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YESTERDAY: "There is no substitute for Starlink." --Elon Musk, bragging about how dependent Ukraine is on his product. TODAY: "We are shipping 40,000 units to Ukraine to replace Starlink." --Eutelsat, a French satellite company.

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See the diff?

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NEW: A federal judge ruled Monday that President Trump's pardon does NOT apply to a Jan. 6 defedant's conviction for conspiring to kill his investigators. But he said DOJ's shifing views of Trump's pardon required him to do his own analysis. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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Dropkick Murphys just had an epic moment at their show: They made a friendly wager with a fan in a MAGA shirt—“Let’s see where it’s made.” Then they checked his MAGA shirt tag… Made in Nicaragua. They swapped it with a Made in America Dropkick Murphys tee. Legendary.

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s negotiation strategy in Afghanistan resulted in a “capitulation” to the Taliban and abandoning U.S. allies. Experts see strong parallels to how he’s dealing with Russia today, writes Andrea Januta.

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When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.

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Unreal.

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On Thursday, Trump and Musk tried to fire 300 government nuclear officials. Today, they realized those officials oversee the US nuclear arsenal — and they scurried to rehire the officials.

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Just looking at the events of this one day compels the conclusion that the United States Government is being run by morons, psychos, invertebrates, and crooks.

submitted 27 days ago • 976 comments

SCOOP: Naval Academy leaders sent an email to faculty this week that teaching about “divisive concepts” such as systemic racism + sexism is no longer permitted. Faculty also can’t talk about environmental justice or gender ideology. Our exclusive: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

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The veneration of white men to the exclusion of every other American has an historical parallel, I’m sure. I just can’t think of what it is…

submitted 27 days ago • 87 comments

Why is this dimwitted drunk sex pest I hired for a key position making mistakes

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The measles outbreak in Texas has doubled to 48 cases. "All of the cases are in unvaccinated people or those who have unknown vaccination status. Most cases are in children 5 to 17 years old. Among the 48 cases, 13 have been hospitalized."

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The Face of Courage open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social

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It's very peculiar that trump says he wants to root out corruption, but his Department of Justice is determined to get the corruption charges against corrupt Mayor Eric Adams dropped, so he can corruptly pursue a quid pro quo wit Adams. The whole deal is corrupt AF.

submitted 27 days ago • 334 comments

Trump just issued an executive order defunding public schools that accommodate transgender students. Teachers will be banned from referring to a transgender student by their desired name or pronouns. If they do not comply, their budgets can be defunded.

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We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.

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When the Nazis first came to power, within a few months, they raided the Institute for Sexuality which did the first studies of trans people. The books they seized were burned here, including a copy of Heinrich Heines poem that said, "where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people too."

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"I was a heroin addict for 14 years," RFK Jr just now in his bid to be confirmed as Secretary of HHS. Imagine a person of color or a woman saying that and people shrugging it off as cool. That is 100% pure uncut white male privilege right there.

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Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) just now: “You could literally walk down the street and the first 100 people you’d find would be less dangerous as the head of HHS than Robert F Kennedy Jr. He will get people killed”

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Medicaid didn't go offline because it was too "woke." School lunch programs weren't put at risk because of immigrants. Funding for cancer research wasn't on the chopping block because of trans people. All of this (and more) was jeopardized because of one person: Donald Trump.

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"If it feels like an insurmountable amount of garbage is being dumped on us, that's by design. It’s creating such an avalanche of disappointment that we're left feeling disheartened, disillusioned, and discouraged. He wants us to become so numb to injustice that it becomes our new normal."

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Memo suspending programs like SNAP: “The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism & green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve” www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

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People who think removing DEI in universities leads to meritocracies, are too stupid to get into universities on the merits.

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An important lesson from Nazi Germany: Dumb people are more dangerous than evil people. Ignorance will destroy America like it destroyed Germany during the Nazi era. badchoicesmakegoodstories.substack.com/p/an-importa... #Trump #Fascism #History #USnews #USpolitics #News #Politics

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The goal is to physically, mentally and morally exhaust you, so they can #startthesteal while everyone cowers or checks out. Don’t let them have their way.

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After Trump ordered the US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, Bloomberg Philanthropies and other U.S. climate funders announced that they will “ensure the United States meets its global climate obligations.” www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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Hi @nytimes.com can you guess the meaning of the hand gesture I am making right now

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Trump just removed the US from the World Health Organization while we’re seeing increased concern over bird flu. Congratulations America! You elected an absolute moron.

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Protestors in Panama burn the US flag, vowing to defend against any Trump led invasion.

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The people lecturing us on “DEI” and “meritocracy” are a Fox host being nominated to run the world’s most powerful military and a failed businessman with 6 bankruptcies who is going to run the world’s largest economy.

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The party that tells young people not to bother with college, bans books, and wants to disband the Department of Eduction is currently annoyed that American workers aren't educated enough for skilled jobs.

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Just so we’re clear what just happened: Republicans tore apart their funding agreement with Democrats after Elon Musk told them to. They created a new bill that defunded child cancer research. And then they failed to pass that bill too.

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i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

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I knew it was going to be a shit show. But I didn’t expect it to be a shit show a month before he even takes office.

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Jeffries: This reckless republican-driven shutdown can be avoided if House Republicans will simply do what is right for the American people and stick with the bipartisan agreement that they themselves negotiated.

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The polio vaccine worked so well, humans forgot polio existed — and somehow that’s the problem.

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Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago 🧪 #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 89 days ago • 232 comments

Found this and posting it here for posterity. All promises the orange one made. All promises I expect him to not keep.

submitted 89 days ago • 55 comments

Pretty damn spot-on, don’t you think?

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Please consider a gift to this fund for our "bonus kid," Alexa Van Enkevort. She's been part of our family since she was in 2nd grade with Travis and they've been best friends all these years. Please share with others to get the word out in Moscow where lots of people know and love her.

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NEW: The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Cantor Fitzgerald, run by chairman and CEO, Howard Lutnick, Trump's nominee to lead the Commerce Department, with breaking securities laws, per CNBC.

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NJ passes a law preventing cranky fucknuts from going apeshit on school libraries and librarians. www.nj.com/politics/202...

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Trump reiterated this morning on Meet the Press that he intends to end birthright citizenship. When told the 14th Amendment says all persons born in the US are citizens, he said, “Well, we’re going to have it changed. We have to end it.”

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Massive away win for the little fella.

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