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Impeach Tom Homan. Impeach Kristi Noem. Impeach Marco Rubio. Impeach Donald Trump.

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NEW: The National Science Foundation last week terminated 196 grants to Harvard amid the university's feud with Trump. “Pure retribution,” one NSF employee told me of the administration axing $46 million in unfinished research. www.huffpost.com/entry/nation...

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We’ve known the answer to this question since 2015

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Wondering if "DA POPE" was too much. RIP, Norm.

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Can we start using the term "Robber Baron" again instead of "Oligarch"? Example: "Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg are all robber barons." I think "Robber Baron" is more descriptive. Someone please whisper this in Tim Walz's ear.

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Take the minute and a half, and listen to this. No, really. Do it now.

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Now is a great time to reach out to your member of Congress who promised not to cut Medicaid. Or to your conservative friends who don't think we should be exploding the debt. Because today, Donald Trump met with Republicans on Capitol Hill, trying to pass a bill that would do both.

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Democrats have denounced the charges as politically motivated and an effort by the Trump administration to intimidate members of Congress and chill oversight.

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There's no way this becomes law but good on them for doing something. And please let it have real teeth.

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Paging @religionprof.bsky.social ...

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Impeach Kristi Noem

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Journalists will cover a Republican soliciting a bribe then lying about it like this, and still have the gall act all surprised Pikachu that public trust in their profession is at an all time low.

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USIP: Federal judge overturns Trump’s efforts to take over and cripple US Institute of Peace | CNN Politics

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"Majors in nutrition, art history and philosophy all outperformed STEM fields when it comes to employment prospects, according to a recent analysis of labor market outcomes of college graduates by major by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."

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Rep. LaMonica McIver being charged by Trump’s DOJ for “assaulting” a cop is particularly scary because it was all on camera with many witnesses and the administration feels comfortable enough to straight up lie with impunity and target a sitting congresswoman

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FYI to my Episcopalian friends: this lawyer who has been disappeared in El Salvador is with @cristosal.bsky.social, a human rights org that was originally founded by the Episcopal Diocese of El Salvador & Bp. Martin Barahona; many churches in the USA (incl mine) have supported their work for years ⚓️

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At least 50 migrants sent to El Salvador prison entered US legally: Report thehill.com/policy/natio...

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In today's edition of we f*cking told you so... The GOP’s latest budget proposal does not cut the deficit. The plan would add TRILLIONS to the deficit by 2034, locking in tax cuts for the wealthy while slashing Medicaid and nutrition assistance. 1/

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NPR published a story 5 days ago about three high ranking Trump officials with clear ties to Hitler-admiring antisemites and it barely made a ripple. These are the kind of stories that used to end political careers. Now the subjects of the stories just hold up a middle finger and keep plowing ahead.

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I have this radical idea that if something bad happens to a person, the appropriate response is, “I’m so sorry this happened to you.” I am shocked by the number of people who think being an armchair doctor or unfeeling jerk are the right course of action. If you can’t be kind, keep your mouth shut.

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My book is under $10 right now: www.amazon.com/Eusebius-Eva...

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And when they've broken everything and made people's lives worse in dozens of different ways, the GOP response is going to be complaining that the government is broken and we need to try New Things instead. No, it was working. They broke it. Don't let them weasel out of responsibility.

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The president has ALREADY raised your taxes A 145% tariff rate for China was an embargo - no one was importing A 30% rate will make everything from China more expensive Just ask WalMart

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Chris Murphy: "There's just no doubt that it was Donald Trump who added more to the deficit than any president in the history of the country, and he is on pace to do it for a second time. It's gonna crater to the economy, and it won't have an impact on his billionaire friends."

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Since Biden is being decimated today, I’ll just say again that he Facetimed my brother before a particularly rough chemo round to give him a pep talk, even though he didn’t know anything about my brother other than he was a veteran who was poisoned by the same burn pits that killed his son, Beau.

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This seems bad

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I remember the ground shaking and hearing large bang. I was 250 miles north of it.

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Pete Hegseth's wife is playing the role of the pastor's wife in white evangelicalism... and that may be a harbinger of things to come. @bethallisonbarr explains. ⬇️

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Chris Murphy: "Why did Trump choose these 3 countries to go for his first major foreign trip? It's not because these are our most important allies or the most important countries in the world. It's because these are the 3 countries willing to pay him off ... this is the definition of corruption."

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MUST WATCH: Holy hell. Brendan Boyle just obliterated the GOP’s Reconciliation scam live on the floor, calling out every crooked clause and profiteer-friendly loophole like a prosecutor in a murder trial. This isn’t political theater — this is war.

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yes. this.

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It will take a Herculean effort to even just account for all the harm this regime is doing, on so many levels, at home and abroad.

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Genocide By Elon™️

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Trump is attempting to ethnically cleanse Gaza www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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I had no idea about the independent, equity-based history of the IAS! Worth reading the thread!

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Impeach them all. apnews.com/article/usai...

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Many of the major changes Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service pushed at Social Security have been abandoned or are being reversed after proving ineffective, while others are yielding unintended consequences and badly damaging customer service and satisfaction.

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best unicode character is "ꙮ" without a doubt. used one time in a single 15th century manuscript to emphasise "many-eyed seraphim" and unicode thought it was really important that we can type that whenever we want

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This would be an obvious act of ethnic cleansing under international law.

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SO MUCH WINNING MAGA MAGA MAGA

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Noticeable that teenagers routinely demonstrate an ability to speak more clearly about right and wrong than almost every elected leader in the Democratic Party. (See also: gun control, gay rights, racism, etc.)

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