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Thinking back on Watchmen (the original graphic novel), I think Osymandias was way too optimistic about humanity. #Politics #USPol #Books
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As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
www.cnn.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.

This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
February 13, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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I wanna be real here, living in the SF Bay Area has continued to drive home how wrong his stance is. People will be like "they're gonna shun you!" no, dumbass, they're gonna draft me onto the PTA Board and go oh wow your hair's pretty and say my style is very Miss Frizzle.

Life's a joy, fuck Hasan.
hasan, who is not trans or queer, saying that Dems would shoot every trans person in the head to win elections, is just straight up ratfucking, indefensible
February 12, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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It's still depressing that so many so called leftists are throwing the term "zio" around without a care in a world despite being repeatly told that the term was coined by David Duke and is antisemitic.
February 12, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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It's important to point out in the sea of horrible news we see all the time: They keep losing! And seemingly at greater frequency every week.
BREAKING: Judge blocks Hegseth effort to punish Sen. Kelly.

"This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."

Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...
February 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Ratcliffe is, quite obviously, factually, morally & intellectually wrong about immigration. But his racist comments will be 'both-sided' everywhere because people who simply don't like seeing non-white faces aren't ashamed to say so anymore.
February 12, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.
February 11, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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demand for the goods and services they produce, in which case total profits must decline.

Between unbalanced trade, the dominance of finance, high levels of income inequality, and the associated rise in populist anger, it seems we are in for a revival of 1930s economics.
February 11, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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And as Marriner Eccles, FDR's Fed chairman, explained in the 1930s, this creates a dangerous illusion. The extent of business profits depends almost wholly on the purchasing power of ordinary people, which in turn depends on wages.
February 11, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.
February 10, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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because it matters how industries you don’t like see the world as working
February 10, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses?

People
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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Beyonce and Ricky Martin performed at Bush's 2000 inaugural is a thing I think about a lot when considering how much more culturally isolated and extreme the right has become.
February 9, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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Bad Bunny's entire Super Bowl performance “rebuked the notion that he is some culture-war proxy being foisted upon an American public that wants its stars to shut up and sing,” Spencer Kornhaber argues: theatln.tc/hUu0xoDp
February 9, 2026 at 6:01 AM
The impotence of the petty tyrant.

He could not stop Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show.
'and the dancing is disgusting', says the former owner of the Miss Universe Organization.
February 9, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Gracias, Benito.
February 9, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.

He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.

Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
February 8, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Tulips.
Tulips.
TULIPS!
“.. Our BTC price target is 0.0. That’s not just for shock factor. It’s where the math takes us,” the strategist said, noting that Bitcoin has failed to function as a dollar hedge and instead operates as “a speculative instrument correlated to the Nasdaq.”

#Bitcoin
seekingalpha.com/news/4547997...
February 5, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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SENATE AND HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARE UNITED ON REINING IN THE ABUSES OF ICE

Americans have watched in horror as ICE has terrorized communities across the country

Federal agents can’t continue to cause chaos in our cities while more Americans are killed

We must rein in ICE

Here’s what we're demanding:
February 5, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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Someday, everyone needs to reckon with the utterly blasé attitude with which the internet left invokes the slaughter in Gaza as a rhetorical cudgel to beat social media enemies with.

It cheapens the suffering, has no positive benefit at all, and turns a real war crime into a meme. It’s disgusting.
February 5, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.
February 5, 2026 at 5:58 AM