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Northern Virginia; fan of all things Pittsburgh…Pirates, Pens, Stillers; member of the resistance; πŸ’™πŸŒŠ

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Remember when George W. Bush blurted out that Saddam tried to kill his dad and the war in Iraq was justified on those grounds?

Too soon to say who'll have the last laugh, dimwit.

04.03.2026 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 537    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 4

Worth noting the ad's irony of a supposed Muslim telling a young woman "you are not allowed to drive" at the exact moment the Sharia lawmakers of Kansas are telling the trans community that you are not allowed to drive

04.03.2026 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 153    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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Trump administration waging illegal war on Iran, experts say Administration offers shifting explanations as it acts without congressional approval or legal premise

The UK-based Guardian with the article that should be on Page 1 of every U.S. newspaper www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

04.03.2026 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 154    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Perhaps the President’s vulnerability to sexual blackmail is an existential threat to the United States.

03.03.2026 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2556    πŸ” 631    πŸ’¬ 130    πŸ“Œ 31

BREAKING: The Texas Secretary of State DID NOT UPDATE the precinct maps on their website last December. MY GOD @msnowreports.bsky.social

04.03.2026 03:48 β€” πŸ‘ 8286    πŸ” 3260    πŸ’¬ 573    πŸ“Œ 178

They claim to have been planning this for months, to allegedly keep Americans safe, but had no plan to evacuate any Americans from the region because it happened too quickly.

Weird.

04.03.2026 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5306    πŸ” 1397    πŸ’¬ 309    πŸ“Œ 70
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The Epstein war

03.03.2026 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2348    πŸ” 665    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 22

The Iranian ambassador was not, for the record, on American soil.

I’ve never seen an admin more full of juvenile man-children openly projecting their juvenile man-childness every time they open their mouths and try to come across as β€œtough.” (And yes, I know Waltz’s background: still juvenile.)

04.03.2026 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2224    πŸ” 476    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 11

CNN: The CIA has a Top Secret plan to fund the Kurds.
Iran: Okay, we'll launch missiles into Turkey then.

04.03.2026 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 293    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 3

Thank you to Wesley Hunt for making it a 3-way race and forcing an expensive and brutal runoff between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton,

The Democratic Party

04.03.2026 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3567    πŸ” 438    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 17
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Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

04.03.2026 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 16401    πŸ” 3204    πŸ’¬ 1116    πŸ“Œ 443

Six American service members have been killed so far in this conflict in Iran. One of them is a 20-year-old Sergeant named Declan J. Coady of West Des Moines, the city I live in in Iowa. All of this is just so unnecessary and sad.

04.03.2026 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, great. I'm sure that the guy whose father we killed will be very interested in negotiating about stuff.

Well done, everyone.

04.03.2026 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

04.03.2026 04:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2515    πŸ” 1013    πŸ’¬ 237    πŸ“Œ 207

It is unclear what a potential terrorist could do that is worse than what the country is already voluntarily doing

04.03.2026 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

when I graduated college with a CS degree and got my first job - and this was with a small company, before I entered big tech - I made more money than either of my parents had ever made in their careers as elementary school teachers

I think about that a lot

03.03.2026 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 533    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 2

It's a great night to consider running for office. It's still not too late in some states to get on the ballot for 2026 -- and definitely not too early for 2027 or 2028. runforwhat.net

04.03.2026 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 544    πŸ” 141    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Maybe men are lonely because they're trained to be assholes | LOLGOP Studios Get more from LOLGOP Studios on Patreon

Maybe men are lonely because they're trained to be assholes

04.03.2026 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 137    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

They were on the Trump stolen files case because Trump stole files about Iran. The answer is actually even more damning than the insinuation!

04.03.2026 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 373    πŸ” 100    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. - Bolts North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.

JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal."

She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%!

Context:

04.03.2026 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5330    πŸ” 1363    πŸ’¬ 111    πŸ“Œ 246

Typical of the Times, they contain multitudes, but their political desk STILL leads with Trump spin.

Here's the analogy I've been chewing on.

β€œIt’s a little bit like asking, when the Archduke Ferdinand got killed, what the macroeconomic consequences would be, and having no idea what was next."

04.03.2026 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I happen to think JD's tweeting is a very important job in this regime, estabilishing spn and holding the coalitions together. And there's nothing he's going to say right now that's going to help with that because Trump won't even settle on the spin.

04.03.2026 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Pretty Bad for Vance’: The VP’s Silence on Iran Peeves Allies JD Vance used to praise Donald Trump for not starting wars.

Jamelle often says Vance's only job is to tweet. So when JD stops tweeting, people notice!

04.03.2026 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 160    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
Results: Progressives win all four of these primaries, ousting incumbents Cunningham, Willingham, and Majeed, while Pierce held off Wray’s comeback.

Results: Progressives win all four of these primaries, ousting incumbents Cunningham, Willingham, and Majeed, while Pierce held off Wray’s comeback.

extraordinary night for state progressives in North Carolina

via boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

04.03.2026 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2442    πŸ” 537    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 55

ICE under Trump 2.0 built an unprecedented media operation - deploying videographers to raids, pumping out edgy social posts, swiping pop music for hype videos - and the main metric for evaluating its impact shows that Americans now hate ICE more than ever

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

04.03.2026 04:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1923    πŸ” 451    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 24
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The locker room talk wasn’t empty bluster. It was the operating system of men who had learned to treat girls and women as props for their pleasure or their humiliation, and to call that friendship.

04.03.2026 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 130    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
"1 MILLION Acres of Corn Being Lost Per Week" Amid Fertilizer Price Spike???
YouTube video by Grain Markets and Other Stuff "1 MILLION Acres of Corn Being Lost Per Week" Amid Fertilizer Price Spike???

You'll never love anything the way Trump loves fucking farmers.

04.03.2026 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Iran War is so bad even JD Vance can't lie about it It's so bad that a billionaire lickspittle can't even find the right spittle to lick.

So JD has become a lurker. The greatest sycophant and word-twister alive has decided that his best move is to just shut up. He can’t admit β€œNo dumb wars,” his foundational excuse for backing Trumpβ€”after once comparing Trump to Hitlerβ€”was a lie.

04.03.2026 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 177    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 5

A fair number of elected Dems, including Jared Polis, appear to spend most of their free-time deeply engrossed in right-wing propaganda (social media, podcasts, etc) which is why this guy thinks that freeing Tina Peters is somehow a big deal for anyone who isn't an extreme right-winger.

04.03.2026 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 263    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1

At least they died for a good cause, serving the American strategic objective of ________, we just have to wait for the President to give a coherent explanation of what that was.

04.03.2026 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 907    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 3