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JUST IN: A judge has denied Trump's motion to dismiss a defamation claim brought by the Central Park 5 rleated to statements Trump made during debate with Harris. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The stand-in boss of the IRS has walked out after just a month on the job after she was bypassed over a new plan to hand immigrants’ tax data to ICE officials.

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Plot twist: actual science!

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✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ Vrbo (Expedia Group) "Vrbo is deepening our commitment to diversity and inclusion" Meanwhile, Airbnb co-founder and Board member Joe Gebbia sits on Tesla Board and works for Elon Musk's DOGE.

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High school friend who lives in Lawrence, KS, posted this. It may start with the undocumented, then move to refugees, then move to green card holders, then naturalized citizens. The denial of due process ultimately makes us all unsafe. Don’t think because you are a citizen, they won’t harass you.

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❝ growing evidence that progress is slowing down and that the LLM-powered chatbot may already be near its peak. This is troubling, given that the promise of advancement has become a political issue; massive amounts of land, power, and money have been earmarked to drive the technology forward

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The Army is quietly considering a sweeping reduction of up to 90,000 active-duty troops, a move that underscores mounting fiscal pressures at the Pentagon and a broader shift in military strategy away from counterterrorism... www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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Reupping this story which has J6ers who went to fundraiser where acting US Attorney Ed Martin compared their prosecution to the internment of Japanese Ameriricans during WWII hopping mad. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Remember when you were in middle-school, and you realized that "history" is written by "The Winners?" Well, we have new Winners in DC, and guess what they're doing: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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I know it’s obvious and everyone has pointed this out but the richest man in the world is giving out million dollar checks to buy an election and also going “watch out: there’s a rich guy trying to influence this election!”

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Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...

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"... most of what we try (to treat lower back pain) does not work..." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/w...

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“The intake began with slaps. One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ ….The man asked for his mother, then buried his face in his chained hands and cried as he was slapped again.”

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Someone threw a giant bottle of Omega-3 pills at me. I'm fine, only suffered super fish oil injuries.

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Minnesota State Senator Justin Eichorn (R) has officially submitted his resignation — effective immediately. Eichorn was arrested during an undercover sting operation targeting commercial sex involving juveniles. Arrested and charged with soliciting a minor for prostitution, the alleged…

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This isn’t legal, Elon. Musk steps up calls to impeach judges, offering $100 to voters who join in. America PAC is paying registered Wisconsin voters to sign its petition against “activist judges.” Talk about paid protesters. Now, judges are receiving violent threats online.

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JUST POSTED: Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China Giving Elon Musk access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets is a major expansion of his role as an adviser to President Trump and highlights his conflicts of interest nyti.ms/4inqIP8

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1/ Peter Thiel-who backs the "network state" movement & the construction of charter cities—wrote a preface for "The Sovereign Individual," a book that states in part as follows:

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Re the Dep’t of Education : I don’t think people who want it to go away know what it does. Here’s one thing. When we moved from NY to Utah we told the new principal that we wanted to have a 504 meeting for our kid who is a Type-1 diabetic. She said “Why? It’s not like she’s in a wheel chair.” 1/

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Didn't Chief Justice John Roberts say something to the effect that this was inappropriate? #USDemocracy www.axios.com/2025/03/18/d...

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The US government is a Jenga tower and right now the Trump admin is pulling out every piece and one will cause a complex system collapse. We won't know what precisely will do it but something will and it'll cause a collapse. I think a lot of things we think matter won't by the end of the year.

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Steve Davis, a longtime Elon Musk loyalist, is effectively the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency. He's followed the billionaire to his various companies, including SpaceX and X. Here is what to know about him. nyti.ms/4kElKPx

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AS PROMISED: extremely energetic NON-TRINARY NEUTRINOS! 🧪 Read all about it in my @newscientist.com column — ask your library about access if you’re not a subscriber! “neutrinos are a reminder that identity transitions are a natural phenomenon.” www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

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The department tracks student achievement, manages college financial aid and sends K-12 schools money to support students with disabilities and lower-income communities, among other things.

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In an unprecedented time of attacks on science and truth, we need voices like these more than ever go.bsky.app/14W5Rdk

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So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

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by the way, the reason jackie robinson's legacy is so well-known is because his wife, rachel, made sure that his service to our country (in a multitude of ways) would not be forgotten or diminished after his death. rachel robinson is now 102 years old and still attends jackie robinson day events.

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Musk: "... we had several black servants who were friends."

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“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.” DOGE identified this man as dead and debited his banking account www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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This is horrific!

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Dictator shit

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Key word is “actual.” They want to eliminate due process for deportation and this is their test case. Kind of like how they wanna arrest protestors without due process, and fire government employees without due process, and indict people without due process, and seize assets without due process.

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“There are 13 million legal foreign residents (green card holders) in the US. If the administration can deport Khalil, it means those 13 million people must live in fear if they dare speak up or publish something that runs afoul of government views.” journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...

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Back in 2018 when I started seeing pro-Trump protesters on the streets of Portland wearing "Pinochet did nothing wrong" t-shirts with RWDS on the sleeve and cartoons on the back celebrating the throwing of communists out of helicopters...it seemed clear the GOP was heading to a dark place.

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My best friend's dad passed away this a.m. We met our first year of college. My crew of six guys from St. Louis always had my back, but his family treated me like their own. I was so far from home, but their home became a welcome refuge. We'll miss you, JP. Some of his photos from Yellowstone.

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But..., who enabled Elon? Who put him in a position where he can enact "HIS mass firings?" Don't blame Elon - Trump made this possible. Does "the buck" stop at Elon, or at the POTUS!

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Elon's ass kicking is about to begin 😆

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Fire Sale: Half price from December. 🔥

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Ruth was my editor when I contributed to the Post. She’s the best, as a human being and a journalist. I can’t imagine how painful to her the destruction of the institution to which she devoted her amazing career as a reporter, editorial writer, and editor must be. It’s heartbreaking.

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Ruth Marcus resigned from the Washington Post after CEO Will Lewis killed her column criticizing Bezos's new "free markets and personal liberties" mandate. www.readtpa.com/p/another-da...

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For Women's History Month, may we all remember and summon the courage of Rachel Carson, who wrote Silent Spring to inform the world what DDT was doing to the songbirds, raptors,and by extension, us. While battling cancer, she stood her ground against savage attacks by the chemical industry...

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Tesla is under investigation in Canada for processing 8,600 vehicle sales in just three days before a federal EV credit expired. The company claimed $43 million in credits over those three days. It was a big jump from usual sales volumes.

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Twitter/X is currently down for many users.

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two cats had tested positive for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in the county Unclear if these cats include prior cat confirmed in Pottowamie County Kansas in early January More detail on the history would be useful www.ksnt.com/news/top-sto...

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