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TBH I didn’t know Wałęsa was still alive so this is like him rising from the dead to condemn Trump.

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Trump’s face would be more appropriate on a three dollar bill.

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If you think there are a lot of homeless people now, just wait and see what happens if Trump starts messing with people’s social security checks.

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IMPORTANT: If you live in the United States or Canada, you’ve probably heard Trump‘s constant claim that the United States is “subsidizing” Canada. It’s wrong of course, but here’s the best explanation I’ve seen about how & why it’s wrong. PLEASE WATCH & SHARE IT A LOT. Kudos to Andrew Chang & CBC.

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🇳🇴Watched The Commoner this evening, based on the real life tale of Crown Prince Harald of Norway’s quest to marry a commoner, Sonja Haroldsen in the 1960s. Pretty crazy considering what Royals have been up to since then, but it was a big deal at the time. Nice to watch something nice. Heartwarming.

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The crypto currency industry is not an industry or a currency. It is the world’s largest pyramid scheme. Every dollar put into this “strategic reserve” is a theft of our money just as much as someone holding any one of us up at gunpoint on the sidewalk.

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Trump is good at tearing things apart but he’s also surprisingly good at bringing people together.

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The first time I heard the Social Security/Ponzi scheme trope was at a Chamber of Commerce dinner my father took me to when I was 13. I left angry that I’d never get Social Security I’m getting Social Security These liars have been telling the same tired lies for decades. Wake up. They lie

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Sad to hear about former Utah Rep. Mia Love’s prognosis. Trump didn’t like her which is high praise as far as I’m concerned. The news sent down a Wikipedia rabbit hole the result of which is that it’s still kind of awful to think that Ben McAdams was replaced by someone like Burgess Owens.

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True enough (although I did see a glimpse as I scrolled on past) but I didn’t mind seeing Benson Boone in Benson Boone’s Grammy jumpsuit. And hearing him sing of course.

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This says it all.

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Dr. Seuss, 1941 Checks out.

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Musk just gave the game away in his interview with Joe Rogan. He said that it's because of Social Security that "people are living longer than expected"—which coupled with a lower U.S. birth rate creates a situation he finds intolerable. He _is_ a Yarvinist—and he's coming for our Social Security.

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Ending the night with this. Get your hankies A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.

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I wrote to Rep. Malloy and Sen. Curtis asking them to support Ukraine. To Sen. Lee I just wrote that I thought the Oval Office debacle was a low point in the history of the Republic and I hoped he came to regret his support for Putin and Russian aggression some day.

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This better than calling Trump scum.

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The world knows what they saw today. Shameful.

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So many bad things going on simultaneously. Generally knowing the path this administration would take doesn’t make seeing it unfold in real time any easier.

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Stay in the fight. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

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This is really A + trolling

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I watched the Oval Office meeting between Trump, Vance, and Zelenskyy. I wanted to throw up. I’ve never been embarrassed and disgusted to be an American. I am now. This administration are the lowest scum on earth.🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

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The fraud, waste, and abuse in the Federal Govt is not from federal govt employees, it’s from recipients who don’t use funding on the right things, create fake companies, don’t pay their taxes, use fake credentials. The federal employees Trump/Musk are firing are the ones who find this stuff.

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The country is going down the tubes but Oklahoma football is on the upswing. The football news makes me happy, but honestly (and this is hard for me to say), I’d take a good country over a good football team.

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It must be horrible seeing your child die from measles knowing that you could have prevented it.

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Under this administration we know more about unknown illnesses in Congo than known illnesses in our own country.

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I’m old enough to remember when Republicans were all about balancing the budget and reducing the national debt.

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It was nice to hear bipartisan support today in the Salt Lake County council for our current vote by mail election system, bipartisan support for Lannie Chapman, our county clerk, and bipartisan opposition to Rep. Fiefia’s HB 445 to wreck our election system.

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I imagine Palantir CEO Alex Karp and I have different perspectives on whose figurative heads should fill the figurative basket.

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Somehow even though I wasn’t alive in the 1950s I’m living there now.

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We’re the bad guys now.

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The Defense Department could probably afford $50B in cuts without affecting its mission but defense contractor supply chains reach to almost every state and spending cuts will mean civilian job losses across the country.

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Thailand seems dangerous.

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Those tax cuts just aren’t going to mean as much if there are no immigrants to cut the grass.

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When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

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I’m so tired of people who we elected to Congress just standing by and watching as Trump changes our country beyond recognition. Soon the military/intelligence/Homeland Security will be answerable to him personally rather than to the people and the Constitution. And then it will be too late.

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“We need to get rid of legal roadblocks” is just a confession

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Talking to a relative in the JAG corps and it seems like JAGs are committed to diversity because it produces better outcomes. So it’s going to be triggering for Trump and Hegseth as they look at each tier of JAG leadership and find women and men from a variety of ethnic backgrounds doing great work.

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Doesn’t matter how strikingly handsome you are. You don’t get to murder people.

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“Suite Française” showed up as a streaming suggestion. Amazing.

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I think if I was Canadian I would be pushing to join the EU.

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Is here a legislative body more drunk with power than the super majority Republican Utah Legislature? www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

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If the compromise to this truely awful bill is that I need to write my drivers license # under my signature I guess it’s better than the alternative, but there is some small % that don’t have a DL. utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/02/21/c...

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You would think they would work with the city to craft the bill rather than putting out a bill at the last minute and then working with the city. Republicans seem to have lost all ability to think clearly at every level.

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What an ass.

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