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You take your good news where you can get it, so I'll share this: today at the orthopedist for a bum shoulder, the doctor says, "What we see in strong men of a certain age is ..." and I didn't hear anything else. I almost said, "Do you really think so, Doc?" I am needy AF these days, apparently.

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This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Go Big Red!

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🔥🔥“I serve two combat tours in Iraq, and I will be damned if we allow the Trump administration, a draft dodging coward, to disassemble and dishonor our Veterans. ” – Rep. Pat Ryan Veterans aren’t pulling punches. Trump’s cuts are gutting care—and we’re ready for a fight.

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If you knew Duke and its history, and the way it treats the people of Durham, you'd realize that Duke product Stephen Miller was inevitable.

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Three prongs of the Trump attack have Stephen Miller’s fingerprints all over them: deportation without due process and the push to denaturalize citizens; the attacks on academic freedom and funding; and the punishment of law firms. These are his issues, and cruelty is always central for Miller

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"Pete Belton, 44, from Ilkeston says he was shocked to find his forearm featured in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document used to help identify alleged members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a transnational criminal organisation." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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We're in for another day of this shit.

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Doomsayers dismiss nonviolent protest, and slyly imply that some kind of violence will be required. Unless you have the stomach to commit that kind of violence *yourself,” you have no business talking about such violence so cavalierly. You’re soft and you don’t know what you’re talking about.

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Trump’s VA is killing a program that’s helped 17,000 Veterans keep their homes. You read that right: Republicans are shutting down a rescue plan that’s literally kept Veterans from losing everything. Cruel doesn’t begin to cover it. This is deliberate. MORE: www.npr.org/2025/04/03/n...

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Looks like we’re in for a second day of your retirement getting absolutely shellacked.

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NEW: On Offense with Kris Goldsmith. Frontline doctors say new mandates are pushing them to the edge and putting the future of veterans' healthcare at risk. 🔗 bit.ly/forced-exodus

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Y'all, we're going to need Victory Gardens now.

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I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

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NEW: Vet Voice Foundation condemns the new executive order targeting military and overseas voters. Veterans didn’t serve around the world just to have their voting rights restricted at home. READ MORE: vvfnd.org/press-releas...

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Hegseth: "These thoroughly discredited [hiccup] and lying journalists now are going back in time planting memos. They will stop at nothing. We will not stop until we root out their time traveling ways."

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Academics rise up to defend LibGen because it makes writing their syllabi SO much easier than actually finding books, and blithely claim that they are entitled to pirate copyrighted books and articles because “copyright” is apparently a meaningless word. I can’t even … this is bad timing y’all

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It has become so dangerous for people to travel to the United States, I wouldn't be surprised if the 2026 World Cup were boycotted -- at least the matches to be played in the United States -- and that the 2028 Summer Olympics were boycotted if things don't change.

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