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Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Asked if he's willing to shut down the government over ICE funding, Senator Cory Booker replies: "We had the longest government shutdown, and Democrats could not hold together to sustain that kind of pressure."
January 14, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Just the very fact that he is worried about this should be grounds on prosecuting him for war crimes

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Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
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December 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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If you're wondering how cable news is reporting the US seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker, here's CNN saying, "This is absolutely normal."
December 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Nailed it!

Art by @vjaybombs on IG
November 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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After Democrats released emails showing that Jeffrey Epstein discussed his relationship with President Trump, Republicans on the Oversight Committee released 20,000 additional documents. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/47Ufvl5
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Video: Andrey X via X (@the_andrey_x)
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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cannot wait for this guy to fade into obscurity as a has-been
Q: A lot of Rs, including the Lt Gov, ran on keeping the good times going. Given the Lt Gov lost by 15, Rs are on track to lose more than a dozen House seats, is it possible Virginians don't see your admin the same way you do?

YOUNGKIN: I believe Virginians thoroughly support what we've been doing
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...
September 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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What a badass.
June 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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NYPD just grabbed a guy with a bike who was on the sidewalk.
June 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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WTF
May 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Hakeem Jeffries calls Qatar - which hosts the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East - "a close ally of Iran and Hamas."
May 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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WATCH: Rolling Stone reports that even members of the Trump administration are hoarding food, household supplies, and cash over fears about the impact of the president’s trade war. One Trump aide explained to Rolling Stone: “Because it would be stupid not to!”
‘Spooked’: Trump officials hoarding supplies over shortage fears, Rolling Stone reports
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May 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Canadians Diana and Rick Bellamy planned to visit Laurel, Mississippi, the home of one of their favorite HGTV shows, “Home Town.”

But Trump’s threats, trade war and horror stories about American border agents changed their minds. They vacationed in Mexico instead.

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April 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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It's really hard to overstate how hugely favored conservatives were up until two months ago.

Here's the graph of Canadian polling between March 2023 and March 2025. (Reminder: blue is conservative.)

Those are months and months of 20+ point leads for Tories.
April 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Former Rep. George Santos is sentenced to more than seven years in prison on felony fraud charges.
April 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM