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The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment. Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.

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This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

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A couple of years ago, I noticed that Dems were losing ground with Latino voters. I launched a Spanish-language YouTube channel to reach those people. That channel is now on its way to 300,000 subscribers and has nearly 50 million views. We have be aggressive and go into spaces we're not already in.

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Breathtaking. A federal prosecutor in LA was fired Friday at the behest of the White House, after lawyers for a fast-food executive he was prosecuting pushed officials in DC to drop all charges against him White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case, sources say

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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

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So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

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used to not have toilets, shade or drinking water cause bosses said it was too expensive. With pesticides we would work too close to the spray. Thanks to Cesar Chavez they changed those things. Join us in marching for Cesar Chávez - Francisco, CA farmworker, 28 yrs #WeFeedYou

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“The breach is serious, but security breaches can be plugged. Men and women who have shown themselves to have no character, though, can never be trusted. Not with national security, not with anything.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...

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Funded by the US taxpayer.

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The kind of person that kills dogs.

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Raskin: "Look at how sick that is. Basically anybody who has rendered any ruling they disapprove of they think should be removed from the bench. Any lawyer who has ever represented a party adverse to them they think should be cleared out of the way. That is in naked opposition to the rule of law."

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“We cannot just ignore the President's desires."

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Yep

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“Tax the rich” receives a lot of applause at the Spartz town hall

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Early voting is taking place for the special elections in Florida for seats in the U.S. House in the 1st and 6th Congressional Districts. Election Day is on Tuesday, April 1st. Get out and vote for Democratic candidates Gay Valimont and Josh Weil!

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Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

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If we get to have a real election, well, here's your ad

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Talk about “desperate measures,” to use Speaker Johnson’s own description of the proposed elimination of some federal courts! This is totally insane. It’s an extreme case of “If you don’t like the message, shoot the messenger.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @MatttDavies)

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An insane response. Don’t let up on this story.

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My latest, on the dumb people running our little American autocracy. Hide your war plans! www.joyannreid.com/p/the-daily-...

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Pete Hegseth is like if Rudy Giuliani was an alcoholic.

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Medal of Honor recipient SERGEANT FIRST CLASS EUGENE ASHLEY JR #BlackHistoryIsUSHistory that can’t be erased! www.cmohs.org/recipients/e...

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It’s not my job to educate you.

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BREAKING: U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is stepping down from his job effective immediately — days after asking DOGE for help cutting costs.

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Meanwhile, secret agent Jeffrey Goldblum caught off guard by the Houthi attacks,

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Just saying: if Lloyd Austin had done this, every GOP lawmaker would call for his resignation by close-of-business the same day, and they'd probably have it.

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In a perfect world, the town drunk and the Secretary of Defense would be two different people.

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Brian Kilmeade calls for the end of due process: "It's not practical to think we can do due process on 8 million people ... if we're gonna give every one of these guys a day in a court and a lawyer, we can't do it. They don't deserve it."

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Governor Andy Beshear (D-Kentucky) on Kristi Noem's call to eliminate FEMA: "The states cannot do what FEMA does without duplicating certain tasks 50 times over. If you've got an operation that's running well, work with it, improve it, don't eliminate it."

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🚨 Join the ACLU for a virtual town hall on Wednesday, March 26, at 4 PM ET, featuring Senator Chris Murphy (CT) & Joy Reid, alongside ACLU experts #MomSky

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So…lock them up?

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Presented with evidence that innocent people who are not members of any gang were wrongly deported to a slave prison in El Salvador, Homan flatly insists that all of them were in fact gang members (but he's unwilling to detail any evidence showing it)

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how did the simpsons predict the cybertruck ??

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The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

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Trump administration terminates a US-funded initiative that documents alleged Russian war crimes, including a sensitive database detailing the mass deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Zelenskyy - "For us, the red line is the recognition of Ukrainian temporarily occupied territories as Russian. We won't agree to this."

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Something to think about

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RFK Jr. & his brain worm would just like to remind everyone that he doesn’t give a flying fuck. ‘If H5N1 were to be allowed to run through a flock of 5 million birds, “that’s literally 5 million chances for that virus to replicate or to mutate,” Dr. Hansen said.😱 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...