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It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there

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A series of violent confrontations across the U.S. believed to be linked to members of a fringe group known as the Zizians has left at least six people dead.

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Really just leaning into our Children of Men reality at this point.

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When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

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If Russia or Ukraine show any further aggression toward each other, I will have no choice but to show up at a military base school and ban more books that have gay characters. by Pete Hegseth

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If you don't know what to do, buy a new printer.

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The National Park Service fired many of its park rangers as part of a reduction in the federal work force. Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about the cuts and share their love of the Park Service. “It’s scary, but it was the right thing to do.”

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The DHS will use polygraphs to question employees about communications with the media or nonprofit organizations in an effort to root out members of the resistance.

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Study of TikTok, X ‘For You’ feeds in Germany finds Far Right political bias ahead of federal elections

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National Park ranger fired from "dream job" on Valentine's Day pens emotional viral letter: "Things are not ok" www.cbsnews.com/news/nationa...

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Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

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Musk wants to inspect our IRS data to catch everyday Americans committing tax fraud—an overreach of DOGE’s power. Personal tax data has nothing to do with government efficiency.

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Wonder if Elon could survive a week on the salary we make. While he burns through $8 million a day, the working class struggles—yet he paints us as the enemy.

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This congresswoman gets paid $175k a year to post boomer memes like this on Twitter all day.

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The Trump administration is looking to overturn a Biden-era rule limiting major banks’ ability to penalize customers with overdraft fees, a reversal that has major banking associations salivating at the mouth.

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A Missouri Representative has filed a bill to track pregnancies in the state. HB 807 will: "Maintain a central registry of each expectant mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion of her unborn child and make the same available to a prospective adoptive parent who has completed screenings."

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I wonder what BigBalls is doing with my SSN right now.

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This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.

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Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

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NEW: In recent months, Donald Trump asked advisers for a “list” of staff at the National Archives who he should purge, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked U.S. Secretary of Commerce nominee Howard Lutnick during their meeting in Washington on Friday to give Israel a waiver that would exempt it from proposed regulatory controls on advanced AI chips, two sources with knowledge of the issue said.

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oh the superbowl? that’s bread and circuses. oscars? bread and circuses. that show you like? sorry that’s bread and circuses. the circus? you know it. do not even get me started on that bread you made dude

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I saw the Kanye ad yesterday (it aired in the Philly market, where we were) but didn't click on the link. Today I found out it went to a website selling swastika T-shirts. This was a Superbowl ad. And it was to a website selling swastika T-shirts. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

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Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.

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I voted for Donald Trump. But when he said he would put Elon in charge of everything, I didn’t know that he meant that he’d let the DOGE kids steal my tax refund

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From @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Trump seems to be offering Israel a deal,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. “The U.S. will countenance the ethnic cleansing of Gaza so long as America gets a prime piece of oceanfront property at the end of it.” nyti.ms/414jKbn

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I am unhappy that Trump shuttered my newspaper and sent me to Gitmo, but I will always be proud that I never treated him unfairly in my reporting.

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In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, sausage at Bob Evans, and then down to the old Treasury Department servers to download every American’s Social Security number. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.

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“They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies,” said a former Noaa official. “They will have access to the entire computer system, a lot of which is confidential information.”

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The fact that the instructions for the frozen pizza I’m making states to ensure you put the pizza in the oven “cheese side up,” pretty much sums up the collective intelligence of this country right now

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Connecticut officials confirm: The state's Head Start reimbursement system, which provides low-income families with federal money to support their children's education, is shut down. @MSNBC

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