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"Perhaps SCOTUS aimed to protect the judiciary by swerving to avoid a head-on collision with Trump. Maybe they hoped he would take the win & trim his dictatorial sails. But this is Dr. Strangelove, not Speed, & no amount of vague harrumphing would get Major Kong to stand down." - @lizdye.bsky.social

submitted 11 hours ago • 35 comments

Trump’s Science Cuts Will Be Felt for Generations https://twp.ai/4imZfe

submitted 58 minutes ago • 3 comments

7 explosions. Kursk 🇷🇺 💩 its sounds like a drone speeding into its target. Not an air raid siren like I was asking about on the first clip. #UkraineNews #UkrainianSanctions #russiaMustPay

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'Most insane thing I've ever heard!' James Carville unloads on new DNC official https://twp.ai/4iljO5

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Rubio, Witkoff in Paris for talks to end the war between Russia, Ukraine https://twp.ai/4iljOZ

submitted 39 minutes ago • 8 comments

Bondi on Abrego Garcia: "This is an extremely disturbing case. Every American tonight should be thanking Donald Trump for making America safer by getting this guy out of our county. I'm going to call him a terrorist ... this illegal alien terrorist."

submitted 33 minutes ago • 223 comments

We've reached the point where Republicans are flying to El Salvador to visit one of the most vicious prisons in the world to have photo ops so they can prove their loyalty to the President of the United States.

submitted 8 hours ago • 748 comments

A fun bit for a local journalist to do maybe once a month is to take this post to the grocery store and ask shoppers if they agree

submitted 9 hours ago • 188 comments

'Disappeared overnight': DOGE quietly deletes $1 billion from its reported savings https://twp.ai/4ilkCY

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

I propose swapping the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador with the man mistakenly elected president of the United States

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

All Abrego Garcia needs to do to get out of prison is claim he rioted on Jan 6

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Elise Stefanik: 'I'm a single-issue candidate running for governor of New York. I intend to pardon the Trump Crime family for all their alleged indiscretions.'

submitted 5 hours ago • 139 comments

Vance is basically Catturd with a government title, except Catturd doesn’t spend as much time on X.

submitted 6 hours ago • 137 comments

Air Force Deletes Pages on First Female Thunderbirds Pilot Amid DEI Purge https://twp.ai/4ilkBc

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

"Deliberately flouted a court order": Boasberg gets ball rolling on holding Trump admin in contempt https://twp.ai/4ilkC9

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Trust me. No one is getting PAID to protest against Trump. We hate him for free, out of the goodness of our hearts.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm not "inspired" by women with more money than they know what to do with taking an expensive joyride as ordinary Americans go without when women who actually flew aircraft are being erased from history by the Pentagon and women astrophysicists are being besmirches as "DEI hires" and fired.

submitted 9 hours ago • 572 comments

How long before the Supreme Court finds that criminal contempt is an "official act" of the presidency and, therefore, shielded from legal reprisals?

submitted 9 hours ago • 582 comments

Nothing unites Republicans quite like the exhilarating combination of racism and cruelty.

submitted 11 hours ago • 12 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge has found probable cause for criminal contempt by this contemptible criminal.

submitted 8 hours ago • 86 comments

BREAKING -- Did Hegseth and Trump pick a scapegoat for Signalgate? Hegseth aide Dan Caldwell escorted from Pentagon by security, placed on leave. Real question is -- by whom? Was this part of DOD inspector general probe? Or did Hegseth scapegoat Caldwell to head off probe?

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Fun fact: the International Criminal Court at The Hague does NOT recognize any immunity based on official title or diplomatic status.

submitted 23 hours ago • 324 comments

Overnight, Russia launched 97 Shahed drones of which 57 were shot down and another 34 were either suppressed by electronic warfare or did not reach their intended target and were lost in location.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

U.S. Secretary of State Rubio and Trump’s special envoy Witkoff are set to travel to Paris this week to discuss the Ukraine and Gaza. Witkoff will meet French President Macron, while Rubio will speak with Foreign Minister Barrot. When will they dare to go to Kyiv? www.politico.eu/article/us-s...

submitted 17 hours ago • 37 comments

The 5th Assault Brigade, together with the 93rd Mechanized Brigade and PHOENIX UAV regiment operators successfully repelled a massive Russian assault. They launched four waves in the morning and one in the evening. As a result, 13 armored vehicles were taken out t.me/noel_reports...

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

🇺🇦 Ukraine has unveiled a new cruise missile called “Bars” — a domestically mass-producible "missile-drone" with a range of 700–800 km. Its key advantage: scalable production for frequent strikes deep inside Russia. www.bbc.com/ukrainian/ar...

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

⚠️ InformNapalm -a volunteer intelligence community focused on exposing Russia’s military activities- reports that Russian forces may be using chemical agents on Shahed drones to harm those collecting wreckage according to sources within the Ukrainian military.

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

🇯🇵 Japan to provide Ukraine with 30 more SUVs, the Japanese Embassy reports. 6 of them already arrived in Poland on April 10 and were handed over to Ukraine.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

🇩🇪 SPD General Secretary Matthias Miersch says the future CDU-SPD coalition should decide together on Taurus for Ukraine — hinting intel may sway Merz against it. Ex-Chancellor Scholz (SPD) also opposed sending Taurus and systematically blocked the decision for months.

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

🤡Lavrov: International law bans placing weapons in civilian areas. But Ukraine has put artillery and air defense near kindergartens and homes.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

🇺🇦🇺🇸🇷🇺🤡Lavrov: In a meeting with Rubio and Waltz, we discussed how the Nazi-led government of Zelenskyy and his allies aim to eliminate everything Russian.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

🇺🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺🤡Lavrov: We are not running after anyone or asking for sanctions to be lifted.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Good night, dear friends. It’s 01:00 in Ukraine. Hopefully see you tomorrow. 🇺🇸🕯️🇺🇦 A very moving video of the return of the body of Corey Nawrocki, a former US marine who was ki##ed in October fighting as a volunteer with Ukrainian forces.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

🔥💥 The combat losses of the enemy from February 24, 2022 to April 16, 2025.

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Booooommmm 💥💥💥💥💥 Fiiiiiiirrrrreeeee 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 For Sumy, For our people, for justice! Ukraine has launched a drone strike against the 112th Guards Missile Brigade—the unit responsible for Sunday’s ballistic missile attack on Sumy that ki##ed 34 people.

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

😡This morning, Russian forces carried out airstrikes on Kherson, Ukraine using guided bombs.

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

🕯️The family is heartbroken after the loss of a Ukrainian hero. Words can’t describe the pain we’re going through. It’s unbearable. Rest in peace hero. Thank you for your sacrifice and service. We will never forget and we will never forgive russians.

submitted 14 hours ago • 21 comments

Trump and the Republican Party had no problem picking up the phone and asking Romania to return their dear friend and child rapist, Andrew Tate, but want us to believe they can’t do anything about Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

You know who should lose their tax exempt status and be taxed as political entities for pushing politics loooooooooong before Harvard? Christian Nationalist megachurches that supported Trump and his current brand of fascism.

submitted 1 day ago • 328 comments

Stephen Miller always looks like he's trying to decide where to put you in his human centipede.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

"A lifetime bitch."

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

submitted 1 day ago • 1962 comments

For the record, the Trump administration already admitted that it wrongly deported Abrego Garcia in court. Yet JD Vance insists on pushing the lie that the Maryland trades worker is in fact a violent gang member.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments