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‘We Know Donald Trump Wants the Story to Die’ Democrats return to El Salvador, looking for gay makeup artist thrown into CECOT.

Keep it going!

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Diary of Anne Frank, 1943

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What to do if the Insurrection Act is invoked With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond.

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To Discover the World’s First Intersex Southern Right Whale, the Third Test Was the Charm - bioGraphic What you think you know about the world depends on how you’re looking.

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As I read it, we're now comfortably ensconced at (3) and within shooting distance of (4)

This is a pretty important repost!

Our Semi-Authoritarian State Are we a democracy or a dictatorship? No one knows.

As yet undetermined

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YouTube video by The Daily Show Jon Stewart Knocks Dems' Lack of Vision In Countering The Trump Agenda | The Daily Show

#SurrenderCaucus

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Scientists at Antarctic Sanae IV base rocked by alleged assault A spokesperson for the South African government told the BBC there had been an assault at the station.

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All 10 surrender monkeys in the Senate, giving up ahead of time. What good are y'all, anyway?

#SurrenderCaucus #ObeyinginAdvance #CapitulationistheirJob

Chuck Schumer says he won't block Republican funding bill amid Democratic divisions over shutdown strategy Schumer relented one day after vowing that Senate Democrats would thwart the "partisan" measure, saying the "chaos" of a government shutdown would be a worse option.

Leadership? Nuh uh! ('We'll happily be the minority party of the ash heap, just keep us around without having any expectations of us.') Gods forbid they earn their keep!

The only real leverage the Dems might have had for the foreseeable future, and Schumer does a Schumer.

Three things the Democrats can do right now We're in dire times. The opposition party should start acting like it.

This isn't normal, let's stop treating it that way

That's a very nice head tho.

Don't cut NPR and PBS funding! Millions of Americans rely on public media  for their news and educational programming. In many rural areas in our country, public broadcasting is their main avenue for receiving news, emergency ...

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YouTube video by New Lines Magazine The Mass Psychology of Trumpism

Why the appeal?

A decent explainer.

I was one happy haploid cell when I read "The Cardinal in the Kremlin," but yeah, you're cool too.

What Really Happened in Ukraine in 2014—and Since Then A close look at the lies and distortions from Russia apologists and propagandists about the roots of the Ukraine war.

A lot of Russian sympathizers point to a so-called 'US-backed coup' that turned an independent Ukraine against Russia in 2014. Here's the real story.

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But he's not Russia's finest! Real Russians can do that dance that they do, which he probably can't, which makes him less good.

YouTube video by Cliff Cash Comedy Out-Dumbing Ignorant Bigots, and My Sister's Coming Out Story

I relate to so much of this!

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What in the Joseph Goebbels F*ck is Happening on Facebook? The in-group is being signalled to

I'm really trying not to frighten myself to death, but I also want to try to understand this moment we're in and where it could take us next

YouTube video by Luke Beasley OMG: Watch Joe Rogan Realize HE WAS COMPLETELY LIED TO!

How regular people get sucked in to MAGA, with Joe Rogan as example

Fool Me Twice, I’ll Make You FBI Director Plus: Going along to get along in a time of democratic decline.

None of Trump's other nominees "impulse-lied to senators’ faces while under oath in a confirmation hearing, as if they were a troublemaking toddler telling their parents they didn’t drop the cake, hoping no one noticed their face was covered in icing."

I feel this

The Plot Against America How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America

The new libertarianism looks an awful lot like feudalism

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The Elite Lawyers Working for Elon Musk’s DOGE Include Former Supreme Court Clerks Much attention has been paid to the young Silicon Valley engineers working for Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, but the group has also hired high-powered legal talent.

NEW: ProPublica has identified three lawyers with elite establishment credentials who’ve joined the DOGE effort. Two of their names haven’t been previously reported as working for the Elon Musk-led initiative.

Here’s what we know about them:

Really tryin'