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Most unsettling thing about the Chair of the Joint Chiefs nominee—besides a political purge opening the spot—is not that he lacks the legal requirements. He’s not far off. It’s that Trump reportedly picked him because he said beating ISIS would be quick and easy. Feeds Trump’s delusions about force.

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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She is keeping her foot on the gas: “[Because Rubiales was acquitted on one of the counts,] Jenni Hermoso intends to appeal in World Cup kiss case - reports”

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U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said she's worried Acadia National Park won't be able to hire the seasonal employees required to keep the park running.

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RFK Jr. played Bill Cassidy like a fiddle. It hasn’t even been a week and he is already breaking his promises. After saying anything to senators to get confirmed, RFK Jr. is now showing his true colors as the anti-science, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist he always has been.

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Why is @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social on book tour instead of doing a fight back tour?

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Really enjoying the stories about congressmen getting yelled at about DOGE shit in their town halls. Not because I feel like it's necessarily going to move things in the right direction in the next election cycle or two, really. I just like stories about congressmen getting yelled at I think.

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The occasional #MurdochJournal editorial or NYPost front page disagreeing with Trump is a smokescreen. Murdoch is devoted to the crowning of Trump as the dictator-king he created. This does not echo the Founders. It shouts fascism. #FührerFluffing

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

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Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

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oh boy -- Rich McCormick bailed on CNN after his ill-fated town hall

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Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

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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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This is how it’s done.

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Very tempted to start reading the nonsensical emails Dick Durbin sent me about the hallowed importance of the Senate Parliamentarian a couple years back into every one of his voicemail boxes while I film myself making continuous jack off gestures.

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Day by day it looks more and more likely that we might be able to reverse tea-party these fuckers. people are getting angry.

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I need Francis to rally because I simply do not have the bandwidth to be emotionally available to a new pope right now, no matter HOW good “Conclave” was he has fewer terrible opinions than anyone else who has ever sat in that chair, we CANNOT break in a new guy with this much shit going on

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I need to order a new hockey jersey…

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Heard a song from the 80s reference a "long distance call" and it occurred to me that this is a concept that no longer holds any emotional currency whatsoever

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‘Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests’ a comprehensive 43 page tool kit that instructs how communities can resist ICE and other government agencies

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I understand the uses to which this sort of thing can be put but any time somebody is like oh yeah, popcoin is worth lumptysquillion dollars a part of me just goes yeah, sure it is. go buy groceries and a birthday present for a third-grader with it. I'll watch

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Have spent the last week haunted by this unhinged Patricia Arquette line delivery in episode 7 of Severance [complimentary]

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Harry Enten: “I honestly never thought I’d see the day in which Donald Trump would be polling so poor on the economy, but that day is here.”

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A friend asked for Cornell related travel recos and I had to recommend the Sagan planet walk. It's a scale model of the solar system in Ithaca NY with Pluto 1.2 km from the sun. Then in 2012, they added Alpha Centauri, to scale. It is in Hawaii! That's how huge space is!

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Okay so you know I like to remind everyone how the American immigration system has been cruel for a very long time. But loading people on flights to deport them to countries that they are not from, like Iranians to Panama, is not business as usual.

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Jasmine Crockett is shredding this solo. But it’s past time for the rhythm section to enter this song already.

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In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

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Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

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Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.

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Happy Black History Month

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