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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

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No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

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I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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A foreign service worker whose pregnant wife allegedly was denied emergency medical transport abroad has filed an affidavit against the Trump admin, claiming its "rushed, haphazard and cruel" push to shut down USAID placed the mother and unborn daughter at grave risk. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to have Pete Buttigieg's salary reduced to $1 in November 2023. Does she think Sean Duffy should keep his job if planes can't manage to stay in the sky?

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Incredible journalism.

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NBA: players, you MUST take the all-star game more seriously also NBA: you will play basketball for 20 mins in between breaks of kevin hart’s performance. also before we hand out a real MVP trophy, we’re going to give a tiny trophy to kevin. haha get it? because he’s tiny? 🤣

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Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

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Yeah don’t worry Adam Silver I’m not here to watch basketball I just want to watch a tribute to TNT

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Dangerous www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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For any Republicans out there-- don't you see what's happening? Your elected officials, drunk with power, are quietly and quickly getting filthy rich. And in exchange, they're cutting your Medicaid, cutting your education funding, cutting SNAP benefits, cutting medical research.

submitted 6 days ago • 702 comments

shut it down, it’ll never get any better than this

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HHS Secretary Dr. Leo Spacemen

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Believing that Tulsi Gabbard — longtime Russian asset and newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence — is acting in the interests of the United States requires an extraordinary level of self-delusion.

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IMO, the Trump administration unilaterally freezing all funding for cancer research, in violation of two federal court orders, is a big deal.

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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 10 days ago • 310 comments

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

submitted 11 days ago • 2311 comments

very fun to be alive in a time when the richest man in the world can say "well this money being spent on poor people is far too much" and unilaterally kill it and not at least have guillotines around to even things out

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Trump has signed an executive order pausing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which forbids companies in the U.S. from bribing foreign officials.

submitted 12 days ago • 71 comments

I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things

submitted 12 days ago • 159 comments

this is the point in the movie where tommy lee jones would step in and do something effective

submitted 12 days ago • 95 comments

It’s time

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ok you actually do not have to hand it to rupert murdoch

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An American flag built on the backs of Black people... Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways All this in New Orleans... What a moment

submitted 13 days ago • 182 comments

Aleksander III receiving rural district elders in the yard of Petrovsky Palace in Moscow, by Ilya Repin, 1885-86

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The “say drake” smile 💀

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I'm watching the Super Bowl at Drake's house, and it is very uncomfortable right now

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i think kendrick is president now?

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Drake has passed away

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BASH: I remember a time when Republicans were very careful about the government having access to personal data NOEM: Well, we can't trust the government anymore BASH: You are the government

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if they can afford to buy a super bowl commercial do not give them your money

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First Super Bowl commercial for whippits

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