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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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Consider this: The Senate has just voted to confirm Kash Patel as FBI Director in a narrow 51-47 majority. Trump nominee Chris Wray passed 92-5. Only Rand Paul voted against James Comey. Robert Mueller was confirmed 98-0. Patel is historically unqualified & we are not safe!

submitted 2 days ago • 138 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

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According to ProPublica, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since abortion bans were implemented, compared with maternal deaths in the state immediately before the pandemic.

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Here is the ad the Washington Post refused to run about Elon Musk this weekend. And here is the ad the Post was happy to run by a rightwing group funded by Musk that smeared me in October. I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and prodemocracy. Check it out. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 5 days ago • 318 comments

This is a marvelously simple message for the low information

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Via reddit:

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The quiet part news orgs have stopped short of speculating on but which all evidence suggests: Step 1) Let their janky-ass “ai” loose on the database to arbitrarily kick people off their benefits based on ignorance of the data. Step 2) Kick people off their benefits for general disloyalty.

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Understanding what the courts can do helps us understand what we must do. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-courts...

submitted 5 days ago • 225 comments

At some point we’re going to run out of planes in the sky.

submitted 5 days ago • 465 comments

Big Balls can't be expected to know all this stuff

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“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

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📌URGENT: The Associated Press is one of the foremost news operations in the world. Without it, most media entities could not survive. 📌Well, the AP has now been barred from the White House. I'd suggest very strongly that any media that gets its news from AP takes a damn stand here in solidarity.

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And as I write in my book “Jim crow in the asylum” those farms were mostly worked by Black patients for the benefit of hospital admin and white patients and were not therapeutic in any way.

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NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

submitted 8 days ago • 419 comments

In America today there is an effort to erase Black history. Revisionist history seeks to eliminate the murderous violence against our community and denigrate Black achievement. Our community is under attack. We need to defend our humanity!

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

A summary of Elon Musk and DOGE’s goals:

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

Shonda Rhimes resigns from Kennedy Center after Trump’s takeover of the performing arts institution

submitted 10 days ago • 98 comments

President Musk and VP Trump's war on USAID will lead to 1.3 million more abortions. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 44 comments

An expensive stunt that unnecessarily traumatizes people

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Casar trying to cut through one of the right's most potent arguments - you can't buy wealthy people, they're trustworthy bc they don't rely on a gov paycheck.

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🚨 SecDef Hegseth handed Putin a gift—blocking Ukraine from NATO and denying its right to reclaim land Putin illegally seized. This emboldens Russian aggression and puts American Troops at risk. Hegseth cheered the Iraq War, costing 3K+ American lives. Now he’s setting up another disaster.

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UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticizing the company

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SCOOP from @nbcnews.com — A senior FEMA official instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 11 days ago • 179 comments

Public health PSA frens as botulism can paralyze and kill you: Tuna Recall Hits Costco, Trader Joe's, and More Over Botulism Risk www.eatthis.com/tuna-recall-...

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

This.

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Happy Super Bowl!

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

submitted 14 days ago • 3188 comments

Who would have thought the fate of our 249 year-old Democracy would lie in the hands of a washed up reality star and a 19 year old?

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"Federal workers said they believed that Trump and Musk were trying deliberately not just to sever foreign aid and parts of the domestic social safety net, but also to create a climate in which the government itself fell apart." New from @samsteindc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-and-...

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My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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🚨 BREAKING SEPTA TRAIN GOES UP IN FLAMES A six-car train carrying roughly 350 people from Philadelphia to Wilmington caught fire Thursday night in Delaware County. The train was evacuated with no injuries. Service to Wilmington has been halted. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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👇👇

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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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