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Great job, all the people on the left who were and still are protesting @kamalaharris.com! You got exactly what you worked so hard for.

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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February 15, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Can confirm.
February 16, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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We can’t trust anything coming out of this administration. It’s getting tiresome.
February 16, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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These are the oligarchs who seek to rule every aspect of our lives, and the current US regime is doing everything possible to facilitate that because it is owned by them.
February 16, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?
February 15, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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The maps of swings in urban areas are masking (at least in NYC) enormous turnout decline. As much if not more a story about voters staying home as flipping to Trump.
November 15, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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And I never quote the Bible but if one thing seems true it’s this ⬇️
November 15, 2024 at 4:33 AM
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Clown President-elect’s presidency will be a disaster like you have never seen before.
November 15, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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I really do think it's Prager at Education
November 14, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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watching cabinet appointments get announced like
November 13, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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I eat and I take prescription medication. Can I be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration?
November 14, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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My last ESL class before the election we had 20 students, the majority being Spanish speakers from Mexico and Guatemala. The first class after the election? 3. The only Spanish speaker was from Puerto Rico.
November 12, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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but what about the norms
"All options are on the table, including recess appointments" -- John Thune
November 14, 2024 at 11:26 PM
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Bluesky has officially hit #1 on the App Store charts for Free Apps in both the UK and US.
November 14, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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Context: Elon Musk dislikes Scientific American’s editorial perspectives on social and climate justice, and has been fanning a targetted harassment campaign this week in an effort to silence the magazine.

It appears to have worked.
I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief. I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching), but for now I’d like to share a very small sample of the work I’ve been so proud to support (thread)
November 14, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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He looks like if Tommy Lee Jones ate Sponge Bob.
November 15, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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Anyone else having Tuesday night PTSD cuz of last week
November 12, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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Trump is going to fire generals who are not loyalists - turning the military into an enforcement arm of Trump.

He's going to turn the military against American citizens . . . and it's terrifying.

But eggs are expensive.
www.newsweek.com/trump-creati...
Trump creating "MAGA Military" with purge of generals, veterans group warns
Trump's transition team is considering a draft executive order that would establish a "warrior board" to review top generals.
www.newsweek.com
November 13, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Wrote about how four years of “Fund the Police!” did zero for the Democrats except legitimize GOP talking points, depress Dem voter turnout, hand Trump a well-funded police state, and make the world a crueler, more violent place. An abject failure. theappeal.org/fund-the-pol...
‘Fund the Police’ Backfired—and Gave Trump More Power Than Ever
Democrats spent the last four years running away from police reform and instead chanted "fund the police." They lost.
theappeal.org
November 13, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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This comic remains undefeated
November 13, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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November 13, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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“I think they thought an actual bomb was in my backpack,” 13-year-old Ty told ProPublica and WPLN News.

But he didn’t have a bomb.

“It was just this, right here,” he said, holding his stuffed bunny Bonnie. “And they still took me to jail.”
A 13-Year-Old With Autism Got Arrested After His Backpack Sparked Fear. Only His Stuffed Bunny Was Inside.
Disability rights advocates said kids like Ty should not be getting arrested under Tennessee’s school threats law. And they tried to push for a broader exception for kids with other kinds of disabilit...
propub.li
November 13, 2024 at 3:24 PM