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Dan Caine, Trump’s new replacement for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reportedly told Trump, “I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.” He also put on a MAGA hat, despite it violating military protocol.

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Pitt is a Big Ten, UC, or Ivy caliber school

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I'm starting to think that repeatedly grooming NYC machine pols to be the next generation of Democratic congressional leadership was one of the great mistakes of the post-Citizens United era. Their loyalties are misplaced, their instincts unhelpful, & above all they are visibly, painfully soft

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Eric Adams has a remarkable commitment to being a dumbass.

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This guy isn't anyone's ally

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Yet another reminder that businesspeople are manifestly unfit for elected office "Give us your minerals or we'll let Russia kill you all" isn't negotiating. It's extortion.

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every right wing party in the western world especially anglophone countries, probably has a groypheized staffer class at the moment, especially young ones

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Starlink in Ukraine operates based on paid contracts. If it’s being used as an extortion tool, then other countries should consider it a potential security risk - just like Russian gas used for blackmailing. If Ukraine is cut off, it would be wise for Europe to reconsider its use

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Current status: we're smuggling eggs in from Mexico now. So let's talk about WHY Mexico's egg industry has been stable- while US egg prices are through the roof! 1. Mexico puts people in jail for price-fixing. 2. Mexico lets farmers vaccinate their chickens against bird flu.

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⚡️US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters. The U.S. first raised the prospect of shutting off Starlink after Zelensky rejected the deal presented on Feb. 12. Starlink terminals are critical in securing Ukraine's battlefield communications.

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What a coincidence! (Do you think Elon knows his backstory?)

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I am the State

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Spoiler: it was never about separating residents from noxious industry. It started in the US because a bunch of NIMBYs in NYC got mad a tower was being built in the 1900s.

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This is extremely frightening.

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it’s so funny to be like “we don’t need diverse spies”

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Very interesting and informative. If things don’t change under these conditions it’s hard to see them ever changing. Yet there are deeply entrenched habits within so much of this. Including those of a general kind of bureaucratic suave befuddlement.

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This makes the media's inability to just call it a Nazi salute seem even more ridiculous.

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Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

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Republicans are hiding from farmers

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History teaches us that when governments begin persecuting a vulnerable minority group while simultaneously making it harder for members of that group to escape persecution by fleeing abroad... it doesn't end well for anyone. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

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Well shit. consequence.net/2025/02/j6-c...

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*ADAMS JUDGE ORDERS PROBE OF TRUMP DOJ MOTION TO DISMISS CASE

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well, that's good news. fuck you, musk.

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I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

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Are you all okay over there

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One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world just lost $1.4 billion (with a B) to a hack. This is 5x as much as the previous largest exchange hack in history.

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Mitch is one of the singular villains of American history, personally responsible for the destruction of our democracy and our government at a level above anyone save Trump himself he is a vile man on the level of John Calhoun and should be remembered as such

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There are pro-Ukrainian events planned in places like BOTSWANA to mark the 3rd anniversary of the full-scale invasion. Incredible. I highlighted some of the countries I didn't expect. You can find one near you at this site: uaworldmap.ukrainianworldcongress.org/en #StandWithUkraine

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"Why bother contacting our Republican reps? They won't listen to us." Oh, yes they will! You may not see an immediate change in their behavior, but you are creating cracks in the foundation.

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they voted for harris, because rural voters are not a bigoted monolith despite what you've been led to believe. but even if they didn't? they'd still deserve fucking mail service

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🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & @wnober.bsky.social) When gov't engineers retire, projects take longer & costs (& cost overruns) go up. It’s harder to manage projects well w/ reduced staffing. Important to remember as DOGE cuts: reduced staffing can actually hurt efficiency. Paper: tinyurl.com/yvy2jt93

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Facebook spent a California High Speed High on this

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in some ways I have more contempt for these people than the guys who twirl their evil moustaches in the mirror every morning I’m not even good at con-man stuff and I could sell this guy the Eiffel Tower

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Free speech my fat ass. These guys are ALL on Putin’s payroll and this piece of white trash hillbilly DEI pig scum is first in line at the teat.

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Even if it was real, there’s literally nothing the “woke agenda” could do to our government that is half as harmful as conducting massive barely-coordinated purges of longtime federal employees working on critical matters of state

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I would have completely believed this.

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Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

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Musk absolutely wants to make it to illegal to criticize his shit-box products in the U.S., too - this woman in China was forced to pay TESLA after faulty brakes almost killed her family. Stop the rabid dog. apnews.com/article/tesl...

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Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

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It is always important to remember that the American left is AOC, not randos online. That said, the randos online have so far predictably proven themselves predictably useless in opposing an actual hyperacceleration of imperialist activity by their government

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Gangster capitalism. www.wsj.com/business/med...

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