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They don't need a crime or even allegations of a crime. All they need is "she was no saint".
US history has conclusively proved that when the cops kill somebody, the immediate project becomes coming up with some crime to convict them with after the fact to frame the killing as deserved, to make them at fault for their own murder.

It can be anything at all. Doesn’t even need to be a crime.
January 14, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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Meta, Microsoft and Google are all coordinating with the European far right in order to dismantle EU digital laws designed to protect citizens, according to a new report.

The recent 🇺🇸NSS strategy outlined regime change plans to support the European far right.

A public-private partnership.
US tech giants allying with European far-right to strip back EU rules
Amid rising EU-US tensions, a new report has accused Big Tech of courting far-right MEPs to weaken the EU's regulatory power on AI and data.
www.brusselstimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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A incapacidade dos eleitores de acreditarem em quem lhes diz que luta pelos seus interesses e a vontade de votar em pessoas de passado e presente duvidoso que nunca os defenderam é fruto de uma manipulação mediática avassaladora e permanente.
Não só em Portugal. Por todo o lado.
January 14, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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"Em quatro semanas de pré-campanha e na campanha eleitoral, os investigadores identificaram 14 casos de desinformação e André Ventura, candidato apoiado pelo Chega, é responsável por 85,7% dos casos."

A mentira como arma política
Presidenciais: desinformação atinge mais de 7,7 milhões de visualizações
Em quatro semanas de pré-campanha e na campanha eleitoral, os investigadores identificaram 14 casos de desinformação e André Ventura, candidato apoiado pelo Chega, é responsável por 85,7% dos casos.
eco.sapo.pt
January 13, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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saw a chart earlier showing cbs news has lost 20% of its audience after less than a week of having this dope at the helm. apparently the goal is to get everyone so tanked they don’t care.
New: CBS News seems to be preparing a new segment called "Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil," per sources.

Some staff were only first made aware of it as they encountered CBS testing out set designs of a faux-stocked bar in the newsroom, featuring a large sponsor banner for Jack Daniels.
January 13, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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This feels significant. Games Workshop will do ANYTHING for a quick buck.

Them making a company-wise declaration that there's not a single use-case or penny to be made from AI feels like it's going to make waves.
ign.com IGN @ign.com · 1d
Warhammer maker Games Workshop has banned the use of AI in its content production and its design process, insisting that none of its senior managers are currently excited about the technology. https://bit.ly/49xT9Xl
January 13, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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Trump is blocking the Epstein files completely now?

Weird. You’d think he’d want to take down all the Democrats he said are exclusively in the documents. He must love Democrats if he’s so dedicated to protecting them.
January 13, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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WATCH: Trump shows his middle finger and appears to say "fuck you" after Ford worker yells "pedophile protector" - TMZ
January 13, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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Falling birthrates is the most non-issue I've ever seen, mostly because it only becomes a problem if you look at it through the lens of endless capitalism, which is funny because endless capitalism is the main reason people aren't having kids
January 13, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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Renee Good committed gender insubordination: she didn't cower & grovel to male authority. Many women are killed for the very same reason all over the world. We just call it by the euphemism "domestic violence" instead of what it is: a campaign of political terrorism in which any man can participate.
When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you."

That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.
January 10, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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It was also race insubordination. White women putting themselves on the line to stand against white supremacy sacrifice some of the privilege that comes with loyalty to whiteness, and white men (as a class) don’t ever forget that white women are lower on the pyramid and will punish “treason”
Renee Good committed gender insubordination: she didn't cower & grovel to male authority. Many women are killed for the very same reason all over the world. We just call it by the euphemism "domestic violence" instead of what it is: a campaign of political terrorism in which any man can participate.
When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you."

That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.
January 13, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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This.

The challenge is that people were taught *that* the nazis were bad, but not *why* the Nazis were bad.

Studying Black History, Indian History, and African History, would have revealed why Hitler didn't see himself or the Nazis as bad, and the danger and rot lurking in our societies.
This exactly. U.S. and European culture uniformly showing the villainy of the Nazis, and the heroism of the leaders and the millions of volunteers on the Allied side—Evelyn Waugh, Kurt Vonnegut, James Stewart, Audrey Hepburn!—every film, every TV show, every thriller in the bookshop. And now this?
It's weird thinking about all the history classes where we were sold ideas about decency, inclusiveness, democracy etc. Even if they were aspirational simplifications of nuanced history, I can't believe how many people were like, 'No. The Nazis were cool, slavery is good, ethnic cleansing is good.'
January 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.
January 13, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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“gostava de perceber por que fiz aquelas declarações, não consigo explicar o que me passou pela cabeça”, disse hoje cotrim.

isto deve ser a pior frase de sempre de um candidato presidencial. sim, vamos eleger como presidente uma pessoa que não sabe o que diz e por que o diz. parece boa ideia.
January 13, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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This should be the baseline energy from every Democrat. This should be the least angry they ever get to be. This should be the nicest language they ever use in reference to Republicans. If you can't do *at least* this, retire or get yourself retired.
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea.

This should not be a difficult concept.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries denounce the killing but offer no concrete pledges
www.independent.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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Again, writers of HBO's "Veep" couldn't even begin to put this shit in their scripts for fear of their sharp political satire becoming a surreal cartoon.
January 12, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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really a shame to watch walz and pritzker throw away any chance they had at my vote but thats what you get for refusing to protect your constituents in the face of an overwhelming, violent invading force
January 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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/2 This will be grotesque. Edward R. Murrow didn’t have a radio show in 1946 where Eisenhower debated Göring about whether the Nazis had some good points. Today’s media would absolutely do that. Today’s media will platform people defending and rewriting Good’s murder for years.
January 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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the only reason "abolish ICE" is seen as radical is that no one will say it but the far left. if every normie Democrat started saying it tomorrow it would move the overton window so far you'd have to squint to find it. my kingdom for leaders who understand they can shape public opinion.
Democrats officially going all in on the mealy mouthed “ICE needs training” narrative.

No. ABOLISH ICE.
WARNER: It used to take 5 to 6 months to get trained. They've now lowered the training period to 47 days. Why 47 days? Because Donald Trump's the 47th president. Tell me that's a rational approach

KERNEN: I'm not taking that bait

WARNER: Joe! You can't pick your facts
January 12, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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I’m not going to say this is probable cause for a search warrant to search Tim Sweeney’s hard drives for child porn, but I mean it’s several long strides in that direction.
This is a wild hill to die on for someone who creates environments for kids.

Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games (Fortnite/Battle Royale) argues against CP protections on social media/AI platforms, claiming legislators are ‘just censoring political opponents’.

www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'
Not the hill I'd die on, but I'm not a billionaire.
www.pcgamer.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Quid, meet quo.
The Supreme Court sets aside lower court decisions upholding convictions for bribery related to the FIFA scandal because the Trump administration decided to dismiss those criminal cases "in the interests of justice." The FIFA prosecution ends in a whimper. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
January 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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#Montenegro não conhece limites. É tipo perigoso que à semelhança de Trump ou Bolsonaro, não se coíbe de mentir descaradamente. Enquanto destrói o #SNS de forma estratégica, insinua que o seu efeito - mortes - são meras percepções.
January 12, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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"The Russian economy is under enormous strain, and is running out of resources.... The policy implication is that sanctions are highly effective, despite their imperfect implementation and enforcement."

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

By @martinsandbu.ft.com
Russia is running out of money
Go behind the propaganda, and the intensifying strain is evident
giftarticle.ft.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:34 AM