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Breaking News: Val Kilmer, who got his big-budget start in “Top Gun” and went on to portray Jim Morrison and Batman, has died at 65.

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Breaking: Trump’s National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and his team used their personal Gmail accounts for work, including to handle sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems.

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Annnnnd the DOE facebook account is doing dumb memes now.

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This is what corruption looks like.

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Elon Musk PAC Winner Links $1M Prize to Voting, Fueling Vote-Buying Accusations Elon Musk’s PAC posted the video to social media Monday morning ahead of Wisconsin Supreme Court election meidasnews.com/news/elon-mu...

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Goldberg on Waltz: "This isn't The Matrix. Phone numbers don't just get sucked into other phones. I don't know what he's talking about ... my phone number was in his phone because my phone number was in his phone. He's telling everyone that he's never met me or spoken to me. That's simply not true."

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Pete Hegseth brought his wife to his meetings with senators so it would be awk to ask him about his alleged sexual misconduct www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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Mandalay Hill, among thd country’s most storied cultural heritage sites

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This is fascism. 👇🏼

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Trevor Milton, the founder of bankrupt electric and hydrogen-powered truck maker Nikola who was convicted of fraud, has been pardoned by US President Donald Trump, Milton said in a social media post reut.rs/4iHq6E3

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Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States: Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Netherlands New Zealand United Kingdom

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Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."

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A semitruck rollover has forced the closure of several northbound lanes on I-15 near Bountiful.

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It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

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This is Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, who studies authoritarians and tyranny, with a warning. He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.

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Paul Atkins, President Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has disclosed personal assets held jointly with his wife valued at more than $328 million, according to a Reuters analysis of ethics documents released reut.rs/4lkCR9B

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Mike Waltz’s top “lesson learned” from his Signal debacle is that journalists are bad

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@ossoff.bsky.social: It's "open season on corruption, where you've got the White House as a Tesla showroom, the Secretary of Commerce pumping up Tesla stock while Elon Musk's money is what is used to keep Republican senators in line."

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Ossoff: This was a huge a mistake Ratcliffe: No Ossoff: This is an embarrassment. We will get the full transcript of this chain and your testimony will be measured carefully against its content

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open.substack.com/pub/thepulse... Information on the advertisiers and the goal of this boycott, March 31st.

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Here's Marco Rubio scolding Hillary about her email server, 10 years before texting Atlantic's EIC war plans on a disappearing Signal list. www.youtube.com/watch?featur...

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I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

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You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.

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This story is absolutely WILD! Jeffery Goldberg of the Atlantic was somehow included in a Signal group chat with high-ranking members of the Trump administration about planning for military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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An Orange County couple that came to the United States without authorization some 35 years ago, raised three daughters and now have a new grandson were deported to Colombia earlier this week. Details: ktla.com/news/local-n...

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All you need to know about Twitter

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I’ll never forgive a single person who voted for this evil.

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Just arrived from Berlin to an empty Dulles airport in DC. Assumed because Heathrow outage. “No,” says my WashFlyer cabbie, the past month has been super slow. “Fewer tourists, fewer business people. This is not normal, believe me.” Says he’s looking for a new job because he needs to pay his bills.

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A new poll shows only 20% of Utah voters want to ban fluoride, but lawmakers did it anyway. #utpol bit.ly/4iPf2oi

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Trump on releasing the JFK files: "We even released Social Security numbers. I didn't want anything deleted."

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DOOCY: Are you concerned that if Canada became the 51st state, it would be a very very blue state? TRUMP: You have that artificial line that looks like it was drawn by a ruler. I don't mean a ruler like a king, I mean a ruler like a ruler. It's just an artificial line.

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Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador

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Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.

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A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

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Tesla has recalled... every single Cybertruck. Every one they've ever sold. For a hardware issue www.carscoops.com/2025/03/tesl...

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'Flammable' and 'inflammable' both describe something that ignites easily and burns quickly. The ‘in-’ in ‘inflammable’ means “to cause to be,” as in the words ‘indent’ and ‘indebted.’

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MIT offering travel advice (or rather do not travel advice) for international visitors and green card holders. If folks at other institutions are receiving similar guidance, please consider sharing here. Please be as safe as you can.

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This story is fucking bonkers

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Steyr Motors AG har haft en pæn måned på børsen siden de indgik en aftale med Rheinmetall om udvikling af diesel motorer er kursen steget med 1204%

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From the Dept of Weird Pettiness? The Federal Trade Commission, for some reason, removed all Biden-era posts from its “Business Blog.” The blog now runs up through Dec. 2020, goes dark, then starts again in March 2025 t.co/ObeXitKr8C

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It's been 11 days since Judge Ho got the amicus curiae in the Eric Adams dismissal case, and he canceled the hearing that was supposed to take place March 14th. I feel like if he were going to just dismiss with prejudice, he'd have done it by now. I hope he denies the motion to dismiss.

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A new analysis reveals that Trump’s tax plan will “actively transfer money from low-income people to the top 0.1% of income earners.” 🔗: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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