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Big news today: Bill Gates will wind down the Gates Foundation in 2045, earlier than previously planned, with accelerated giving over the next 20 years. “There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold onto resources that could be used to help people." www.statnews.com/2025/05/08/b...

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Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

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Jo, hvor er Bob Dylan i programmet? politiken.dk/ibyen/art103...

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I en verden fyldt med bekræftelser af, hvor lede og ondskabsfulde, mennesker kan være ved hinanden, er der noget opløftende ved at læse den her slags nyheder. Fra årets uddeling af hædersgaver til hverdagens helte. politiken.dk/danmark/art1...

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Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

submitted 13 days ago • 429 comments

3, 16, 7, 7, 15, 15, 15, 9, 17 Ages of the children killed by russia yesterday

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Good question. Why DOES Pete Hegseth have a Russian phone number? 🤨

submitted 45 days ago • 1148 comments

The real reason they chose to use Signal instead of the appropriate official channels, is the same reason they turned on disappearing messages. They didn’t want to leave a legally required record. What are they hiding in the other Signal groups?

submitted 46 days ago • 23 comments

Hold on, so Steve Witkoff was participating in the Signal group discussing war plans against Houthis while being physically in Moscow, perhaps even in the Kremlin? He met Putin late on March 13. Obviously the odds of Russia not compromising any device he would bring there are pretty slim.

submitted 47 days ago • 230 comments

Obviously, Jeffrey Goldberg has the texts that Hegseth claims that he doesn’t have. The Senate or House Armed Services Chairs can easily and quickly verify who is lying about this. If Hegseth blatant lied about this on camera tonight, how in the world can he continue in this job?

submitted 47 days ago • 1672 comments

Also let’s be clear about why they’re talking over Signal — they are attempting to skirt their obligations under the federal record preservation laws and ensure no records exists for public review. It’s incredibly illegal, but what do they do that isn’t?

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With all the words in the english language I cannot possibly convey what it feels like to hear a Russian drone over your head while reading this

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More than five years ago, I wrote about the American conservatives who admire Russia dictatorship. Now they run America www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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President Trump on potential sales of the F-47 aircraft: “Certain allies, we’ll be selling them, perhaps, toned down versions, we’d like to tone them down about 10%, which probably makes sense, because someday, maybe they're not our allies, right?”

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And thus commenced the golden age of American culture . . .

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Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK By "Led By Donkeys"

submitted 53 days ago • 254 comments

Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.

submitted 52 days ago • 1451 comments

Now that a partial ceasefire is supposedly in place, Western media should prepare to properly cover the Ru side violations that are guaranteed to follow. Ru’s MO is well-known—violate, lie, accuse Ukr of what Ru is doing. If you report the lies in good faith, you’re complicit in their info warfare

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Lovely sunset

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NEW: Putin is supposed to be on the phone with Trump about now. But Putin is on stage at this event. Here he’s asked if he is going to be late, Putin dismisses it & says not to listen to his spokesman. Very likely a set up question to make Putin look in charge & Trump look small. Everyone laughs.

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The disturbing bit isn’t that he thinks or posts this—that’s unsurprising. He's a regular RT columnist. It’s that this is what the director of national intelligence is consuming. This is the person she amplified just yesterday. This is the worldview what will be shaping the assessments she oversees

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NEW — Some US Institute of Peace employees just received an email from the independent agency’s new Trump-installed president, per a copy shared with me. They’ve been told to pass along this email to other employees (???) and to telework indefinitely.

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He wants to be Mussolini so bad he can taste it

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Based on this fast and excellent WaPo reporting, these four guys are not gang members, just Venezuelan dads who came to the US to work. They’re now being paraded in shackles in El Salvador www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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The crazy part is there's no evidence of any encircled Ukrainian soldiers. Since the russians don't plan to make any concessions whatsoever, they're inventing encircled Ukr soldiers to claim they're generously sparing their lives. Trump is either going along w it or is hoodwinked.

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When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

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They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

submitted 55 days ago • 752 comments

To put it in clearer terms…

submitted 55 days ago • 462 comments

The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes.

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Welcome to autocracy. The Republic we have known for the last 240 years is gone. This is going to keep getting worse. Much worse. The courts mean nothing, the law means nothing, Congress is irrelevant. He is a malignant psychopath.

submitted 55 days ago • 3058 comments

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

submitted 55 days ago • 713 comments

The US to Denmark: “We’re going to ‘annex’ Greenland. But can we buy some eggs from you first? We’ve ignored our bird flu problem and screwed our farmers over” Make America Great? They’re a joke.

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You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.

submitted 55 days ago • 738 comments

Dictator shit

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Is anybody still doubting that Trump & Musk aim for authoritarianism?

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3 years ago on this day, Russia bombed the Mariupol Drama Theater, which at that time served as a bomb shelter for civilians and had a huge sign "CHILDREN" written in russian in front of it. Estimated casualties are over 300 people.

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This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

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Fox News is now displaying photos of judges who rule against Trump while hosts and Republicans attack them live on air

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I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

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I can’t think of anything that would hurt MAGA more. Especially their political pastors.

submitted 56 days ago • 564 comments

They're here legally. They have SSNs, a driver's license, jobs cleaning hotels. They gave immigration officials their address. On Monday, federal agents took them from their home in handcuffs as their children screamed @teoarmus.bsky.social @mariasacchetti.bsky.social Steve Thompson wapo.st/4hcBWof

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