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Foodie. Music junkie. History and languages nerd.

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Post image 13.03.2025 21:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10673    ๐Ÿ” 1988    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 85    ๐Ÿ“Œ 66
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AOC on senate Dems caving and backing the CR: โ€œA wide sense of betrayal.โ€

14.03.2025 00:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52928    ๐Ÿ” 11925    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1242    ๐Ÿ“Œ 799

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.

14.03.2025 02:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 95470    ๐Ÿ” 16715    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2249    ๐Ÿ“Œ 586

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

12.03.2025 14:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 67798    ๐Ÿ” 9621    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1167    ๐Ÿ“Œ 894

Amen. Maybe Czech Republicโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ

08.03.2025 05:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraineโ€™s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

04.03.2025 17:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76338    ๐Ÿ” 22767    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1771    ๐Ÿ“Œ 979

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isnโ€™t whether heโ€™s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

05.03.2025 03:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 83770    ๐Ÿ” 20877    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3207    ๐Ÿ“Œ 746
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David Sipress, The New Yorker ๐Ÿ˜ข

03.03.2025 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2684    ๐Ÿ” 362    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
Post image 03.03.2025 14:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46573    ๐Ÿ” 10844    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 639    ๐Ÿ“Œ 391
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๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ

03.03.2025 17:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 192    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Some elderly and disabled people who rely on Social Security or SSDI as their only or primary income could become homeless if this happens.

03.03.2025 17:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 274    ๐Ÿ” 133    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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We could have been part of that.

03.03.2025 11:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17046    ๐Ÿ” 2852    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 484    ๐Ÿ“Œ 137
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Another strong woman speaks
the TRUTHโ€ฆ

03.03.2025 00:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27581    ๐Ÿ” 11572    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 554    ๐Ÿ“Œ 362
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U.S. Mint takes Jan. 6 coin honoring officers who protected the Capitol off its website The coins are duplicates of Congressional Gold Medals issued to law enforcement officers who protected the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

This is oh so Soviet.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

03.03.2025 17:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7135    ๐Ÿ” 2648    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 414    ๐Ÿ“Œ 217

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesnโ€™t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what heโ€™s up to.

Guy says: โ€œlooking for an obituary.โ€

Vendor says โ€œthose are towards the back of the paper, comrade.โ€

Guy says: โ€œnot the one Iโ€™m looking for.โ€

03.03.2025 00:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44080    ๐Ÿ” 10324    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 287    ๐Ÿ“Œ 333

After we published a public audit on Saturday, Elon Muskโ€™s DOGE deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued โ€œwall of receipts,โ€ wiping out an additional $4 billion in so-called savings that the group had claimed to secure for U.S. taxpayers.

03.03.2025 19:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12363    ๐Ÿ” 2424    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 186    ๐Ÿ“Œ 80
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No More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by Men Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint...

NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership

This is not about merit; itโ€™s about normalizing racism and misogyny

01.03.2025 23:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30855    ๐Ÿ” 10857    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1059    ๐Ÿ“Œ 619

Having out of town guests over. We were going to make them a meal, as has been the custom in virtually every culture in human history, but I think instead we'll berate them, criticize their clothing choices, and demand they thank us for everything.

03.03.2025 00:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11044    ๐Ÿ” 1514    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 264    ๐Ÿ“Œ 68
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The accuracy of the political cartoons recently is incredibly painful.

02.03.2025 23:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28397    ๐Ÿ” 5846    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 287    ๐Ÿ“Œ 127
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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

02.03.2025 16:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25466    ๐Ÿ” 10161    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 813    ๐Ÿ“Œ 697
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Leaders of the free world stand united in London

The United States is not among them

02.03.2025 20:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 58546    ๐Ÿ” 13284    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2056    ๐Ÿ“Œ 851

Thou shalt not deport hard working, good people whilst importing vile criminals like the Tate brothers and still claim you have morals.

01.03.2025 23:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33209    ๐Ÿ” 6596    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 385    ๐Ÿ“Œ 191
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Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.

02.03.2025 08:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53947    ๐Ÿ” 14977    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 857    ๐Ÿ“Œ 812
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

01.03.2025 18:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 95132    ๐Ÿ” 41284    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5859    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4870

The Onion is within a hair's breadth of reporting real news apnews.com/video/robert...

27.02.2025 21:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3535    ๐Ÿ” 985    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28
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NASA installs heat shield on first private spacecraft bound for Venus Led by Rocket Lab of Long Beach, California, and their partners at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Rocket Lab's Venus mission will be the first private mission to the planet.

Here are our 5 bullet points of what we did this week; keep in mind that NASA receives less than 1% of the entire federal budget.

1 week. All in 1 week. ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€

1. NASA installs heat shield on first private spacecraft bound for Venus

phys.org/news/2025-02...

28.02.2025 04:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2111    ๐Ÿ” 350    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 60    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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RFK Jr.โ€™s Mental Health Bait and Switch The newly anointed HHS secretary is weaponizing legitimate anger at the failures of current psychiatric care to gut public services, abandon poor and disabled people, and expand the police state.

What is โ€œfascist anti-psychiatry,โ€ you ask? Iโ€™ve got an essay for you.
newrepublic.com/article/1918...

28.02.2025 05:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.

Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.

Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.

See how this works?

27.02.2025 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40349    ๐Ÿ” 15209    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1873    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1003

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

26.02.2025 19:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39166    ๐Ÿ” 9509    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1140    ๐Ÿ“Œ 454
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This doesnโ€™t exist and will literally save $0

27.02.2025 01:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 57682    ๐Ÿ” 12038    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4248    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1334

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