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was just parked next to a Toyota Tacoma with a full rack of bumper stickers in roughly four categories: 1) semper fi Marines 2) yay 2A 3) save our wetlands 4) Harris/Walz 2024

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“Killer heat,” may strike the ear as alarmist, but that is exactly what it is. Get ready for several years of killer heat, top weather forecasters warn www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

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Republicans changed the rules, & now practically any action the executive branch takes can be challenged in Congress. Any 30 Senators can bring up a vote, & get a guaranteed 10 hours of floor time. Meaning that Democrats could hold the floor indefinitely, if they wanted. prospect.org/politics/202...

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still waiting for one (1) reporter with access to ask Musk or Trump what they think about Amy Gleason’s job performance

submitted 11 hours ago • 30 comments

22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.

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unions: they get the job done

submitted 12 hours ago • 88 comments

therapist: “bluesky can not hurt u darth it is not real” bluesky:

submitted 12 hours ago • 56 comments

Look, there was less evidence that JD Vance fucked a couch than there is about the Threesome Reich, so I think we all owe it to each other to make this a Major Story

submitted 11 hours ago • 50 comments

Imagine getting cucked by the guy whose rocket doesn’t even work

submitted 11 hours ago • 48 comments

On Earth 2.0, folks on the other side of the aisle would say loud and clear that if "everyone involved in the deal understand the payment as the price of merger approval" then it is a bribe, and all of those people should expect to go to prison if it goes ahead in the next administration

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Oh I am not shitposting, folks. Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple. Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk. They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad

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THREAD 🧵 Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/

submitted 13 hours ago • 82 comments

Magapublicans have no use for the Constitution. My latest:

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lol

submitted 18 hours ago • 48 comments

On the one hand a strategic pick, given that Bove may live for three or four more centuries. On the other, exposure to sunlight turns him to pile of smoldering ash, so he’ll only be able to hear cases at night.

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Breaking: HHS is canceling a $600 million contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

submitted 17 hours ago • 272 comments

BREAKING: Federal court says Trump exceeded his authority to impose tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 16 hours ago • 136 comments

Marco Rubio, in his current job, took the official actions that led to Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Öztürk being abducted and imprisoned for their speech in the United States.

submitted 22 hours ago • 143 comments

Tesla FSD 13.2.9 will still run a kid down while illegally blowing past a stopped school bus with red lights flashing and stop sign extended. Elon Musk how many kids does FSD need to run over before you fix this? I warned about this danger at the 2023 Super Bowl!

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Tesla sales are down 20%, the Cybertruck is a flop of unprecedented proportions, Starship keeps failing to make orbit while leaking fuel into its engine bay, X is worth a fraction of what Musk bought Twitter for, XAI has to pay Telegram to become the first adopter of Grok, Elon does nothing but miss

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This is basically a bad Chuck Tingle story, except very real and with a lot more sexual harassment and serious professional misconduct.

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Just in: Texas' former solicitor general has left the AG's office amid sex misconduct allegations and a lawsuit outlining his apparent, months of detailed disclosures to colleagues about his sexual obsession with watching an asteroid anally rape the agency's No. 2 attorney in front of his kids.

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Conservatives believe free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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just going on the teevee and admitting it's all first amendment violations

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I often think about that Karl Rove quote, where he’s sneering at the ‘reality based community’, who will never be able to do anything but analyze what the true actors of history do. He said that in 2004, at probably the high watermark of the Bush 2 presidency. Sooner or later the bill comes due.

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real “this car keeps running out of gas, let’s just remove the gas tank” energy here

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This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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This is how white supremacist narratives work. This claim has been litigated repeatedly and proven to be NOT TRUE. But they “feel it.” You can’t disprove it. The Lost Cause. Reverse Discrimination. Welfare Queens. The whole thing survives on myths. www.yahoo.com/news/vice-pr...

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In anti-authoritarian struggles, criticizing the regime for their blatant corruption is often one of the most important ways to mobilize the public and break through to regime supporters. The Trump regime is the most corrupt in US history—it’s worth repeating ad nauseam

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This dude going on Fox News to say Biden was worse than Watergate in the middle of trump shredding the constitution. Nobody can possibly be unclear on what he’s doing here.

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we should be very clear here: Jake Tapper is glad Trump is ruling this country like a king and is intentionally helping him consolidate power in the service of selling books

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i owe you an apologise biden... i wasn't familiar with your game

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4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

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Yes, she says, we need more tradespeople - but not her. She means the plebs, you see. She went to St. Anselm's College (softball scholarship) and majored in communications and minored in poli sci.

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I want to hear from the bettors who think the Rapture will come AND that Polymarket will still be paying out bets in the aftermath

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ok I feel completely insane asking this but like weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"

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Dressing like a guy in Andor now. My shirt collar is also part of my jacket somehow. My tie is some kind of strap. I have two capes on.

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

me, reading DOJ’s Abrego Garcia motion to dismiss

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The Utah Report shows exactly what the people commissioning it didn’t want to see, that gender affirming care works. This article brought to you by @evanurquhart.bsky.social

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This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. They're trying to get away with it again.

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Not sure if democracy remains on the docket? My law firm is litigating 53 voting and election cases in 22 states. When we fight, we win.

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