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Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
August 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
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Really shocked that an admin filled with podcasters, social media influencers, reality TV participants, indicted felons, crypto bros, drunks, Fox hosts, drug addicts, weirdos, and unqualified ass kissing toadies can’t keep their shit together for 24 consecutive hours.
June 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Really shocked that an admin filled with podcasters, social media influencers, reality TV participants, indicted felons, crypto bros, drunks, Fox hosts, drug addicts, weirdos, and unqualified ass kissing toadies can’t keep their shit together for 24 consecutive hours.
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“Six years ago, I found myself face to face with a white farmer preparing for the government to take his land.
This did not happen in South Africa. It was in South Texas, and it was because of Trump…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
This did not happen in South Africa. It was in South Texas, and it was because of Trump…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
When Trump Was the One Taking Land From Farmers
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
“Six years ago, I found myself face to face with a white farmer preparing for the government to take his land.
This did not happen in South Africa. It was in South Texas, and it was because of Trump…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
This did not happen in South Africa. It was in South Texas, and it was because of Trump…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.
May 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.
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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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North Carolina voters - check for your name!
🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...
thegriffinlist.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
North Carolina voters - check for your name!
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It gets worse.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
March 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It gets worse.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
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A federal judge ordered six federal agencies to rehire thousands of probationary workers fired under Musk’s government-cutting initiative. Judge William J. Alsup ruled the firings unlawful, carried out unilaterally by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
March 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A federal judge ordered six federal agencies to rehire thousands of probationary workers fired under Musk’s government-cutting initiative. Judge William J. Alsup ruled the firings unlawful, carried out unilaterally by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
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I cannot emphasize this enough: no one will remember the shutdown even happened when it’s time to vote next year. One way or the other!
March 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I cannot emphasize this enough: no one will remember the shutdown even happened when it’s time to vote next year. One way or the other!
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So I’m assuming the name of Gavin Newsom’s podcast is “I Don’t Want To Be President”
March 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
So I’m assuming the name of Gavin Newsom’s podcast is “I Don’t Want To Be President”
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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They installed the TV...
At his request...
So he can play video games...
In his office...
In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
At his request...
So he can play video games...
In his office...
In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
March 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
They installed the TV...
At his request...
So he can play video games...
In his office...
In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
At his request...
So he can play video games...
In his office...
In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Is this a new tariff day or a tariff pause day?
It’s tough to keep up.
It’s tough to keep up.
March 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Is this a new tariff day or a tariff pause day?
It’s tough to keep up.
It’s tough to keep up.
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So MAGA needs to run down and buy a Tesla to support Musk, but their disabled vet neighbor who just lost his job at the VA is a lazy SOB taking advantage of a bloated government and deserves to be unemployed. They do worship their heroes to the extreme.
March 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
So MAGA needs to run down and buy a Tesla to support Musk, but their disabled vet neighbor who just lost his job at the VA is a lazy SOB taking advantage of a bloated government and deserves to be unemployed. They do worship their heroes to the extreme.
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A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.
As Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine
HPV can cause a variety of cancers, including cervical. New mortality data for women under 25 point to the success of the HPV vaccine.
buff.ly
March 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.
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Their job is to **identify American soldiers** killed in combat and Trump has told them to stand down and stop their work.
"Forensic genealogists who help identify U.S. soldiers killed in combat were told to pause their efforts..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"Forensic genealogists who help identify U.S. soldiers killed in combat were told to pause their efforts..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
DOGE’s $1 spending card limit touches everything from military research to trash pickup
The crackdown on routine expenses is part of a campaign by the president and Elon Musk to reset the scope and mission of America’s sprawling bureaucracy.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Their job is to **identify American soldiers** killed in combat and Trump has told them to stand down and stop their work.
"Forensic genealogists who help identify U.S. soldiers killed in combat were told to pause their efforts..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"Forensic genealogists who help identify U.S. soldiers killed in combat were told to pause their efforts..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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To be absolutely, 100% clear, THIS is something that ends in “then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out”
This extreme escalation is an egregious violation of first amendment rights. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.
March 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
To be absolutely, 100% clear, THIS is something that ends in “then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out”
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"President Donald Trump honored a child cancer survivor during his joint address to Congress. Medical school faculty who helped treat him are facing potentially devastating federal funding cuts..."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
Trump honored a cancer survivor. The boy's doctors now face his budget cuts.
President Donald Trump honored a child cancer survivor during his joint address to Congress amid proposing vast cuts to medical research.
www.usatoday.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"President Donald Trump honored a child cancer survivor during his joint address to Congress. Medical school faculty who helped treat him are facing potentially devastating federal funding cuts..."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
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In a world of Matts, be a Derek.
March 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In a world of Matts, be a Derek.
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from today's post —
I wouldn't put it past these fuckers to do a Saddam-has-WMDs-style gaslighting campaign to invent a pretext for invading Canada.
thanks for reading!
link to the whole post is here: bit.ly/4if7meN
I wouldn't put it past these fuckers to do a Saddam-has-WMDs-style gaslighting campaign to invent a pretext for invading Canada.
thanks for reading!
link to the whole post is here: bit.ly/4if7meN
March 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
from today's post —
I wouldn't put it past these fuckers to do a Saddam-has-WMDs-style gaslighting campaign to invent a pretext for invading Canada.
thanks for reading!
link to the whole post is here: bit.ly/4if7meN
I wouldn't put it past these fuckers to do a Saddam-has-WMDs-style gaslighting campaign to invent a pretext for invading Canada.
thanks for reading!
link to the whole post is here: bit.ly/4if7meN
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Being an asshole has consequences.
March 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Being an asshole has consequences.
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Bernie Sanders is holding MASSIVE rallies in packed venues, bigger crowds than Trump was getting, and legacy media is practically silent. Bernie is talking to workers rather than hanging out with socialites with mediocre plastic surgery at Mar-a-Lago, and it's just not interesting to corporate media
March 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Bernie Sanders is holding MASSIVE rallies in packed venues, bigger crowds than Trump was getting, and legacy media is practically silent. Bernie is talking to workers rather than hanging out with socialites with mediocre plastic surgery at Mar-a-Lago, and it's just not interesting to corporate media
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This was always the risk with Gabbard and Patel at the head of our intelligence gathering.
We not only will lose our own sources who won’t trust them, but we will lose intelligence from our close allies.
This makes a terrorist attack on US soil much more likely.
We not only will lose our own sources who won’t trust them, but we will lose intelligence from our close allies.
This makes a terrorist attack on US soil much more likely.
Britain urged to form breakaway 'Four Eyes' alliance without the US
Some in the defence establishment are now suggesting forming a sub-group in the existing 'Five Eyes' alliance to allow intelligence sharing without a US veto.
www.dailymail.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
This was always the risk with Gabbard and Patel at the head of our intelligence gathering.
We not only will lose our own sources who won’t trust them, but we will lose intelligence from our close allies.
This makes a terrorist attack on US soil much more likely.
We not only will lose our own sources who won’t trust them, but we will lose intelligence from our close allies.
This makes a terrorist attack on US soil much more likely.