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Dog and cat loving tree hugging liberal feminist. Go Kings Go. Bolt Up. Long suffering Angels fan.
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BREAKING: Days before she was detained by ICE, the State Department had determined Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk did NOT engage in antisemitic or terrorist activities. Rubio revoked her visa anyhow. Gift article: wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

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We need billionaires to rekindle their passion for exploring the wreck of the Titanic in rickety, self-built submarines.

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Sometimes the good guys win

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Bryson: I’m an ass

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Sucker born every minute

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Every time. Just a near miss.

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Pets confused by my Rory pep talks

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Eagle, baby. Cmon

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Rory!!!

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L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week. R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday. Putin’s stooge.

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us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years

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At the kickoff meeting for Our Library Matters, the group working to help pass the ballot measures here in Huntington Beach that’ll keep our library safe from book bans and privatization, and it’s a pretty good local turnout. If you’re not here and want to help, check out the website.

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This is happening in spite of the fact that the president is not in charge of the Smithsonian. It's not an executive branch government agency, rather it's chartered by Congress and under a board of regents created by statute, none of whom are even appointed by the president.

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From 1999-2013, RFK sold his own brand of bottled water (in plastic bottles, and with a horrible carbon footprint) that contained TWO TIMES the upper limit of fluoride recommended for dental health, which is more than the safely allowable amount per US Public Health Service, and IS potentially toxic

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These malevolent hobgoblins using the IRS to find undocumented workers haven't thought through what deporting millions of people who pay into Social Security but never receive any Social Security benefits will do to the bottom line.

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Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

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One of the striking things about the Abrego Garcia case is that would be trivially easy for the government to demand his return and give apologists an easy talking point: "Yes, sure, mistakes happen but see, they care about getting it right & doing it legally after all." But nope.

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Every Friday until June 10,we will be urging voters to reject #censorship aka #bookbans and any attempt to turn our #public library operations over to a for profit company.

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The cause of today's big tariff backdown is pretty straightforward: "The president has overplayed his hand quite dramatically."

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A movie from the year you turned 18

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Pee Wee German said last night the global tariffs were the greatest economic strategy ever. Now reversing them is.

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President Trump is using the Abrego Garcia case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop him from imprisoning anyone he wants anywhere else in the world never to be seen or heard from again. His dream is to preside over a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

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One person who l was surprised to see at today’s “Our Library Matters” press conference at the Huntington Beach Central Library is Ocean View School District board President Patricia Singer - a conservative. “I am a mom,” she said. “I don’t want anyone else selecting the books my children read.”

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EXCLUSIVE | Mar-a-Lago to get $1.8 million in ‘security enhancements’ as DOGE takes a chainsaw to government spending

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