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Captainant

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  1. Holy shit, ICE has hundreds of people missing after closing "Alligator Alcatraz" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312042943.html For the hundreds of men who were detained at Alligator Alcatraz, entering the gates of the makeshift migrant detention center in the Everglades meant exiting the labyrinthine but familiar federal immigration process and entering what several immigration attorneys described as an alternate system where the normal rules don’t apply. One Guatemalan man detained at the tent site was accidentally deported to Guatemala before a scheduled bond hearing, his attorney said, reminiscent of the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. A 35-year-old Cuban man could not be located at the California detention facility where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said they had sent him, leaving his family and attorney frantically trying to determine where he was for more than a week, they said. As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald. The Herald had obtained the names from two detainee rosters. Around 800 detainees showed no record on ICE’s online database. More than 450 listed no location and only instructed the user to “Call ICE for details” — a vague notation that attorneys said could mean that a detainee is still being processed, in the middle of a transfer between two sites or about to be deported.
  2. The riot cops teakettling students was the first bite at the apple, and it was cheered on. This is just further down the road
  3. What was the officer's name? I had no idea about that small detail in our history
  4. On steam you can set whatever display name you want that's separate from your account login, they're probably referring to that. It's used frequently for shitposting and goofs and roleplaying in games
  5. Man the entire state of Texas would have to be flooded and then frozen solid for Cruz to take a vacation that big
  6. The other notable thing is that KL2's payment for a no-show job was more than all their other celebrity endorsements COMBINED, for folks like Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Downey Jr!
  7. nevermind the deepseek team training their R1 model used just $300k in compute to train https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-deepseek-says-its-hit-ai-model-cost-just-294000-train-2025-09-18/ The AI "market" is really the high-end silicon market vis-a-vis NVidia, and they're just about at saturation, as EZ points out. And it turns out there's a LOT of optimization opportunity, rather than just throwing literal billions at a problem
  8. lets gooooo Houston Energy Corporation!!!
  9. The more detailed version is that social media is engineered to spread lies faster than truth. That is the basic mechanism thats used by oligarchs and despots to shape public opinion and get people to believe things that aren't true, like eating dogs and cats as Charlie Kirk led millions to deeply believe and be afraid of
  10. Focus groups and consultants send their regards! Fucking idiot leadership that's scared to do anything that isn't co-signed by a million dollar consulting engagement
  11. Daily Show is hosting a Nobel Prize winner to speak about her efforts in protecting freedom of expression https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2021/ressa/facts/ She has really strongly laid out how social media and being too online is a big part of what gets us here.
  12. Maria Ressa is giving one heck of an interview on how we got here https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2021/ressa/facts/ She won her Nobel Prize for protecting freedom of expression in the midst of a fascist dictator takeover
  13. Because your bosses have a sanctioned monopoly on if you die or not? Fucks sake dude it's not hard to figure out why a solely for-profit entity is extracting more wealth from sick people
  14. Man if only Mr Robot had that as a plot device lol. That show was INCREDIBLE when it was coming out - they even wrote fresh zero-day exploits into the show like the android hack on the FBI. Some of those episodes in Elliot's mind were wild, that show is an all-timer for me
  15. Daily Show is gonna be putting on some good stuff tonight, they opened to an all-gold stage and called it a "state-approved show"
  16. They're literally just following through on Project 2025. The FCC chair is even shitposting about it. Demonizing and persecuting trans people has been a tentpole of the Administration for a long while. When a fascist tells you what they plan to do if they get power, BELIEVE THEM
  17. You'll excuse me if I don't believe you that the death panels insurance companies won't use this as justification for blanket denials. Because they make more money with more denials, as you are wellllll aware
  18. Aaaand here goes the state sanctioned demonization of trans people [Quoted from reporting] The Trump administration is preparing to designate transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, two national security officials tell me. “We're looking at the entire spider web for any of these attacks,” FBI director Kash Patel told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, when asked about shootings by trans individuals. “They,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said after the Kirk murder, are “putting this crazy ideology in our schools,” echoing the growing view of many in Trump’s inner circle that a “cult of gender ideology” is behind an explosion of violence by some as yet unidentified “radical left.” Two days before Kirk was killed, Donald Trump condemned “transgender insanity.” Then in an interview about the shooting, he blamed “the radicals on the left,” saying: “they want transgender for everyone.” “They are cynically targeting trans people because the shooter’s lover was trans,” one senior intelligence official tells me. “The administration has convinced itself that the Charlie Kirk murder exposes some dark conspiracy.” The senior official explains that there is no process per se for dealing with trans people as a “threat group,” but feels that trans individuals will be increasingly targeted under the banner of “violent extremism.” [End quoted block] Damn those TRN head stamps, spreading their radical pronouns! It's wild how the Administration is just moving ahead with their script even if the facts don't line up
  19. Boy howdy are you in luck
  20. *** If you can get your local death panelist to agree to cover it under your thousand-of-dollars-a-year premiums. Against DHS recommendations? Easiest denial of your life I bet!
  21. Holy shit I'm glad my daughter already got her round of vaccines. What a horrifying reality we live in led by people who believe silver and horse paste will protect against a respiratory disease
  22. My guy did you not see the release from AF1? The God Emperor want to ban anything that says mean things about him. Explicitly and in his own words
  23. Here's some more for you, from the main voice pushing great replacement theory: If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine? – The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022 Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more. – The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023 If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action? – The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024 If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously. – The Charlie Kirk Show, 13 July 2023
  24. Ali Alexander delivered that testimony - I linked the source in the DT thread when I initially made the claim https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ali-alexander-charlie-kirk-capitol-riot-transcript-b2252572.html (Here's the Independent's reporting)
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