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The Democratic primary candidate that promises to use their leadership of the Party to go after these parasitic consultants and toxic practices with prejudice can get a lot of support from the disillusioned base. A real crown-in-the-gutter situation.
Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.
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Trump didn't like Ramaswamy until he saw him sticking up for child rapists and their enablers. He hated the Ivy League until Cornell had a prominent fraternity gang-rape story in the news. He's not just a rapist, not just a serial rapist—he's a rape *enthusiast,* and it's why Republicans love him.
Trump: "What's happened is the press has ganged up on a woman making a horrible statement about her daughter, and I don't why she should be shielded. She said she was a dirty liar ... I say she's fair game."
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one thing that would better position Democrats to win these tough races would be if co-founders of lavishly-funded "Democratic think tanks" cared more about winning than getting their name in the newspaper and so declined the opportunity to shit on Democratic candidates 3 weeks before election day
Ludicrous framing here from @nytimes.com. No serious Dems ever thought these would be slam dunks. And it's premature to let a centrist group get in a self-interested shot like this before we even know if these candidates will actually fare worse in the elections than other ones. Indefensible.
Practicioners have long derided the patient who thinks a Google search has the same authority as their medical degree, for good reasons. It's going to get a lot harder to make this case to patients as doctors fall into the same patterns with overreliance on LLMs.
There are a lot of validity issues with these benchmarks, which should be interpreted as favorable conditions. Even so, it's clear that OpenEvidence is not a reliable source. Is it good that clinicians are relying on this product outside of their expertise?
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I think Ossoff captures something that Newsom never did: the Dem base wants you to fight but they want real shit not goofy memes and too-online riffs
OSSOFF: You didn't answer earlier. Answer now. Did Donald Trump win the 2020 election? MIKE COLLINS: You know, the 2020 election. Everybody has seen my views on that OSSOFF: What are they? COLLINS: There was a lot of doubt in that election OSSOFF: I didn't hear an answer
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I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
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I can't stop thinking about this piece by Charlse Dickens after he witnessed a public execution. The presentation of retributive murder by the Government as public entertainment is corrosive to every aspiration of humanity we profess. fs.blog/charles-dick...
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be "public. n.pr/4hNSlSu
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Pretty much everyone, and especially the people who share a movement with these people, should want these protesters to be treated with the same scrutiny as the people at the Unite the Right rally.
Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside City Hall to call out Mayor Zohran Mamdani for what they see as his betrayal of the movement. "Mayor Mamdani, you can't hide we charge you with genocide" was a chant that just rang out.
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Unpopular opinion: When someone is factually wrong about something important—eg vaccination—telling them that they’re wrong is treating them with respect. The condescending thing to do is indulge them, act like they have a point, as if the thing you know to be wrong might be at least somewhat right.
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However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
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So much care has been put into ensuring the people you’re “arresting” are not just nonwhite, but are various shades of brown. They don’t even have real faces but the White House was sure to get ten different skin tones, so every nonwhite group is well-represented www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/rio-r...
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A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
RFK's primary objective in gutting HHS and destroying vaccine infrastructure is eugenics shit, but we can't look past the scapegoat dynamic - you can't blame immigrants for disease outbreaks without first having outbreaks of disease. The Administration happily kills Americans to incite violence.
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Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety aboard the West Virginia. He then hopped on a AA gun and despite no training at all shot down at least one plane despite being under constant attack. He was later killed action aboard the USS Liscome Bay during Operation Galvanic
The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor President Trump, sources say. https://cnn.it/4hFq6a6
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First the president openly sells insider trading access; and now there's direct evidence of him doing money laundering. And he is still the president.
“.. The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump's family business.” @reuters.com $COF www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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literally impeach him just for this
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
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The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.
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Don’t forget that the focus on Springfield was a result of a racist conspiracy theory spread by Blood Tribe, a Neo-Nazi group, then amplified by the then-future President and VP. JD Vance famously said he didn’t care whether or not it was true.
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
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If there's one thing Trump has usefully revealed it's that the gatekeepers in the media who supposedly had so much reverence for Support The Troops and Dead Soldiers etc when those things were being deployed to hurt Democrats were just liars and never cared about this even a little.
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@cnn.com The word for what this article is describing is insider trading. It isn't a new market solution, it is a crime. Please do the bare minimum of describing reality to your readers.
Truth Social will sell Wall Street firms quicker access to market-moving posts from Trump, the company said
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Now @apnews.com has a deeply reported story confirming the recently-hired ICE officer who shot a man in Maine had serious mental health issues and a long history of violence against women. This comes after ICE slashed hiring standards and rushed some into the field before background checks cleared.
ICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say.