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Fmr. TV Correspondent, TX based, Scripps & AP alum. ArdMhachaAbu. Deanta in Eireann. Verstehe Deutsch. Español tambien. Si me matan, resucitare en mi pueblo. encrypted email: jmone@protonmail.com

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setting aside the morality of acknowledging the people we're massacring, ignoring them helps to dilute the message that this war is wrong

11.03.2026 02:25 👍 51 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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She Spent Nearly 23 Years in Prison for a Crime She Didn’t Commit. Now She May Be Deported. On Monday, Carmen Mejia was officially exonerated in the 2003 scalding death of an infant.

A Texas woman spent 22 years of her life behind bars for a terrible crime she didn’t commit, finally was released & exonerated, but b/c the wrongful conviction destroyed her legal status, she’s now set to be deported. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic... @texasmonthly.bsky.social

10.03.2026 20:44 👍 117 🔁 73 💬 3 📌 9

If/when a deMAGAfication of US ever occurs it must begin with the Roberts Court without which none of this would be possible

11.03.2026 02:25 👍 992 🔁 234 💬 23 📌 5
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Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

10.03.2026 19:28 👍 1502 🔁 695 💬 49 📌 166

"But unlike [Renee Good and Alex Pretti], Martinez was not protesting - he was driving by the scene of a road accident where ICE officers were helping to direct traffic."

10.03.2026 19:30 👍 297 🔁 199 💬 11 📌 5
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Video: We caught Elon Musk's AI company flouting EPA rules using a thermal drone xAI’s Grok chatbot is powered by unpermitted gas turbines at a Mississippi power plant. Here's how we know.

xAI’s Grok chatbot is powered by unpermitted gas turbines at a Mississippi power plant. Here's how we know.

09.03.2026 21:02 👍 227 🔁 90 💬 3 📌 17
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Depleted oil reserve leaves US exposed as Iran war pushes up prices Donald Trump has not fulfilled a vow to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that was drained by Joe Biden

TIL Trump didn't bother to refill the strategic petroleum reserve last year when oil was dirt cheap. what can you even say www.ft.com/content/d546...

10.03.2026 13:42 👍 1933 🔁 649 💬 87 📌 71
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a group of people . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a group of people .

Boiler Room

10.03.2026 18:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A Cambridge educated Louisianan taking bad faith to new heights or in this case depths.

10.03.2026 18:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s how they market Bluey in Russia

10.03.2026 17:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Agree with Aaron. When I was a journalist, David was a valuable research and policy expert on the failures of the current immigration system And the banality of evil, it produced across administrations.

10.03.2026 17:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”

09.03.2026 16:33 👍 16554 🔁 6895 💬 967 📌 502

Masuma Khan has lived in Altadena for nearly 30 years.

Last year, despite having no criminal history, she was detained by ICE and denied the medication she needed to breathe. Her family contacted my office, and we successfully advocated for her release.

09.03.2026 20:03 👍 7811 🔁 1775 💬 145 📌 39
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The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm

09.03.2026 15:43 👍 5996 🔁 1530 💬 49 📌 79

Tapping the goddamn sign

08.03.2026 21:14 👍 232 🔁 17 💬 6 📌 0
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Renee Good was shot in the head, autopsy commissioned by her family finds Renee Good was shot three times and grazed a fourth time during the Jan. 7 encounter with an ICE officer, according to findings released by her family's attorneys.

1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....

08.03.2026 12:48 👍 1552 🔁 611 💬 16 📌 13
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

07.03.2026 21:00 👍 9288 🔁 6066 💬 606 📌 1537
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OpenAI's fund raising boom slows amid mounting debt Experts have begun to question the AI startup's path forward amid surging financial needs and no profit plan.

Experts have begun to question the AI startup’s path forward amid surging financial needs and no profit plan.

07.03.2026 13:00 👍 734 🔁 167 💬 98 📌 293

it’s only an echo chamber when it’s the left. when it’s the right they call it some bullshit like the Agora or the Town Square

05.03.2026 16:27 👍 2911 🔁 383 💬 48 📌 10
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Kristi Noem Misled Congress About Top Aide’s Role in DHS Contracts Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Noem denied that Corey Lewandowski had any role in approving contracts. But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency staffer...

NEW: When asked if top aide Corey Lewandowski has “a role in approving contracts,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem replied, “No.”

But internal DHS records contradict her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

By @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social

04.03.2026 15:17 👍 4372 🔁 1712 💬 378 📌 137
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Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."

05.03.2026 02:26 👍 20667 🔁 5874 💬 660 📌 280
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He demanded that she send him nude pictures and bullied her into a relationship. This is called sexual harassment. It was not “an affair”. RESIGN NOW.

05.03.2026 00:49 👍 2674 🔁 668 💬 72 📌 14
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In ominous sign, Texas Republicans changed voting rules, then blocked efforts to protect voters “We can’t let a small group of conspiracy theorists set the rules for Texas voters anymore."

Yesterday the whole country got a good look at what TX elections are like, when TX Republicans changed voting rules then blocked efforts to protect voters:

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

04.03.2026 22:00 👍 205 🔁 76 💬 7 📌 4

James Cameron did a movie about this and humans didn't fare well

04.03.2026 15:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

AP my former employer, using the same media middle management mindset that gave people like Tim Pool jobs because they rode around on skateboards with extra iPhone batteries.

04.03.2026 13:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The adorable laughmeister would like you to know he just wants to you love him.

04.03.2026 13:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Democratic voters in Texas scramble to find polling place amid precinct voting switch Early voting had been countywide and saw record Democratic turnout, but the switch to precinct-only locations left many voters showing up at the wrong spot and being turned away.

🚨BREAKING: Hundreds of Democratic voters in Dallas and Williamson Counties, Texas scrambled to find their polling places Tuesday after the local Republican parties refused to hold a joint primary — ending more than a decade of convenient countywide voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

03.03.2026 23:56 👍 2609 🔁 1360 💬 179 📌 98
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Exclusive | Inspector General Says Kristi Noem’s DHS Has ‘Systematically Obstructed’ Its Work Letter outlines 11 instances of the Department of Homeland Security allegedly blocking information, including in a criminal inquiry.

Exclusive: The inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security said the agency’s leaders had “systematically obstructed” its work, including in a federal criminal investigation. on.wsj.com/4aQauNi

03.03.2026 23:44 👍 652 🔁 301 💬 13 📌 12
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Noem refuses to retract statements calling Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists Durbin asked Noem if she would like to retract her previous statements falsely calling Good and Pretti, who were both fatally shot by immigration agents in Minn

Noem refuses to retract statements calling Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists

03.03.2026 15:08 👍 201 🔁 78 💬 24 📌 13