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I'm serious: Shouldn't the judge demand to know if the "state secret" they are claiming to invoke was discussed on Signal?
March 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I'm serious: Shouldn't the judge demand to know if the "state secret" they are claiming to invoke was discussed on Signal?
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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
March 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
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If the US had continued to support Ukraine, we may have been months away from the end of the war. The Russians would not have been able to continue to fight for much longer. They were making almost no progress, taking huge casualties.
March 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If the US had continued to support Ukraine, we may have been months away from the end of the war. The Russians would not have been able to continue to fight for much longer. They were making almost no progress, taking huge casualties.
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⚡️Russia’s airlines face growing crisis as sanctions strangle aircraft maintenance.
Between Dec. 1 and Jan. 20, Russian aircraft experienced 11 engine failures—more than double the number from the previous two months, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Between Dec. 1 and Jan. 20, Russian aircraft experienced 11 engine failures—more than double the number from the previous two months, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Russia’s airlines face growing crisis as sanctions strangle aircraft maintenance
Between Dec. 1 and Jan. 20, Russian aircraft experienced 11 engine failures—more than double the number from the previous two months, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
kyivindependent.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
⚡️Russia’s airlines face growing crisis as sanctions strangle aircraft maintenance.
Between Dec. 1 and Jan. 20, Russian aircraft experienced 11 engine failures—more than double the number from the previous two months, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Between Dec. 1 and Jan. 20, Russian aircraft experienced 11 engine failures—more than double the number from the previous two months, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Tbh, what we are seeing with Trump and Putin is closer to the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.
February 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Tbh, what we are seeing with Trump and Putin is closer to the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.
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Trump’s closing message is a full blown hate campaign against black and brown people. Historians will look back in astonishment that this terrifying reality wasn’t the subject of wall to wall coverage and commentary in weeks leading up to this election. He’s not hiding anything.
October 12, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Trump’s closing message is a full blown hate campaign against black and brown people. Historians will look back in astonishment that this terrifying reality wasn’t the subject of wall to wall coverage and commentary in weeks leading up to this election. He’s not hiding anything.
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FCC boss Brendan Carr is on a tear targeting media orgs. But he has spared Rupert Murdoch's Fox, choosing not to revive a petition against the network.
"He is a puppet for the Sun King of Mar-a-Lago," former Murdoch lieutenant turned critic Preston Padden told me. www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...
"He is a puppet for the Sun King of Mar-a-Lago," former Murdoch lieutenant turned critic Preston Padden told me. www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...
Sly As a Fox
FCC boss Brendan Carr has curiously spared one major media organization from his wrath: Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation.
www.status.news
February 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
FCC boss Brendan Carr is on a tear targeting media orgs. But he has spared Rupert Murdoch's Fox, choosing not to revive a petition against the network.
"He is a puppet for the Sun King of Mar-a-Lago," former Murdoch lieutenant turned critic Preston Padden told me. www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...
"He is a puppet for the Sun King of Mar-a-Lago," former Murdoch lieutenant turned critic Preston Padden told me. www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...
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From a colleague who worked for for USAID until he was abruptly fired last week. As he says, courts take time. If you shatter things with a hammer it doesn’t matter if the courts eventually rule in your favor. You destroy lives—of government workers and of millions of poor people around the world.
February 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
From a colleague who worked for for USAID until he was abruptly fired last week. As he says, courts take time. If you shatter things with a hammer it doesn’t matter if the courts eventually rule in your favor. You destroy lives—of government workers and of millions of poor people around the world.
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NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Find someone who loves you as much as Russian state media loves Tulsi Gabbard.
February 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Find someone who loves you as much as Russian state media loves Tulsi Gabbard.
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A guy with his mind fried by ketamine and a 24/7/365 diet of Nazi shitposts is inside the federal government’s general payments system canceling whatever he personally decides looks like fraud while taking legal advice from his own busted AI chatbot, that’s the status report?
February 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
A guy with his mind fried by ketamine and a 24/7/365 diet of Nazi shitposts is inside the federal government’s general payments system canceling whatever he personally decides looks like fraud while taking legal advice from his own busted AI chatbot, that’s the status report?
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The new acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy — State’s top public diplomacy official:
1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it
2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)
1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it
2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)
February 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The new acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy — State’s top public diplomacy official:
1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it
2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)
1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it
2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)
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I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
There’s not.
February 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
There’s not.
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The guy from The Apprentice, who hired a Fox weekend host to run the Pentagon and a cast member from the Real World to run the FAA (the two agencies associated with the incident) says the real cause of a deadly plain crash is DEI.
REPORTER: I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash.
TRUMP: Because I have common sense, ok? And unfortunately a lot of people don't
TRUMP: Because I have common sense, ok? And unfortunately a lot of people don't
January 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The guy from The Apprentice, who hired a Fox weekend host to run the Pentagon and a cast member from the Real World to run the FAA (the two agencies associated with the incident) says the real cause of a deadly plain crash is DEI.
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It is a mistake to think of this as a lawsuit; it is a solicitation of a bribe, of protection money.
🚨🚨 Zuckerberg bends yet another knee and will pay Trump $25 million to settle a lawsuit that Trump was bound to lose. GIFT LINK:
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Exclusive | Trump Signs Agreement Calling for Meta to Pay $25 Million to Settle Suit
The president had sued the social-media company after his accounts were suspended.
www.wsj.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It is a mistake to think of this as a lawsuit; it is a solicitation of a bribe, of protection money.
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The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
January 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
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How the HECK is it not a nationwide scandal that Trump told federal law enforcement to divert resources away from drug trafficking and terrorism cases to instead prioritize prosecuting undocumented immigrants for living here?
They screamed about fentanyl and then did this!
They screamed about fentanyl and then did this!
January 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
How the HECK is it not a nationwide scandal that Trump told federal law enforcement to divert resources away from drug trafficking and terrorism cases to instead prioritize prosecuting undocumented immigrants for living here?
They screamed about fentanyl and then did this!
They screamed about fentanyl and then did this!
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Monday Night Massacre. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Trump administration fires DOJ officials who worked on criminal investigations of the president
The Justice Department employees had been involved in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to Trump's classified documents and Jan. 6 cases.
www.nbcnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Monday Night Massacre. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.
January 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.
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👀 "For all the hype and warnings about how TikTok is clearly a “national security threat” from China, the Trump admin" just "kneecapped the investigation into one of the most serious cybersecurity breaches in US history — a genuine, proven threat to national security. " @mmasnick.bsky.social
Trump Disbands Cybersecurity Board Investigating Massive Chinese Phone System Hack
For all the hype and warnings about how TikTok is clearly a “national security threat” from China, the Trump administration has effectively kneecapped the investigation into one of the most serious…
www.techdirt.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
👀 "For all the hype and warnings about how TikTok is clearly a “national security threat” from China, the Trump admin" just "kneecapped the investigation into one of the most serious cybersecurity breaches in US history — a genuine, proven threat to national security. " @mmasnick.bsky.social
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Trump begins his raids in Newark, NJ and ICE detains not only undocumented immigrants but a US military vet 🤦🏼♀️
ICE raids establishment in Newark, detains undocumented residents
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka confirmed in a statement that the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a local establishment in the city.
www.northjersey.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Trump begins his raids in Newark, NJ and ICE detains not only undocumented immigrants but a US military vet 🤦🏼♀️