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People from Leeds—all the North—understand condescension, understand the urge to drink and get into a fight with those pig-ignorant—wilfully ignorant—voters who got us into this mess and are now shocked—shocked!—to find themselves in a jam. Here's my favourite Leeds band to explain.

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MSNBC "is a threat to democracy, actually" and "they shouldn't be allowed to lie," President Trump tells CPAC.

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A Two-Part Screening and Discussion: Executions and Mass Graves in Tantura and al-Dawayima in 1948 We're live with Dr. Shourideh Molavi, @forensicarchi.bsky.social's Lead Palestine Researcher! You can tune in on @palestinecenter.bsky.social's Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmpe...

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

This hits hard.

submitted 6 hours ago • 312 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1096 comments

Unfortunately, when you take the wheels off the vehicle, rip out its engine, and perform a frontal lobotomy on the driver, it's harder to go anywhere with those dreams.

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The President who was doing flyovers at Daytona and golfing through his presidency wants an accounting of every federal employee’s work week or they will be fired. This while Elon Musk won’t account for any of his time to Congress.

submitted 7 hours ago • 118 comments

Someone’s lying here, big time. And just this once, I don’t think it’s Trump.

submitted 8 hours ago • 151 comments

"This is a vast project of enforced re-education by a colonial power that wants to wipe away history as though clearing a computer disk, and reprogram a population through barrages of propaganda at the barrel of a gun" From @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social, on occupied Ukraine econ.st/41CVD4d

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Infuriating! 😡 Don’t Cut My Medicaid! The majority of my son’s medical team are in Austin (1.5 hr drive), some in Houston (3 hrs), one in Dallas (5 hrs). Telehealth appts are needed & necessary! My son has extreme car anxiety, not to mention wear and tear on our car, gas! 🤬 And we’re not alone!

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NEW: The Trump/Musk blitzkrieg aims to destroy government to advance oligarchy & autocracy—and to crush the Democrats & the progressive agenda. It's an existential crisis. Yet so many Dems are missing in action. In my OUR LAND newsletter, I ask, WTF? Pls share. link.motherjones.com/public/38721...

submitted 10 hours ago • 139 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 10 hours ago • 95 comments

This is so wrong.

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Stop the steal — President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump are robbing the American people.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

It’s a cult.

submitted 1 day ago • 3290 comments

these clowns are genuinely not prepared for the violent backlash that's coming their way once the cascading failures from destroying government agencies and the social safety net start to manifest in concussive, very unsubtle waves

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Look surprised. 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

Bad energy

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Governor Mills doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and it appears she has even less tolerance for bullies. (And as a former attorney general, she knows what she’s talking about.)

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TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

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Translation: That’s a nice country you’ve got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

it would be gauche to edit my own wikipedia page but I do hope someone updates it to include the berryman nationalpress.org/award-story/...

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Though we cannot be unlanguaged we may, perhaps, sometimes by #poetry, be unburdened of cares our words presume. — Donald Revell #art by Laura Makabresku

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Never forget.

submitted 1 day ago • 552 comments

MALIGNANT NARCISSISM: A psychological disorder that is characterized by an inflated sense of self-worth, a need for admiration, and a disregard for others. People with this disorder may also be manipulative, aggressive, abusive, paranoiac, and willing to do harmful things to achieve their goals.

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NEW: Get ready for delayed tax refunds, long hold times + dropped calls with the IRS, thanks to Trump illegally firing more than 6,000 employees there today. *Except if you're a wealthy tax evader. You will now "feast" as the IRS strains to function. www.huffpost.com/entry/irs-ma...

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Hey everyone! I did an emergency live over on Substack, reminding us all that we will win this thing! Take a look! adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

submitted 2 days ago • 876 comments

gl to the rural trump voters who get their medications and social security checks by mail

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Texas’ measles outbreak: What we know and where the cases are. The number of measles cases in Texas has ballooned to at least 58, as of Tuesday, including a baby who was too young to be vaccinated. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/18/t...

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The first reaction to this news should be concern about the future of voting by mail www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 3 days ago • 322 comments

Agree. It’s also on us in the media to be amplifying these stories about what and who is being destroyed right now.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Act as if no one is coming to save you.

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments