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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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These guys are not bright www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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INBOX: “The New York City Law Department today announced its federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s unlawful seizure of over $80 million previously applied for, awarded, approved, and paid by [FEMA] to the City of New York.” www.nyc.gov/office-of-th...

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Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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Inspiring

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First Elon, then a county official, now the lead base messenger and predidential advisor. The MAGA movement’s in-group signal of power and cohesion is now a Nazi salute

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Wallace Shawn Emerges As Frontrunner To Replace Daniel Craig As James Bond

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I think we can top this. Let‘s go for 62 wrens.

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“Trump’s name will be remembered in history as a surrender artist just like Neville Chamberlain,” says Charles Kupperman, Trump's own former deputy national security adviser. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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Correct. He’s not capable of playing multidimensional chess. Or chess. Or checkers. Or tic-tac-toe. As one of his aides put it during Shit Show I, “he’s just eating the pieces” on the board. Nothing he does is strategic. He’s purely guided by narcissistic, sociopathic impulses at all times.

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Pure evil, plain and simple.

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NEW: The USDA acknowledged that over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.

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Math is hard

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Trump just blamed Ukraine outright for Russia’s invasion. ‘You shoulda never started it,’ he said. What a lie, a Russian lie—from the President of the US.

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NEWS: Hagan Scotten, one of the SDNY attorneys prosecuting Eric Adams' case, has resigned ... and is blasting the Trump Justice Department on the way out.

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From the New Yorker

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I actually love this because it so succinctly captures the entire MO of this administration and this party — “some people said things that made me feel bad about my beliefs and my actions and my place in this world, so now I’m entitled to cause mass destruction and material suffering”

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In observance of Valentine’s Day, I’m sharing some of my favorite bird couple images… American Kestrels 🪶☀️🌵

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Bummer

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He looks like Bosch's dad.

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I’m going ice fishing with the boys this weekend and there’s nothing that miserable Nazi dork can do about it.

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There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

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The Cybertruck is such a flop that Tesla has refused trade-in's and slowed production to a crawl. Musk's solution: Dump thousands of them on the federal government.

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This is a serious distinction that you would expect any prosecutor to get right in a public statement, certainly the US AG

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This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up took $80 million from an NYC bank account!

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In the three weeks Elon Musk has been in charge of unilaterally slashing government spending, the U.S. government has paid one of his companies, SpaceX, more than $43 million.

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My son takes Koselugo for a brain tumor. The tumor is getting smaller, and unlike when he was on chemo, he's not immunocompromised and he doesn't feel like garbage. Also funded by research at the National Cancer Institute, part of the NIH.

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Pileated Woodpecker doing his best speeding bullet impression #birds #ornithology #birdphotography #nature

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What a stat. Also, what U.S.-grown crops are all the new vegans going to be eating in this scenario?

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jesus christ just tell us if it’s maybelline

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I reported on the new version of the LEED code coming this year — and the bird safety advocates who say the program is losing sight of the role buildings play in wildlife fatalities

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"The enormity of Defendants’ actions cannot be overstated." Please read this paragraph in court case filed on Monday.⬇️ Details the devastating, immediate and far-reaching, real-world impacts of the #USAID funding freeze. From famine to counternarcotics and counter-terrorism programs, more.

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We think they should be powerful enough to afford principles. They think they have a lot to lose (and they lost their "don't be evil" motto a long time ago). Google, you coward, you quisling.

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US President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to pause prosecutions of Americans accused of bribing foreign government officials while trying to win or retain business in their countries reut.rs/4jVNpuP

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Really excited about this one. I present: The Greatest eBird Checklists in the USA! Thanks to @audubon.org and eBird for all your help! www.audubon.org/magazine/the...

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Excuse me while I vent for a moment SHE IS THE APPROPRIATIONS CHAIR. SHE CAN SUBPOENA OFFICIALS, HOLD TELEVISED HEARINGS, HOLD UP ANYONE’S FUNDING, ZERO OUT THE WHITE HOUSE’S FUCKING ICE CREAM AND DIET COKE BUDGET, AND ENFORCE THE APPROPRIATIONS LAWS THAT ARE THE SOURCE OF HER PERSONAL POWER.

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Happy 47th to Little Feats' glorious live album Waiting for Columbus.

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"Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department, despite promises from the Trump administration that a federal funding freeze would not apply to projects directly benefiting individuals." wapo.st/4hTtzPj

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They don't think the presidency has these powers, a democrat was president less than a month ago and they didn't think he had them. They just think America should be a dictatorship where they rule forever bsky.app/profile/jame...

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Right now, in a lot of species, every single adult is dead. June bugs, many species of firefly and harvester (daddy longlegs), their entire populations exist now only as overwintering eggs and larvae. The grown-ups all perished in 2024. ☠️🧪

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The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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