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A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.

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"The most jarring aesthetic in this burgeoning MAGA stagecraft is the unbridled embrace of face-altering procedures: plastic surgery, veneers, and injectables like Botox and fillers. The overall look has since been disparagingly referred to as 'Mar-a-Lago face.'"

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Iconic Golden Girls actress Bea Arthur, who served in the Marine Corps, has had her contribution scrubbed from Department of Defence website

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www.currentaffairs.org/news/trust-m...

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Professor and authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about dictators and fascism.

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Unsurprisingly, the DOGE boys who are supposedly investigating fraud are actually committing fraud. Here’s their wall of receipts aka DOGE disinformation and lies.

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NYT: “The White House did not comment on why the group had altered the contracts data or why it’s now harder for the public to scrutinize it.” The savings have been changed and altered — and are nowhere near what @MarshaBlackburn claims they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

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Musk claimed this 82 year old was dead, and clawed back $5,200 from his bank account 😡 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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this is still so funny to me

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Newsmax will pay $40 million to settle Smartmatic voting machine allegations

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"The weather forced us to delay a major tactical operation against our enemy for weeks; the climate made it more likely that more such operations would be delayed or canceled in the future." Yes, climate change is a national security issue. New from @markhertling.bsky.social:

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@juddlegum.bsky.social's MuskWatch rolls out the DOGE tracker, showing that $96B of DOGE's claimed savings are bullshit. doge.muskwatch.com

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Wait, this is the brutal free speech from American citizens that triggered Vance and caused him to use his child to whine and cry about it? What a snowflake crybaby.

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Fascism is here. The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich. 🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Tariffs tomorrow and tariffs yesterday, but never tariffs today.

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What a front cover...

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Here's the DOGE mistake, beautifully visualized: If you don't go where the money is, you don't save much money. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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“Again, the mice used for clinical purposes did not undergo gender transition.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Wow DJ's cancer was likely caused by a chemical he was exposed to? Trump admin this week:

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We'll say it again: No, 150-year-olds are not collecting Social Security benefits. #SOTU www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

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This was posted as a full page paid advertisement in today’s New York Times

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After yesterday's events in the White House, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway's largest marine fuel companies, appears to have announced that it will no longer refuel American Navy vessels. Haltbakk has called on other European companies to refuse service to American forces.

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“Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.”

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Here's the full "meeting" — more like ambush — between Zelensky, Trump and Vance.

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"Dozens of DOGE ‘receipts’ saved no money and killed contracts meant to boost efficiency" www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Elon Musk has repeatedly misled the public about federal spending while playing a leading role in President Donald Trump’s effort to cut that spending | Fact Check

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Litigation Tracker we're producing at @justsecurity.org hits 80 cases Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions

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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

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Con artists want an emotional response from their intended victims. It forces victims to focus on the emotional energy instead of the actions happening around them. The best defense against a con artist is to learn and practice calmness and awareness. Calmness preserves energy and clarity.

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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@anneapplebaum.bsky.social

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Elon Musk’s unprecedented influence over the executive branch will ultimately benefit Elon Musk. The employees in charge are his employees. The data DOGE collects, the procurement contracts they oversee, it all flows up to him.

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"All of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) programs in Mexico are currently halted due to the funding freeze"

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When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

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JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

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"The thing about most software startups, though, is that they fail. They take big risks and they don’t pay off and they leave the carcass of that failure behind and start cranking out a new pitch deck. This is the process that DOGE is imposing on the United States."

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