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Neoliberalism; the *worst* thing since unsliced bread? #notthe51stanything https://youtu.be/1LzhCLzfJFg?si=cbS-4W_PFE1BMnuz Hear me out: we become Trump’s cherished Fifty First Bone Spur.

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I won’t say this changes everything, but surely it changes some things.

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This guy is just posted up outside of Congress and I’m honestly not sure what his political views are but I agree

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I can't recall ever seeing a parenthetical like this in a comparable news story before www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Kate Shaw is a national treasure, and I’m so glad she’s not taking shit from the Hawley and Kennedy. And I say this notwithstanding the fact that Kate and I have pretty different views on nationwide injunctions, the subject of this hearing.

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Now that Trump has blasted Leonard Leo, don't let the right wing sanitize the Federalist Society. Its members have been supporting voter suppression for years, its judges are among the hardest on voters. What will come from Trump now will be far worse, but do not judge democracy on a curve.

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#NeverForgetJanuary6th

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More than 400 measles cases in Alberta now this year.

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NEW: Inside Deloitte’s Multi-Million Promotion of Georgia’s Struggling Medicaid Experiment

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Yes, I'm pissed about the jumbo jet too. But this is actually the most important story today.

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They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women. Their economic model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.

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“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

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@acoyne.bsky.social thank you for your book “The Crisis of Canadian Democracy”. Its diagnoses are truly a gift to pro-democracy Canadians. Thanks also for the little gems:

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It's their honour to be fleeced. It's how they own the libs and Obama, probably.

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Stop covering this like it’s news, ya dipshits, you might inadvertently give your readers the correct impression.

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Ashamed of my cohort (Gen X) in the US.

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Kinda perfectly encapsulates the whole vibe of police that, after brainwormed occupiers terrorized their residents for weeks and made kids miss chemo appointments.... ...they're endorsing the guy who brought those occupiers doughnuts

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...as predicted by no shortage of detractors at the time (i.e. 1980s and 1990s)

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reporting on this has really got to get better about communicating the magnitude of the breach here. if you read the nyt article with minimal context, you would have no sense that this was watergate-level impeachable misconduct

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It doesn't matter what the rest of the sentence says, the opening 10 words in themselves are the scandal: "President Trump on Thursday directed the Justice Department to investigate ... "

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Judge Luttig chooses very carefully and importantly what he pipes up about.

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The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.