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When mommy and daddy spend a fortune on your quinceañera and nobody from school shows up.

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www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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#Denver #astronomy fans, come over to @chamberlin-obs.bsky.social tonight for some stargazing! I'll be there along with the physics students from @uofdenver.bsky.social and the lovely people from @denverastro.bsky.social . ✨🔭 Details --> www.denverastro.org

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Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

submitted 39 days ago • 2242 comments

Breaking News: President Trump plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar that he will use as Air Force One and will keep using after he leaves office. The plan — involving possibly the biggest foreign gift ever received by the U.S. government — raises substantial ethical issues.

submitted 39 days ago • 1009 comments

MAGA keeps scolding us "NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW" without even a trace of self-awareness.

submitted 40 days ago • 89 comments

FRIEND: "We're at risk of slipping into fascism." ME: "Oh, honey . . . when they are arresting judges and mayors, we've already slipped."

submitted 40 days ago • 420 comments

“So far, the most energetic opposition has come not from civic leaders but from everyday citizens, showing up at Congressional town hall meetings or participating in Hands Off rallies across the country. “Our leaders must follow their example.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

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"A nation which depends upon others for its new basic scientific knowledge will be slow in its industrial progress and weak in its competitive position in world trade, regardless of its mechanical skill." -- Vannevar Bush nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/2023-04/Endl...

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Farmers haven't recovered from the last time Felon47 was winning. youtu.be/FpYQVujtfcE?...

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@googlegeminiapp.bsky.social , Please include a lobotomize function for unwanted, unasked for, and intrusive AI creep.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

@google Gemini can go face down in a wet ditch.

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A federal judge has permanently barred the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans it labeled as criminals from his home district in southern Texas to a prison in El Salvador. The decision was issued by Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., a Trump appointee.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

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Get live results from the fede... newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/fe...

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If you’re in line when the polls close, stay in line. You can still cast your ballot. Your vote matters.

submitted 52 days ago • 616 comments

This is Canada — and we decide what happens here.

submitted 52 days ago • 293 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...

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"Best voting advice: Voting isn’t marriage. It’s public transport. You’re not waiting for "the one". You’re getting on the bus. And if there isn’t one going exactly to your destination, you don’t stay home and sulk. You take the one that’s going closest to where you want to be."

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