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“Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.” - Fran Lebowitz

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So many excellent points in this column by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The USDA has withdrawn a plan to impose stronger safety regulations limiting salmonella levels in raw poultry. Who was the biggest donor to Trump's inauguration fund? Pilgrim’s Pride — one of the largest chicken processors in the country. See how this works?

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Even established authoritarian regimes consider arresting defiant judges an extreme tactic—a serious escalation usually reserved for after one-party rule is firmly entrenched. Seeing a judge arrested in the US today should alarm everyone who values democratic governance. This cannot be allowed. 🧵

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🚨 BREAKING: Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth bypassed Pentagon security to install a “dirty” internet line in his office—just to use Signal on a personal laptop. It’s a reckless, blatant national security risk. Time to fire this amateur drunk before he does real damage.

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The Prosecco Stormfront moniker has always been the best description of the UK TERF movement, both on Mumsnet and off of it.

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Is Trump getting his financial advice from Liz Truss?

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it's genuinely insane how every one of the three major british political parties is chasing the same 25% of the population that is insane mouth-frothing fascist lunatics as opposed to basically everyone else

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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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This Nazi idiot can't even keep her purse safe. Our national security is a joke to these thugs. Noem walking around with $3K in her purse, like a botoxed pimp.

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This is a guy who wrote "so amazing!" in the guestbook at the Holocaust Museum.

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Hegseth should never have got within a million miles of running the Pentagon. He was inexperienced, unqualified & an extremist. His implosion is unsurprising. I have no expectation that his successor will be any better.

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Not a museum, but I was going to suggest the NASA library in its headquarters, which we accidentally stumbled into last year with the family and the librarians were incredible and chatty and gave us souvenirs... but... I just looked and they've all been laid off and the library closed.

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Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left. YALL, THE TITLE!!

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This is literally a quote from the satirical comic strip "The Wizard of Id," which focused on a "tyrannical, dwarfish monarch...ruling a rundown and oppressed shabby kingdom." economicsociology.org/2015/08/28/r...

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I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

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40 minutes. Quite possibly longest ceasefire in modern Russian history

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As far as I can tell the US hasn't been negotiating at all .. it's attempted to bully & coerce Ukraine into a capitulation .... it's insulted & slandered its allies in Europe & the Americas .. frankly the world wld be a better place without the US at all..

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Congratulations, American Christians Your God's decaying corpse has succesfully been fed to your politics

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I'd not heard this before. Billy Eilish singing "Fever", absolutely sublime. Thanks to @tanitatikaram.bsky.social for the introduction. 🙏 youtu.be/7U0Uu1CZ1uQ?...

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Tell me again how Musk is a business genius www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Just read this whole article. The scale of the scandal is staggering. Please read.

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There is nothing about this current administration that makes any sense outside of the lens of racist religious nationalism. This is all about mediocre white extremists burning down the house so they can dance about the flames. If some of their own burn up as a result, well, there's a heaven, right

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Nigel Farage has told ITV News the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK. THIS IS WHY youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...

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‘War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.’ George Orwell, ‘1984’

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The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.

submitted 11 days ago • 63 comments

I know this isn't the biggest point, but note the complete absence of criticism for Bukele wearing a black sweater, instead of a shirt and tie. It seems if you are "the world's coolest dictator" and willing to become a US prison annex, turning up looking like a pimp in an off-Broadway musical is ok.

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Obviously no real problem at all as the Govt has sorted it, right? (This is sarcasm, in case of doubt.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

submitted 11 days ago • 990 comments

I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period

submitted 11 days ago • 2118 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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Another gift to Russia

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Every photograph of Elon Musk looks like you'd approach him with a knife, go to cut in to his face, everyone would go "OMG!" and then he would turn out to be cake.

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This is a really good point. #resist

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They don’t care. They don’t care that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring an innocent man home to his family. They don’t care. They think it’s funny.

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In Hitler's last will and testament, dictating hours before he committed suicide, 80 years ago in April 1945, he insisted that no one had wanted war in 1939. It had been forced on him by 'international Jewry and its helpers.'

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Vance and the US trying to peel the UK away from the EU. The US wants a vassal state, until they change their mind and stab us in the back. Labour must tell them to stick their trade deal and rejoin the EU. You can't trust the US. #Rejoin

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