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So, the United States is paying El Salvador millions of dollars to hold these people, and yet the people are detained solely pursuant to the sovereign authority of El Salvador?
BREAKING: DOJ, for the first time, in a declaration from a State Dep't official, confirms that, per the embassy, "Abrego Garcia is currently being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador. He is alive and secure in that facility." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
So, the United States is paying El Salvador millions of dollars to hold these people, and yet the people are detained solely pursuant to the sovereign authority of El Salvador?
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As I was leaving the neighborhood grocery store, the cashier told me to have a good day, but then the bagger looked at her and told me to have a GREAT day, so something is clearly going on between the two of them.
April 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
As I was leaving the neighborhood grocery store, the cashier told me to have a good day, but then the bagger looked at her and told me to have a GREAT day, so something is clearly going on between the two of them.
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Trump is turning global trade into a system of corporate peonage where companies compete to make deals with him to avoid paying crippling tariffs that would disrupt entire industries, all while manipulating the stock market to make himself and his inner circle of other billionaires even richer.
April 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Trump is turning global trade into a system of corporate peonage where companies compete to make deals with him to avoid paying crippling tariffs that would disrupt entire industries, all while manipulating the stock market to make himself and his inner circle of other billionaires even richer.
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75 percent.
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
75 percent.
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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
March 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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I had legit completely forgotten this.
March 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I had legit completely forgotten this.
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I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT
March 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT
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My brain literally cannot comprehend all of the bad stuff that just happened today so instead: scholastic book fair now has online wallets that you can use for your kiddos at the book fair- but also, you can donate to “share the fair” so others w/o can get books.
March 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
My brain literally cannot comprehend all of the bad stuff that just happened today so instead: scholastic book fair now has online wallets that you can use for your kiddos at the book fair- but also, you can donate to “share the fair” so others w/o can get books.
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The staff of the Department of Education are being told to clear out their offices by 6:00 PM.
The dumbest people alive are cheering for this.
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The dumbest people alive are cheering for this.
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March 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The staff of the Department of Education are being told to clear out their offices by 6:00 PM.
The dumbest people alive are cheering for this.
🤦♀️
The dumbest people alive are cheering for this.
🤦♀️
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I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
March 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
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must rock being a cybertruck guy. every time you pull up it’s like beep beep make way for the Ambassador of Divorce
March 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
must rock being a cybertruck guy. every time you pull up it’s like beep beep make way for the Ambassador of Divorce
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Last week: tariffs don't cause inflation - other countries pay the tariff, not American consumers
This week: ok, so we lied about that, but the inflation is ultimately a good thing!
Next week: listen, we need these austerity measures to defeat the depression and build back to prior levels of GDP
This week: ok, so we lied about that, but the inflation is ultimately a good thing!
Next week: listen, we need these austerity measures to defeat the depression and build back to prior levels of GDP
But if the price of goods is rising to facilitate the reinvigoration of American production and a transition to an economy that prioritizes domestic goods and markets, that’s a tradeoff we should consider.
March 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Last week: tariffs don't cause inflation - other countries pay the tariff, not American consumers
This week: ok, so we lied about that, but the inflation is ultimately a good thing!
Next week: listen, we need these austerity measures to defeat the depression and build back to prior levels of GDP
This week: ok, so we lied about that, but the inflation is ultimately a good thing!
Next week: listen, we need these austerity measures to defeat the depression and build back to prior levels of GDP
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when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero"
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
www.wired.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero"
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
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Trump whining that Democrats wouldn't applaud him even if he cured a disease and then a second later bragging about withdrawing from the World Health Organization
March 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Trump whining that Democrats wouldn't applaud him even if he cured a disease and then a second later bragging about withdrawing from the World Health Organization
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"92% of Medicaid enrollees are already working, attending school or caregiving, according to an analysis by KFF, a health policy research firm."
Medicaid is necessary for working, learning, and care giving Americans (both adults and children)
#SOTU
#MomSky
apnews.com/article/medi...
Medicaid is necessary for working, learning, and care giving Americans (both adults and children)
#SOTU
#MomSky
apnews.com/article/medi...
Republicans consider cuts and work requirements for Medicaid, jeopardizing care for millions
Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, jeopardizing health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program.
apnews.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"92% of Medicaid enrollees are already working, attending school or caregiving, according to an analysis by KFF, a health policy research firm."
Medicaid is necessary for working, learning, and care giving Americans (both adults and children)
#SOTU
#MomSky
apnews.com/article/medi...
Medicaid is necessary for working, learning, and care giving Americans (both adults and children)
#SOTU
#MomSky
apnews.com/article/medi...
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Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
March 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
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The *best* case scenario now is that Trump declares a phony victory and backs down from trade war, leaving everyone exhausted, uncertain what's up and what's not. But there's the real prospect this gets worse, and the not-impossible prospect that it gets crazily worse.
March 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The *best* case scenario now is that Trump declares a phony victory and backs down from trade war, leaving everyone exhausted, uncertain what's up and what's not. But there's the real prospect this gets worse, and the not-impossible prospect that it gets crazily worse.
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Can u believe instagram suppressed my comic about getting off of instagram
March 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Can u believe instagram suppressed my comic about getting off of instagram
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who told this pampered asshole he has the right to speak to anyone like this?
VP Vance to President Zelenskyy: Have you said thank you once?
February 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
who told this pampered asshole he has the right to speak to anyone like this?
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VP Vance to President Zelenskyy: Have you said thank you once?
February 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
VP Vance to President Zelenskyy: Have you said thank you once?
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I’ve lost track of how many times they’ve broken something and then gamely tried to at least pretend to glue it back together.
The Office of Personnel Management told the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to reinstate veterans, disabled veterans, and military spouses who were fired, according to an email sent to CFPB employees who saw their terminations reversed. news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...
OPM Tells CFPB to Reinstate Fired Veterans, Military Spouses
The Office of Personnel Management told the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to reinstate veterans, disabled veterans, and military spouses who were fired, according to an email sent to CFPB emplo...
news.bloomberglaw.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I’ve lost track of how many times they’ve broken something and then gamely tried to at least pretend to glue it back together.