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People should be calling this what it is, which is a crypto bailout. They're cutting cancer research so they can bailout rich, degenerate gamblers bsky.app/profile/ronf...

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Talking about reducing childhood cancer rates while slashing funding for cancer research sure is something.

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Fun Fact: Democrats are wearing pink tonight as a symbolic protest against people who want them to do something meaningful

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trump: "democrats are weak, they're pathetic, they are like sick dogs to me. not people! they are not people!!!" democrats: silently holding a tiny sign that says "not true" like daffy duck

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congrats democrats, you got played like chumps. but at least you're respecting the office or some bullshit

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Trump: I’m going to kill your loved ones. Democrats: [wave placard] Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]

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it only took six weeks for America to reach the Marie Antoinette ‘let them raise their own chickens’ stage of crumbling empire

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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

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Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."

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The Democrats shouldn’t have to be told to do this 😭

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Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza because Israel has broken the Ceasefire treaty and refused to start withdrawing their troops from Gaza. Blocking Humanitarian Aid and starving people is a War Crime, but you won't hear any of the Media reporting it.

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#Gaza: Doctors Without Borders strongly denounces Israel’s announcement to block aid into Gaza. Humanitarian aid should never be used as a tool of war. Regardless of negotiations between warring parties, people in Gaza still need an immediate and massive scale-up of humanitarian supplies.

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📌BREAKING: The Stock Market.

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

Whether in our water, on its bench, or in the White House, the Supreme Court is a big fan of raw sewage.

submitted 2 days ago • 1393 comments

Tired: Dysentery in Oregon Wired: Dysentery at the Supreme Court

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A brief summary of Trump’s idea of a ‘peace deal’: Zelenskyy: “I need help to protect my people.” Trump: “Well, you should have thought of that before you got invaded…” Full version here: youtu.be/Jk0nUUqG_Ag?...

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When your kids ask you what you did to save US science in the crisis of ‘25, you will say that you showed up! Please spread the word and join us!! @standupforscience.bsky.social

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This is the most right wing newspaper in the UK. Extraordinary.

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Would pay money for a Zelensky / Kendrick Collab

submitted 6 days ago • 160 comments

King Charles gives his support to Zelensky.

submitted 4 days ago • 130 comments

use of starvation of a civilian population as a weapon of war is a completely unambiguous war crime

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"ceasefire falters" is an interesting way for the washington post to describe "israel reneges on the ceasefire agreement and uses starvation as a bargaining chip" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Preparing to break the fast in Gaza on the first day of Ramadan

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It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

submitted 5 days ago • 666 comments

I'm glad I missed this. Hasan and Maher aside, here is Semafor's rogue's gallery of the people responsible for the death of trust in dying incumbent institutional mass media.

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american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

submitted 5 days ago • 847 comments

worth saying again that this was a bait and switch. if trump had openly announced he was running on allowing companies to discriminate against women and minorities he would not have won wapo.st/43aVQg1

submitted 5 days ago • 305 comments

More than 75,000 Washington Post subscribers have canceled subscriptions since owner Jeff Bezos overhauled its opinion sections to an explicitly libertarian line - sparking criticism he is altering the paper to appease President Trump. MORE/ www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

Mais à quel moment c'est Zelensky qui a été humilié ? C'est tout les USA qui se sont couverts de honte. Zelensky est resté d'une dignité à peine croyable au vu des circonstances.

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Vance: I think it's disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media...You should be thanking the president... Zelenskyy: Have you ever been to Ukraine?... Vance: I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour...

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OH, HOLY HELL This administration may cut funding for an updated Avian Flu vaccine. finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-t...

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w/ story link: Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members. Drug cos need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. w/ story link: insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/v... #healthpolicy

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

I’m down for Al Sharpton’s boycott on Friday. If we want to be effective, we need to stop giving these people our money. Are you in?

submitted 9 days ago • 529 comments

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

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Jeff Bezos will be censoring progressive opinions at the Washington Post. He says so himself today. So ditch the Post and support independent journalism: Zeteo.com/subscribe

submitted 8 days ago • 452 comments

I feel good about canceling my Washington Post subscription today. But also its sad. Im old enough to remember when the Post was the gold standard in reporting & every way.

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Billionaire owner of Washington Post seizes control of opinion page. Will focus nearly exclusively to promote rightwing libertarianism. "Viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others." Democracy Docket will expand its pro-democracy opinion section. www.democracydocket.com

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"It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump." Marty Baron, former executive editor of the Washington Post, interprets what Jeff Bazos announced this morning. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

submitted 8 days ago • 162 comments

Washington Post From All the President’s Men to all the president’s meh.

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One pernicious step after another, Bezos encroached on the Post editorial policy. Today he seized it fully. The old Washington Post is gone. I'll never write for it again as long as he's the owner.

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SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

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People in Serbia are throwing eggs are corrupt officials, and I was like, "damn, I feel like I'm watching someone fling caviar at oligarchs."

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Stephen Fry, "I'm deeply worried about the darkening shadow that's going over the world, the shadow of fascism" Laura Kuenssberg, "You would use that word?" Stephen Fry, "Absolutely. It's a cult of power. And power only speaks to power"

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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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Joy Reid’s evening news show on MSNBC is reportedly being canceled in a major shake-up

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