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NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.

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Funny money and nobody is laughing

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At some point, a judge is going to need to order the people with handcuffs to use those handcuffs. It'll be ugly when they do, bc I have no doubt the US Marshal (a Trump appointee) and the AG (ditto, obvs) will tell the marshals not to. Even though they are required to enforce a valid order.

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So acting lawless and above the rules of the Supreme Court. Which rules do you and I get to break?

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Fraud you say? A trump? No way. Never. Except of course for everything they do

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Washington just took the reasonable step of not allowing the National Guard of other states to operate here without our agreement. It’s not the Guard personnel we are concerned about, it’s other governors in the Trump cult. katu.com/news/local/g...

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Two headlines in the New York Times today.

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The 2022 Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania advances a chemtrail theory, seconded by the 2022 Republican nominee for governor of Maryland. (Both lost by double digits.)

submitted 22 hours ago • 67 comments

Uh fuck no???

submitted 20 hours ago • 398 comments

Markwayne seems like a weirdpsycho

submitted 20 hours ago • 210 comments

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

submitted 1 day ago • 550 comments

No Skari Kari?

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Gun registry? No. Autism registry? Yes? Fuck ALL the way off.

submitted 20 hours ago • 694 comments

I am being told that wearing an AR-15 rifle lapel pin is indicative of Tren de Aragua membership.

submitted 21 hours ago • 476 comments

sociopath keeps on sociopathing

submitted 21 hours ago • 87 comments

Opposition to Trump's authoritarianism is very much standing up. But we are SOOOOOO FARRRRR from being able to focus on corruption in the way that needs to happen.

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???

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Mind-boggling that DHS's official position on this case is genuinely that a US citizen dad from Albuquerque visiting family in Tucson went up to a Border Patrol agent and said "Hi, I'm a Mexican man who entered here illegally, please deport me." Do they think we are dumb?

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And weren't "falsely accused" of anything

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Skeletons reside here. Start digging

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This feels oddly familiar and unsettling. Hope it's better

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When you have nothing but enemies and everyone else is at fault, your "movement" is nothing more than a hostile takeover. The rest is smoke and mirrors and manufactured outrage.

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nailed it. look, I’m a sucker for anything where it seems like the virtuous strategy is also a dominant strategy, but you would think this kind of thing would draw more copycats.

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Interesting???

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Second one today, the reason why I love editorial cartoons is that they can deliver a message succinctly in a format that most can understand. RESIST, RESIST, RESIST #FuckTrump #FascistTrump #TrumpIsaTraitor bsky.app/profile/iamf...

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People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

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Trump is single-handedly destroying the US tourism industry. In 2023, international visitors spent more than $213 billion on travel and tourism-related activities within the US. This year, foreign travel to the US has declined significantly, leading to an estimated $64 billion shortfall.  

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Trump can’t win his trade war with China. #TrumpTradeWar

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But sure, meritocracy. Got it.

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What a wonderful idea…👇 Let’s. Do. This. ✨

submitted 45 days ago • 1293 comments

Just break it all and blame the judges or praise the judges, depending on the outcome.

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What kind of existence is this??? Their band name : Our Lady of Perpetual Hate

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Of course they did.

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He would have never been appointed by a president who cared about our military. He’s a disgrace to the people in uniform who serve www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

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What he said

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Sorry, we promised not to post much today but we had to make a special callout. We forgot to give a proper shoutout to a few places yesterday. Denver and Dallas Fort Worth, you broke records. You were incredible.

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The smarmy Pentagon guy who did a victory lap after purging Jackie Robinson from DOD websites is now unemployed and writing op-eds for Politico about how bad Pete Hegseth is. They are under intense scrutiny for being incompetent and now they’re all ratting each other out. It’s beautiful!

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This 👇

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