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Hegseth, what do you think about this? euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/12/u...

From the article: “Eliminating the State Department’s senior most human rights official sends a clear signal that the Trump administration cares less about fundamental freedoms than it does about cutting deals with autocrats and tyrants...” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

What should one's response be when faced with arrest by unidentified, masked and armed men?

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100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election. 70% of these donations went to Republicans. Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts for the rich. This is what oligarchy looks like.

I wonder if Boeing will get all the bolts in. www.businessinsider.com/us-allies-un...

Brooks and Marcus on the News Hour.

I recorded a special episode of my Bulwark podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social this morning to discuss Paul, Weiss’s appalling capitulation to the First Extortionist of the United States. I didn’t mince words. Link below. @thebulwark.bsky.social

The parents of an unvaccinated 6-year-old girl who just died from measles in Texas say they have no regrets for refusing to vaccinate their child. “The measles are good for the body... She’s better off where she is now.”

Do you suppose there will be agreement on the $40 million ever being completed? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/b...

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I've never had one but this just became my favorite beer. thehill.com/homenews/nex...

WTAF www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...

This administration is nuts. www.military.com/history/meda...

Okay, y'all! This is a MUST hear. youtu.be/QSa52TR9tCA?...

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

"Team Trump claims that its dealmaking will bring peace and that, after 80 years of being taken for a ride, America will turn its superpower status into profit. Instead it will make the world more dangerous, and America weaker and poorer."

Russian advances south and southwest of Pokrovsk have slowed over the last two weeks amid indications that the Russian military command may prioritize offensive operations against Kostyantynivka — the southernmost point of Ukraine's fortress belt in Donetsk Oblast — in Spring and Summer 2025. (1/3)

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

What a snowflake! www.npr.org/2025/02/01/n...

This is North Carolina folks! Bird flu in Asheville.

Disagreement with the Trump sentencing notwithstanding and the SC's immunity ruling, is there anyone who believes that that justice is equal for everyone? That's the problem.

Quote of the day, week, month, year and century. “This has been a very terrible experience. The fact is, I’m totally innocent.”

The United States will officially have a felon in the White House. Congratulations. Supreme Court Denies Trump’s Last-Ditch Effort to Avoid Sentencing www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/n...

He must be truly deranged. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Anyone going to DC because there has been an "It'll be wild" tweet from moron? Nah, me neither.