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We're gonna look back at the media covering up Trump's senility in the runup to the 2024 election as one of the most successful propaganda campaigns of the last century. Will be a defining feature of his presidency and get worse as the term goes on.

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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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A quick video of the crowd outside the store in U Village #TeslaTakedown

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Uhhhhhh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Flashback to a year ago... and a perfect example of how the media utterly failed us (most of it deliberately and with malice aforethought):

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Fight. Back. The best time to start was when you first noticed. The second best time is right now.

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“The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up,” Ms. Ortiz said... “I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”

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This is the reason why kids today don’t learn about acid rains in school. Regulations work - corporations won’t do shit to fix the environment unless they are FORCED to.

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Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team when President Donald Trump elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner.

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC. You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself. It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research. Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.

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“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

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Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

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"Killing Gawker was a trial run for a media takeover."

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Lotta people and institutions right now all “What am I supposed to do, have a moral backbone and risk harm in order to stand up for the vulnerable?” This administration is a shitshow and it will not last. The rest of us are taking notes and will remember the choices made

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The student who ripped this sign down did more for trans people than most of our politicians.

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““We did not elect him,” a man shouted. As the town hall reached its scheduled end, more constituents shouted questions about Musk’s access to taxpayer data and yelled “don’t lie to us””

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Libraries are not anti-commerce. They are public institutions that balance access with sustainability. IFLA’s position on copyright acknowledges both intellectual property and the necessity of broad knowledge dissemination. A strong literary market includes strong libraries

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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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I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.

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the basic belief that underlies these fascists' policies is that they think straight white cis men are actually better than everyone else and that anyone who is not a white cis man doing jobs that they think white cis men should be doing is a drain on the system. because they are white supremacists

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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Most unsettling thing about the Chair of the Joint Chiefs nominee—besides a political purge opening the spot—is not that he lacks the legal requirements. He’s not far off. It’s that Trump reportedly picked him because he said beating ISIS would be quick and easy. Feeds Trump’s delusions about force.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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The video of this guy standing there with a shit-eating smirk as his constituents booed him and questioned him over his anti-human positions should be played on a loop and applied to every single House Republican.

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Modern-Day Peaceful Protest… TikTokers are hunting Cybertrucks—pulling up behind them and projecting anti-Elon Musk messages onto the tailgate. What’s genius: the driver has zero rear visibility & zero idea. The Cybertruck Hunters account launched a week ago and already dropped a dozen videos.

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INDISPUTABLE FACTS: •Russia invaded Ukraine. •Ukraine bears no responsibility for Russia’s invasion. •Russian aggression is a threat to the entire world. •We stand with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. We stand w/all the people of Ukraine. Follow all: WE ARE THE OPPOSITION. go.bsky.app/AMZH6uh

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Trump was thrilled to announce tonight that he has terminated America’s most senior military officer — Gen. C.Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump failed to provide a reason as to why he abruptly fired Brown from his position. It is, in fact, the first time that the…

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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1775 when the Second Continental Congress appointed him as the first Postmaster General.

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Let's be very clear: Journalists need to stand with @AP The effort to bar an outlet to make it obey will not stop with one. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...

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US and Russian participants met in Switzerland for unofficial talks about the Ukraine war in recent months, including as recently as last week, three sources with knowledge of the matter said reut.rs/4ic373v

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Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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I missed this one: CNN filed a FOIA request for some information about DOGE accessing records at the office of personnel management, and someone from OPM wrote back saying "Good luck with that, they just fired the whole privacy team." newrepublic.com/post/191663/...

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that this is a member of Congress getting a 'watch your tone when you speak about Elon and Trump' letter from a federal prosecutor is wild and deeply troubling for the rest of us!

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Reality: Republicans control Congress and could haul Elon in for a hearing and file court briefings to contest DOGE Alternatively, 2 house Republicans and 20 Senate Republicans could put an end to this crisis by joining their Democratic colleagues, enforce the 14th amendment & kick Trump out

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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In case you're wondering how a goddamn ALABAMAN grand jury decided to suggest closing a police dept, it's because the cops were drug dealers getting high on their own supply, until one of them died overdosing on a mix of "fentanyl, gabapentin, diazepam, amphetamine, carisoprodol and methocarbamol."

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If you ever wondered how a civilized modern country like Germany could have gone so completely and violently insane, you're looking right at it. Shoulda shown up.

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‚A new coalition of nations is emerging to deal with the greatest security crisis to hit Europe in decades. By Wednesday, the initial group — composed of the leaders of France, the United Kingdom, Poland, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark, plus the heads of NATO,

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I fundamentally believe that if a president makes a public proclamation that he is a king, he's violated his oath of office and that office should be forfeit. Could not think of a higher crime or misdemeanor than to pervert the constitution in such a way

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As a measles outbreak is rapidly spreading in western Texas, public health concerns are growing just as rapidly. While GOP leaders appear oblivious to increasing threats of infectious diseases, Americans have come to fear top Republicans whose actions are endangering…

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Less than 24 hours after Trump said he would leave some social safety net programs like Medicaid intact, the inveterate liar has reneged. Trump is now backing the House GOP’s strategy calling for finding $880 billion in savings from the committee with jurisdiction…

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GOP Senators and House members are scared of being murdered by Trump supporters if they don’t support Trump. This is fascism in America. My latest: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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Friendly reminder that German Nazi's admired America's success in dehumanizing minorities. Our treatment of enslaved Africans and Indigenous Peoples and the way the public supported and enforced it were what they wanted to do in Germany with the Jewish population.

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