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forty five million dollars

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the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

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They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

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The Trump parade was truly one of the saddest, cringiest, hottest mess-ass spectacles I’ve ever seen.

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Yeah yeah the entire idea of a parade is dumb and militaristic. All true. But it’s still the Army’s 250th and they knew months ago it was going to be televised. It was still a chance to highlight the Army itself. It was still a huge opportunity for them. And wow did they whiff.

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LIVE NOW: RALLY FOR A CITY WE CAN AFFORD feat. @aoc.bsky.social

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Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

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I hope some of you actually take some joy in these pathetic images of this ridiculous and now boring military parade. It's a fiasco and everyone gets to point and laugh. More hard days ahead but for today enjoy.

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I’m seeing videos of the military parade and we should just demobilize it right now. This should basically stop recruitment cold. It’s the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever seen.

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One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

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Has any musicologist ever written about the very American phenomenon of taking very left wing songs and either willfully or unintentionally misinterpreting them to be right wing songs for the sake of state media?

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Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

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A friend just texted me from LA that this was happening at the park she was at

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I suspect that there will be big crowds parading around major cities tomorrow and it will be largely non-eventful (I hope I'm wrong!), but that doesn't mean these marches are a waste of time. You can meet new people, activate old friends, or get a rush out of screaming at cops.

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Protestors aren’t the ones who need to be advised on being peaceful.

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i don’t need my law degree to tell you that telling a police officer to “honor your oath bitch” is protected first amendment speech this dude needs to sue expeditiously

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Democrats Back Resolution Thanking Federal Agents For Handcuffing Alex Padilla theonion.com/democra...

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same www.sciencealert.com/humpback-wha...

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Please enjoy this table of possible future scenarios from a 1990s paper in a peer-reviewed journal on how to deal with nuclear waste storage in underground repositories in New Mexico. I found it while doing research for an article on nuclear waste storage. "WIPP" means "Waste Isolation Pilot Plant".

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I was at a bar or bat mitzvah at a hotel in the 90s and I saw Mick Jagger getting off an elevator. I yelped 'Ahh that's Mick Jagger!!!' but no one else there knew who he was.

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there are so many gems in the quotes! summer '99 i was backpacking in europe with two friends when we turned a corner on a small street in paris and bill clinton was there. we shook his hand and i said 'we're americans backpacking through europe' and he said 'i did that when i was your age.'

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We were sharing speeches on the People’s mic at an Occupy protest. Heard a familiar voice. Turned around and it was… Lou Reed!

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I helped Crispin Glover retrieve his phone after he dropped it in portable toilet at the beach. I held him by the ankles and lowered him in. He was able to fish it out. And it was still working!

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Even though it's tiring, I think it's essential to consistently point out that this is illegal.

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he's not there to run the military bureaucracy, he's there to run a political purge. He has no idea what the fuck he's doing bsky.app/profile/verm...

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I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.

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You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

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It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

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Senator Padilla's assault is horrific, but he's telling us all that what moved him to question Noem was her explicitly stating the Feds were there to take control of the city from its democratically-elected government. The Senator obviously wants us to focus on Noem's nullification of CA government.

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To be fair, Cuomo has much more executive experience than Zohran when it comes to sexually harassing women, intimidating those who speak out, and helping Republicans maintain control of his state's legislature.

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In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

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this is a good wake up call for elected Dems to realize what’s happening and what’s going to happen not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are

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DO NOT DO THIS sitting down in the middle of a riot (or protest) is fucking dangerous if the cops are using their less-lethal correctly, then your head is now where body shots should be you are at risk of being trampled to death by the crowd you are at risk of being trampled to death by a horse

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House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

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this image of the FBI at the orders of the state to arrest an elected politician for just asking the DHS secretary a question needs to be spread for the next 4 years when talking about the fascism of this administration

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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So ICE is now more powerful than a sitting US senator? I hope every democrat congressperson stands up for their colleague and demands accountability for what happened to Alex Padilla. They won’t but I wish they would.

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excited for the NYT live blog of their colleagues being dragged out of 620 Eighth Ave next month

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Are we really fucking doing this. Had nothing happened to Senator Padilla at all, what she was describing is a federal takeover of a major city by military force with no specified end-date, with no legal authority. Do not let the fascists talk their way out of that.

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It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

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dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

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Jesus Christ, a real fire sale happening at the metaphor showroom

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