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Evidence, logic, and reason before partisanship. Also, puns and dirty jokes. You’ll never find the right answers if you don’t ask the right questions. Interests include: ⚖️⚾️🥁🍣🏀✡️🐟🪴
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Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
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But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
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Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
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It says volumes about the egos and the delusions of people who consider themselves elites that so many of them get a phone call from this guy and manage to convince themselves “I bet I’ll look good if I do this interview”
Isaac Chotiner: you’re a cool and handsome guy with no flaws and you could never be tripped up by a nerd ass journalist asking you “tricky” questions
Me: that’s correct Isaac Chotiner
Me: that’s correct Isaac Chotiner
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It says volumes about the egos and the delusions of people who consider themselves elites that so many of them get a phone call from this guy and manage to convince themselves “I bet I’ll look good if I do this interview”
Oh look, more murder.
About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Oh look, more murder.
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The truly wild thing is this isn’t even true, a shit-ton of their oil reserves on paper are heavy tar sands and every US oil company will take one look at that at $80/bbl and walk away because it isn’t close to economically viable.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The truly wild thing is this isn’t even true, a shit-ton of their oil reserves on paper are heavy tar sands and every US oil company will take one look at that at $80/bbl and walk away because it isn’t close to economically viable.
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Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.
“Within the White House, Trump and his lieutenants aren’t planning on letting up…Trump has told some advisers that he wants RICO prosecutions and conspiracy charges leveled against the six Democrats, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells Zeteo…
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November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.
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We're *still* both-sidesing the child murder guy? Genuinely appalling
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
We're *still* both-sidesing the child murder guy? Genuinely appalling
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The people looking at the candidate whose critique of the Iraq War was that it wasn’t brutal or rapacious enough and seeing an “anti-war” candidate are the biggest marks in American politics, which hasn’t stopped a lot of them from getting lucrative media/academic sinecures
On the Punnett square of "The Iraq war was/wasn't done for oil" and "And that's good/bad" he is the only person on God's green, brown, blue, white and gold Earth who falls in the "It wasn't/And that's bad" quadrant, the most proactively imperialistic position possible.
Hero of the antiwar movement!
Hero of the antiwar movement!
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The people looking at the candidate whose critique of the Iraq War was that it wasn’t brutal or rapacious enough and seeing an “anti-war” candidate are the biggest marks in American politics, which hasn’t stopped a lot of them from getting lucrative media/academic sinecures
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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Stroller’s vision of politics is one in which an adjunct instructor of English literature is part of the “Establishment” and Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch aren’t. It makes gestures at class politics but it’s all vacuous posturing that ignores anything substantive about Trump‘s actual policy record
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
November 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Stroller’s vision of politics is one in which an adjunct instructor of English literature is part of the “Establishment” and Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch aren’t. It makes gestures at class politics but it’s all vacuous posturing that ignores anything substantive about Trump‘s actual policy record
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Indictments against Comey and James dismissed because 3rd place runner up in Miss Colorado USA pageant invalidly appointed
Indictments against Comey and James dismissed because 3rd place runner up in Miss Colorado USA pageant invalidly appointed - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Remember, we had to get rid of DEI because we’re supposed to be a Meritocracy ™: A federal judge dismissed the indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday. The judge found that the appointment of interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan in Alexandria, Virginia, was invalid. Trump […]
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November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Indictments against Comey and James dismissed because 3rd place runner up in Miss Colorado USA pageant invalidly appointed
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I don’t know what the Supreme Court will do, but I am confident that at the District Court level it is still the case that the Pentagon cannot recall a sitting US Senator to active duty in order to court martial him for something he said. Article 1, Section 6, among other constitutional provisions.
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will do, but I am confident that at the District Court level it is still the case that the Pentagon cannot recall a sitting US Senator to active duty in order to court martial him for something he said. Article 1, Section 6, among other constitutional provisions.
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This cover oozes with contempt for the magazine’s history and its readership
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This cover oozes with contempt for the magazine’s history and its readership
"The next Democratic president needs to look at what Merrick Garland did and find someone who will not do that."
We need to not make the mistake of Reconstruction. We need massive consequences. Like, LOTS of people dying in prison.
We need to not make the mistake of Reconstruction. We need massive consequences. Like, LOTS of people dying in prison.
DOGE moves on to the next boiler room www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/doge...
DOGE moves on to the next boiler room - Lawyers, Guns & Money
A redeployment of Elon’s incel army: Less than a year after Elon Musk took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, brandishing a bedazzled chainsaw to showcase the Depar...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"The next Democratic president needs to look at what Merrick Garland did and find someone who will not do that."
We need to not make the mistake of Reconstruction. We need massive consequences. Like, LOTS of people dying in prison.
We need to not make the mistake of Reconstruction. We need massive consequences. Like, LOTS of people dying in prison.
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Raskin is very good at this.
CNN's Pamela Brown to Jamie Raskin: "Are Democrats losing the moral high ground on the Epstein issue by defending Stacey Plaskett?"
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Raskin is very good at this.
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It’s neither the lawful answer nor is it the oath they took.
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It’s neither the lawful answer nor is it the oath they took.
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Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
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never seen a lady so mad to be factchecked that dems aren't mass slaughtering jews
BLITZER: During WW2, Nazi officers were following the chain of command, obeying illegal orders & slaughtered Jews during the Holocaust
McCLAIN: We're a long way from Nuremberg trials & the slaughtering of Jews. If you want to talk about the slaughtering the Jews we can have that convo another time
McCLAIN: We're a long way from Nuremberg trials & the slaughtering of Jews. If you want to talk about the slaughtering the Jews we can have that convo another time
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
never seen a lady so mad to be factchecked that dems aren't mass slaughtering jews
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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
Textbook stuff. As textbook as it gets.
Textbook stuff. As textbook as it gets.
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
Textbook stuff. As textbook as it gets.
Textbook stuff. As textbook as it gets.
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Hegseth responded to Kelly telling the military not to obey illegal orders by . . . illegally ordering the military to investigate Kelly.
apnews.com/article/pent...
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Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly for video urging troops to defy 'illegal orders'
The Pentagon says that it is investigating Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona for possible breaches of military law after Kelly joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called for U.S. t...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Hegseth responded to Kelly telling the military not to obey illegal orders by . . . illegally ordering the military to investigate Kelly.
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Staggering corruption.
NEW: Senators have called for an investigation after a ProPublica story revealed that Kristi Noem-connected firm the Strategy Group was secretly hired as a subcontractor on a $220 million DHS ad campaign.
Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Staggering corruption.
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It's amazing how mad this makes certain "Christians"
ICYMI - POPE LEO: “When people are living good lives for 10, 20 years… (Trump) is treating them in a way that’s extremely disrespectful, violent — We have to look for ways to treat people humanely and with dignity.” (H/T @CBSNews)
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It's amazing how mad this makes certain "Christians"
Nazi dork-ass loser freak.
Elon's "Rosebud" is posting. His deepest desire is for everyone to tell him what a hilarious and clever poster he is. The problem is that he isn't funny. And it kills him.
It explains why he bought Twitter. It's why Grok is the way it is. And it explains . . . whatever the holy hell this is.
It explains why he bought Twitter. It's why Grok is the way it is. And it explains . . . whatever the holy hell this is.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Nazi dork-ass loser freak.
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“The fact that a governmental body can redact more than 1,000 pages of documents that are directly related to a major business’s activities in Texas is certainly problematic,” an attorney specializing in public records said.
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Gov. Greg Abbott Was Ordered to Release Some of His Emails With Elon Musk. Most Are Blacked Out.
Months after fighting to keep secret emails between Gov. Greg Abbott and Elon Musk, Texas officials released 1,400 pages of records. But they reveal little about the two men’s relationship or Musk’s i...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“The fact that a governmental body can redact more than 1,000 pages of documents that are directly related to a major business’s activities in Texas is certainly problematic,” an attorney specializing in public records said.
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