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Is Halligan a collective noun?

As in: “The inexperienced prosecutor produced a halligan of unconvincing evidence.”

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Trump is anti-woke

I like presidents who don’t need ballrooms ☺️

Chicago is where Michelle was raised, where I got my start as an organizer, and where we built a family together. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next June, it will be our way to give back to a city that has given us so much. obama.org/presidential-center

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Calling the press “fake news” is harmful. Calling them “seditious, perhaps even treasonous” for publishing reporting is something else entirely. Treason is a capital crime. Suggesting journalists should face it for exercising their First Amendment rights and doing their jobs is dangerous.

Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire.

The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich.

We should tax trillionaires out of existence.

#GVerse #BreakingNews James Talarico just fact-checked Fox News host so brutally on partisan gerrymandering, he had to end the interview. This is how it's done, folks.

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It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

The United States gives far too much power, money, and influence to silly people with heads full of nonsense.

Trump last night had the complexion of a Thanksgiving turkey that was left in the oven too long and bandages were again visible on the back of his right hand

(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)

Googled "old guy smell" and this popped up. If you wonder how bad this room smells look at her face.

A screenshot of a social media post from a parody account styled as a governor’s press office. The post uses all caps and mocks a political figure by describing a fake award in exaggerated, insulting language. Below it is another post sharing a short video clip from a televised event at the Kennedy Center. In the video still a man in a suit is being given a large decorative medal by another man while cameras and a news chyron run along the bottom. The scene takes place on a stage with a blurred backdrop.

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"I saw the video and what if a bird flew by and one of the shipwrecked used a paper clip and squid ink to write a message to attach to the bird's leg to get a message to Suriname so they could continue their mission?"

- Tom Cotton probably

The most transparent administration in history is now hiding both the complete Epstein files and the complete video of the Sept. 2 boat strike from the American people, only releasing the parts of each that they want you to see while concealing the rest.

Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯

Medals, Madness, and Manufactured Merit: Trump’s FIFA Fever Dream of Faux Glory When a collapsing strongman demands validation, even sports leagues start handing out pacifiers.

The whole stupid ceremony throbbed with the same delusional confidence as an out-of-business chiropractor awarding himself “Best Spine Wizard” because no one else bothered to show up.
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If Virginia Democrats follow through with a new 10-1 congressional map and a couple of other Dem states make small changes, Trump's gambit to rig the 2026 maps will be remembered as an epic blunder.

As a football fan, I’m ashamed of the world governing body FIFA for prostrating themselves before this racist, narcissistic rapist & convicted felon.

It’s supposed to be “the people’s game” ffs! 🤦🏻‍♂️

The Golden Age.

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Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >

There is a difference between inheritance and action. I cannot help who my ancestors are, but I can make my own choices. That so many Americans chose to place in power a man who holds people in contempt on the basis of race, religion, and national origin; that so much of the mainstream media conveys this bigotry through tired, obfuscating euphemisms; that there is so low a political price for the president’s racism that he and those around him see little risk in its expression—well, that does say something about America, and Americans. Immigration isn’t breaking our society. That’s a job Americans can do on their own.

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The Trump admin's claim that it was targeting criminal aliens was always bullshit, and it's just hard for me to believe that most Americans don't know that. And assuming they do, this signals just how broken our society has become—it's a sick game we're playing.

Hitler’s Germany…Franco’s Spain…Mussolini’s Italy…Stalin’s Soviet Union…Putin’s Russia…Lukashenko’s Belarus…Xi’s China…Kim’s North Korea…

Now coming to a neighbourhood near you in Trump’s America.

“The cruelty is the point” @adamserwer.bsky.social in @theatlanticpr.bsky.social

Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.

"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."