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14.03.2026 14:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money

14.03.2026 12:46 👍 14310 🔁 6315 💬 995 📌 444
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2. Trump is already floating the idea of tapping into supplies at other combatant commands.

Talking about taking from PACOM to feed CENTCOM on day 3 is… rough.

At this point, it’s a race to destroy their missiles before we have to ration our interceptors.

03.03.2026 11:54 👍 795 🔁 122 💬 11 📌 4
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Some Dems are getting this right. But Schumer and others are saying Trump must merely divulge more details about the Iran threat. This implies there might be a legitimate case for war that Trump just has to be more open about. There's zero reason to grant that. 3/

newrepublic.com/article/2072...

03.03.2026 12:45 👍 800 🔁 148 💬 21 📌 21

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

03.03.2026 12:16 👍 7008 🔁 3173 💬 71 📌 48

If, like me, you thought, "I would have hidden Anne Frank's family from the Nazis," this is your chance to make that real. Sponsoring rent in MN is hiding a family from the Nazis. www.standwithminnesota.com

01.03.2026 19:21 👍 53 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 0

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

01.03.2026 23:01 👍 23241 🔁 7890 💬 695 📌 322
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US Aid Cuts Fueled Conflict in Africa The cuts in US foreign aid have probably caused hundreds of thousands of people to die. But real-time data on what is actually going on has been scarce. A new working paper is the first I've seen to s...

Aid cuts increased armed conflict in Africa - @cgdev.org

www.cgdev.org/blog/us-aid-...

28.02.2026 01:27 👍 62 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 2
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Let me introduce you to the Prader scale.

27.02.2026 05:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“In essence, what Hegseth is threatening is ‘I will either destroy you or nationalize you if you don’t give me unlimited permission to use your product as I wish.’ Seizing the factors of production is a communist sort of thing, isn’t it? And yet it has almost become the norm for the Trump admin.”

25.02.2026 18:56 👍 115 🔁 51 💬 3 📌 6

Lol, you think xAI has any interest in doing the right thing? I'm sure Elon has already been begging to help with the war crimes, but his model just can't compete.

26.02.2026 00:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

25.02.2026 20:48 👍 12642 🔁 6090 💬 56 📌 330
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@sesmith.lol I just feel like you need to see this.

25.02.2026 09:17 👍 664 🔁 191 💬 17 📌 14
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She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran. The Trump administration wants to deport her A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriousl...

@walterolson.bsky.social www.yahoo.com/news/article...

21.02.2026 18:04 👍 104 🔁 47 💬 4 📌 9

I didn't say weight loss drugs. I said weight loss goals.

21.02.2026 06:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu… YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Colbert and Talarico ended up talking at length about Freedom of Religion in the interview that Brendan Carr censored.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

17.02.2026 11:19 👍 2921 🔁 1219 💬 87 📌 99

Note: DHS has repeatedly claimed the agency "does NOT raid churches."

It's unclear what they mean by "raid," but @rns.org already tracked at least 10 reports *by last August* of apparent federal agents conducting enforcement activity on church grounds or nearby.

There were videos and photos.

16.02.2026 21:47 👍 160 🔁 83 💬 8 📌 2

No, he threatened officer safety by driving his car at them sideways door-first like a Wonkavator

15.02.2026 23:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Care to guess which of these people Trump takes *spiritual guidance* from?

14.02.2026 14:51 👍 1005 🔁 328 💬 60 📌 20
From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com
To: Bill Gates
Subject:
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 10:14:35 +0000
come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting

From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com To: Bill Gates Subject: Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 10:14:35 +0000 come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting

Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Gates in December 2016:

“come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting”

(www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)

13.02.2026 03:45 👍 1614 🔁 542 💬 28 📌 61

This is not some weird fluke. They didn't want a secure border; they wanted concentration camps.

13.02.2026 00:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Twitter has pron bots. BlueSky has "help, my totally real family in Gaza is starving" bots.

10.02.2026 12:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If someone comes to the doctor and says they want to lose weight, does the doctor help or say, "No, science says you are A Fat"? If they want smoother skin or to regain joint mobility, does the doctor say, "No, science says you are An Old"? Of course not. They are there to improve quality of life.

08.02.2026 15:16 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Scientifically speaking, sex is variegated. The political imposition is by those who don't want it to be.

08.02.2026 05:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Acting rationally in this context means prescribing the treatments that are most likely to achieve the patient's goals.

08.02.2026 05:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No, they're casting about for any rhetorical bludgeon that can stop anyone from achieving serious, positive lifelong outcomes that shock religious conservative sensibilities.

07.02.2026 21:43 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Intent matters. No one's asking, "what is a man?" out of dispassionate scientific curiosity.

07.02.2026 19:50 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

How should we hold you accountable for this harassment?

07.02.2026 19:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Keep going until this is the autocomplete for just "jd vance"

07.02.2026 18:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with his hands in the air ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with his hands in the air
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