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Will you look at that? COSTCO didn't roll back DEI, and store traffic increased by: 5.8% on the week beginning January 27, 5.7% on the week beginning February 3, 4.6% on the week beginning February 10 Sources: Fortune and Retail Brew

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Literally one time in the past several decades was it decisive and that was when voters decided to reward George W. Bush for ignoring intelligence suggesting Al Qaeda was determined to strike the United States with hijacked airplanes.

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This is why we need paladin liberalism There must always be a struggle. The struggle for greater rights at home, the struggle to defend freedom abroad, and the struggle to live up to liberal moral principles. We can never give up the fight for meaning.

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Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg made his lifework documenting and sharing Black history & culture A leading voice during the Harlem Renaissance, he collected art, literature, slave narratives, more You can find his collection at NY Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem

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The only thing that makes Russia any more powerful than Mexico is their large (and aging) arsenal of weapons left over from the Soviet period.

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Do I need to remind Bernie Bros that Hillary had the votes for a massive Healthcare bill in 94 & there was an asshole Senator from Vermont that killed it?

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Good. Keep it going. It's not just Americans who should boycott this lunatic, he has his eyes on Europe. He treats countries as resources to be sucked dry for their minerals. Everyone should boycott him.

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Prediction: the Nаzi salute will become common within 2 years. RWers will half-аss it for plausible deniability, memeify the backlash, then start fully doing it "as a joke" "to troll the libs" "for being hysterical enough to think we were doing it in the first place"

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Marker: If there is a ‘fever breaking’ moment for Trump (recession, shocker special election result, etc) and it becomes clear that there isn’t going to be a thousand year trumpenreich, you’re going to see a scramble of belated efforts from places like SCOTUS to prove they are totally independent

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Spot the European arms manufacturer and the American one

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First ever Secretary of State to just get out there and say “we are weak, come walk all over us”

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It's absolutely infuriating how this idea that Russia is a great power for tautological reasons is something believed by statesmen and world leaders

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Historically, the Russian/Soviet navy is known for 2 things 1. Dying horribly to cover other nations in glory 2. Nuclear submarine disasters

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They actually did this this is all so horrible, illegal and incredibly stupid

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Here’s the email everyone is getting from OPM. Embarrassing stuff.

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Worth noting that a large number of federal employees, such as NIH and NSF program officers, were not allowed to do their jobs last week.

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“Now that you’ve unfairly called us Nazis I have no choice but to do a Sieg Heil” is really where we’re going with this. Do not relent. The public is not on their side. “It was an accident” is not the same thing as “I’m doing it intentionally but ironically.”

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The Russians cannot comprehend that NATO is a genuine alliance and America cannot unilaterally roll it back.

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Man he really called it

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Do you make less than $360,000 a year? Your taxes are about to go UP. And you have Trump, Musk, and the Republicans to thank for it.

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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

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The youth gets all the credit, but it’s middle aged women who are going to whip your ass. Bet.

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Beautiful! Orange balloons let go in the air in Switzerland, with the Hatikvah (Israel’s National Anthem) playing, in honor of Kfir and Ariel Bibas. 🧡🧡 #NeverForgotten [🎥: NAIN Switzerland]

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Musk, Vance and their support for the anti-American, pro-Russian German far-right From Jamie Kirchik www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...

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Germans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

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Handy graphic to help understand what is antisemitism or hatred of the Jewish people.

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Please Share. For Yarden. #Israel #Gaza #Oct7Massacre #PalestinianTerrorists #PalestinianTerrorism #Palimals #FlattenGazaNow

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I don't think one permanently incapacitates Trump without a Supermajority of Dems in the House and Senate. Everyone who analyzes Biden's presidency assumes a Better Dem would have Done Better, but the reality is that factors both known and unknown would have locked us into similar outcomes.

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another Nazi salute at CPAC

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I think humanitarian aid as an extension of soft imperial power is good and "have free elections and we'll cure your tuberculosis" is the best game in town.

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Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

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Nobody has ever done something like this before, because it would have been instant impeachment. If we are a liberal democracy in 2030, we will have a very different constitution than in 2024.

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conservatism will always exist. i am a conservative for liberal democracy.

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Kibbutz Nir Oz has announced that Shiri Bibas was murdered in Gaza captivity. The tragic news comes amid revelations that Hamas terrorists murdered the Bibas children—an infant and a child—in cold blood with their bare hands. Hamas must be brought to justice for crimes against humanity.

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He nails it.

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Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

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This is the reason why kids today don’t learn about acid rains in school. Regulations work - corporations won’t do shit to fix the environment unless they are FORCED to.

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headline sucks but I love that even the French Far Right is like "you all need to stop being Nazi freaks"

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❗️“Betrayed. First Zelensky, then us? The radical retreat of the US from its allies” Der Spiegel cover.

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holy crap .... Another Town Hall(s) Goes Off the Rails – Oregon 2nd District Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anoth...

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THIS is how you resist. Protest Republicans. Fill their town halls. If you’re on the left and live in a red state—even better a purple state—lobby your representatives.

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A full-on purge of the military leadership, targeting women and people of color. This perfectly captures where we are: An escalating authoritarian takeover of the state, combined with an aggressive program to re-segregate the spheres of influence and power and restore complete white male dominance.

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They keep showing us exactly who they are.

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