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Washington Post has discovered that Rubio lied about Venezuela not being willing to accept so-called "gang members." It only stopped accepting deportees AFTER Trump's illegal Alien Enemies Act proclamation asserted that the US was at war with Venezuela and could seize its assets

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Ashley Babbit's family is poised to recieve 30 million dollars (from tax payers) thanks to the Dept of Justice... Mrs Sicknick just wanted a phone call and the people who assaulted her son Brian held accountable.

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Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.

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-Dropped or halted investigations into 100+ corporations -Gutted regulatory agencies and fired ethics watchdogs -Launched a crypto coin and offered an "intimate dinner" to top buyers -Turned the White House into a Tesla showroom to help his biggest donor "Drain the swamp."

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"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

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Sometimes I just stop, shake my head, and think how ridiculous it is watching my country be destroyed by a demented old man just because some white people are afraid of the future.

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Auchincloss on Fox News: "What I'm seeing is a president who is more interested in the valuation of his memecoin than he is about people's 401ks. What I'm seeing is a president who along with Howard Lutnick is self-dealing on crypto instead of worrying about the strength of the US dollar."

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Evangelicals are raised in a religion that demands they acquiesce to an authoritarian. Whether it’s their father, their pastor, or their president — they are indoctrinated to submit.

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And you thought the left was censorious. How about actual censoring?

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And somehow, there are still vets out here backing this man? It makes zero sense. He dodged the draft, insulted POWs, called fallen soldiers “suckers”—and now this? At what point is enough finally enough?

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This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

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“Terry. Terry. I am the Pope. Did you see the picture? The hat? The beautiful white hat? The tremendous cross? Get him the picture.”

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The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

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102 pages of straight fire from Judge Beryl Howell storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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tariffs continue to be a sword of damocles

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First Trump says it, and people go “oh, he’s just trolling”. Then more people talk about it. Then what was previously unthinkable starts happening. (Same with an unconstitutional third term). www.al.com/politics/202...

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A photographer captured an image of Michael Waltz’s phone screen, which had a list of his conversations on what appears to be a modified version of the app Signal, during a White House cabinet meeting, a day before he was ousted from his job as national security adviser.

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Big yikes

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NEW: A fund backed by Abu Dhabi will be making a $2 BILLION business deal using cryptocurrency from the Trump family's venture, World Liberty Financial, according to Zach Witkoff. That transaction would be a major contribution by a foreign government to President Trump’s private venture.

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I think babies dying in their sleep is bad, and research to prevent babies from dying in their sleep is good. Sorry to get so partisan, and I apologize for offending any pro-life people when I say that babies suddenly dying in preventable ways is bad, but that's how I feel.

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Vaccines do not contain any fetal tissue or cells, nor do they contain any cells derived from fetal materials.

submitted 3 days ago • 119 comments

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

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Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

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This is the world we live in now: where it is entirely credible that the government would weaponize every tool at its disposal to hurt a private citizen who did nothing but keep his oath to the constitution and tell the truth.

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Q: “Have you been in touch with El Salvador about returning Abrego Garcia? Has a formal request from this administration been made?” Rubio: “I would never tell you that. And you know who else I'd never tell? A judge.”

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99.9% of Americans won’t hear that Trump killed this program. And at 2,000 additional dead kids or so each year, most people will have no idea what was lost.

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RFK Jr on measles: "The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris."

submitted 4 days ago • 2572 comments

Call it something fancy like "malfeasance" or something simple like "incompetence" but either way there should be articles of impeachment to remove the HHS secretary for being a shameless liar who is working relentlessly to make people sick.

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This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.

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I now believe that some of my problems in later life are due to food dye in the heroin I was consuming for 20 years. by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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would it surprise you to learn that bill belichick's girlfriend is an anti-vaxer?

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it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

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The Worst Person You Know Just Made Some Great Points

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I’m starting to think letting the guy who taught his little brother to shoot up when he was just a kid or who gave the family bird LSD before selling cocaine out of his Harvard dorm then spending several decades as a philandering douchebag wasn’t the right choice to lead HHS.

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your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast

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While most Americans oppose making Canada the 51st state, a majority of Joe Rogan listeners favor it, saying they would like to live in the same country as their girlfriends.

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This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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The people who whine on about how the country is "full" so we can't allow any more immigrants in and THAT'S why they don't want it, promise, are often the same people who whine on about how young people aren't having children anymore and the birthrate is falling.

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People are NOT understanding what empty cargo ships from China means. It means no work for dock workers. No work for truck drivers, no work for retailers, fewer dollars circulating. The cascade effect is just mind boggling.

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If you wonder why men obsessed with the United States having more children are kidnapping children and sending them to other countries, those children were the incorrect color.

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BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

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Donald Trump told @ashleyrparker.bsky.social and @michaelscherer.bsky.social that his second term feels different from his first: “The first time, I had two things to do—run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys,” he said. “The second time, I run the country and the world.”

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Stealing kids and secretly shipping them to a foreign country is the definition of child trafficking, isn't it.

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University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

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From an American doctor friend volunteering in Gaza: "So many dead little kids. This man showed up to the hospital today carrying this burlap bag asking for help. He said it held the remains of his daughter after his home was bombed yesterday. All he found was her head, her leg, and her hand."

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