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DEI vs DOD...

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Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

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Whaddya mean "kinglike"? The man has outright called himself a king, and posted a pic of himself with a crown 👑 atop his nearly hairless head!

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There is a difference between the "left" vilifying speech without the power of the state, and MAGA/Trump doing so with federal power to fire, pull funding, even arrest and jail people. Neither is fair, but the later is dangerous.

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Once upon a time, "... the American right had a basic commitment to individual freedom. Today, it does not."

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“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.” — Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791

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#ResistanceRoots #Voices4Victory What caused the Great Depression? Most people would say the stock market crash of 1929. That was probably the No. 1 factor, but the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 made it worse. The act raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods by almost 60%. /1

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Bezos wants editorial content to reflect "personal liberties and free markets". Here's why that is disingenuous and one is at odd with the other...

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Great illustration of tariffs.

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If even one citizen's right to vote is in question, every citizen's right to vote is at risk.

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“Dude, I’m conservative, but I’m not batshit.”

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"The First Amendment... guarantees that the government cannot direct what Georgetown and its faculty teach and how to teach it... to determine, on academic grounds, who may teach, what to teach, and how to teach it."

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An enlightening story for Democrats...

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Fact-Checking Trump On The Russia-Ukraine War theonion.com/fact-ch...

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Canada has been a most excellent American ally & neighbour. By electing Trump the U.S. is punishing ally Canada 🍁 in multiple ways. Shameful.

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"Russia’s long-range strikes, by cruise missiles that are among the most costly weapons in its nonnuclear arsenal, are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies" From Graeme Wood www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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The Department of Agriculture has eliminated two committees that advise it on food safety – including the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection – raising concerns about government oversight of the food supply. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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Turns out Kingsley Wilson — the Pentagon’s edgelord spokeswoman who posts outright antisemitic conspiracy theories, pines for Serbia to conquer Kosovo again, and calls Robert E. Lee “one of the greatest Americans to ever live” — is also a straight up nepo baby. jewishinsider.com/2025/03/pent...

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A powerful, effective strategy for Democrats: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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Be pro-democracy. Those of us in tech must deal in facts and logic, or else our programmes don't function properly. Democracy? The same.

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Egypt’s farcical plan for postwar Gaza https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-matters-now-to-haviv-rettig-gur-egypts-farcical-plan-for-postwar-gaza/

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Gift article from NYT. Read it for free. " don’t think Democrats have coped... takes an intellectual revolution to adjust...Do they want to... be party (of )working class? Biden tried...policies helped working-class voters...can’t solve with economics a problem that’s about culture, respect."

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More bad news about Trump's crypto plans...

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Trump planning a crypto heist. Another one of his scams that could be so harmful.

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"He talked a lot about taking care of the military, taking care of the veterans, taking care of the people that put him in office and it just hasn't happened so if I could go back in time I would have voted for VP Harris in a heartbeat," Jay S., laid off from the IRS, tells @nbcphiladelphia.com:

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Russia’s leaders have said nothing about peace. They have made a list of demands on the US, the fulfillment of which allows them to broaden the war against Ukraine. And the US simply fulfills all of these Russian demands without question. That is only a peace process in the Orwellian sense.

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Every time a newscaster, opinion author, commentator makes any statement regarding a government programme being cut to save money, they must immediately follow that with the reason: to cut taxes for the wealthy!

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First: Do not help Republicans. Not in any way. On any issue. Second: Make Donald Trump own every bad outcome that happens, anywhere open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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