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The uniformity with which structural factors are driving these results is pretty striking. One campaign raised $9m!

This man was courageous enough to stand up to Trump and Vance.

So it's important to post this message and photo to 27 million people.

Don't just "like" it -- that only means that YOU'VE seen it.

Postb it, blow it up and get it out there!

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

Trump backed GOP into a big corner with his “balanced budget” point.

The ONLY way House GOP could even think about upholding their “no cuts to Medicaid” swing seat promises and their spending cut mandates is deficit spending and bad math.

Now they have to gut Medicaid & hand it to Elon in public.

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I sincerely hope he does

Jupiter credit |NASA

One has never seen speech so free. The freest speech

So classified documents going back into the Mar a Lago toilet?

Trump officials start dismantling civil rights offices, as part of DOGE’s secret plan Legal experts said that unwinding a civil rights-era bulwark designed to safeguard employees’ rights removes a crucial check on institutional power.

worth saying again that this was a bait and switch. if trump had openly announced he was running on allowing companies to discriminate against women and minorities he would not have won wapo.st/43aVQg1

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

To President Zelensky, From an Embarrassed American Dear President Zelensky,

Dear President Zelensky,

As it is likely that our paths will never cross in person, I could not let this day go by without trying to reach you here.

I come to you humbly as an American citizen who is thoroughly and completely embarrassed of our leaders.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-preside...

Ex-Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton is calling for Secretary of State Marco Rubio and current National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to resign over the Ukraine debacle.

TIME magazine cover calling Marco Rubio the Republican savior.

Marco Rubio’s soul escaping his body today.

Started/Going

“Dismantling global disease prevention infrastructure [destroys] institutional knowledge, relationships, and capacity that took years to build. And Musk shows no signs of learning this lesson at all. To him it is a joke and a meme to tweet. As people die.”
@mmasnick.bsky.social
@techdirt.bsky.social

International embarrassment 🤬🤬😤😤🤮🤮🤮

#trump#vance #maga

#TRUMP Voted worst president...

He is a american #nightmare

I miss #BIDEN =(

#MAGGOTS "price of eggs" which ended up being the price of #AMERICA (Nice going #assholes) 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼

Trump White House staffers were seen loading around 15 boxes of documents onto the rear of Air Force One.
 
Team Trump says the boxes contain the classified documents the FBI seized  from Trump's Florida home in 2022.

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Thanks to our volunteers, this event was a success in all its abilities. We would like to express our most sincere thanks to them. 💪

Let’s hope to see them all next year!

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Threads vs. Bluesky. Spot the difference.

Photo of text from a newspaper article that says “Kennedy advances the lies that vaccines cause autism, increase cancer risk, and result in higher death rates. None of this is true, but Kennedy, a science denialist, will never accept the real scientific evidence showing the safety of vaccines. His goal is to cause fear over vaccines and public health ini-tiatives, which he does for profit Kennedy will promote decreased vaccine uptake, as he did when he influenced government officials in Samoa to stop measles vaccinations; in the resulting measles epidemic, 83 people died from measles, mostly chil-dren. The same will happen here.”

Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening.

An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply:

“The same will happen here”.

This graphic via @friendsofusaid.bsky.social

10 days ago Trump fired hundreds of FAA employees, weakening the systems air traffic controllers rely on.

Maybe instead of handing Elon a $2 billion FAA contract, we should use that money to actually hire and retain the workers who keep our skies safe.

Just a thought.

Gene Hackman, 1930–2025 As Popeye Doyle, Lex Luthor, Little Bill Daggett, Royal Tenenbaum—he went from A Guy to The Man.

"A full-on embrace wouldn’t have been right; it would have been too much, too cloying, dishonest to Royal and Chas alike. That just wasn’t who Royal was. And Hackman knew that. Because he was The Man."

A poster for the economic blackout on February 28. It is a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

The Barstool conservatives are getting restless.

GERMAN ELECTIONS today. 2 exit polls just released:

CDU-CSU (conservatives): ≈28.5-29%
AFD (far-right): ≈19.5-20%
SPD (social-dems, center-left): 16-16.5%
Greens (center-left): 12-13.5%
Die Linke (left): 8.5-9%
BSW (left but with anti-immigrant lane): 4.7%-5%
FDP (free-market right): 4.9%-5%.

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