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AIR FORCE NONE? 🥴 Trump’s Air Force One deal with Qatar isn’t final. Turns out he asked for the jet—they didn’t offer. And now Qatar wants a memo of understanding signed with DC first.

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It’s very easy to buck the mainstream of academia/science when you’ve got a buttload of right-wing/corporate money backing you. Doesn’t make you Galileo. It makes you a shill.

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🚨 For some reason, conservative activists are targeting Southern Company for standing firm on DEI initiatives. Southern Company shareholders voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal last week, 98-2 percent. Jeremy Tedesco is senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal group.

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Internal documents revealed that Trump and Musk have been LYING about Social Security fraud. So I sounded the alarm about DOGE slowing down Americans' benefits based on those lies—and they backtracked. We're not letting DOGE get away with messing with Americans benefits.

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This would set a precedent. Fossil fuel companies need to pay for the damages and lives lost due to knowing full well what the results would be for what they were producing www.cbc.ca/news/science...

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🚨 Auntie Lynn is free!! Watch the outpouring of love. 🥺 Lewelyn had been detained by ICE since February, despite the fact that she is a legal permanent resident. Her community and her brothers and sisters in labor rallied around her, and SHE GOT OUT! Now THAT'S solidarity. #UnionsForAll

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As the climate crisis brings on increasingly hotter summers, keeping our homes cool can be a matter of life or death. Meanwhile, Trump is trying to eliminate a program that helps millions of people pay their energy bills and keep the AC on. Hello?

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Washington has a major corruption problem. From accepting jets from Qatar to selling pardons, the corruption hurts all of us. If you know people who regret their vote or didn’t vote, try to gently educate them about the dangers of this administration. mindyschwartz.substack.com/p/do-republi...

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The fundamental flaw of broken authoritarian narcissists (the core of the right-wing coalition) is that they view empathy as a finite resource, such that, if you extend it to one group, you can't extend it to another. They see all of life through a lens of scarcity, competition, & selfishness.

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Medicaid cuts don't matter because "we are all going to die" does not seem like a winning political message www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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NEW: Former “We Buy Ugly Houses” franchise owner Charles Carrier agreed to plead guilty to one count of felony wire fraud that carries a potential 20-year prison sentence. The plea follows a ProPublica report detailing how Carrier bilked investors across Texas out of millions of dollars.

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brilliant show. brilliant actress. brilliant activist. rest well, loretta.

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I know I should take this seriously but this ICE tweet genuinely made me laugh.

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Are we having an election night thread? Obviously there'll be lots of them, but I'm happy to host one too like we did on twitter last time Should we use the #BinNight hashie? People have said in a previous post (when I asked) they think it works well as a bat signal #AusVotes2025

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📌Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse missed tonight's vote that would have put a check on Trump's damn tariffs, and he owes everybody a damn explanation RIGHT NOW.

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We saw a turtle heading toward an insurmountable barrier on the highway, so @vicky.science screeched off to the side of the road, and I jumped out and sprinted toward the turtle. When I went to run into the road I saw an 18 wheeler coming so I started yelling and waving my hands and they stopped 🥹

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"Now voters don't think of me as a big loveable softie because the media is biased towards publishing my direct quotes" Read more: chaser.com.au/national/dut...

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Yes, this is a genuine 1949 DC Comics illustration printed on book covers distributed to schools in the US.

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A lot of fun was had at last week's Sorrento Writers Festival! I had a great session with Paul Kelly, Frank Bongiorno & Kim Carr on the election & the decline of the majors, to be broadcast on Radio National's Big Ideas @ 5pm May 1 & available thereafter on their app. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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I was asked today whether I think the Liberal party is cooked. I said: the Liberal party is like a rotten tree that just hasn't fallen over yet. But its heart is gone; its strength is gone. It's a shell of its former self - we just can't see that fully yet from the outside.

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(reposted with alt text) listen I know this is like. nowhere near the top of the priority list in terms of what’s wrong with this statement. but assuming the average child owns 30 dolls is one of the most Lucille Bluth things he’s said in a long time

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I fucking love getting owned by Canada.

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In breaking news... Peter Dutton has just visited his 15th petrol station during the election campaign. Still no visits to any of his 7 proposed nuke sites. #auspol

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Every time this happens, I am reminded of this all-timer from the onion:

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"I want to switch over to Bluesky, but I just don't get the kind of engagement I get on Twitter." Wow, you mean your strategy of following 18 people here and showing up once every three weeks to complain about how quiet it is hasn't paid off? Surprising!

submitted 92 days ago • 412 comments

Quitting Twitter was easier than I ever thought it would be. It’s like looking at an old apartment now.

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www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/p... Deleted tweets show top State Department official spread false rumor about Rubio’s sexuality, called him ‘low IQ’ Ha ha you don’t say?

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The age of American barbarism is upon us…

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If this administration can just remove green cards at will, then their $5 million green cards will be worthless! www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Trump ran on lowering the price of eggs, restoring freedom of speech, ending the war in Ukraine and making America “great again.” Eggs are more expensive than ever, peaceful protestors are being arrested without cause and we’ve abandoned Ukraine. So, when exactly does the “great again” part start?

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Interesting. So hacker group Dark Storm has taken credit for breaking Twitter. There have been at least 5 outages today

submitted 92 days ago • 588 comments

Carney: Canada never ever will be part of America in any way, shape, or form. We didn’t ask for this fight, but Canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves.

submitted 93 days ago • 873 comments

They've become a parody of themselves.

submitted 92 days ago • 551 comments

Blue Sky sign-ups are rocketing as Twitter undergoes a rapid unscheduled disassembly today. At this rate, we should hit 33 million users by the end of the day. Go Blue sky! 🚀🦋 Bcounter.nat.vg

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Tesla stock has now erased all of the gains that it has made since the election. Couldn't have happened to a better guy.

submitted 92 days ago • 909 comments

Overheard: The Tesla Chainsaw Massacre.

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