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It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you

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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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David Valadao just barely managed to hold on to his seat in 2020 in the Central Valley after losing in 2018, then won with 52% and 53% in 2022 and 2024. He's a great politician. What happens when he votes to cut Medicaid when 68% (!) of his district is enrolled? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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1 more day until the AD32 Special Election. Friendly reminder: Vote for the award winning educator, not the millionaire #vote www.chriscruzboone.com

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I won’t stop posting this.

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I'm going with the Rams are better than the Chiefs.

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Can ELON spell anything other than DIE? Or has Ketamine wiped the rest of the alphabet from his brain? #uspolitics #polsky

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Musk's claim that just 10% of US aid reaches recipients is absurd. @cgdev lays out the facts: - US gov costs are just 10% - Rest reaches recipients mostly thru US corps/nonprofits + multilateral agencies - ~10% goes thru foreign organizations www.cgdev.org/blog/no-90-p...

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Maybe Dems can use their email/text annoyance structure to blast put a message that really matters rather than just to fundraise

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is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

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The sanewashing has begun

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This is fun... Not www.dw.com/en/scholz-sa...

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This remains top 3 of the most urgent sociology papers I ever read.

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I suspect none of these Trump nominees who are promising to Radically Shake Up the FBI, CIA or Defense have never read the stories of platoon leaders getting fragged by their own troops in Vietnam.

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I am once again reminded that music is not a real major. I found myself giving a mini course on ancient history and world religions because my wife doesn't understand what is going on with the TV show my son is watching.

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Ugh.

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The best info available says there are about 69k undocumented folks in Kern county on a population of -910k. If even 10% of the undocumented pop disappears that's going to have an economic effect.

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Start with known visa violators like Elon Musk who while on a student visa worked illegally and lied about it to immigration officials

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This has been the GOP’s explicit strategy since 2008. The whole time Dems have tried to take the high road - that’s won some important policy victories but there are no policy victories in the offing this time. I hate to say it but I think this is right; it’s time to fight fire with fire.

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