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This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

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Let me take this format for a spin

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Federal employees are now being told they will be fired if they do not reply to a guy who does not respond to the Moms of his kids.

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Why have we all been trying so hard to come up with a nickname for Elon when "Lex Loser" is right there??

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OH COME ON

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Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

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The able-bodied one needs to stop angrily staring at my penis.

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Excellent judging.

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In a just world, there'll be a queue.

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A loathsome, evil person, as responsible as any single human being for the destruction of US democracy. I hope some day to piss on his grave.

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An accent I would never have imagined hearing - beautiful west of Ireland Irish that's also discernibly Ukrainian. Uplifting and heart-breaking in equal measure.

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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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Ed Davey comments on Starmer talking to Trump #r4today Acknowledges the difficulty of his position but stresses the need to be firmly honest and to protect our interests. Managing to be both supportive and oppositional. A very welcome change from the twatty point-scoring we get from the Tories.

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Letters in non-Roman alphabets actually have meaning, people. They aren't just a dingbat font

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Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...

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Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

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Gary the Canadian Adventure Cat would like to remind America that if it invades Canada, its children will die, scared, alone and frozen.

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Sure, Google's data centers consume tens of billions of litres of water yearly and emit more carbon dioxide than many nations, but on the other hand, you can look up Uranus and AI will show you a picture of Neptune. Never in the history of humanity, have we reached such speeds in making mistakes

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Yoko Ono is 92 today. She is also a great artist whose dignity and compassion in the face of more than half a century of unearned disdain, much of it unequivocally racist and/or misogynistic in character, is genuinely astonishing.

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“Zelensky survived a dozen Russian assassination attempts including a special forces assault on his presidential complex.He stood up to Trump. I’m sure he’ll be deeply impressed to learn our Congressional Republicans live as terrified hostages of their own party leader.” ~ @michaeldweiss.bsky.social

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Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

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You never imagine the descent into despotism being quite this embarrassing, you know? You expect liberal democracy to fall to a Palpatine, not Biff Tannen.

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The winners of the 2024 Popper Prize are...

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It strikes me that a better approach here is an attempt to curate some solidarity. “Dairy farmers, you are being told that you are waste, fraud, and abuse. You know that you are not. We know they are lying. We know that because other things they are pointing at as waste/fraud/abuse aren’t either.”

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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

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This is like saying parents saved money by not feeding their kids as much and skipping doctors’ appointments. People were actually using the services he’s killed off, among them veterans.

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Listen up liberal crashes plane

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@juliusgoat.bsky.social

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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The "Free Speech Union" is very worried that the call for Musk's ejection from the Royal Society is denying the free speech of the "world's richest man" who is running the US and shutting down dissent on the social media platform he owns. freespeechunion.org/elon-musk-an...

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Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

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I will never top this

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I really still am at least 25% tempted by F A C T and V A L Ü

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"“The accommodation I booked — I don’t know how else to say this, but don’t quote me because I’m not allowed to — it is ALL-INCLUSIVE.”

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When you are no longer bound by groveling for White House access you are free to do real reporting like this. Thanks AP! apnews.com/article/doge...

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In the coming weeks, a lot of slow-on-the uptake folks are going to begin belatedly realizing Trump is both an inept moron and a dangerous autocrat. Our great civic challenge in these trying times will be calmly welcoming them aboard instead of primal-screaming in their faces.

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