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Concerning that those who bashed Biden for stuttering, stutter.

I wrote about how Trump's Inauguration is the perfect metaphor for his presidency: surrounded by billionaires in comfort, while his supporters are left out in the cold.

Absolutely wild that even in such a moment he's doing the most banal culture war nonsense. I do think there are some people who just don't have more interesting ideas than this.

The US House Ethics Committee has voted to release its report on Rep Matt Gaetz, a former Trump Attorney General pick, who resigned after being confronted for partaking in child trafficking, child rape, and drug use. The report is expected to be made public before the holidays. #OPDeathEaters

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Recent events in Syria are also very embarrassing to the governments of Italy, Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Cyprus, and Slovakia. They all pushed for normalisation with the Assad regime and now have egg on their face.

These losers do this because their only shot at companionship is a hostage situation, so they spend all day harassing people into thinking a woman’s self worth should resemble their own. If they tried being kind and not approaching every relationship as a transaction, they would be much happier

Elders are also protesting, despite the violence of the Moscow backed government and the risk of mass arrests. The younger protestors are shielding them from the water cannons and rubber bullets. All of Georgia remains defiant. #GeorgiaProtests

Ukraine cannot and should not be expected to negotiate with 🇷🇺 monsters like this.

I remember when Ukraine blew up the Kerch Bridge, Hasan Piker and Kyle Kulinski condemned Ukraine and called it a "terrorist attack". Every single step of this war for the last 2 years, these people took the side of russia. And now they increasingly deny it.

Love to "drain the swamp" by making... - A tobacco and mining lobbyist Chief of Staff - An Iraq War hawk Secretary of State - A Qatar and Amazon lobbyist Attorney General - A billionaire Wall St CEO Commerce Secretary - A billionaire hedge fund manager Treasury Secretary

Still recovering after yesterday’s tankie encounter here It’s literally this meme happened to me o m g

Can Trump transition nominee Gothmog lower America’s egg prices with his new firebrand policies?

The United States is now moving to the Dark Side of the Force. Trump and his Maga minions have legalized their criminality. Putting rapists, underage molesters, felons and corrupt criminals in the highest offices of the land.

one can only hope

X is closed to the public, has algorithms favoring the wingnut owner's thought and countering it is like swimming upstream against a flooding river. But that's not an echo chamber, apparently.

how can twitter/threads etc be taken seriously when the competition is this

the party of the working class!!

Breaking News: New topless pics of first lady emerge

I wonder if the older Hungarians who lived thru the Russian invasion of 1956 and the younger Hungarians who enjoyed the benefits of joining the EU and NATO are really happy with what Orban is doing to their Country and to Hungary‘s reputation in Europe.

Peskov says there is no need for mobilisation, claiming that "a lot of people are signing contracts," the pay is "very substantial," and they are undergoing "vigorous training." I wonder what the men who end up in coffins two weeks after signing those contracts would think about that?

March, 2022. Mariupol, Ukraine. this cry haunts me for three years. in what kind of fucked up world this isn’t the escalation everyone would care about?

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

Someone remembered they have a nuclear arsenal yay

Behold! Ukrainian Nationalism 🫴 I am extremely tired of this treatment. It's a Ukrainian game, about Ukraine, made by Ukrainians. You won't see people saying "Japanese nationalism peeking through" when they see a kimono and a rising sun imagery in a Japanese game. Absurd. And offensive.

exactly what happened in 1939

Bluesky is already quickly replacing Twitter as a place where I am finding stories I want to talk about on my show, or finding video clips that are worth reacting to, etc.

So, @propublica.org reports that Georgia's maternal mortality review committee determined that two women died after being denied access to care under the state's abortion ban, and Georgia's response is to dismiss all members of the committee. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Russia did NOT - I repeat, did NOT - invade Ukraine "because of the Maidan revolution". Russia *capitalized* on the chaos in the country resulting from the violence and death unleashed upon the citizens of the country by then-president Yanukovych who enjoys sanctuary in Russia.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

Nancy Mace when she meets a new colleague