Literally everything this administration does suggests they are unaware that other countries have agency & domestic politics, too.
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Literally everything this administration does suggests they are unaware that other countries have agency & domestic politics, too.
Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of all crude oil, according to two people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue. https://cnn.it/4ljpiay
This is nonsense.
In 1976, studies showed that less than 40% of jobs in America paid enough to support a family of four on their own.
Car salesmen tell me that almost no one ever talks about mpg when deciding on a car to buy. Maybe some have already done the research, but mainly people just don't think about that.
BREAKING:
The Justice Department just posted online three FBI interviews that had been missing from the massive trove of Epstein files initially released.
They're related to unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump.
DOC 1: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
this move will simultaneously increase the average intelligence of the Trump cabinet and the U.S. senate
You have to watch this.
Y'all probably know this, but "no tax on Social Security" is a lie. What Trump & the GOP did was give an extra $6,000 exemption to every taxpayer age 65 or older. That's a fraction of most people's SS income but also available to people 65+ who haven't yet started taking SS. And it ends in 2028.
Arkansas director Jeff Nichols is seeking young actors in the Central Arkansas area for his upcoming film "King Snake," starring Margaret Qualley, Drew Starkey and Michael Shannon. Submissions are due Wednesday. arktimes.com/rock-candy/2...
I think it's important that all the Qanon loons should know that there's been a coverup and that it's now their time to shine. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
Tough break for everyone banking on those tariff rebate checks.
If only his preferred political party believed that Dreamers should have a path to citizenship...
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I feel like there is a lot of oversimplifying about how the economy is doing on here and it's a complicated issue and, Lord help me, I'm going to lay out what I know:
1) Hourly wages rose from the bottom after 2022. That means the lowest paid workers were overall doing better, but...
Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering.
Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
The sale of @thecignagroup.bsky.social's Medicare supplement business to HealthSpring has created more frustration and angst for my in-laws, ages 96 and 94, than I could ever have imagined.
Like having the No. 2 official at DOJ personally interview a convicted child sex trafficker in prison, and then make sure she is sent to a much more comfortable prison to play with puppies. This is only normal when serving the personal interests of the king.
Emily Kennard, fine product of the University of Central Arkansas journalism program, reports on the latest depraved tactic being used by the GOP's Finest to get money out of suckers.
A+++++. I can't remember the last thing that made me laugh until the tears came, but this one did.
Imagine his horror when the wife of US Supreme Court Justice Alito flew the American flag upside down outside their home. Or was that somehow very different?
A CO detector saved my life and my husband's in 2019. Do not live in a house with gas appliances without a detector in your bedrooms.
BREAKING via Star-Tribune: GOP gubernatorial candidate ends bid, says he can’t support "stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”
Read more www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...
A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...
Arizona, November 2020
Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*
The fugitive known as “Bitcoin Jesus” was indicted for tax evasion and facing prison.
Then he hired a “Friend of Trump.”
This is how it went down, from Avi Asher-Schapiro & @mtredden.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/bitc...
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
I don't know anything about this sport, but these athletes are blowing my mind.
Duh.
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