Remember how the Mueller report - one of the most high-profile presidential investigations in history - seemed to conclude that Trump had obstructed justice, and rather than continuing the matter in Congress, Pelosi simply washed her hands of it and all but pretended it had never happened?

Did US Special Forces just inadvertently confirm there was a CIA operation in Venezuela?

The dumbest shit I see on here and Twitter and basically everywhere is the idea that Arab American Christians don't care about Gaza or Lebanon. Do the people who say that know literally anything about Gaza or Lebanon, or anything about Arabs?

anyone taught by wurman should ask the university of minnesota law school for a refund

advice for easily finding content that violates the amazing copyright laws that I would never break: search on google and it will say “hidden result from complaint” click on the complaint and you have a list of sources of depraved, anti corporation filth websites

Though far from the most important detail, Trump didn't spill the details of an alleged strike on some random podcast, as others have said—he was talking to billionaire John Catsimatidis, owner of the radio station, who's extremely well-connected in NY politics. Trump personally called him to chat.

John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way. Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.”

AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt — Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt"

The US is at war with Venezuela. No Congressional authorization, no public debate, no clearly stated goal, no casus belli, and a gradual ramp up rather than big opening, so many haven’t noticed (or deny it). But this attack removes the ambiguity. US is at war with Venezuela. With no end in sight.

A lot of people are trying to justify their own desire to surrender to Trump early in the year

caldwell is the white citizens council to stephen miller’s kkk

reminder that caldwell’s most recent book argues that the civil rights act of 1964 was something akin to a constitutional abomination that produced a world of white subordination

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

MTG is not your bigoted aunt or co-worker. She's an EXTREMELY wealthy fascist demagogue. You don't have to listen to random elite pundits and politicians lecturing you about "big tent" politics with respect to her.

they will yell at those who correctly point out that her views are abhorrent by screaming "UNITED FRONT" and "YOU NEED A BIG TENT TO FIGHT FASCISM." Comrades, these people are not fighting anything especially fascism.

You're not the audience for the MTG glow up happening because you (as an individual) would never be in an actual position to make common cause with her or to reject her in some nebulous "coalitional" political way. This is the elite speaking to other elites to shape elite opinion.

2029 agenda item. Prosecute GEO Group execs

Private prison company GEO Group allegedly made immigration detainees work for no pay. Now it's at the Supreme Court trying to prevent the detainees from suing. bit.ly/4pfafj2

This is slavery.

Just had to share this punchy comment. 🙃

If you wanted to have greater accountability for tech bros in general enforcing EPA laws against Tesla when they broke them and holding Musk personally accountable as CEO for breaking SEC rules when he started acquiring shares of Twitter would have done a lot more to rein them in.

Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.

The shift from "sir this is a Wendy's" to "just put the fries in the bag" indicates a cultural rightward shift; whereas the former is making fun of someone by implying they're a customer doing too much, the latter is making fun of someone by implying they're a *worker* & should know their place

Here’s an image from the mall cameras of that spot a few mins later, after key portion ICE and LAPD allegedly deleted. Other photos show how perfectly that camera was positioned. If the full video were out months ago, it probably would have exonerated Richard immediately. This smacks of a coverup.

Still unreported, should be investigated: ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”

Huge win for Richard Noticias LA, TikTok journalist shot by ICE. Criminal charges dismissed with prejudice, meaning can’t be refiled. ICE did him DIRTY. Repeatedly. Inhumane treatment, basically medical torture. Still in ICE custody on immigration case. They owe him unconditional release.

"nearly half" is a really funny way to describe losing an election lol

its kinda weird that the “a.i is basically sentient” people and the “we want to make a.i women who can’t consent to sex” people are the same people.

Sauron was not only evil, he got distracted and his defenses failed

Again,

Asheville business owners (larger, not smaller) have been Not Great for quite a while. They've had a "covenant" for decades limiting hourly pay city-wide to something that's basically poverty wages. This... doesn't surprise me.

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

Since some people have questioned whether this really happened—or whether such a policy actually exists—here's an auto-generated transcript (with errors) from the voicemail canceling our reservation, and a sign posted next to the front desk when we arrived.

And to those scoffing at the idea that homeless people stay in hotels: when shelters are full, local agencies regularly place clients in hotel rooms. Many unhoused individuals also have jobs and cycle between hotels, cars, friends' apartments, and the street.

What was most chilling about this exchange was the sheer casualness of "because of our homeless population," as if those experiencing homelessness were *obviously* people to be kept out.

So if you're a family evicted from your apartment, or a mother fleeing domestic violence with her children, or someone unhoused trying to get off the street or out of their car for a night... you're not allowed to stay at these Asheville hotels. Just unabashed discrimination.

Yet another failed redacted allegation: "Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct." #doj #epstein files 👀⚖️‼️

Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.

very convenient that the rich ruling class techbros solution to income and wealth inequality will be solved by letting them accumulate even more wealth

Some libertarian nerds from the ACLU are going to barely contain their own heavy breathing when they argue that nonconsenual AI porn bots are a core tenet of free speech, and you need to laugh them out of the room.

It has to be that no one will make these or create the technology that will allow consumers to create these because they are very certain that doing so will get them ruinously sued.

These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.

"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

it is extremely funny that RFK both does not believe in the germ theory of disease and is a lab leak truther

I think it’s sick how the President announced that we conducted Christmas Eve air strikes on another country on a random radio show and nobody has any idea of it happened or not. Nobody can predict our next move if we don’t even know if we made a move.

Vicky doesn't allow for quote posting but I think people forget during BLM protests a teenager killed protesters and was not only not convicted but raised a hundreds of thousands of dollars for doing it.

During the Charlottesville protests a person ran over and killed a protester, Heather Heyer, and GOP legislators responded by trying to pass regulations to make it legal for people to do this.