"No stupid rules of engagement" means no Geneva Conventions or other international humanitarian laws, which the U.S. signed and supported for more than a century.
Hegseth and Trump are pro-war crimes.
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"No stupid rules of engagement" means no Geneva Conventions or other international humanitarian laws, which the U.S. signed and supported for more than a century.
Hegseth and Trump are pro-war crimes.
Netanyahu says Trump fulfilled his dreams: In bombing Iran, Israel now has the "assistance of the United States, my friend, US President Donald Trump, and the US military. This coalition of forces allows us to do what I have yearned to do for 40 years"
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Exceptional catch. I knew it wasn't just NC:
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/17/t...
bsky.app/profile/reub...
Currently there are no Democrats running in the following flippable Georgia State House seats: HD 45 (Sharon Cooper, East Cobb), HD 147 (Bethany Ballard, Warner Robins), and HD 164 (Ron Stephens, Pooler/Bryan Co). Deadline to file is Friday at noon.
02.03.2026 02:02 β π 123 π 75 π¬ 12 π 19Watch out! fox unnews is at again. Think we wouldnβt know? GTFO
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RFK Jr *lies* when he says cervical cancer risk is increased in women who get the HPV vaccine.
New study: "States with high vaccination rates have seen the biggest drop in cervical cancer, while states with low vaccination rates have had little to no progress"
www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...
"Her release follows months of advocacy from community members and political leaders of both parties.
Yu has operated her two West Valley restaurants for years, building a reputation for greeting customers with humor and kindness. She has no criminal record."
www.12news.com/article/news...
Unaccompanied children as young as 13 who are pregnant, often from rape, are being moved to Texas so the Trump administration can avoid getting them access to abortion, critics say. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
01.03.2026 18:02 β π 370 π 278 π¬ 3 π 33@ilhanMN Ilhan Omar: i hope you aren't drunk and took your staff's advice, rashida and i don't know this man and feel confident he didn't care about us. please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. i pray in (t)his moly month you find peace and respect for your self, Rep Omar is quote tweeting nancy mace, who posted a photo of ayatollah khamenei and 'my heart goes out to ilhan omar and rashida tlaib tonight. sending them thoughts and prayers'.
bodied. ethered. sent to outer space.
01.03.2026 17:40 β π 1374 π 174 π¬ 33 π 11So they have no plan. Got it.
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BREAKING: Iranian state TV has confirmed that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in Israeli and US air strikes today.
A tearful host on state TV's channel one announced the news live on air.
Trump in dopey USA baseball cap, posed at the head of a table full of crisis actor White House staffer flown into Perv-A-Lago for the βwarβ photo op, in a black-draped section of his club, which is supposed to make it look like a high security βsituation room,β but doesnβt.
Cropped version on the previous photo, showing aires peeking in through the high security, top secret curtains.
Pipe and draping does not make it a SCIF. And DEFINITELY not a SCIF if you can just peek your head in from outside.
28.02.2026 20:45 β π 1649 π 472 π¬ 142 π 124OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.
28.02.2026 16:43 β π 3760 π 1232 π¬ 37 π 41Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
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This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
BTW, CBS has deleted last nightβs episode of the Evening News and its story about Hillaryβs testimony from its YouTube page. All the other stories from last nightβs show are still posted. (I have the episode recorded via YouTube TV)
28.02.2026 01:27 β π 97 π 28 π¬ 3 π 4NSF leaders have just acknowledged what many scientists have long suspected: Presidential directives to boost AI and quantum have upended its traditional way of doing business. www.science.org/content/arti...
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I think we need to take a step back and acknowledge the absurdity of House Republicans targeting their Epstein investigation on HILLARY CLINTON (who says she never met him!) while ignoring DONALD TRUMP (who Epstein described as his best friend!)
These are not serious people or good faith actors.
World Economic Forum President/CEO BΓΈrge Brende quits over his links with the late Jeffrey Epstein. www.weforum.org/press/2026/02...
26.02.2026 12:04 β π 42 π 27 π¬ 3 π 1βNurul Amin Shah Alam, a Rohingya refugee from Burma, was nearly blind and spoke no English. He was dropped off by agents in Buffalo on the other side of town from his home.β
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"SLOPPINESS": The Trump administration claimed that a man detained by ICE had a criminal convictions for marijuana possession in 2009.
The judge pointed out that the man was 4 years old at the time.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this.
I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it.
I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.
New: this app warns you if someone is wearing smart glasses nearby.
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. A 404 Media reader made this app after we showed men filming people w/o their consent, and DHS officials were wearing the glasses www.404media.co/this-app-war...
New #causalinference paper just dropped! As an ecologist, I was trained to ask: "What do the data tell me?"
This paper: there are only specific instances when this question is appropriateβwhen you lack domain knowledge, which we often have!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Breaking MS NOW:
Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available.
Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.
Breaking: Aiming to reverse recent changes to federal vaccine recommendations, 15 states led by Democrats announced on Tuesday that they were suing the Trump administration.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/h...
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
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Me with a scoop/exclusive
Five days after Jeffrey Epsteinβs arrest, federal authorities βdirectedβ NY law enforcement authorities to βstand downβ their investigations related to Epstein, new documents released by the Department of Justice show.
Part of new Timeline on NY and Epstein.
So basically Trump can post that heβs sending a hospital ship to Greenland for no reason, then do absolutely nothing to actually send a hospital ship to Greenland because it was all a lie, and not one single Republican gets asked about it. Thatβs where weβre at.
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