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-Scientist -Marine Corps veteran -Engaged citizen -MS patient Not interested in your onlyfans page or crypto opportunities

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 26/09/2026
Opinion | Jail deaths have surged under California's elected sheriffs. This reform offers accountability Counties pay millions after jail deaths, but sheriffs run the jails. A bill awaiting Newsom’s signature could alter that balance of power.
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Opinion | Jail deaths have surged under California's elected sheriffs. This reform offers accountability
Counties pay millions after jail deaths, but sheriffs run the jails. A bill awaiting Newsom’s signature could alter that balance of power.
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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Book Review: ‘Natural Intelligence & the Logic of Consciousness,’ by Antonio Damasio
In his new book, the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio argues that without feelings, true intelligence cannot exist.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They all knew ahead of time who he is...
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#HRV #health
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The Big Holes in Wearable Heart Rate Variability And Readiness Scores
A Gaping Lack of Evidence for Health Benefits
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My cat has been sick, which has made me feel so terrible and anxious, I can hardly function. She's 19.5 years old and has been with me forever. I fear we're nearing the end and I love her so much. If you have a pet, please give them a kiss for me. Take them out for a walk tomorrow; give them a treat
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US judge blocks DHS from threatening prosecution against man who criticized ICE
David Streever was issued a ‘warning notice’ after sending an email critical of ICE to the agency’s director in January
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm sympathetic to the argument in this piece that we should seek to find good uses for AI in education and child-raising, and not just recoil in horror. BUT... 🧵 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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I’m a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: this is what parents need to know about AI
A Dr Seuss-style story written in seconds alerted me to the power – and perils – of the technology. But how can children embrace it without forgetting core skills?
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for safety and security, echoing the language of the post-9/11...
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@neuroskeptic.bsky.social @drdannypenman.bsky.social
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Every Breath You Take Has a Unique Impact on the Brain
A new study led by researchers at the University of California San Diego shows that the brain does not simply respond to breathing as a steady rhythm. Instead, the detailed shape of each individual br...
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A new investigation into the Border Patrol shooting of Marimar Martinez is underway in Chicago. But any felony charging decision would still fall to Cook County’s top prosecutor. And potential roadblocks remain. From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Elite Chicago police unit now investigating Border Patrol shooting of Marimar Martinez, source says
The unit, staffed with experienced detectives, is tasked with probing police shootings in Chicago. Nearly a year after Operation Midway Blitz began, no federal agent has been charged with an on-duty c...
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Happening now in Chicago: Local officials and attorneys, alongside Border Patrol shooting victim Marimar Martinez, are holding a presser outside CPD's District 19 police station to announce the filing of police reports over alleged crimes by federal immigration agents.
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The report documents 59 cases of violent and/or sexual criminal acts by DHS employees, primarily carried out against women and children. #ICE #DHS ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2026/7/...
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They Walk Among Us - Criminal ICE and Border Agents — Ohio Immigrant Alliance
The Ohio Immigrant Alliance released “They Walk Among Us: A List of 59 Sexually and Physically Abusive ICE and Border Agents,” an analysis of sexual and violent crimes committed by ICE and Border Patr...
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social The segment on forced feeding reminded me of this passage in The Brothers Karamazov. Rather than just give people actual food, they prefer to physically overpower a human being, forcing a tube through his nose and in to his stomach. And to repeat this daily.
People sometimes talk about man's bestial cruelty, but that is terribly unfair to and insulting to beasts: a beast can never be as cruel as man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. A tiger simply tears its prey apart and gnaws at it; that's all he knows how to do. It never occurs to him to nail his prey up by his ears for the night, if he could even do it.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 05/08/2026
Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a startling response to the unfolding controversy surrounding Rep. Max Miller: "It's part of being flawed humans. We have to let those processes play out."
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'Part of being flawed': Johnson shrugs after MAGA lawmaker exposes toddler to the public
Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a startling response to the unfolding controversy surrounding Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), who has been accused of abusing his wife and daughter and later releasing a trove of private documents that may have included an image of his toddler's naked body. “It’s part of being...
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE agents descended on a cannabis farm. The lives of an army vet, a farm worker and professor changed for ever
Raids on Glass House Farms in California became a ‘litmus test’ for how much violence agents could inflict during Trump’s deportation campaign
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 20/07/2026
President Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, became visibly upset outside the White House, blurting out a shock admission to reporters before storming off.
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Outrage as visibly upset Trump border czar blurts out shock admission
President Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, became visibly upset outside the White House, blurting out a shock admission to reporters before storming off.Homan was talking about Minnesota and other ICE shootings and the public demand for federal law enforcement agents to wear body cameras follo...
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"They argued to Pulte that naming individuals involved in an alleged cover up of election fraud could lead to conspiracy theorists to take the law into their own hands." I wonder what sorts of people might run with a conspiracy theory and take the law into their own hands?
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‘Pulte got really scared’: Inside the White House debate over Trump’s elections speech
Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte, a Trump favorite, had at one point pushed to reveal the names of intelligence officials accused of concealing election interference from the presid...
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I always appreciate @harrylitman.bsky.social's legal insights on MSNOW but whoa there's some demons haunting the picture behind him. It's looks like a ghoulish version of LBJ whispering (Satanic Verses maybe 🤔) to Salman Rushdie @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
Harry Litman appears on MSNOW with background filter featuring demons
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts | Anil Seth
Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and compu...
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WIRED @wired.com · 06/07/2026
The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees. www.wired.com/story/ices-i...
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ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics
The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Here’s how naive I am, I just presumed they would fire the people who worked for the Office of Professional Responsibility, I didn’t even consider that they might just reassign all its investigators into going after ICE critics.
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/07/2026
Ten years ago today, J. D. Vance called Trump “cultural heroin” in The Atlantic: “To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution … He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t," Vance wrote of Trump. Read the piece: theatln.tc/foJ8lGw3
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Statement from Counsel for Olympian Davey Hearn:
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Where Trumps jet comes from: "A woman is also required to obey her husband, maintain the house and its contents, and breastfeed children unless there is an impediment. A wife can lose her right to maintenance if she refuses to have sexual relations with her husband 'without a legitimate reason'"
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World Report 2025: Rights Trends in Qatar
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Scientists, especially younger ones, are going to have to come to terms with the idea that “doing science” is no longer enough. We all have to fight for science: what it means, what are its values, and why it matters.
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
#ICE #DHS #CBP And let's not forget CBP agent Charles Exum, who shot Marimar Martinez five times, then bragged and lied about it. He drove to Maine, covered up evidence of damage to his vehicle, and charges against Martinez were dropped. The DHS website still refers to her as a domestic terrorist.
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Jasmine Razeghi @razeghj.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
NEW: MacArthur Justice Center submitted a civil rights complaint on behalf of Aliya Rahman to the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Office of DHS for the brutal assault, violent arrest, and inhumane detention she experienced at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis earlier this year.
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Aliya Rahman Files Civil Rights Complaint to DHS Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Office After January Assault by Federal Agents in Minneapolis - MacArthur Justice
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Today, the MacArthur Justice Center and Friedman Gilbert + Gerhardstein submitted a civil rights complaint on behalf of our client Aliya Rahman to the Civil Rights and Civil Libertie...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14/06/2026
Sunday fact: Russia has sustained at least 1.4 million casualties in the war with Ukraine. In fact, that’s 50 percent more than the US in all of WW2 on two fronts liberating and occupying the world. Russia now controls less land than they had one month into the invasion. Slava Ukrainii!
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/p...
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The Best Books of the 21st Century: Ryan Holiday on ‘The Road’
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Does this mean red state republicans didn't get REAL IDs and can't prove citizenship? This won't go well for voter ID
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House Republicans seek to block new TSA fee for those without REAL ID
Annual appropriations legislation for the Department of Homeland Security aims to halt collection of the $45 fee.
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
@eff.org @deflock-redmond.bsky.social
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A Flock license plate reader linked a San Diego man to a violent crime. He was five miles away.
A San Diego man spent one month in jail for a crime he didn't commit, after San Diego Police misinterpreted a hit from a license plate reader.
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"At least 14, meanwhile, have been charged with sex crimes or crimes related to child sexual abuse material (CSAM)"
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The Jan. 6 Pardons: How Many Clemency Recipients Have Faced Other Charges?
The real count is much higher than the public knew.
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Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Factual thoughts: Scott Pelley and Henry Schuster were embedded with my Marine infantry unit in 2009—it was incredibly violent in Helmand. They told our story well. Years later, my unit suffered multiple suicides, they came back to cover that too.
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
These are some cosmically silly people with too much money and power.
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Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos. What could go wrong? | Eduardo Porter
A new belief set is uniting some of the wealthiest men in the world around a ‘transhuman’ future – actual humanity be damned
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Rest easy doc carrytheload.org/tribute/cesa...
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Cesar O. Baez - Carry The Load
Petty Officer 2nd Class Cesar “Cid” Baez of Pomona, CA died on June 15, 2005 as a result of enemy small arms fire while conducting combat operations in alAnbar province, […]
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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
///BREAKING/// The feds are DISMISSING all remaining counts in the politically charged "Broadview Six" case days before trial, marking the final collapse of what had been one of the marquee criminal cases to come out of Operation Midway Blitz. Background: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/07/b...
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Judge tells ‘Broadview Six’ defendants ‘Congratulations’ and dismisses conspiracy count
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed the felony conspiracy count against the remaining defendants in the “Broadview Six” case, further winnowing a politically charged prosecution that is now down to ...
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Trump administration elevates former private prison company exec to lead ICE
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Trump administration elevates former private prison company exec to lead ICE
David Venturella will lead the agency on an acting basis when Todd Lyons retires at the end of the month.
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
reason.com/2026/05/10/w...
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He's a U.S. citizen and combat veteran. ICE tear-gassed, jailed, and falsely accused him.
"I didn't do anything wrong," George Retes, a U.S. citizen imprisoned for three days, tells Reason.
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
It’s a good piece! I broadly agree. My own take is here fwiw www.thenerve.news/p/opinion-ri...
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Richard Dawkins’s chatbot isn’t conscious: it’s just all talk
The acclaimed scientist spent time with Anthropic’s ‘Claudia’ and couldn’t believe she wasn’t sentient. But Dawkins' own work has taught us that complexity can exist without a divine spark, writes neu...
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Arrests in massive human trafficking sting connected to Trump, Jan. 6
When you zoom out, this isn’t happening in isolation.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A Florida Republican Sheriff, Grady Judd, announced the arrest of 266 defendants in a sex trafficking scheme & minced no words. He identified influencer Craig Long, who he said moved in high circles including with the president, holding up a picture of Long with Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03q...
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'MAGA' Influencer Craig Long arrested in human trafficking sting - Grady Judd
YouTube video by WFLA News Channel 8
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/04/13/u...
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Minnesota county investigates federal agents’ removal of US citizen from his home as a possible kidnapping | CNN
Officials in Ramsey County, Minnesota, on Monday announced a criminal investigation into the arrest of ChongLy Thao, a US citizen caught in a viral photo as immigration agents walked him out of his ho...
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Karl @kaffiend75.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I struggle to believe that someone who undergoes disfiguring facial surgery understands happiness. #bezos #oligarchy #amazon
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Someone Has to Be Happy. Why Not Lauren Sánchez Bezos?
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FRONTLINE @frontlinepbs.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
What was behind the controversial deal to imprison U.S. deportees at the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT? FRONTLINE and El Faro investigate in a documentary that's streaming now, for free. to.pbs.org/4mlYp6v
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Where to Watch FRONTLINE’s Documentary on the Trump-Bukele CECOT Deal
What was behind the controversial deal to imprison U.S. deportees at the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT? FRONTLINE and El Faro investigate in ‘The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Sal...
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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
first time really tuning into a war? welcome. Let’s go over some rules of how to behave. These are going to be especially important if it’s a war you oppose. 1. You are allowed an opinion. This is America. Whether you served or not. It’s done in your name so might as well speak up. 🧵
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