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Chopper

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  1. Our criminal justice system in all its glory: Wrongful conviction, serve 43 years, finally exonerated because at trial the PA DA hid evidence that indicated the accused did not commit the crime, finally get released only to be rearrested by ICE because they have a deportation order based on your wrongful conviction.
  2. Number of times OU reached the RED ZONE: 0.0
  3. hey if this is one of you plz give me a heads up next time
  4. Bro - this is not a misprint "In the first seven months of 2025, Chinese grid-scale lithium-ion batteries accounted for about 65% of US imports, according to the most recent data available from BNEF. The export curbs would affect these types of batteries, analysts said. Battery storage is critical for the US as energy demand surges, driven by the artificial intelligence boom. US data centers more than doubled their electricity consumption from 2017 to 2023, according to a report by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. That figure is expected to as much as triple by 2028, the report notes." https://archive.ph/TL07i
  5. seems bad? Zitron has company. speaking of, Zitron's paid newsletter has a generous free portion this week Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbles-impossible-promises/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbles-impossible-promises/
  6. art
  7. ruzzian soldier creates comedy gold
  8. Pathetically funny - the story of one buyer who received a defective RUMP watch
  9. https://www.lesoir.be/704216/article/2025-10-11/theo-francken-au-soir-mon-role-est-de-depenser-ces-milliards-pour-la-defense
  10. They had to scrounge up the first plane-load of South African "refugees." I haven't heard of any additional who've come here. Certainly not an entire plane. Maybe not even enough to fill a gulfstream on its way back from relocating kidnapped refugees.
  11. Suddenly sales are hoppin'
  12. I guess we're not all imagining things. Go figure.
  13. among the best specialty care, specifically
  14. *IF you have money and/or a health insurer willing to cooperate. See Luigi.
  15. I think Inka's made some good points. So not throwing mud, just adding without comment:
  16. I'd encourage you to take a look at what's known as NSPM-7, issued by the WH at the end of September, which indicates it's just getting started. It's a presidential directive to all federal policing agencies (FBI, NHS, DEA, Marshalls etc etc) about what to target in the upcoming years. A very fair interpretation is that they will be sorting through the names of Americans who fit a very wide profile but not anyone who's maga with the very same tracking tools - and from the very same office - as they track Muslim terrorists. First, here's The Onion, published Oct 7, with only a slightly sarcastic take on it but it should accurately give you the flavor: https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-nspm-7/ On Sept. 25, President Trump issued a directive called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 in which “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity” were described as “common threads” of domestic terrorism. Here is everything you need to know about NSPM-7. Q: What is NSPM-7? A: A key term for future AP U.S. History students in the “Rise of Fascism” unit. Q: How does the order define anti-American? A: They can’t tell you. That would ruin the surprise. Q: What is Trump’s plan for antifa? A: He will create the organization, and then destroy it. Q: Is this like that book Minority Report was based on? A: We’d avoid referencing books from now on. Q: Isn’t this a violation of the First Amendment? A: That’s exactly the type of question the administration would love to talk to you about in a windowless room. Here's some additional reading https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/secretive-watchlisting-center-executing https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-npsm-7-memo-crackdown-opposition-1235440530/ They are going to go after anyone they consider "the enemy within," as the president put it. They are effectively labeling speech and opposition to the government as terrorism and their efforts to root it out will be staffed by actual police using the highly capable tracking that has been used to track muslims deemed potential lone wolf terrorists. Here's a bit of what Klippenstein published NSPM-7 directs a new national strategy to “disrupt” any individual or groups “that foment political violence,” including “before they result in violent political acts.” In other words, they’re targeting pre-crime, to reference Minority Report. The Trump administration isn’t only targeting organizations or groups but even individuals and “entities” whom NSPM-7 says can be identified by any of the following “indicia” (indicators) of violence: anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity, support for the overthrow of the United States Government, extremism on migration, extremism on race, extremism on gender hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality. “The United States requires a national strategy to investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and organizations that foment political violence so that law enforcement can intervene in criminal conspiracies before they result in violent political acts,” the directive states (emphasis mine). A “pre-crime” endeavor, preventing attacks before they happen, is core to the post-9/11 concept of counterterrorism itself. No longer satisfied to investigate acts of terrorism after the fact to bring terrorists to justice, the Bush administration adopted preemption. Overseas, that led to aerial assassination by drones and “special operations” kill missions. Domestically, it led to a counter-terrorism campaign whose hallmark was excessive and illegal government surveillance and the use of undercover agents and “confidential human sources” to trap (and entrap) would-be terrorists. Now, with Donald Trump’s directive retooling the counter-terror apparatus to go after Americans at home, this means monitoring political activity, or speech, as an investigative method to discover “radicalism.” (Contrary to other national security documents all during the post-Watergate era, NSPM-7 doesn’t even mention the First Amendment or the fundamental right of Americans to organize and protest.) The focus on speech is evident throughout NSPM-7. The directive says that political violence is the result of “organized campaigns” that often begin (with the left) dehumanizing targets in “anonymous chat foras, in-person meetings, social media, and even educational institutions.” To give a sense of how broad this formulation is, Trump’s earlier designation of Antifa as a domestic terrorist group was accompanied by a White House fact sheet singling out people who “celebrated” Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December. As I wrote at the time, this describes a lot of Americans!
  17. What Would Hitler Do? Two shots and a chaser
  18. MIT deftly turned the tables on the administration's rhetoric
  19. Debate for the VA Gov tonight was uh different
  20. I saw that earlier today and I swear I thought it was parody and was slightly amused. Wow.
  21. The TNG is already embedded with ICE. They announced that today. If they hit more resistance, they will invoke the Insurrection Act. Who will they arrest? You seriously think they have nobody to target? Protestors. That's why they are ramping up the pressure. Did you see the march through downtown Chicago last night? That's the type of people who will be targeted. Along with people who help organize it. They arrested a sitting US Congressman on fake charges already and today indicted the AG of the state of NY. They'll go after people who donated money to candidates or causes. More politicians. will be targeted. Advisers to politicians. Journalists. They flat-out murdered people on at least 3 boats. All they've alleged (and have offered zero proof) is they were drug running. Even if you take them at their word, drug running is not an offense for which you're legally allowed to kill a person. Now consider they're thousands of miles from the US. They have no fucking idea who or what are on those boats. However, if the wanted to know, the US military has many times before interdicted a suuspect boat and arrested or checked out what's going on. That's the legal way. Just murdering people is flatly illegal. Again, they are blatantly violating the law now on "easy cases" and building their way up to even more violations. You can think they're failing because you look out your window and don't see war. That doesn't mean it's not happening. Downplaying what's going on is horrible. Oh they only shot a pastor in the head with mustard gas pellet 7 tiimes. For no reason. WTAF. Mustard gas isn't a chemical munition? In fact it's internationally regulated as a chemical warfare agent. To claim what they're doing is backfiring requires wearing the rosiest of glasses. They've met some resistance in the courts but that's the only thing so far that's kept us from falling fully under an autocratic regime. You haven't even seen the criminal undertakings they have planned for the elections. Barring a miracle, the USSC will not stop any of this. They have yet to lift a finger, they continue to rubber stamp Trump's crimes and they've given every indication they intend to continue to do so. /rant over
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