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"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

09.02.2026 01:32 — 👍 4781    🔁 519    💬 60    📌 36

Go Robert Mueller and the rule of law!

09.02.2026 00:11 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

07.02.2026 14:34 — 👍 17693    🔁 4450    💬 248    📌 109

"talent is a gatekeeping mechanism"

06.02.2026 18:50 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Below is a statement from EAC Chair Donald Palmer:

06.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Epstein ‘sent woman to British anti-trafficking charity boss’ The AllSaints investor Lyndon Lea, a board member of an anti-trafficking charity, was also apparently introduced to several models at a New York party

www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

06.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What A Day: FBI Just Wants to Chat About the Midterms The FBI just reached out to all 50 states about the midterms… without saying why.

I saw this story going around crookedmedia.substack.com/p/what-a-day... also here www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

This is just a routine conference call that they have every year ahead of elections, the Election Assistance Commission tells me.

06.02.2026 17:08 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 2

you'll have to compete with all elder millennials too

06.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

meanwhile progressives today are generally the secular descendants of mainline middle class protestantism

06.02.2026 15:41 — 👍 44    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

this has always been the case with evangelicals and what we now call the tradlife. it attracts people with severe personal problems looking for control and absolution through submission to a patriarchal deity. it's why these communities are a breeding ground for authoritarianism.

06.02.2026 15:39 — 👍 109    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Mike Johnson pulling out his Men in Black memory eraser after seeking what Donald Trump posted.

06.02.2026 15:09 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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MOST racist thing. Going to need a top ten racist thing list from Sen. Scott.

06.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 1

I was not aware that Francisco de Vitoria went by the name Billie Eilish now, nor that he was still alive and winning Grammys.

05.02.2026 21:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EXCLUSIVE: DOJ's Civil Rights Chief Called Federal Election Interference Unconstitutional In a little-watched video in 2022, showing AAG Harmeet Dillion's statements about election security undercut the current administration and the work she's been doing.

EXCLUSIVE: Previously unreported remarks from the Civil Rights Division AAG, @HarmeetKDhillon run directly counter to what the President said recently, Congressional Republicans’ SAVE Act, and the conduct of her own office.

mimsnewspod.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

05.02.2026 17:51 — 👍 346    🔁 95    💬 11    📌 3
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Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.

The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

05.02.2026 15:20 — 👍 3401    🔁 1939    💬 171    📌 263
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Utah voter roll review finds no evidence of noncitizens casting a ballot, Lt. Gov. says An ongoing Utah review of 2.1 million voter registration records has found one noncitizen who registered to vote and zero examples of any noncitizens actually voting.

Utah's chief election officer, Lt Gov Deidre Henderson, has conducted a review of the state's voter rolls to identify any ineligible voters, including by running her rolls through the DHS SAVE Program. Guess how many non-citizens voted in Utah according to the review? Zero.

05.02.2026 02:24 — 👍 313    🔁 133    💬 6    📌 3
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Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations Files released by US Department of Justice detailed his relationship with the child sex offender

Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations ft.trib.al/H1vYT7B

05.02.2026 01:25 — 👍 2234    🔁 495    💬 180    📌 111

The 21st century echo of the Twilight Zone kicker that "To Serve Man" was a cookbook.

05.02.2026 01:26 — 👍 61    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0

To be more emphatic about this, some rich prick from Seattle destroyed my hometown paper, the paper I grew up reading, reading Wilbon and Kornheiser, the reason why I grew up in DC. So yes Fuck Jeff Bezos.

04.02.2026 23:02 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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What is this about?

04.02.2026 21:24 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

I think this would have the opposite effect of what is intended. Instead of supressing the vote you’re going to end up with angry people even more determined to cast a ballot bsky.app/profile/marc...

04.02.2026 19:29 — 👍 1561    🔁 295    💬 102    📌 28

they hate us for our freedom

04.02.2026 17:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it's this insincerity to his cruelty that really takes him to a more disgusting place than trump.

04.02.2026 16:47 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think the only appropriate and polite thing to say is Fuck Jeff Bezos.

04.02.2026 16:37 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1
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The hits just keep on coming.

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

04.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 2662    🔁 1023    💬 236    📌 152

Trolls

04.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

04.02.2026 06:43 — 👍 8672    🔁 3799    💬 165    📌 790

Amen

04.02.2026 03:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok Elon Musk's X and Grok platforms are facing increased scrutiny from authorities on both sides of the channel.

dear Emmanuel Macron, I will take back everything impolite I've said about you over the years if you get this mf www.bbc.com/news/article...

03.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 291    🔁 36    💬 9    📌 1

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