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Mike Maples
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Art is the curation of accidents. Screenwriter, working in LA. Oregon Duck.
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President Trump wants to soften one of the strongest legal protections American workers have: the right to hold an employer accountable when retirement savings are mishandled. Watch @amoghvaz.bsky.social break it down 👇
Hey voters this is the legacy Republicans have given us. Oh, but hey, they still do hate the people you do so it’s cool.
A decade ago, Florida stripped a teacher of her license for sexually abusing a 16-year-old. Last year, she opened a private school there with ease. As private schools fueled by taxpayer dollars proliferate, states are choosing not to closely regulate who runs them or what they teach. (Pub. July)
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Hollywood is increasingly becoming a hellscape, but I was able to wrangle a small victory lately. deadline.com/2026/10/meri...
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Stand Up for Science is proud to endorse Will Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social for Michigan's 7th congressional district. A Stand Up for Science endorsement lets you know that a candidate is a champion of science and who will keep political and ideological influences out of the scientific process.
Excellent point.
No one against impeaching Trump officials for egregious lawbreaking and Constitutional violations points out a downside. Gets the House additional investigatory powers. That alone makes it worth it. Do you not want power or do you want the full account to stay hidden from the public? Which is it?
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Mob money and kompromat built the guy, so calling him compromised is just stating the job description. The interesting part isnt the leash, its how many Western suits still pretend the dog is walking itself.
The president of the United States is nothing more than a dumb criminal who has been compromised and used by Putin as an asset for the Russian Mob… Nothing more, nothing less. Any Questions?! 😎✨
Put a pin in your AI panic and read this thread because it’s not theoretical, it’s right fucking now. Clinical trials saved my life. I don’t want to be the last to benefit.
We scraped through the data and found that 50% of all clinical trials are at risk of being cancelled. 1,026 cancer trials 273 pediatric trials 115 heart disease trials 184 diabetes trials This is unacceptable and inhumane.
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From false claims that large numbers of non-U.S. citizens are illegally registered to vote to attacks on mail voting, here are five election rumors circulating ahead of the midterms. bit.ly/4yDljei
I always assumed, (naively) that Republicans would finally stop Trump when his ignorance and vanity started to hit them in their wallets, but apparently we have to wait to him to destroy the dollar and bankrupt the country and you know what, that might not even be enough.
Global investors are balking at U.S. bonds. Talk of the dollar’s dwindling power is getting louder. Foreign governments are hauling their gold out of US vaults. Almost two years into Trump’s 2nd term, the world economy is increasingly looking for ways to distance itself from US. #Blues #SheShed
Everyone of those first responders behind him know he’s 100% full of shit. It’s shameful that they don’t just walk away and leave him alone at that podium.
Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
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Why? Must be an item on his “how can I ratfuck all the good things in life before I croak,” white board.
The Trump administration has halted work on a barrier system designed to keep invasive carp out of the Great Lakes. This work stoppage occurred as juvenile invasive carp were discovered closer to Lake Michigan than ever before. Read the full story:bit.ly/4h50DGg
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Dem leadership really needs to wrap their collective heads around THIS!
People are falling for the DSA vs Establishment trap again. Didn’t we learn our lesson in 2016 and 2024? It’s the establishment’s job to build a coalition that can win EVERYWHERE. In some places, that means ultra-progressive. In others, it means establishment. The tent is big enough for all of us.
It feels to me like the middle of act 2, an act that will end with Trump growing tired of the attention she’s getting and sacking her. Act 3 will be a full blown fatal attraction bloodbath. I mean maybe.
Now that the story has finally cast its Eva Braun (Natalie Harpy) I guess we're in the home stretch of the last chapter of this particular shit yarn?
I don’t think it’s a blunder at all. I think it’s purposeful, just another box to check on Putin’s honey do list.
Trump signaling that the US will not be a strong partner in the defense of South Korea does not make us safer It’s another foreign policy blunder of great proportions and will have a chilling effect freer globally for years to come Republicans own this and it’s just appalling Vote them all out
Say it ain’t so.
The lack of supplies aboard the ships deployed to Gulf region was inevitable under Hegseth. They are supplied & supported by the 5th Fleet base in Bahrain. It was destroyed in the first days of Trump's Iran War because Hegseth failed to protect it or plan for any knowable actions by Iran.
The Senate is a broke-dick-dog. Let’s take it back and right this fucking ship.
The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for over 200 days. Conditions are so bad that sailors are trying to jump ship. So what is the Secretary of Defense focused on right now? Testosterone tests. Seth Moulton has a message for Pete Hegseth: send the USS Lincoln HOME.
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During COVID, medical workers filled latex gloves with warm water so the dying could feel like their hands were being held by another person as they died alone in hospitals pushed to the brink of collapse. People who downplay the horrors of the pandemic to focus on its inconveniences are fools.
There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?
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