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Haleakala is truly one of the world’s most beautiful natural treasures. I was fortunate to have spent three days hiking and camping on the crater floor when I was a Boy Scout — an experience I will cherish forever.

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Zelenskyy: "It's not just that the war began somewhere between our countries. The war began when Russia brought this war to our country. They're not right. They didn't respect our territorial integrity. They brought the war to our families. Ukrainians want to hear a position of the US on our side"

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Beef tallow is loaded with saturated fat, and the attacks on vegetable oils have been debunked over and over A two-fer of cynical marketing & awful journalism that repays the trust of customers by increasing their risk of heart disease www.foxnews.com/video/636939...

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We’d probably save hundreds of millions of dollars if we stopped corporate welfare and made the billionaires pay taxes and make them give livable wages to their employees!!

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UN rejects US resolution that urges an end to the Ukraine war without noting Russian aggression. It was a setback for the Trump administration in the 193-member world body. apnews.com/article/un-r...

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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My friend and mentor Orville Schell puts very clearly what many people with experience in 20th century China are thinking: The parallels with the nihilism and chaos-for-its-own-sake of the Cultural Revolution years. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...

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Good for the AP apnews.com/article/ap-l...

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Right on, this is!

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Can’t wait for the new Daredevil series it looks sick

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This makes so much sense

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NEW: An alleged “straw" donor to NYC Mayor Eric Adams' campaign has ties to Uzbek energy tycoon Bakhtiyor Fazilov, who himself has had extensive dealings with powerful Russian interests, including Gazprombank, financial records show. www.icij.org/news/2025/02... via @icij.org

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Musk continues to not bat a thousand. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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Paul McCartney closing out SNL 50 with the Abbey Road medley live in NYC was pure magic. I feel so lucky to exist in a time where I get to hear him perform.

submitted 14 days ago • 236 comments

Patel advanced on party line vote. As expected Republicans ignored various revelations about Patel's foreign payments, role in FBI purge and apparent perjury. They haven't even asked him about that stuff.

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NEW: Trump’s foreign aid freeze and threatened demise of USAID triggers financial woes for investigative reporting groups across the globe, including ICIJ and especially those in countries with authoritarian regimes. www.icij.org/inside-icij/... via @icij.org

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New: Project 2025, which Russell Vought is the architect of, advocates for cutting NIH funding. But, it has been NIH-funded research that contributed to Vought’s own daughter having better treatment options for cystic fibrosis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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NEW: Timur Kulibayev, billionaire son-in-law of former Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, is reportedly in talks to pay about $1B to the state in connection with a government probe into how he acquired his wealth. #CaspianCabals www.icij.org/investigatio... via @icij.org

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Don't assume DOGE is trying to cut spending just because they say that's what they're doing. If that were their goal they would be identifying wasteful programs for Congress to whack at, not just thrash wildly and illegally at relatively cheap agencies. www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is...

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Courtesy of my friend Morten - @mortenc.bsky.social 😅😅😅

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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 22 days ago • 1492 comments

Like Tulsi Gabbard, this fox — Kash Patel — fed the Russian propaganda machine (for money) before a Trump nomination to run a national security hen house. An excellent scoop by @dfriedman.bsky.social and @davidcorn.bsky.social.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America

submitted 24 days ago • 371 comments

MIKE LUCKOVICH APPRECIATION POST @mluckovich.bsky.social is one of the greatest political cartoonists of all time. Thank you for 3 decades of scathing satire, remarkable insight and helping us all laugh to avoid weeping openly. 🙏 Your longtime fan, Mar🐫

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Klobuchar: What is the difference between Greenland and Donald Trump? Greenland is not for sale. boo Klobuchar: Ok. For any Republican Trump Administration person who wants to throw eggs at me because of that joke. You can’t because they’re too expensive.

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The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 25 days ago • 1015 comments

For the umpteenth time, he doesn’t let facts get in the way of a good story (though that assumes he knows the facts).

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Also, if you're NG or active duty, remember "just following orders" didn't work before and it won't work now. Trump may have been bestowed with full immunity for almost everything and the SCOTUS has his back for the rest, but you will not.

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NEW: Leaked documents suggest Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s companies failed to pay taxes on huge profits generated by offshore investments worth $6 billion, ICIJ media partners found. www.icij.org/investigatio... via @icij.org

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I’ve got to agree with the Wall Street Journal editorial board this time.

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You have to wonder if newly installed SecDef Pete Hegseth would authorize something like this today. Having to raise this question at all is very upsetting.

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I had a desk there for the Baltimore Sun, as did other regional newspapers like the Boston Globe & chains like Scripps Howard. A lower circulation paper could have been picked for this “rotation,” but of course the Trump-Hegseth regime instead kicks out the Times. This is not in the public interest.

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Why is the Swiss National Bank buying Truth Social shares?

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EXCLUSIVE | Children’s YouTube star Ms. Rachel was browsing TikTok when she came across a video from Gaza that broke her. It showed a young boy, likely no older than five, suffering from severe shock after a bombing. “The look in his eyes has stayed in my mind since I saw the video,” she said.

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NEW: In a rare move, a controversial $150M World Bank-funded conservation project in Tanzania has been cancelled amid widespread allegations of forced evictions, rapes and extrajudicial killings linked to the project. www.icij.org/article/150m... via @icij.org

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NEW: US Treasury Dept issues note clarifying that, despite a Supreme Court victory last week, another legal challenge continues to block law requiring corporate ownership disclosures. www.icij.org/investigatio... via @icij.org

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A new Oxfam study estimates that 54% of billionaire wealth is either inherited or stems from monopoly power. Trump wants to make tax breaks for wealthy heirs permanent and his FTC Chair has pledged to "end the war on mergers". It's clear who Trump really serves.

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While a combat veteran and experienced communicator, Hegseth is by far the least qualified SECDEF in the history of the office. He'll need the strongest supporting cast imaginable in the Pentagon. Deeply difficult times ahead for DOD youtu.be/zkNt-vIotWw?... via @YouTube

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ICYMI: Top U.K. political donors and a Scottish football star are among more than 500 secret shareholders of a Cayman Islands firm that owns the elite Scottish Loch Lomond Golf Club, leaked #ParadisePapers documents show. www.icij.org/investigatio...

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If Pete Hegseth looked drunk during his Senate hearings, it’s only because his lawyer told him to take the fifth.

submitted 37 days ago • 35 comments

"It's all good, man. Especially at this point in my life, when I'm the last one standing. I want that to be my epitaph: I loved it all. I loved it all." -- Sonny Rollins New interview. Amazing. May he go forever!

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#ICYMI: Billy Long, Trump’s nominee to lead the IRS, once pushed to abolish the agency. He has also marketed himself as a certified tax and business advisor after attending only a three-day seminar. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social and @amierjeski.bsky.social

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