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"The crowd again started shouting “tax Elon,” “tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich” and “tax the billionaires.” " www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

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It has been an insane week. Here is my 5th article published in 6 days. "The geopolitical earthquake in Europe will inevitably see aftershocks in Asia. Those aftershocks have arrived. Welcome, Australia, to an entirely new Pacific security environment." www.smh.com.au/world/oceani...

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

Canada’s ice hockey win over Trump’s America was her soft power laid bare | Colin Horgan

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“That contract wasn’t canceled by DOGE or anyone else,” he said. The contract expired on Dec. 31 and he decided to retire and not renew it, he said. “If they took credit for canceling the contract, they’re lying.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

So DOGE's 'wall of receipts' is riddled with errors, falsehoods and distortions. big shock. about what you'd expect from 6 tech bros dragged over from the strip club www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 12 hours ago • 33 comments

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

submitted 20 hours ago • 880 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 16 hours ago • 432 comments

A deep dive into DOGE data discovers a disturbing directory of discrepancies, distortions, delusions, and deception. Dismal. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

Actual Q: Back in 2017, Susan Collins cast a vote that made a difference, saving Obamacare. Since then, has she ever cast a "concerned" vote that *made a difference? Eg she voted No on Patel, fully aware that her vote wouldn't matter. Any case since 2017 of her bucking MAGA when it counted?

submitted 12 hours ago • 26 comments

Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."

submitted 16 hours ago • 135 comments

Life imitates art, again www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

submitted 14 hours ago • 663 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 14 hours ago • 358 comments

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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"U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters."

submitted 13 hours ago • 140 comments

Trumps devotion to Caine seems to have started when he donned a maga cap to brief Trump while deployed in Iraq

submitted 13 hours ago • 31 comments

Constituent: When will you stand up to them and say that is enough? Rep. Fitzgerald: The end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered Crowd: Booo

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"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 137 comments

I'm thinking about what the plan for this circus is. Given the 100 day Conventional Wisdom window for new administration. Get the tax cut approved soon under reconciliation (or sim) by drastic cuts. As the squawking rises to a roar, begin restoring funds. But keep the tax cut & rig/win the midterms.

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@mediaitenews.bsky.social You&your pet historian (however eminent) are engaging in some sophistry. Yes, the Nazis didn't exploit a free press to create hate as a Holocaust driver. But they exploited the Weimar freedoms to create&power their message to gain power, where they conducted the Holocaust

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Seems like Hamas is motivated to keep going on the exchanges, bet they have some special guys they want back. www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-cap...

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“.. Take them seriously, don’t take it literally,” Bianco said, referring to the debt swap idea .. “If Trump is willing to blow up NATO, why wouldn’t he be willing to blow up the financial system?” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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New cable broken on Baltics. Claimed to be between Finland - Germany and occured near Gotland, Which would make it C-LION1. This would be 3rd time for the cable. Exact timing and location has not been revealed www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/LM... www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

We finally have an actual 1A question about social media and I’m wondering where the Twitter Files dupes are?

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Eric Adams can’t be trusted. That’s why I’ve asked Eric Adams for his recommendations of who should help keep him in check.

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

Opinion | Homosexuality is an abomination against God, but what happens at CPAC stays at CPAC.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Add up the claimed savings on the DOGE website and (right now )you get $7.19b from contract savings, and $0.14b from real estate, for a total of $7.3b, or $21.47 per American. Trump is talking about giving a "DOGE dividend" of 20% of these savings. Enjoy your $4.29.

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I am very sad to say that I would have said this is a straight line from exactly what the signals were online, and nobody was listening to the whole cohort of folks shouting about this for about 10 years straight while having their lives ruined for mentioning it

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Today's news roundup: -DOJ moves to dismiss SpaceX hiring discrimination lawsuit -US refuses to co-sponsor UN motion backing Ukraine, objects to calling Russia "aggressor" in G7 statement: diplomats -Trump orders database on federal police misconduct to close 👇 www.justsecurity.org/108186/early...

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