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Remember when Elise Stefanik conned news media into calling her a “moderate”?

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Elon is fighting to pay $2K in child support for 3 kids, getting sued for custody by another mother of his child, is estranged from another daughter… And this is who the party of “family values” is turning the keys to the country over to?

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Following Trump’s new Executive Order re: the S.F. Presidio, here’s a shareable link to an unrolled version of my highly sourced thread about the Tech Bros’ plan to build a “Freedom City” in the Presidio. The MSM has yet to connect these dots, & it’s driving me crazy! skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

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“This is someone who made his money by ripping off American taxpayers and who shouldn’t come anywhere near a position of authority over tax dollars,” said Sen. Ron Wyden about Schuler’s appointment. “He’ll fit right in with the Trump administration.” By @peterelkind.bsky.social

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WTF?? His soullessness knows no bottom. Wasting $200M of tax payers money to stroke his ego with ads?? How is this helpful?

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What's The Difference Between SOHC, DOHC And OVH Engines?

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This

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#Krasnov #KrasnovTrump #TrumpIsARussian #TrumpIsARussianAsset

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This is exactly how Hitler talked. It's not even a comparison or analogy, as people claim. It's a direct connection in ideology as well as a similar approach to governance and relationship to democracy. This needs to be how we talk about it. They are the ideological descendants of Hitler.

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looking for a war to be a war criminal in basically

submitted 4 hours ago • 37 comments

Everything they do is to enrich themselves and their friends. electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 4 hours ago • 59 comments

A good discussion (I think!) of the significance of last night’s purge—on top of everything else that’s going on. BLUF: Be alarmed. Be very alarmed. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-fire...

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The thing about advance compliance that people need to learn is that whatever you do to placate these guys will never be enough. They'll keep adding new things that you must do because they now know you're a pushover, and at the end of the day, they are just bullies that get off to cruelty.

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

Elon is hiring criminals to work for DOGE because it is a criminal conspiracy

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Was complaining about [gestures broadly] in the family chat and my brother, a reliably warm, sunny person, said “you know, whenever I start to feel bad about circumstances beyond my control, I just take a moment to yell at my senator.” Then he shared this app apps.apple.com/us/app/5-cal...

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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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“…this is an…opportunity for those in rural districts to step forward and have a hefty…impact on the course of Virginia politics and policies. Often times, Ds in those districts lament not having any real influence. Here is a real chance to change that.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 19 hours ago • 327 comments

A must-read about how to deal with online trolls.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 8 hours ago • 138 comments

1/The relatively sudden loss of US funding is jeopardising the future of fact-checkers, independent media and a whole host of other efforts to protect information integrity. New(ish) from @jeffstone.bsky.social and me

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

From the get go of the second Trump administration, it was clear that the president would try to pass a bunch of executive orders without any clear indication that he, or his trusted advisors, actually knew if it was legal. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/wha...

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“It is not too late to salvage the agency and its mission. The agency’s partner organizations are hanging on and its overseas missions seem to have remained mostly intact, for now. The laws establishing U.S.A.I.D. in federal statute and its budget appropriation remain in force and unaltered.”

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I've been obsessed with charging gear - chargers, cables, power banks, etc. - for a while, even when the category was pretty boring. But now that makers of these accessories have gotten innovative, I'm really jazzed. Here are four great products that will improve your mobile-gear life. Gift link.

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Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

submitted 8 hours ago • 235 comments

He nails it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1156 comments

Firing qualified top military commanders will hurt military readiness and make America less safe. National security should rise above partisan politics. My fellow Republican & Democratic veterans are demanding answers 👇

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The DOJ has threatened to prosecute a New York sheriff, in what may serve as a test case for whether federal officials can successfully spook local officials into compliance with ICE. boltsmag.org/new-yor...

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More subtle outcomes of litigation. Courts have not just blocked DOGE and other actions, but also forced Gov to produce answers and commitments. Friday night's Treasury decision requires: Gov certifying what is the security clearance process for DOGE team; revealing authorizations for DOGE; more⬇️

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Skeet Thread.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

This is sick.

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New, from me @theatlantic.com: No, the federal government is not too big It has real human capital needs Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 8 hours ago • 26 comments

The best video in the internet today.

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DOGE’s gaslight accounting is getting covered from multiple outlets. A sampling from just this week: @politico.com @bloomberg.com @nytimes.com @nbcnews.com

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NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work. "We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed." w/ @deldeib.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”

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