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I'm sorry for saying "Your AP should be a home game." It's ACTUALLY... YOUR DND PODCAST SHOULD BE A HOME GAME.

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An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

submitted 12 hours ago • 635 comments

🧵 with full translation of the letter referenced here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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The warnings were clear: * 1 million kids untreated for severe acute malnutrition; * Up to 166,000 malaria deaths; * TB cases up 30% * 200,000 more polio-induced paralysis cases in 10 years. The Trump team killed USAID anyway. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 13 hours ago • 39 comments

Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is lecturing us about egg prices while wearing a $400 Alice + Olivia top

submitted 12 hours ago • 99 comments

The state of the union is that the President is spitting in the face of the law. He is letting an unelected billionaire fire cancer researchers and wreck federal agencies like the Social Security Administration at will. I won't be attending tomorrow's Joint Address.

submitted 13 hours ago • 641 comments

Atlanta Fed forecasts a -2.8% GDP growth for this quarter. 4 weeks ago it was +3.9%. Trump owns this. bit.ly/3Ddsxim

submitted 17 hours ago • 186 comments

I can’t recall a President murdering a good economy overnight like this

submitted 17 hours ago • 41 comments

The way Charles Ponzi dramatically reimagined finance. Or Jeffrey Dahmer reimagined dining.

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Update: The contracts for this particular lifesaving treatment have now been restored, I'm told. That's very good news. But huge numbers of contracts for other essential lifesaving items remain canceled. Pressure can work.

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“James Bond: It’s Going To Suck After This”

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In advance of the Oscars tonight: a lot of comedy heroes let you down. They become unfunny/bitter/closed minded. Conan is the exception. He has grown & evolved & is funnier than he’s ever been. He’s also an extremely kind and lovely human. Just a sincere post to say: Conan rules.

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Notable WR trades in the last 12 months: Deebo Samuel - 5th Mike Williams - 5th DeAndre Hopkins - 5th Jerry Jeudy - 5th + 6th Jonathan Mingo + 7th - 4th Davante Adams - 3rd Amari Cooper + 6th - 3rd + 7th

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Bobby Orr would have you believe that Canadians hate #Gretzky because he didn't wear a Team Canada jersey. Here is Mario Lemieux also not wearing a Canada jersey, yet the crowd goes wild for him. heavy sarcasm I wonder what the difference is.

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🚨 🚨 🚨 The 49ers are trading star WR Deebo Samuel to the Commanders for draft pick compensation, sources say. Samuel, due $21.7M this year, now heads to join former SF exec Adam Peters and play with QB Jayden Daniels, who gets another weapon.

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So, wait. For basically ever, men were earning way more than their female counterparts, and the messaging was that women were "too emotional" or whatever. And the second women start earning more than men, men completely lose their shit and it's a "crisis" "gripping" them? What a bunch of losers.

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Since February 26, an additional 1,322 adults (from 14,482 to 15,804) and 141 infants (from 1,541 to 1,682) have died as a consequence of a single frozen USAID program.

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You worked for Robert Bentley and Newt Gingrich.

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President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous. Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.

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Just a quick observation that amid all the turmoil created by the Zelensky meeting, this got completely ignored: A Chinese citizen paid Trump $50 million for the SEC to drop its charges against him.

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ICYMI: Congresswoman Kim Schrier, a pediatrician, tore into HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for downplaying the measles outbreak in Texas as "not unusual," saying she blames him for the death of an unvaccinated child, the first U.S. death from measles since 2015. www.huffpost.com/entry/kim-sc...

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Answer to Vance: Zelenskyy has thanked our country over and over again both privately and publicly. And our country thanks HIM and the Ukrainian patriots who have stood up to a dictator, buried their own & stopped Putin from marching right into the rest of Europe. Shame on you.

submitted 3 days ago • 82 comments

CONGRATS @coopafiasco.bsky.social!

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Air traffic controllers are required by law to retire at 56. It is a high-stress, high-intensity job that requires intense focus. The retirement rules are there to keep us all safe. This fucking guy has no clue what's he's doing.

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Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

submitted 5 days ago • 990 comments

Reminder (again): Just last week DOJ told a judge that Musk was not in charge. Here he says he's "personally liable" for these decisions.

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This man is barely even a formal government employee, let alone elected or Senate-confirmed. A total failure of the Constitutional order, just broadcast & normalized by every major media outlet.

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RFK JR on Measles Outbreaks just now: "It is not unusual. There are measles outbreaks every year." It is actually very unusual. This is the first Measles death in the US in 10 years.

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Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

submitted 6 days ago • 748 comments

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

submitted 6 days ago • 771 comments

A newly hired advisor at DOJ is a former judge who received what was then Oregon's longest-ever suspension for misconduct. He also made the news for "for having hung a picture of Adolf Hitler in his courthouse." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj-hir...

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Stanbury: "We will not give them one single vote!"

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Murphy: "The destruction of our democracy is part of this story ... this is super unpopular, what they are doing. Nobody wants their healthcare to disappear ... so how do you get away with it? You try to destroy our democracy. You try to crush dissent. You threaten members of Congress with arrest."

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