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Late morning thoughts: isn't it WEIRD that the Republicans have turned on a dime from being the party most suspicious of the USSR and Russia, to now following Trump's lead saying that Russia and Putin are great? Why are they in favor of a murderous dictatorial regime that invades other countries?

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Using the law to target enemies. To prevent enemies from getting lawyers. All out in the open. Important for courts and bar associations to respond. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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A fully Kool-Aid-soaked MAGA supporter recently told me Trump was "our Lord and Saviour." I never thought I would see this day, but if Democrats don't wake the f*ck up and fight back soon, we will be forced to submit to these deviants and reply with...

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Happy International Women's Day! May every woman find their way into the room where their voice is most needed—whether that's a board room, a legislature, or a PTA meeting. When we stand up and speak our values, women change the world!

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I think at this point if you’re not getting censured by congress it’s probably a sign that you’re simply not going hard enough

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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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This is utter nonsense - Trump is crashing an economy in decent shape before he took office, and he is doing it so he can "rescue" it for his billionaire cronies (like your owner). Stop acting as a shill for this clown show and report about what's really going on. Integrity dies in daylight.

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Late-morning thoughts: why should anybody listen to Elon Musk about practically anything? Especially when he has demonstrated that he doesn't care about anybody other than himself, has a fragile ego, and perhaps most importantly, the Dunning-Kruger effect shows up in almost everything he says. Why?

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NEW: The murders of two people outside an LGBTQ+ bar at first looked like the act of a lone shooter. A ProPublica and @frontlinepbs.bsky.social investigation shows they were, in fact, the culmination of a coordinated, international recruiting effort by online extremists.

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Texas cities are running low on the MMR vaccine as measles outbreaks expand and drive demand. The measles epidemic in Texas is growing rapidly, and demand for the MMR vaccine has become overwhelming. Pharmacies are struggling to maintain supplies. Some pharmacy locations report the supply of the..

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The thing about trans kids playing high school sports is that eggs are ten dollars and a nazi runs the government

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“The president of the United States is illegally impounding critical research funds in an attempt to silence members of the Columbia community. As a university committed to free inquiry, free expression and the rule of law, we categorically reject these efforts and will see him in court.”

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It’s too bad we have no defenses whatsoever against this. It’s a real mystery why society has no strategies for dealing with—or even words to describe—chronic liars, career con-artists, frauds, grifters, humbugs, mountebanks, flim-flammers, and gombeen men. One of the deepest puzzles of social life.

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People who ban books are never, ever the good guys. points at history

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Oh my. Each graf worse than the one before www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

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Bill Nye at the Stand Up for Science rally in DC: "What are you afraid of? What is it about the process of science, modern medicine, caring for our neighbors, or Women's History Month, that you all find so scary?" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Very early morning thoughts: Trump's destruction of the Federal government is motivated by greed. He wants to remain president to make money (and stay out of jail). Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, and other billionaires are in on this. We have to organize and act to hold them and the GOP accountable.

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the tragedy of American journalists is Trump is entirely serious about his drive for neo-imperial rule - the inability to realize the current set of tariffs are illegal under USMCA - missing that Trump is trying to kick us out of FYEY/NORAD - missing that Trump has threatened to revise borders

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Tadaa.

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Morning thoughts: It would be really good if two things happened - if the US media would interrogate and challenge politicians the way European journalists do, and if the Democrats would start campaigning now as the opposition to Trump and tie him around the necks of the Republicans.

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London

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Every time I read a story like this I recommit to be louder and more defiant.

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Could POS Trump be plotting a coup in Ukraine ? euromaidanpress.com/2025/03/06/p...

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Which is seen with sapphic tradpub vs. lesbian self published literature: as western culture approaches fascism, what publishers are willing to publish becomes limited. So what we get in tradpub is the pale shadows of desire (if that) - it's only in self-pub we get to eat (sometimes literally)

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Just gonna point out this is literally what the English Civil War was about. Ended with us chopping the king's head off.

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

Define it. Ask them to define it. This is deliberately vague to force broad overkill compliance out of fear and confusion.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Pretty sure we need to do more than what Senator Slotkin has in mind, but this is something to take in and understand.

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Mid-morning thoughts: the GOP has tended to be better at campaigning than the Democrats. Democrats need to be a real opposition party, so they need to start campaigning NOW for the next election: town halls in GOP districts, holding weekly press conferences showing GOP harms to the public, and more.

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Just Security recently published a timeline of actions highlighting the level of politicization and weaponization of the Department of Justice under the second Trump administration. @rgoodlaw.bsky.social, @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social, and MaryMcCord (icapgeorgetown.bsky.social) discuss key findings.

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New: The evangelical pastor running a secretive influence project appears to be running a group house for lawmakers in D.C. In addition to Mike Johnson living there, Trump ally Andy Ogles has the keys. www.propublica.org/article/room... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

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Prediction: US media will not be half as critical of Trump stabbing our allies in the back and handing Ukraine to Russia as it was of Biden ending our forever war in Afghanistan.

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I’m proud of this one: He is a BULLY. You need to STAND UP TO HIM because he is acting like a human tornado. His destruction is random, cruel, and thorough. And in the Midwest, we help our neighbors when a tornado hits. We don’t encourage the tornado.

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Get fucked Donnie Douchebag.

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A guy who threatened to fund opponents to run against them is now the putative leader of Congress. Just like that. All because men who claim to hate D.C. would rather sell their souls and betray their country rather than go back to live in Shreveport,LA, Carthage, Kentucky, and Troy, Ohio.

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i’m sorry, i’m tired of this shit. there was no pronoun policing. i have encountered exactly three or four land acknowledgments in like ten years, and the most you’ll hear about “intersectionality” is in liberal nonprofits. this is just freefloating resentment masquerading as analysis.

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Thoughts at the edge of dawn: in Trump's world, there's nothing wrong with threatening to take Greenland or invade Canada. That's insane and we should all call it that. What's more insane are all the Republicans acting like this is somehow ordinary and perfectly fine. We need to call that out NOW.

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If every democratic elected isn’t on TV today and writing op-eds about this report they are failing.

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Trump's immigration crackdown is not about law & order. He has a vendetta against immigrants who followed the law, too His EOs threaten to punish legal immigrants by doubling their taxes (invoking a never-used 1934 law); expatriating their kids; and blocking them from the US entirely wapo.st/4hkbEB6

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