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Big Balls’s past gets more scrutiny — including the internship where he was terminated. “You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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The NYT is inventing experimental euphemisms for "racist" like Edison in the lab in 1877

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Here come the “town hall no-show’s”. #Wisconsin wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/02/21/r...

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200 million dollars of waste.

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In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

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Heroin addict and steroid abuser wants the rest of us to to make as smart decisions about our health as he has.

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I wrote about the devastating 2004 tsunami and the hidden lessons it teaches us about why DOGE and Elon Musk are wilfully amplifying catastrophic risk. www.forkingpaths.co/p/doge-and-t...

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All politics is economics. If the Supreme Court Citizens United decision grants more political power to those with more money, then to defeat them, it is essential that we target the sources of their wealth. Yes, that means you should sell your Tesla and get off X. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

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YEAH!: ‘BOOOOO!’ Maddow Airs Montage of House Republicans Getting Chewed Out by Constituents for Supporting Musk and DOGE" House Republicans need to be pressured every day to oppose Trump's cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and more: www.mediaite.com/politics/boo...

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Part of the preparations for using the American military on American streets to commit violence against American citizens. Full caudillo. bsky.app/profile/avin...

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Sure Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CNO....but they fired the top JAG's in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Why would you fire the top lawyers in the armed services at night on a Friday? That's the part you should be freaking out about.

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Even before Trump 2.0, the Social Security Administration’s staffing levels were at a 50-year low due to a decade of budget caps & cuts authored by GOP lawmakers. Further staff cuts and office closures can only make things worse for America's most vulnerable. New, @propublica.org

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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

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⚡️ Russian attacks on Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, kill at least 2. The number of casualties may rise as people could still be trapped under the rubble, Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin reported.

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MAGA’s war on 'male inequality' rages at CPAC: NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — This just might be the year American men finally overcome centuries of political, cultural and marital oppression that have ravaged the gender and kept guys locked out of key policies, like the Violence Against Women Act. That’s…

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Authoritarian leader cult alert

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This is on us. He told us during the campaign he was gonna purge the military, the DOJ, the FBI, and the intelligence community of people loyal to the law & the Constitution, and replace them with people loyal only to him. He told us he was gonna do this. And we still elected him. This is on us.

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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

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The government of the USA is openly racketeering. And that is not even the worst thing about them. ‘Owning the libs’ is doing a heck of a lot of heavy lifting right now…

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Tom Krause is in charge of both a sensitive government payment system and a company that has millions of dollars’ worth of active contracts with various federal agencies through distribution partners, a WIRED review finds. Conflicts posed by this are unprecedented in the modern era, experts say.

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NEW: Trump’s DoJ Chief of Staff has filed a complaint against Judge Reyes because she bench slapped their bigoted asses into the sun three days ago.

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List of our 23 Democratic governors plus an interesting fact about each. 1. Arizona – Katie Hobbs : As Secretary of State, she certified Arizona’s 2020 election results despite significant pressure and scrutiny. 📌 🧵 #TeamDemocracy

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2 fucking headlines right next to each other

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WATCH Bernie Sanders lay out exactly what's at stake if Republicans gut Medicaid. #DontCutMyMedicaid

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“S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary sector has wiped out all gains since the end of November.” (via Kevin Gordon)

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

submitted 22 hours ago • 263 comments

The impacts of Joe Biden’s historic investments and economic boom go beyond reducing Trump’s record federal deficits, saving the economy, and creating record job growth. Only two states reported annual deficits in FY 2022 - a record low. Nine states began the pandemic with long-term deficits.

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The French far-right has decided to actually take a stand after Steve Bannon made what appeared to be a Nazi salute similar to the one Elon Musk did weeks ago.

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BREAKING: Judge lifts order halting @USAID firings, allows Trump administration to proceed with plans to recall most personnel including abroad. Judge Carl Nichols, Trump appointee, says claims of public interest in the case are in profound tension ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

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Donald Trump proves once again that he is Putin's Puppet! He'll do anything to hide those Pee Tapes!!!

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