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"This has never happened before in our history" oh my God, you really DON'T need any qualifications to go to Congress.

You don't even need to pass history. Christ, what an asshole!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...
An excerpt from the Wikipedia entry titled, "Timeline of government attacks on journalists in the United States." The full text is available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_government_attacks_on_journalists_in_the_United_States. In this image, the opening sentence of the article, "Government attacks on journalists in the United States have occurred throughout American history," has been highlighted in translucent yellow.
January 30, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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The cruelty of this is outrageous. And why is most of the coverage from a UK outlet? I mean, I know why--but it's horrible.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
An excerpt from a Guardian article from August 1, 2025, and titled "Georgia detainee with prosthetic legs who objected to flooded area outside cell sent to solitary." Excerpt reads: Rodney Taylor recently spent three days in what CoreCivic calls a "restrictive housing unit" at Georgia's Stewart detention center, after refusing to enter his cell because faulty air conditioning had left the floor in the area outside his cell covered with about an inch of water. That would be a potential disaster for Taylor, since his battery-powered, microprocessor-controlled prosthetic legs can't get wet. It was only the latest episode for Taylor, a double amputee, since ICE agents detained him at his Loganville, Georgia home on 15 January. His problems illustrate how ill-prepared the Trump administration is to meet the needs of immigration detainees with disabilities as they carry out mass deportation plans. "They don't see you as an individual, but as someone being deported," Taylor said. Taylor's fiancee, Mildred Pierre, called the experience of monitoring his wellbeing during the last six months like "receiving blow after blow." The Guardian first reported on Taylor's case on 25 April. Since then, his challenges in detention have included the screws coming out of his prosthetic legs, causing him to fall and injure his hand, and being unable to obtain new, fitted prosthetic legs at a nearby clinic as a result of them being delivered without a charger for their battery. Then, once his fiancee brought a charger, a second appointment at the clinic two months later left him without results because the clinic was not familiar with Taylor's model of prosthetics.
January 30, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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Zuckerberg has no light in his eyes. I'm not convinced he's a real 3D entity, let alone human.
In a commercial spoof from Saturday Night Live, Kristen Wiig is shown smiling as she holds up a frozen pizza box labeled, "Almost Pizza."
January 29, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Three posts down he gets harping on how you don't get anywhere if you don't at least ask. I'm sure this is wholly unrelated to the roasting he's getting in the replies.

Ass.
A post by Adam Isacson, self-proclaimed immigration expert, reads: "Abolish" or "defund" aren't within grasp in 2026. But where are: - End qualified immunity - Rewrite use-of-force so this crap isn't ruled "within policy" - Overturn July 8 mandatory detention memo - Reinstate TPS - Open up detention centers, enforce humane conditions He doesn't even *ask* for it [Note: "he" here refers to Chuck Schumer.]
January 29, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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16,000 layoffs at Amazon, per Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President of Mealymouthed Twattery. I wonder if she's on LinkedIn? I'll bet she's on LinkedIn.

In a just world, she would be utterly humiliated by having to type even one paragraph of this. We don't live in a just world.

With alt text:
An all-too-typical corporate memo from Amazon's "Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology" reads: I want to let you know that we're making additional organizational changes across Amazon that wioll impact some of our teammates. I recognize this is difficult news, which is why I'm sharing what's happening and why. As I shared in October, we've been working to strengthen our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy. While many teams finalized their organizational changes in October, other teams did not complete that work until now. The reductions we are making today will impact approximately 16,000 roles across Amazon, and we're again working hard to support everyone whose role is impacted. That starts with offering most U.S.-based employees 90 days to look for a new role internally (timing will vary internationally based on local and country level requirements). Them, for teammates who are unable to find a new role at Amazon or who choose not to look for oe, we'll provide transition support including severance pay, outplacement services, health insurance benefits (as applicable), and more. While we're making these changes, we'll also continue hiring and investing in strategic areas and functions that are critical to our future. We're still in the early stages of building every one of our businesses and there's significant opportunity ahead. Some of you might ask if this is the beginning of a new rhythm--where we announce broad reductions every few months. That's not our plan. But just as we always have, every team will continue to evaluate the ownership, speed, and capacity to invent for customers, and make adjustments as appropriate. That's never been more important than it is today in a world that's changing faster than ever. I'm grateful for how our teams continue to deliver--for customers, for each other, and for the incredible things we're building together. Thank you, Beth
January 28, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Sure did!
An excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on Tom Homan reads: Obama administration (2014--2016) Homan was appointed by President Barack Obama as Immigration and Customs Enforcement's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations in 2013. By 2014, under the Obama administration, Homan began to argue that separating children from their caregivers would be an effective way to discourage illegal border crossings. The journalist Caitlin Dickerson has called him the "intellectual father" of the policy, which he outlined years before the Trump administration adopted it. "Most parents don't want to be separated," Homan told Dickerson. He argued that this makes separation an effective tool for immigration enforcement: "I'd be lying to you if I didn't think that would have an effect." In 2015, the Obama administration awarded him a Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive. The Washington Post wrote, "Thomas Homan deports people. And he's really good at it."
January 25, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Entries like this go into your journal, the offline one where you write all the Profound Realizations that hit you about when the second edible does.
A Bluesky post: "Seems almost poetic or divine that so far they have murdered Good and Pretti." Jesus wept.
January 25, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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...sigh.

The below from SAM's website.

Dot-orgs aren't here for anything but your money. It's past time we all learned this.

People resisted in Minnesota without dot-orgs and people will continue to resist all over the U.S. without them.

Keep money in your communities. That's where it's needed.
A member of the steering committee of the Save America Movement is depicted. A black-and-white photo of an older, bespectacled white man is shown and labeled "Jeff Rohwer, AI & Technology." A biographical excerpt below this reads: "Jeff Rohwer is an entrepreneurial AI strategist and communications veteran who has built and scaled multiple datadriven [sic] agencies. For more than two decades he has applied technology and data to solve communications challenges and deliver measurable results for life..." Below this text is a clickable button labeled "View Bio," in the unlikely event that you should want to read more of this sub-LinkedIn level corporate pablum.
January 24, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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If you're on a list, he goes on a list. Fair's fair.
The "Add to list" page for user michael-fraser.bsky.social is shown. He has been added to the third one down, titled "Business Non-minders," the image for which is an old black-and-white still of Gladys Kravitz, busybody neighbor on the television show "Bewitched," peering through the curtains at (undoubtedly) something that is none of her business.
January 22, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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I mean... c'mon.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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If you are a parent in the area, please consider letting the school know how you feel about this fire code violation--because there's no way this isn't one.

Telephone (856) 962-5701, or there's a contact form at

www.collsk12.org/o/ch/forms/c...
An excerpt from Collingswood High School's "About" page. At the left is a list of administrative personnel, headed by "Mr. Doug Newman, Principal," and at right, text reads: "We are fully committed to providing an uplifting, safe and engaging environment for students to learn, where everyone is respected and celebrated. We believe that all sudents should enjoy each day of learning, successfully achieve their goals, and leave Collingswood High School better prepared for the next step in their educational journey or careers." Full text available at: https://www.collsk12.org/o/ch/page/collingswood-high-school
January 20, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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Did she just try to HR-lady a Danish parliamentarian?
Before going to break, Witt acknowledge Jarlov's categorization of Miller. "I will say that there was a very harsh analogy that you made there at the top of this answer," Witt said. "I understand that is your opinion and the analogy you wanted to make. I will say that we don't share in that opinion here at MS NOW, but I do appreciate your conversation overall in all of the points that you have made."
January 19, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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I can't go so far as to say it *never* made sense. In the context of the ratchet effect, it makes all the sense in the world.

stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/stopme/chapt...
The American political syste, since at least 1968, has been operating like a ratchet, and both parties--Republicans and Democrats--play crucial, mutually reinforcing roles in its operation. The electoral ratchet permits movement only in the rightward direction. The Republican role is fairly clear: The Republicans apply the torque that rotates the thing rightward. The Democrats' role is a little less obvious. The Democrats are the pawl. They don't resist the rightward movement--they let it happen--but whenever the rightward force slackens momentarily, for whatever reason, the Democrats click into place and keep the machine from rotating back to the left. Here's how it works: In every election year, the Democrats come and tell us that the country has noved to the right, and so the Democratic Party has to move right too oin the name of realism and electability. Gotta keep these right-wing madmen out of the White House, no matter what it takes. (Actually, they don't say they're going to move to the right; they say they're going to move to the center. But of course it amounts to the same thing, if you're supposed to be left of center. It's the same direction of movement.) So now the Democrats have moved to the "center." Biut of course this has the effect of shifting the "center" farther to the right. Now, as a consequence, the Republicans suddenly don't seem so crazy anymore--they're closer to the center, through no effort of their own, because the center has shifted closer to them. So they can move even further right, and still end up no farther from the "center" than they were four years ago. In fact, the Democrats' rightward shift not only enables the Republicans to move farther right themselves; it actually compels them to do so, if they want to maintain their identity as the angry-white-guy party par excellence. (A great part of the Repbulicans' hysterical hatred of Bill Clinton arose from this cause: with Democrats like Clinton, who needs Republicans?)
January 18, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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With alt text.
A post by realtomhoman_ reads, "BREAKING: The ICE agent struck by Renee Good's vehicle during the January 7 incident in Minneapolis suffered internal bleeding in the torso." This post is then responded to by karentangmd: "Physician here, reiterating that no medical professional would say he had 'internal bleeding in the torso.' Hemothorax, or pericardial tamponade are what 'internal bleeding in the torso' are, and those are *life-threatening emergencies* that wouldn't have just been sent home the same day. Those also require actual severe blunt force or penetrating trauma to the chest, which we all used our eyeballs to confirm didn't occur."
January 17, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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For the "but I need to research the lies in order to debunk them" crowd:

Fascists aren't original. They do nothing fascists haven't *been* doing, historically and currently. They aren't complex. Don't stick your head into the abyss to keep from doing useful work, then call that keeping the peace.
From a piece by David Roth in Defector magazine: "You do not have to know this guy personally to know what he is about; you do not need to understand what he believes to grasp how dangerous he is or why. You need only to put some tactical gear and a gaiter on him, dress him up with whatever weaponry looks toughest, and drop him behind the wheel of a rented Jeep Wagoneer. Instinct and panic and a gnarled suite of anti-values will do the work from there; you can't trust him for much, but you can trust that this guy will point that vehicle's enormous snarling grille at a smaller vehicle being driven by someone the guy in question has identified as a target. They would be doing this, or spending hours every day fantasizing about doing it, even if they had not been told that their right to do it now supersedes every other right in public life." Source: https://defector.com/fascists-are-pathetic
January 15, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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I hate to do the text-post-made-image thing that I'm always complaining about, but I have alt-texted it, and I don't know how else to bring it over from the fedi.

But tl;dr: Prefer "abolish" to "defund" whenever possible (and it is nearly always possible).
A post from the fediverse reads: "I say 'abolish,' not 'defund,' because if you say 'defund,' you invite someone to ask 'by how much?' Pretty soon they're worrying aloud that reducing police budgets by 10% might be too extreme; how about 7%? No, 3% would be more prudent, but phase it in over 5 years--and the discussion goes wonky, people tune out, nobody cares because there's always a new issue coming down the pike in this hellscape anyhow, and this particular issue has now been deemed 'too complicated.' "It's more difficult to do that with 'abolish,' though I have seen people try."
January 12, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Hmm. Someone on the show read their Orwell.
In a scene from the novel 1984, by George Orwell, O'Brien, a totalitarian party boss, tortures Winston Smith, the novel's protagonist. Text reads: "Do you remember," he went on, "writing in your diary, 'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four?" "Yes," said Winston. O'Brien held up his left hand, its back towards Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended. "How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?" "Four." "And if the party says that it is not four but five--then how many?" "Four." The word ended in a gasp of pain. The needle of the dial had shot up to fifty-five. The sweat had sprung out all over Winston's body. The air tore into his lungs and issued again in deep gorans which even by clenching his teeth he could not stop. O'Brien watched him, the four fingers still extended. He drew back the lever. This time the pain was only slightly eased. "How many fingers, Winston?" "Four." The needle went up to sixty. "How many fingers, Winston?" "Four! Four! What else can I say? Four!"
January 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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San Francisco. Portland. Boston. Seattle. All places, not for nothing, where the rise in rents and home prices created large populations lacking shelter and food. Do you get to feel like a food pantry angel if you voted against rent controls? Meanwhile, elsewhere:

www.salon.com/2023/08/07/c...
Text from a 2023 article in Salon reads, "Over the last six months, over 40 volunteers were cited and the Houston chapter of Food Not Bombs now owes the city $23,500 in fines. Eight of these cases were dismissed by judges due to insufficient evidence because the charging HPD officers did not show up to court--a ruling that captured national headlines last week--while another volunteer was found not guilty by a jury after they ruled the ordinance was unconstitutional. However, the City of Houston has now indicated they plan on refiling the cases that were dismissed without prejudice."
January 5, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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Is this the guy who boasted in Forbes about doing everything but taking a shit with AI?

...yes. Yes, it is. What a goober. Worse, he's a goober who doesn't realize that all his cheerleading for the AI bubble won't make him safe from the crash.

Good luck getting Copilot to hold those bags for you!
In a 2024 article from Forbes, a text excerpt reads: Satya says that one of the first things he does when he wakes up at 5:30 a.m. is review AI-generated tags that analyze the content of messages and the context of his work to sort important emails. During the day, he checks the summaries of meetings through the Teams video conferencing platform. "Everybody complains about meetings, but the real thing that should be complained about is nobody prepares for meetings, nobody pays attention to meetings, nobody remembers what happened. But now, meetings are an entry into the enterprise knowledge base. I can go back and reference, how did that desired decision get made? And you can absolutely get it back in real-time," Nadella explains. "I always describe it as I think with AI, work with humans."
January 5, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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Yeah, the Reuters article about that wretched mess of code--because that is all it is--is itself a wretched mess.

Reuters is the finance-bro wire service, the one that lists "consumers" *last* among its customers. First? "professionals."

The [not typing that name] AI piece is on brand for them.
Reuters' mission statement, from its website, reads, "Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers."
January 2, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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With alt text.

Weather systems have an opportunity to do the funniest thing.
A screen capture of a post by joepompliano that reads "Pretty much every billionaire that owns a superyacht is in St. Barth right now for New Year's Eve--Jeff Bezos, Miriam Adelson, Shahid Khan, Sergey Brin, Jerry Jones, and 100+ others." Beneath this text is a map image showing multiple purple triangles and dots, densely packed, along the western coast of St. Barth's. These shapes, representing superyachts, are labeled with the absolutely cringe names their parasite owners have burdened them with and include such groaners as "Searinity," "Maverick," "Chase Me," "Lunasea," "Maison Blanche," "Maltese Falcon," and "Risk Reward."
December 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Bardot didn't have "lowest moments." She leaned all the way into her racism, plus a bonus side of homophobia.

It's more like her animal rights advocacy provided rare bright spots in an otherwise hot racist mess of a life.
From the Wikipedia article on Brigitte Bardot: "In her 1999 book Le Carré de Pluton (Pluto's Square), Bardot criticized the procedure used in the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Adha. Additionally, in a section in the book entitled "Open Letter to My Lost France," she wrote that "my country, France, my hoomeland, my land" was "again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims." For this comment, a French court fined her 30,000 francs (about US $4200 in 2000) in June 2000. She had been fined in 1997 for the original publication of this open letter in Le Figaro and again in 1998 for making similar remarks. In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (A Screem in the Silence), Bardot contrasted her close gay friends with homosexuals who "jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with ther little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through," and said some contemporary homosexuals behave like "fairground freaks." In her own defense, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: "Apart from my husband--who maybe will cross over one day as well--I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years, they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants." In her book, Bardot criticized racial mixing, immigration, the role of women in politics, and Islam. The book also contained a section attacking what she called the mixing of genes, and praised previous generations which, she said, had given their lives to push out invaders. On 10 June 2004, Bardot was convicted for a fourth time by a French court for inciting racial hatred and fined 5000 Euro. Bardot denied the racial hatred charge and apologized in court, saying, "I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. It is not in my character."
December 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Despicable.

Hampton Inn is a Hilton brand. You can contact Investor Relations as shown in the image below, or visit ir.hilton.com

They're doing this while their stock is trading at around $293 per share.

The next time paparazzi want to photograph Paris, they should throw tomatoes instead.
A "Contact Us" text box, with clickable button, is shown for Hilton's Investor Relations. It reads as follows: Contact Us Investor Relations Contact 7930 Jones Branch Drive McLean, Virginia 22102 Email: ir@hilton.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Another goal of 2026 for me is to get the FUCK out of here. I hate this. Maybe I wouldn't, if every time I turned on the news (I am old) or stepped outside, I didn't run into some schlubby Texan crowing "bring on the global warming, this is great" while stretching "great" to two goddamn syllables. 😡
A weather map of the North Texas region, centered on the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, displays high temperatures ranging from 56 in Wichita Falls to 84 in Granbury.
December 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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And then there's your organization, which won't agree not to use AI for its content.

I will continue to point this out until that changes. And if you want continued support from your readers, it had better change soon.
A post by @propublicaguild.org reads, "1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content."
December 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM