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The office of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was created with a fixed four-year term that does not coincide with a presidential term. In the 75 years the office has existed, no chairman has been removed. Removing a chairman without cause is as authoritarian as it gets.

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The key principles of today’s Republican Party: For the white against the colored For the rich against the rest Was the firing of Gen. Brown because he disagreed with Trump about DEI, or because he was black — an insult to Trump, and a mortal insult to the white South African Elon Musk?

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A whole river of shame is now flowing out of Washington, staining the country & the world. It’s beyond pathetic for American government officials, Trump flunkies themselves, to demand the leader of a country in mortal danger grovel as they do. By @lukeharding.bsky.social via @shashj.bsky.social

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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"Germany’s #rail problems have become so bad that Deutsche Bahn’s intercity service is less punctual than even the worst operator in Britain." There were lots of people doubting on here that Germany's trains are worse. Voilà, FT has done the numbers. www.ft.com/content/d3b6...

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NEW: The Trump administration has just told a federal judge in a court filing that it will not comply with the court's order to resume funding for USAID and State Department foreign assistance.

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Deeply alarming revelations about links between a senior Trump admin official and Bosnian Serb secessionist strongman and genocide triumphalist Milorad Dodik: “He had it in for Bosnia…and I didn’t know why at the time.” www.propublica.org/article/usai...

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the mild, non-confrontational obama formula for inclusiveness was so intolerable to a substantial chunk of the country that they put a outer borough george wallace into the white house. like, what are we talking about here?

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