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Here's how a long NYT profile of Erica Vandal, one of the trans women the wildly incompetent Whiskey Pete Hegseth threw out of the military, ends. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

These are the guys Trump was shilling for at the G7 meeting.

submitted 4 hours ago • 7 comments

In the week leading up to and including Saturday, for example, Fox News was less likely than CNN and MSNBC to talk about “protests.” But Fox was much more likely to discuss “rioting,” “vandalism” and “clashes” — often but not always in the context of the ongoing protests in Los Angeles.

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Really striking that, five years later, Mike Lindell is facing some accountability for his 2020 lies — and meanwhile other Trump allies are ginning up the 239,000th bullshit claim about that election.

submitted 4 hours ago • 17 comments

It truly is amazing that Tulsi got this job and is keeping it right now. Good thing for her she befriended Lara Trump.

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For once, I completely agree with Trump: “Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate, he is weak and he is ineffective.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

Exactly this.👇

submitted 3 hours ago • 15 comments

Tuesday 17 June 2025. No time to waste. Kyiv is under the most immense attack. It's Day 1210 of Russia's increasingly desperate attempt to eviscerate Ukraine and all Ukrainians. Here's the daily thread, continuing to document the night attacks...

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Thanks Senate Republicans. By making deeper cuts to Medicaid than the cuts propoed by the House, Sen. Ernst's ignominious remark to her constituents will hopefully apply to your prospects of getting reelected: "You're all gonna die!" Bwhahahahahaha www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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In 2020, I published a national bestseller about Kash Patel working with the future publisher of Just the News to try to steal the 2020 U.S. presidential election via fake intelligence. Now it’s 2025—and the same two people are spreading dodgy intel with an eye on 2026 and 2028.

submitted 3 hours ago • 29 comments

I'll start a new thread here b/c the other one is already long but I used this tactic when my folks tried to rope me into a conversation about NYU (my undergrad) last weekend by saying how nice it was that NYU hadn't been involved in "the Palestine thing"

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The number of injured in Kyiv continues to rise — currently at 55, with over 40 hospitalized, Mayor Klitschko reports. Information on fatalities is still being clarified.

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

God only knows what this means! It’s going to be a long night.

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I bet he’s still fuming over his shitty birthday parade.

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

More footage from Kyiv. The damage to residential buildings is severe. Another act of plain, Russian, terrorism.

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Jury finds MyPillow founder defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company

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I wrote about how the 2020 protests hurt Trump politically. I also wrote about how counternarratives about left-wing violence are just spin — and wildly at odds with the reality of extremist violence. Gift link: wapo.st/3SOEv6e

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"11 Palestinians have been killed since midnight, at least 4 children are amongst the dead. The Israeli military killed at least 56 Palestinians on Monday alone. Most of them were killed by a mix of air strikes and snipers whilst trying to access food"

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WaPo and NYT readers know nothing about this at this hour. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Standing on a public sidewalk is now apparently punished by police horse trampling. Essentially, cops are under tte impression that they are the judges and juries.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

@AP keep reporting truth.

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VIDEO: The entire European Union is in agreement that Greenland, the Danish autonomous territory coveted by US President Donald Trump, is "not to be sold, not to be taken", French President Emmanuel Macron says, during a visit to the vast Arctic island

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