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Sports, news and branding nerd. Fan of long form journalism and docs. Love Springsteen and my dog from the Sochi Olympics. Guilty pleasure: crime shows. New Englander with Midwest (IU) and Southern experience.

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it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"

12.03.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 15151 πŸ” 3896 πŸ’¬ 368 πŸ“Œ 129
The β€˜Zelenskyy should wear a suit’ crowd is awfully quiet while Trump wears a campaign hat at Dover for the 6 fallen soldiers. Talk about disrespectful.

The β€˜Zelenskyy should wear a suit’ crowd is awfully quiet while Trump wears a campaign hat at Dover for the 6 fallen soldiers. Talk about disrespectful.

The β€˜Zelenskyy should wear a suit’ crowd is awfully quiet while Trump wears a campaign hat at Dover for the 6 fallen soldiers. Talk about disrespectful.

08.03.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Pentagon just tried to bully an AI company into removing its safety guardrails. So I looked into what those guardrails are actually holding back.

Seven real, documented, sourced AI capabilities that most people have no idea exist yet.

The full piece is for paid subscribers.

TheRipCurrent.com

26.02.2026 21:19 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

EXCLUSIVE: An @npr.org investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

Other documents that mention Trump have been taken down (and some restored).

More:

24.02.2026 10:27 πŸ‘ 1049 πŸ” 440 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 35

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a β€œvictim” in the warrant.

02.03.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 11030 πŸ” 4663 πŸ’¬ 211 πŸ“Œ 267
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Greg Bovino, other federal agents investigated for Operation Metro Surge actions Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is already investigating 17 incidents involving potential unlawful conduct by federal agents.

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

02.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 15261 πŸ” 3526 πŸ’¬ 347 πŸ“Œ 203
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Susie Wiles is wearing an Apple Watch during a highly classified meeting on Iran.

Unreal.

28.02.2026 22:50 πŸ‘ 18859 πŸ” 6108 πŸ’¬ 2141 πŸ“Œ 599

The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now.

Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity

01.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 26273 πŸ” 7098 πŸ’¬ 1277 πŸ“Œ 349
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Dept. of Defense shoots down Customs and Border Protection drone near El Paso: Officials Ranking members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure released a statement on the incident on Thursday.

This is how screwed up everything is. The DOD shot down a CBP drone which cause the FAA to shut down the airspace around El Paso. We have stupid idiots in all levels of all agencies thanks to this Regime.
If we go to war, GOD help us.
abcnews.com/US/dept-defe...

27.02.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 11411 πŸ” 3202 πŸ’¬ 850 πŸ“Œ 294
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. β€œI consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

24.02.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 11750 πŸ” 5037 πŸ’¬ 149 πŸ“Œ 275

Let that sink in. Totally wild.

18.02.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
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This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
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Not one dime for this cruelty.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

15.02.2026 21:20 πŸ‘ 19143 πŸ” 7405 πŸ’¬ 641 πŸ“Œ 396
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NEW: β€œCBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are β€œevaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

12.02.2026 03:22 πŸ‘ 11804 πŸ” 4178 πŸ’¬ 272 πŸ“Œ 254
Pam Bondi loves dogs. Always had them, one after another. She got involved with dog shelters and dog rescue, and once pulled off to the side of a busy road and got out of her car to chase down a stray. Another dog she helped was a Saint Bernard named Master Tank. She adopted him from a shelter after he was lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, not long after her own Saint Bernard had died. The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a β€œwalking skeleton” and β€œdying from heartworms” when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. β€œShe lied,” Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. β€œMy little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.” The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.

Pam Bondi loves dogs. Always had them, one after another. She got involved with dog shelters and dog rescue, and once pulled off to the side of a busy road and got out of her car to chase down a stray. Another dog she helped was a Saint Bernard named Master Tank. She adopted him from a shelter after he was lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, not long after her own Saint Bernard had died. The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a β€œwalking skeleton” and β€œdying from heartworms” when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. β€œShe lied,” Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. β€œMy little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.” The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

11.02.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 8208 πŸ” 2212 πŸ’¬ 180 πŸ“Œ 494

Still not over JD Vance bringing a plane-full of food with him to Italy.

Is there any country on the planet where that makes less sense? Some of the world's famously great cuisines get spicy, or have flavors JD might not be familiar with (Thai, Mexican, Japanese, etc.)

But Italy? For an American?

10.02.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 213 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 9
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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

10.02.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 4923 πŸ” 2988 πŸ’¬ 183 πŸ“Œ 232
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Community members fear ICE agents are now disguising themselves in Minnesota People describing themselves as constitutional observers​ tell WCCO that in the past week, reports of ICE agents disguising themselves have flooded in from the Twin Cities Metro and rural areas of the...

"'They're seeing them undercover as construction workers, they're seeing them undercover as Uber drivers, they're seeing them undercover as like electrical workers or school observers,' Steadman said."

Diabolical.

10.02.2026 03:29 πŸ‘ 131 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3
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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

09.02.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 12861 πŸ” 7479 πŸ’¬ 1284 πŸ“Œ 1241

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

09.02.2026 01:33 πŸ‘ 28917 πŸ” 5006 πŸ’¬ 177 πŸ“Œ 154

He’s still here! 🐾 We’re watching the Games, of course.

08.02.2026 23:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A smaller sized black and white dog, formerly from Russia, is on a dog bed, wearing a light blue fleece sweater, and he has an amazing neck roll that has formed above the collar.

A smaller sized black and white dog, formerly from Russia, is on a dog bed, wearing a light blue fleece sweater, and he has an amazing neck roll that has formed above the collar.

Please enjoy my 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games rescue dog living his best life, fully relaxing - and his neck roll on full display.

08.02.2026 20:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As a totally anecdotal measure of how normies are fed up: I’m on a peloton Super Bowl ride right now where 80 people are riding with #AbolishICE as their leaderboard tag

08.02.2026 15:19 πŸ‘ 3239 πŸ” 381 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 13
WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

04.02.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 19545 πŸ” 8850 πŸ’¬ 694 πŸ“Œ 716
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ICE raids are having a chilling effect on communities nationwide, including small businesses. @johnjharwood.bsky.social and @chafkin.bsky.social join the #11thHour with @stephruhle.bsky.social to discuss the impact of the President's aggressive immigration policy on our economy.

30.01.2026 04:52 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

That's actually his response to Renee Good. Here's what he posted yesterday:

26.01.2026 03:20 πŸ‘ 271 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

25.01.2026 22:39 πŸ‘ 28812 πŸ” 10733 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 979
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Athletes And Celebrities Condemn Alex Pretti Shooting In Minneapolis Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, was shot and killed by ICE agents on Saturday.

Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, was shot and killed by ICE agents on Saturday.

25.01.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 9539 πŸ” 2969 πŸ’¬ 634 πŸ“Œ 156
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Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

21.01.2026 03:35 πŸ‘ 5372 πŸ” 2638 πŸ’¬ 292 πŸ“Œ 441
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How One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE β€˜We have to make sure people are watching. We have to make sure we’re keeping track of our community members.’

β€œI think more than 350 of those cameras have gone out and are already deployed in the community now,” he said...

www.404media.co/how-one-guy-...

18.01.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 13059 πŸ” 4217 πŸ’¬ 303 πŸ“Œ 220
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Minneapolis judge bars DHS agents from arresting peaceful protesters The order comes after local residents who were observing or protesting immigration raids said their constitutional rights were violated by federal agents.

Breaking news: A federal judge barred Department of Homeland Security agents from arresting people peacefully protesting ICE officers in Minneapolis unless they are suspected of criminal activity or obstruction.

17.01.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 364 πŸ” 92 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 20