These GOP junk texts are getting more desperate.

A Venezuelan oil tanker was seized in the Caribbean in a joint US Coast Guard and Navy operation. Earlier today I observed online two US Air Force aircraft known for surveillance fly out from Panama and land at Curaçoa, presumably locating the tanker’s route from Venezuela to Cuba.

First Amendment Concealed Carry

If the Trump administration is going to deadname government officials, shouldn’t JD Vance be addressed by his birth name James Donald Bowman? www.npr.org/sections/sho...

I feel like AI has made Google dumb. It shows me things it thinks I want to see. For years I have used Google to find out things I didn’t know. Now it just wants to confirm things I already know.

Cautionary tale for Navy operations off the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia. apnews.com/article/navy...

How many times can one repeatedly microwave and forget a cup of tea before it becomes fissile material?

Pirates of the Caribbean: Nobody Left Alive, starring Pete Hegseth

Using networks of hidden cameras and plate readers, Big Brother really is watching you and “predicting” your “crimes”. Associated Press investigative story. apnews.com/article/immi...

Cary, NC, yesterday. No due process. Appearance and association only basis for detention, handcuffing and driven away only to be released 2 miles away, belongings thrown on ground with contempt.

It took Greg Bonaparte Bovino and six of his henchmen six inches taller than him, masked, armored and armed, to detain one teenager in Charlotte. At that rate I don’t think they’re going to meet Stephen Himmler Miller’s deportation quotas.

When my wife wants to sleep she asks me to explain how something, like a telephone, works, or is made. This evening while waiting for my phone to update, before heading out, I started watching a show on how things are made, and fell asleep.

Can you fact check if there are no facts to check?

Trump back door corporate tax breaks www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

NC Supreme Court Judge Paul Newby has long held white male bible study breakfasts. Jan 9, 2020 while at a Chick-fil-A PTA meeting I observed his group adjacent.

This is the same White House window in the video showing debris being tossed out of last year which Trump called fake. Also East Wing is visible pre-demolition. Ballroom construction can be supervised while sitting on toilet

ICE is currently hiring people with records who would be deported if they were not citizens.

I’m pretty sure the only time Kristi Noem has been on an 18 wheeler was as a silhouette on mudflaps.

The White House Historical Association knew of the East Wing demolition and has the nerve to send me a catalog of gilded trinkets and Christmas decorations to support their efforts.

Vladimir Putin left a voicemail: “Great job. Now do the other side.”

Let's just be clear: He is violating state sovereignty. Period. There is no question. There is no discussion. And when they cried and cried about states rights, it was a lie. stateline.org/2025/10/22/t...

A defense of the WH ballroom farce claims FDR renovated the East Wing in 1942 during WWII when the country could ill afford it. It was renovated to hide a secret bomb shelter to survive nuclear attack. Now it is the Presidential Emergency Ops Center. Served as a shelter following the 9/11 attacks.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina’s top elections official is pressing the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles for unprecedented access to voters’ full Social Security numbers — a move that could erode voter privacy protections and lay the groundwork for mass voter purges

Argentina will receive $40 billion from the US and in return Argentina will provide its expertise in disappearing people.

“Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them … Yet where does this anarchy exist?” Thomas Jefferson 1787

They’re wagging the dogs. They’re wagging the cats. youtu.be/1DQ1Vle2XZg?...

Journalism rule at AP and USA Today, the two places I worked for most of my career: Sources who criticize, praise or speculate need to be named. AP: www.ap.org/about/news-v... USAT Network: content-static.usatoday.com/styleguide/U...

Dropped my daughter off at the airport for a UNC journalism class trip to DC. My parting words were, “If you get detained, get good pictures and video.” She replied, “I hate you.” She doesn’t. That’s how we talk. Gallows humor is a survival skill.

100 % toll på rakfisk fordi den fascistiske oransje presidenten ikke fikk Nobels fredspris.

All energy efficient illumination in the Whitehouse has been replaced by gaslight.

Based on news reports it would appear that it has already been decided that next year’s Super Bowl final will be the Jets against the Sharks.

If Stephen Miller hates the fascist label doesn’t that make him anti-fascist also?

Only 10 months in.

We are living in Minority Report, with Stephen Miller, Laura Loomer as Precogs, and ICE/Border Patrol as PreCrime police.

If Ayn Rand were alive today she’d be saying, “Shit, why didn’t I think of that.”

If you ever wonder how people like Stephen Miller and Russell Vought sleep at night – don’t. That’s when they do their best work.

This entire shutdown could have been avoided if Democrats didn’t dress so provocatively and lead Republicans on.

Looks like Navy Pipes and Drums and West Point Pipes and Drums will have to redesign uniforms.

Expectation v Reality

Fat generals and beardos, don’t worry. ICE will fast track you to a signing bonus. The disheveled are in the details.

Portland is another distraction. Release the Brownstein files!

If only

I’m thinking of popping some Tylenol and going to Vegas to play blackjack.

I understand Tom Homan’s current secret service code name is 50K

Shouldn’t this include US citizens wrongfully detained by ICE?