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And what is the nationality of the baby in Kentucky?

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Finally some sense at Fox.

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BREAKING: US President Donald Trump has posted on Truth Social saying he is 'terminating all discussions on trade with Canada'

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“From:me” in the search bar to search only for your own posts is one of the best Bluesky tricks most people don’t know.

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Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."

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How Lisbon made itself irresistible to tourists – and became the least affordable city in Europe | Agustín Cocola-Gant

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Full disclosure: I used to work at the General Service Office of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. as a non-member. I have a fuckton of not good things to say about my time there, so I tend to avoid any and all 12 Steps/AA shit. But this? This, my friends, I want to hang on my wall as art.

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AOC is quite on point with this.

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BREAKING: Iran retaliates, fires missiles at US bases in Qatar www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

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AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

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Keir Starmer endorses an attack which his own Attorney General has advised may be illegal

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Look, Britain is always going to support the US but this is an absolutely nonsense statement. Iran didn't leave the negotiation table. Israel launched an unprovoked attack which America has now joined.

submitted 6 days ago • 121 comments

The racism is off the charts with this regime.

submitted 6 days ago • 582 comments

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

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🗣️9 YEAR OLD: “What Trump is doing is frightening — unlike some people we know the meaning of the Declaration of Independence.”

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New vlog👇We’re in Parliament. Over 700 people talking to their MPs about the hardship they’re seeing in their communities & asking them to support reforming Universal Credit & stop massive cuts to disability support. @TrussellUK @jrf_uk

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Wait a minute...didn't we all learn from the Trump Mar-a-Lago case that doing this is totally OK, and that jailing any person for it would mean America haa a "two-tiered system of justice" that is biased against Donald Trump? Really confusing these days trying to navigate the American fascist state

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C-SPAN caller to Tapper: "When are you going to examine what's going on with Trump? ... this president has been pure chaos, which indicates to me that there is something wrong with him. We will never get a straight answer on his medical exam, and yet you have gone after Joe Biden with a vengeance."

submitted 11 days ago • 1310 comments

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? American democracy, even when it worked, was far from the best kind. Great stuff by 1788 standards but it’s 2025. Other countries have found better ways of structuring political institutions, allocating power, and funding elections.

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Trump slams Macron on Truth Social for saying he was leaving G7 to work on a ceasefire deal: “Wrong! He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that”

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Saudi Arabia has executed another journalist, Turki Al-Jasser, after 7 years of detention for reporting on corruption. The failure to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi only encourages further acts of deadly violence against journalists in the Persian Gulf & elsewhere.

submitted 11 days ago • 151 comments

@therestpolitics.bsky.social can’t continue listening to your leading interview this week. What a horrible person he is.

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Oh 😑

submitted 13 days ago • 148 comments

Starting a war in order to divert political and diplomatic attention away from a genocide. Doesn't get much worse than this. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

submitted 13 days ago • 742 comments

Compilation of massive 'NO KINGS!' protests today ✊ #NoKings

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@maddow.msnbc.com Hey Rachel, I hope you can give some love to San Diego on Monday night. Biggest crowd size ever, 60,000+, two marches became one quite spectacularly at the Waterfront 💙🇺🇸

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Are FIFA and the IOC having any discussions about the feasibility of the U.S. hosting the Olympics and World Cup matches?

submitted 13 days ago • 253 comments

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

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Thousands of protesters turned out in downtown Dallas.

submitted 14 days ago • 145 comments

Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

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"You're suffering a bit like Trump might say you're suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome" is definitely one way to begin an interview.

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Enabled by your government.

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Don't let all the news distract you from the ongoing starvation and killing of Palestinians in Gaza. The Israeli govt is deliberately trying to prevent news getting out . It dismisses what news there is as Hamas propaganda while refusing to let international journalists in. An information war too.

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I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.

submitted 14 days ago • 324 comments

This is hilarious.

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"I cannot say this strongly enough: until 2026, only two things stand between the authoritarian project and its objectives: the judiciary and a popular protest movement. We have no control over the former. We must not surrender, or abandon, the latter."

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“We want to create contrast, not conflict...” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

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😳😮😲. As the Joe Turns

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I'm in the minority, and maybe a small one, but I think these administrative stays are genuinely harmful and should not be treated as routine. A federal court has ruled that a dramatic step of national significance was illegal and unconstitutional. It ruled. 1/

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June 13, 2023: Donald Trump and Walt Nauta are arraigned on 38 felony charges in Miami for illegal retention of classified documents.

submitted 15 days ago • 140 comments

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

submitted 16 days ago • 63 comments

I can see how Hitler happened. The last decade or so in the U.S. makes it easy to imagine. Not just Hitler; the Tulsa race massacre, Rosewood, lynching, slavery, the Rwanda & Rohingya genocides & more. There is a wolf pack evil that lurks in the human heart and it’s easily activated by a demagogue.

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Palmer: Charges should be brought against each one of you AOC: Raising the prospect of charges against witnesses is a form of intimidation is it not? Palmer: I strike those words

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America’s Generals are terrified. They are cowed. They seem unlikely to hold the line and live up to their oaths to serve the U.S. Constitution. Trump violated the law (the Hatch Act) conducting a political rally at Fort Bragg, rousing the troops to cheer his slogans but the Generals stay silent.

submitted 17 days ago • 155 comments