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Ukraine was warned it faced an imminent shutdown of Elon Musk’s vital Starlink satellite internet system unless it signed the extortion deal on rare earth minerals, Reuters reports.

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Lol Now that's a Gulf

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Since @DPRK_News isn't on BlueSky, thought I'd share this... 😏

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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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Analysis | On the surface, it seems racist for Donald Trump to replace the Black chairman of the joint chiefs of staff with a lower-ranking white general. But what if the lower-ranking white general was a member of Blacks for Trump?

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The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily kept on the job the head of the federal agency that protects government whistleblowers, in its first word on the many legal fights over President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda.

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Wow, another DEI hire who just has decades of experience and more medals than I can count. Good riddance! www.navy.mil/Leadership/F...

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The one really positive thing about Trump’s firing the CJCS and Musk and DOGE attacking the Pentagon is that it’s awesome for Canada and Greenland/Denmark

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White House Counselor Alina Habba: "Well, I think we're gonna be ending a lot of careers, if you ask me."

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Trump announces that “Razin” Caine is the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Central casting!

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Florida's new AG, James Uthmeier, is on Laura Ingraham's show announcing a new culture-warring lawsuit against Target for not being sufficiently transphobic

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Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, its recently departed director, Robert Santos, tells NPR. By @hansilowang.bsky.social

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The Trump DOJ is big mad about their finest legal minds being humiliated in court

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GOP, 2010: "It's un-American for Obama to have all these czars" GOP, 2025: "All hail President Krasnov"

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Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.

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Trump fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? I wonder what race he … come on, let me finish before you start laughing

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Trump has fired the chairman of the joint chiefs, Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., five months into a four year term, per WSJ. Brown was the first black officer to serve as chairman of the joint chiefs. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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Fresh out of prison after Trump’s pardon, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested today for assaulting a woman protesting his event.

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Raskin: "So who is leading DOGE? Is it the young man who calls himself Big Balls? Is it the racist on the night crew who's proud of the fact he was a racist before all of his friends were racist, and says we should legitimize Indian hate?"

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New on MSNBC: Enrique Tarrio, the ex-Proud Boys leader granted clemency by Trump last month, has been arrested outside the U.S. Capitol and charged with allegedly assaulting a female protester.

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Staci White said she voted for Trump because she wanted lower prices and to stop fentanyl from coming into the U.S. Now, she worries her partner will lose his government adjacent job, and staff are doing ICE drills at the dialysis unit where she works. https://on.wsj.com/3X6yiox

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Trump on Commerce Department taking over Postal Service: "We're thinking about doing that. It'll be a form of a merger."

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NEW: Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader granted clemency by President Trump, was arrested outside the U.S. Capitol and charged with allegedly assaulting a female protester. Trump previously cut short Tarrio's sentence for seditious conspiracy related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

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History rhymes encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

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The Maine Principal's Association said it would continue to allow trans girls to compete in school sports, saying President Trump's recent executive order is in conflict with state law.

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REPORTER: You are signing a memo later to counter digital service taxes TRUMP: What are you doing? Reading it? Can't you just say it without having to read it?

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It’s 2026, and the three highest grossing movies are about the dark side of egg smuggling.

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The rest of the room, almost all men and I assume elected officials, remained silent as Trump levied threats to state funding like a junior mob boss. Janet Mills, however, understands that if you let this shit pass without resistance, he'll come back for even more next time. He will never stop.

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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Neologism weekend!

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people used to throw these things at cars and houses

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A massive, self-inflicted wound on American higher education.

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Tom Krause is in charge of both a sensitive government payment system and a company that has millions of dollars’ worth of active contracts with various federal agencies through distribution partners, a WIRED review finds. Conflicts posed by this are unprecedented in the modern era, experts say.

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Breaking: The Supreme Court has — for now — prevented Trump from firing Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel. A hearing is scheduled for Feb. 26, and the court could act at a later stage.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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men who dressed like this from 2008 - 2012 had preppy menswear blogs

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President Trump's executive order that the federal government recognizes only two sexes, male and female, is disrupting the lives of some trans, nonbinary and intersex people applying for passports.

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Here’s why Tesla stock price is still high. It’s the magic of the market.

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“Shortly after Friday’s exchange, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it launched a Title IX violation investigation into Maine’s Department of Education and one of its school districts.”

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Did Musk’s or Bannon’s Hitlergrüẞ better reflect our traditions? Whose Sieg Heil did more to Make America Great Again? Ross Douthat and Josh Barro drop by to discuss.

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If you really wanted a Philosopher King, America, he was RIGHT THERE.

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The governor of Maine is a 77-year-old in the middle of her second term in office and therefore ineligible to run for a third. But King Trump here tries to intimidate her by saying she'll have no future career in politics if she dares to stand up to him. I think she's all good, man.

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Despite a very high-profile push to crack down on illegal immigration under President Trump, the pace of deportations is so far down sharply from last year. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Sleep tight!

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After a lifetime on the frontiers of the fight against HIV, researchers can finally see the end of the epidemic in sight. But thanks to the Trump administration’s executive orders, it’s unclear when—or possibly even ever—this breakthrough medicine will see the light of day.

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If this Republican congressman is, in fact, found guilty of assaulting a woman, he'll make a great addition to Trump's Cabinet.

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