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We are two news cycles away from Russia giving military aid to Musk and Trump. Putin’s soldiers in our cities, crushing dissent? I wouldn’t bet against it.

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And you know who you have to blame for this, Nikki?

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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ZELENSKYY: The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe? ZELENSKYY: Yes

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Money talks

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New: The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter

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Wild times we live in. Tweet via 2018.

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We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

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Will Fort Worth’s Goldee’s get the recognition it deserves? youtu.be/X8SIKtStUVM?...

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JD Vance, Elon Musk, and some Republican lawmakers appear to be laying the rhetorical groundwork to potentially defy court orders that block the Trump Administration’s unlawful abuses of executive power. If they go this route, it would trigger a constitutional crisis.

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[slaps National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on roof] This baby can go from zero to quisling in TWO DAYS FLAT www.thehandbasket.co/p/ncmec-doj-...

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this is the development that most fills me with dread www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

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It’s hard to fathom what the destruction of USAID would have done to my uncle. He spent decades working for USAID in Haiti, India, Zambia, and Bolivia, helping us use our wealth to help others. Now it’s gone? President Musk and the DOGEbros can get fucked. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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You should print out your Social Security Statement. Elon and who knows how many countless others now have access to your private information, so it'd be wise to have a record of it.

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Amy Klobuchar assumes there will be a “next election” but cites no evidence.

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Jesus fucking Christ. Did the white cishet sons of confederate veterans club not get a pass? Or is that implied? (It’s implied.)

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Folks, Democratic leaders don’t fear you. They feel very, very cozy. I say this from direct experience, years of experience. They should fear you. It’s the only thing that works with them.

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Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

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Opinion | If it’s true that Elon Musk has seized control of the U.S. Treasury’s payment systems, then Elon Musk must be impeached and removed from office. by Donald Trump

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It's Pritzker and AOC who get it so far. Who else?

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Two weeks ago in Hawaii. Life was simpler then. Fewer N*zis, for a start.

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Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth

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The President of Colombia just retweeted this. Times are changing. And faced should be more like confronted.

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The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government. Put that in a headline. www.expressnews.com/news/article...

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The US is now like communist China, where people online have to talk in code to evade government censors. https://www.usermag.co/p/tiktok-cute-winter-boots-meaning-explained-algospeak

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“Hegseth has promised not to drink on the job if confirmed.” So, kinda? Fuck.

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For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about Trump's executive order attempting to push trans people back in the closet. In short: I am not afraid and I am not going back. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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New in PN: @daviddejong.bsky.social on the pact with the devil “Prior to Hitler seizing power, German industrialists were establishment conservatives and found Hitler and his supporters to be garish, boorish, uniformed clowns from impoverished areas. And then ... "

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The Germans press is not having as much trouble discerning what happened as the American press. www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

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We’ve always been at war with East Asia.

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If I was Matt, of all people, I would probably not muse about where kids are gonna be spending their time.

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Cubes for President. And kissing the ring isn’t what I first imagined on bended knee…

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Mel Gibson as Special Ambassador to Hollywood is like making Jared Fogle Special Ambassador to Candyland

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“Early reports suggest the deal looks similar to what has been on the table for months, raising the possibility that if the Biden administration had followed through on its tough words, a deal could have been reached earlier, saving lives.” Not sure the words were “tough,” but they were hollow. 🍉

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A high-powered lawyer representing Meta in a copyright case said he was dropping the company as a client due to CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity.”

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Elizabeth Warren: If there's no negative information in the FBI report, they should be willing to frame it and hang it on the wall

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Hawaiian sunset.

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READ THIS. THEN READ IT AGAIN.

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Being a “conservative intellectual” must rule so much. There’s this giant mass of babies that are scared of cities, mad at cartoons, and intimidated by women, and your job is to convince them having those feelings makes them brave warriors for western civilization

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Book one of 2025. Completely charming and not at all what I expected. Even better if you imagine Miriam Margoyles in the lead role. As you should.

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