State elections matter. A lot.

App for boycotting US products tops Danish charts after Trump’s Greenland threats NonUSA app ‘helps you identify and avoid American products in everyday life’

A popular app in Denmark identifies American products so that Danes know not to buy them

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Included is a map showing ICE's 287(g) programs in Democratic trifecta states.

In Virginia, there is no statute banning local agencies from contracting with ICE; however, a bill in the state senate that just passed in the state house will do that.

If you live in Virginia, call your state senators.

Ukraine’s Paralympic team will boycott the Winter Paralympics opening ceremony in protest against allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete without qualification.

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A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.

Just to keep it straight ...

It's Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security who's allegedly having a barely concealed affair with her married aide who tried to fire a Coast Guard pilot for not turning their luxury jet around mid-flight to go back and get her blankie ...

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

If the motherfucking KING OF ENGLAND is willing to have his own brother arrested because he's a pedo, whomever is running in the midterms and in 2028 needs to bring fire and brimstone for EVERYONE in the files. Charles himself realizes how important this is! This is not an extreme position!

The Boss coming to Oregon

Colbert’s James Talarico Interview Hits 3 Million YouTube Views, Surpasses Bad Bunny Appearance "The Late Show" aired the interview straight to YouTube after alleged pressure from CBS over the FCC's equal-time rule

www.thewrap.com/media-platfo... Brendan Carr may help flip Texas

Veterans slam new VA rule for determining disability ratings The new rule states that a disability level must be based on how well a veteran functions while on medication and not on the underlying impairment.

As expected, MAGA is coming after disability benefits for combat veterans.

Here's just one example of the rule's impact: Veterans taking anti-depressants for PTSD will be forced to stop taking the medication in order to retain their disability payments.

The Boss strikes back! I’m going to do some cheerleading tonight, and let me tell you right now that I am not ashamed of it.

“They’re afraid of Bad Bunny. They’re afraid of Bruce Springsteen. They’re afraid of Stephen Colbert. They’re afraid of Jimmy Kimmel. They’re afraid of The View. They’re afraid of anybody who is not afraid of them”.

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YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Why Everyone's Talking About Stephen Colbert, CBS, The FCC And James Talarico

Colbert has truly had a great relationship with CBS, even after he was told his contract wasn’t going to be renewed. So let me say: It’s stunning to me that, as he explains here, nobody at CBS told Colbert about the statement today.

This is a must-watch: youtu.be/OQIljje2B_Q?...

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

CBS Didn't let Colbert air this last night.

Are they afraid we'll be able to flip Texas Blue?

Christians against Christian Nationalism
are stepping up and using their voice.

#PillarMedia #PillarFaith
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Brexit’s slow‑burn hit to the UK economy The UK is once again debating why its economy has grown slowly since the mid‑2010s. This column examines the impact of the decision to leave the European Union in 2016. Using almost a decade of data s...

New data shows #Brexit has lowered UK GDP by 6-8% over the past decade. Investment down 12-18%, employment down 3-4%. It's even worse than economists had predicted pre-referendum, because they thought there would be a bounce-back long term. "Economists were roughly right on the

Philadelphia, you are the best

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

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Wow.

How mandatory national service — not military service — would benefit young adults.

Zero confusion about what Europeans should do.

Acquire capabilities necessary for defense of Europe. Smartly reduce vulnerabilities to coercion & blackmail by China & US. Invest in revival of European industry & technology. Work together where interests are aligned.

It‘s quite simple.

Imagine how the 2024 election might have gone if the coverage of the economy from 2022-24 had been "Joe & Jay stuck the soft landing & the 🇺🇸 economy is running on all cylinders" & if Jeffrey Epstein's buddy hadn't been platformed constantly on every media outlet to convince you it was all sh*t.

Man, did I get a lot of pushback on the Hellsite in <2023> when I said we'd already had a soft landing & should retire the term if folks didn't think that was true. Now we've jumped to "it happened & Trump might be screwing it up" w/o ever giving Joe Biden credit for it.

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Elon Musk, a pro-apartheid South African, may have come here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture. (By the way, were the Irish welcomed by the English?)

My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom, tolerance, equal rights, and opportunity.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Rep. Robert Garcia: "Why was Mar-a-Lago a location where women continued to be trafficked from. We have questions for President Trump. And the broader issue here is why wasn't this investigated when these accusations were heard by the FBI years ago?"

Moderna Won’t Run Phase III Vaccine Trials as Skepticism Grows in US: Bloomberg Growing opposition to vaccines in the U.S., driven by recent government policy changes, makes it difficult to see a return on investment in vaccine development, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said this w...

Not being an expert in any of this part of me kind of assumed that vaccine work would continue in other countries and eventually the US would sign back on but apparently, no, if the US is out, the work stops because that's the driving market

Whether it's needing Moderna to restart vaccine research or needing foreign governments to resign treaties there are many reasons we can't just go back to normal after Trump. We will need leadership that will put in place structures to ensure the US won't backslide again or there will never be trust

A fun thing is to get to the part where he says “this is not who we are” and imagine a certain type of person on here trying to pull a “um actually that’s who we’ve always been read a book for once” to his face

Resistance infrastructure.