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Colombia unveils new cocaine, cayenne and whey protein powder mix

11.03.2026 00:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Infants betrayed by peekaboo

10.03.2026 21:25 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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States Are Using Policies From The 1600s To Punish Women For Miscarriages Even the strongest anti-abortion advocates don't want to punish people for pregnancy loss. Police and prosecutors are finding ways to do it anyway.

NEW: Even the strongest anti-abortion advocates don't want to punish people for pregnancy loss. Police and prosecutors are finding ways to do it anyway.

Here's what happens when miscarriage is recast as murder:

10.03.2026 16:25 👍 336 🔁 161 💬 25 📌 22
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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 👍 5207 🔁 2241 💬 611 📌 964

In other words welcome back to 2020 and COVID

10.03.2026 00:17 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Donald Trump said some shit and then he said some other shit and everyone and markets have to react like it means anything

10.03.2026 00:17 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think the only difference here is he can't fake open the straight of hormuz

09.03.2026 22:37 👍 36 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lol lmao

09.03.2026 22:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nearly 6 hours since a GOP congressman said “Muslims don’t belong in American society,” not a single member of Republican leadership in the House will weigh in.

09.03.2026 19:18 👍 1475 🔁 478 💬 63 📌 22
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At $110 Oil, a Longer War Is Here for Markets Bad midterms news for Trump: Both fuel and food inflation are now under pressure.

Everything's going great! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

09.03.2026 15:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Just another normal morning where the President of the United States shares completely false claims from a conspiracy theory site. I’ve confirmed with election officials in Maricopa County that this is 100% BS.

09.03.2026 14:17 👍 2220 🔁 818 💬 95 📌 49

Like when the elderly were told to die for the economy during COVID.

09.03.2026 13:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Process? In this White House?

09.03.2026 13:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Like the right wingers who are now upset at another forever war, congrats on learning that you are a complete idiot.

09.03.2026 13:44 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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ICE Detention Is ‘Hell On Earth.’ Trump Has A Plan To Keep Even More People Locked Up. Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse.

New, with @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social: Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse. Inside Trump's plan to jail many, many more people:
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

07.03.2026 15:45 👍 263 🔁 152 💬 3 📌 7

One man who suspected he had prostate cancer when he was first detained by ICE had to wait 6 months to get diagnosed.

“I am afraid that I will die … if I do not get the medical care that I need urgently … I am scared that without the Court’s help, I won’t get any cancer treatment at all.”

07.03.2026 17:21 👍 32 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0
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The Supreme Court Has Dawdled Too Long To Gift Republicans The Midterms It's now "functionally impossible" for Republicans to redraw House maps for the 2026 midterms if the Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act.

It's now too late in the election calendar for most GOP-led states in the South to rig their maps for the midterms if/when the Supreme Court buries the Voting Rights Act www.huffpost.com/entry/voting...

08.03.2026 15:17 👍 51 🔁 21 💬 7 📌 4
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Did Raekwon and Ghostface write this headline?

06.03.2026 19:39 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

the first time the virginia republican consultant class has suffered any consequences

06.03.2026 20:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it turns out that other people aren't npcs or bots

06.03.2026 14:41 👍 124 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 0

unearthing the ancient knowledge from past quagmires

06.03.2026 14:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

now they get to say those things to the mirror

06.03.2026 14:28 👍 32 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*you're

06.03.2026 13:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Your losing jobs? During a price shock?

06.03.2026 13:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Stagflation Friday

06.03.2026 13:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I don't know how to explain this but Casablanca is a movie for adults.

There are lots of movies built on an element of fantasy about being young or brave or defying the odds.

Casablanca is not that. Everyone in that movie has back pain and they have all just accepted it.

06.03.2026 10:38 👍 304 🔁 64 💬 3 📌 0
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Vital Reuters scoop on US investigation re Iran school. Can confirm: Defense Department officials told Congress in multiple briefings this week that they believed the US was most likely responsible (though probe ongoing), per two sources familiar with those briefings.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...

06.03.2026 02:55 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1

Monetizing peasant brain halluciations

06.03.2026 02:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Knowing at least one of the people in this discourse I think you should take them earnestly and not assume cynical motivations just as we should probably do for the Maine democratic electorate considering this guy leads the polls.

05.03.2026 23:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Lindsey Halligan Is Under Investigation by the Florida Bar

BREAKING NYT:

Lindsey Halligan, the ex-U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who brought criminal cases against Trump's enemies over the objections of career prosecutors, is under investigation by Florida's bar association, according to a letter the organization sent last month.

05.03.2026 20:30 👍 4128 🔁 1057 💬 177 📌 153