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This paragraph should be shouted from the hilltops:
September 17, 2026 at 11:27 AM
This paragraph should be shouted from the hilltops:
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This is the “cOvId ToOk My FrEeDoMs” guy, BTW.
13 Americans w/o Ebola exposure put in detention when returning from Africa. “Staff even created a map for Bhattacharya that showed the vast distance from Kinshasa to Ituri province, to highlight the low risk. He ordered them to be detained anyway.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's CDC Is Detaining Americans in Response to Ebola: A 'Wild Misuse' of Power
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is needlessly detaining Americans as part of a chaotic Ebola response led by Jay Bhattacharya.
www.rollingstone.com
July 21, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is the “cOvId ToOk My FrEeDoMs” guy, BTW.
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"Not the warmest of receptions" - Rebecca Lowe
Trump and Infantino are loudly jeered as they walk out to present the World Cup trophy.
July 19, 2026 at 11:42 PM
"Not the warmest of receptions" - Rebecca Lowe
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Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...
July 14, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...
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President Obama once delivered a speech in an open field for four hours during a thunderstorm while leaning against a very tall, pointy metal pole. President Trump should do the same, but for six hours, to demonstrate his strength.
July 5, 2026 at 1:50 AM
President Obama once delivered a speech in an open field for four hours during a thunderstorm while leaning against a very tall, pointy metal pole. President Trump should do the same, but for six hours, to demonstrate his strength.
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Some videos speak for themselves
July 5, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Some videos speak for themselves
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Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting
June 20, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting
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wtf did i just read, am i having a stroke
the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt
June 2, 2026 at 8:05 PM
wtf did i just read, am i having a stroke
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I would be remiss not to point out that "Tricking Milli Vanilli into performing a concert for a dictator" is LITERALLY a storyline from the 1990s 'Super Mario Bros 3' cartoon 🙃
May 28, 2026 at 7:19 PM
I would be remiss not to point out that "Tricking Milli Vanilli into performing a concert for a dictator" is LITERALLY a storyline from the 1990s 'Super Mario Bros 3' cartoon 🙃
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Franklin said impeachment is needed for a leader who "rendered himself obnoxious," which is now one of my all-time favorite phrases
April 28, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Franklin said impeachment is needed for a leader who "rendered himself obnoxious," which is now one of my all-time favorite phrases
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I mean, I know we make the 1984/Big Brother comparisons, but this is pretty much 2+2=5
RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'"
Trump: "Right"
Trump: "Right"
April 23, 2026 at 9:34 PM
I mean, I know we make the 1984/Big Brother comparisons, but this is pretty much 2+2=5
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Priceless post from the official White House social media
April 22, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Priceless post from the official White House social media
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April 20, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship
Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.
www.insidehighered.com
April 20, 2026 at 12:26 PM
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
Is he capable of speaking the truth or is he actual stuck in "opposite day" like we used to have a children?
April 17, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Is he capable of speaking the truth or is he actual stuck in "opposite day" like we used to have a children?
WTF?! Literally what the actual fuck?
April 17, 2026 at 10:10 PM
WTF?! Literally what the actual fuck?
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Ohhhh. There it is. Got it.
April 10, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Ohhhh. There it is. Got it.
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“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.”
www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/s...
www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/s...
Sánchez to Trump: Spain won’t ‘applaud those who set the world on fire just because they then show up with a bucket’
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has emerged as one of the European Union's leading critics of U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran.
www.cnbc.com
April 8, 2026 at 11:55 AM
“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.”
www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/s...
www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/s...
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this whole era is just a series of rejected sketches from Benny Hill
SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings?
CPAC CROWD: *cheers*
SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.
CPAC CROWD: *cheers*
SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.
March 27, 2026 at 6:46 PM
this whole era is just a series of rejected sketches from Benny Hill
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People should take notice of what's happening in Rogers Park in Chicago right now. The right-wing media machine has zeroed in on the 40th Ward's Black queer alderman in the aftermath of a shooting, vilifying her description of the victim being in the "wrong place at the wrong time" as victim-blaming
March 27, 2026 at 5:32 PM
People should take notice of what's happening in Rogers Park in Chicago right now. The right-wing media machine has zeroed in on the 40th Ward's Black queer alderman in the aftermath of a shooting, vilifying her description of the victim being in the "wrong place at the wrong time" as victim-blaming
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DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.”
(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
January 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.”
(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
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We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
January 8, 2026 at 6:38 PM
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
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Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
January 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
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Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in: