. Help us demand digital independence.
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 11, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now?

Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests

FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests?

Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face
January 11, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Covid-19 Is Still Killing a Disturbing Number of Americans, Study Finds gizmodo.com/covid-19-is-...
Covid-19 Is Still Killing a Disturbing Number of Americans, Study Finds
Between 2022 and 2024, covid-19 killed roughly 100,000 Americans annually, new research by CDC scientists shows.
gizmodo.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Ban stock trading by lawmakers in Congress. Full stop.
January 5, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
January 4, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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It’s the media’s job to hold power to account. This year, too many got into bed with it instead | Arwa Mahdawi
It’s the media’s job to hold power to account. This year, too many got into bed with it instead | Arwa Mahdawi
The lines between advertising, public relations and journalism have become dangerously blurred
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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NEW: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism

An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence that UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
www.propublica.org
December 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Just so we're clear how this works 👇
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 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
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The Doctor is right and correct
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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ok this joke might be a little too specific
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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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 4:40 PM
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perhaps the most robust corpus of training data available to LLMs is people writing excuses for why they did not actually do the work
I think Claude Code has achieved AGI
November 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Decent people: "Hey, these hate symbols are terrorizing some of our service members. We should do something about that."

Coast Guard: "Say no more, fam. Those are no longer hate symbols. Problem solved."

newrepublic.com/post/203458/...
U.S. Coast Guard Will No Longer Consider Swastika a Hate Symbol
The Coast Guard seems to be fine with Nazis now.
newrepublic.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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When a reporter on Air Force One asked President Donald Trump a question about Epstein's recently revealed emails, Trump snapped at her, responding with the phrase “Quiet, piggy.”
November 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM