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After practicing law for 20+ years, I now write about elections, propaganda, and political extremism. You can find my most recent work at the Bucks County Beacon.
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Published: April 21, 2025 04:10
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale RTd this thread, which says Trump shld act fast & “Fire people who can't be fired. Force them to litigate. Mass deport people who can't be deported. Force them to litigate. Cancel 100s of billions in funding that are not…
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Published: April 20, 2025 21:57
“Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat *** The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.” (The…
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Published: April 20, 2025 20:57
“Famed AI researcher [Tamay Besiroglu] launches controversial startup [Mechanize] to replace all human workers everywhere” Besiroglu “did, however, clarify to TechCrunch that ‘our immediate focus is indeed on white-collar work’ rather than manual labor…
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Published: April 20, 2025 01:11
SCOTUS has “ordered the Trump administration to temporarily halt the deportation of Venezuelan men in immigration custody *** Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito … dissented.” 4/19/25…
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Published: April 19, 2025 23:40
At least it’s Spring 💜💚
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Published: April 19, 2025 23:03
Elon Musk (via Space X), Peter Thiel (via Palantir), & Palmer Luckey (via Anduril) are now “frontrunners to win a crucial part of…Trump's ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said.”
Um, remember how Musk TURNED OFF…
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Published: April 19, 2025 20:26
You may recall Claremont Institute chairman Tom Klingenstein from this disturbing video created by American Firebrand. 1/…
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Published: April 19, 2025 20:10
You may recall Claremont Institute chairman Tom Klingenstein from this video. He’s now behind a “‘Grand’ plan for [NYC’s] Penn Station” that “could give glimpse of NYC transit hub’s future after fed takeover” 1/…
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Published: April 19, 2025 18:30
Amid concerns that the Trump administration seeks to privatize Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, Omeed Malik—who reportedly belongs to the secretive Rockbridge Network (which is reportedly backed by Peter Thiel)—has been appointed to the Board of Fannie Mae. 1/
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Published: April 19, 2025 17:45
“Musk has begun new efforts, including building a ‘gold card’ visa program 4 rich foreigners. This week, DOGE gutted AmeriCorps, the service program that employs a legion of young Americans. And yesterday, the CFPB fired a large # of its… employees —altho…
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Published: April 19, 2025 01:19
I deleted the post on the left bc it appears that the letters & #s in the photo shared by Trump may not have been intended to emulate tattoos but rather to claim that the tattoos symbolize those letters & #s, as claimed by “Captive Dreamer”. (But I don’t…
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Published: April 18, 2025 22:01
Erik Prince, Donald Trump, and the Congo. Both articles dated 4/17/25 1/
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Published: April 18, 2025 19:45
Firebrand Action—reportedly “overseen” by the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network—shares social media accounts w/ Firebrand PAC, which has funded New Founding (NF), as has Thiel ally Marc Andreessen. NF partners Josh Clemans & Santiago Pliego are seemingly…
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Published: April 18, 2025 18:36
“Texas [GOP] Wants to Test the Water for Birth Control Pills” by @jessicavalenti.bsky.social , 4/14/25 (h/t @mnasca.bsky.social) 1/
https://open.substack.com/pub/jessica/p/texas-wants-to-test-the-water-for?r=97k7w&utm_medium=ios
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Published: April 18, 2025 18:31
“‘Using the devil’s own tools against them': Abortion opponents turn to environmental laws *** Several states are trying to curtail abortion medication by claiming mifepristone cld contaminate drinking water.” (Texas Republicans are expanding the strategy…
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Published: April 18, 2025 18:05
“Missouri’s Republican-led House advanced a proposed constitutional amendment Tuesday asking voters to repeal an abortion-rights measure they narrowly approved last year and instead ban most abortions with exceptions for rape and incest.” 4/15/25…
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Published: April 18, 2025 03:38
“Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’ *** Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status” 4/17/25…
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Published: April 18, 2025 03:29
“The new proposal from the US Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service offers a new interpretation of the of the 1973 Endangered Species Act, which would strike habitat destruction from regulations.”
4/17/25…
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Published: April 17, 2025 16:43
“Self-driving Tesla hits car, sign while driver sleeps behind wheel” 4/14/25 https://www.yourerie.com/news/pennsylvania-news/self-driving-tesla-hits-car-sign-while-driver-sleeps-behind-wheel/
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Published: April 17, 2025 16:21
“And then there is the other side that is on the side of the cartel members, on the side of the illegal aliens, on the side of the terrorists. And u have to ask yourself, are they technically aiding & abetting them? Because aiding & abetting criminals &…
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Published: April 17, 2025 15:45
In 2023, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts boasted that Heritage wld spend “7 if not 8 figures” to get “school choice” passed in Texas in 2024 (He also said Heritage was “active” in 27 states). Yesterday, the TX House approved a plan to use…
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Published: April 17, 2025 02:05
“The Trump administration is using personal data normally protected from dissemination to find undocumented immigrants where they work, study and live, often with the goal of removing them from their housing and the workforce.” 4/15/25…
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Published: April 17, 2025 02:03
“Mark Zuckerberg finally revealed as mystery cash buyer of a $23 million D.C. mansion *** Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel … also own homes in Washington, DC” 4/4/25…
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Published: April 17, 2025 00:10
Legally, I’m not sure this changes anything. (Let’s see what the immigration experts say.) But it almost certainly will change things in the court of public opinion. Meanwhile, the other men deported to prison in El Salvador were also entitled to due…
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Published: April 17, 2025 00:04
Ugh. About 4 years ago, Abrego Garcia's wife obtained a temporary restraining order against him. The DHS has “posted documents from 2021 indicating that she filed 4 a protective order claiming her husband punched & scratched her, ripped her shirt & left…
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Published: April 16, 2025 22:41
“‘Political poison’: Enten explains why independent voters are turning on Trump” 4/16/25 https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/politics/video/donald-trump-independent-voters-poll-digvid
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Published: April 16, 2025 22:38
“The findings also suggest a 16-point uptick in MAGA identification among college-educated men, from 21 percent in 2024 to 37 percent in March.” 4/16/25…
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Published: April 16, 2025 22:35
“This month, Indiana University’s Bloomington faculty council followed in the footsteps of Rutgers University in passing a resolution to establish a pact with all 18 universities under the Big 10 academic alliance to defend academic freedoms.” 4/16/25…
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Published: April 16, 2025 15:39
“[W]e’re also seeing…the favoring not of Christians per se, but of a CERTAiN KIND of Christianity. Trump & his people are aiming not to just work w/ the movement, but to shape the movement itself, to make it more faux-populist, demagogic & frankly…
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Published: April 15, 2025 23:06
“Tech Bro” Balaji Srinivasan, a leader in the “network state” movement, RTd this 4/13/25 post in which “Based Beff Jezos” declares that “Elon shld turn Starbase or somewhere else into an American Shenzhen. If he can co-run the country he’s qualified to…
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Published: April 15, 2025 21:47
“How the Trump administration is using tattoos to lock up immigrants in El Salvador *** Venezuelan men in streetwear with Michael Jordan and autism awareness tattoos could add up enough ‘points’ for their removal from the United States, Alex Woodward…
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Published: April 15, 2025 19:38
“Authorities haven’t even gone through the effort of sentencing those detained. Save for a handful of cases (most of them involving children), people detained during the war on gangs in El Salvador are awaiting trial, often on vaguely defined crimes…”…
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Published: April 15, 2025 19:34
“The mass abuse-ridden arrests”
have “overwhelmed El Salvador’s … judicial system, which lacks the capacity to adequately process the sheer volume of detainees while safeguarding their due process rights and ensuring that victims have access to a fair and…
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Published: April 15, 2025 19:31
“‘Your Child Does Not Exist Here’ Human Rights Abuses Against Children Under El Salvador’s ‘State of Emergency’” 7/16/24 https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/07/16/your-child-does-not-exist-here/human-rights-abuses-against-children-under-el
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Published: April 15, 2025 19:21
“Human Rights Watch declaration on prison conditions in El Salvador *** People held in CECOT…are denied communication with their relatives and lawyers, and only appear before courts in online hearings, often in groups of several hundred detainees at the…
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Published: April 15, 2025 18:38
GIFT LINK in post 2.
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Published: April 15, 2025 18:25
“The Trump administration claims that all of the 238 Venezuelan men now imprisoned in El Salvador are members of Tren de Aragua, a transnational gang…” But a Times investigation “found little evidence of any criminal background — or any association with…
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Published: April 15, 2025 16:20
“ICE Agents Realize They Arrested Wrong Teen, Say 'Take Him Anyway'” The “young man, Merwil Gutiérrez, was later deported to El Salvador's notorious super prison...” 4/15/25 https://www.newsweek.com/merwil-gutierrez-ice-wrong-teen-el-salvador-2059783
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Published: April 15, 2025 16:02
This Guardian article includes (without credit) an apparent regurgitation of my detailed thread from months ago about Praxis (a Thiel-backed self-professed “network state”), Greenland, & Denmark ambassador Ken Howery (a partner of Peter Thiel). At least…
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Published: April 15, 2025 15:47
“‘Never Seen Anything Like This.’ The Plan to Halt Hundreds of Regulations” (gift link) 4/15/25 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/politics/trump-doge-regulations.html?rsrc=ss
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Published: April 15, 2025 15:11
“A Massachusetts immigration lawyer who is a US-born American citizen…received an email from Trump administration immigration authorities telling her she needed to leave the country.” “Probably, hopefully, [it was] sent to me in error,” she said. 4/15/25…
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Published: April 15, 2025 15:07
“Trump threatens Harvard's tax-exempt status after university refuses to cave to administration's demands”
4/15/25 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/apr/15/donald-trump-harvard-funding-tariffs-immigration-dei-us-politics-live-updates
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Published: April 15, 2025 05:54
Erik Prince visited Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in August 2024 & gushed that he was “very impressed” with Bukele’s prison system. Bukele posted this clip from their meeting. 1/
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Published: April 15, 2025 05:40
“Over 60K people were detained under the state of emergency” implemented by Nayib Bukele. “Many arrests appear to have been based on the appearance or social background of the detainees,” & “human rights groups have documented that hundreds of people w/…
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Published: April 15, 2025 05:22
In 2022, President Bukele “announced a state of emergency…” Per the State Dept, “‘Security forces were empowered to arrest anyone suspected of belonging to a gang or providing support to gangs,’” & “the state of exception suspended the rights to be…
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Published: April 14, 2025 23:41
A small moment of zen.
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Published: April 14, 2025 23:05
I wonder what is meant by “freedom technologies”… Marc Andreessen is a tech billionaire, DOGE advisor, and close ally of Peter Thiel. 1/
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Published: April 14, 2025 21:34
“Outspoken Fascism Scholars [Jason Stanley, Marci Shore, & Timothy Snyder] Leave Yale for Canada” 3/26/25 (I had read before only about Stanley.) …
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Published: April 14, 2025 21:31
“Canadian Lawmaker Goes on Anti-Trump Rant, Says Nationals Are Now At Risk Of Being 'Deported to Some El Salvadoran Concentration Camp'” 3/21/25…
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Published: April 14, 2025 21:16
“EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears”
4/14/25 1/ https://www.ft.com/content/20d0678a-41b2-468d-ac10-14ce1eae357b
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Published: April 14, 2025 21:06
“Canadian car travel to the US plunges 32% in March…” 4/14/25 https://youtu.be/beq9n9mJFiQ?si=TJcVYQRgT--o1W2y
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Published: April 14, 2025 21:04
“US sees biggest drop in Australian visitors since Covid as travellers avoid Trump’s America” 4/14/25 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/15/us-sees-biggest-drop-in-australian-visitors-since-covid-as-travellers-avoid-trumps-america
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Published: April 14, 2025 19:09
Erik Prince “began discussions with El Salvador last year before Trump was elected and first floated the idea of using their prisons for migrants, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.” 4/11/25 1/…
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Published: April 14, 2025 18:14
These two posts:
* “We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations,” said Joe Kent, Trump’s pick to lead counter-terrorism efforts.
* Trump to Bukele (president of El Salvador): “Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about…
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Published: April 14, 2025 17:57
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Published: April 14, 2025 15:37
“Now That Trump Is President, He Can Remind America That Christ Is King”. By Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts & William Wolfe (co-editor of the “Statement on Christian Nationalism” manifesto & former fellow of Russ Vought’s organization).…