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Kimberley Isbell

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Mainly IP and politics, with animal pics thrown in when I remember to take them. It’s all me β€” my boss is way too nice to say this stuff. She/her LA πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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This is a kind of echo of J. Gorsuch's remarks in the tariffs case about how once a president gets some power from Congress, it's very hard for Congress to reassert power over it even for another president

06.03.2026 00:26 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œStronghold” makes it sound like Israel bombed a military base. They did not. They bombed a densely populated part of the capital city. One of those rancid, enabling words that needs to be retired.

06.03.2026 00:06 πŸ‘ 225 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

Given the obvious portents for Republicans, seems that this election is going to be riddled with fake Democrats and the billionaires that fund them.

06.03.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 324 πŸ” 111 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 4

The restrictions Miller and Hegseth railed against were designed to prevent us from doing things like slaughtering children en masse.

06.03.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 980 πŸ” 299 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 10

No. Peter Thiel cannot be allowed to annex the National Science Foundation via this Palantir proxy.

It would be like putting a pyromaniac in charge of the Library of Alexandria: destruction of a global treasure with no "undo" button.

This is a "to the barricades" moment.

06.03.2026 01:45 πŸ‘ 332 πŸ” 144 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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β€œWe’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests β€” a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a β€œmini...

Last year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests β€” a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims its officers use a β€œminimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

(Published July 2025)

06.03.2026 02:00 πŸ‘ 857 πŸ” 368 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 13
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How a DHS shooting of a third U.S. citizen went unnoticed for months No state or federal agency disclosed that a Homeland Security Investigations agent had killed Ruben Ray Martinez until it was revealed in a public records request.

How many more immigration assassinations are being hidden from the American people? How many more violent, masked thugs are being protected from legal consequences? When this god-awful period of our lives is over, we’re going to shake every part of our government loose.

🎁 article

wapo.st/40d1rzS

06.03.2026 02:13 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Arkansas SCT, 2002: We reject Whren under our state constitution, and hold that pretextual stops and arrests violate it.

Arkansas SCT, today: We were wrong in 2002, and we embrace Whren under the state const today. Pretexts aren't unconstitutional.
opinions.arcourts.gov/ark/supremec... #N

06.03.2026 02:32 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

the guy conducting a war does a daily presser about how he doesn't follow any rules and how he loves war crimes and then a school ends up bombed, hard to say how it happened

06.03.2026 05:57 πŸ‘ 708 πŸ” 155 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Clearly about keeping women out of the military - but as base hospitals serve families as well, particularly in nations like Germany, it's about excluding families from overseas postings. The end goal is to only spend money on active duty men - see also the attacks on veteran healthcare.

05.03.2026 18:24 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, we are COOKED.

06.03.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 621 πŸ” 85 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 3
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ICE detains reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

05.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 12158 πŸ” 7356 πŸ’¬ 288 πŸ“Œ 335
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Shopping cart theory - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoppin...

06.03.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

The loud muffler fuckers. One muffler sounds like gunshots. Just horrible dickhead behavior

06.03.2026 01:47 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

37 pages

06.03.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 1975 πŸ” 779 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 15
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How is this real life?

06.03.2026 02:54 πŸ‘ 447 πŸ” 113 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 19

The *second* Dems have power, the Searchlight crew will be along with polls convincing elected Ds that accountability isn't popular and they should "move on" instead.

Set your fucking watch by it.

04.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 251 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 2

SNAP benefits cost $100b a year, or about a third of what they're spending on a way no one outside the WH wants.

04.03.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 118 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Big Jordan v. City of New London energy here

04.03.2026 18:30 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

As Rep. Jayapal says, our reporting has found that these aren’t isolated incidents. Last October, we tallied more than 170 cases of U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents.

Here’s that investigation she’s referring to:

04.03.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 2230 πŸ” 763 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 9

Logistics is woke. Supply is woke. End-state planning is woke. Force protection? Believe it or not, woke

04.03.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 2745 πŸ” 453 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 20

And you people complained that the plot of the Fallout show made no sense

04.03.2026 01:09 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

American Jews have been TRYING to tell folks that yes, AIPAC is evil, & fuck them, but Christian Zionists in the US outnumber Jews IN THE WORLD & have risen to power in all areas of our government, & they want to bring the End Times (& kill all the Jews btw), AND THIS IS WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT.

03.03.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 1428 πŸ” 565 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 8
Title reads:
"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 yr might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm"
The cover of the current issue (February 28, 2026, Vol. 407 No. 10531) of The Lancet.  Published in the U.K., The Lancet is "one of the world’s oldest (founded 1823), most prestigious, and highest-impact independent general medical journals" in the world.

Title reads: "The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 yr might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm" The cover of the current issue (February 28, 2026, Vol. 407 No. 10531) of The Lancet. Published in the U.K., The Lancet is "one of the world’s oldest (founded 1823), most prestigious, and highest-impact independent general medical journals" in the world.

"HS under Kennedy has made a habit of throwing good money after bad science."

That "good money" is our tax payer $$, thrown at unethical studies. He pushes ideology over evidence.

The cover of the most recent issue of The Lancet says it all.
πŸ§ͺ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#ImpeachRFKJr

03.03.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 216 πŸ” 123 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3
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The war in Iran is already hugely expensive Aircraft carriers and stealth bombers are expensive to use.

did a little back of the envelope math for how much all this shit is costing. on the order of $1-2 billion per day just in direct spending, maybe 10 times that much in indirect effects

03.03.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 848 πŸ” 279 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 30

This really ought to be terrifying. We literally have people making decisions to drop bombs in the grips of apocalyptic fantasies.

03.03.2026 04:59 πŸ‘ 993 πŸ” 284 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 19
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Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

Trump isn’t acting like a president at war with foreign adversaries.

He’s acting like a man at war with his own counterintelligence professionals, the people who can expose his secrets and hold him to account.

zurl.co/csDy0

03.03.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 468 πŸ” 195 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 6
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Brooklyn Park man 'lured' outside his home by ICE agents deported to Mexico A Brooklyn Park man who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last month has been deported to Mexico.

The man was detained last month after two women, who were ICE agents, knocked on the man’s door to ask for help with their car. The man, who is an auto mechanic, was surrounded by agents after he left his home to offer assistance.

03.03.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 405 πŸ” 223 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 19

It is baffling to me why Dem leadership returns again and again to these procedural critiques. Does anyone find them compelling? Is the problem with this war really that Trump didn't tell Schumer about it sooner?

03.03.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 411 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 11

Even the autonomous burrito taxis, if you can believe it, now moonlight as mobile surveillance posts.

03.03.2026 18:51 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0