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Germany’s new leader: “Trump does not care about Europe and is aligning with Russia.. goal needs to be independence from 🇺🇸…” Our allies helped make us great. As we abandon them, they are turning away from us. Think about who this helps. (Hint: not us) www.politico.eu/article/frie...

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A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

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Health insurance is not meant to keep you healthy. It’s meant to serve as an obstacle to care while picking your pocket.

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At first this looked like an uncharacteristically doom-laden post from @michaelemann.bsky.social, and then the penny dropped. 👇 "It's a mad house! A mad house!"

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Trump's CFPB, now under the command of billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, has halted the Biden admin's rule to ban medical bills from credit reports. It's been estimated that the rule would help improve the credit scores of 15 million people. Some populist, huh?

submitted 24 days ago • 174 comments

Holy shit this cartoon.

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a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

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An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 has occurred 129 miles southwest of Georgetown, Cayman Islands, according to the USGS.

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A legal tsunami is hitting Trump & Musk—42 cases filed in just 18 days, 11 major wins for the rule of law, a federal injunction blocking Musk from Americans' private data. Meanwhile, Pam Bondi gives a gift to Putin & more. Watch Legal AF at 8p ET/5p PT!

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Ronny Chieng explained climate change on the Daily Show a year ago and it remains as relevant as ever!

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"The entire point of doing this at Guantanamo is to apply the machinery of the post-9/11 state to this latest version of the Enemy. It is to entrench in the public mind a conflation of migration and terrorism," writes @attackerman.bsky.social. www.forever-wars.com/the-wages-of...

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WIRED continues to lead the reporting on what's happening inside the US government right now. A 25-year-old Musk acolyte now has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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EMERGENCY PIECE: Previous reports that Musk's DOGE programmers only have "read only" access is inaccurate. I can confirm what @wired.com first reported at 1 AM today that they have Read & WRITE access with a source in BFS referring to this as "apocalyptic" www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...

submitted 28 days ago • 100 comments

Five Things Democrats Must Do to Fight Trump Now The party is not helpless. In fact, Democrats have some very effective tools at their disposal.

submitted 28 days ago • 74 comments

Snap out of it America. All the warning lights are flashing @djrothkopf.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-co...

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“The last several days we’ve witnessed an authoritarian takeover of our federal government by Elon Musk and Donald Trump. They have set their sights on a full purge of anyone in government that doesn’t bend the knee and follow their orders.” - Sen. @wyden.senate.gov

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Chris Murphy: "Here's the message. If you beat a police officer in this country, you're going to jail for a long time, with one exception. You don't go to jail if you beat the hell out of a police officer in service of Donald Trump ... it put Democrats' lives in jeopardy in particular."

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The deck has been stacked against hardworking families for decades. It’s time to redeem the American dream. For everyone.

submitted 44 days ago • 1415 comments

Merikkka going up in Flames.

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So are we all clear the Trump regime is going to be violent and we don't have any time for the circular firing squad bullshit?

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NEW: Trump now says he is not confident he can keep the ceasefire in Gaza, telling reporters it is "not our war." He says that Gaza "has to be rebuilt" and "some beautiful things" could be done with the land because it is "on the sea" and has "the best weather."

submitted 43 days ago • 818 comments

This SOB just received a full and unconditional pardon from Trump.

submitted 43 days ago • 178 comments

This app isn’t really geared towards video, but since I lost #TikTok, I might as well share some of what I lost. #PastorsAreTheRealThreat #Religion #ToxicChristianity #Deconstruction #TransRights

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Do not comply

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TikTok is coming back online after Trump pledged to restore it - CNN

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And there it is. Scam and grift revealed. Watch who gets rich off this. Interested also to see how legacy media covers this, which has been putrid so far.

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incoming NSA Mike Waltz on TikTok: "We also want an app that 170 million Americans really enjoy and that we were able to get our message out during the Trump campaign in a very powerful way."

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So very strange that there is so little major news media coverage of collusion and price fixing at scale.

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Exclusive: German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows - www.reuters.com/world/us/ger...

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Canadian officials said they specifically want to focus on goods made in Republican or swing states, where the pain of tariffs would affect Donald Trump's allies.

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"Blinken told members of the department, [...] he was returning “to the highest calling in a democracy, that of being a private citizen.”" Ok, that got me! I am an out and proud private citizen in this, our democracy, anybody with me?

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My response when they say we should just leave #tiktok and go to #instagram or #youtube

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Economist explains mortgage rates jumped to 7% after Trump was elected bc banks fear his policies will be inflationary. She finds no basis to believe housing prices or rates will go down for at least a year, in fact housing prices could rise. www.cnn.com/2025/01/16/b...

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www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYcekW5g/ This is a big problem with the media availability. Democrats are constantly accused of not messaging very well and not reaching voters in these areas. So, if when these people living in areas with little or no other alternatives to Fox News!

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‘He kept going until he couldn’t’: why do boomer men refuse to slow down? - The Guardian

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Trump plan to end birthright citizenship is more conceivable in second term

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Anxious scientists brace for Trump’s climate denialism: ‘We have a target on our backs’

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