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Marco Rubio is the nation’s top diplomat and a former member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Intelligence Committees.

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From overflowing buffet table at Mar-a-Lago, Trump recommends a return to subsistence farming www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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How speak or make write now?

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We have always been at war with...

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Excellent tally of the attack on free speech and free association so far. Continues to infuriate me how the free speech warriors have sided with this extremely censorious authoritarian www.liberalcurrents.com/brains-poiso...

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This is 💯. As one of the canaries first smeared as “censor” by the masters of projection now actually chilling speech, I would add that the lawfare is structured such that you can never exonerate yourself— they will move the goalposts, or simply repeat the lie more loudly. Collective action is key.

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This position essentially holds science hostage to the conspiracy theorists. As long as they can convince, using tools scientists have no influence over, some significant minority to believe non-scientific statements, scientists have to follow their agenda.

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Kevin Hassett's claim that "I’ve seen photographs of fentanyl labs in Canada that the law enforcement folks were leaving alone" is giving me big Colin Powell "mobile Iraqi bioweapons labs" vibes. Unverifiable lies are always the best lies.

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The only two allies Trump and Mush want for America are Russia and El Salvador, and they're not sure about El Salvador,

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Schiff: "I was just listening to your guest [Hassett] trying to explain that these on-again off-again tariffs are not about trade. It's a drug war, but next month it's a trade war, but now it's a drug war. It was incomprehensible ... they're destroying the economy. That's where we need to focus."

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Will economics reporters ardently predicting an impending recession every month during the Biden Administration (that never came close to occurring) actually take heed of Trump admitting that he's about to cause a recession for basically nothing apart from an extension of billionaire tax cuts?

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Are Democrats not having messaging meetings or something? This is not only a bad answer and bad messaging, it's delivered with the uncertainty of someone thinking about it as a possible interview question for the first time in several years.

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New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China. Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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I founded and chair an "elite law firm" and we are not in retreat. I have spoken with many other "elite" firm leaders that are staffing up. What the WSJ means is large corporate law firms. Please do not confuse quality with cowardice.

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Are the American people just going to sit here while Trump builds up a fake rationale to annex Canada? Am I hallucinating????

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Old enough to remember the American government telling us Saddam had WMD labs the last time they wanted to gin up a fake reason to invade a country.

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They called Biden's record low unemployment and record high stock market a recession, and they call Trump's crashing the economy for no reason "an acknowledgment of economic turbulence" due to his efforts to rebuild the US manufacturing sector

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Hassett was always a hack, from years and years before Trump. But this is such an abject, willful, absurd level of lying.

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"We didn't cut spending in the middle of recovering from a pandemic because that would have been epically stupid' "Also, we fixed the economy & the debt actually came down" "Also, we had divided government since 2022 & the GOP could have cooperated with us but chose not to" Why is this so hard? 🤷‍♂️

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People helping sell the Biden economy as the worst in memory (with an unemployment rate at 4% inflation at 2.5% for the 12 months ended Jan.)because of vague unhappy social "vibes" need to consider that they laid the groundwork for the Trump wrecking crew to call for "Shock Therapy" now.

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“Status” seems like a word that would be fairly commonplace in a national government run by sane people

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Raskin: "This is what Viktor Orban has done in Hungary -- to clear out the civil service with real expert professionals and people devoted to the public interest and replace them with a bunch of party hacks and sycophants to the dear leader."

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Bozhe… this spat between Sikorski and Musk and even Rubio weighing in shows how full of themselves and thin skinned the Trump admin and their henchmen are…

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one of the funnier bits right now is watching right wingers here outraged and baffled that people in other countries have some measure of national pride and do not particularly enjoy being bullied by the world’s biggest assholes

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The next time that someone aligned with the current administration blusters about how they support free speech, post this list of words federal agencies are being told to avoid using. Heaven forbid you use the word "injustice." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Free speech absolutism indeed

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Gonna send Elise Stefanik to the UN with fuzzy fake pictures of Canadian fentanyl labs

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The external revenue service should start to pay?

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Raskin: "Really, if we were censuring anyone, it should've been Donald Trump, who I don't think had been back to our chamber since he incited a violence insurrection against us. And then he used his pulpit in order to call a sitting member of the Senate 'Pocahontas.'"

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Come on, we all know those fentanyl lab photos were actually taken in the Tonkin Gulf.

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The VP is apparently opposed to Reconstruction and Civil Rights.

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A “clean” CR is one line changing a date.

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2025

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An extremely good point. This is one pretext used by Russia after invading Ukraine (and embraced then by Trump apologists like Tucker).

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And so that we can buy Canada

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I'm never gonna come to terms with the extent to which grown-ass adults will just say any nonsense possible in order to justify President Dementia's latest fixation. Charlie Brown had hoes. The Canadian government is covering up giant fentanyl labs. No, he did not, and they are not.

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Escalate to de-escalate! Brilliant! Also Canada has WMD.

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Maybe now Ukraine will stop invading Russia? Poor Putin, he's been through so much.

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You have to be able to attack the question with BS like this. And on top of that Dems were actually in charge for two years. Welker's questions these days come straight from the white house. But you need to be ready to say that.

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every single public facing person in this administration is just a different variation on baghdad bob

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If the Democrats can't bring themselves to say "government spending is good, actually" in this precise moment, then they really are cooked and all need to be replaced.

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Iraq is definitely hiding WMD

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Bullshit answer: This one. Good answer: "Federal government employment was already at its lowest level in years." Better answer: "Because we're not fucking insane." Best answer: "Fuck off with that bullshit question."

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This is what they voted for, yes

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one important thing about the trans sports canard is it’s a trial balloon to see how chickenshit the opposition is. if we cave on that they’ll attack a less vulnerable group (already happening actually) and the whole coalition will get carved up one by one

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None dare call it the weaponization of government

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