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The U.S. is now the POS who sees a woman desperately trying to fight off a brutal rapist and, instead of helping her, takes advantage of the situation and tries to steal her purse and car keys.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chimed in online after Canada beat the United States in the 4 Nations Face-Off final. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

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AS CALLED ON: Canadian TV (English) Canadian TV (French) NHL Radio ESPN Deportes

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MAGA is big mad Canada won the 4 Nations game. #ETTD 🍿

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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

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Republican pollster Frank Luntz debunks Trump’s lie about zelensky’s approval numbers, points out they’re actually higher than Trump’s 👇🏽

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An 11-year-old girl took her own life in Texas after she was tormented for weeks by her sixth-grade classmates at Gainesville Intermediate School, who threatened to call ICE authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said. 💔 💔

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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These independent polls probably won’t be around much longer.

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Little did those guys in 1776 know that they needn’t bother…

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When the worst people in the world realize they have to join the resistance…

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“Trump’s policies, both at home and abroad, are rapidly destroying the foundation of American power,” writes Michael Schuman. “The main beneficiary will be the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who has been planning for the moment when Washington stumbles”:

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Current American foreign policy is about draining power from the US and its allies, thereby creating atmospherics in which Donald Trump feels good and Elon Musk converts lost state capacity into personal profit. The weakness, in other words, is the point. snyder.substack.com/p/affirmativ...

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Brazil shows that it can be done. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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They're not genuine negotiations in the sense of give and take and compromise. russia virtually never negotiates in this spirit. The way Trump is ceding ground left and right, russia might already be convinced that they will get full control over Ukraine with America's blessing/cooperation.

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Just a few sample bits from federal judge Ana Reyes handing Trump’s DOJ lawyer their ass today in the hearing challenging Trump’s trans military ban.

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Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

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Another fiery exchange from Judge Reyes in the trans military case:

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Two superpowers opening discussions on the future of a country which one of them is still invading, without that country

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‘The US Is Doing Russia’s Work’ Say Ecstatic Propagandists Putin’s mouthpieces are in a lather of excitement over the US administration’s willingness to make a deal to their liking. My latest for @cepa.org: cepa.org/article/the-...

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"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

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National Nuclear Security Administration officials are attempting to notify some employees who had been let go that they are now due to be reinstated — but they're struggling to find them because they don't have their new contact information. nbcnews.to/4104StF

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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"This order is part of a larger political effort to strip away civil rights from entire communities. The president's cruelty is on full display with this dehumanizing executive order...His actions are harming Washington's youth, parents, and health care providers." www.king5.com/article/news...

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“Trump’s executive order ‘seems to deny that this population even exists, or deserves to exist,’ Hurson said.”

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Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity are unconditional. Our priority must now be strengthening Ukraine and providing robust security guarantees. In any negotiation, Europe must have a central role. Our Weimar+ statement ↓

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Great to talk with British Columbia Premier David Eby last week about renewing the strong Washington and B.C. partnership. We have deep ties on trade, housing, transportation, the environment, and more. We will work together to take on the challenges facing the Pacific Northwest.

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Very proud to announce the Department of Health will now process all requests to change gender designation on birth certificates within three business days. Previously, there was as much as a 10 month wait.

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The one Kremlin mouthpieces call “our girl”.

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i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!

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So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

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"What makes the Canada 2025 boycott [against the USA] unique is that no one organized it. There are no leaders. There is no strategic team looking to use it as a negotiating tool. This resistance campaign has sprung from the determination of ordinary people to resist tyranny."

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I wrote about how Doge is involved in cutting cancer research www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

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In a blistering statement, the American Bar Association describes "attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize" diversity initiatives as "wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself." https://buff.ly/4bb7dqp

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NEW: People working on child protection—including anti trafficking and stopping online sexual exploitation—tell me that US funding cuts are putting victims at risk, and prosecutions of seriously criminals are likely to be upended

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“Texas is just a really terrible place for construction workers to do their job.” From @gusbova.bsky.social in 2023: How Tesla covered up Antelmo Ramirez's death by hyperthermia during the construction of their massive facility in Central Texas.

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Good to see information like this is out there. Probably too little too late, but still...Appreciate that it can still be shared publicly because that may not be the case for much longer. “Advice from an older farmer” (Westmoreland_pops) www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2BBcSew/

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We all know who Karma’s rooting for…

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