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Flash Fiction:
”Now see here 007, you can’t just use Her Majesty’s intelligence agencies as your own private escort service enabling your sex life.”
”But M, you’ve got to admit it’s reduced the champagne and oysters charges on my expense reports. Think of the savings to the government’s budget.”
”Even coming from you, that’s rather weak Bond.”
Written for this prompt.
Coronavirus and Public Health:
Long-COVID symptoms persist for years in nonhospitalized adults, study reveals
Politics:
https://twitter.com/Suzierizzo1/status/2018799713382797665
- Suzierizzo1
https://twitter.com/covie_93/status/2018778027618869611
- covie_93
Getting silenced on X is, and I realize how absurd it sounds, the worst professional fate a Trump official can face. It signals that Bovino is no longer a player in an administration that has, from top to bottom, merged a social-media-first worldview with authoritarian tendencies. I like to call it the clicktatorship. Political appointees in the clicktatorship are not just using online platforms as a mode of communication. Their judgment and decision making are hyper-responsive to what’s happening on the far-right internet. They view everything as content.
No one better exemplifies the clicktatorship than the president himself. Trump routinely makes policy announcements via social media. Consider when, in August, he attempted to fire the Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook on Truth Social. When a government lawyer was questioned by the Supreme Court on the lack of an appeals option for Cook, he suggested that Cook could simply have made her case on Truth Social. In the clicktatorship, due process is reduced to the right to post.
https://twitter.com/aaronklemz/status/2018775398348136712
- aaronklemz
The dildo of consequences often arrives unlubed: Republicans Are Freaking Out About Hispanic Voters
Republicans are in full-out panic mode over their plunging support with Hispanic voters after losing a special election in a ruby-red Texas district over the weekend.
https://twitter.com/caitlinmcgowan/status/2018703323361140814
- caitlinmcgowan
https://twitter.com/swilkinsonbc/status/2018714723567501503
- swilkinsonbc
White House Falsely Accuses Man of Sex Crimes
———— Minnesota Under Siege ————
https://twitter.com/TheJFreakinC/status/2018427828799152171
- TheJFreakinC
https://twitter.com/WedgeLIVE/status/2018497112145633687
- WedgeLIVE
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/2018696528085319974
- FordFischer
https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/2018775259726459336
- WIRED
Too little, too late: Border czar says feds will withdraw 700 law enforcement personnel from Minnesota immediately
About 2,000 agents will remain in the state after the drawdown, according to Homan. Pre-surge, the number was about 150. The reduction will not include "personnel providing security and responding to hostile incidents," Homan said.
Why should anyone take Homan’s assertion at face value? Just a few days ago, the DOJ said there were 3,000 agents here. We have no way of knowing if any of these numbers are accurate. It’s not as if the Trump regime has an aversion to lying to our faces.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/2018848279681749138
- kylegriffin1
https://twitter.com/rudyfunkmeyer/status/2018770084794155040
- rudyfunkmeyer
https://twitter.com/vincempls/status/2018732253589733783
- vincempls
https://twitter.com/Bongslinger86/status/2018775963878793269
- Bongslinger86
https://twitter.com/maxnesterak/status/2018706960334352856
- maxnesterak
https://twitter.com/SenTinaSmith/status/2018802240602141172
- SenTinaSmith
———— The Kennedy Center ————
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2018652428686815566
- RonFilipkowski
https://twitter.com/literaryeric/status/2018683140198273323
- literaryeric
https://twitter.com/AntiToxicPeople/status/2018558130238755326
- AntiToxicPeople
———— The Epstein Coverup ————
https://twitter.com/MikeNellis/status/2018503412501844248
- MikeNellis
https://twitter.com/ImBreckWorsham/status/2018734642036134229
- ImBreckWorsham
https://twitter.com/anniedufour99/status/2018809056136208787
- anniedufour99
Epstein, Israel’s Barak discussed ‘gigantic’ consultancy sums paid to Blair
https://twitter.com/JayShams/status/2018518557177618719
- JayShams
https://twitter.com/Daractenus/status/2018606846224052416
- Daractenus
https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/2018804467265925339
- jimstewartson
Why the Epstein Scandal May Never Die
The internet is awash in speculation, suspicion and disgust over the millions of new pages of Jeffrey Epstein files released by the Justice Department on Friday.
Few believe the story is anywhere near finished.
The DOJ’s final release has delivered tantalizing revelations about Epstein’s ties to elite society. But it has brought neither clarity nor closure to the fundamental questions that have kept the scandal alive.
https://twitter.com/realstewpeters/status/2018558067894600169
- realstewpeters
https://twitter.com/covie_93/status/2018762294566826187
- covie_93
https://twitter.com/scarylawyerguy/status/2018798682045604021
- scarylawyerguy
———— Autocracy R Us ————
https://twitter.com/factpostnews/status/2018771055771333110
- factpostnews
https://twitter.com/na_me_eso_atta/status/2018717698096505290
- na_me_eso_atta
It’s only February, and the November elections are already in peril.
When I think back to the days and weeks before Jan. 6, 2021, one thing that’s clear is that many of us suffered from a failure of imagination. We knew President Trump’s lies and conspiracy mongering were dangerous, but it’s hard to think of a single person who predicted that a MAGA mob would storm the Capitol.
Very few people anticipated the sheer scale and scope of the effort to overturn the election or that an incredible 147 Republicans would vote not to certify Joe Biden’s clear and unambiguous presidential victory. We did not realize that they would go along with something that plainly corrupt and dangerous.
We must not make that mistake again.
And so I’m going to do something a little bit unusual. I’m going to ask you to imagine alongside me. But this is a different kind of imagination. It’s based on real events — things that are already occurring right in front of our eyes.
https://twitter.com/Bricktop_NAFO/status/2018599658587877703
- Bricktop_NAFO
https://twitter.com/shashj/status/2018659812490572010
- shashj
https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2018744071037104600
- ReichlinMelnick
https://twitter.com/MilesTaylorUSA/status/2018685389452566951
- MilesTaylorUSA
https://twitter.com/leftcoastbabe/status/2018581428913811880
- leftcoastbabe
https://twitter.com/CarrieCnh12/status/2018520191290994692
- CarrieCnh12
Judge Limits Use of Weapons Against Anti-ICE Protests
A judge has ordered federal agents to stop firing tear gas and other crowd-control weapons at peaceful protesters and journalists who regularly gather outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon
https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2018750546190995483
- ReichlinMelnick
https://twitter.com/Alterschwede66/status/2018681276849365474
- Alterschwede66
https://twitter.com/nikosunity/status/2018752820124516553
- nikosunity
———— Blatant In-Your-Face Corruption ————
https://twitter.com/CREWcrew/status/2018474637206642695
- CREWcrew
———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————
https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/2018497850720891173
- jimstewartson
https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/2018043856315392337
- Kasparov63
https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/2018779002668974413
- davetroy
———— Smoot-Hawley 2.0 ————
Profiles in Cowardice, Tariff Edition
By any reasonable standard, most of Trump’s tariffs are plainly illegal. Two lower courts have ruled against them. The Trump administration appealed those decisions, and in early November the Supreme Court heard arguments on the case. Many businesses that have found it impossible to make long-term plans with the fate of the Trump tariffs in limbo eagerly awaited the Court’s ruling.
They’re still waiting. And I can’t see any plausible explanation for the delay other than Supreme cowardice.
———— Melon Husk ————
https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/2018722916708372757
- adamscochran
———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————
https://twitter.com/rparloff/status/2018809391361954275
- rparloff
———— Mors Imperii ————
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/2018748106960232601
- davidfrum
Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse…
U.S. law enforcement has never experienced a scandal as big, as far-reaching, destructive, and as far-lasting as the wave of corruption and criminality that has overtaken CBP and the Border Patrol since 2005. It’s a story that too much of the public still doesn’t know and too many policymakers still don’t understand…
Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP’s misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink.
https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/2018504193024102758
- JonLemire
https://twitter.com/DavidPepper/status/2018817957623890102
- DavidPepper
Wait, it’s all Minnesota? source
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