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  “What’s different about Perez’s case is that U.S. military personnel appeared to be working with ICE to identify a potential target and use a long-standing military-recruitment tool—the promise of legal status for loved ones—to facilitate an arrest. ICE confirmed to us in a statement that Navy personnel had reported Perez to immigration officers when the family arrived at the base.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/10/army-wife-ice-deportation-texas/689012/

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  RE: https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/117460356500912247 “Road trips are usually the biggest sticking point when people consider getting an EV but I can tell you that after three long trips, an EV is perfectly fine for distant travels in the US, even when you don’t extensively plan them ahead of time.”

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  A decade later, this is holding up better than most pundits: https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/19/politics/clinton-puppet-vladimir-putin-trump/

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  I don’t think their PR team thought about how many people first heard the idea from this statement: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9zrdpg7256yo

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  That construction starts graph really underscores how unrecognizable the construction market is compared to even 2024. Josh Marshall has more discussion: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/its-the-ai-economy-were-just-living-in-it/sharetoken/bf8f656a-1bd4-466f-9b71-b275368f4284

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  I’m thinking about scary Halloween costumes. Currently thinking I should go as a systematic polling error.

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  Teapot Dome was such a big scandal that it lead to new ethics laws and is still taught in schools a century later. It was less than 1/6 of just this case alone: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/politics/julio-herrera-pardon-alina-habba.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVE.NgfB.b4_K4c_89eVi&smid=url-share

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  “Court records provided by Acton's campaign confirm that her now deceased stepfather, Cledith Arthur, was charged with raping Acton when she was 12 years old, and he was previously charged with incest before Acton's mother married him. Acton said her mother was also charged in the rape case. The couple crossed state lines, moving to Pennsylvania.” https://www.wosu.org/politics-government/2026-10-20/amy-acton-responds-to-viral-video-where-her-estranged-mother-accuses-her-of-lyin...

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  Straight movie plot: “Dennis West was found dead in his Florida home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the responding officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officer-impersonates-dead-florida-man-moved-into-home-rcna604844

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  New metaphor just dropped: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/22/pete-hegseth-eisenhower-globe-pentagon-office-broken

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  This seems targeted at a fair fraction of Mastodon: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/793553/guitars-science-and-rage-menopunks-is-a-multimedia-empire-devoted-to-midlife-power-health-and-hormones/ #menopause #perimeopause #menopunks

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  It’s not just you: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/10/21/us/inflation-prices-real-estate-child-care-affordabilty.html

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  “Kushner’s apparent betrayal of the public trust, however, went further than his failure to disclose the secret Alpha account in the UAE or the Beta account in Israel. By giving him access to roughly $2 billion, regardless of how the money was used, MBZ and MBS were paying for his influence within the US government.” https://www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-kushner-hacked-phone-secret-negotiations

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  A $65 hoodie nobody even looked at: https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/1xc4ddk/was_browsing_caps_merch_online_and_why_does_this/

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  “A review of voter registration records shows that GOP operatives from states across the country used Presler’s home address to cast ballots in Pennsylvania during the 2024 election. They include a consultant who voted in Florida in both 2020 and April 2025, along with a right-wing social media personality from Oklahoma. Presler has been a leading proponent of the Republican party’s claim that Democrats have illegally registered voters.“ https://www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-operative-scott-presler...

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  👏 “We’re here to tell you that this view is wrong. The Democratic Party is being devoured by an ecosystem of consultants. Mostly out of view of the party’s voters and activists, political consultants are paid to raise the money, place the ads, and set the strategy. And they’re paid regardless of whether the party wins or loses.” https://newrepublic.com/article/216304/consulting-class-eating-democratic-party

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  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org that’s for the best. If they want the benefit of off-duty communications they should pay for it and avoid all of the hassles about policy rather than expecting you to subsidize them. There’s always going to be a conflict because security teams want everything locked down, GPS tracked, remote-wipeable, etc. which increase the risks to you for their benefit.

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  “A bike share and transportation planner for the city of Boston and a cycling advocate was struck and killed by a driver near Roxbury Crossing Thursday morning when she was riding her bike, her family and the Boston Cyclists Union said.” https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/09/metro/pedestrian-struck-killed-in-roxbury-crossing/ #bicycling #CarsRuinCities #CarsRuinLives

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  “The writings, obtained by The Associated Press, include hateful rhetoric toward Jewish people, Muslims and Islam, as well as the LGBTQ+ community, Black people, women, and both the political left and right. Both express beliefs that white people are being eliminated, and one writes about mental health struggles and being rejected by women.” https://apnews.com/article/islamic-center-san-diego-shooting-mosque-hate-d81d87793aa3eea836d45a9d5b1f297b

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  Really glad my grandfather sold his house before the chemical tank became the thing his old neighborhood in Garden Grove is known for…

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  Just a few types of plastic waste account for most ocean pollution: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/food-and-drink-related-litter-dominates-global-plastic-pollution

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  “The immigrants said they wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between assailants posing as ICE agents and real agents, “because now they all come hooded,” one of them said” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-impersonators-immigrants-raids-violence-trump-administration-rcna265653

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  Mental health treatment should be more accessible than guns: https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/who-is-nasire-best-alleged-white-house-shooter-killed-secret-service-DJ2CR6XFCREWHBEAUA2WBHAK4Y/

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  Remember all of those people who used to constantly talk about the risks of “cancel culture”? https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/trump-admin-censors-more-studies-conflicting-with-rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine-views/

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  Who among us hasn’t held all of the cards and hoped to end up where we started? https://xcancel.com/HQNewsNow/status/2051752576127750324

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  The climate and microplastics crises are the same crisis: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02620-1 That’s basically synthetic textiles and car tires going most of the damage, so “cars ruin cities” and “polyester ruins planets”?

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  It’s quite possible for both sides of a war to lose while victory goes to a non-combatant: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/business/war-energy-china-iran.html “Chinese solar panel exports more than doubled in March compared with the previous month, while electric vehicle exports also rose despite tariffs aimed at keeping them out of many markets.”

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  This is impressively scathing from someone who defends some earlier SCOTUS decisions: https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/05/the-supreme-courts-indefensible-evisceration-of-the-voting-rights-act/

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  The contrast in priorities is stunning: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/trump-drives-across-reflecting-pool-to-inspect-blue-coating-he-ordered/4101737/ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/world/asia/trump-xi-china-us-iran-munitions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g1A.Urcw.ctNRBuFG7CEz&smid=url-share

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  “At this point, you’re probably thinking, Uh, isn’t gathering to praise a giant golden statue textbook idolatry? I’m glad you (hypothetically) asked because this was actually one of the very first things Burns addressed in the captions to his Instagram posts on the event. “Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf. We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone,” he wrote.” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/gold-trump-statue-doral-false-idol.html