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Jonathan Pie on Agent Orange www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk0n...

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Many forget that it's a complex & dangerous world as we have done a great job of making it safer, but we can't be complacent or allow the cultivation of intentional ignorance. In this line of work, one can't just rely on personal experiences. Education is critical. www.firehouse.com/operations-t...

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NEW: Trump's speech this week was a reminder that he's running a disinformation operation to impose a mix of oligarchy, autocracy & kleptocracy. And the Democrats just don't seem to get it. I explain all in my OUR LAND newsletter. link.motherjones.com/public/38917... Subscribe at davidcorn.com.

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"On behalf of the entire state of Wisconsin, I would like to apologize for the statements, actions, and indeed the very existence of U.S. Congressman Derrick Van Orden....this guy embarrasses the hell out of us." ICYMI Bill Lueders: www.thebulwark.com/p/sorry-trut...

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Happy Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Day! memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/march-nomi...

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Has any American President run away in such a cowardly retreat from an important battle (with our closest allies) as Trump has in Ukraine? For all those pissed about Biden's handling of our withdrawal from Afghanistan, what the fuck do you make of Trump's cutting and running from Europe?

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There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.

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There’s been zero explanation for this given but it seems exceedingly likely it’s pure retaliation for the Maine governor challenging Trump. Really sick. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...

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The Trump administration said Friday it is ending collective bargaining for more than 50,000 TSA officers that staff checkpoints at U.S. airports and other transportation hubs.

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Success! First pain free movement in forever… See what we’re doing for vets (& some active) at runfreely.org

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Why? Because Maine’s governor Janet Mills told him to his face she would obey federal and state law, not his bullying edict, and he snapped at her like he did at Zelenskyy and she said see you in court. So, being a thin-skinned hateful savage, he’s now collectively punishing/antagonizing Mainers.

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“The most anti-veteran administration ever”

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"Washington Has Become the Court of Nero" open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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Ladies and gentlemen, your Extortionist in Chief. (Note that Trump’s “biggest problem” with NATO is that he doesn’t believe NATO is “gonna come and protect us” if ever we are attacked. But he appears ignorant of the fact that the only occasion NATO invoked Article 5 was following the 9/11 attacks.)

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Review: When the flood waters rise, a band of animals takes shelter on a boat, where they have to work together to survive. 'Flow' is a radiant fantasy, where solidarity, not selfishness, can save the day. (Streaming on Max)

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Hi All, Just sent out a piece about a great failure of strategic leadership. European leaders failed to see Trump for what he is, but instead tried to make him what they wanted him to be. Thankfully, Ukrainian resistance has given them valuable time to make this up open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

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Well done @mayorwu.boston.gov. WELL. DONE.

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"NOTHING"

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“.. In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. .. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four?” - “1984” www.barrons.com/articles/soc...

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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

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This Day in Labor History: March 4, 1933. The newly inaugurated president Franklin Delano Roosevelt nominated Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor. Let's talk the great Frances Perkins!

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“Clearcutting these beautiful places will increase fire risk, drive species to extinction, pollute our rivers and streams, and destroy world-class recreation sites.” Trump’s timber order is based on nothing but lies, greed, hatred, and monumental ignorance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Firefighters warn of dire consequences from Trump’s cuts to federal wildfire crews.

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NEW: "America is your enemy," I interviewed Jason Stanley for this week's newsletter & podcast. A Yale professor, who's a leading expert in fascism. We're normalizing what's happening & we urgently need to stop. Please read/listen/share. 🙏 broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-united...

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“Why don’t you wear a suit?”

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Of course Speaker Mike Johnson is living in the $3.7 million DC home of an election-denying, policy-driving “evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as ‘a delusional lie’ and called multinational institutions ‘demonic’”… www.propublica.org/article/mike...

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Trump is too much of a coward to say a bad thing to Putin, yet he dares lecture Zelensky? Russia is on the verge of collapse and Trump/Vance are desperate to save them

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Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression.

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Trump thinks he humiliated Zelensky. He humiliated the United States of America. And he made the world a much more dangerous place. Mob boss foreign policy will not work. The Trump-Putin axis fully came out of the closet today.

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NEW: 14 declarations filed in a case over illegal firings at the CFPB detail Russ Vought's plan to reduce the agency to "a room at Treasury, White House, or Federal Reserve with five men and a phone in it." prospect.org/2025-02-28-v...

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From former senior CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos ⬇️ www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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You know why hurricanes have gotten less deadly over the past century? Not because they're less dangerous. Because scientists at NOAA have gotten really good at predicting their tacks, enabling people to get out of harm's way. Gutting NOAA will kill people.

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New York/NJ, it's time to get ready. There's a 1000 bed concentration camp coming to Newark. www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/27/i...

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An unvaccinated NJ traveler who returned to the US infected with #measles went to 3 health facilities earlier this month seeking care before being diagnosed. Not surprisingly, additional cases are now being detected. Measles will spread if we give it the chance. www.nj.com/healthfit/20...

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A few years ago my husband & I visited his grandmother as her health declined. Her condo was filled with family & friends, chatting & reminiscing. I remember watching her chat with an old friend—one of the only other Japanese Americans in her condo when she moved to DC That friend was Suki Manabe

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February 27, 2025

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Not pro-life

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1/ The nascent Tesla boycott movement got me thinking back to the 80s anti-apartheid movement. How it took off and literally changed the world. If the South African apartheid regime could be brought down, perhaps one South African oligarch could be? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“We felt obviously that Vietnam was wrong — I think any war is wrong, for that matter […]. You can call a halt to war […]. It was all part of our retaliation against the evil that was taking place and still is taking place.” - George Harrison Read more at harrisonarchive.tumblr.com/post/7766580....

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"...retail sales south of 60th Street have been $900 million higher in January 2025 compared to the same period last year. In addition, restaurant reservations are up 7 percent year over year, according to restaurant reservation app Open Table."

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Scientists at a federal laboratory in Montana that has focused on fire for decades are increasingly concerned about wildfires that spread to population centers as Americans build communities ever closer to forests reut.rs/3XjsY1t 1/7

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This is well, expected 🫠 www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...

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