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weird guy from the other website
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
this is what the nail girlies are up to
ice agent slipping, painted on an acrylic @handittoheather on instagram
January 17, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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fuckin' squares
bloomberg.com Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 21h
From London to Dallas, chic new bathhouses aim to take the place of coffee shops, pubs and nightclubs as the demand for third spaces increases.
Why We’re All Trading Happy Hours for the Bathhouse
The sauna industry is hot and only getting hotter — but the boom reveals more about happiness than it does about health.
bloom.bg
January 17, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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andrewperez.bsky.social
Trump has deployed ICE on militarized invasions of blue cities for months. They’re only getting more violent.

Now, ten days after ICE murdered a woman on video, Democratic elites are very concerned that anyone might say, “Abolish ICE.”

w/ @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com

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Trump Escalates His War on America as Dems Debate What Words They Can Say
The president is launching increasingly violent invasions of blue cities. Meanwhile, Democratic elites are concerned some might say: ‘Abolish ICE.’
zeteo.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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“Another Tuskegee”: Leaked Docs Reveal CDC Is Funding Deadly Study
The CDC is funding a horrific hepatitis experiment on babies.
newrepublic.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:21 PM
rickcarp.bsky.social
saw this on twitter
January 17, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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In 2010, FAIR's Jim @naureckas.bsky.social wrote that any attempt to expel 11 million unauthorized immigrants "would involve massive internment camps and forced transport reminiscent of Balkan ethnic cleansing, if not even grimmer historical precedents."

fair.org/home/i-wish-...
I Wish I’d Been Wrong About What ‘Control of the Border’ Would Look Like
Sixteen years later, Ross Douthat has gotten the kind of sincerity on immigration control that he wanted. How does it look?
fair.org
January 16, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
The ICE guy I was tailing decided to show me he knows where I live. You can’t really see in the video, but as he drove past my place he reached out the window and pointed at my apartment. Real tough guy
January 16, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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deeply unwell society www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/16/p...
Pennsylvania boy, 11, shoots father dead over Nintendo Switch dispute
An 11-year-old boy in Pennsylvania is facing criminal charges after he shot his father for confiscating his Nintendo Switch, according to court documents.
www.nydailynews.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Most people didn’t think much of it when the university dean, Ben Crocker, called a student named Dan into his office on Monday, Sept. 9, the first day of classes. But at 7:44 in the evening, they received an email from three administrators saying that Dan had been removed from campus, “transported to his home out of state,” and barred from further access to the university. The nature of the allegations concerned, at their core, a pair of charged statements Dan allegedly made that would be familiar to any Title IX officer. The first was a general statement implying that UATX girls carried themselves physically in a way that invited sexual assault. The second was a suggestion to a specific female student that she had carried herself in a way that invited sexual assault. Dan had already been the subject of some negative attention on campus because of provocative statements he’d made in a UATX-based Discord “introductions” chat. These included a challenge — “If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you” — which was a reference to the 1981 movie “Stripes” and likely misunderstood by fellow students. In another exchange, a discussion of transgender issues, Dan expressed reservations about hormone treatment and said that he couldn’t wait “to play devil’s advocate for legalizing pedophilia.” Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., Crocker visited the dorms, where he hosted a meeting on the roof to discuss the issue with students. Crocker’s message was that Dan’s conduct had been evaluated to be a “credible threat” — a phrase that would be repeated by the administration many times over the following days. Crocker then faced what one student attendee recalled as a “firing squad” of questions. Some students said that Dan had seemed off, but others saw his hasty removal as an example of the very cancel culture to which UATX was supposed to be the antithesis. Several students noted a lack of diversity. Consistent with its emphasis on “merit-based admissions,” UATX doesn’t publish demographic data. The students with whom I spoke said their classmates — and the college’s leadership — were overwhelmingly white, disproportionately came from wealthy families and had an overrepresentation of apparent neurodivergence. They found ideological diversity to be particularly lacking. “I didn’t realize exactly how conservative it would be,” one current student told me. “You know, when I hear free speech and open debate and all that jazz, I assumed that there was going to be a more equal amount of political views, and there wasn’t.” Classes weren’t as innovative as most students expected. “Year one was exceptionally boring,” the student said. “They did great books, they just didn’t do it in a great way,” said another student, who lamented the amount of memorization required. “I thought we were going to be intensely debating,” he said. Several students shared course syllabi with me. Most are easy enough to imagine being offered on any campus — with the notable exception of math and science. “The math classes go over algebra you learned in ninth grade,” a student told me. “There was just nothing there.” He described the offering as “schizophrenic” and described a class he’d taken at University of Texas at Austin as “exponentially more important.” Indeed, the syllabus I reviewed for a class called “Intellectual Foundations of Science II” covered a range of topics unusual for a science class including “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.” A student who’d taken the course shared a slide with me on “ensoulment” — the principally religious question of when a soul enters the human body — and said that the class had been told that IVF but not abortion could be consistent with the Catholic belief about ensoulment. The poor quality of the science offerings had bothered Heying and Pinker. “Others thought I was the token liberal,” Heying told me, “but I came to understand myself as the token scientist.” In an email, Pinker wrote, “They should have hired a widely esteemed scientist and proven program builder to set up their science division.” Another surprising similarity with other colleges stemmed directly from Dan’s expulsion: The students feared cancellation. “At any moment a frivolous Title IX complaint could be filed against you,” a former student told me. “I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX.” During the many conversations I had reporting this story, two questions came up more than any other. The first: Where was Bari Weiss? Many of the people I interviewed told me about internal conversations and shared internal emails. Weiss, who remains on the board of trustees, was almost never present in the conversations as they were related to me, and while I saw many emails on which Kanelos and Ferguson were copied, I never saw any including Weiss. speaks onstage during an event in New York City, on Nov. 19, 2024. | Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press One person I spoke to, who was present during the early planning stages, told me that Weiss was “very elusive” and almost never present in person. This was ironic since UATX was closely associated with Weiss — a bust of whom now resides in the school library. Weiss, meanwhile, has only risen further during the Trump 2.0 era and is now editor-in-chief of CBS News, where she has been criticized as genuflecting to the Trump administration. A spokesperson for CBS News did not respond to a request for comment from Weiss. One former member of the development team told me that they would routinely ask prospective donors how they got to know UATX. “Eighty percent of the time, the answer was Bari Weiss,” they said. “It was very often referred to as Bari Weiss’ University, or Bari Weiss’ University Project, or Bari Weiss’ University of Austin.” For several people, this was a source of resentment. “I don’t care whether she wants to pretend this is all gone now — she is the reason that this place exists. She was huge, she was held in such high regard, she had such an enormous impact,” the former staffer said. “I want her to be held to account,” she added. “I’m pissed.”
January 16, 2026 at 4:40 PM
rickcarp.bsky.social
just found out the woman from rental family worked at the daily beast. what the hell. who will employ me to be in their films
January 16, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
there is no kinder gentler version of this; mid Obama levels of enforcement are “open borders” to these people. There is no way to do what they want to do and are going to keep doing and quite frankly were elected on an explicit platform of doing without what we’re seeing on our phones. The end
January 16, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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jessehawken.bsky.social
It rocks that everyone at CBS News is blabbing www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
CBS News report on ICE officer’s injuries drew ‘huge internal concern’
Anonymously sourced report that Jonathan Ross ‘suffered internal bleeding’ after killing Renee Good faced skepticism inside CBS newsroom
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Jesus.

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM Reid Forgrave ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then arrest workers Federal agents detained three workers from a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Willmar yesterday, hours after four agents ate lunch there. It was not immediately clear what the immigration status of those detained was, or whether the people detained included the restaurant’s owners or only workers. An eyewitness who declined to give a name for fear of retribution, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that four ICE agents sat in a booth for a meal at El Tapatio a little before 3 p.m. Staff at the restaurant were frightened, said the eyewitness, who shared pictures from the restaurant as well as video of the arrest. The arrest happened around 8:30 p.m. near a Lutheran church and Willmar Middle School as agents followed the workers after they closed up for the night. A handful of bystanders blew whistles and shouted at agents as they detained the people. “Would your mama be proud of you right now?” one of the bystanders asked.
January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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premthakker.bsky.social
The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
January 15, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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No. ❤️
January 15, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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alibreland.bsky.social
An entire economy of weird, atomized buy-my-course, infinite side hustle, grindset guys who are excised from the traditional job market is probably not good for society and is going to have a bunch of bad externalities.
joelhs.bsky.social Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d
The man who committed arson against a synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, sells "scripture-backed fitness" and "Christian diet/testosterone optimization."

Toxic masculinity and antisemitism are so closely intertwined on the online right.
forward.com/culture/7969...
The Mississippi synagogue arson suspect has a Christian fitness site. Here’s what that tells us
The suspect behind an arson attack on a Mississippi synagogue ran a Christian fitness site, giving insight on his motivations and media diet.
forward.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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jessimckenzi.bsky.social
y'all trump is the most "give a mouse a cookie" president of all time. people need to stop giving him cookies!!!!!
ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 2d
Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Stage 5 pundit-brain is watching an innocent woman being killed by agents of the state and going, "hmm this says a lot about the urban-rural divide in America."
What did the regulars make of it? Ms. Good’s death was tragic, they said. Horrific. But they also said that she had asked for trouble. “You obey the law officer,” a man in a veteran’s ball cap said, “and question it later.” This is the divide, in a single sentence. In Minneapolis, protesters saw an innocent woman killed by a federal agent and took to the streets. At “the Pickle,” the regulars saw a woman who should have complied. In bars, cafes and coffee shops across rural Minnesota, the same conversations were unfolding. Ms. Good’s death had become a mirror, reflecting back a fracture that had been deepening for years — not just in their state, but across the country, wherever rural areas chafe against the political power of big cities.
January 15, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Rep. Jim Jordan: "The people in Minnesota are trying to distract from the 15 year fraud scams that were going on. That's exactly what's going on."
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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"...not only did Deborah Leeds exist, but she was the daughter-in-law of Daniel Leeds, sister-in-law of Titan Leeds, and my seventh great-grandmother.
.... Making me the seventh great-grand nephew of the Jersey Devil." www.orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Mother of the Jersey Devil - Orion Magazine
When cryptid research turns personal
www.orionmagazine.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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been s̶a̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ complaining about this
January 15, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
www.404media.co
January 15, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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jesspish.bsky.social
This has been the fantasy of law enforcement and why they supported Trump. They wanted to exercise unfettered violence because even the whiff of regulation offended the rules of their Baronial Class.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Former members of ICE say recent violence is "by design"
"What has changed is there has been an encouragement from the top to be much more aggressive in enforcement."
www.motherjones.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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www.equator.org/articles/hom...
January 15, 2026 at 4:12 AM