Iβm trying to imagine what would happen if a Democratic senator literally broke a military veteranβs forearm, which appears to be what happens here.
05.03.2026 00:31 β π 79 π 26 π¬ 5 π 2@blasarre.bsky.social
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Iβm trying to imagine what would happen if a Democratic senator literally broke a military veteranβs forearm, which appears to be what happens here.
05.03.2026 00:31 β π 79 π 26 π¬ 5 π 2
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very oftenβand her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
New paper showing that bacteria with more genes for cooperation can live in a broader range of habitats and that genes for cooperation are more more likely to be in the accessory genome www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @lauriebelch.bsky.social
04.03.2026 10:23 β π 44 π 20 π¬ 1 π 0When someone says βScientists do not want you to knowβ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They canβt shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
03.03.2026 12:10 β π 8800 π 3822 π¬ 72 π 156It cannot be stressed enough how these Republicans donβt see government jobs as jobs at all. They see them as titles, no-show gigs where they can do whatever they want. Thatβs why οΏΌthey hated the people in those jobs before, they thought it was a scam because they donβt believe in doing the work.
02.03.2026 16:51 β π 3070 π 735 π¬ 37 π 22
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been βinundatedβ with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesusβ¦
The HPV vaccine is durably AMAZING.A massive Swedish registry study w 18 years of follow-up found no waning protection against invasive cervical cancer. If vaccinated before age 17, cancer risk is cut by ~80%. Even those vaccinated later still had substantial protection.
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
A suburban Democratic lawmaker filed legislation Monday that would create a state commission to investigate potential Illinois connections to Jeffrey Epsteinβs sex trafficking operation.
03.03.2026 00:21 β π 57 π 22 π¬ 0 π 1
"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"
01.03.2026 16:49 β π 555 π 251 π¬ 127 π 286
Exceptional catch. I knew it wasn't just NC:
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/17/t...
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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 128 π 80 π¬ 13 π 21Watch out! fox unnews is at again. Think we wouldnβt know? GTFO
01.03.2026 22:11 β π 1205 π 658 π¬ 53 π 26
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 372 π 279 π¬ 3 π 36@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 1388 π 177 π¬ 33 π 11So they have no plan. Got it.
01.03.2026 16:03 β π 8794 π 2378 π¬ 895 π 171
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 1652 π 473 π¬ 143 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 3864 π 1264 π¬ 36 π 42Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
28.02.2026 02:15 β π 8507 π 2590 π¬ 309 π 237
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...
26.02.2026 22:35 β π 86 π 65 π¬ 6 π 10
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
25.02.2026 22:01 β π 19 π 17 π¬ 1 π 2
"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.
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