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"Few prominent figures talk more often about urban crime than the president himself, whose view of the city he grew up in seems frozen in the New York of Charles Bronson’s 1970s 'Death Wish' movies, in which an angry white man goes around the city blasting away at black and brown toughs."

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The mistake that this President keeps making is failing to understand that cooperation with the rest of the world is a key ingredient in the international competitiveness of American manufacturing. Destroy that cooperation and you destroy American competitiveness and jobs.

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Trump says he just spoke with Putin and describes Ukraine's recent drone attack in a way that makes it sound like Russia is a victim

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Lady Liberty is all of us who still care about democracy, the rule of law and an inclusive society.

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The claim that we can decarbonize oil is simply fossil-fuel propaganda. It is a fiction that sustains an oppressive and deadly power— here the power of fossil capital. All the evidence says pretty clearly that carbon removal simply cannot scale up to 30 or 40 gt/yr.

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Donkey remembers the girl who helped look after him when he was little.

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Normally police don’t have to disguise their identities to protect themselves Normally police don’t need to be protected from the public knowing who they are Only secret police need that When police are wearing masks it is the public who has a right to be protected from them

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Safe level of atmospheric CO2 - 350 ppm Level in 1995, when governments got together at COP1 to address climate change - 363 ppm Level today - 430 ppm

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Rugged individualism powered by $461,000 in farm subsidies. www.salon.com/2015/01/22/jo...

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Trump has managed to send tourism, a major U.S. export, plummeting in his first 100 days substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Republican Senator Joni Ernst is an absolute disgrace. Agree? 🙋‍♀️

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It's hard to celebrate when someone like Elon Musk waltzes into the federal government, wrecks the place, and walks away seemingly with everything he wanted. But did he, though? In the end, Musk left defeated, humiliated, and widely despised. That’s no small thing. We should take the win.

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DOOCY: How mad do you think President Trump is gonna be when he finds out that Elon Musk said, 'I'm sorry but I just can't stand it anymore. This massive, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination... ' LEAVITT: The president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill

submitted 2 days ago • 128 comments

All the radical left maxists like Rand Paul, Ron Johnson and Elon Musk now oppose Trump and Mike Johnson’s budget bill.

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ICE goons roleplaying Call of Duty while in front of a Mexican restaurant with a sign that says “Make Tacos not Walls”, as if the symbolism could get more on the nose

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Kennedy Center subscription sales fall 36 percent from previous year www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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"Biden was old but governed normally. Trump governs erratically because he’s unglued. That’s the true cover-up, one the media is enabling when they seem more concerned with the mental condition of a former president than the escalating madness of the current one."

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Correct. Spending $45 million on a birthday party for the President, while the administration says we can’t afford Medicaid, shows just how bankrupt their priorities really are.

submitted 3 days ago • 506 comments

BREAKING: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has sued Alina Habba for malicious prosecution and false arrest.

submitted 2 days ago • 751 comments

I See You

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Job openings in manufacturing are down 20 percent year over year www.bls.gov/news.release... I wonder if people feel liberated?

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It took only 8 years for solar to go from 100 to 1,000 TWh... then it took only 3 years to go from 1,000 to 2,000 TWh. Solar is growing faster than any source of electricity in history ☀️

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Every place you see steel and aluminum is something that will go up in price from Trump’s new tariffs. Like soup cans.

submitted 3 days ago • 140 comments

Good morning with good news: After adding ~19 GW of small solar in 2024, Pakistan's distributed solar surge continues in 2025. Pakistan now adds 1-3 GW/month of solar! With 2025 battery prices falling ~33%, batteries are often paired with small solar. Great! www.ft.com/content/2b4c... #energysky

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Fascist tactics

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52 percent of cars sales in China were EVs in May cnevpost.com/2025/05/21/c... That's pretty damn impressive

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This is residents in San Diego telling Ice-Gestapo agents to get TF out of their neighborhood. More of this please. 💙👊

submitted 3 days ago • 464 comments

The face is perfect.

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She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down. The current setup of the Flock ALPR system is incompatible with a free society.

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Factory construction is starting to decline from its 2024 highs as CHIPS-Act-supported semiconductor projects start to complete, IRA repeal threats hurt clean energy construction, & tariffs begin to bite the construction industry

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The meme is funny. The situation is NOT. Please, take a moment from your scrolling and call your reps. I called all three of mine, and it took 5 minutes. ☎️ (202) 224-3121 Leave a ✅ in the comments if you’ve done it! NO MASKED THUGS ABDUCTING PEOPLE OFF THE STREET. It’s not too much to ask.

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An outright lie from OMB Director Russell Vought.

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Trump tariffs cut off recovery in private equity dealmaking on.ft.com/4kMySS2

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“The most TERRIFYING company in America is probably one you’ve never heard of” 🚨 PALANTIR is run by EVIL neo-Nazi tech bro PETER THIEL. 👺 #Fascism Must Read 👨‍✈️ ☠️ 🚔 www.thedailybeast.com/the-most-ter...

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Good morning with good news: Solar generated 37.50% of California's electricity and 35.50% of Nevada's in March 2025. Solar surges in Top Two US Solar Share States: CA March Share 2025: 37.5% 2024: 32.3% 2020: 22% 2015: 12% NV March Share 2025: 35.5% 2024: 29.7% 2020: 15% 2015: 6% #energysky

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Originalism is a bullshit scam, meant to distract from “ends - a Catholic theocracy - justifies the means - we’ll rule how we like and call it originalism - Catholic Integralism. The Rolling Stone article on Originalism just buys the scam. @espinsegall.bsky.social www.jurist.org/commentary/2...

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Watch Lucky meet Angel for the first time, after losing his partner. ❤️‍🩹 👉 Make a difference for animals: Sign our featured petitions at https://veganfta.com/take-action 🖊 🎥: Videos thanks to the amazing charliesacres (IG) #geese #rescueanimals #birds #animalsanctuary #goodnewsfeed

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A father daughter bonding day together turns into a nightmare. Sheron Brown, a Black man, took his 10-year-old daughter fishing at Lake Shirley in Lunenburg, Massachusetts. A man on the shore, later identified as David McPartlan, demanded they leave, yelling profanities and even throwing rocks.

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#OtD 2 Jun 1863 the Combahee River raid took place, Harriet Tubman led 150 Black Union soldiers. The only woman-led military operation during the American civil war. 750 slaves were freed and the estates of several slaveowners were looted and burned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9200...

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SERIOUS QUESTION: What is going on with all these “officers” in tactical gear for a routine traffic stop—with no clear identification? They seem like imposters. And what’s up with that ball cap?

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That it Otto Richter. He was an activist in Germany and fled after the Reichstag fire. He got into the US by deserting his ship. His wife, Clara, was a U.S. citizen.

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Trump refers to Leonard Leo as a “sleazebag”

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Trump Posts Bizarre Claim That Joe Biden Was "Executed in 2020" and Replaced by Clones Trump pushes QAnon content to his followers on Truth Social meidasnews.com/news/trump-p...

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“TACO Trump” Chickens Out of “No Tax on Social Security” Campaign Pledge Trump spins seniors on watered down GOP Bill meidasnews.com/news/taco-tr...

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