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@fope.bsky.social

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Computing is a moral activity, and we must take responsibility for its creation and the consequences of surrendering ourselves to it.

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Remember when Pete Hegseth's mom wrote him a letter telling him he was a misogynistic POS?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

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One of the things Teddy Roosevelt understood is that if any private citizen holds more power than the government, the republic is in deep trouble.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com

Elon Musk threatens Democrats who want to investigate alleged corruption and his role in the US government if they win control of Congress next month. "Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them” tinyurl.com/yjfn3u3k

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An American president would tell Putin to fuck off. An American president would tell Putin to get the fuck out of Ukraine. An American president would stand with Ukraine. Trump however is not an American president. He works for Putin. So he’ll do what Putin tells him to do.👇

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING WSJ: Vladimir Putin has proposed that he, Trump, and Xi Jinping meet next month to talk about Ukraine in an attempt to negotiate an end to the four-year conflict that would favor Moscow.

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All these athletes getting paid to be the faces of gambling sites should be ashamed of themselves. This will be a terrible look in a year or two, as Americans, especially young people, waste what little money they have on these sites that make the rich richer and everyone poorer.

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Photos obtained by CBS News reveal widespread damage to buildings and vehicles at multiple U.S. positions across the Middle East following Iranian missile and drone attacks “This is major damage to our bases that hasn’t been communicated to the American public,” one deployed service member told CBS

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Been saying he’s a carny for years

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

New in PN: “Trump Dividend” is the new Trump Steaks "Trump sounds like a carny salesman, not a president. That’s because he is a carny salesman. He’s shilling hard because the Republican Party he is selling for the midterms is about as appetizing as his patented explosive diarrhea lettuce."

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Aware of it? He's running one of the most blatant scams!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Jeanine Pirro: "The president is very much aware of the cryptocurrency fraud that is being literally imposed upon Americans, and he is well aware of the danger to Americans"

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Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

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The Reflecting Pool debacle is a perfect example of why Trump corruption matters. Goons get fat contracts to do craptastic government work. They get rich. Taxpayers get ripped off. And when people point it out, the feds hammer them into silence. We used to mock Communists for this garbage.

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Replying to @sethabramson.bsky.social

It's so offensive to hear him use the collective first-person pronoun "us" when describing past U.S. military victories, considering that he's a shameless draft-dodger who would never ever—ever, ever—have fought for his country, and believes U.S. soldiers are "losers and suckers"

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It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican. It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong. Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up. The sleeping giant of America is roaring.

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I would like a side-by-side account of the cost of: the Iran war, the reflecting pool, the ballroom, the Qatari plane, the WWE fight; DOJ settlement payoffs (like to Ashli Babbitt) and any other vanity projects I'm missing; compared with all of the "waste and fraud" supposedly saved by the DOGE cuts

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Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.

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Economists call this diminishing marginal utility. The first dollars change your life. The billionth doesn't. So the argument stops being about consumption and starts being about power.

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HOW ABOUT CORPORATE MEDIA JUST SHUTS UP UNTIL THERE’S AN ACTUAL DEAL Sick of this cringing, pathetic, incompetent journalism.

CNN@cnn.com

US and Iran reach tentative deal to open Strait of Hormuz and begin talks on Tehran's nuclear program, but Trump must still sign off, sources say https://cnn.it/3PTNHYW

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Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Sheri Biggs on South Carolina: "Right now, we have one congressman that's Democrat. I think a 7 and 0 map would definitely reflect our values. We should have only Americans voting in our elections."

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Hassett lies his ass off: "Almost all of the job creation that happened under President Biden was the employment of illegal aliens"

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Given this argument, I assume it's too dangerous for the President to go golfing anymore, right?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "The ballroom will be a solution for this. It'll have 7-inch thick glass, so it'll be a very safe environment to do events like that. We need a place like that and the president keeps pointing it out."

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Democrats did not want to do any mid-decade redistricting. It was Trump who started it in June 2025 with a phone call to Greg Abbott after more special election losses. Dems warned they’d respond. But Texas did it anyway - without the consent of the voters. Then Dems responded.

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I’ve seen the chaos inside the Trump admin firsthand—and how his extreme plans are hurting Virginia families. I stood up to him when it mattered & have not stopped fighting. Today, I launched my campaign for Congress. I’ll fight to undo the harm to hardworking Americans. Share if you’re with me.

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The UAE secretly paid Trump $187 million. Money in his pocket personally. And then Trump overrode decades of national security objections to selling Nvidia chips to UAE because we feared UAE would send the chips to China. Corruption has consequences.

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A review and reconsideration of US foreign aid efforts could have been conducted without burning tons of food and throwing out tons of medicine, directly resulting in people's deaths. But that's how Musk and Rubio chose to go about it.

Steve Randy Waldman@interfluidity.com

“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

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Replying to @prchovanec.bsky.social

The reason the Founders made Congress responsible for declaring war is that they knew it was vital for the decision to be thoroughly debated and the people to be fully committed to the course chosen.

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This shameful abdication—an economic, moral, and political failure—will harm Americans’ health, homes, and economic well-being. It ignores scientific fact and common-sense observations to serve big political donors.

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To all our international friends attending the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Milan tomorrow: Please loudly boo JD Vance and his delegation. Make him feel like shit. We encourage it. We wish we could be there to boo him, too. Signed, the American people

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Make Peter Thiel into the villain, Democrats. It's all there. He is the node that connects Trump, Vance, Palantir, Musk, Epstein, and so many other terrible players. Just expose it and make him and Musk the face of these psychopathic billionaires ruining our lives.

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For the last ten years, I've heard, "Oh, he's just like Reagan and Buckley, you know. Maybe a little rough around the edges, maybe not so well-read -- but, at heart, an heir." Bullshit. Trump is a racist and a Putin admirer. He embodies a dark and sick politics.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Trump posts a flagrantly racist video showing the Obamas as apes.

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I say it again and again...the Repugnican party must be totally obliterated in the upcoming elections, so that there will never be even the remotest possibility that a shitshow like this can ever happen again. Vote as if your very existence depends on it ... BECAUSE IT DOES!!!

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Why in the world should this matter?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Renee Good: "I know her parents were big Trump fans. Makes me feel bad anyway, but I mean I guess you could say even worse. They were tremendous Trump people."