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NEW: Donald Trump announced the US was imposing reciprocal tariffs on a small collection of Antarctic islands that are not inhabited by humans, as part of a global trade war aimed at asserting US dominance.

The Heard and McDonald Islands are known for their populations of penguins.
Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins
The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.
www.wired.com
April 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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A favor to ask: my book proposal goes out to publishers early next month. If you want to read the story that I’ve never told, can you please help me get to 100k followers by April 1? Thank you! 🙏
March 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Have never seen a clearer graph showing why logic or civil debate will not stop this madness. They immediately believe whatever they are told.
wow. they're like actually braindead
March 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Andor | Season 2 Trailer | Streaming April 22 on Disney+
YouTube video by Star Wars
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February 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Star Wars: Andor Season 2 will follow Cassian’s journey in the four years leading up to the events of Rogue One, with the 12 episode story unfolding in four weekly chapters of three episodes each.
February 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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"During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for." - Dan Savage

Dance tonight. Tomorrow, we fight. Don't let them dim your light.
February 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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On Friday, a federal judge extended the temporary restraining order that bars DOGE staffers from accessing US Treasury data. The proceeding lifted the veil on just how little is known about DOGE’s access to information—and where it has gone.
US Judge Extends Order to Block DOGE From Treasury Department Data
A lawyer for the Trump administration couldn’t say whether the data DOGE accessed had been shared outside the US Treasury Department.
wrd.cm
February 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Mandatory. Death. Penalty.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Feb 14
The bill passed after Gov. Ron DeSantis and fellow Republicans ended a public dispute. It includes a mandatory death penalty for capital crimes committed by people without legal status.
On a second try, Florida Republicans agree on a law to assist Trump's deportations
The bill passed after Gov. Ron DeSantis and fellow Republicans ended a public dispute. It includes a mandatory death penalty for capital crimes committed by people without legal status.
www.npr.org
February 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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there are no good republicans, but cassidy does actually care about public health, he's made his entire career caring about public health, capitulation on RFK, whom he knows is dangerous, signals to me that he thinks it's very likely he'll be murdered if he votes against him and he is probably right
February 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Really not gonna feel an ounce of sympathy as they idly stand by and let people get removed from fudning like Snap, Medicaid, Research Grants, Social Security or simply let their existence be outlawed, as with Gender Arlffirming Care.
Gillibrand on WNYC today said one reason they're all falling in line is that they get death threats.
cassidy changing his tune after what he said on the senate floor is what has upgraded my position from "they are being bribed" or "they are worried about primary challenges" to "they are worried about being murdered"
February 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
February 8, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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The way defamation law is being weaponized in the U.S. against victims, your best shot at making allegations publicly is to get Kendrick Lamar to rap about them
February 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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The reckless decision to release billions of gallons of water from the Terminus and Schafer Dams is already hurting farms and farmers.

It’s a massive waste.

I'm demanding answers from the Army Corps of Engineers about what happened. And why.
February 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Bless

One by one, Pennsylvania's cities vow to protect their residents from federal overreach.

penncapital-star.com/government-p...
Allentown adopts policy of non-collaboration with ICE as part of welcoming city movement • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Half of the city’s roughly 125,000 residents Latino or Hispanic and one-fifth are foreign-born, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
penncapital-star.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Oops 😬
February 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Trump just fired the National Archives Director Colleen Shogan

“This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited."

🔗 www.404media.co/trump-fires-...
February 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Jack Schlossberg deleted his X, Instagram and TikTok accounts, which had thousands, if not millions, of followers each after issuing a cryptic post on X that has since been deleted
JFK's grandson deletes social media after cryptic final post leaves fans worried
www.irishstar.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Day 7 of 28

Valerie L. Thomas is an American scientist and inventor. She invented the illusion transmitter. She was responsible for developing the digital media formats that image processing systems used in the early years of NASA's Landsat program.

#BlackSky
#BlackHistoryMonth
#LivingLegend
February 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
wrd.cm
February 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Grocery prices are INSANE and now Trump wants to make 2.3 TRILLION dollars in cuts to medicaid!

This man is a FAILURE!
February 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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FACTS: "There are proposals from Republicans to cut $2.3 trillion from Medicaid."

THIS is what it would do: It would destroy Medicaid. It wouldn't fight inflation. It wouldn't bring anybody's prices down. It would just steal people's health care

Hands Off Our Medicaid
February 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Remember back when we thought it would require Congress, and, you know, laws and shit, for our government to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid?

We were so cute back then.
February 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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“This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known. You can’t un-ring this bell. Once these DOGE guys have access to these data systems, they can ostensibly do with it what they want.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
www.theatlantic.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM