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512/ People should pay attention to recent escalation in the Iran War What is Iran's response function to the Trump and Netanyahu's plans for more bombing? What will Iran decide to target? Will it move from a defensive to an offensive campaign? PT on the logic of Iran's escalation.
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The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.
Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."
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Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Last week, Musk capped the speeds at which Ukrainian hardware could stay connected to the satellite-based network .. .. One of the people also claimed Musk and Trump discussed the matter prior to the decision ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...
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Elon Musk is a threat to democracy both here at home and abroad. He ordered the slowdown of the military version of Starlink, which the Ukrainians need in their war of survival against the Russian invaders. And then Musk lied about it on his X, the extremist sewer that was once known as Twitter.
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Dem Candidate In Arizona: My Rape Was Not A ‘Hoax’ Concocted for Votes talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dem-can...
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Elon is spending money on this election like a guy who knows he's killed roughly half a million more children than he had at this point in 2024.
Genuinely irresponsible propaganda for the main story about Elon Musk 2 weeks before the election in which he is the largest donor in history to be an "Elon says he will do good thing at some point in the future" story
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Did you know the Jan. 6 files are actually missing? Trump wiped the Department of Justice website of records related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Luckily we saw this coming, and downloaded all of the files before they could get to them. jan6memoryproject.org/
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A good summary here of how much Meta is in the tank for Trump. And a reminder that the authoritarian threat comes not just from within the Trump administration but from its oligarchic allies. Oligarchic power is now a clear and present threat to our democracy. open.substack.com/pub/populari...
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Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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In a very real way, all of this horror goes back to our failure to really hold the Confederacy to account for their crimes against humanity. 
Did we really win the Cold War? Defeat fascism? Bury the Confederacy? In retrospect, thanks to Trump, MAGA and their enablers, perhaps none of those things. My latest. Hope you’ll give it a read. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/so-as-it-t...
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SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
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Update: about 4 hours later and we still don't have admin access so we still can't post to the No Kings instagram account. This isn't slowing down the the 3,000+ early vote events today. We will drive the biggest early vote in history. But this should be a flashing alarm about what's to come.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: No Kings organizer Ezra Levin SOUNDS ALARM after Meta suspended the movement’s Instagram during nationwide protests. LEVIN: “We might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now.” “We're not gonna stop organizing against this regime.”
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Superb summary of last night's Roadster reveal (without anything resembling an actual Roadster) from @theonetruedoktor.bsky.social, with insights into Elon Musk's narcissism, mendacity, and desperation. Share this one widely. substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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What’s astounding to me is how “the president builds himself a palace with money given directly to him in secret by the richest people in America,” literally the most straightforward and worst executive-branch corruption story in US history, just gets shrugged at because Trump is unapologetic
Q: You said you're gonna put some of your own money into the ballroom. Are you? TRUMP: I may do that. When they run out, I'll be there, okay?
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“A dated, sourced record of Elon Musk's posts, replies and reposts about Black people” elonmuskhatesblacks.com
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One year ago today, the U.S. killed Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, two Trinidadian men coming home after working on farms in Venezuela to provide for their families. They were both looking forward to being home. But, they never made it because of the Trump administration's illegal boat strikes.
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That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.
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