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Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
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i do genuinely think we need to jail every single person currently working for ICE
January 24, 2026 at 5:50 PM
i do genuinely think we need to jail every single person currently working for ICE
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We gotta kill operator culture in this country so bad
Wild Friday story: An advocacy group says ICE agents involved in arrests in the Colorado mountains this week left behind ace of spades cards in the detained immigrants' vehicles, with ICE's local info printed on them. ICE is now investigating, a statement says www.denverpost.com/2026/01/23/c...
ICE investigates after Colorado group says agents left ‘death cards’ in arrested immigrants’ abandoned cars
Immigration agents operating near Vail left branded ace of spades playing cards in cars left behind after immigrants’ arrests this week, an advocacy group alleged. ICE is investigating.
www.denverpost.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:05 PM
We gotta kill operator culture in this country so bad
I have some thoughts but they violate TOS to post here
January 24, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I have some thoughts but they violate TOS to post here
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I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."
8 weeks under siege in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer
Frank has a hard time explaining to his 8-year-old daughter why they rarely leave their home in the Twin Cities. Why she can’t go to school, and why he can’t work. “The only thing we tell her is that ...
minnesotareformer.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
Hats off to the dude using the CTA PA system to promote his side gig as a DJ I believe in you bud
January 22, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Hats off to the dude using the CTA PA system to promote his side gig as a DJ I believe in you bud
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this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.
January 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM
this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.
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Same machine that went into overdrive to make Charlie Kirk a martyr is not contradicting itself here; it is performing the same function, which is to say only the lives of the fascists matter. In the same way if you shot a German soldier, 100 people in the nearest town would be shot.
Jesse Watters highlights that Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE, had "pronouns in her bio" and "leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage"
January 8, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Same machine that went into overdrive to make Charlie Kirk a martyr is not contradicting itself here; it is performing the same function, which is to say only the lives of the fascists matter. In the same way if you shot a German soldier, 100 people in the nearest town would be shot.
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
I’m sure this is fine
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I’m sure this is fine
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it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry
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Mamdani was unaware Dick Cheney had died when I asked just now:
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Mamdani was unaware Dick Cheney had died when I asked just now:
This is basically how I imagine all my friends will react when I “show them something funny I saw on my phone”
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
This is basically how I imagine all my friends will react when I “show them something funny I saw on my phone”
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"Now, the Trump administration has written a declarative statement on the USDA website: 'Bottom line, the well has run dry' — despite there being contingency funds of over $5 billion available for the program."
If SNAP benefits are halted next month, it will mark the first time in history the program has not been funded during any government shutdown.
The food stamp program was first established during the Great Depression in the 1930s under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/mill...
The food stamp program was first established during the Great Depression in the 1930s under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/mill...
Millions will be impacted by pause in food stamps and other forthcoming changes to SNAP program • The TRiiBE
As the pause in SNAP benefits dominate conversations, the Greater Chicago Food Depository is informing residents about program changes made by the Trump administration.
thetriibe.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"Now, the Trump administration has written a declarative statement on the USDA website: 'Bottom line, the well has run dry' — despite there being contingency funds of over $5 billion available for the program."
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Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.
October 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.
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approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...
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Increasingly we need candidates who'd be comfortable cutting a wrestling promo
Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."
October 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Increasingly we need candidates who'd be comfortable cutting a wrestling promo
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there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.
That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
October 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
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Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.
Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.
Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.
Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.
Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.
Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.
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ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance
I hate these fucking people so much. They want to boil us all.
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
October 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I hate these fucking people so much. They want to boil us all.
Damn! You should do maybe 5 minutes of research before getting all smug.
Bluesky sends posted images to be evaluated by a third-party’s “AI”, yes, but if said company ALSO makes a generative AI (they do) then where do you think they get their training data? And why give them benefit of the doubt?
Bluesky sends posted images to be evaluated by a third-party’s “AI”, yes, but if said company ALSO makes a generative AI (they do) then where do you think they get their training data? And why give them benefit of the doubt?
Damn! You guys should learn the difference between an AI model being used to evaluate data and data being used to train an AI model before you get mad.
October 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Damn! You should do maybe 5 minutes of research before getting all smug.
Bluesky sends posted images to be evaluated by a third-party’s “AI”, yes, but if said company ALSO makes a generative AI (they do) then where do you think they get their training data? And why give them benefit of the doubt?
Bluesky sends posted images to be evaluated by a third-party’s “AI”, yes, but if said company ALSO makes a generative AI (they do) then where do you think they get their training data? And why give them benefit of the doubt?
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I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
October 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...