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Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, TV enthusiast, music fan, mom of River and Julia, resident of the CLE

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Flashback, June 2025: “Conservatives on SCOTUS give DOGE the go-ahead.” www.lawdork.com/p/conservati...

11.03.2026 00:55 👍 294 🔁 151 💬 6 📌 1
GA14 special election

GA14 special election

Meanwhile, in the GA-14 special election, Shawn Harris is currently at 44% with 38% of the vote in…

10.03.2026 23:46 👍 123 🔁 32 💬 3 📌 2

The Helicopter Mommy party: poised to swoop in on a split-second's notice to protect Republicans from the consequences of their own idiocy.

11.03.2026 00:48 👍 517 🔁 115 💬 12 📌 7
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Nearly half of Ohio’s renters are paying more than they can afford on rent, new report shows • Ohio Capital Journal Ohio has a shortage of 266,000 affordable and available rental units, according to a new report.

A new report shows that nearly half of Ohio’s 1.58 million renters are paying more than they can afford for rent. Ohio also has a shortage of 266,000 affordable and available rental units, the report shows ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/10/n...

11.03.2026 01:00 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017 to 2025.

The top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.

Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

10.03.2026 23:00 👍 3013 🔁 1254 💬 106 📌 59
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NEW: DOJ sued Washington State for access to the state's unreacted voter data. However, it failed to file proof that it served the complaint. So now the federal judge has asked DOJ to show cause as to why this case should not be dismissed. www.democracydocket.com/cases/washin...

10.03.2026 19:04 👍 3996 🔁 956 💬 112 📌 44

I have never met anyone who is more adept at tracking every last cent they have than people who live or have lived in poverty

it is a skill developed out of necessity and it never leaves you

11.03.2026 01:03 👍 2575 🔁 406 💬 34 📌 21

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

11.03.2026 01:03 👍 7359 🔁 1590 💬 223 📌 301

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.

But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?

They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

11.03.2026 01:03 👍 4871 🔁 867 💬 34 📌 65

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

11.03.2026 01:03 👍 8646 🔁 3435 💬 244 📌 439
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a cartoon of mickey mouse wearing a wizard hat and holding an open book ALT: a cartoon of mickey mouse wearing a wizard hat and holding an open book

And now.

11.03.2026 01:06 👍 51 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
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Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of …

newrepublic.com/post/207555/...

10.03.2026 16:35 👍 1681 🔁 869 💬 230 📌 142

So when are Republican lawmakers going to admit this president is endangering not just the U.S. but the entire globe and stop him before he does even more damage?

10.03.2026 19:31 👍 2250 🔁 739 💬 199 📌 31
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DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

10.03.2026 18:27 👍 2781 🔁 1637 💬 41 📌 85

He may as well just say fuck off.

10.03.2026 19:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why do they even bother to talk at this point?

10.03.2026 19:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Follow-up question: Do you know the difference between fact and opinion? If not I can show you the worksheet my kid brought home from 2nd grade.

10.03.2026 18:59 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Whitmer asks for federal investigation into why no tornado watch was issued in deadly Friday storms • Ohio Capital Journal Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office has asked for a federal investigation into why no tornado watch was issued by the National Weather Service before deadly storms hit southwest Michigan on…

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office has asked for a federal investigation into why no tornado watch was issued by the National Weather Service before deadly storms hit southwest Michigan on Friday night. ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/whitm...

10.03.2026 18:30 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
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Marco Rubio’s Florida Bestie Is an Accused ‘Foreign Agent’ Set to Go on Trial— With Rubio On the Witness List David Rivera and Rubio bought a house in Tallahassee when they were coming up together in Florida politics. But he’s been a headache for the secretary of state ever since, and now he could be one for ...

Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list.

My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

10.03.2026 18:20 👍 3060 🔁 1308 💬 109 📌 71

Trump is not the unfortunate victim of job “losses”; he is destroying jobs, especially manufacturing jobs. And in savaging medical and scientific grants and going to war with universities, Trump is further undercutting one of America’s greatest sources of long-term growth and productivity

10.03.2026 12:34 👍 515 🔁 160 💬 13 📌 2

I watched the longer clip Aaron also posted that showed what Trump said leading up to this to see what the context was, and there was none--he literally said this out of nowhere.

10.03.2026 01:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Ticketmaster parent Live Nation settles DOJ antitrust case Live Nation Entertainment settled with the U.S. Justice Department in the middle of a trial on claims ​the Ticketmaster owner illegally dominated key parts of the live-events industry, the DOJ said on...

The Trump DOJ gave Ticketmaster a sweetheart deal that keeps their monopoly intact & does nothing to stop their ridiculously high prices & fees.

The deal was so good, their stock price jumped 6.2% after the news broke.

Once again: Trump's putting corporations over consumers.

10.03.2026 01:05 👍 554 🔁 196 💬 26 📌 7
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BREAKING: Judge Brann has ejected the new leaders of the NJ U.S. attorney's office, once again finding the Trump administration is illegally attempting to circumvent Senate confirmation.

He says this could result in dismissals of indictments.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

09.03.2026 19:25 👍 2761 🔁 904 💬 30 📌 27
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Rep. Kevin Kiley leaves GOP to become an independent, complicating Johnson's majority Rep. Kevin Kiley of California said Monday he was immediately leaving the Republican Party to become an independent.

BREAKING: Kevin Kiley (R-CA) is SWITCHING PARTIES. Effective immediately, he is leaving the Republican party to become an Independent. This complicates Mike Johnson’s slim majority. www.cbsnews.com/news/kevin-k...

09.03.2026 18:32 👍 3707 🔁 904 💬 345 📌 128
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The Unbearable Lightness of Signalgate Nearly a year after a national-security scandal erupted on my iPhone, no one in the Trump administration has faced consequences.

Nearly a year after the national-security scandal that came to be known as Signalgate, no one in the Trump administration has faced consequences, Jeffrey Goldberg writes.

09.03.2026 18:35 👍 84 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 4
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The Situation: The BASE Jumping Presidency Sometimes you get away with reckless and stupid decisions.

"The decision to launch this war was reckless and stupid even if the gods, which is to say luck, end up somehow favoring it with success—however one might ultimately define success," writes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org in The Situation.

06.03.2026 15:04 👍 153 🔁 30 💬 7 📌 3
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09.03.2026 13:12 👍 3274 🔁 1355 💬 155 📌 63

No thanks.

09.03.2026 15:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It looks really good!

09.03.2026 02:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I never heard of this, but I just put it on my list!

09.03.2026 02:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0