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"Everything in the White House must have a reason for being there. It would be sacrilege merely to redecorate it—a word I hate. It must be restored, and that has nothing to do with decoration. That is a question of scholarship." - Jacqueline Kennedy, 1961

Exclusive | U.S. Lifts Key Restriction on Ukraine’s Use of Western Long-Range Missiles The move coincides with a Trump push to pressure Moscow into talks on ending the war and to withhold U.S. Tomahawk missiles from Kyiv.

Well it's been another week of Trump flip-flops on Ukraine. After castigating Zelensky and announcing another brofest with Putin, Trump has cancelled his summit, fully green-lighted Ukrainian strikes deep into Russia, and slapped additional sanctions on Russian oil. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

A strange object laying on leaves in a forest that looks like Andy Warhol's hair.

I am fascinated with this thing.

No, it's not Andy Warhol buried under leaves. It's entirely natural, it was discovered by the climatologist who originated the hypothesis of continental drift, and it was only fully explained in 2015.

If you don't know, just *enjoy* not knowing, and feast yer eyes.

According to a draft of the announcement obtained by The Washington Post ahead of Parnell’s tweet, the coalition of signatories includes the cable network Real America’s Voice, streaming service Lindell TV (started by MyPillow CEO and Trump ally Mike Lindell), the websites the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events, the National Pulse, and RedState. It also includes Turning Point USA’s media brand Frontlines, as well as influencer Tim Pool’s Timcast, and a Substack-based newsletter called Washington Reporter. The memo said that “many independent journalists” also signed, but did not specify who they were.

The new Pentagon press corps appears to be a who's who of pro-Trump propagandists. And a security nightmare. At least one of these—Tim Pool's Timcast—was tied to a network of influencers that received money as part of a Russian influence operation. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.

Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

CIAsandman on Twitter writes: "Leftist friend got called “fuckin lib” by a foid at a bar last night. Their cultural grip is slipping. It’s cringe and gay to even be associated with anything left of center."

On January 21, 2025, CIAsandman tweets: "White boy fuel." There's a photo showing him holding a half-eaten piece of bread a bottle of water. On his wrist is a white Swatch watch.

An eBay auction for the Swatch says: 1996 Vintage Swatch Watch TUTTI FRUTTI GW109 Working Swatch Watches Women

A detective looks down at a suspect while a light is shining above the suspect's head.

you think it's "gay" to be associated with anything left of center ...

*opens manilla envelope*

... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ...

*slides 8x10 photo across table*

... you wore the tutti frutti

Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing

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Q: We've heard things like Dems want money for civic engagement in Zimbabwe, millions for LGBTQ grants in Balkans. You say this is about healthcare but how do these pet projects fit in?


JEFFRIES: We have no idea what you're talking about or what Republican extremist fed you those talking points

Survivorship bias is real. People have thoroughly memory-holed COVID, even those who suffered multiple infections or lengthy post-COVID symptoms.

"I'm done with COVID," patients tell me when I suggest they update their vaccine - including those who get an annual flu shot and are at very high risk.

hungry ghosts

Sometimes the other side needs to be defeated, not compromised with.

Liberals can get this wrong, and illiberals do not.

I am seeing this a lot at the moment and it feels rooted in a refusal to grasp what is actually happening. That refusal is understandable and also - denial has a huge cost. You can’t afford it.

Ignoring Case Law and the Constitution, Court Greenlights Trump’s Portland Troop Surge An appeals court panel combines sloppy reasoning and undue deference to the executive by allowing Trump's takeover of Portland to proceed.

Garrett Epps’s dissection of the 9th Circuit’s fecklessness is right on the nose. Ignoring Case Law and the Constitution, Court Greenlights Trump’s Portland Troop Surge  washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/21/c...

Why I’m Fighting the Deadly Alberta Drug Model | The Tyee Instead of saving lives, the province is promoting unproven for-profit ‘recovery’ businesses.

Also love the analysis of ‘strategic protest’ – not every demonstration needs to draw millions of people. We got a message out at the 2023 Alberta Recovery Conference that changed minds *inside the event*.

About 20 people showed up.

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I’ve known Erez since 2007. We have disagreed and agreed on thousands of things over the years. But he has always been honest and full of integrity.

I’m incredibly proud of how he has acted in the last few months. Listen to his story.

A quick airport post about a telling poll result. www.pbump.net/o/half-of-re...

Cette nouvelle de "Patrice Roy en direct" du 21 octobre 2O25, a induit le public en erreur. Il s'agit des priorités «des citoyens» et non des priorités du gouvernement.

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Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.

The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.

Details:

Honestly the aesthetic divide between Soviet realist posters and x.com/dhsgov/statu... is…not all THAT enormous?

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

"Some described the beds as being 'bricked' and demanded a fallback option that works without an internet connection."
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The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

Close Friend of JD Vance Skirts Normal Channels to Take Over NIH Environmental Health Institute - Inside Climate News Despite a federal hiring freeze, the Trump administration just appointed a scientist who calls Vance one of his “closest friends” to head the nation’s key environmental health research arm.

New story about the NIEHS Director appointment from Inside Climate News

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I am genuinely dumbfounded that anybody, even for a nanosecond, might have thought that LLM simulations of human participants could provide novel insights on the human mind

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

'If Trump wins, we go under': top US wind developer warns A top wind developer has warned that it could go under if Donald Trump succeeds in revoking its building permits.

U.S. Wind warns it may go bankrupt if Trump is given approval by the courts to revoke the approval of its Maryland offshore wind project

This means it would potentially not be able to go through extra reviews by Trump 2.0. Offshore wind project — and developer — killed via executive finagling

My Neighbor Totenkopf

Teen removed from boys basketball tryouts, told to join girls team over birth certificate error The boy's parents say a mix-up at the hospital led to him being mistakenly listed as female on his birth certificate.

Incredible scenes.

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“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”

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