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Now the German election is over, the authorities need to take a look at Musk, TwitterX, the AfD and links to Putin. Go in hard before the weeds spread.

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truly wild that plenty of centre-left parties would be too cowardly to use this slogan which should be entirely uncontroversial for any nominally left party (looking at you, Labour)

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As a woman who’s dated 26-year-old men, I cannot support Luigi Mangione getting tried as an adult

submitted 7 hours ago • 41 comments

one thing that's worth pointing out about the current wave of constituent fury at Republican town halls: the reason you're primarily seeing those viral moments in ruby red districts is because every Republican whose district is even remotely competitive is actively hiding from their constituents

submitted 6 hours ago • 63 comments

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 198 comments

Back in 2013—2013!—we at @motherjones.com warned people that Elon Musk was attacking government subsidies even as he built his whole empire on them. Yeah, we didn't know how bad it would get, but the signs were there: www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

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There were 1,000 firings at my VA. I feel so sorry for them. Many hoping to earn a pension. One nurse told me "I've got 16 yrs in, I'm close, a pension is my dream". Now her dream is gone. Who voted for this moron? Is this what you wanted? They're treat these employees like garbage.

submitted 9 hours ago • 68 comments

Thinking of kids in 2038 mysteriously coming across legions of random mentions of people having died from COVID, while their parents say nothing happened. One of the founding members of Fountain of Wayne died in April 2020. It's just on their Wikipedia page. So many people died I don't even realize

submitted 6 hours ago • 26 comments

If you’re not trans and you believe believe yourself to be a progressive ally type of person I highly recommend you read up on a prison practice called “v-coding” because with any luck it will make you physically ill and shock you to the point of action

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Joy Reid fired at MSNBC is a huge loss in what's left of our dying press. We went to a crawfish boil at Melissa Harris-Perry's house years ago, and got to meet Joy, Touré, so many irreplaceable voices. To see the network become unwatchable when we need it the most is a travesty.

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

Melissa Harris-Perry. Tiffany Cross. Alex Wagner. Joy Reid. I'm sure there's a pattern here but I can't quite put my finger on what it could be. (/s)

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Space music is an introductory prelude to the sound of greater infinity. It is a different order of sounds synchronised to a different order of being. #SunRa

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I owe the television part of my career to @joyannreid.bsky.social, as do so many other Black voices y'all never would have heard of if not for her. And that's why she's gone. They can treat black folks as interchangeable, but everybody Black knows that Joy was indispensable.

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The thing the right-wing took away from non-prosecution of W-era torture wasn't that they were fortunate that Obama was willing to look forward, it was that installing John Yoo's to write memos saying "[illegal thing] is actually legal" is a cheat code to rewrite the laws however you want

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There are a few places in this country that serve as testing grounds for conservative tactics, places where you can see the future before it arrives elsewhere. Coeur D'Alene, Idaho is one of those places -- I've written about it before This video should scare the absolute shit out of everyone

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If you own the refs, you own the game. While Dems fiddled around w “let’s reach across the aisle bullshit,” Leonard Leo spent 30 years and $600 million placing extreme right Catholic refs on the Supreme Court. Not a single Evangelical Christian Nationalist. johnmenadue.com/activist-jud...

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Re: Last Week 1. Chose commoner bride 2. Announced betrothal 3. Planned wedding 4. Hired men to kidnap her 5. Framed Gilder for it Frankly I’m swamped.

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New calculations indicate that the asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is now much less likely to hit Earth than earlier measurements had suggested https://go.nature.com/437D5Kn

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My author copy of my book, How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism, is here! Get yours at: www.routledge.com/How-to-Talk-...

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If your Tesla looks like this, that bumper sticker isn't gonna fool anyone #TeslaTakedown

submitted 8 hours ago • 26 comments

Once Elon, Brainworm, and Co destroy the FDA, such recalls won't be any more newsworthy than drivers running a red light.

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“The 5 bullets email was the administration’s declaration of psychological warfare: Petty on its face and lacking sufficient instructions, its one and only purpose was to scare the shit out of workers already living in peril.”

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Musk thinks a habitable planet works without a magnetosphere, so his general grasp of how things works is..."lacking" is the word that comes to mind.

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There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

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The things that Musk-slavering pundits treat as evidence of genius are things an 8th grader in an Asian immigrant household would be humiliated to take home to their parents, including how bad he is at memes and video games

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

I want to see every scientific society going into emergency mode. This is a good example of how an organization can flex its specific power in a time of great need. What else is possible?

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

The casual rise of eugenics and breathless, credulous declarations of innate superiority of some people over others even among self-styled centrists is one of the creepiest and most alarming trends I’ve seen in a while.

submitted 9 hours ago • 35 comments

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Brace yourselves for the worst in tomorrow's German elections. Far-right parties have previously thrived with russian and chinese support, and now they also benefit from American backing. With all three powers united in their support, it will be tough to counter these parties

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This isn’t drugs. This is him assuming other people don’t work because he doesn’t do that much work. Very common bad boss behavior. bsky.app/profile/rcma...

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Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

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The level of uncertainty is rising. Right now it seems marginal for most people (are eggs safe to eat, do I need to avoid using Reagan when flying to DC) but this is going to spread across every field

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Couldn't figure out why a new recommendations algorithm had The Hunger Games recommending Thornton Wilder. It wasn't the algorithm. It was something far worse… ISBN REUSE!

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🎶once again I am begging everyone to watch Judgment at Nuremberg🎶

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A competent political party would make a mailer with this quote on it and send it to everyone in his district.

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This is a terrible move @msnbc.com. Terrible. The @joy.msnbc.com was a critical part of the evening line-up and @joyannreid.bsky.social brings trenchant political analysis that no one else in the evening line-up has brought. I urge you to reconsider this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

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Ugh. Trump unilaterally terminated government contracts. He stopped payment for work already done. That will kill many of these companies. But it also undermines trust in contracts and the fed gov's willingness to enforce them. You'd think free market advocates would care about that.

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I led the DOJ working group that crafted 2012 regulations to implement the Prison Rape Elimination Act. One provision: Bureau of Prisons must make individualized assessments on transgender prisoner housing assignments. This was the rule during the first Trump term! The cruelty is the point.

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The real reason people say Musk is stupid is that every time he talks about any area that a particular person knows about, he reveals that he doesn’t understand the most basic things about it. Apparently this has never come up for Noah Smith.

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NPR reports that the RFK Jr.-led CDC has halted the "Wild to Mild" flu vaccination campaign that promotes flu shots by emphasizing their role in reducing symptoms and severe illness The decision to pull the campaign comes as flu hospitalizations hit a 15-year high, with 50,000 admissions in a week

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The looters have fired the police tasked with stopping looting. This is fine.

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at one time very wealthy people kept low profiles & the horror was to see your name & photo in a newspaper; probably most of the very wealthy continue this practice, for good reason. E-M behaves as if he is auditioning for a stand-up comic gig which, we know, he isn't going to get; just not funny.

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George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse are walking free! They're doing fucking speaking tours!

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