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She’s a serious candidate; at this point I think most people dismissing her seriousness are at least partially motivated by misogyny; and this is a clearer articulation of a progressive foreign policy than I’ve seen anyone else running for office make

I like to distract myself from the terrifying political news by reading the ridiculous political news.

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It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

The idea of a legislative body representing the population having the ability to check the ultimate power of a country’s leader sounds really neat. Someone should write that down.

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians.

We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

Vinay Prasad was so effective at disinformation because he routinely faked being progressive so he could spread COVID and help create MAHA.

In reality, he loved Trump and I applaud Makary for stating what was obvious to us all.

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You can be Covid-conscious (I am) but you shouldn't spread misinformation that vaccines don't prevent transmission. They do; they reduce transmission and severity, both of which appear to lower the risks of long Covid.

Here's why the messaging on Covid vaccines is still abysmal:

At this point I genuinely think that if you brought Adam Smith to this point today he’d be like “well, fuck. Socialism it is”

I’m worried that some people lost track of which companies own what and we are down to like five of them

Trump congratulated a guy who is being pressured to resign, including by several GOP colleagues, over allegations that he coerced a sexual relationship with a staff member who later killed herself.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

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I do gotta say that if anyone had told teenage me that someday I would be prepared to personally bail out an entire high school but the woman who made The Matrix did it instead I would definitely have been like “ok somebody needs their meds adjusted”

What an absolute real one. Thank you, Lilly 😭

By covering up the Epstein files, Donald Trump and his DOJ are breaking the law every day, and Congress isn’t doing anything to stop it, legal expert @katiephang.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

“They're getting their freak on, but, like, in illegal ways.”

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HAPPENING NOW: Good morning from the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee.

A federal judge is set to preside over an evidentiary hearing on whether the United States government is vindictively prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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Wow. The government just apparently crippled the tool that people are using to track contracts like these DHS ones.

I'm told this is the tool Schiff's office is using to track the ICE contracts for military-style weaponry I reported on in the piece/thread below.

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Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about.

Their stories should be known:

It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...

If you have daughters or care about children generally please send a request to your MP that an Epstein investigation be opened so they can have a world that is far less dark than this one.

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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weapon—and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental state—set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

This stunt where ICE releases people far from home with no proper clothing and no way home should be treated as attempted homicide. In this case, actual homicide. These cases are not accidental or based on misunderstandings. They are deliberate attempts to inflict bodily harm.

They found him. He died.

Another murder by our immigration goon squads

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So... hyperinflation and a housing market crash?

Higher prices & affordable, doesn't both mean he is forecasting rampant inflation?

Kudos to @jdmunday.bsky.social & other authors of this really elegant study of viral transmission in schools. 👇
Indoor air quality is very important, something we on @independentsage.bsky.social argued strongly during pandemic. Ventilation matters.

And the president gets rewarded with crypto buy-ins and other indirect enrichment. There's the big corruption. He's just making noise about it now so his supporters will say "oooh it's both sides, whatever" and not read or believe the details. Horrifying.

To be clear, the pardons are stopping repayments of money owed to the government and individual victims.