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Help make this dream come true Baltimore.

10.07.2025 15:16 — 👍 314    🔁 17    💬 15    📌 1
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The American Police State Is Here ICE is about to eclipse the FBI as America's most important law enforcement agency. That's bad. Super-duper bad.

The median FBI agent today is a lawyer who joined up to prevent another 9/11.

The median ICE agent tomorrow will be a dude with a high school diploma who watched guys in masks and full tactical snatching and beating day laborers and wants in on the action.

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

08.07.2025 20:13 — 👍 1897    🔁 574    💬 63    📌 26

well, you do if there's a fucking wolf

07.07.2025 15:30 — 👍 7009    🔁 1209    💬 130    📌 27

You can't make it up

MAGA Congressman Derrick Van Orden-a huge supporter of the Big Ugly Bill

Who published this repugnant post cheering the fact that the law would gut Medicaid and SNAP

Is now BEGGING the Democratic governor of his state

To save the very hospitals that he just voted to close

04.07.2025 14:23 — 👍 4163    🔁 2054    💬 361    📌 269

Sometimes dirty, sometimes not, but it mostly matches your martini description.

30.06.2025 23:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A chocolate ice cream shake. Ok, that’s not being very helpful. 😉

28.06.2025 18:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As one does when one is simply impartially applying the law in the obvious constitutional way with no underlying agenda

27.06.2025 20:23 — 👍 2551    🔁 493    💬 33    📌 7

But wait, he’s the president. Can’t he just turn the dial in the White House labeled “gas prices?” I thought that’s how this works.

23.06.2025 13:42 — 👍 214    🔁 27    💬 11    📌 0

CLARIFICATION :

The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY

So spread this around

They can be texted. They can be called.

18.06.2025 17:48 — 👍 4957    🔁 5409    💬 18    📌 74

I’m watching the Panama v Guadeloupe Gold Cup game on TV as we speak. It is being played in Los Angeles. And the stadium is almost completely empty.

A sport that in the U.S. is highly dependent on Latino audiences is no longer viable. The World Cup cannot come here.

16.06.2025 23:26 — 👍 3053    🔁 955    💬 148    📌 57
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Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

14.06.2025 22:28 — 👍 31940    🔁 12584    💬 2060    📌 1678

My condolences. 😕

14.06.2025 20:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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@maddow.msnbc.com @jenpsaki.msnbc.com

SE Portland Oregon No Kings protest.

14.06.2025 18:12 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I heard from a friend in the Willamette Valley wine biz that I.C.E. raided a couple vineyards today. If so, are you on this @opb.org ?

12.06.2025 22:05 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Fellow Portlander- was just about to make a similar comment.

09.06.2025 02:09 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

06.06.2025 00:53 — 👍 23239    🔁 4182    💬 328    📌 150
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That Part! 😳🤔🙄

04.06.2025 03:14 — 👍 1137    🔁 238    💬 6    📌 0
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Jasmine Crockett is clear choice to lead Oversight Dems I told you I wouldn’t pick sides in this race because I don’t have a vote. Then I realized it’s up to all of us to make sure our party gets this one right.

My latest: Jasmine Crockett is clear choice to lead Oversight Dems
I told you I wouldn’t pick sides in this race because I don’t have a vote. Then I realized it’s up to all of us to make sure our party gets this one right.

3,421 words. Please consider reading and passing this along!

04.06.2025 23:41 — 👍 13998    🔁 3606    💬 318    📌 159
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Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.

So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.

They opened the drawbridge to block them.

So they marched to a different bridge.

The latest from S. Baum.

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03.06.2025 01:00 — 👍 23271    🔁 6639    💬 240    📌 450
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Crater Lake National Park superintendent resigns as staffing plunges Kevin Heatley stepped down Friday as superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, as internal data shows a sharp decline in the National Park Service’s workforce.

"If Crater Lake were fully staffed this summer, it would have eight park rangers, said a current park employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Instead, it has three...."

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

02.06.2025 18:52 — 👍 3168    🔁 1066    💬 149    📌 51
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Spare us the fake outrage.

01.06.2025 18:49 — 👍 43717    🔁 9118    💬 1045    📌 336

Such a horrible idea. It’s worked wonderfully for so many years.

30.05.2025 17:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You didn’t LET him nap, did you?! 😉

28.05.2025 17:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Analysis | Rubio’s claim that it’s ‘a lie’ that people have died from foreign-aid cuts The secretary of state rejected convincing evidence documented in news reports and by disease modelers.

Analysis by Glenn Kessler: There is no dispute that people have died because the Trump administration abruptly suspended foreign aid. One might quibble over how many people have died. But you can’t call it a lie.

28.05.2025 15:31 — 👍 732    🔁 217    💬 40    📌 14
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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil.

26.05.2025 17:39 — 👍 44118    🔁 10527    💬 1120    📌 668

if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost

25.05.2025 14:59 — 👍 19282    🔁 2478    💬 253    📌 192

Gotta stop by one of these days.

24.05.2025 22:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.

24.05.2025 16:58 — 👍 41116    🔁 11828    💬 1995    📌 625