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Big Balls’s past gets more scrutiny — including the internship where he was terminated. “You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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But of course!

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At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

submitted 7 hours ago • 485 comments

People do have the Power, they just do not utilize it especially in North America. Watch the French, the Germans, they are on the streets when they do not like what they see is happening.

submitted 7 hours ago • 7 comments

Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

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Firing 7000 IRS agents will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe. But it's also a gift to the multi-billion dollar tax prep industry. Fewer IRS agents to help you file your taxes means more money in the pockets of companies like TurboTax.

submitted 6 hours ago • 140 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 7 hours ago • 136 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY

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Clowns like RFKJr will say and do anything for attention, money and power. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Wholesale price for a dozen large white eggs is on the version of hitting $8, per USDA data.

submitted 2 days ago • 349 comments

What I’ve been saying (screaming). Now there’s data.

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REMINDER: Cutting IRS spending is not a “cost-cutting” move. Cutting the IRS lowers revenue. It’s a move to protect the wealthy, like Elon Musk. Auditing the rich returns $12 for every $1 spent. www.nber.org/papers/w31376

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If the president signed an order that allowed him to arrest and deport US citizen family members of certain noncitizens, would any Republican object? We need them on the record about this sooner rather than later.

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@asharangappa.bsky.social is right. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

Good. Don’t flinch.

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fact check: since congestion pricing started, subway crime is down 36%.

submitted 2 days ago • 245 comments

This is why nobody feared Project 2025 enough because everybody is like, "Who's going to do it? Jared?" Nope, Silicon Valley.

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Unfortunately firings have continued at the National Nuclear Safety Administration. I’ve been contacted by an NNSA worker who was fired, then told her termination was paused, then told she was fired again. She says there were numerous others at NNSA treated the same way. These people keep us safe.

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

As Trump makes concessions to Russia, he is showing weakness on a level unprecedented in modern US history. His position is so weak that it is unlikely to convince anyone. Trump is a sheep in wolf’s clothing. The wolves can tell the difference "The Weak Strongman" snyder.substack.com/p/the-weak-s...

submitted 2 days ago • 130 comments

Good work, MAGA voters. Especially those of you in Tornado Alley.

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

HHS has ordered CDC to stop its influenza vaccine “Wild to Mild” media campaign. This is an award-winning campaign that effectively explains how influenza vaccine may not prevent infection but does decrease illness severity. We are currently having one of the worst influenza seasons in 15 years.

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

Reports of IRS mass layoffs coming today. Roughly 10% of those expected to be affected are veterans, per former IRS commissioner Charles Rettig. More are current members of reserves or family members of active-duty military personnel. www.linkedin.com/posts/charle...

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What we have learned about the second Trump administration: 1. Trump is serious about destroying the US social welfare & regulatory state. 2. Trump wants complete power, no more democracy, checks & balances or transparency. 3. Trump prefers Putin & Xi over traditional US allies.

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“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

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How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Republican pollster Frank Luntz debunks Trump’s lie about zelensky’s approval numbers, points out they’re actually higher than Trump’s 👇🏽

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Trump proposes something idiotic/racist/illegal and op ed writers in once respected publications get to work trying to make it sound less idiotic/racist/illegal, and fail.

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📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

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Biden capped insulin and inhalers at $35/month. Republicans saw that and said, “No, let’s make sure people suffer.” You can’t make this shit up.

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UNREAL CRUELTY. Completely senseless.

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Breaking: The Federalist Society quickly reboots as the Royalist Society.

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“The fix was in” — Capitol Hill Press corps member Sam Stockard picks apart @GovBillLee’s private school voucher scam👇🏽 A) He’s 100% right. B) Why does he get to have an opinion, but we are unanimously kept out of the press corps for ours?🤷🏻 tennesseelookout.com/2025/02/14/s...

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open.substack.com/pub/frankfig...

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Reup: Less than two weeks after the criminal investigation of Project Veritas was closed, Emil Bove is trying to force prosecutors to rely on a Project Veritas video to predicate a criminal investigation. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/19/e...

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Sean Hannity’s interview with Donald Trump and Elon Musk was “an hour of conversation among three men who have no idea how American democracy works,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/1ZbiqPfz

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

We’ve seen this movie before.

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If DOGE is making a simple math error here it is making simple errors elsewhere -- like firing mission critical employees and cutting life-saving programs. There is a reason why government sometimes moves slow, so it doesn't make stupid decisions www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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“In this administration, no one will contradict the president, and no one will raise alarms about stupid and immoral policies. It’s a good way to walk into brick walls in foreign affairs…this administration is a set of culpable disasters waiting to occur.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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⚡️'Russia will try to divide us' — Kallas on US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia. European foreign ministers and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas spoke to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio after the U.S.-Russia talks in Riyadh, Kallas said on X on Feb. 18.

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

Yep.

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The president's remarks were ripped as "morally disgusting" by Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, who is an expert on authoritarianism.

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

Telling the Ukrainians they shouldn’t have started the war is some real high-level assholery.

submitted 3 days ago • 347 comments

Donald Trump seems afraid, or at the very least, constrained in what he can say about Vladimir Putin. What's going on?

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

Cowardly Quisling

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