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The White House has kept the wire service from covering key events because it refuses to call the body of water between Mexico and Florida the Gulf of America, as the Trump administration prefers.

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WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1008 comments

OREGON: “The house & senate are totally abdicating their responsibilities.” @RepBentz (R) is the latest Republican to get confronted by constituents at a town hall. (Tennessee folks— town halls are these things where senators/reps show up and you can talk to them in person)

submitted 17 hours ago • 134 comments

NEW: The Supreme Court’s first action of the Trump 2.0 era was a punt — preventing Trump from firing a top ethics official for a few more days while proceedings play out in a lower court. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 19 hours ago • 21 comments

Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui giving the Nazi Salute at #CPAC

submitted 10 hours ago • 139 comments

This is really something

submitted 1 day ago • 1774 comments

WATCH: “When will you stand up to them and say that is enough?” WISCONSIN Republicans Grothman & Fitzgerald run into tough town hall crowds also 👇🏽👀

submitted 16 hours ago • 325 comments

BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

submitted 1 day ago • 2542 comments

Dear @cnn.com, The judge did not “vacate” the trial. He adjourned it. Then he appointed an amicus curiae to argue against dismissing the charges. Who writes your headlines?

submitted 1 day ago • 1039 comments

listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

submitted 1 day ago • 2938 comments

Today's front page of The New York Post.

submitted 1 day ago • 717 comments

Trump is trying to rewrite history by claiming that Russia did not start its brutal war with Ukraine. Why? To open up business opportunities in Russia for his family and friends. Trump is blatantly lying to the world to line his own pockets. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Everyone needs to see this. Be ready to deny access, even if you don't know any immigrants. Let them waste time and you might save a family somewhere else. #Disobey #blue #fotus #FBR #immigrants #TruthWarriors #theresistance #resist #FBPE #FuckICE #SaveOurDemocracy #sanctuary #organize #fucktrump

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

Palestinian group Hamas said the remains of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas appear to have been mixed with other human remains from the rubble after an Israeli air strike hit the place she was held in reut.rs/41soWX3

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NEW: The Justice Department now says Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters covers unrelated gun charges some faced after the FBI searched their homes. It’s moving to drop felony charges against Daniel Ball and Elias Costianes. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 1 day ago • 117 comments

🇨🇳❗️"China supports all efforts aimed at achieving peace in Ukraine, including the recent consensus reached between the United States and Russia," the Chinese Foreign Minister said at the G20 meeting in South Africa.

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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 2 days ago • 578 comments

WATCH: “What are you going to do to rein in the megalomaniac in the White House?” An @reprichmccormick town hall in a red GEORGIA district erupts in cheers - then boos loudly as he tries to invoke Biden and both-sides Trump’s actions. Full video: www.instagram.com/reel/DGUf45s...

submitted 1 day ago • 146 comments

This is not how federal criminal investigations work. —me (former federal criminal investigator)

submitted 2 days ago • 882 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 852 comments

When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

submitted 2 days ago • 1017 comments

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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BREAKING: Massive protest rallies are happening today across the country, blasting DOGE and the guy that nobody voted for. There will even be a protest at SpaceX headquarters. SPREAD THE WORD. 🙏💪

submitted 3 days ago • 399 comments

BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

submitted 3 days ago • 531 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 921 comments

Dmitry Medvedev, the former President of Russia and the Deputy Chair of the Security Council, on President Trump’s post about Ukraine and Zelenskyy this morning.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

A senior prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., resigned on Tuesday, citing an improper demand by Trump administration officials to freeze assets and launch a criminal investigation.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

The math questions behind DOGE's $55 billion savings claim: The Elon Musk-led DOGE's latest update on an accounting of its cost-cutting measures to date raises more questions than answers: It didn't take long before at least one major error was identified in its receipts. Why it matters: There is…

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the original American patriots fought a fucking Revolutionary War to liberate ourselves from the rule of a king. This ain't the flex he thinks it is.

submitted 3 days ago • 715 comments

Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless. /1

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments

This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

submitted 3 days ago • 503 comments

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

submitted 3 days ago • 4827 comments

MTA to Feds: Drop dead

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

DOGE is arguing in court that Trump is calling all the shots and Musk isn't the DOGE administrator. Trump here admits he's not calling the shots. So if he's not, and Musk isn't, then who is the DOGE administrator? @normeisen.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 309 comments

'Horrific!' Ex-Russia ambassador melts down on live TV over Trump's 'catastrophic moment': Former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michale McFaul went on a torrid rant on Wednesday morning to Donald Trump's comments about the Ukraine war, as well as Secretary of State Marco Rubio seemingly changing…

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Stephen Miller went on CNN and was so transparently full of shit that he ended up lashing out at the host

submitted 4 days ago • 1522 comments

Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin."

submitted 4 days ago • 1093 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 4 days ago • 628 comments

Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.

submitted 4 days ago • 1418 comments

11 year old Jocelynn Rojo Carranza of Gainesville, Texas, took her own life after classmates bullied her into thinking ICE was being called on her family. I hope and pray that the parents of her bullies burn in hell for raising such God awful “children.”

submitted 3 days ago • 406 comments

The DOGE guys didn’t just make one $8B mistake in their savings list — “they are getting it wrong with alarming consistency” They don’t seem to understand how these things are calculated. 🧵: x.com/electricfutu...

submitted 3 days ago • 331 comments

In South Carolina, tonight: “I have an ectopic pregnancy. It’s on my ovary. They’re making me risk my ovary even though I don’t want to. They refuse to do the surgery.” #ForcedBirthNation Original Post: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2yCKENt/

submitted 3 days ago • 1196 comments

🇺🇦👀 "Yesterday there were already signals that Russia is a victim. This is something new…" - Zelensky 🇺🇸 "The US gave us about $67 billion in weapons and $31 billion in programs for the budget. It definitely didn't cost $500 billion, this is not a serious conversation."

submitted 3 days ago • 131 comments

I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

submitted 3 days ago • 738 comments

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

submitted 3 days ago • 2409 comments