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Husband, Dad and proud West Virginian. Steel structures for over 20 years. Part of the design teams for some of NYC’s signature skyline.

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Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

13.03.2026 23:41 👍 38926 🔁 12086 💬 881 📌 667
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13.03.2026 18:38 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The real Operation Epic Fury needs to take place in November.

13.03.2026 12:20 👍 93 🔁 28 💬 3 📌 0

Watch this clip.

Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

12.03.2026 16:42 👍 5675 🔁 1693 💬 324 📌 86
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Do you pay by a meter for the knowledge you used to train your machine?

13.03.2026 11:51 👍 106 🔁 25 💬 6 📌 1

Diesel prices are going to hit hardest. It’s possible to save money personally by driving less, carpooling, etc.

Trucking, trains, and ships all use diesel. It’s an added cost down the entire line. Diesel has gone up nearly a $1 in two weeks.

Anything you buy generally gets to you by

13.03.2026 02:35 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

And then another group bundled these mortgages together and sold them as mortgage backed securities so they could make more questionable mortgages.

Another group of people (AIG) decided to insure these questionable MBS.

The market collapsed. Pressure came from more than one direction.

12.03.2026 19:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump Makes FATAL Mistake QUIETLY AXING KEY Policy
Trump Makes FATAL Mistake QUIETLY AXING KEY Policy YouTube video by Katie Phang

Trump law-lackey/Dep. AG, Todd Blanche, quietly rescinded a Biden-era DOJ policy requiring approval for “no-knock” searches of homes that was implemented after Breonna Taylor's murder.

My take on why this decision will lead to more deaths at the hands of law enforcement.

youtu.be/wbSVKut_mZI?...

12.03.2026 19:28 👍 1464 🔁 736 💬 59 📌 35

He basically says "It's OK that uninformed 20-year-olds who never applied for a grant or reviewed one were making the decisions to cancel these outright, you see, because we read books."

The lawyer asks: "Which books?"

"Oh, there were no books."

12.03.2026 16:46 👍 1313 🔁 133 💬 33 📌 4
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This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.

Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

12.03.2026 15:33 👍 7914 🔁 3181 💬 1139 📌 1838

The kicker here is 🤌.
When pressed as to why he, a 20-something with no experience in scholarly peer review or grant making, is qualified to summarily cancel fed gov't "DEI" contracts, he says a person who reads books & has life experience knows enough.
Oh really, which books?
"There were no books."

12.03.2026 16:13 👍 155 🔁 62 💬 12 📌 3

Used to be, lethal capacity was mentioned second - but not necessarily in an offensive capacity. Just a defender of freedoms.

12.03.2026 13:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve noticed that too. He still walks into it and says the nasty retorts, but the journalist asked a question, followed it up with evidence from his own administration, follows up again and asks for the new evidence, then he’s left looking like a child calling names because he doesn’t have any facts

11.03.2026 22:54 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I may be wrong, but it feels to me like reporters are giving Trump a lot more "Yeah, no, that's bullshit" responses now than they did just a few months ago.

11.03.2026 22:29 👍 4844 🔁 874 💬 230 📌 52
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Is This War Legal? (w/ Tess Bridgeman) Sarah Longwell talks with Just Security’s Tess Bridgeman about whether the Iran war is legal under the Constitution, the War Powers Resolution, and international law.

Is This War Legal? (w/ Tess Bridgeman) ||

11.03.2026 16:26 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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As I was saying:

09.03.2026 20:37 👍 413 🔁 74 💬 32 📌 3

The only person Trump never threatens or criticizes is Putin. Ever.

09.03.2026 11:46 👍 219 🔁 48 💬 11 📌 2

...when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.”

08.03.2026 12:43 👍 61 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

happy bday writer/educator Neil Postman, b.1931, Brooklyn.

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk,...

08.03.2026 12:43 👍 82 🔁 24 💬 4 📌 4
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A Double Shot of West Virginia Media Hits Talking lots of Iran war, Kristi Noem fired from DHS, a Lou Holtz story, and more doing media apperances on TV & radio for the home team in my beloved West Virginia

Lastest from @four4thefire.bsky.social on Iran War, Kristi Noem being fired, Lou Holtz, and more during media apperances, as compiled @heardtell.bsky.social

07.03.2026 14:45 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Kristi Noem Broke Trump’s No. 1 Rule Never, ever, EVER blame the boss.

"Discomfort serves as a moral and strategic guardrail. Leaders who feel the weight of ordering teenagers toward hardship, injury, and death are more likely to ask the necessary hard questions."

07.03.2026 05:01 👍 230 🔁 43 💬 9 📌 0
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No, There Was No ‘Imminent Threat’ From Iran Team Trump shows that words made to mean everything will cease to mean anything.

"Imminent" means "I felt like doing it."

07.03.2026 03:30 👍 523 🔁 123 💬 16 📌 2
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Pardon Industry Offers Rich Offenders a Path to Trump

NEW: Pardon seekers are routinely being asked to pay $1m+ to lobbyists & lawyers claiming access to Trump, often with bonuses if clemency is granted.

I investigated the Trump Pardon Industrial Complex, & detailed the backstory behind 1 interesting pardon.

06.03.2026 15:09 👍 468 🔁 258 💬 16 📌 22
Golden Age Superman stands head to thigh alone in a panel black at the top and red on the bottom where Superman stands pointing at the reader as he says, "Be wary of unscrupulous operators of gambling games--they are always on the look out for unsuspecting victims."

Golden Age Superman stands head to thigh alone in a panel black at the top and red on the bottom where Superman stands pointing at the reader as he says, "Be wary of unscrupulous operators of gambling games--they are always on the look out for unsuspecting victims."

06.03.2026 00:30 👍 2337 🔁 920 💬 22 📌 35
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06.03.2026 14:55 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

03.03.2026 17:55 👍 24791 🔁 6085 💬 1098 📌 758

Information = content + cost + source.

Can't evaluate information without all three. Which is why you—a smart person, I'm sure—would never reskeet something without knowing where it came from (source) and why it appeared in your timeline (cost). Right?

04.03.2026 04:50 👍 30 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1

These charges were not similar. Peters literally stole an innocent person’s identity and used it to illegally access systems protected by state law. And she remains unrepentant to this day.

04.03.2026 02:27 👍 578 🔁 167 💬 5 📌 5

Ooof.

04.03.2026 02:51 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Two federal judges rebuke Minnesota U.S. Attorney after ICE fails to follow court orders A federal judge in St. Paul ordered Minnesota’s U.S. attorney to court over DHS’s failure to return property to unlawfully detained immigrants, as another judge rebuked his office.

Minnesota U.S. Attorney Dan Rosen is in St. Paul federal court this morning along with his acting civil division chief David Fuller. Judge Jeffery Bryan ordered them to appear & explain why they shouldn’t be held in civil or criminal contempt... www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

03.03.2026 16:23 👍 51 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 1