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Bomb threat sent to anti-Trump conference. Attendees of a center-right political conference in Washington DC were forced to evacuate on Sunday, after someone claiming to be Enrique Tarrio, emailed a bomb threat against this event. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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India is now the 7th country Musk has created turmoil with brazen lies. Front-page news in New Delhi that Modi's party had seized on it as evidence of a nefarious U.S. plot. “The democratic process of this country was sought to be manipulated to dent the purity of our electoral system.”

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"I am communicating closely with a lot of prime ministers, and heads of EU states and for me it is an absolute priority to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible, so that we achieve independence from the US, step by step.” — German Chancellor-elect Friedrich Merz 🧵/1 www.dw.com/en/german-el...

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‘No more excuses’: Europe under pressure on defence spending three years after Russian invasion

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Finally the New York Times calls him a liar! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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The funny thing about Cross Country Check-Up both-sidesing annexation is that they did not do anything wrong, the problem is that they followed their journalistic standards too well When journalism is not rooted in any moral values beyond “objectivity” and “balance,” this is the natural outcome

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ICYMI: layoffs at yet another agency investigating Elon Musk

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Pope Francis in Critical Condition, Sends Hospital Message — Pope Francis sends a message from the hospital as his condition remains critical according to the Vatican. https://www.axios.com/2025/02/24/pope-francis-hospital-critical-message

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Rest in Peace, Donald Shoup. A godfather of parking reform, just trying to make cities better for everyone, little by little. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/b...

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Disastrous GOP town halls filled with angry constituents are finally get some NY Times coverage. The analysis makes a connection with the last time town halls took center stage in politics: 2009 when the right's Tea Party movement began in earnest. GIFT ARTICLE. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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REPUBLICANS ARE FUCKING COWARDS! Stop cowering in the shadows and put an public end to this madness! www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Most understandable reaction I've seen, this year...

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Political conference in DC interrupted by death threats against speakers critical of Trump www.cnn.com/2025/02/23/p...

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US Senator Murkowski slams Muck for his “absurd” email sent to GOV workers In so many words, she told him he should learn what the Departments, Agencies, & Bureaus do before he carpet bombs them thehill.com/homenews/sen...

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"The question is not whether Mr. Trump will defy the court, but how soon and to what extent." Yep—and there’ll be no schadenfreude in watching Roberts & his majority reap what they have sowed — because it’ll be all of us & our republic getting reaped in the process. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/o...

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Not normal. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Free speech for everyone but the Palestinians. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/m...

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“Woke just means you give a damn about other people,” Jane Fonda said at the #SAGAwards. Read the full list of winners: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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Well well well. What’s this? A little problem within the Rump administration. Pushing back on President Musk. apnews.com/article/musk... Key federal agencies refuse to comply with Musk's latest demand in his cost-cutting crusade

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Every little bit of pushback helps. When one pushes, others are more inclined to help. #TheAlliedForces (No preview to article. I am not putting forth muskrat or 47s face; unless, I can shop a poop emoji on it) www.cnbc.com/2025/02/24/s...

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Alaskans: please pay attention to how Dunleavy and Treg Taylor attempt to wash away protections for disabled people little by little to enable their 'school choice' business and to stand with their idealogues in other states and in the Trump admin. www.axios.com/2025/02/23/t...

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Canada cancelling their travel to USA www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

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Labour are heading to India when they should be heading to Brussels. It's not difficult: pile up every other trade deal in the world, and it won't even come close to compensating for the damage done by Brexit. But they remain cowards. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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I thought only I noticed the use of the word LIES in today’s Times but now I see that we’ve all been waiting for it. The word occurs 7x. 10 years it took. @peterbakernyt.bsky.social was there a discussion over finally using it? Has the damn broken? Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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Judge Nichols gave Trump the go ahead on Friday to fire thousands of USAID workers So Trump now eliminating 2,000 people at USAID. Also placing all but a fraction of other staffers worldwide on leave. "As of today all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally"

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Trump is such a dumba*s, he was celebrating this. Zero clue. Our European allies are moving on without us. www.politico.com/www.politico...

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Well...so much for trying these on in stores. The brand still exist but like, I'm a weird shape. IDK if I've ever said this here but I'm very surf bro coded. X Games was always my olympics. I surf. I board. I rollerblade. This stuff + Fox Racing + Anchor Blue clothed me through HS. This sucks.

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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f... The world NEEDS President Zelenskyy; Ukraine needs him even more. He must not quit. He is the best of us.

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Former Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley issued her first public statement a day after being dismissed by Mayor Karen Bass. Leading the Fire Department was "an absolute honor," she said.

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Trump compared to mobster Tony Soprano by former envoy to Panama John Feeley launches stinging critique of US president’s bully-boy approach to Latin America www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump out there working hard on next months Russian “Asset of the Month” already. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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weirdo billionaire ‘fires’ staff at agencies investigating his companies and @apnews.com writes this nonsense apnews.com/article/trum...

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“Britain will ban entry to individuals who provide significant support to the Russian state or owe their wealth to the Russian state, under new sanctions set to be announced on Monday, exactly three years after Russia invaded Ukraine.” www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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This is a terrible move @msnbc.com. Terrible. The @joy.msnbc.com was a critical part of the evening line-up and @joyannreid.bsky.social brings trenchant political analysis that no one else in the evening line-up has brought. I urge you to reconsider this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

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Biologists are discovering a world of beings tinier than viruses that appear to be everywhere – even living inside us. We have no idea what most of them are doing, but they raise profound questions about what life is and how it got started. www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

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Hoping the media is incessant this week in its coverage of Doug Ford giving Elon Musk $100M.

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Joy Reid’s evening news show on MSNBC is being canceled, part of a far-reaching programming overhaul orchestrated by Rebecca Kutler, the network’s new president.

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What a terrible moment for the world if this becomes the winter of Trump's triumph & Pope Francis' demise. Across the world, the forces of reaction, oppression, & exploitation are having their day. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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“I think if more of our politicians knew more fiction and poetry, we’d have a better politics”. I really do! Great to chat with Tim Adams over lunch at the fab Food for Friends & cover everything from patriotism to protest and poetry #AnotherEngland👇

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“The United States sent $50 million in condoms to Hamas. Diversity programs caused a plane crash. China controls the Panama Canal. Ukraine started the war with Russia.” Good piece on the president’s many outright, utterly non-factual lies www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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Alarmed leaders of the Social Security Admin opened investigation into an employee they believed was improperly sharing info with Musk DOGE, violating privacy & tax laws. So Trump has hired him as our new acting Social Security Chief www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Putin asset Trump puts Ukraine in a vise: At any other time in the past 80 years, it would have been unimaginable that the U.S. president would be pressing for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin while calling Zelensky a dictator. www.axios.com/2025/02/23/t...

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Collins is suddenly "very concerned" that she's been helping to steer the country into an abyss.

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Good God, what is the matter with the Labour Party? BBC News - Trump right to engage Putin on peace talks, says minister www.bbc.com/news/article...

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