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Such a coincidence that the strategy advice Dems seem most eager to accept is the advice that says: -you never need to take an unpopular position -you should continue to occupy your prestigious job as normal -you should focus on smallbore kitchen-table issues where you already have a familiar script

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Norway announces it has decided to increase its aid for Ukraine this year from USD 3 billion to USD 8 billion 🇳🇴🇺🇦 Thank you, Norway! 💙💛

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Three British right-wing extremists planned to collect an arsenal of weapons, including a 3D-printed gun, and carry out an attack as part of a "race war", prosecutors said at the start of their trial on Wednesday www.reuters.com/world/uk/bri...

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It’s my last week of covering environmental issues and this is still the best summary of the beat

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We haven’t hit the six week mark yet

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Just wait. The attacks on judges is only starting. Like Poland, we’ll see retaliation followed by judicial age caps or some other forced retirement attempt so Trump can impose a bench of friendlies. Whatever you imagine will erode, go bigger.

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How can U.S. act like a peacemaker & try to overthrow the leader of a nation under the bus & plot to throw him out of office: 4 senior members of President Trump’s entourage have secretly met with Ukrainian opposition leaders on potentially holding early elections to unseat Zelensky, per Politico.

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Very important floof update

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I know that one

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Holy shit. Bremerton Planning Commission just recommended to City Council the elimination of all parking minimums, CITYWIDE. Commissioner Pedersen led the charge. And skeptical old white guys came on-side, using a rationale based on free-market, let-the-builders-decide arguments. Whoa

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#FAFO #AssholeTax Racist Columbus Ohio real estate agent Stephanie Lovins Fired after writing 'I hope Trump deports you' on a receipt at a Mexican restaurant to a waitress who was an American citizen And lied about it until CCTV showed it was her www.indy100.com/news/woman-j...

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lmao, while i was talking shit about this, space x blew up another starship

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Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w... I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

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In Minnesota, we value the people who care for our veterans, even if DOGE doesn’t. If Trump fired you, come work for the State of Minnesota and help take care of our vets.

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The merits of the different Canadian parties aside, imagine being a Conservative strategist right now. Trudeau is flailing. You've got an easy path to your first win in years. And then all of the sudden, America goes and elects Trump, and conservatism is about as popular as a chemical spill.

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dead (until the next election)

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The markets expected Trump to govern like a replacement-level Latin American populist caudillo (which would produce a thriving speculation-driven stock market with some long term problems mostly beyond their planning horizon). Instead they got the American version of Maduro or Mugabe.

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I just had a horrifying realization about Elon's grand plans here. They're going to do a join on a several different data sets with different collection latencies, data quality practices, etc. They're going to act like all the data is perfect, the schema all match, there are no special cases...

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#TeslaTakedown Stories:

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Yes he’s from Palo Alto, but he gives off impeccable Midwestern vibes. He shall know your ways as if born to them…

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One comes very rapidly to the conclusion that the Russians didnt even need a piss tape /or/ ideological affinity to sway Donald Trump. They just took advantage of the fact that this is in fact possibly the world's dumbest man, incapable of a single line of critical thought

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As always, @ajosephoconnell.bsky.social knows of what she speaks. This is a remarkable assertion of power—not under Article II, but flying in the face of its Appointments Clause.

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sorry boys the bombing of Hiroshima is woke now

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if AJO is calling the administration’s claims “madness” then we are in very very very big trouble

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Read this. Trump is claiming inherent power to name an acting head of a Senate confirmed board, where the Vacancies Act doesn’t apply (and there’s no agency succession provision). Forget removal. This is Appointments Clause madness. Means he could name folks to MSPB and NLRB without the Senate.

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The man is shook. Cut through all the BS and see that the man is shook. Keep the pressure on.

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BREAKING: Entire Human Race Flagged By DEI Purge Because of “Homo” in “Homo Sapiens”

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America does not need a ‘resistance,’ or stale slogans, or people putting those slogans on little paddles. It needs an opposition party that boldly defends the nation’s virtues, the rule of law, and the rights of its people. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Interesting. New contracting memorandum from Secy of Defense says military contracts shld stop including language that bars contractors from running segregated facilities.

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It doesn't get talked about enough that every prominent Republican today has spent their entire political career lying about their basic ideology. They've tried so hard to present a constitutionalist image, and now they want to scrap the whole thing and make Trump Supreme-Dictator-for-Life.

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"The leaders refused to succumb to the efforts of Mr. Marocco & the [DOGE] team, overseen by Elon Musk, to assume control of their functions, dismiss staff members and install Mr. Marocco as the acting leader." HE CANNOT BE AN ACTING LEADER. NO STATUTE PERMITS IT. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

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There is literally zero legal authority for Trump to install a new president at the Foundation without going through Congress. The Federal Vacancies Reform Act does not apply to the position. Trump’s people admit that it doesn’t. They are claiming that’s irrelevant and they can just do it anyway.

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Is the Democratic leadership suggesting now is not the time to be disruptive? If not now, when? Because it really seems like now is the time…

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I think what really has to freak out Europe, especially, is not just seeing an idiot fascist take over the United States, but watching him do it while facing little to no opposition

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There's no better example than whining about your Second Amendment rights for decades, claiming you need them to resist tyranny, and then rolling over when the tyrant takes over because actually you're just really into one particular kind of tyranny

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I'm paid less than six figures in local government and have weirdos call me out by my first and last name and scream obscenities at me in person in public meetings If you are too afraid of crazy people to do your job, resign

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all the international condemnation and retaliatory tariffs, none of the revenue

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BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

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Roughly 500 CIA employees are going to be fired imminently, per a former agency officer. If true, this would be biggest purge of the agency in a generation or more.

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I would simply not disband security services before the Ides of March

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It would all be very unpopular if you could convince people it was happening

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This is a Facebook post by Missouri State Rep. David Tyson Smith (D-Columbia). Rep. Mark Alford is one of the members of Congress who got rocked at a townhall in late February. So now they're not just refusing to hold townhalls. They're apparently demanding people keep their office number a secret.

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Premier Ford is right. The only way to end this dark idiocy is to ramp it up. Tiptoeing around a thug is a recipe for disaster. This is elbows up tie. nationalnewswatch.com/2025/03/06/o...

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WATCH: “Bills like this harm our children, undermine 🇺🇸 values and our Christian call to protect & care for all people.” A pastor & mom in Bo Watson’s district speaks out against keeping undocumented kids out of schools. (H/T @southernchristians.bsky.social) Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DG3xgEk...

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