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Man, people will soon be begging for the days when we had egg, food inspectors, and free transgender.

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If bizarre kitsch, affordable fun & ethnographic rollercoasters are your thing (as they are mine), then you should know about Global Village, #1 on my list of weirdly awesome attractions to see in Dubai. I revisited it tonight & thought I'd bring folks along for the ride: 🧵🎢🤓

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Regular reminder that Musk is really dumb.

submitted 286 days ago • 109 comments

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

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This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

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IN CHURCH MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM AT RETIREMENT PARTY Me: Did you see that pic of Jesus that looks like he got a DUI? Religious cousin: You can't say that in church. Me: It's a pic of white Jesus so it's fine, actually RC: Show me Me: shows RC: laughing Man, that's a guy named Brad or something

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I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

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By replacing a black 4-star general with a white 3-star general, we are finally bringing meritocracy back to the Department of Defense. by Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump

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A Brief History of Kids Today Have Too Much Freedom 🧵

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Elon Musk Sparks Communist Revolution Since Nobody Realized the Federal Government is the Only Employer in Rural Communities

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Doesn't know what AI is, doesn't know what duplicitous means, doesn't know what the CDC does.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 20 hours ago • 198 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1064 comments

Stealing our tax dollars and using it to pay for propaganda promoting Trump.

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

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WATCH: “You just said something that’s not true — that tens of millions of dead people are on that list… but the same report you cited said almost none of them have received Social security.” Trump’s Press Sec hides behind saying they “suspect” it, then runs away 🤔

submitted 18 hours ago • 356 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 1 day ago • 248 comments

which one of you snitched

submitted 21 hours ago • 18 comments

they are telling us they are intentionally burning the economy to the ground, never seen anything like it

submitted 21 hours ago • 103 comments

another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access

submitted 22 hours ago • 33 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 21 hours ago • 1937 comments

Everyone should refer to this as Trump's "Judge Dredd" executive order

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

It’s quite telling that Republicans keep sharing spaces with people who have very Nazi-like views

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when you've (already) lost Larry Kudlow ...

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This is how dictators talk.

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This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 23 hours ago • 522 comments

I have a lot of thoughts about the military but the fact that my mother, a retired veteran who served for 20+ years in the Air Force, has to know who Pete Hegseth is makes me incandescent

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

The Nazis who’ve been doing Nazi stuff for the last decade are indeed Nazis

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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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I think a big problem news orgs have with describing Nazi salutes is that it puts two conventions in conflict one: Nazis are Bad this is basically the only thing news orgs are allowed to describe as unequivocally Bad two: you are not allowed to describe either side as Good or Bad, just conflicted

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REPORTER: Voters say they are angry and frustrated by these firings. They don't like the work of Elon Musk. What do you say to them? TRUMP: Who do you work for? REPORTER: ABC News TRUMP: No wonder. I have the highest poll numbers I've ever had

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do we have a running tally of how many times the new york times has tried to pass off some trumpy knob as an objective independent voter in coverage?

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I was an RA at OU and most of our summer training was about recognizing trans/genderqueer residents, where they are coming from (including reading a lot of literature) and how to ensure they feel safe using the facilities they identified with. And that was 25 years ago

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How it started. How it’s going

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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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In this clip, the president is publicly threatening and trying to extort a sitting US Governor. The Governor, correctly, challenges the president’s claim of authority. The interaction serves as: - an example of egregiously overstepping federal executive authority. - how to respond to bullying.

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Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

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The media acting like Musk invented the Nazi salute and everyone else is just copying him is the weirdest form of Holocaust denial

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At the risk of pointing out the obvious, Zelensky is negotiating with a very big card: 3 years of thwarting Putin's attempted conquest, at an immense cost to Russia which they cannot sustain. We can be confident Trump gets, at some level, how big that card is, because he keeps trying to weaken it.

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TRUMP: You have a man who has let a country that had the more beautiful cities get demolished. The most beautiful domes. FOX: But that's Russia's fault, Mr President T: 1,000 year old domes. Everything is demolished. It's sorta like Gaza F: That's Putin's fault T: I get tired of listening to it

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ALEXANDER: Fraud is a crime. Have you turned over evidence of fraud to the Justice Department, and when should we expect to see those indictments? LEAVITT: It's a clever question

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Sorry you called the company what now?

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And this isn’t helped by Democrats like B Clinton and Obama who have reinforced conservative tropes about belt tightening and running the govt on a family budget.

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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