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going to start saying "bring me the poison" at kickbacks when i want another beer

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The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

submitted 17 hours ago • 134 comments

Going strictly off of detective movies, the first thing the agents said to him when they got him in the squad car was “sorry to get rough on you back there. Had to make it look real.”

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UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

submitted 19 hours ago • 216 comments

“None of this fancy-dancy modern stuff neither. Just one cobblestone road with everything you need. But still top-secret, sure. Late for lunch at Raytheon? Wanna war bond from one of them little Gringots fellers? By all means — just gotta run through a wall first.”

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we are a few DOGE cuts and geometrically-challenged lawmakers away from running our military out of Diagon Alley.

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I would never have entered the Polk Awards in 2019 were it not for Susan Carroll insisting on it and no one was happier than she when I won. I’m so proud of her for this win and of @mikehixenbaugh.com & colleagues’ great work honoring her. I wish she was here to celebrate what she always deserved. 💔

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🚨 SCOOP 🚨 The acting Social Security commissioner has left the agency after a clash over providing DOGE access to sensitive data It follows our reporting that DOGE is seeking access to personal financial data at the IRS for every taxpayer, business and nonprofit.

submitted 5 days ago • 123 comments

A fun thing to do with this supposed Napoleon quote is to do a google search to see what forums it appeared on with this exact wording before 2022. I'm no computer whiz, so maybe I messed up, but the only hits I got were these two...for Stormfront, a neo-Nazi forum.

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Flashback to simpler times

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New CDC data shows maternal deaths drop, except for Black women, who still die at three times the rate of any other race or ethnicity, with no improvement in 2023. www.axios.com/2025/02/06/b...

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Vance went on record in 2022 that they should ignore the Supreme Court.

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Vance went on record in 2022 that they should ignore the Supreme Court.

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When cities clear homeless encampments, workers often take people’s belongings — including important documents, survival gear and irreplaceable mementos. Over and over, people across the U.S. told ProPublica they were devastated by such losses: https://propub.li/3WScD3g

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I'm truly a nobody and I quit twitter because I got on their radar and bombarded with threats. Face photoshopped onto Auschwitz memes. People doxxing where I live, contact info for employers. Saying they'd get me at certain events. It's why I still don't post in advance about events I'm attending.

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A second minister has accused influential Texas megachurch pastor TD Jakes of sexual misconduct, claiming Jakes recently climbed into his bed while they on a church retreat, tried to kiss him and pressed his genitals against him.

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A person with direct knowledge confirmed with me that Marko Elez requested that the Wayback Machine remove all of his past tweets. A Internet Archives rep said this is their longstanding policy — that rights holders can request URLs to be excluded — but wouldn't comment on any specific case.

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And just like that, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau homepage, consumerfinance.gov, is being erased. As of January 30, 2025, CFPB enforcement actions resulted in $19.7 billion in consumer relief.

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Pritzker just announced they’re renaming Lake Michigan to Lake Illinois because “a Great Lake deserves to be named after a great state.” This man has the juice. And he’s using it to down a double dog from Weiners Circle.

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In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."

submitted 15 days ago • 178 comments

oh snap krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen... cyberscoop.com/the-com-764-...

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One of Musk’s DOGE employees was apparently a user on KiwiFarms, a hate website that existed almost solely to bully/harass minorities into suicide. Think of the worst person on 4Chan, working with 16K other equally awful people to ruin lives. That’s who’s in charge. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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NEW: A Houston man and Jan. 6 defendant has been arrested for a child sex crime -- two weeks after he was pardoned by Trump and released from a six-year prison stint for assaulting police with bear spray and a metal whip.

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A second minister has accused influential Texas megachurch pastor TD Jakes of sexual misconduct, claiming Jakes recently climbed into his bed while they on a church retreat, tried to kiss him and pressed his genitals against him.

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So much attention has been paid to Elon's college-age DOGE bros. But @propublica.org's roundup of 20+ members of Musk's demolition crew shows that it's largely comprised of alleged adults, including Katie Miller (wife of Trump whisperer Stephen Miller) projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

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NEW: A Houston man and Jan. 6 defendant has been arrested for a child sex crime -- two weeks after he was pardoned by Trump and released from a six-year prison stint for assaulting police with bear spray and a metal whip.

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I'm hearing a lot from the media NGO sector about the impact of USAID cuts. A lot of small investigative media organisations across the globe are facing imminent closure as the funding they've budget for has vanished overnight, and the funder community has no capacity to absorb the shock.

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Just Andrew Torba, Gab founder and co-author of a prominent pro-Christian nationalism book, retweeting grotesque racism and antisemitism.

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this appears to be based entirely on subscriptions for Politico Pro that many govt agencies pay for. but it doesn't matter, this is now fact for roughly half the country for eternity and will be used to do whatever they want.

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Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

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New Christian nationalism data just dropped: -Two-thirds of adherents say Trump's win was God-ordained -70% think the US is too soft/feminine -58% think immigrants are poisoning the nation's blood -Half believe in QAnon -40% are ok with political violence "to save the country"

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NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination. “We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”

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New Christian nationalism data just dropped: -Two-thirds of adherents say Trump's win was God-ordained -70% think the US is too soft/feminine -58% think immigrants are poisoning the nation's blood -Half believe in QAnon -40% are ok with political violence "to save the country"

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Stew Peters, whose show Kash Patel appeared on 8 times, grumbled about wanting to sue people for calling him a "white supremacist." He then called for a "solution" to the "Jewish problem" and interviewed David Duke. angrywhitemen.org/2025/02/03/s...

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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

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This was /pol/ and /r9k/ back in the day. Only difference is Twitter is exponentially larger.

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Twitter is a fun place in that you can watch in real-time as someone gets red pilled into a lifetime of anger and sadness

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

anybody who is interested in education, race, culture wars, and/or Texas -- check this out. Podcast was amazing and this looks even better

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Message to the whole #FBI workforce from Acting Director Brian Driscoll:

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• Sen. Grassley: "Did you ever promote QAnon?" • Kash Patel: "No, senator." • WIRED: "Here are all the times Kash Patel promoted QAnon" www.wired.com/story/kash-p...

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