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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 4h

Imagine if the tech bros doing all these cool things for themselves used their billions to help humanity instead. apple.news/AJNA_ADzrQ_S...

Inside the Secret Tech Island Where Death Is Optional — Popular Mechanics

How a tropical haven for “anarcho-capitalist” ideals became ground zero in the scientific quest for immortality.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 4h

This. Every word.

Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 4h

"Whatever lies behind Trump’s cupidity towards Putin, we should be long past caring why. The reality is settled fact. Putin has fewer cards in his hand than Trump supposes. One of those cards is Trump." My column. www.ft.com/content/7deb...

Putin’s mesmeric sway on Trump

Russia bets it can gain in US negotiations what it cannot win on the battlefield

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 4h

It does somehow sum everything up neatly. Trashy vulgarian unilaterally decides to tear up an iconic American building as though it’s one of his tacky private clubs, rather than a national monument he has very temporarily (and foolishly) been permitted to inhabit.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20h

Not sure why this image is so shocking, given everything he’s done but: it’s shocking!

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White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 6h

European leaders and Ukraine’s allies issued a careful warning to US President Donald Trump early today over his lukewarm support for Kyiv, backing his call to halt fighting but rejecting any suggestion of territorial concessions to Moscow.

Ukraine allies to Trump: Yes to freezing the line, no to changing borders

Joint statement from U.K., Germany, France, Italy and the EU comes after U.S. president holds tense meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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John W Creighton @jwcreighton3.bsky.social · 6h

Why is a serious, fact-based publication giving even the slightest credibility to anything the inveterate liar Trump says anymore?

The battlefield & country reports if anything point to the tide starting to turn against Putin.

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Denise Thomas Patrick @deniseky.bsky.social · 21h

If you look at today's tweets and "truths," you'll see the president of the United States of America is too stupid to know how to spell Colombia.

It's unbelievably egregious to know how stupid he and his entire cabinet prove to be on a daily basis.

They are too stupid to be embarrassed 😔

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John W Creighton @jwcreighton3.bsky.social · 11h

Exactly. Obama should have insisted on providing aid to homeowners not Wall Street,

David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 12h

IMO promising people hope & change & then bailing out bank donors as they foreclosed on 10 million families was the defining political moment that birthed this era & IMO liberals/Dems still refusing to reckon with this & discard the politics that led to it is part of why this descent persists.

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Liberal Television @liberaltelevision.bsky.social · 1d

7 million patriots standing up for their rights and their freedoms all across America. No Kings Day was a HUGE success.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 4d

From the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on deployment of National Guard: "Political opposition is not rebellion."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 4d

7th Circuit: ‘The Administration Remains Barred From Deploying the National Guard of the United States Within Illinois’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/7th-cir...

7th Circuit: ‘The Administration Remains Barred From Deploying the National Guard of the United States Within Illinois’

A 7th Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled unanimously Thursday to maintain...

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Utahbug @utahbug.bsky.social · 1d

White House accused Newsom of overreacting in closing a portion of I-5.
Debris from an exploding shell hit a vehicle.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

WaPo is reporting that former SSA data chief Charles Borges says Musk’s “U.S. DOGE Service” copied a federal mainframe with data on hundreds of millions of Americans. SSA denies a breach, but insiders say DOGE had unprecedented access and moved the data to a vulnerable cloud.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 1d

me_irl

The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeaj

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 1d

Sudetenland was a warning, not a guide.

Trump really is like a much dumber and older Neville Chamberlain.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 1d

Polish PM Donald Tusk: “No one should pressure Zelensky on territorial concessions. We must all pressure Russia to end its aggression. Appeasement has never been the path to a just and lasting peace.”

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like a reasonable request

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings is about the Constitution:
✅ No bullying of law firms, universities
✅ No militarization of ICE
✅ No politicizing the Justice Dept.
✅ No firing comedians & dissenters
✅ No troops on our streets

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John Fralloween @johndavidfraley.bsky.social · 1d

Protect Josh Naylor at all costs

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 1d

☠️ One in every 117 Russian men has died in the war, - The Economist

❗️According to a study based on over 200 sources, Russia lost between 0.5% and 1.2% of men under 60.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

So the US had a huge case using high-level informants. Bukele wanted back 9 informants who could expose his govt's deals with that same gang to lower the level of violence, fueling his image as a crime-fighter. That Rubio made a deal was known. That he reneged on informants was not.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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John W Creighton @jwcreighton3.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is an inept clown.

He’s pretty much killed my commercial real estate business due to tariffs on material inputs & labor policies.

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