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Writer, Editor Journalist Occasional Photographer DC based Opinions are my own, unless I say I'm joking. Soccer blog @futbolfolklore.com

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Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...

I hope every Democratic member of the House and Senate reads this and factors it into whatever funding bill gets agreed to. We have seen what ICE can do to U.S. Citizens in the streets, imagine what they will do at the polls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

04.02.2026 21:34 👍 3336 🔁 1661 💬 210 📌 142
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Your starting Xis for Gotham vs. Corinthians in the first-ever FIFA Women’s Champions Cup semifinal!

28.01.2026 11:40 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
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ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

23.01.2026 17:32 👍 19585 🔁 9675 💬 2255 📌 1484

This should share the Pulitzer photography prize with the subject

17.01.2026 14:07 👍 114 🔁 34 💬 3 📌 0
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‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...

“When combined with what we know from ICE testimony and other public information, it gives us a blueprint into how ICE is going into communities and identifying people for arrest in real-time.” www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

15.01.2026 14:15 👍 82 🔁 44 💬 0 📌 4

David Raya is a magician.

30.12.2025 22:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cam Ward is absolutely outrageous

28.12.2025 20:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Section 1 of the executive order is like "in order for this to mean anything, Congress must act." The rest of it is like "X department shall convene a task force to provide a list of recommendations etc. etc." It's completely toothless and this "blocking states" headline is brain-dead stenography.

12.12.2025 01:02 👍 762 🔁 180 💬 17 📌 8
Asked for comment by Sky News, the IDF responded: "Earlier today, IDF troops identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, conducted suspicious activities on the ground, and approached IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip, posing an immediate threat to them.
"Following the identification, the IAF eliminated the suspects in order to remove the threat."

Asked for comment by Sky News, the IDF responded: "Earlier today, IDF troops identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, conducted suspicious activities on the ground, and approached IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip, posing an immediate threat to them. "Following the identification, the IAF eliminated the suspects in order to remove the threat."

They were 8 and 11 years old

02.12.2025 06:50 👍 1613 🔁 901 💬 18 📌 44

I keep being told how religious these people are but everything they do is a mockery of any kind of ethos, religious or otherwise.

01.12.2025 06:02 👍 36 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

30.11.2025 01:16 👍 4477 🔁 1342 💬 44 📌 68
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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

This AP news story is incredible from front to back but I wanted to flag something super serious and wildly illegal that may have flown under the radar. It’s called parallel construction and it’s when intel is washed from spy agencies and used by local cops. apnews.com/article/immi...

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22.11.2025 19:00 👍 531 🔁 301 💬 6 📌 19
MAGA Nation is an account based in the EU. Dark MAGA is an account based in Thailand. Joined from UK.

MAGA Nation is an account based in the EU. Dark MAGA is an account based in Thailand. Joined from UK.

MAGA Scope is an account based in Nigeria. The MAGA Beacon is an account based in South Asia.

MAGA Scope is an account based in Nigeria. The MAGA Beacon is an account based in South Asia.

Spetsna 007 is an account based in France, joined from Nigeria. Mary Tiles Texas is an account based in Russia.

Spetsna 007 is an account based in France, joined from Nigeria. Mary Tiles Texas is an account based in Russia.

Musk turned on a feature on X that showed country of origin.

He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.

Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.

Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.

22.11.2025 23:31 👍 1269 🔁 456 💬 33 📌 32
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MEMPHIS DEPAY

VAAAI CORINTHIANS

21.11.2025 00:17 👍 56 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 3

Scotland deserves qualification on the quality of the goals tonight alone.

18.11.2025 21:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Kieran Tierney you are unbelievable

18.11.2025 21:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TROY PARROTT YOU'RE A HERO

16.11.2025 16:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.

ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.

We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

15.11.2025 22:43 👍 5486 🔁 2672 💬 97 📌 69

Apprehending someone with a kid there is not an unprecedented law-enforcement situation. Professionals understand this as posing a question of what to do with the kid: wait until a relative can pick them up? Take them somewhere? Etc?

To _not think about this_ is a CHOICE.

08.11.2025 02:56 👍 212 🔁 72 💬 4 📌 1

Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy

08.11.2025 00:29 👍 2533 🔁 526 💬 23 📌 24

There are no words for how evil this is

07.11.2025 01:36 👍 10627 🔁 3751 💬 80 📌 289
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The DOJ has been firing judges with immigrant defense backgrounds NPR's data analysis shows that the DOJ has tended to fire judges with immigrant defense backgrounds in its recent rounds of dismissals.

Immigration judges with prior immigrant defense work make up the largest share of those fired by the Trump admin. NPR identified 70 fired immigration judges. The changes have at least shifted perception of fairness in these courts

My latest investigation: www.npr.org/2025/11/06/g...

06.11.2025 13:53 👍 236 🔁 164 💬 5 📌 9
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Family speaks out after death of man deported by ICE in vegetative state Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel’s family alleges negligence and inhumane treatment

ICE deported him anyways.

They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica.

Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own.

What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this?

He died a few weeks after deportation:

06.11.2025 09:13 👍 786 🔁 397 💬 15 📌 39
photo of a sign outside the door of the Oval Office, reading "The Oval Office" in gold bullshit script, made out of three sheets of paper

photo of a sign outside the door of the Oval Office, reading "The Oval Office" in gold bullshit script, made out of three sheets of paper

Close-up image of the same sign

Close-up image of the same sign

[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!

05.11.2025 19:21 👍 4211 🔁 1147 💬 294 📌 700
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'I was literally screaming in pain': Young women say they met Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy for sex and it turned violent and humiliating Women as young as 19 say they were too scared to speak up after having rough sex with Dave Portnoy, fearing retaliation from Barstool Sports' fans.

www.businessinsider.com/barstool-spo...

04.11.2025 19:02 👍 165 🔁 32 💬 7 📌 0

I was just gonna say how funny would it be if Minnesota came all the way back but like it just got super real

04.11.2025 04:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The web that tried to steal the presidency Chapter 1 What is it that happens when first we practice to deceive? I forget. If you are anything like me, you tuned into cable news coverage of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021 and thought to yours...

If you didn't see over the weekend, I took the 1,700-plus pages of Jan. 6 subpoenas Chuck Grassley made public last week and mapped out the connections between the people and organizations they mention. www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-web-that...

03.11.2025 19:41 👍 342 🔁 146 💬 10 📌 14
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Fish fried 🐬

31.10.2025 03:11 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2