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Massachusetts Mom Shocked After High School Sends Sons Home With 'Military Consent' Forms

This feels like a trap.

#HISTORYREPEATS
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Pentagon Demands Journalists Allow Government to Vet Information The US Defense Department is requiring journalists to agree to use only pre-approved information about the military or lose their credentials to cover the Pentagon, the latest Trump administration eff...

this is… not how it works.

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Has Trump ever heard of this???

Very doubtful!

Another video of ICE attacking bystanders who are trying to stand up against Shitler’s gestapo. 🤬🤬
This was an 80 year old owner of the car wash, trying to tell ICE that they have his employees paperwork in the office. Instead-three men tackled his man, & denied him hospital services when he asked!

DOX the MFs who assaulted the lady. They pushed her, sprayed chemicals on her n the one MF tried to put her in a choke hold! #iceout #chicago

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Come say High. High on life stream. 18+ twitch.tv/cmdrspacedog

This reminds me too much of IBM in the 1930s and 40s as layed clear in Edwin Black’s book “IBM and the Holocaust.

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.

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J.B. Pritzker got it exactly right, Donald Trump is sending the military to blue cities because he wants to undermine free and fair elections in 2026. Trump believes that military deployments in blue cities is his path to keeping power and Republican victory.

The response to this should be choosing crosswalks throughout the city to repaint as rainbows, one new rainbow crosswalk per day at a random location, as long as this bullshit lasts. The cops can't watch all of them.

Great queer history here and it’s nuts that more transit agencies don’t do this

Trump Is Using TikTok To Claim Imperial Powers Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

In essence, Bondi declared that the president, through the attorney general, has sweeping power to arbitrarily favor companies or individuals and exempt them from federal laws that he believes interfere with his foreign policy powers. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...

Dems to Fight Texas’ ‘Illegal, Unconstitutional and Egregious Effort to Rig the Elections’ Read more here.

NEW: With Texas set to begin a special session that includes drawing a new congressional map next week, national Democrats say they’re exploring ways to stop the Republican plan. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

No One Is Illegal On Stolen Land—ICE Versus the Indigenous in MAGA's America Where would they send us?

Under Trump, ICE and border patrol are targeting and detaining Indigenous peoples. This piece doesn’t just tell a story. It challenges how we talk about borders, citizenship, and belonging.
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China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.

In the race to power the world, China is far ahead of everyone on clean-energy technology. Its lead is growing fast.

I laughed so hard.

I really miss your shows Tuesday through Friday. We need you back on the air weeknights.

Clear your schedule. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social is dropping by for an all-new The Weekly Show tomorrow.

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My translation of a viral Japanese meme summarizing decades of U.S. complaints about Japan not buying enough American cars (while not making the kind of cars Japanese consumers actually want):

So they aren’t arresting the dirt bags in the photograph?

Hair and makeup look too good

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Hanging on by a slender thread we would be honoured if you would join us. Twitch.tv/cmdrspacedog

YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff Donald Trump's Colossal F*ckup

Signalgate is a colossal f*ck up – even by the Trump Administration’s standards.

Let's talk about this latest national security nightmare.

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Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Push to Shut Down Radio Free Europe The judge’s temporary restraining order will allow the federally funded broadcaster to stay open at least until March 28.

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump’s push to close down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a federally funded news organization that was born out of the American efforts to counter Soviet propaganda during the Cold War.