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No honor among thieves.
July 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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She’s right again, you know. She usually is.
July 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
June 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Breaking news: The US has been stripped of its top-notch triple-a credit rating by Moody’s on concerns about rising levels of government debt www.ft.com/content/e456...
May 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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when he sends citizens to foreign concentration camps, it’s no longer a slide to authoritarianism—it’s full blown fascism! 😔 this is not an administration, it’s a criminal regime in a hostile takeover of 🇺🇸 democracy. #FightFascism #TraitorTrump #DefendLiberty 🔔
April 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Yaaaas AOC!! 👏
Idaho Rally Erupts In Cheers After AOC Epically Blasts 'Criminal' Trump In Blistering Speech
Preach, AOC!
www.comicsands.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action.

"It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us."

www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
‘Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada
Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont
www.nbcboston.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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In Zuckerberg's second day of testifying in the federal antitrust trial, he defended Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The U.S. government wants Meta to bust up the two companies.
Mark Zuckerberg defends Meta in court against monopoly claims
In Zuckerberg's second day of testifying in the federal antitrust trial, he defended Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The U.S. government wants Meta to bust up the two companies.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg struggled in federal court to defend his reasons for the Facebook owner’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram more than a decade ago — one of two acquisitions the Federal Trade Commission now contends was illegally anticompetitive.
FTC presses Zuckerberg to admit he bought Instagram to ‘neutralize’ it
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg struggled Tuesday to defend in federal court the company’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram amid a landmark antitrust case.
wapo.st
April 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Trump ends promising cancer research. USA! USA!

“Two patients’ treatments using the experimental therapy had to be delayed because NIH’s capacity to make personalized cell therapies has been slowed by the firing of highly skilled staff..."

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NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'...

"Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..."

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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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"The director of the program to enrich uranium took a job with NATO...

"Also gone is the director of the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium that are fitted into warheads...

"The office that oversees the Los Alamos lab lost 9 staff...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts
Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting th...
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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That is exactly true.
March 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Before there was DOGE, there was England’s 1866 Exchequer and Audit Departments Act. Elon Musk could learn a few things from its history.
What Elon Musk Could Learn From the World’s ‘First DOGE’
By focusing entirely on expenditures and glossing over value for money spent, DOGE risks creating even bigger costs for the public sector down the line.
www.bloomberg.com
March 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Protestors met JD Vance in Vermont when he went to vacation there today. This is a good one:
March 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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This says it all.
March 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that
February 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.

On @therecordmedia.bsky.social

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Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning
The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.
therecord.media
February 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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It's not necessarily the most important part of today's Oval Office debacle, but Vance suggested that Zelenskyy has never thanked the U.S. for its support — and that's demonstrably ridiculous.
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
The Ukrainian gratitude that JD Vance has apparently failed to notice
The vice president suggested that Volodymyr Zelenskyy has never thanked the United States for its support. That’s demonstrably ridiculous.
www.msnbc.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right

Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal
President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance moved to betray a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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USAID didn't cancel the contract Donald Trump and Elon Musk did. They couldn't care less about starving children in Africa.
February 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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“Trump and Vance’s joint dressing down of Zelenskiy will go down in history — indeed, will live in infamy — as a shameful moment of American betrayal.”

Read @andreaskluth.bsky.social on today’s Oval Office clash ⬇️
Trump’s Oval Office Clash With Zelenskiy Was a Win for Putin
By humiliating the Ukrainian president and betraying Ukraine, the US president played right into Russia’s hands.
www.bloomberg.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
February 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Yup.
February 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM