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I like to read and re-post people who write interesting things, No DMs #StephHead

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The Oscars: Who Will Win and Who Should Win Every awards season is one battle after another, and the ninety-eighth Academy Awards ceremony promises a more climactic showdown than most.

Some perhaps naïve but sincere words on the season-long kinship of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and SINNERS: “Whatever happens on Oscar Sunday, I suspect that the two front-runners will share the spotlight in a spirit as companionable as it is competitive.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

12.03.2026 03:07 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
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Fox News Coverage of the Iran War is as Chaotic and Muddled as Trump's Mind A condensed overview of 15 hours of Fox News for the week ending 3/8/26

open.substack.com/pub/decoding...

12.03.2026 03:28 👍 86 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2
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Pete Hegseth, Moral Failure, and the Erosion of Military Legitimacy Congress needs to find out if any laws were broken and who is responsible.

Good thing this is entirely theoretical!!...

12.03.2026 03:30 👍 229 🔁 62 💬 6 📌 1

give this man a superpac budget goddammit

12.03.2026 03:41 👍 32 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Also have been utterly baffled by the lack of Democrats yelling it right back at Republicans.

With the emergence of Epstein, feels like it's only become a more effective path for Democrats over time (e.g. "the Epstein protectors care more about getting into kids' pants than your grocery prices")

12.03.2026 01:55 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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Dem legislators tell @marshallglasses.bsky.social that Gov Polis will delay any clemency for Tina Peters until after a sentence review. Polis' most controversial commutation circumvented a similar court ruling. That 2021 decision, attacked by conservatives, is now being cited by Peters' supporters.

12.03.2026 03:45 👍 129 🔁 35 💬 10 📌 2
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AI Apocalypse Looms. We’re Already Blowing It. Surely there are more options than letting AI run wild or shutting it down, right? Right?

The task of the opposition this year is to turn the administration’s disarray into Republican defeat—a defeat as dramatic, as complete, and as debilitating to the Trump administration as possible.

12.03.2026 04:00 👍 177 🔁 47 💬 2 📌 1
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The Babies Kept in a Mysterious Los Angeles Mansion A wealthy couple obtained dozens of children through surrogates. Did they want a family, or something else?

More than a dozen children—most of whom were born to surrogate mothers—were found in an L.A. mansion. Ava Kofman reports on the mysterious couple behind this story. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/VOPv86

12.03.2026 04:00 👍 44 🔁 14 💬 6 📌 5

IT can’t happen soon enough.

12.03.2026 02:17 👍 2450 🔁 626 💬 126 📌 22
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I’m sure Trump anticipated all this and has a great plan because he’s a master strategist.

12.03.2026 01:19 👍 1630 🔁 531 💬 115 📌 29
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Impeach Jared Polis? It may be necessary...

Under pressure from Trump, Gov Polis is considering pardoning an unrepentant MAGA election saboteur. @brianbeutler.bsky.social has some food for thought for advocates. www.offmessage.net/p/impeach-ja...

11.03.2026 18:53 👍 253 🔁 70 💬 21 📌 10
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V.A. Begins Drive to Put Some Homeless Veterans Into Guardianship

What. The fuck.

Trump wants to institutionalize homeless veterans. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

12.03.2026 02:00 👍 1925 🔁 874 💬 238 📌 81
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WASHINGTON: Despite republicans’ best efforts, including a 24 hour filibuster-style debate — “the state house approved a levy on incomes over $1 million… pays for free breakfast & lunch for k-12 students…”

news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

12.03.2026 02:07 👍 2710 🔁 709 💬 69 📌 81
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Trump told them very sternly not to do this in a Truth Social post so I’m shocked they would defy him like this. Maybe Iran doesn’t have an account.

12.03.2026 01:50 👍 1991 🔁 467 💬 90 📌 17
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In South Burlington, Vermont, protesters are being tear-gassed by ICE and local police as they attempt to prevent a kidnapping.

11.03.2026 23:58 👍 3547 🔁 2012 💬 173 📌 121

So much ink will be spilled but bookmark this from @abuaardvark.bsky.social which probably explains 99% of it. The other 1% was Witkoff and Kushner.

11.03.2026 20:48 👍 255 🔁 65 💬 9 📌 2

I was told we already won this war.

12.03.2026 02:05 👍 3483 🔁 881 💬 197 📌 20
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Even Republicans are saying it now

11.03.2026 20:39 👍 547 🔁 112 💬 64 📌 38

I know this is a crazy idea, but do any of the commentators who got snookered by anonymous Republicans into sticking with "Trump is strong on immigration, the public actually loves deportations" for far too long feel like it's time to ask themselves why they got so easily taken?

11.03.2026 20:45 👍 520 🔁 119 💬 30 📌 4

Perhaps it was a bad thing to give a scumbag abuser the power to decide life and death all around the world

11.03.2026 20:02 👍 1010 🔁 174 💬 30 📌 2
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I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

12.03.2026 02:09 👍 23161 🔁 6722 💬 882 📌 439

Is this good?

12.03.2026 02:40 👍 105 🔁 30 💬 7 📌 2
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Ossoff: "Trump has a problem with every side of his coalition ... they see this guy and his family raking in billions from all over the world while the cost of living crisis in America gets worse. It's infuriating people, and not just Democrats."

12.03.2026 02:34 👍 2070 🔁 506 💬 18 📌 8
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Ossoff: "The president appears increasingly to have lost touch with reality. That is deeply concerning when you have a a cabinet much more concerned with winning his favor than giving good advice & the nation now plunged into war. It speaks to the necessity of winning these midterms in a landslide."

12.03.2026 02:38 👍 10973 🔁 3236 💬 283 📌 158
Pete Hegseth cosplaying as Colin Jost playing Pete Hegseth.

Pete Hegseth cosplaying as Colin Jost playing Pete Hegseth.

Um, is Hegseth getting work done to look more like Colin Jost, or is it just me?

12.03.2026 02:39 👍 262 🔁 11 💬 34 📌 3
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If I Don't Return and Mark Hertling's Journal: A Soldier’s Wartime Journal on Leadership, Family, and the Lessons Forged in War What would you want your children to know if you believed you might never return from war? When U.S. Army officer Mark Hertling prepared to deploy to the Middle East during Operation Desert Storm, mi...

All stoked from a successful book launch yesterday and on my way back home..and a friend sends me this.

Who is so shallow to do a knock off of a leadership book? Beware of the scammers!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0GS4MTLLC

12.03.2026 02:32 👍 177 🔁 26 💬 26 📌 3
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Trump and Iran signal no quick end to war as tankers burn in Iraqi waters The United States and Iran have signaled no quick end to their war, with U.S. President Donald Trump saying it was necessary to finish the job and Iran warning that the world should be ​ready for oil ...

Confirmation by Reuters. Two fuel vessels were struck in Iraqi waters.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

12.03.2026 01:37 👍 139 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 7
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More video of the oil tankers after being hit.

12.03.2026 01:28 👍 203 🔁 34 💬 5 📌 9
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Two oil tankers have been hit by Iran in the strait of Hormuz.

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