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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
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The departments of this government: the violent white supremacists, drunk bombers, the guys trying to evolve us into a sandwich left in the sun 5 days, the guys who want a depression to save the economy, guy crying because you wore vans to the airport and Marco Rubio, who wants to ban semicolons
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The departments of this government: the violent white supremacists, drunk bombers, the guys trying to evolve us into a sandwich left in the sun 5 days, the guys who want a depression to save the economy, guy crying because you wore vans to the airport and Marco Rubio, who wants to ban semicolons
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Legit amazing stuff.
And a great, great example of how “I have a dark, somewhat twisted sense of humor that’s not for everybody” does not have to mean “I lash out at powerless people and congratulate myself for my edginess.”
And a great, great example of how “I have a dark, somewhat twisted sense of humor that’s not for everybody” does not have to mean “I lash out at powerless people and congratulate myself for my edginess.”
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Legit amazing stuff.
And a great, great example of how “I have a dark, somewhat twisted sense of humor that’s not for everybody” does not have to mean “I lash out at powerless people and congratulate myself for my edginess.”
And a great, great example of how “I have a dark, somewhat twisted sense of humor that’s not for everybody” does not have to mean “I lash out at powerless people and congratulate myself for my edginess.”
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The current SCOTUS majority is a bunch of sophists who like to dismiss evidence in favor of hypotheticals. They are spending enormous political capital trying to empower a guy that tried to overthrow the US government. If any good comes of this, hopefully it will radicalize people about SCOTUS.
The conservative justices have their talking point -- what if Congress turned every department into a multimember commission -- and it is totally absurd considering that has never happened under the existing law.
December 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The current SCOTUS majority is a bunch of sophists who like to dismiss evidence in favor of hypotheticals. They are spending enormous political capital trying to empower a guy that tried to overthrow the US government. If any good comes of this, hopefully it will radicalize people about SCOTUS.
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One thing about the current SCOTUS that they try to retain the intellectual patina for their decisions when in reality they're just the most basal, partisan, power politics decisions imaginable. There is no intellectual foundation there, just post hoc rationalizing--an intellectual dead end.
December 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
One thing about the current SCOTUS that they try to retain the intellectual patina for their decisions when in reality they're just the most basal, partisan, power politics decisions imaginable. There is no intellectual foundation there, just post hoc rationalizing--an intellectual dead end.
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I just finished reading this one (available in Australia! Yay!) and it's a perfect little gem: sharp and sweet, tired and tenacious, brutal and delicate. A very canny faery tale.
INCIDENTALLY you should know THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is currently ranked #700 for 'Mystery and Thriller' at Libro and I *know* we can get that up to 666
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I just finished reading this one (available in Australia! Yay!) and it's a perfect little gem: sharp and sweet, tired and tenacious, brutal and delicate. A very canny faery tale.
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one thing that receives almost no attention is that the only reason he ran for president again is because he had to to avoid prosecution for a litany of crimes, the whole plan was: 1). Take shelter in SCOTUS-granted immunity. 2). Loot.
trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
one thing that receives almost no attention is that the only reason he ran for president again is because he had to to avoid prosecution for a litany of crimes, the whole plan was: 1). Take shelter in SCOTUS-granted immunity. 2). Loot.
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They gonna charge you for not having the thing that ICE says isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on when they try to kidnap you?
December 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
They gonna charge you for not having the thing that ICE says isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on when they try to kidnap you?
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Like, for example, what does the US Department of Defense use as a literal example of a "clearly illegal order?"
Why, it's firing upon shipwrecked sailors! JFC
Why, it's firing upon shipwrecked sailors! JFC
December 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Like, for example, what does the US Department of Defense use as a literal example of a "clearly illegal order?"
Why, it's firing upon shipwrecked sailors! JFC
Why, it's firing upon shipwrecked sailors! JFC
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This is very good. I like to remind people that headlines in the 80s would (regularly!) talk about people who drank lattes or ate sushi as exotic, self-indulgent yuppies with obscure tastes. Media constantly made fun of “haute cuisine” meals with tiny portions because fine dining was bad.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is very good. I like to remind people that headlines in the 80s would (regularly!) talk about people who drank lattes or ate sushi as exotic, self-indulgent yuppies with obscure tastes. Media constantly made fun of “haute cuisine” meals with tiny portions because fine dining was bad.
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Here’s this year’s Books We Love—but thanks to lots of work by lots of people, you can also look over all the Books We Love years back to 2013. It’s a remarkable project, and I can say that because I have nothing to do with it. (/fin)
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Here’s this year’s Books We Love—but thanks to lots of work by lots of people, you can also look over all the Books We Love years back to 2013. It’s a remarkable project, and I can say that because I have nothing to do with it. (/fin)
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When asked about the death of a W. Virginia National Guardsman, the President of the United States bragged about his electoral margin in her state.
When asked about the shooter, he called the reporter a stupid person.
Please stop holding quarter for anyone supporting this monstrous piece of shit.
When asked about the shooter, he called the reporter a stupid person.
Please stop holding quarter for anyone supporting this monstrous piece of shit.
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
When asked about the death of a W. Virginia National Guardsman, the President of the United States bragged about his electoral margin in her state.
When asked about the shooter, he called the reporter a stupid person.
Please stop holding quarter for anyone supporting this monstrous piece of shit.
When asked about the shooter, he called the reporter a stupid person.
Please stop holding quarter for anyone supporting this monstrous piece of shit.
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I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
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they're gonna give the robots human rights and healthcare before they give it to you
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
they're gonna give the robots human rights and healthcare before they give it to you
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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
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.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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I regret to inform you that I have finally broken down and done a direct-to-camera and I ESPECIALLY regret to inform you that I enjoyed it and will probably do more
The Trump administration has a new mass deportation playbook.
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I regret to inform you that I have finally broken down and done a direct-to-camera and I ESPECIALLY regret to inform you that I enjoyed it and will probably do more
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Today is Free Friday at Defector! Everything we post on Bluesky all through the weekend will be a gift link. 🎁
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Today is Free Friday at Defector! Everything we post on Bluesky all through the weekend will be a gift link. 🎁
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That’s the thing about these “throwaway” votes, they build the hegemony for concrete consequences down the line.
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
That’s the thing about these “throwaway” votes, they build the hegemony for concrete consequences down the line.
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The opposite of the Moms for Liberty wave should get more attention
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
The party recruited and invested in school board races to oust Republicans. It worked.
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The opposite of the Moms for Liberty wave should get more attention
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These degrees aren’t professional for the purposes of loans but these fields will still require them. The goal is to make it prohibitive to the poor, women and minorities.
And if you look at how some of these fields have treated women and minorities there won’t be much pushback.
And if you look at how some of these fields have treated women and minorities there won’t be much pushback.
I think this should get more media attention, but it won't. People are just going to find out the hard way.
www.newsweek.com/full-list-de...
www.newsweek.com/full-list-de...
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
These degrees aren’t professional for the purposes of loans but these fields will still require them. The goal is to make it prohibitive to the poor, women and minorities.
And if you look at how some of these fields have treated women and minorities there won’t be much pushback.
And if you look at how some of these fields have treated women and minorities there won’t be much pushback.
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"Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
Beautifully written & reasoned 3 min read. “To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
Commentary from a cool prof in 🧵
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
Commentary from a cool prof in 🧵
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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I just met with a friend who told me she and her husband have to drop their health insurance next month because they can’t afford the inflated premiums. “All we know to do is take vitamins & stay off ladders.” They voted for her, not him but we all suffer because of those who voted for him, not her.
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I just met with a friend who told me she and her husband have to drop their health insurance next month because they can’t afford the inflated premiums. “All we know to do is take vitamins & stay off ladders.” They voted for her, not him but we all suffer because of those who voted for him, not her.
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6.1 million Americans will fly over Thanksgiving, and that's made possible by 223,000 cabin crew members who keep flights in the air. But those 223k professionals combined earn less than half of what Elon will bring in if he gets his trillion dollar bonus. @flyingwithsara.bsky.social #teslatakedown
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
6.1 million Americans will fly over Thanksgiving, and that's made possible by 223,000 cabin crew members who keep flights in the air. But those 223k professionals combined earn less than half of what Elon will bring in if he gets his trillion dollar bonus. @flyingwithsara.bsky.social #teslatakedown