Clam Salmons
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This was why PACs were invented. Like crypto is for drug sales & money laundering, and LLCs are to hide real estate and business transactions, PACs are to launder political bribes.
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This is such a monumentally stupid idea.
Mexico--where a HUGE portion of America's day-to-day imports come from--relies on US-produced diesel.
Even IF diesel prices go down in the USA, we'll be paying Mexican truckers' increased diesel costs.
Mexico--where a HUGE portion of America's day-to-day imports come from--relies on US-produced diesel.
Even IF diesel prices go down in the USA, we'll be paying Mexican truckers' increased diesel costs.
September 23, 2026 at 5:21 PM
This is such a monumentally stupid idea.
Mexico--where a HUGE portion of America's day-to-day imports come from--relies on US-produced diesel.
Even IF diesel prices go down in the USA, we'll be paying Mexican truckers' increased diesel costs.
Mexico--where a HUGE portion of America's day-to-day imports come from--relies on US-produced diesel.
Even IF diesel prices go down in the USA, we'll be paying Mexican truckers' increased diesel costs.
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Guys I keep telling you all about The Plot to Enslave America and people treat it like its some conspiracy theory or something when it's all happening right out there in the open.
🚨🚨🚨PARAMOUNT ASKED ELON MUSK FOR AN EQUITY INVESTMENT AMID PURCHASE OF HBO, WHICH HAS STREAMING RIGHTS TO THE "MUSK" DOCUMENTARY🚨🚨🚨
🟡 SCOOP: Paramount executives have discussed asking Elon Musk for an equity investment as it looks to firm up its financial picture to digest Warner Bros. Discovery.
www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
September 23, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Guys I keep telling you all about The Plot to Enslave America and people treat it like its some conspiracy theory or something when it's all happening right out there in the open.
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When historians look back on Trump's foreign policy in a century, I bet these are their verdict on his most famous policies:
The support of Russia--the most evil.
The pillaging of Venezuela--the most corrupt.
The decision to go to war with Iran--the most incompetent.
The support of Russia--the most evil.
The pillaging of Venezuela--the most corrupt.
The decision to go to war with Iran--the most incompetent.
September 23, 2026 at 4:49 PM
When historians look back on Trump's foreign policy in a century, I bet these are their verdict on his most famous policies:
The support of Russia--the most evil.
The pillaging of Venezuela--the most corrupt.
The decision to go to war with Iran--the most incompetent.
The support of Russia--the most evil.
The pillaging of Venezuela--the most corrupt.
The decision to go to war with Iran--the most incompetent.
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Almost like they wanted to make sure we all knew that they won.
September 23, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Almost like they wanted to make sure we all knew that they won.
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What the FUCK? Not every US citizen HAS a passport.
September 23, 2026 at 5:18 PM
What the FUCK? Not every US citizen HAS a passport.
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I'm not a building code expert, but I'm pretty sure bulletproof windows aren't ideal egress routes.
September 23, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I'm not a building code expert, but I'm pretty sure bulletproof windows aren't ideal egress routes.
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Great idea. Can’t think of a single way this could be abused.
September 23, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Great idea. Can’t think of a single way this could be abused.
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Also many of those immigrants are likely Cape Verdean, the team that everyone was cheering on just a few months ago.
September 23, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Also many of those immigrants are likely Cape Verdean, the team that everyone was cheering on just a few months ago.
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If you’re giving to Ossoff please stop and send it to Keisha Lance Bottoms
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September 23, 2026 at 3:17 PM
If you’re giving to Ossoff please stop and send it to Keisha Lance Bottoms
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Trump at the UN today basically said "I am the world's greatest peacemaker and I will commit mass genocide to prove it"
September 23, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Trump at the UN today basically said "I am the world's greatest peacemaker and I will commit mass genocide to prove it"
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Erdogan is a piece of shit, but he is right about this. The UN needs to be reformed, there should not be any permanent members, anything requiring a vote should pass by simple majority, abolish the veto, and any country not deemed fit to be in the UN can be voted out and can’t reapply for 4 years.
September 23, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Erdogan is a piece of shit, but he is right about this. The UN needs to be reformed, there should not be any permanent members, anything requiring a vote should pass by simple majority, abolish the veto, and any country not deemed fit to be in the UN can be voted out and can’t reapply for 4 years.
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Trump Ordered Illegal Removal of Braille
"Get rid of the [expletive] braille. No blind people are going to live in Trump Tower," Trump shouted, according to Res. "Just do it."
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
"Get rid of the [expletive] braille. No blind people are going to live in Trump Tower," Trump shouted, according to Res. "Just do it."
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Trump Vetoed Braille and Blind People at Trump Tower
"Get rid of the [expletive] braille," Trump apparently shouted. "Just do it."
www.newsweek.com
September 23, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Trump Ordered Illegal Removal of Braille
"Get rid of the [expletive] braille. No blind people are going to live in Trump Tower," Trump shouted, according to Res. "Just do it."
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
"Get rid of the [expletive] braille. No blind people are going to live in Trump Tower," Trump shouted, according to Res. "Just do it."
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
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It’s not like inadequate emergency exits ever killed anyone 🙄
September 23, 2026 at 12:54 PM
It’s not like inadequate emergency exits ever killed anyone 🙄
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The last time the S&P 500 was this close to a record (-0.44%) with fewer of its members above their 200d moving averages (51.2%)?
March 27, 2000, the day after the index put in its dot com bubble closing peak!
(-0.24% with just 34.1% of members above the 200d).
March 27, 2000, the day after the index put in its dot com bubble closing peak!
(-0.24% with just 34.1% of members above the 200d).
September 23, 2026 at 10:49 AM
The last time the S&P 500 was this close to a record (-0.44%) with fewer of its members above their 200d moving averages (51.2%)?
March 27, 2000, the day after the index put in its dot com bubble closing peak!
(-0.24% with just 34.1% of members above the 200d).
March 27, 2000, the day after the index put in its dot com bubble closing peak!
(-0.24% with just 34.1% of members above the 200d).
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This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday
u.afp.com/Sj9Z
u.afp.com/Sj9Z
September 23, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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Tom Thomson (1877-1917)
September 23, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Tom Thomson (1877-1917)
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NATO chief Mark Rutte to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs: “Article 5 is deliberately ambiguous, so we will never exactly tell anyone when Article 5 is exactly triggered or not.
“Because we don't want to make our adversaries any wiser.
“Because we don't want to make our adversaries any wiser.
September 23, 2026 at 8:13 AM
NATO chief Mark Rutte to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs: “Article 5 is deliberately ambiguous, so we will never exactly tell anyone when Article 5 is exactly triggered or not.
“Because we don't want to make our adversaries any wiser.
“Because we don't want to make our adversaries any wiser.
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From Heather Cox Richardson's #LettersfronanAmerican
"...it should not be overlooked that [Trump] stood in front of world leaders and rejected the premise of the U.N."
"...it should not be overlooked that [Trump] stood in front of world leaders and rejected the premise of the U.N."
![In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S. Constitution when they wrote the Preamble to the United Nations charter. “WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS” were, they wrote, “DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained.”
Central to that effort was the principle, stated in Article 2, that “[a]ll Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ke2hfcg6bnlups7cuz3ejiop/bafkreie6syud3py6uvwzu3xcz2p3yduagw4kob7porfsqkrq3bgsniuzjy)
September 23, 2026 at 6:21 AM
From Heather Cox Richardson's #LettersfronanAmerican
"...it should not be overlooked that [Trump] stood in front of world leaders and rejected the premise of the U.N."
"...it should not be overlooked that [Trump] stood in front of world leaders and rejected the premise of the U.N."
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We really need someone who understands that what you do with a marginal win is ruthlessly use it. You have 50 senators? Lean on the parliamentarian, remove the filibuster, and Do Things. You'll get more senators next election that way.
September 23, 2026 at 12:50 AM
We really need someone who understands that what you do with a marginal win is ruthlessly use it. You have 50 senators? Lean on the parliamentarian, remove the filibuster, and Do Things. You'll get more senators next election that way.
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How bad does it have to get before there's an actual chance they turn on him? At some point the fear of Trump does not match the cost of Trump. I've never thought that moment would come but I'm not so sure given how fast everything is unraveling.
September 23, 2026 at 1:54 AM
How bad does it have to get before there's an actual chance they turn on him? At some point the fear of Trump does not match the cost of Trump. I've never thought that moment would come but I'm not so sure given how fast everything is unraveling.
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If that happens I think impeachment and removal becomes a real possibility, because enough of them might realize that their best way forward is to amputate the limb and cauterize the wound as soon as possible because Trump is political gangrene that will take them all out eventually otherwise.
September 23, 2026 at 1:54 AM
If that happens I think impeachment and removal becomes a real possibility, because enough of them might realize that their best way forward is to amputate the limb and cauterize the wound as soon as possible because Trump is political gangrene that will take them all out eventually otherwise.
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well, we know the last time they lost they tried a coup
September 23, 2026 at 1:48 AM
well, we know the last time they lost they tried a coup
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Can’t think of a worse idea. Maybe they should hand out revolvers with each leveraged bet?
September 23, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Can’t think of a worse idea. Maybe they should hand out revolvers with each leveraged bet?
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Mm-hm.
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
Hi folks. If you saw this, you know the administration plans to only accept white South Africans next year. Tomorrow is Congress's formal say before the determination is signed. Please check this brief thread on why I'd like you to speak out for the Afghan people still in limbo...
September 23, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Mm-hm.
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Good.
Camp Mystic Owners Face Criminal Inquiry Over Deadly Flood, Warrants Show (Gift Article)
The warrants provided the clearest window into the possible charges the Texas police are investigating against the camp, including manslaughter, after 28 people died in the flood last year.
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Good.