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The real tragedy of young men today is not that they're being held back from success by a bunch of woke scolds. The real tragedy is that they're being told that success & happiness come through escaping all constraints, dominating & controlling others, & suppressing all vulnerability or weakness.

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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.

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I honestly think that this is a sanctionable brief. It falsely claims that the District Court "forc[ed] the government to detain [8 men] at a military base in Djibouti." This is false. As Judge Murphy himself repeatedly emphasized, it was the DOJ that requested the option of holding them overseas!

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Not a coincidence.

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You just know he's going to blow it all on squeaky toys & catnip.

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Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.

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seems kinda bad that the House GOP is ordering half a trillion in cuts to Medicare now? Not Medicaid but Medicare. Is that bad?

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Very Hard times for our HIV team in Uganda. We’ve reduced incidence of new infections by over 90%. We know how to stop transmission and end AIDS. We were close to zero. What we need now is the will. @rhsp-ug.bsky.social #HIV #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #Uganda #EndAIDS #PEPFAR

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They're getting closer

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I spent many years on a menswear forum with Michael Anton, director of policy planning in Trump's administration. My editors asked if I'd be interested in writing something on him. I have so many stories to tell; this is only a small bit of our shared menswear world www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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The Court’s ‘Make It Up As You Go’ Constitution talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-c...

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🚨🚨🚨 SURPRISE! GOP #MedicaidMassacre bill is also a #MedicareMassacre bill! @repbrendanboyle.bsky.social broke the news last night: The CBO says the bill would require $535 BILLION in cuts to MEDICARE on top of Medicaid & the ACA being gutted. acasignups.net/25/05/21/sur...

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-$1.5T in new tax cuts predominantly for the rich -$700B in Medicaid cuts -$500B in Medicare cuts -$300B in SNAP cuts -Leasing public lands to Big Oil -Ending IRS Direct File -Ending clean energy tax credits -Banning AI regulation in the states The oligarchy's wish list.

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What?!?! The EPA has drafted a plan to eliminate all pollution controls from coal and gas-fired power plants. The agency claims these plants “do not contribute significantly” to dangerous pollution or climate change, arguing their emissions are a small and declining share of global totals.

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🚨🚨🚨The attack came in waves, with Russia launching 14 ballistic missiles and 250 drones in the early hours of Saturday, although Ukrainian forces shot down six missiles and stopped most of the drones before they reached Kyiv. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Dear Tim Cook, Extortion is a continuous process. Hope this helps.

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Thank you to Southern University at New Orleans for the honor of serving as your 2025 commencement speaker, and for the incredible gift of an honorary doctorate. To the graduates: They underestimated SUNO. They underestimated you. But you pushed through every obstacle, every setback, & still rose.

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"Is that it?" -- Trump did that thing again today where he signs a bunch of executive orders but doesn't seem to know what he's signing and needs to have it explained to him

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Gonna try this next time I lose at pickup.

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I wrote about how Trump is trying to kill climate action in the states for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Rachel Cohen on resigning from Skadden: I would say to people: We’re going to end up staffed on financings to help prison corporations expand the Guantánamo Bay camp. Every single person I said that to responded, “Oh, don’t say that.” Not one person said, “No, we won’t.” A few even said, “Yes.”

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The commander in chief of the U.S. military

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ok grandpa let's get you to bed

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The Trumpites are on the warpath about Biden's "autopen" — that he didn't actually sign orders. Trump has no idea what he is signing. Anyone who has dealt with declining relatives knows the way you could amuse them by letting them think they are doing big things. The difference in this case ...

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Trump's West Point commencement audience is totally silent as he rants about trophy wives and yachts

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"If it all seems utterly stupid and terribly cruel and amazingly damaging to this country, it’s because it is."

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Way to go Greenland 👏 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/greenla...

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Make this make sense. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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"Trump is unique among the nation’s presidents in having no interest in presiding over a functioning govt, let alone building institutions that will survive his term in office. That's why the analogies pundits have tried to draw between the early periods of other presidencies fall entirely flat."

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The Pete Hegseth “Warfighter” Era.

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The White House tour by the $TRUMP giant buyers, many of them from Singapore and other places in Asia, is now a wrap. We were there as they entered and exited the White House

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Here’s a little something for your nightmares:

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www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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Moskowitz: They have no brakes. They’re drunk with power. And the only way we’re going to send a message to them—the only way we’re going to be able to put brakes on this and stop it—is to make Hakeem Jeffries Speaker.

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NEW: A three-year investigation found that Phoenix police routinely violated the rights of homeless people. This week, DOJ officials announced that they had abandoned efforts to ensure the city and its police department addressed those issues. By @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social

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This is an eye-popping recipe for corruption and abuse:

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The U.S. has officially accepted a luxury jetliner from Qatar as a gift, and slated it to become a new Air Force One. Experts say that overhaul could take years and cost hundreds of millions.

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“This thin-skinned tyrant is determined to strip the White House of actual reporters & threaten media companies if they dare to question him. It’s an appalling sign every reporter in the Oval Office didn’t speak up or get up and leave in support of NBC’s Alexander.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

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Those who commit their life to public service deserve to retire with dignity and security. That’s why I just signed a bill to boost pensions for Minnesota teachers, police officers, and firefighters.

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The nominee for USCIS, overseeing student visas, says he wants to end the "optional practical training" for students on F-1 visas. This allows foreign students to stay up to 3 yrs working & contributing economically after getting their degree. Block him, @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

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Corruption on a massive scale, all in plain sight. The GOP is too craven and greedy for its own tax breaks to call it out.

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Chirping all the talking points, @MarshaBlackburn makes it clear she will vote to slash trillions in health care for regular folks to get Trump’s trillions in tax cuts for the rich passed, while exploding the debt she never really cared about.

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www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-mar... #VaccineScience #VaccinesWork #MeaslesIsADangerousVirus #MeaslesVaccineVastlySafer

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Pete Hegseth, constantly paranoid about someone in the Pentagon talking to the press about the crazy shit he’s doing on a daily basis, issues a new set of rules for the media restricting access to the building. Why are they constantly trying to hide everything from the public?

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Pope to Curia: “Each person can be a builder of unity with their attitudes towards colleagues, overcoming inevitable misunderstandings with patience…putting themselves in the shoes of others, avoiding prejudices, and with a good dose of humor, as Francis taught us.” press.vatican.va/content/sala...

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