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Democrats should demand a clawback of ICE's remaining OBBB money before agreeing to supplemental Pentagon funding.

11.03.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 2125 πŸ” 503 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 39

Oh no! I had hopes when I heard it was Maggie Gyllenhaal. But I started to have my doubts when I heard it included Jake Gyllenhaal.

11.03.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center

Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center

A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big

A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big

hmm

11.03.2026 09:02 πŸ‘ 11725 πŸ” 1515 πŸ’¬ 801 πŸ“Œ 668

Number of women prosecuted for miscarriages: 400+

Number of Epstein file sex predators prosecuted: 0

11.03.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 274 πŸ” 135 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 7

Who are you really trying to convince here?

11.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says β€œthey’re having problems with their economy again.”

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says β€œthey’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

11.03.2026 07:02 πŸ‘ 6703 πŸ” 2408 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 60

BREAKING: Alabama Governor Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Sonny Burton.

The state was set to execute Sonny for a crime he didn't commit, but tens of thousands of people nationwide demanded justice β€” and our voices were heard.

10.03.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 1556 πŸ” 280 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 21

I am stranger and you do not know me.

What the fuck is your problem?

11.03.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gotcha. So when I posted that this is what finally pushed me to leave organized religion 35 years ago, to write the Bishop of the Diocese that I was leaving the church, you decided now would be a good time to clown around about my lived experience?

What the fuck is your problem?

11.03.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Does AI always answer for you?

11.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This Iranian man broke me. These are ordinary people whose lives are being destroyed and who are being killed by U.S. and Israeli airstrikes.

10.03.2026 21:42 πŸ‘ 127 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5

This is awesome news! I signed this petition! Thank you for posting!

10.03.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Who is this hick?

10.03.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I heard that guy has shingles on his penis.

True story.

10.03.2026 17:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
rfk standing very normally in a steak and shake

rfk standing very normally in a steak and shake

leland palmer in the black lodge

10.03.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 4713 πŸ” 824 πŸ’¬ 150 πŸ“Œ 145
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This you?

10.03.2026 15:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Crazy to think Olivia might be 30 by then.

10.03.2026 15:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

$5 says it’s all Sam Choice.

10.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This interview is representative of the entire trump administration. β€˜We don’t know what it means but it sounds bad so we are going to burn it all down.’

10.03.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)

This is an atrocity.

09.03.2026 21:21 πŸ‘ 3321 πŸ” 1020 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 42

When I filed a public records lawsuit against the Northwestern District Attorney's Office, the Springfield Republican called me a blogger in a headline.

Always cool to get dissed for doing work that institutions with way more resources are neglecting.

09.03.2026 17:44 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's one of my more recent paintings: 'She Was Always Asleep At School', oil on canvas panel, 40x50cm framed. A painting inspired by a girl in primary school who was always asleep due to unknown home troubles. Elements homage Dorothea Tanning.
#art #painting #oilpainting #sleep #school #tanning

09.03.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 2342 πŸ” 218 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 5
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ReedPOP Responds to Threatened Boycotts Over Relationship to ICE ReedPOP of NYCC, C2E2, ECCC, MCM, Star Wars Celebration, BookCon, and MagicCon has responded to boycott threats over its relationship with ICE

Just FYI, you won't see me at the big ReedPop conventions (ECCC, SDCC, C2E2, NYCC, etc) because their parent company is infamous for feeding people's data to ICE.

Honestly it wasn't a hard call, half these shows put all the artists in haunted basements now anyway bleedingcool.com/pop-culture/...

09.03.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 150 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6
My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me.

In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.Β 

On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.Β 

Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.Β  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.Β  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.Β 

"It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do.

Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTokβ€”the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go.

It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.Β  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTokβ€”the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

09.03.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 4793 πŸ” 994 πŸ’¬ 112 πŸ“Œ 92

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09.03.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AABB-EL-BookBanBill-Printable.pdf

Want to help raise awareness in your community about the national book ban being considered in the House of Representatives? Print out this one sheet and hang it up in your community:

09.03.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Dow
For @rawstory.com
Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

09.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 126 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6
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Gov. Ivey: Please Grant Clemency to Charles "Sonny" Burton Who Faces Execution Despite Not Having Killed Anyone The State of Alabama wants to execute Charles "Sonny" Burton for capital murder. But Sonny never killed anyone. The identity of the shooter, Derrick DeBruce, was never in dispute. However, Alabama ...

Time is running out to save the life of Sonny Burton, an Alabama man who didn’t kill anyone.

Tell Governor Ivey to commute his sentence before his scheduled execution date on March 12.

09.03.2026 13:17 πŸ‘ 260 πŸ” 135 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step β€œdesigned for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

09.03.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 12613 πŸ” 7643 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 3

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

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