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What a wise King! 👑💕

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“In interviews and depositions, Ms. Giuffre said she was recruited to the sex ring in 2000 while working as a locker room attendant in President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. “ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

If you think fertilized eggs have rights but 2-year-old US citizens with cancer don’t, stop pretending your concerns are “the children.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 90 comments

america rn

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Lions drafted a guy called TeSlaa and hoo boy, there has rarely been a worse time to have that name in Detroit

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

Our coalition has expanded, and a lot has been happening. A friendly reminder to all: the first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.

submitted 18 hours ago • 209 comments

No song for this shit show.

submitted 1 day ago • 309 comments

Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3519 comments

You have been watching the greatest economic disaster strategy from an American President in history.

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Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.

submitted 2 days ago • 365 comments

Rockalina was an adult eastern box turtle living in the wild when she was taken into a New York home in 1977. When a reptile rehabilitation center got a hold of her this February, they worried for her survival.

submitted 2 days ago • 100 comments

My latest: How MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com is Fixing a 2024 Dem Problem– And Why Legacy Media Isn’t Cheering. A few months ago, Joe Rogan and his podcast audience numbers were thought to be untouchable.

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

has anyone studied this

submitted 2 days ago • 198 comments

The same shit, different assholes

submitted 3 days ago • 342 comments

Xi has him by the nuts.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Trump's EOs make clear that the Trump Administration really does want to be in the business of education after all. They just want to pick and choose who they help & hurt instead of building on 6 decades of bipartisan efforts to improve public ed. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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The EPA is firing employees focused on children’s health simply because their job descriptions include DEI. These 10 regional children’s health coordinators have worked closely with schools and local institutions to prevent and address environmental hazards that put kids at risk.

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

submitted 2 days ago • 926 comments

Y’all, I think I found that welfare state the right wingers keep crying about

submitted 3 days ago • 438 comments

Never.

submitted 3 days ago • 1274 comments

Showing up to Biden and Kamala's rallies to be disruptive and disrespectful... Forming tent cities on college campuses to talk shit about Biden/ Kamala... Voting 3rd party or uncommitted...or even for Trump to hurt Kamala... And this is your reward. Enjoy what you voted for. 🤷🏾‍♀️

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Not for nothing but ‘Genocide Joe’ wouldn’t have deported you for protesting, even when the person being protested was him.

submitted 4 days ago • 119 comments

The line I keep hearing over and over: I voted for Trump because I figured he wouldn’t do _____. Kill me

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Look, the numbers are bad for Tesla, but I think with some hard work and dedication, we can make them worse

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

submitted 2 days ago • 1614 comments

Bob Menendez and his wife, Nadine, have both been found guilty - and not just by the fashion police. They were convicted of bribery, extortion, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and acting as foreign agents.

submitted 3 days ago • 648 comments

🧐

submitted 4 days ago • 101 comments

here's today's post: "Pete Kegstand and the Ketamine Kid teach a master class in fucking up" — weird how nothing is ever their fault. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

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i think it is bad that among the most influential people in government are the monomaniacal adherents of a millenarian tech cult

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

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Trump proposed 7-point peace plan clearly written by the Kremlin to be presented by the Trump led US. Ukraine and Europe have rejected it due to how stupid it is. The US is expected to remove itself from negotiations after another spectacular failure on the world stage.

submitted 3 days ago • 163 comments

"Milk safety” shouldn’t be a nostalgic phrase. But the FDA just paused the program that keeps dairy testing consistent and reliable in the U.S. and most people don’t even know it happened or how it could affect them. open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj...

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

They scream about Socialism while their roads, hospitals, and schools are basically on a Federal IV drip.

submitted 3 days ago • 155 comments

Exactly.

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"'We've slid into some form of authoritarianism,' says Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard, and co-author of How Democracies Die. 'It is relatively mild compared to some others. It is certainly reversible, but we are no longer living in a liberal democracy.'"

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🇳🇱⚠️ Dutch spies warn Russian attacks on Europe included bid to sway EU election, - Politico ❗️Russia is stepping up its hybrid attacks against the Netherlands and its European allies to influence and weaken their societies, the Dutch military intelligence agency MIVD said.

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

Under Musk’s watch, Tesla bleeds profit while he cosplays policymaker in the Trump circus. A 71% income drop isn’t a dip, it’s a nosedive—brought on by hubris, distraction, and political fan service. He’s not pivoting back to Tesla, he’s crawling back in panic.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Mountains of shame on Shari Redstone and everyone else involved here trying to settle such a ridiculous and baseless legal action. They’re so poor, all they have is money and they will eventually pay the price for their grotesque behavior.

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Japanese netizens are shocked by a tweet from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected]. Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.

submitted 4 days ago • 144 comments

Resistance is NOT futile

submitted 4 days ago • 607 comments