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“There is no God but God, Muhammad is his messenger,” the paramedic is heard saying. He asks God for forgiveness and says he knows he is going to die. “Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose — to help people,” he said. “Allahu akbar,” God is great, he says. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

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jesus i see what you have done for others and i want that for me

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Essential reporting by my colleagues. Subscribe to Rolling Stone, www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “These are going to be huge losses to the research community.”

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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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RFK Jr.'s HHS cuts include the entire LIHEAP team. Read that again. The entire team. This leaves no federal staff to help the more than 5 million households that rely on affordable heating and cooling. Without staff, the program is at risk of grindingto a halt.

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It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

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Quite moving hearing Booker just now saying why he started this and referring to his constituents asking him to do more, do things differently, to take risks, and then referencing John Lewis. Sounds like he took the advocacy to heart.

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IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON STROM THURMOND'S GRAVE, STAY IN LINE

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Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

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I’d just like to say, “Fuck you, Strom Thurmond.”

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yeah, that's the thing. the universities 'surrendering' to Trump want, at their highest levels, anyone sympathetic with Palestinians machine-gunned in the street, and are practically gleeful that they have a President giving them an excuse.

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The founders warned that if this happened the Republic would fall. You can't save a country from itself if it's determined to fall

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Ahh lol

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People tend to forget that South Africa apartheidism didn't collapse just because Mandela and the ANC were nice or whatever but also because South Africa by the 1980s was an ever increasingly erratic garrison state bogged down in Angola Botswana and Zambia and blew up its own social cohesion

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the one downside of this app is that i can’t wave trump’s union busting executive order in the faces of every credulous dipshit who insisted that the GOP was a worker’s party now

submitted 7 days ago • 110 comments

all these radical leftists out here like "feed the hungry" and "house the homeless" and "stop bombing children" like grow up the adults are trying to deal with a danged cheeto rn go back to the kids table fingernail emoji cup of tea emoji

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The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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if the government is willing to disappear immigrants for their writing, they’re willing to do the same to citizens.

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Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.

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One thing that is fairly clear at this point is that the entire point of whisking people out of the country with no due process in defiance of a judge's orders to put them into a foreign gulag was so they could produce fascist content.

submitted 8 days ago • 462 comments

What on earth do people hope to accomplish by saying "Efforts to hold Trump, Musk, etc. to account via the courts and to ensure that their actions are properly determined to be illegal are pointless, even when they get results. Instead, you should be doing what I'm doing, which is nothing"

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thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

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It's always a good day to remember that literally every Confederate general was literally a traitor.

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I _think_ this portion of the “restoring history” EO is meant to compel restoration of Confederate monuments. Aside from this being mere guidance, though, I see a snag: how does it “perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history” to remove shrines to people who rebelled against us?

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lol, lmfao

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I’ve seen even folks on this site scolding Canadians for “overreacting” which I think misreads the power dynamic quite a bit. America is the biggest military power to have ever existed and I don’t think people understand what it’s like to contemplate being on the other end of that

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Trump is now arresting Putin's opponents in the U.S. and sending them back to Russia so Putin can imprison or kill them.

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You can’t say he doesn’t rep the White House’s point of view? Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight to End Apartheid talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...

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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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hey can anyone tell me if it’s a good thing when you can get kidnapped and disappeared by plainclothes thugs for protesting a genocide. Is that fighting antisemitism

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liberal american jews getting swept away in the moral panic about campus antisemitism and purported terror ties really need to hear this because the admin is setting us up as the fall guys for their agenda and y'all are walking us right into it

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it's so cool how nazis are going to raze an ivy league school and turn it into a snowflake safe space camp for chud student athletes like they did ito third rate florida schools and its own trustees don't even care because the new york times convinced them the students were baader meinhoff

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So dangerous - "an extraordinary threat to fundamental constitutional rights of due process and legal representation" If you cannot get effective legal representation when you challenge the government, you don't enjoy the full protection of the law www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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After being handcuffed and beaten all night, Hamdan Ballal is free and about to go home to his family, says co-director Yuval Abraham:

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SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...

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because every single person in that chat faced a questionnaire which included the question "are you willing to help the president do crimes," disguised as questions about january 6th, and answered in the affirmative

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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Me in the National Security team group chat

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The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

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i am a professional politics knower and without passing judgment on today’s little argument i will say that i agree with this. no one is entitled to a seat and if someone feels they could better represent the area they should go for it.

submitted 11 days ago • 120 comments

Circling back on this…

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Zero harm and ample upside in Democrats calling for impeachments and a special prosecutor. The VP, the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury, the DNI, and the NSC were all involved in the grossly negligent disclosure of specifics on combat operations.

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