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"A real hoopy frood, who knows where his towel is!"
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I know the racism alone is the top 5 items of screaming importance from Trump last night; However, can we take a moment to lament how pathetic it reflects on us that we have a phone-addicted meme-sharing President shitposter? - Reposted by rogerExactly right. Miles just laid it out plainly and suddenly the story snapped into focus. When the facts line up this cleanly, the denial doesn’t matter. This is why independent reporting still scares the hell out of them.
- Reposted by rogerIn the overstuffed closet containing things about which I shall never give a listless fuck, the status of alternatives to nationally-backed currencies or recognized commodities will forever reside. These are Dutch tulips. This is a long-con pyramid game. Every rube should lose his last nickel.
- Reposted by rogerLawyer: “Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?” Epstein: “Yes” Lawyer: “Have you socialized with him in the presence of females under 18?” Epstein: “I’m asserting my Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights.” via @meidastouch.com
- Reposted by roger...of Scott's phone to explore himself an application that Scott was demonstrating. Steve asked the AI app to show him a photograph of Homer Plessy. This was cheeky as Steve, in his long research, had determined that no such photo of the man was known to exist. Boom....
- Reposted by roger...some early experiments he was undertaking using AI to create illustrations. At one point, intrigued, Steve -- who had published "Separate," a magisterial history of the Plessy v. Ferguson court decision that enshrined American racial segregation for more than a half century, grabbed hold...
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- Reposted by roger...reporters that I ever brushed against in my previous station as an ink-stained metro reporter, Steve Luxenberg and Scott Shane, both alumni of the old, grey Baltimore Sun. Luxenberg, who as metro editor, hired me as a 22-year-old police reporter some four decades ago, and went on to...
- Reposted by rogerThread: So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
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- Reposted by rogerIf you can't stand up for a fellow journalist when she's being ridiculously bullied and demeaned for asking a basic question of a public leader, you sure as hell aren't going stand up for anything as abstract as a national principle or ethos. American journalism is dying. And with it, our republic.
- Reposted by rogerI sometimes will get the Washington Post and the Washington Times confused but now it doesn’t matter
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- Reposted by rogerGood time to reup this post from last month.
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- Reposted by rogerNOTE: when an immigration judge issues a final deportation order, the I-205 signed by an ICE officer allows ICE to detain that person for deportation, but it does not allow them to enter a home without consent. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/can-...
- Reposted by rogerWRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.
- Reposted by rogerhappening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
- Reposted by rogerJudge Ana Reyes in D.C. has temporarily blocked the Feb. 3 termination of TPS for Haitians. Without TPS, many Haitian immigrants in the U.S. could face deportation back to Haiti.
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- Reposted by rogerAlso, I want to make it clear that I agree with @thefireorg.bsky.social that Charles Murray should be free to give speeches to college students about how an imaginary person born from an egg after Zeus took the form of a swan and humped a queen is WHITE and it’s offensive woke DEI to say otherwise
- Reposted by rogerIf he’s not constantly angry and getting angrier he dies, Asha. It’s like a personality-disordered shark.
- Reposted by rogerForgive me, Jesus, because I genuinely deeply enjoy how perpetually unhappy and desolate these losers are.
- Reposted by rogerA crypto company run by President Trump’s family members sold a large stake to investors tied to the United Arab Emirates just days before Trump’s inauguration, linking a Trump family business to a prominent member of the UAE’s governing elite.
- Reposted by rogerAm I positive that video shows the president shitting himself on camera? No. Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
- Reposted by rogerSuch is the outrage in Denmark over both Trump’s desire for Greenland and disparaging remarks about NATO that one of the country’s leading newspapers devoted their Saturday front and plenty of room inside to the bios of all 44 Danes slain during NATO missions in support of the US
- Reposted by rogerButtigieg on Fox News: "Seeing an American taken to the ground, having his gun removed, being shot in the back 10 times, then having the govt say he was a terrorist all along based on no evidence.. those are kinds of things that as painful as they are, can actually bring together a lot of Americans"
- Reposted by rogerButtigieg on Fox News: "When you see an American woman opening the door to her home and on her doorstep finds half a dozen federal agents in tactical gear that is more tricked out than what I would take outside the wire in Afghanistan -- I think most people get that that is wrong."
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- Reposted by rogerI like neither Ezra Klein nor shouting down speakers. I think Ezra Klein profits, metaphorically and literally, by being shouted down by Sarah Lawrence students, and that doing it to him was more or less like trying to discourage a dog by throwing bacon at it. /1
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- Reposted by rogerFormer criminal defense attorney here. If what we’ve seen of the Epstein Files so far—heavily redacted and with 3 million pages still missing—is bad, keep in mind that the *Files in full* are a *hundred* times worse. That’s how this works. You’re seeing the G-rated version.
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- Reposted by rogerBrutal column in the Kansas City Star about a local real estate company trying to avoid public scrutiny for selling ICE a property for a massive prison camp: www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...
- Reposted by rogerIf Don Lemon didn’t matter, they’d ignore him. They can’t. Power only fears what it can’t control. That’s Don Lemon. And they fear the platform he’s building. Which they just helped build.
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- Reposted by roger"The past is never dead. It's not even past." On the 107th anniversary of Fred Korematsu's birth, Faulkner's words seem more apt than ever. Visit korematsuinstitute.org for more, or catch George Takei’s brilliant play “Allegiance.” 5/5 [The things they carried. Suitcases at @jamuseum.bsky.social]
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- Reposted by roger"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
- Reposted by rogerjudge: I think I'll just leave this big list of cases where the administration violated court orders over here reporters: oh you know that's interesting because I was just looking for a big list of cases where the administration violated court orders
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- Reposted by rogerThere is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
- Reposted by rogerNo one is saying that every American must understand the justice system. That would be ideal, but it's impractical. The problem is that our justice system lies at the center of our politics—which means ignorance about how it works is ripe for abuse by an authoritarian regime.
- Reposted by rogerIt cannot be sufficiently emphasized that the Trump regime has at all points lied about every aspect of its immigration agenda, every aspect of how immigration enforcement works, and every aspect of the criminal justice system that touches upon immigration enforcement. It is all a long con.
- Reposted by rogerI’ve written a detailed report on the Greg Bovino-to-Tom Homan handover in Minneapolis that at once reveals that the Trump regime hasn’t changed its plans for ICE *and* serves as a primer on the many aspects of the criminal justice system that Homan lied about today. So I think you’ll enjoy this.
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- Reposted by rogerThe Fulton County search warrant & its implications for the 2026 & future elections is critically important news & not getting the coverage it merits. Read my most recent piece to get the download & understand why this is such a significant development. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
