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Centrist, but not a moderate. Husker by birth, Beaver believer by practice. Based in the PacNW. Occasionally plays in Peoria. NASCAR fan. TTRPG nerd. Lawyer, fixer, part-time adventurer.

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Hegseth: "Some in the press can't stop. Allow me to make suggestions. People look at the TV and they see banners, 'Mideast War Intensifies.' What should it read instead? How about, 'Iran increasingly desperate.' More fake news from CNN. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better"

13.03.2026 12:15 πŸ‘ 1567 πŸ” 461 πŸ’¬ 690 πŸ“Œ 724
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#StreetArt by #AMER in #France Aurec sur Loire

12.03.2026 08:15 πŸ‘ 339 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

lawyers and reporters are two occupations that somehow attract the absolute best and absolute worst that humanity has to offer

11.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 109 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 2
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πŸ˜•πŸ’°

12.03.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 3354 πŸ” 1703 πŸ’¬ 275 πŸ“Œ 140
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Jenny's Rose | Trevor White Roses Jenny's Rose has pretty soft pink, semi-double blooms set against glossy dark green, healthy foliage. Lovely fragrance. Good disease resistance.

I know just the thing, Alice. 😊🌹 #TheArchers

www.trevorwhiteroses.co.uk/shop/modern-...

11.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 621 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

By the way the idea that people are automatically saying β€œboth sides are the same” when criticizing Democrats isn’t true. The GOP is exponentially worse. The distinction is currently both parties are past the threshold of horrible and wrong, just at different magnitudes.

11.03.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 4
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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

12.03.2026 04:13 πŸ‘ 4305 πŸ” 1989 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 114
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I love hematology πŸ’œ

12.03.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 2140 πŸ” 120 πŸ’¬ 107 πŸ“Œ 6
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If you lost your job because of DOGE, this will enrage you.

They built a whole-ass crusade around β€œDEI,” then sent a staffer into a deposition who couldn’t even define it.

Justin Fox’s and his assignment was to help flag grants for elimination based on a term he struggled to explain under oath. πŸ₯΄

12.03.2026 05:05 πŸ‘ 2047 πŸ” 967 πŸ’¬ 238 πŸ“Œ 111
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lmao why is the NASA administrator going on Fox and railing against Iran?

(this is a rhetorical question -- the answer is that nobody in the Trump administration has actual job duties)

12.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 2137 πŸ” 424 πŸ’¬ 105 πŸ“Œ 39
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The Independent

Read more: trib.al/fMtk1ko

11.03.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 9998 πŸ” 4151 πŸ’¬ 385 πŸ“Œ 166
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Going Deeper: When Armageddon Enters the Chain of Command The Rise of Christian Nationalists

There are few things more dangerous than a political movement convinced that God needs help finishing His work. But that is exactly the territory we are entering now. Going Deeper:
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

12.03.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 3014 πŸ” 969 πŸ’¬ 227 πŸ“Œ 54

Evening from the booth.

Zalindi’s lights are still on, but the city’s slowed a notch.

We’re spinning a few wax for drivers, dishwashers, thinkersβ€”
the ones who think a little longer than the day crowd.

Funny thing about Ink Radio.

We never know who’s out there…
but somehow the right song reaches

10.03.2026 19:25 πŸ‘ 430 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 0
Aseul - Loveless
Aseul - Loveless YouTube video by μ•„μŠ¬ Aseul

Hold it right there.

The room just changed temperature β€” lights a little lower, city noise backing off, that electric hush you only get after midnight. This is the kind of record that doesn’t announce itself. It just slips into your veins and suddenly everything’s moving slower.

10.03.2026 06:40 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Chicago law firm leading push to appoint special prosecutor to target ICE, Border Patrol agents The firm, Loevy and Loevy, said 200 individuals and organizations are supporting a petition to appoint an outsider to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, who has spent wee...

A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz.

@sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

10.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 6266 πŸ” 1491 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 91
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#StreetArt near #Paris in #VitrySurSeine by #IcyAndSot 2023

09.03.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 304 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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#StreetArt by #CONSE in
#Brooklyn

09.03.2026 09:21 πŸ‘ 224 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Coons: "Right now, the clearest winner from this war in Iran is Russia. It's stunning that President Trump is on the phone with Vladimir Putin and spending more time consulting with him than he is with Congress and the American people."

10.03.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 4473 πŸ” 1543 πŸ’¬ 266 πŸ“Œ 125
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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

10.03.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 6389 πŸ” 2797 πŸ’¬ 828 πŸ“Œ 1199
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Are we still looking for waste, fraud, and abuse? I think I found some.

10.03.2026 10:48 πŸ‘ 5651 πŸ” 2409 πŸ’¬ 340 πŸ“Œ 157
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How stupid he said.

09.03.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 5619 πŸ” 1947 πŸ’¬ 253 πŸ“Œ 122
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Federal agents lied about why they shot a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis. Their story quickly fell apart. The attack marked the only time that federal authorities admitted wrongdoing during Operation Metro Surge.

Then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem doubled down, denouncing the incident as an act of β€œattempted murder” on law enforcement. Her agency published mugshots of all three men arrested in connection with the alleged assault, casting them as β€œviolent criminals.”

None of it was true.

09.03.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 4411 πŸ” 2237 πŸ’¬ 108 πŸ“Œ 72
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09.03.2026 10:19 πŸ‘ 5330 πŸ” 2128 πŸ’¬ 277 πŸ“Œ 102

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

09.03.2026 03:29 πŸ‘ 2281 πŸ” 948 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 54

Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.

08.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 10091 πŸ” 3520 πŸ’¬ 433 πŸ“Œ 118
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Had to doublecheck the date on this

07.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 11699 πŸ” 3313 πŸ’¬ 363 πŸ“Œ 231
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There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

07.03.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 14885 πŸ” 6346 πŸ’¬ 1137 πŸ“Œ 469
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Mural by Privet Zdarova
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

07.03.2026 05:00 πŸ‘ 915 πŸ” 106 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces. Not surprising. What IS surprising? Our response: easing oil sanctions on Russia.

Full breakdown on this and more from my Weekend Update on my Substack page: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/weekend-vi...

07.03.2026 19:46 πŸ‘ 6830 πŸ” 2735 πŸ’¬ 449 πŸ“Œ 125

As a Christian I take solace that some day in some way Trump will face accountability.

07.03.2026 03:13 πŸ‘ 479 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 146 πŸ“Œ 12