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USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
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Someone is buying up American starter homes and pricing you out. But it’s not who you’ve been told. #EconSky #Housing #PolSky #RonanFarrow
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Someone is buying up American starter homes and pricing you out. But it’s not who you’ve been told. #EconSky #Housing #PolSky #RonanFarrow
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Seven years after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the world is being asked to forget what happens when governments decide reporters are disposable—and to turn away from what that precedent means for all of us.
December 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Seven years after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the world is being asked to forget what happens when governments decide reporters are disposable—and to turn away from what that precedent means for all of us.
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Here's the CBC News segment where I explain why the Trump-led "peace talks" on the Russo-Ukrainian war are a charade: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
CBC's Aarti Pole speaks with political science expert Maria Popova about Ukraine-Russia peace talks
Get the latest on CBCNews.ca, the CBC News App, and CBC News Network for breaking news and analysis.
www.cbc.ca
December 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Here's the CBC News segment where I explain why the Trump-led "peace talks" on the Russo-Ukrainian war are a charade: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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And our first four fatalities in Afghanistan were killed by Americans in a “friendly fire” fuck-up by an American pilot.
December 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
And our first four fatalities in Afghanistan were killed by Americans in a “friendly fire” fuck-up by an American pilot.
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Again, it is utterly shameful & demonstrates the total failure of all of our political institutions that threatening our closest NATO allies with territorial conquest has not immediately ended this presidency.
Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
They’re again advocating against Denmark when it comes to Greenland
December 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Again, it is utterly shameful & demonstrates the total failure of all of our political institutions that threatening our closest NATO allies with territorial conquest has not immediately ended this presidency.
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Danes lost the most per capita in America's war in Afghanistan. Canada lost the second most per capita (if we discount the tiny Baltics).
Allies bled for the US after 9/11, and this is the thanks they get.
Allies bled for the US after 9/11, and this is the thanks they get.
Again, it is utterly shameful & demonstrates the total failure of all of our political institutions that threatening our closest NATO allies with territorial conquest has not immediately ended this presidency.
Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
December 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Danes lost the most per capita in America's war in Afghanistan. Canada lost the second most per capita (if we discount the tiny Baltics).
Allies bled for the US after 9/11, and this is the thanks they get.
Allies bled for the US after 9/11, and this is the thanks they get.
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The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.
December 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.
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Asshole National Post writers will spill endless ink about a mall protest against Israel but defend forever the violent occupation of the capital by a bunch of neo-nazi truckers.
December 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Asshole National Post writers will spill endless ink about a mall protest against Israel but defend forever the violent occupation of the capital by a bunch of neo-nazi truckers.
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I think three of these were born in the USA. Most of the rest had just got here.
December 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I think three of these were born in the USA. Most of the rest had just got here.
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It took a lot of recent refugees gathered together at Los Alamos to make an atom bomb. Not just Fermi.
Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.
December 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
It took a lot of recent refugees gathered together at Los Alamos to make an atom bomb. Not just Fermi.
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This is bleak.
i love how the system of authoritarian control also produces images that fabricate a reality where opposition is occurring. i love how this is a novel problem that we didn’t have less than a year ago but it is now at the center of every major online platform controlled by right wing billionaires.
More of this !!
December 29, 2025 at 6:26 AM
This is bleak.
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I will never understand the soullessness of people who try to strip a human rights defender and torture survivor of the safety that his family won at impossible cost. I have nothing but the most profound admiration for Alaa Abd el-Fattah
I will never regret being part of the movement to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, or writing the foreword to his extraordinary book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated.
Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.
#FreeAlaa Always.
freealaa.net/alaa-response
Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.
#FreeAlaa Always.
freealaa.net/alaa-response
Statement in response to historic tweets
I am shaken that, just as I am being reunited with my family for the first time in 12 years, several historic tweets of mine have been republished and used to question and attack my integrity and valu...
freealaa.net
December 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I will never understand the soullessness of people who try to strip a human rights defender and torture survivor of the safety that his family won at impossible cost. I have nothing but the most profound admiration for Alaa Abd el-Fattah
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For many months now I have received numerous mailings here in New England encouraging me to stop paying union dues. The literature advertises how much money I will put back in my pocket by simply filling out the reply card indicating my agreement to stop paying dues. Never -Unions have power.
December 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
For many months now I have received numerous mailings here in New England encouraging me to stop paying union dues. The literature advertises how much money I will put back in my pocket by simply filling out the reply card indicating my agreement to stop paying dues. Never -Unions have power.
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
December 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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Any artist failing to have such irreconcilable political differences with a gang of Nazi thugs should be suspect as an artist and a human being.
"Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn't courageous or principled—they are selfish, intolerant, and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people"- Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
www.npr.org
December 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Any artist failing to have such irreconcilable political differences with a gang of Nazi thugs should be suspect as an artist and a human being.
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The pivot is shameless.
Marjorie Taylor Greene spent years amplifying QAnon garbage. Now she’s on The View pretending she was just an innocent bystander who got “misled by social media.”
From conspiracy peddler to self-declared victim.
Marjorie Taylor Greene spent years amplifying QAnon garbage. Now she’s on The View pretending she was just an innocent bystander who got “misled by social media.”
From conspiracy peddler to self-declared victim.
December 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The pivot is shameless.
Marjorie Taylor Greene spent years amplifying QAnon garbage. Now she’s on The View pretending she was just an innocent bystander who got “misled by social media.”
From conspiracy peddler to self-declared victim.
Marjorie Taylor Greene spent years amplifying QAnon garbage. Now she’s on The View pretending she was just an innocent bystander who got “misled by social media.”
From conspiracy peddler to self-declared victim.
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Trump is privately warning GOP senators that if Democrats ever eliminate the filibuster, they’ll add D.C. and Puerto Rico as states and expand the Supreme Court.
Then comes the kicker: “But if you do what I say, they’ll most likely never attain power.”
It’s a cult, ruled by fear, not ideas.
Then comes the kicker: “But if you do what I say, they’ll most likely never attain power.”
It’s a cult, ruled by fear, not ideas.
December 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Trump is privately warning GOP senators that if Democrats ever eliminate the filibuster, they’ll add D.C. and Puerto Rico as states and expand the Supreme Court.
Then comes the kicker: “But if you do what I say, they’ll most likely never attain power.”
It’s a cult, ruled by fear, not ideas.
Then comes the kicker: “But if you do what I say, they’ll most likely never attain power.”
It’s a cult, ruled by fear, not ideas.
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If the Epstein files have proven anything, it’s that the justice system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as it was built to do: to shield the rich and powerful from accountability while victims are buried, ignored, or silenced.
December 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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HBOMAX FINALLY ADDED THE THUMBS DOWN FEATURE, YOU CAN THUMBS DOWN BILL MAHER NOW
December 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
HBOMAX FINALLY ADDED THE THUMBS DOWN FEATURE, YOU CAN THUMBS DOWN BILL MAHER NOW
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Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...
www.propublica.org
December 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
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Donald Trump just bombed a hospital on Christmas. But a cashier at Target said "Happy Holidays" to me when I was doing a return this morning. I have never felt more politically homeless.
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Donald Trump just bombed a hospital on Christmas. But a cashier at Target said "Happy Holidays" to me when I was doing a return this morning. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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vance is a genuine lunatic
JD VANCE THINKS BRITAIN & FRANCE ARE AMERICAS LIKELY ENEMIES.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
December 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
vance is a genuine lunatic
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Dear Liberals/NDP,
Quit bending right trying to grab “right leaning centrists”. Learn from Kamala.
#cdnpoli #abpoli @liberalca.bsky.social @albertandp.ca
Quit bending right trying to grab “right leaning centrists”. Learn from Kamala.
#cdnpoli #abpoli @liberalca.bsky.social @albertandp.ca
December 11, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Dear Liberals/NDP,
Quit bending right trying to grab “right leaning centrists”. Learn from Kamala.
#cdnpoli #abpoli @liberalca.bsky.social @albertandp.ca
Quit bending right trying to grab “right leaning centrists”. Learn from Kamala.
#cdnpoli #abpoli @liberalca.bsky.social @albertandp.ca
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The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
December 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison