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patrick.dark.name
Euro-Taiwanese LGBT progressive mostly here to binge on political news. Democratic Party Precinct 53 Chair for Montgomery County, Texas. Supporter of democracy in Myanmar, Taiwan, and Ukraine. Prefer to follow real identities. No interest in memes.
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This is a 45-minute Bernie Sanders speech, but if anyone needs motivation, it’s right here. It’s too bad we could have had this guy—whom I voted for in 2016 and 2024 in the Democratic primaries—and four leftist Supreme Court justices with him but instead ended up with two Trump terms and Joe Biden.

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Another to add to the list. AT&T pulls support for DEI and Pride finance.yahoo.com/news/t-drops...

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I founded and chair an "elite law firm" and we are not in retreat. I have spoken with many other "elite" firm leaders that are staffing up. What the WSJ means is large corporate law firms. Please do not confuse quality with cowardice.

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❗️US Secretary of State Rubio responds to Polish Foreign Minister: Just making things up No one has made any threats about cutting Ukraine off from Starlink And say thank you because without Starlink Ukraine would have lost this war long ago and Russians would be on the border with Poland right now

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Reminder to set your clocks forward four years before going to bed tonight.

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Tesla’s German sales fell 76% in February to 1,429 cars, a steeper decline than the 60% drop in January.

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TAPPER: How can you look at experts in nuclear weapons being fired then rehired and think, 'Oh, this process is working exactly as it should be'? RICK SCOTT: I'm a business guy. You do the best you can every day. What they're trying to do is rein in government. Are they gonna be perfect? No.

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“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” —Republican Starlink CEO Elon Musk Square that with to “anyone who really cares”: “Ukraine will inevitably lose”. I don’t think we should be taking advice about caring from someone who believes empathy is “fundamental weakness”.

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Auchincloss: "Zelenskyy flew to Washington, but he walked into the Kremlin."

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Sam Bankman-Fried is going to get pardoned

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WIRED spoke to federal staffers across agencies about how Elon Musk's $1 spending limit is crippling their research, resources and more. In many cases, employees are already unable to carry out the basic functions of their job.

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On brand

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The expected standard of behavior Americans have for Democratic versus Republican politicians has always been clearly unfair, but the way Republicans swallow Trump's short-comings is kind of staggering.

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This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

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The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster. Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔

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He’s too old to be king. Time to abdicate the throne.

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Business logic for journalists to stop wasting time on X: "X now accounts for less than half of a percent of our monthly traffic, down from about 12% in late 2022—when Musk became Twitter’s new owner." Meanwhile: "Bluesky for months now has sent far more readers to our site than X has."

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Today in St. Louis: @stltoday.com www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

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This is all more amusing since tariffs are supposed to be his replacement for the federal income tax and means of balancing the federal budget, but they’re not collecting anything as long as he keeps pausing them.

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Republicans must be salivating at how much more money they now have for their next round of tax cuts for the rich.

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Courts won’t stand in the way of a king, unfortunately.

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It’s kind of funny that we had campaigns about “principled conservatism” only eight years or so ago and now they’re just backstabbing American allies left and right like “Meh.”

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If Democrats were able to flip Alabama of all places a few years back, surely it should be possible to flip some small districts and then we can at least get a few hearings and maybe a few articles of impeachment.

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Wow, Republicans finally discovered what a “pathway to citizenship” is. Too bad it’s presumably only for white South Africans like President Elon Musk. (Meanwhile, he’s planning on deporting all Ukrainian refugees who fled from Vladimir Putin’s war after Volodymyr Zelenskiy offended him ca. 2020.)

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The fact that King Trump is being widely called weak for almost immediately pausing his tariffs a second time must be getting to him.

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Isn’t the answer an automatic “no” given that the CDC is run by the “totalitarian” regime of King Trump?

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If anything, I would think Donald Trump would relish economically punishing Kentucky given that he despises its other senator, Mitch McConnell. King Trump has already shown a willingness to punish other states like California simply because he doesn’t like the state’s leadership.

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”The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” —Republican President Elon Musk “Trump called fallen soldiers ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’ during his presidency, according to a 2020 report in The Atlantic.” ”I like people who weren't captured.” —King Trump re: Republican John McCain

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Glad to see the exodus continue. Twitter has been irrevocably destroyed by a billionaire oligarch that decided to turn it into his personal playground and propaganda tool. Looks like the Bluesky user count has more than doubled to 32 million since I fled here a few months ago.

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On Wednesday, cracking down yet again on pro-Palestinian protests, Columbia called in the NYPD to arrest its own students for the third time in a year: www.columbiaspectator.com/photo-essays... Today, the Trump admin announced it's stripping $400m from Columbia for not cracking down hard enough:

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”The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” —Tesla CEO Elon Musk More of this please. I’m amused by all of these stories of Trump supporters being fired by an un-empathetic Trump because he thinks their jobs are waste, fraud, and/or abuse.

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“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” —SpaceX CEO Elon Musk They were lying because they simply don’t care if your airplane goes down in a fireball of flames like a SpaceX rocket over the Bahamas.

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People have really been overlooking the first point. The EO is trying to destroy Perkins Coie by eliminating its client base. Any company that has a federal contract cannot do business with the firm. This is a targetted revenge attack designed to put a law firm out of business.

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Traci DiMartini: “They want to be able to hire only loyalists, ignore Title 5 [of the U.S. Code] and commit flagrant prohibited personnel practices. We’re supposed to have a nonpartisan civil service, and we have been completely whipsawed."

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Someone rush money to Hakeem Jeffries so he can make everyone clap for “Captain Chaos” while he soils the office of the presidency with a speech about “transgender mice”.

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🚨 BREAKING: Poland is seeking access to nuclear weapons. Read the full story: www.politico.eu/article/dona...

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BREAKING: Entire Human Race Flagged By DEI Purge Because of “Homo” in “Homo Sapiens”

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Two recent vandalism incidents occurring at separate Tesla showrooms in Oregon involving gunshots are under investigation.

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Recall that the Great Recession of 2009 involved volatility in the housing market. If Bitcoin collapses, US Treasury funds are invested in a strategic Bitcoin reserve, and the Russians cash out their Bitcoin first…

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Measles outbreak in the U.S. continues to grow: - 39 new cases in Texas (198 total) - 20 new cases in New Mexico (30 total)

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In fairness, she was sent there to destroy the Department of Education, not to ensure that it runs smoothly.

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“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” —Tesla CEO Elon Musk I would take that to mean that the Tesla CEO considers hate crime laws to be a form of “weakness”.

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”The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” —Republican President Elon Musk Musk also gave Nazi salutes at King Trump’s coronation and is encouraging a resurgence of neo-Nazism in Germany after the history of Nazis invading and occupying France, so go figure.

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Why is everything they do an incompetent shit show?

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