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We Could Have Had a President Right Now America could really use a President right now.

We could have had a decent, rational human being leading us into a future of possibility where everyone could have a seat at the table but now we don’t.

It didn’t have to be this way.

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6 months ago

I wanna be her when I grow up!

U.S. admiral at NATO fired, latest ouster in Trump military purge Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield is one of at least nine senior military leaders — and the fourth woman — removed since Trump’s return to Washington.

The Trump administration has fired a top Navy admiral assigned to NATO headquarters in Brussels, people familiar with the matter said Monday, the latest ouster in an ongoing purge of senior military officers that has disproportionately targeted women.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

@dennisgoris.bsky.social

A meme photo of an Adelie penguin holding an AK-47.

Most birds have a fight or flight response.

He forgot we’re flightless birds.

North Carolina Supreme Court Pauses Lower Court’s Ruling to Disenfranchise Voters Read more here.

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When I was in a high school creative writing class, I had a character say, "Las Vegas means 'The Vegas' in Mexican" to convey how ignorant she was. Still works.

There is a huge, hexagonal storm system at the north pole of Saturn.

It's 29,000 km across—more than twice the diameter of Earth.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)

Ruben L. Oppenheimer

So now you tell me they knew all about this crap at least 500 years ago??

Hard not to be a "PANICAN" when led by someone suffering from severe mental illness

Economists now say a dire economic slowdown has already begun “The economy is headed for a sharp downturn. Layoffs will surge,” said Carl Weinberg, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics.

"falling out of bed"

"Weinberg, chief US economist at High Frequency Economics, sees the economy falling out of bed in the second quarter, which has just started, and now predicts the economy will contract at a negative 4.5% rate in the second quarter."

www.marketwatch.com/story/econom...

he did this just *after* going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl.

he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again.

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House Speaker Johnson is eyeing big cuts to Medicaid. In his Louisiana district, it's a lifeline. Nearly 40% of the people in House Speaker Mike Johnson's district in Louisiana rely on Medicaid.

House Speaker Johnson is eyeing big cuts to Medicaid.

Nearly 40% of the people in his district in Louisiana rely on it

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therealfitfamelpaso on Instagram: "The current scene on I-10, where U.S. Army Stryker vehicles were seen traveling in support of Border Patrol operations. The Stryker…" The current scene on I-10, where U.S. Army Stryker vehicles were seen traveling in support of Border Patrol operations. The Strykers (and Soldiers) are from the 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment (2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division) based out of Fort Carson, Colorado, and have been deployed to El Paso to help patrol the Southern Border and transport Border Patrol and Customs Agents.Credits: @jared_lohr.

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Here in El Paso, and this is happening. Crossings at a low, and next week the government will attack all money transfers across the border greater than $200, which mostly are sent for families.

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Hegseth faces renewed scrutiny after Signal chat disclosures The Signal chat imbroglio is an uncomfortable episode for Trump’s defense secretary, who has vowed to hold senior military leaders accountable for mistakes.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied that he sent “war plans” to colleagues ahead of a U.S. assault on Houthi militants in Yemen and instead attacked Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic — who was included in the group chat on Signal — calling him “deceitful and highly discredited.”

'We’re against it': Fox host says the quiet part out loud in segment about disabled kids One primetime host on Fox News recently uttered a remark about public education and disabled students that visibly shocked one of his co-panelists.On Thursday, Rolling Stone reporter Nikki McCann Rami...

'We’re against it': Fox host says the quiet part out loud in segment about disabled kids

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KARL: Do they have any due process at all?

HOMAN: Due process -- what was Laken Riley's due process?

(That's a "no")

Seize the moment! Carpe momentum! Forward! ✊

Greenland Officials Express Fury Over Trump’s Plan to Send Delegation Usha Vance, the second lady, and Michael Waltz, the national security adviser, are on their way this week. Greenlandic officials called the move “aggressive.”

"Relations between Greenland and the US sank further on Sunday as the Greenlandic prime minister erupted over what he called a 'highly aggressive' delegation of senior officials the Trump administration said it would send to the island this week."

@billbramhall.bsky.social

It’s no surprise that Trump is reshaping the FTC, an agency that’s been looking at his close ties to billionaires. Corporations see the FTC’s cases as an attack on US enterprise, but antitrust law is vital for healthy democracy. Fmr. FTC Chair @linamkhan.bsky.social joins me @ 11aET #Velshi

Hey, Politico --

I consider myself to have "long-term standing in the private legal community" and I have been willing to speak out almost every single day. And, I'm not alone.

Yes, there is widespread cowardice among law firms, but don't ignore those refusing to bow down.

Defiantly,

Marc Elias