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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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you know the tide is starting to turn with these people when you're hearing this kind of shit

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the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

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January Onion here @bencollins.bsky.social

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BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

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"The opposition is the majority."

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TIL

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Country's divorced.

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Buying Hooters to turn it into the world's first pay-what-you-can food pantry with virulently sexual undertones.

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Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

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There’s something happening in this country.

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What’s wrong, babe? You haven’t touched your Eggo-brand alcoholic Appalachian sippin’ cream

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elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

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Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

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In the 20th century your staff would clip out little stories about you from the newspaper but this also works.

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Stacy's mom's medicare is gone

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Pope Francis is dead even in his race with other cardinals to have breakfast in his armchair.

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I'm sure he's wearing blackout shades for normal reasons.

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how is this from 2022

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Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

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"Spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." "A lawyer at advertising conglomerate Interpublic Group fielded a phone call ... from a lawyer at X. The message was clear ... Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." A merger could be tanked. Gift!

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So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

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This was just 233 days ago:

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“I knew someone on AA5432.” That was the subject of an email NPR host Adrian Ma sent to newsroom leaders in the hours after the DC plane crash. He trusted us with sharing his story — and her contagious energy. www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g...

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I have solved Bird Flu. Give the chickens ivermectin. Have the chickens practice Earthing. The problem with their immune systems is they are not touching the soil enough. Coffee enemas for all chickens. Also we must stop reading them Ibram X. Kendi. Eggs will be back and most importantly not gay.

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Can we have one good thing please? This sucks.

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"Lynch said he is “loathe to speculate“what Trump meant. [by "radical gender ideology"] “It’s not like I randomly picked you off the street,” Reyes fired back. “You’re the government’s representative here.”" It's not every day you see a murder in a courtroom. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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NEW: The director of data science and engineering for what is now known as the US DOGE Service has resigned. "If DOGE truly was concerned with efficiency, they wouldn’t have fired experts in procurement," she writes, "who prevent waste up front." This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

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The guy from Reacher has a decades old feud with Matt Gaetz ahahahahahahahahahahaa Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Five major airlines are suing to overturn a rule from then-Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg that actually holds airlines accountable for damaging disabled people's wheelchairs. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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incredible exchange, @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Dawg, we have a fifth-place government now.

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They screwed this all up.

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Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

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Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

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