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People forget that the occupation of Iraq was managed by the 2004 iteration of Big Balls. 22-year-olds fresh out of a kegger at Texas A&M were given $100 million in cash to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure.

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Land of liberty and freedom folks.

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Not sure I disagree with Obama here. A steady stream of criticism IS required, but he may not be the best person to do it.

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Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

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Jesus. Trump demanded “unconditional surrender" from a state with which THE UNITED STATES IS NOT AT WAR, one that just a few hours ago he was still talking about a "deal" with.

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Trump told the entire 10 million population of Tehran to evacuate; said the US has "total control" of the skies over Iran; threatened to kill Iran's leader; and posted "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" And Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have not said a word yet.

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“latest shooting of gazans seeking food”

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The Minnesota perpetrator appears to have been motivated by Christian right wing, anti abortionist beliefs. Yet, a lot of attention is being paid to his alleged depression and mental health. This ties in with the findings on bias reporting in cases of terrorism: pt.icct.nl/article/unco...

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This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."

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It would seem that Russia is still has a representative in the G7.

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And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.

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Imagine what he dares to say when not on national television. What motivates someone to vote for such a combination of hatred and stupidity?

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Here's how it went for me today Went fishing... random kid (7 or 8) runs up behind me, asks if I caught any fish, said no but caught a few crayfish, showed him and his grandfather the crayfish pics Kid was asking me a million questions per second about fishing, so I just handed him the rod 1/

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People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse

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🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/

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Just four hours ago, even after we’ve learned the shooter was as an anti-abortionist Trump supporter, a sitting U.S. Senator is spreading fake conspiracy theories blaming the murder of a Democratic lawmaker on Democrats. Not only that, he’s pinned the post! Abominably evil stuff from Mike Lee.

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Mark Carney invited Saudi Arabia to participate in the G7 in Canada. He can’t talk about defending human rights and democratic values while cozying up to the House of Saud.

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The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

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A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.

submitted 3 days ago • 166 comments

Boycott Amazon.

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"the widely accepted 'germ theory'" come on, do better, you don't have to hint that there might sorta be two sides here Like this: RFK embraces an entirely discredited theory of disease, completely disregarding centuries of medical knowledge

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In some sermons that we reviewed, Vance Boelter can be heard railing against the LGBTQ community and abortion www.wired.com/story/shooti... story with @timmarchman.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social

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I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

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“The man believed to have shot two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, one fatally, had papers in his car that indicated he may have been planning to target one of the “No Kings” protests taking place in cities across the country on Saturday.”

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Essential reading (by @jasonstanley.bsky.social) for every American. The media, aided by a handful of reactionary academics and compliant university administrations, has sold the public a huge lie about wokeness on college campuses, enabling the extreme right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Netanyahu wanted to strike Iran when Obama was president. Obama said no and he didn’t. Netanyahu wanted to strike Iran when Biden was president. Biden said no and he didn’t. Netanyahu wanted to strike Iran when Trump is president. Trump said no and he did.

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Signed.

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Thoughts and prayers to the AP social media team for thinking today was a great day for this kind of article. I’m sure this advice will resonate with Palestinians, Iranians, Israelis and Minnesota lawmakers. Also a great read while waiting for a military parade.

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I think it’s less interesting to talk about the righteousness (or not) of Israel’s definitely NOT preemptive attack on Iran, and more interesting to ask if the attack would have happened at all if Netanyahu wasn’t working so hard to cling to power, avoid prosecution. Perhaps a more telling metric.

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I spoke with the LA-area pastor who confronted masked men conducting an apparent immigration action on church property — men, she says, who said "the whole country is our property." DHS claims ICE wan't there — but I have video, and it may've still been a DHS team. religionnews.com/2025/06/13/i...

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Who would have guessed ICE were such snowflakes.

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i don’t need my law degree to tell you that telling a police officer to “honor your oath bitch” is protected first amendment speech this dude needs to sue expeditiously

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LAPD is illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol. Under California law, police agencies are barred from sharing license plate reader data with out-of-state public agencies or federal entities.

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Really you're telling me the admin's line of "Yes we knew ahead of time Israel was gonna bomb you, but we definitely weren't involved" wasn't enough to smooth things over.

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