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This is just flat-out criminal. {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...
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This is just flat-out criminal. {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...
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I would love for other people to get killed so everyone can know how tough I am personally (no i won’t be doing any fighting) bsky.app/profile/atru...
Rep. Greg Steube: "You see Macron and the French sending troops to Greenland. I would love to see the US military up against French troops in Greenland, because it would not last very long. It would be a very small skirmish ... we don't care about what Macron and the French want."
Someone PLEASE send this to a Democratic consultant agency before we get another “people just want bipartisanship” message for 2026.
like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
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Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.
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The Mount Etna video today is incredible. @wutangforchildren.bsky.social
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When I interviewed KKK leaders in Arkansas, this is what they said too. “We don’t hate anyone. We just love our own people.” Then they burned a cross.
“Social solidarity is destroyed when you have too much migration too quickly,” JD Vance tells our columnist Ross Douthat in this episode of “Interesting Times.” “That’s not because I hate the migrants or I’m motivated by grievance. That’s because I’m trying to preserve something in my own country.”
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If Russell Vought was the smart, capable man he wants you to believe he is, he would have been CEO of a Fortune 500 — not Head Boy at The Ayn Rand Center for Cranky Babies Who Don’t Like To Share.
I'm skeptical of this pat narrative that Vought is the smart version of Musk. The main thing we know he's managed thus far is the dismantling of CFPB as its acting director, and in that task he has failed twice to fire anyone and had to rehire many as well www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
They absolutely DO NOT think they will ever be out of power again and are making plans to ensure it.
I think what’s most striking about the last few months is how rarely anyone in the GOP applies this simple test. A lot of checks and balances rely on this kind of worrying about precedent but it’s now totally absent, as if they don’t think they’ll ever be out of power again.
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Trump hates American democracy. He hates open societies. He’s jealous of Xi and Putin. He wants America to be like Russia and he’s doing everything he can to make it so.
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
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They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
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"Any member over 70 should see the writing on the wall." Mmmhmmm. puck.news/democrats-co...
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[if Chuck Schumer replaced Russell Crowe in Gladiator] My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I'm ready to work with you
[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken] CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
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Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮
My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR. My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down. I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos. I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
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With Canada supplying a significant portion of the electricity, refined petroleum, and natural gas used in New England, many experts agree that consumers will likely bear the brunt of Trump’s tariff.
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How many of us have to die before the people fight back
The remaining employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are trying to “pick up the pieces” and figure out how to continue delivering life-saving information to the public after the firing of hundreds of America’s foremost experts in weather forecasting and earth sciences
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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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sure, folding usaid saves america a couple bucks up front but making up for consequences of the power vacuum this leaves (that china & russia will inevitably fill) will cost us for years to come @gzeromedia.com
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Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.
I’m in Oversight Committee right now. Ranking Member Connolly just called for a vote to subpoena Elon Musk. Republicans out-number us on this committee, but many aren’t in the room. We’ll see who wins this vote. We deserve transparency and answers.
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it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.