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If Trump went trans, would he be a #TACO Belle? You're not allowed to taco 'bout it

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Man @kateshaw.bsky.social is very smart and her writing on the Supreme Court is excellent www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/o...

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Small modular reactors produce high levels of nuclear waste | Stanford Report

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What a lovely story

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The GOP’s “big beautiful bill” includes a clause giving Donald Trump the ability to revoke the tax-exempt status of any group the Treasury Department says is a terrorism supporter. The bill is in the reconciliation process, meaning it only requires a simple majority in the House and Senate to pass.

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Sephiroth is our next Surgeon General. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Before the Trump administration took office, we revealed Russell Vought’s plan to demonize civil servants and “put them in trauma.” Since then, we've doubled down on our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. If you have information you can share, here's how you can get in touch.

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Those are the only two sources for medical experts

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Unsure about the opposition's policies? It's your own fault, because as Skye Predavec writes, Peter Dutton has been "very clear"... repeatedly. #OffTheCharts australiainstitute.org.au/post/this-el...

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On May 4th, there'll be a Conclave to select the next leader of the opposition who's willing to blow smoke up Gina's skirt

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Clive Palmer's Trumpet of Patriots party has new advertising. And yes, this was a real album cover.

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The Art of the Shlemiel

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From a friend: 7yo: I left my tooth out, but the fairy didn’t come!! Is she in quarantine? Me: Oh s*** Me: It’s Anzac Day. Fairies don’t work on Anzac Day

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The latest wave of Accent Research/RedBridge poll tracking in 20 marginal seats, published by News Corp, has shown Labor with a 54.5-45.5 two-party-preferred lead over the Coalition There has also been a 9% drop in the Coalition's primary vote across the 20 seats since February

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All data points must fit the model

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Trump's tariff logic: * If the tariffs are to bring manufacturing back to the USA, they must be implemented without change for years. Which Trump said he was doing. * If the tariffs are a negotiation ploy, they will be short-term and drop soon. Can anyone resolve this conflict?

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In a $1.6B lawsuit, Meta is accused of helping incite ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia. If the case succeeds, writes @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social, it could open the door to real accountability for platform-enabled violence worldwide. www.compiler.news/kenya-lawsui...

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I'm calling for tariffs on Coles after discovering that I have a trade deficit with them. The penguins have agreed to support me.

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A public meeting on Heard and McDonald Islands after the 10% tariff levied on them.

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It's April 1st here in Australia. So, today would be a great day for America to call April Fools and let us in on the most elaborate hoax of all time, which they've spent the past six months devising to prank us all.

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It keeps being reported that the ACCC Inquiry into Supermarkets found no evidence of price gouging going on. But the reason it didn't find any was because IT WAS NOT EXAMINING IF THERE WAS ANY PRICE GOUGING GOING ON!!! live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/03/aust...

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A Paris court has convicted French far-right leader Marine Le Pen of embezzling money from the European parliament. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

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We are currently living in The Age of Incompetent Hypocrites.

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After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.

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"Freedom seeds" is the most sickening term I've seen www.facebook.com/share/1AZ8MQ...

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Butter Emails

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The Budget should include a massive and historic increase in funding for research. Not only is it needed, but we really should be poaching ever medical and scientific researcher from the US we can. Absolutely perfect timing.

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His track record speaks for itself. While we continue to resist, we should take comfort in that he is deeply incompetent, not very bright & his policies are hurting even his most devoted supporters. Let's not get in the way of his inevitable self-destruction.

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Of course, having to stay in DC past today would have interfered with Schumer’s book tour which begins Monday.

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Is Canada keeping this up its collective sleeve? Epic, if it ever happens: 😅👇

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One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ? They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses. That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue. The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

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Executive order to limit legal challenges to his executive orders? Thurs, tRump issued an executive order to limit legal challenges to his admin’s actions by seeking to get judges to require monetary “security” payments from plaintiffs if an injunction is issued. truthout.org/articles/tru...

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This regime is animated by theft on the biggest scale. They want to loot the government, steal from us, and add to the $79 trillion the 1% has taken from everyone else over the last 50 years. Every single working person in the US should unite against being robbed. www.jphilll.com/p/a-governme...

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How long before we start spelling America - Аме́рика?

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Tweet from the Chinese Embassy to the USA If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we're ready to fight till the end.

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This type of analysis is very needed

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