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This is like testing your brakes by heading at 120 mph toward a cliff on loose sand.

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The United States just voted with Russia against peace in Ukraine.

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This is some bullshit, @washingtonpost.com

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Wow. "The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard."

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For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

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“One of the most successful Podcasters in the Country” as a qualification for the deputy director of the FBI is…

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I need to emphasize: this is comically ineffective You can't "overwhelm the algorithms" when the algorithms can be tweaked in realtime by malevolent actors who want the misinformation See, e.g., ExTwitter

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He's openly admitting they're going to use the military to do illegal things and fired all the lawyers so no one will stop them. They will use the military on US civilians and they will give the order to shoot. The question is whether the rank and file listen.

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Married women who have changed their names — get a passport now if you can. Even if you never plan to travel out of the country. If this trash passes — it is my understanding that a passport in your married name is sufficient ID for voting.

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Kind of Arsenal Football Club to give me my weekends back for the rest of the spring. Appreciate it, lads.

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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

submitted 3 days ago • 569 comments

I don't think I need to tell bookworms, authors, and writers that, if the USPS is privatized, everyone from big stores like Barnes & Nobles to indies like the one I work for is fucked, right?

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Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

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in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

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Holy shit! You’ve got to see this town hall. Republicans are starting to get torn apart by their own constituents. Rep. Rich McCormick: “You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?” Woman in the crowd: “You need to stand up.” Another woman: “Don’t bend over.” 🔥

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Holy crap. At his town hall last night, Rep. Rich McCormick compared his own constituents who asked him tough and fair questions to January 6 insurrectionists

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Tear this shit down. All “biological sex” means in this context is “best guess a doctor made when glancing at a newborn baby’s genitalia”

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Malcolm X was assassinated 60 yrs ago today. See his timeless wisdom on the true meaning of “progress.” “If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.”

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And that is how you tell the president of the United States where to stick it.

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How it started. How it’s going

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Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

submitted 3 days ago • 196 comments

elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

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I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.

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NEW: Elon Musk and SpaceX have taken control of part of Texas. In the town of Brownsville, one of the poorest communities in America, Musk sold hope. Instead, SpaceX caused earthquakes, workplace injuries, and displacement. And now they've built a company town too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cZE...

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How stupid and arbitrary are Trump's mass firings at federal agencies? A State Dept employee tells me some colleagues are racing to change their job descriptions so phrases like "transnational crime" don't get caught up in DOGE AI bots scanning for words like "trans" to fire people because "DEI."

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Right before this happened, I told my wife, “someone is going to make a mistake, it’s going to decide it, and I feel bad for whoever that is.” And then the US - after defending like masterful demons for 70 minutes of play - left the best player in the world wide open in the slot.

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7-10% of people have long covid. Half of those people have this debilitating syndrome. Learn about it so you don’t make it worse

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Jingoistic atmosphere aside, this is incredible hockey. These dudes are so fast and strong it’s mind-boggling.

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If we can't sleep peacefully, they don't get to sleep peacefully. Don't call your republican reps because you think you can convince them. Call them because fuck them, they don't get a free pass on this shit.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

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Our about-to-be next FBI director just called journalism “the most powerful enemy the US has ever seen.”

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Instead of doing something simple and effective, why not do a very a complicated form of a nothing that hands a loaded gun to your opposition? That's the Democrat Promise

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Telling people to ask an algorithm questions instead of just asking other people sounds really stupid until you notice that the idea is to make employees whole livelihood dependent on machines owned by the boss instead of on each other's skills

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“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and redeem the soul of America.” - John Lewis Bravo, ex-NFL player Chris Kluwe for this act of civil disobedience against MAGA 🇺🇸

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A bunch of mediocre, corrupt white dudes sold themselves to a Russian dictator in exchange for power at home, and now they’re using that power to loot everything they can, as quickly as they can.

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This whole saga has, I think, demonstrated very well my contention that American political journalists believe that they deserve all of the respect and deference that comes with filling a vital societal role, while rejecting the idea that holding such a position also entails duties and obligations.

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Lol

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they are looting our state like its conquered territory. our tax dollars are going to be sent to elon musk instead of used to build the infrastructure we already paid for.

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Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

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"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

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A lot of people responding to this with some variation of "who's 'we'?" And if you've ever paid taxes in the US, I have bad news for you

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You only purge the military if you plan on using the military against your own citizens. We are running out of time to actually act in a way that isn’t going to be full force kinetic contact.

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Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

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GOP: "The Revolutionary War was fought against King George, whose taxes hampered freedom. Not against kings." Democrats: "Just because he's wearing a robe and a crown doesn't mean he meant this literally. Everybody calm down and send us twenty dollars" newspapers: "What did he mean by 'king'?"

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