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Trump's Freedom 250 hits the road with museum focused on faith, civics Six mobile history museums, part of President Trump's Freedom 250 program, aim to counter 'woke agenda.' Historians say it leaves out key facts.

Holy shit.

Trump's Freedom 250 Christian nationalist hijack of America's birthday includes WHITEWASH of SLAVERY.

"Thomas Jefferson's view of slavery, 'is an interpretive choice meant to advance a particular vision of the American founding.'"

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Personal news update: I'm delighted to announce that as of today, I am an actual Bluesky employee! I'll be working to welcome indie media and local govt to Bsky—and supporting those already here.

I'll always want to hear your thoughts on how we can make Bsky the sort of social media we all want!

The Israeli military says it has destroyed the Iranian Broadcasting Authority building in Tehran.

The ouster of at least a dozen staffers from a counterintelligence unit, known as CI-12, which operates out of the Washington Field Office, was ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, according to four former officials familiar with the dismissals. The dismissals came just days before the start of Operation Epic Fury and, separately, a deadly mass shooting at a bar in Austin, Texas, by a man reportedly wearing a sweatshirt that said, “Property of Allah,” beneath which was a T-shirt that was “emblazoned with a design similar to the Iranian flag,” CBS News reported Monday. CI-12 focuses on media leaks, global espionage, and international threats against America emanating from countries such as Cuba and Iran, former FBI officials tell the Sun. More broadly, CI squads are the lead domestic teams for investigating insider threats and foreign intelligence activity on American soil. In 2020, CI-12 assisted in monitoring potential retaliatory actions by Iranian-backed actors on American soil following a U.S. drone strike near Baghdad International Airport that killed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps major general Qasem Soleimani, an operation ordered by Mr. Trump, former FBI officials tell the Sun.

Kash just fired some counter Iranian espionage agents.

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Another day, another Nazi incident surrounding Platner.

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There is no evidence that ivermectin works as a treatment for cancer.

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment

this will be a public health disaster.

We could end the transmission of HIV this year. That has been true for a decade. That we have not done so is a public policy choice.

The money behind the new Iran War In private calls over the last several weeks, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged President Trump to attack Iran.

1. According to multiple reports both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to attack Iran.

Both countries have increased their influence with Trump by investing billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

ICYMI over the weekend: My colleagues and I reviewed 15,000 documents to put together a detailed account of how Jeffrey Epstein leveraged medical care to manipulate and control victims, and how some doctors enabled that. Gift link:

There's a ton going on, but make time for this. It gets to the corruption behind all of this.

Damn

The security implications of this - if true - are terrifying...

A Telegraph hack has Trump's personal phone number - and Trump personally answers it when he calls?

Really?

US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say Ex-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation

The horror show continues.

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With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom Gambling markets have conveniently found a stance that allows them to continue to profit from death and war.

America is out of ideas. A demented president is trying to tie up all the loose boomer plot threads before he dies. fuck it bet it all on black www.404media.co/with-iran-wa...

An Iranian drone strike on a hotel in Bahrain injured two U.S. Defense Department employees, according to a State Department cable.- WaPo

Losing the War on Truth Iran and what to make of it

Trump seems lost as to which lie he wants to tell. We are in a war on truth; but truth can win – if it finds friends.
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“But even if lying works in politics, truths about the world do not cease to be: civilians slain stay dead, airplanes shot down crash, actions lead to unpredictable reactions. Post-truth fascists will wander into terrains of ignorance and find themselves trapped.”

Seems good.

This is nuts. Neither Crockett nor Talarico is particularly "progressive" in a strict political definition, but Talarico is further left by any measure I can come up with and is running an economic populist campaign, has support from labor, etc.

literally dismantling our international security umbrella so Israel can make the broader middle east into a parking lot for its settler strip malls. Incredible stuff.

PhD in human genomics here:

This is eugenics nonsense

NEW: A federal appeals court swiftly rejected the Trump administration’s request to delay next steps in the fight over tariff refunds for importers after the US Supreme Court struck down the president’s signature economic policy
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DHS admits it deported more than 80 DACA recipients “Dreamers” who came to the U.S. as children are protected under U.S. law, so deportations of them are unusual.

“The Department of Homeland Security admitted to Congress this month that it deported dozens of unauthorized immigrants who are protected under U.S. law because they were brought as children to the United States, according to a letter made public Thursday.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

APTN News Brief: With Canada set to spend $82B on defence, Indigenous vendors stand to gain Our featured story: at the annual National Indigenous Defence Conference—a chance to link with contractors as well as DND officials—Indigenous suppliers hope to access some of Canada's $82B pla...

The annual National Indigenous Defence Conference links contractors, suppliers with DND officials.

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With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom Gambling markets have conveniently found a stance that allows them to continue to profit from death and war.

prediction markets' depravity economy is the culmination of deregulation and kleptocracy, lobbying to legalize sports gambling, the collapse of advertising markets, hustlebro culture, crypto, memestocks, ai bubble ... venn diagram of horrible:

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😲 A GlobalX jet (tail: N289GX) transports humans-in-chains from Miami to Caracas 🇻🇪

911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

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