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For history heads, my piece here starts out on a discussion of the semi-secret and certainly forgotten constitutional crisis over the abrogation of gold clauses in treasury securities and non-federal government contracts that we just passed the 90th anniversary of

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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...

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From New Yorker Humor: I believe that marriage is a lasting partnership between one person without health insurance and one person who gets pretty good coverage through work.

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Someone in a private friends’ group on Facebook said they always thought Melania was DJT’s KGB handler. I have never heard something so far-fetched that made so much sense to me.

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You know who else did nazi salutes?

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The federal agency responsible for traffic safety, which has been investigating self-driving technology in Tesla vehicles, will fire a “modest” number of employees, an agency spokesman said Friday.

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Powerful image from @fairvote.ca. Your vote matters.

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"Six weeks ago, we had the strongest economy, employment, and stock market in history. ..All gone in 30 days."

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The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

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🇵🇸 "Palestinians sit next to a fire among the rubble of buildings destroyed during the Israeli offensive, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, at Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, February 17." 📸 REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

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FYI, despite the events of the past 1.5 years at Columbia, the law school still has its land acknowledgement plaque up. I took this picture myself this week

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Looking back at some tweets from around January 6th and... lol "Not going to engage in the interminable and pointless debate over whether 'Trump is a fascist' but I am interested in this piece's discussion of comparing the Beer Hall Putsch to 1/6." www.newstatesman.com/world/americ...

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"Expanding... executive power... was all in service of eliminating administrative agencies... and shrinking Congress’s ability to govern. Now the baton has been passed in service of limiting the rights of individuals, especially minorities and greatly enhancing centralized, unaccountable power."

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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

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DOGE staffer Marko Elez, who had to resign from Treasury, is now at Social Security Administration. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Remember you can tip if you want to support without taking a recurring paid subscription. www.crisesnotes.com#/portal/supp...

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how long til a usn nuke sub sails into chinese port, surrenders the sub, crew divides the bounty and move into china as millionaires? #askingforafriend

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God this is all so, so dumb

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😬 ✌️❤️😊

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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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Thou draw not on thy danger and dishonor; For though usurpers sway the rule a while, Yet heav’ns are just, and time suppresseth wrongs.

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Worst. Episode. EVER.

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My hubby and I voted today without voting cards, just our drivers license! It took no more then 10min at the Whitby Mall. Pls vote Ontario! It's more important than ever‼️❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️

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This hits hard.

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Todays hero

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The year is 2053. Many major cities are under water. Pascal Groß does a simple chop before crossing it in. It is his 11th assist of the year.

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"...it’s a huge change in Air Canada’s transborder focus, and the strongest signal yet that Canadians are truly angry at how the U.S. government has been treating its neighbour to the north." openjaw.com/newsroom/air...

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On this day in 1991, The Hitchhiker ended its six season run after 85 episodes. The series was created by Canadians, starred Canadians and was filmed in Canada. While not as well known today, many great Canadian actors got their start on it. Let's learn more :) 🧵1/10

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Seems legit.... We don't want to be a nation of underachieving Americans.

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lol

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Right-wing censors are now "quiet banning" books that they can't removed legally. Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...

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"The Great Wall was built to secure ancient China’s northern borders...It was believed that the largest portions of the first walls were constructed around the 7th century BCE...However, new excavations...found sections of the wall dating back to...1046-771BCE." www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

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Players often use social media to send cryptic messages to their teams. S Jevón Holland thinks the Dolphins have used social media to send a clear message to him. www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

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It is Black History Month and each day this month I am sharing stories from Canada's Black history. Today it is the story of the Order of the Sleeping Car Porters. Established in Winnipeg, it was the first Black labour union in North America. 🧵1/12

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