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Apparently TQL stadium is embracing butt rock in the year of our lord 2025

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Thoroughly enjoyed half one. Final 20 min were a bit rough. But I can sense the potential.

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Hegseth is going to fire every woman or Black person in military leadership.

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An FCC probe of an SF radio station over a story it didn't like. A judge-ordered takedown of a newspaper editorial. We are watching the 1st Amendment die rapidly, inspired by a president who declares himself a king How can the media fight back? My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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New: Trump and those around him aren't acting like they're testing the boundaries of criminal law. They seem to be crossing them whimsically. What do you suppose people like that will do if and when they start to think their impunity might be at risk?

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Why is this so hard for news orgs? www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin...

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New, at Can We Still Govern: Rachael worked as a govt technologist, specializing in trauma-informed design of public services. Then the Trump admin promised to put her and other public employees "in trauma." She explains what this means. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-weapon...

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Democratic officeholders will never, ever take a direct action to solve a problem when they can defer it by proposing some sort of Rube Goldberg process that would be less effective even if it worked which it won't

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I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

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Hitler, who I do not support, never would have embraced genocide, which I also do not support, if the Weimar shitlibs hadn't tried so hard to deplatform him. by Glenn Greenwald

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Anne Marie Hochhalter, who spoke publicly about the long-lasting effects of gun violence after she was paralyzed in the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, was found dead on Sunday at her home. She was 43. nyti.ms/3X8xaB0

submitted 6 days ago • 108 comments

I’m not in charge of shit but if there were suddenly hundreds of very experienced civil servants with something to prove and an ax to grind and lots of time on their hands I’d call that a super squad in a shadow gov but what do I know

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I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

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The United States is no longer trying to operate as a great power—even a cynical great power—but only as whatever feels epic to Musk or gratifying to Trump in the moment.

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GOOD www.cincinnati.com/story/money/...

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It’s been 4 years since I published one of the most important things I’ve ever written and I stand so strongly still with every word (do not yell at me about the headline I didn’t write it). January 6 was ultimately successful and how our media failed then tells us a lot about what we’re seeing now.

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one of the reasons i wrote this piece is to get away from the gauzy mythology of the civil rights movement "spontaneous mass resistance" "rosa parks was just tired". no. the movement remains a masterclass in the tactics--and the strategy--of resistance.

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Ugh. So close

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the thing about the civil rights movement is that they weren't a mass movement, not really. the freedom rides and the freedom summer were a few thousand people. but they understood that despite lacking all formal power, they could create confrontations that advanced their narrative. it worked.

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I knew exactly where to look

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A Valentine’s story that is PROBABLY safe for VD Day Haters! I told this story in The Book of Queer Mormon Joy but could not tell it at events because it is NOT FAMILY FRIENDLY It concerns, as we now call them, The Chocolate Sauce Couple

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The lead prosecutor in the Eric Adams case has resigned over DOJ's order that the case be dismissed. "I expect you will eventually find someone who will be enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 11 days ago • 64 comments

underrated how much the DOGE groyper dipshits are exposing everyone to regular-ass criminals all over the world. the potential for theft is practically limitless

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A huge decision from Judge Amir Ali, meticulously reasoned and utterly scathing, finding that Trump’s foreign aid freeze is almost certainly an illegal and arbitrary abuse of power. He orders the immediate restoration of all international assistance. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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It's getting tiring to keep saying this, but for posterity's sake I will: any previous administration would have been instantly sunk by this. Before January 20, 2017, this would have been the most stunning corruption scandal in the history of the American justice system. Now, it's...a Thursday.

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In this void of Dem silence, how easy would it be for Adams and the Trump admin to announce an immigration partnership, and claim far-left Dems are trying to thwart them by pressuring the governor to remove Adams from office. Act first! Tell the true story before they tell a false one!

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

I don't think it's coincidence that the administration is full of abusers and assaulters, and I don't think it's just "we don't care about this" either; I think they actively value it.

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Defiance in New York: Acting US Atty resigns rather than carry out corrupt order from Main Justice talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/defia...

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"Shadow cabinets" are well established in UK and elsewhere. Main challenge for Dems is figuring out who would be the shadow ministers/Cabinet Secretaries. But it's a necessary step.

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A message to Jewish Americans, especially our leaders, please join us in this appeal to Vice President Vance: Until you condemn the many connections to neo-Nazis in your new administration, please stay off of the sacred ground upon which our parents and grandparents were slaughtered.

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This is literally a death sentence for Medicaid and every person who depends on it. Death sentence.

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I touch physical currency probably once a month and it almost never includes coins

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Eric Adams railed against the Biden administration for failing to help NYC handle the arrival of migrants. Now that Musk is illegally seizing funds from city accounts, he has only the mildest things to say. This is the first example of what Adams’ corrupt bargain will cost.

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Haven’t seen an official announcement yet but if this is it I’m a fan

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11 days til opening day 🔶🔷

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i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!

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Have mercy on those who doubt

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🇧🇷🟠 BREAKING: FC Cincinnati are finalizing a blockbuster deal to sign star midfielder Evander from the Portland Timbers, per sources. Timbers will receive $12m + add-ons. www.givemesport.com/fc-cincinnat...

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