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✋ Former State Department war powers lawyer here. Some problems with the Speaker's remarks: --executive branch (even under Trump 1.0) has long treated the WPR as constitutional --some of the post-WWII military actions he refers to (eg Iraq, Afghanistan) had congressional war authorizations 1/n

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Let's review: 1. Iran was not building a nuclear weapon 2. US intel said that if the US bombed Iran, it might push Iran to build a nuke 4. Trump bombed Iran anyway 5. Trump claimed the bombs "obliterated" Iran's nuclear facilities 6. Iran's program was set back only a few months, US intel says

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The current administration has more successfully destroyed US science and the scientific enterprise than the hypothetical nuclear weapons program in Iran.

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Area physician expresses surprise that the anti-vax nutjob he supported to run HHS is anti-vax

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BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in canceled grants to University of California researchers, calling the terminations flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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I know that kWh stands for kilowatt-hour, ppB I'm uncertain

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GamesRadar+ has a whole page about how and what to pitch us: www.gamesradar.com/gamesradar-p... The email for the vast majority of freelance pitches to put it in front of the relevant eyeballs is: [email protected]

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Bill Cassidy and RFK Jr: A Short Story 1. Cassidy says that RFK Jr. will keep ACIP intact 2. RFK Jr. fires every member of ACIP 3. Cassidy says he will talk to RFK Jr. to ensure RFK Jr. appoints qualified people to ACIP 4. RFK Jr. appoints quacks 5. Cassidy wants to delay ACIP meeting

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If the VP being a piece of shit means you can't enforce the Constitution, you need to find another job.

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Bill Cassidy enters the “find out” phase of his poor decision.

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Anybody watching this Trump program knows that it’s all fiction & performance. His “instincts;” his “deal-making;” his status as “the ultimate CEO.” It’s utter fiction. It’s awful that media figures w/a reasonable level of sophistication pretend that the silly stories from Trump camp are credible.

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The Trump administration's plans to convert some 50,000 civil servants into at-will employees has some worried that essential government functions will be politicized.

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stares into abyss goes back to applying to jobs

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Don't you know I'm still masking better than I ever did? Looking like a true survivor, keep my nose and mouth well hid I'm still masking after all this time Trying to avoid the flu and COVID and things of that kind I'm still masking (yeah-yeah-yeah) I'm still masking (yeah-yeah-yeah)

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i am just saying someone who hires a person to literally play their video games for them would definitely not hesitate to do the same for their pee test in fact it is probably the same person who plays their video games

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had a very peaceful birthday am now tired and my knees hurt T_T

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

If you've read that Atlantic story by Annie Lowrey about why ranked choice voting sucks, I'm telling you she's wrong. And I know this because I did something in 2017 Annie did not for this story - I talked to a mathemtician.

submitted 8 days ago • 69 comments

Absolutely tragic that so many of the communications experts at NIH were fired but ol' Jay gets to launch a podcast. 🫠

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overheard in a coffee shop running news coverage: "which one is this?" "New York" We're into "we have to clarify which of the city politicians getting dragged off for defending immigrants" territory.

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In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

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worry less about "floor area ratio" and more about "price-to-income ratio"

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Just thinking about the patience and grace and commitedness of the Black activists from Ferguson etc who have seen their communities brutalized for decades by the pigs and by American fascism and are still out here and willing to welcome folks in to the fight

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It’s bleak out there, but it’s heartening to know millions of people from all walks of life took the time to ruin one specific persons birthday, America’s hater spirit remains strong

submitted 11 days ago • 64 comments

Another example of the right wing media machine selectively presenting and then twisting “evidence” into their strategic frames. This is how they work ALL THE TIME. As soon as an event happens, it’s all hands on deck to assemble evidence to fit their frames.

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

really nice coalition of: -ICE out of LA -defund Israel -i hate trump

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This is the slap back to Stephen Miller’s “arrest everyone” madness. And an admission that Trump is under pressure from multiple industries that rely on migrant workers. This is huge and important. Keep amplifying the harm done by the Trump/Miller zealous, cruel overreach. Don’t bury this.

submitted 12 days ago • 140 comments

I’ve seen a lot of hand wringing about the dangers of going to No Kings protests and gently, I want to tell people to chill a little. These are permitted marches and the point is to be out there and seen en masse. Please don’t scare off people who are maybe going to their very first protest

submitted 12 days ago • 120 comments

ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

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Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY

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this is art

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I don’t really have words to explain how it feels to see Kristi Noem standing on a street in East LA that looks like the street I grew up on in East LA with an invading military force trying to kidnap people who look like the neighbors I grew up with. It stays with you, spiritually.

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john brown did nothing wrong.

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I wonder if they could get the remaining beastie boys to key them rework a version of no sleep till Brooklyn for this

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US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

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Yeah, we've all seen the video. 1) He doesn't lunge. 2) Even if she, amazingly, didn't know the identity of one of the two Senators of the state where she was speaking, who was also ranking member of the committee that overseas her work, the first words out of his mouth are "I'm Senator Padilla"

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shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"

submitted 13 days ago • 154 comments

time for my new favorite tumblr post

submitted 14 days ago • 34 comments

Kendrick really went to Toronto and called Drake a pedophile in his own city to a sold out stadium. And he’s going to do that shit again tomorrow night. Incredible hating.

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Update: I would like to stop living through events covered in the 2075 AP US AND World History Exams

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THERE’S a headline. @politico.com www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

Wow, Turner REALLY tried here.

submitted 14 days ago • 35 comments

So pretty clear, the pentagon does have plans for taking Greenland.

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New figures from CBO about how Americans at different income levels are affected by the GOP's Big Beautiful Bill. Topline finding: Richest decile gets about 2% richer. Poorest decile gets about 4% poorer. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

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RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…