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Rob L
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Woodworker, Science, Architecture, OSINT, Politics, A Multipotentialite. Greatly afflicted by what I'm told is MECFS
Dorset Resident
Noem is doing a Mone.

They both belong in gaol.
“This is what corruption looks like. They’re stealing money from the 🇺🇸 people’s pockets.”

@crockett.house.gov calls out Trump’s DHS Secretary Kristi Noem for funneling hundreds of millions to a group she has close ties to.
November 20, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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“This is what corruption looks like. They’re stealing money from the 🇺🇸 people’s pockets.”

@crockett.house.gov calls out Trump’s DHS Secretary Kristi Noem for funneling hundreds of millions to a group she has close ties to.
November 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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yeah. sigh.
Turning Point leader pleads guilty to attempted election fraud in Arizona

Former GOP state Rep. Austin Smith was caught submitting fake signatures in his reelection campaign.
Turning Point leader pleads guilty to attempted election fraud
Former GOP state Rep. Austin Smith was caught submitting fake signatures in his reelection campaign.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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most succinct but powerful headline
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Black, This is why 2FA has replaced security questions like this.
Your GI JOE name is the color of your shirt followed by your first pet's name.

GO.
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Chat GPT is pretty useless at creating simple stuff isn't it?

It will happily steal examples though, it just can't currently do anything with them. I was curious.
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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As the great @annabower.bsky.social is reporting today, the government has now admitted the current 2-count Comey indictment was never actually voted on by the grand jury - a possibility I discussed here.

This case is imploding even faster than I expected.

www.sidebarsblog.com/p/the-comey-...
The Comey Prosecution is Imploding
Corruption meets incompetence at Pam Bondi's DOJ
www.sidebarsblog.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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You know that police drone in the sky? Those license plate readers? Oh, and the worried feeling you get about your data being collected as you interact with your devices? Yeah, that shouldn't be the norm. That's why we're fighting back: takebackctrl.org/stop-survei...
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Amazing sunset. Looks far redder in real life. Like the sunset in the movie, Rear Window.
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.
See also Curtis Yarvin's remarks in a recent Oxford lecture:

"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Crook & Butcher.
Trump defends Mohammed bin Salman over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi:

"A lot of people didn't like that gentleman... Things happen... He knew nothing about it."

A US intelligence report concluded that bin Salman personally "approved an operation" to "kill or capture" Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Never forget.
And if anyone needs reminding of what actually happened, the UN report is very clear on what was found in the audio recording.

edition.cnn.com/2019/06/19/m...
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Covering Jamal Khashoggi's murder was one of the most disturbing things I've worked on. Hearing Trump say he was "extremely controversial" and people "didn't like him" is chilling. Hard to take any other way than he thinks there is moral ambiguity in the murder of a journalist.
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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The President doesn’t really want the Epstein files to be released. He just reversed his position because Republicans were getting their asses kicked.

If Trump wanted to, he could order the release of the files right now.
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I have finally relented and put my heating* on.

*Crappy storage.

November 18th is pretty good going.
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."

I chose Larry Summers.

Better late than never.

Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?
It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts
Speaking exclusively to BBC News, CEO Sundar Pichai said the artificial intelligence boom had been an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Seems our registration barrier (not a paywall!) is even more broken than usual, so we've switched it off for this post.

A reminder that all of FT Alphaville is free if you're logged in ( on.ft.com/3tDRiiu ) and please stop complaining at us.
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Americans are freaks
Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”

Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If I see another Lee Kunt Kee noodle advert on Amazon I am going to lose it. Market campaigns that saturate advertising only make me want to never ever buy their products.
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Instead of the Nuzzi shit, let's focus on the fact that apparently Johnny Knoxville got married this past weekend, the wedding was officiated by John Waters, and a dog was involved
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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“You’ll never belief who else stripped jewellery from people fleeing a war zone!”
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM