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Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’ WASHINGTON—In a pointed critique of President Trump’s foreign policy leadership, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stated to members of the press Thursday that “the American people deserve a presid...

theonion.com/chuck-schume...

02.03.2026 04:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is that the Wall Street Journal?

26.02.2026 05:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
U.S. I LAW
DOJ to Review
Whether Epstein Files About Trump Were Improperly Withheld

U.S. I LAW DOJ to Review Whether Epstein Files About Trump Were Improperly Withheld

This is an all-timer in headlines where the use of the passive voice obscures a VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM with the basic premise of the story

26.02.2026 03:16 — 👍 1879    🔁 353    💬 68    📌 49
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs.

Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.

26.02.2026 04:00 — 👍 1885    🔁 1102    💬 47    📌 69
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Near-blind refugee found dead in Buffalo after release by US Border Patrol A nearly blind refugee from Myanmar missing since his release from a Buffalo jail into the custody of U.S. Border Patrol has been found dead on a downtown street, city authorities said on Wednesday.

US Customs & Border Protection statement: “He showed no signs of distress, mobility issues or disabilities requiring special assistance."

The man was nearly blind and did not speak English.
www.reuters.com/world/us/nea...

26.02.2026 04:34 — 👍 75    🔁 38    💬 4    📌 2
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(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

11.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 3071    🔁 1418    💬 66    📌 321

#Lutnick must resign.

11.02.2026 04:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Bulls even fuck up their fuckups.

07.02.2026 05:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Poeltl | NBA Player Guessing Game Guess a new mystery player every day.

These are the days when this game becomes impossible.
poeltl.dunk.town

05.02.2026 02:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wait this is a terrible return for him, isn't it?

04.02.2026 20:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes yes yes called my Democratic senators to make this point today.

03.02.2026 05:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So good.

28.01.2026 04:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Senator Chuck Grassley, a lifelong Iowan, has served on the Senate Judiciary Committee since 1981, when he was first sworn into the U.S. Senate." www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/chair

He questioned and voted on every single justice on the U.S. Supreme Court during their confirmation hearings.

28.01.2026 04:02 — 👍 4146    🔁 1088    💬 74    📌 53

@senatedemocrats.bsky.social don't let a single one of you make that mistake. @schumer.senate.gov

26.01.2026 05:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When I was in high school I did a constitutional debate program and witnessed this exchange:

JUDGE: what’s your favorite amendment?

KID: the third

JUDGE: why the third?

KID: because if there’s soldiers in your house, the other ones really don’t matter

BORN READY FOR 2026

22.01.2026 02:35 — 👍 1402    🔁 336    💬 8    📌 10
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

12.01.2026 00:35 — 👍 24039    🔁 9205    💬 1151    📌 2894

Maybe a Wigan kecarb?

06.01.2026 04:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In that case, he really needs to see a doctor.

04.01.2026 05:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You couldn't have used a Black half emoji lol?

29.12.2025 05:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...

29.12.2025 05:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

17.12.2025 02:52 — 👍 6499    🔁 2144    💬 254    📌 227
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Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV

The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

15.12.2025 04:58 — 👍 94    🔁 30    💬 1    📌 1

Really good piece.

15.12.2025 05:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

10.12.2025 05:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No babies successfully raised, previously.

10.12.2025 02:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.

New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

07.12.2025 17:03 — 👍 29757    🔁 7289    💬 318    📌 368

No matter how hard I try and support them, I find myself cheering every loss in the hopes that they'll come to their senses and stop this aimlessness. It's years now that I follow every game and hope for dramatic failure. It's crazy.

06.12.2025 04:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Mexican woman was grabbed by ICE right after a c section.

She was suffering eclampsia and other complications, and her baby was alone in the NICU

They wouldn’t even give her a breast pump

She has a pending visa for victims of violent crimes… and then ICE committed a violent crime against her.

05.12.2025 00:17 — 👍 910    🔁 420    💬 40    📌 52
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Disappeared to a Foreign Prison The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.

Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Remarkable reporting on these horrific and unacceptable injustices by my government.

28.11.2025 04:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

Don't be evil?

"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."

www.404media.co/google-has-c...

16.11.2025 02:41 — 👍 5055    🔁 2721    💬 393    📌 244