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Trump has ordered the shutdown of the first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers. The closure ends the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database — a resource experts said improved public safety by preventing bad officers from jumping from agency to agency.

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As you encounter the FAFO voters who never thought the leopards would eat their face, it is a very good time to gently remind them that FOX lies and hides the truth. RW outlets do not report 'the news'. That is why their viewers think they can let the leopards roam free.

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Elon Musk’s unparalleled online reach has given him a powerful tool to attack individuals who criticize DOGE, with one post able to spark hundreds of blistering responses from his followers.

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Vance met with his nazi counterparts in Germany today. Curious to see how the rw media white washes it..

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What a disgrace to the United States. The German press reports that JD Vance met with #AfD co-leader Alice Weidel after his speech in Munich today. (Vance refused to meet Olaf Scholz, Germany's chancellor.) Musk administration goes full on Nazi. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

It's horrific that JD Vance would go to Dachau yesterday, talk about being "deeply moved," then spend today telling Germans to welcome into government the Holocaust-minimizing, far-right AfD. But it also needs to be the final nail in the coffin of "Holocaust museum as ritual penance for bigotry."

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments

Morbidly rich people are so weird and utterly disconnected from the needs of regular people.

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The US has sold Ukraine down the river – and shown Britain what ‘America first’ means in practice | Gaby Hinsliff

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President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia’s military struck the site of the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, causing “significant” damage to a structure that prevents radiation from leaking from a damaged reactor. Follow live updates.

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NEW: Trump and Musk’s efforts to shrink the government have left the country’s wildland firefighting force unprepared for the approaching wildfire season. One federal employee likened the funding freeze to a “massive sledgehammer” hitting the force.

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New: Tesla and SpaceX relied on work by undocumented immigrants while Elon Musk advocated for a border crackdown

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These democratic senators voted to approve a pollution denier to head the EPA: Michael Bennet Colo. Ruben Gallego Ariz. Margaret Wood Hassan N.H. Martin Heinrich N.M. John Hickenlooper Colo. Ben Ray Luján N.M. Jeanne Shaheen N.H.

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I did not have Melon getting his fingers in the treasury on my bingocard. Things are way worse than anyone could have guessed. It seems like the plan is to try to sink the US dollar as a currency so they can fleece the fools seeking financial refuge in bitcoin..so..buy gold!

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House GOP members are figuring out which of Trump's promised tax cuts to propose into law and how to pay for them. Among their targets: slashing benefits for single mothers and the poor who rely on government health care. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & @justinelliott.bsky.social

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Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking.

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Exclusive: Security agents escorted the inspector general of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration reut.rs/4hfG4Vp

submitted 24 days ago • 88 comments

After hearing that Mark Zuckerberg loves playing the pc game, Civilization, it looks like his favorite form of government is despotism.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Turning guantanamo into Auschwitz sounds about white for the new despotic regime.

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@schumer.senate.gov I pretty much love what you say but please please do us all a favor and pass around the talking stick to other party luminaries while we must wait for a new DNC head. I'm sorry to say but the professorial orations in lecturing tones don't help from the default party leader now.

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Global warming will disrupt all life as we know it: Climate change is disrupting food systems across Latin America, UN report says ground.news/article/clim...

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Making the trains run on time is not on the mango agenda.

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Immigration sweep on Sunday targeted hundreds in Chicago with multiple agencies involved and Dr. Phil livestreaming.

submitted 27 days ago • 64 comments

Watch out all you coke sniffers, those Columbia tariffs are gonna inflate the price of your snuff.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

@jodyhamilton.bsky.social hearing the news about the staff changes at @stephaniemiller.bsky.social show. Thanks for your amazing service in the producer chair 👏 👏 Will we get to hear your intimate farewells with Charlie Pierce?

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This 100+ year old political cartoon gives me hope for our current times. Gratz summarizes the key conditions when US was headed into the heart of the first gilded age.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

This remarkable cartoon from pre gilded age America came to my attention today. You could maybe substitute 'subsidized press' with fox news to bring it closer to our times.

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How Mark Zuckerberg Undid Years of Work in a Single Week His emulation of Elon Musk and Twitter is alienating the very users Threads was built to attract.

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RIP David Lynch 💔

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Jeffries: It is unconscionable that Republicans are suggesting imposing right wing partisan conditions in order for California taxpayers to receive their tax dollars. California is one of those states that sends about five times as much to the federal government every year than they get back

submitted 39 days ago • 160 comments

Fox continues to stoop lower and lower.

submitted 39 days ago • 128 comments

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

submitted 39 days ago • 1426 comments

"after the company's own analyses found that these classifiers could reduce the reach of these hoaxes by more than 90 percent, Meta is shutting them off"

submitted 39 days ago • 145 comments