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This crisis in Iran is entirely because of Trump's shitty leadership. They stopped installing centrifuges until Trump ripped up the deal Iran made with President Obama—simply out of spite. Now he's barreling toward another poorly planned conflict in the Middle East. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

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My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

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"'This has been a bad week for the Army for anyone who cares about us being a neutral institution,' one commander at Fort Bragg told Military.com on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. 'This was shameful.'" t.co/6Es6CKnV92

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chemical warfare

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#Maddow Science Break

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Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

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EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN SHOULD WATCH THIS CLIP. Scot Galloway is not everyone’s cup of tea, but he absolutely nails EXACTLY what’s wrong with America in this moment.

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“I think his legacy is not going to be an EV or putting rockets into space. I think it’s going to be unnecessary death, disease & disability. That's not what it means to be an innovator, that's not what it means to be an American, that's not what it means to be a man" ~Scott Galloway #ElonMusk

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Bernie: "What that is all about is that if you're rich in America, you can make campaign contributions, you are entitled to massive tax breaks because you're superhuman beings. But if you're a poor working stiff, working at McDonald's, struggling to put food on the table, you're entitled to nothing"

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San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

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People so often overlook the importance of good penmanship.

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This part

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More of this, please.

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🐔🇺🇸

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It makes me feel sick knowing so many Americans believe him

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Did you all see this? The Federal Government said it will reimburse the tariff it extracted. Where are the deficit chicken hawks? Why didn’t the republicans stop this illegal tax on non-rich Americans in the first place? As clear as day, republicans are cowards. youtu.be/2vyjddkGHMc

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True!

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In other words, he promised repeatedly during the campaign he had a secret plan to end the war in 24 hours and he was just bullshitting everyone because he doesn’t have the first clue what to do, he gave away all negotiating leverage months ago, and his special envoy is a dope.

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It is really hard to get anything past Detective Columbo.

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I believe in science

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Official Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be ‘Used Against’ Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

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Perfectly stated.

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"I am getting very sick & tired of having to go onto news programs because journalists aren't allowed in to point out what is happening here... this is a televised slaughter. History will not judge us kindly." I spoke today to Dr Tom Potokar, UK surgeon in Gaza: Full intv: zeteo.com/p/televised-...

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Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star. PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇

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