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Someone on here yesterday noted that the admin’s inability to actually conduct mass deportations is sparing Americans from immediate material impact Arguably the worst possible version if you want to touch the stove as soon as possible

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👊🇺🇸🔥

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The Canadians are pissed

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can u imagine how badly jeffrey goldberg probably wanted to jump into the chat "this stuff is wild guys not gonna lie can not believe i was invited"

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Among other things, i really doubt it is the main job of the head of the DOD to keep people updated in real time

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Also take note of their masks - as the administration demands that Columbia et al ban masks on campus, so they can identify protesters more easily.

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A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

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This is actually kind of a massive gift to federal employees. We got a PAS official - the DNI, no less - testifying under oath that I have the right to express personal views on personal accounts which disagree with administration policies.

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journalists should assume the admin is lying. judges should assume the admin is lying. Dems voting on appointments should assume the admin is lying. like, we should not be extending the benefit of the doubt ever here.

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Well, they lied. Obviously.

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I say it sincerely: If you did a NTSB-style breakdown of Signalgate (its origins, the incident, the aftermath), it would be a compelling study of how authoritarianism is a kind of demon that possesses people and processes and makes them stupid.

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NEW: How Elon Musk’s SpaceX secretly allows investment from China. They are funneled through offshore secrecy havens, according to court documents. @justinelliott.bsky.social & @josh-kaplan.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/elon...

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The White House is saying the information shared in the Signal group chat was “not classified.” They’re lying. Those who’ve served in uniform know it would’ve been classified. We’re calling for an investigation and accountability.

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This executive order requires RealID to vote, specifically. Regular licenses won't work Only 61.2% of license holders currently have RealID If you're not one of them, get your ID NOW. NOW. TODAY. Because this will likely not be the last thing you'll need one for abcnews.go.com/US/real-id-w...

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#BREAKING CBS News obtained an internal NSA bulletin from Feb. 2025—a month before the Houthi chat—which warns NSA employees of using Signal, adding, that that the app should “NOT” be used for communicating CUI, unclassified, protected information. t.co/1pcMZFSa2C

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Important point: highly unlikely that Houthi group chat was first/only time Trump natsec team took to Signal. In normal times, DOJ/FBI would want to get to bottom of this. These aren't normal times.

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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

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I'd estimate that 40% of banks offer completely free accounts with no strings (and like 90% of credit unions.) Anyone who keeps all their money in crypto is a megadunce who is already primed to be a republican due to how dumb they are

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I have faith that Elon Musk is so jealous of a bunch of other Nazis being complete fucking morons in public that he's planning something big

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Buttigieg: What if this had, in fact, gone to somebody else? I mean, somebody who could plausibly be in some of these people's cell phones. I don't know, the Chinese ambassador or Russian negotiator. And the other question on my mind is how many other times has something like this happened?

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the Signal fiasco is a good reminder that while these people are destructive, and cruel, and bigoted, and petty they are also really, really stupid

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Apropos of nothing, the Soviet Union had a history of politically abusing psychiatry, using mental illness diagnoses to suppress dissent and control individuals, with the concept that those who opposed the regime were mentally ill. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

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Paris voters have approved 500 more pedestrian streets, converting car lanes to walking paths & replacing 10,000 parking spaces with people places. 🙌 If your knee jerk reaction to this news is to rationalize why Atlanta can never do this, your brain is broken. Fix your brain, then fix cities.

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From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

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NEW: The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica. One climate health expert called the directive “catastrophic.” With @fastlerner.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/nih-...

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This whole thread from @pwnallthethings.bsky.social is very funny

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So let me get this straight—Trump’s nat sec adviser added a JOURNALIST to a group chat on classified Yemen strike plans?? This isn’t a group project, it’s national security. They screamed “Lock her up” over emails, but leaking war plans is cool now? Make it make sense.

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this shit has unironically helped me out so much

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some more congestion pricing Ws: Broadway attendance: up 21% Restaurant reservations: up 7% Pedestrian traffic: up 4% Retail sales: up $900M Commercial leasing: up 61% Subway crime: down 37% Car crashes: down 50% Honking complaints: down 69%

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I have no patience for this temporizing. People are being summarily shipped off into slavery in central america under the imprimatur of the US government right now. Canada—Canada!—is putting itself on a war footing. We’ve been off the map and in uncharted territory for the last 250 miles.

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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

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The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

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This sounds to me like the government, once again, trying to control private companies. What happened to capitalism?

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Generations of dedicated public servants have, unseen by the general public, done all kinds of extraordinary things that benefit all of us—like preserving the genetic diversity of crop species that sustain humanity. Musk is blindly slashing it all. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

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Just arrived from Berlin to an empty Dulles airport in DC. Assumed because Heathrow outage. “No,” says my WashFlyer cabbie, the past month has been super slow. “Fewer tourists, fewer business people. This is not normal, believe me.” Says he’s looking for a new job because he needs to pay his bills.

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Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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U.S. intel, including the CIA, have shared the assessment with the White House over the past week that, contrary to Trump’s claims, Ukrainian troops are not surrounded in western Russia's Kursk region. Yet, Trump has continued to claim otherwise.

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Can't wait til he tweets about it to lecture the Japanese or Philippino foreign minister. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

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Easy way to stop political mailers and flyers and make sure people get their ballot info online from Joe Rogan and gum up vote by mail. Honestly it's pretty efficient move if you're trying to fuck up elections.

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if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders

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Here we go. The dam is breaking. Call your D senators and reps and tell them that Schumer has to step down as the minority leader in the Senate. Find your reps here: reps.fyi

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Tesla has recalled... every single Cybertruck. Every one they've ever sold. For a hardware issue www.carscoops.com/2025/03/tesl...

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BREAKING: The Trump administration is considering to give up the role of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe - a role that began with then-World War II hero and future president Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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very excited to do 2002/2003 except somehow stupider and potentially more destructive

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"If the administration is claiming inherent constitutional authority to ignore court orders whenever it doesn’t want to follow them, not much to the rule of law remains." Harrowing stuff from legal scholar Matt Seligman on Trump border czar vowing to ignore courts: newrepublic.com/article/1928...

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“physically” doing a whole lot of heavy lifting here

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