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Voice of America’s import is not just in audience #s in hard to reach places. A human story you might not have heard before: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

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NEW: Judge Boasberg issues a show-cause order (precedes contempt sanctions) on why he shouldn't find that the gov't defied his orders. "In an ex parte pleading delivered shortly after today’s deadline, the Government again evaded its obligations." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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One nationalist influencer called it “truly gratifying.” Another said he was laughing his head off. And a state-media editorial hailed the demise of what it called the “lie factory.”

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Happy March 15 to the President of the United States and all his team.

submitted 6 days ago • 216 comments

"I'm richer than God and about to throw a lot of money around. You know why."

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In a new statement, Nancy Pelosi is calling on Democratic Senators to go against Chuck Schumer. “Democratic senators should listen to the women…” Full Statement:

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For more than a quarter of a century, the death toll in the Columbine High School mass shooting stood at 13 victims. But another name has now been added to the list: Anne Marie Hochhalter, whose death on Feb. 16 has been officially classified by a coroner in Colorado as a homicide.

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The gall of the government here.

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Moving a detainee around to evade judicial review is classic authoritarian behavior.

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

Is it legal? Arrests are almost always "legal" it's the absence of due process that makes this a disgusting abuse of power.

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“This is Gavin Newsom, Episode Five. This week: Are buttons on silk blouses put too close together? I asked Andrew Cuomo during our International Women’s Day episode.”

submitted 10 days ago • 48 comments

This administration is so cartoonishly evil and corrupt. Unfortunately the cartoons are Maus and Judge Dredd. Anyway it’s great to know that Trump is still devoted to domestic abusers.

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

(vanquished Winston Smith voice) 83% + 18% = 100%

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Montana is extremely lucky to have Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell standing up in front of openly transphobic lawmakers who wanted to pass a bill that would /take trans kids away from their parents./ Thank you to them, and to the Republicans who crossed the aisle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Pitch-perfect response to Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin from @georgetownlaw.bsky.social Dean Bill Treanor. It’s always a privilege and honor to be part of the GULC community (and to be Bill’s colleague), but especially today.

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The National Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit that has had bipartisan support over decades for its work promoting democracy abroad, is suing the U.S. government and cabinet officials for withholding $239 million in congressional appropriations.

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BREAKING: House Speaker Mike Johnson's chief of staff, Hayden Haynes, was arrested on a DUI charge Tuesday night after President Trump's address to Congress, law enforcement sources say.

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Florida’s attorney general says his office has opened a criminal investigation into Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are charged with human trafficking in Romania, days after they returned to the U.S.

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Vance is as pathetic as he is a cretin.

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In this instance, standing up against and defying the United States of America is the morally, geopolitically, and strategically right decision.

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Marco Rubio in 2016: “For years to come there are going to be many people…that are going to have to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump.” Marco Rubio at the White House today:

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Just a reminder that even while being Putin’s petulant stooge and shaming our country Trump is also inevitably a liar.

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Amazing lack of self-awareness from Clarence Thomas, who takes a dig at Oklahoma's attorney general for appointing a "personal friend and campaign donor" to review Glossip's case. I guess he has realized that friendships and money can influence personal judgment? www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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US Supreme Court orders new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/p...

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Alan Wake is a dude from a Lana Del Rey song: aftermath.site/alan-wake-is-a...

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The head of the criminal division in the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. resigned after declining to comply with a Trump administration demand to freeze the assets of a multibillion-dollar Biden administration environmental grant initiative, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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NYC comptroller Brad Lander threatens to convene an "inability committee"—the more complicated way to remove the mayor from office—if Adams doesn't promptly produce a plan for governing in the wake of resignations, prosecutions, etc.

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Adrienne Adams, the speaker of the New York City Council and one of Mayor Eric Adams’s principal partners in government, said on Monday that Adams should resign. The statement came just hours after four of Eric Adams’s eight deputy mayors announced they would leave City Hall

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Sixteen massage therapists from 8 different spas have now accused Ravens kicker Justin Tucker of sexual misconduct. Seven more women just came forward: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/sports/raven...

submitted 33 days ago • 51 comments

That's fine.

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This is the most blatantly outward corrupt thing I've seen in my lifetime. Not even close.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Looking forward to which enlisted sailor the officers can pin blame on. But maybe we're past that now.

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