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  • On the post: AI Bros Wanted Trump. Now They Learn What Happens When You Tell Him No.

    Asking For a Friend ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2026 @ 10:46am

    The “supply chain risk” designation is now being used to punish a domestic company for having safety guidelines.

    Kind of like how the "domestic terrorist" designation is being used to threaten protestors who actually care about the Constitution. The only thing you can count on from this regime is lies and hypocrisy.

  • On the post: Immigrants Will Make America Great Again Faster Than Natural-Born Citizens

    Asking For a Friend ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2026 @ 05:41pm

    Speaking of killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies - just look at who was sitting behind Trump at his inauguration. Every. Accusation. Is. A. Confession.

  • On the post: Texas Spent Years Screaming About ‘Snowflakes’ On Campus. Now It’s Building The World’s Biggest Safe Space.

    Asking For a Friend ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2026 @ 11:53am

    Hypocrisy is a very effective tool of fascist control. I miss the good old days when I didn't have to think about that on an hourly basis.

  • On the post: Ring’s Super Bowl Ad Generates So Much Backlash It Has Ended Its Partnership With Flock Safety

    Asking For a Friend ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2026 @ 12:54pm

    The people who actually believed it was about finding dogs are the same people who are still sending their DNA to the ancestry websites.

  • On the post: An 18-Million-Subscriber YouTuber Just Explained Section 230 Better Than Every Politician In Washington

    Asking For a Friend ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2026 @ 04:44pm

    "Think of the children" the talking heads regurgitate, even as the Trumpstein files have been punted across 2 decades of "leadership". Sure.

  • On the post: The System Of Checks And Balances Doesn’t Work When One Branch Refuses To Play By The Rules

    Asking For a Friend ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2026 @ 03:53pm

    This article was hard enough to read. Then I read the actual sworn statement. I wanted to cry. I wanted to throw up. I wanted to scream. I wanted to do something to purge the anger and horror I felt on behalf of this individual from my consciousness. It is mentioned in the article that this person has both an asylum case and a Juvenile Status proceeding pending. So we are talking about someone who is probably in high school (there are a couple of mentions of a teacher or teachers trying to communicate or send things to this individual. It was ultimately a teacher who picked them up when they were released.) There is no mention of a crime having been committed. We are treating these people worse than criminals for simply not being born here. It is not hyperbole to call these detention centers concentration camps. Great post for those who have the stomach for it.

  • On the post: 5th Circuit Says Due Process Rights For Immigrants No Longer Exist In Its Jurisdiction

    Asking For a Friend ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2026 @ 02:39pm

    Also, don't forget that Kristi Noem sat in front of a Congressional committee in May 2025 and said "Habeas Corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country". Words are failing me more and more every day.

  • On the post: 5th Circuit Says Due Process Rights For Immigrants No Longer Exist In Its Jurisdiction

    Asking For a Friend ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2026 @ 01:34pm

    THIS!!!! Due Process must apply to every individual, regardless of citizenship, because citizenship is impossible to prove without Due Process. The propaganda that is being spewed by the Fox Entertainment Channel's Assholes and Lunatics (Want to consume F.E.C.A.L. matter? Watch Fox!) is making this very basic fucking tenet of freedom something that has to be constantly explained and defended when it should be the basic presumption that everything else is built on.

  • On the post: DHS Is Hunting Down Trump Critics. The ‘Free Speech’ Warriors Are Mighty Quiet.

    Asking For a Friend ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2026 @ 02:01pm

    I read the WaPo article about the 67 year old man who got a visit from federal agents. It was unnerving, to put it mildly. To put it less mildly, it was terrifying. The bio of the author of that article begins with: "John Woodrow Cox is an enterprise reporter at The Washington Post and the author of Children Under Fire: An American Crisis. In 2018, his series about the impact of gun violence on children in America was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. He was also part of the team of Post journalists awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol." I wonder if he made the cut when the WaPo layoffs were announced 1 day later.

  • On the post: Josh Hawley Trots Out Trans Panic Attacks On Netflix To Help Larry Ellison Buy CNN, HBO

    Asking For a Friend ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2026 @ 11:46am

    Teenagers aren't minors?

    Can we just talk about this: “Almost half of your content for children—I’m talking about minor children now, I’m not talking about teenagers, minor children..." Since when are teenagers not minor children??

  • On the post: The Full Orwell: DOJ Weaponization Working Group Finally Gets Off The Ground

    Asking For a Friend ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2026 @ 11:14am

    Just another exhausting example of "every accusation is a confession".

  • On the post: DOJ Prosecutors Directly Contradict The DHS’s Oregon Shooting Narrative

    Asking For a Friend ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2026 @ 12:00pm

    It pained me to visit the official DHS website, but I'm compelled to click on your links to check out the sources you're citing. I noticed that, in the same press release, they also said “Only one day after an ICE officer was almost ran over in Minneapolis, two vicious Tren de Aragua gang members..." blah, blah, blah, blah, BLAH. The ICE agent almost being "ran over" is in reference to the murder of Renee Good. A better description may be "Only one day after an experienced DHS agent positioned himself in front of a woman's car (despite specific training to the contrary), so he would have an excuse to shoot her through her driver's side window as she fled in fear from the masked domestic terrorists who were screaming conflicting orders at her as they tried to enter her vehicle, there was another incident of a vehicle trying to flee from the aformentioned domestic terrorists...". I'll just cut it off there, as its easy to see how this works. The fact that this propaganda is being pushed by the US Govt is sickening. Sickening. Thank you for continuing to put the truth out there for anyone who is willing to listen.

  • On the post: ICE Director Says Officers Are Now Allowed To Make Arrests Without Warrants

    Asking For a Friend ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2026 @ 03:16pm

    "Perhaps we’ll even see some women jailed for attempting to vote during the upcoming midterms."

    A chilling statement. The only word I take issue with is "perhaps". The fall of Roe v Wade was about a lot of things, the least of which was saving babies.

  • On the post: ICE, CBP Brag About Stealing A Legally-Impossible $14,000 From US Citizens At The Minneapolis Airport

    Asking For a Friend ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2026 @ 04:53pm

    If they would have "just complied" and declared the cash, I have a feeling the result would have been the same.