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Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

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Meanwhile in Russia: pundits rejoiced about the unrest in the United States, hoped it would grow into civil war they've been anticipating for decades, and opined that Trump's mission is to destroy America. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vQA...

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Meanwhile in Russia: host Sergey Mardan explained that Russia is an enemy of both the United States and Israel. Mardan said that Russia wants Israel to be weakened and should keep helping Iran, to include scientific assistance in nuclear areas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQK8...

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Meanwhile in Russia: pundits on the channel Solovyov Live sneered and snickered at Trump's unimpressive parade. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7sH...

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

I'm trying to imagine a Democratic president saying openly and proudly that he would be sending federal agents to target the 'Republican Power Center' in Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. We would be in the midst of a civil war before he'd finished saying those words.

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Among many notable points: Judge Breyer concludes that to declare this a “rebellion,” as the administration would have it, would raise serious First Amendment concerns.

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How many Americans will die preventable deaths as a result of this lunacy?

submitted 28 days ago • 71 comments

Russian manpower shortages: The 🇷🇺 90th Tank Division is using military police in their assaults, specifically the 152nd commandant's company the 159th commandant's office, MUN 35822. They have been used in attacks against Nadiivka, Donetsk.

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She attacked our Capitol and was shot in the process. She was trying to get to our lawmakers. She was warned. She did not comply. And that is why she was shot. And the madman she did it for, is giving her family $5 million. But we can’t fund kids cancer research.

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Jeffries on the $5m payout to Ashli Babbitt's family: "This settlement is just an extension of what they've previously done, which is to pardon violent felons who violently attacked the Capitol on January 6, including police officers."

submitted 36 days ago • 818 comments

Let’s Remember Why There’s a System of Federal Research Grants to Universities talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lets-...

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MORE: Kremlin officials are continuing to leverage the mythos of the Soviet Union's role in the Second World War to form the basis of a new state ideology that will span generations and that Russia intends to leverage to justify a future military conflict against the West.🧵(1/3) isw.pub/UkrWar050625

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⚡️European Commission prepares 17th sanctions package against Russia, Reuters reports. The European Commission is preparing its 17th sanctions package against Russia, adding more individuals and over 100 vessels associated with Russia's shadow fleet to the sanctions list.

submitted 49 days ago • 12 comments

WWII survivors never thought they’d see war again. Russia brought it back. 🧵1/11👇

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

"All of the sudden, out of nowhere"

submitted 50 days ago • 128 comments

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AG Bondi “disclosed that Trump’s efforts to interdict fentanyl have, in just 100 days, ‘saved — are you ready for this, media? — 258 million lives.’…Incredible! Trump has already saved 76 percent of the U.S. population from certain death.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Totally sane

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kamilkazani.substack.com/p/on-the-ori...

submitted 150 days ago • 3 comments

100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election. 70% of these donations went to Republicans. Now, Trump and the GOP are gutting the FEC — which enforces campaign finance and anti-corruption laws. See how this works?

submitted 53 days ago • 55 comments

New- Chris Krebs’ “membership in Global Entry has been revoked. Krebs, who has repeatedly attested to the security of the 2020 election, told CNN he finds it hard to believe this isn’t another act of retribution…” @jaketapper.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/p...

submitted 55 days ago • 145 comments

Art of the deal 🤣😂🤣😂

submitted 72 days ago • 205 comments

Nothing to worry about, just a shadowy group of mercenaries pitching a dangerous authoritarian regime to build massive for-profit gulags abroad. What could go wrong? www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 72 days ago • 13 comments

As soon as May 20, thousands of Afghans living in the U.S. will lose a protection that shielded them from deportation and allowed them to work.

submitted 74 days ago • 133 comments

Federal workers: We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your confidentiality extremely seriously. To collect tips, we use encrypted forms and apps, so messages cannot be read by anybody other than you and ProPublica. ➡️ Reach out here: propublica.org/tips

submitted 74 days ago • 193 comments

This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting. Go Denmark, Go Greenland!

submitted 81 days ago • 382 comments

You must listen to Derek Thompson push back against gullible CNBC anchors @dkthomp.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...

submitted 81 days ago • 87 comments

⚡️Trump admin mistakenly informs Ukrainian refugees they must leave US immediately, CBS reports. Earlier this week, several Ukrainians who entered the U.S. after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 received emails saying that their legal status would be terminated, CBS News reported on April 4.

submitted 81 days ago • 33 comments

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

submitted 83 days ago • 820 comments

We deserved some good news!

submitted 84 days ago • 249 comments

He wore the cheesehead hat in WI. Spent $20 million. Paid people to sign petitions. Paid people to canvas. Did million dollar giveaways. A rally. TV interviews. But I guess people in Wisconsin didn’t appreciate an oligarch trying to buy their civil liberties.

submitted 84 days ago • 3174 comments

There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.

submitted 87 days ago • 217 comments

If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin.

submitted 93 days ago • 353 comments

Pro Tip: Innocent people don’t spend their days attacking judges, that’s what mobsters and despots do. Any lawyer who willingly does business with the White House is a creep & a cretin. I don’t care how much their firm pulls in a year. They’re enabling tyrants and they know it.

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Psst… take 12 seconds away from doom scrolling, to take a deep breath and relax with these sweet otters 🦦 🔊 🎥Nature

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All you need to know about Twitter

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Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov says that Trump gave Moscow an opportunity to prepare for a big war against Europe. Dmitry Drobnitsky points out that Trump's term is too short for Russia to carry out its plans, hoping that JD Vance will win in 2028. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFBv...

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Meanwhile in Russia: state TV experts are convinced that the main reason Trump wants to recognize Crimea as Russian is because he wants to build one of his hotels there. They like this potential tradeoff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L8e...

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NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: CHEERS WILDLY (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

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Zelensky said Moscow had launched 145 drones, four cruise missiles and two ballistic missiles into Ukraine overnight, “targeting energy infrastructure among other things,” including two hospitals. “Putin’s words are very much at odds with reality,” Zelensky said. www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

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