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“Leaders of MS-13 negotiated with Bukele ahead of his 2019 presidential election and gave him a sometimes violent get-out-the-vote effort in 2021 legislative elections…

“In return, MS-13 leaders received prison privileges, financial benefits − and a ban on extraditions to the United States…”
May 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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“Bukele rose to near-total control of El Salvador on a tide of support from the very gang he’s credited with defeating, according to a U.S. federal indictment, the Treasury Department, regional experts, and Salvadoran media…”

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
The shadowy rise of Donald Trump's favorite president: Nayib Bukele
Nayib Bukele rose to near-total control of El Salvador on a tide of support from the very gang he’s credited with defeating.
www.usatoday.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Carl Sagan speaking at MIT in 1987 on lowering our C02 emissions.

Apply these words to any technological problem our world faces today and it holds up.
May 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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“Most of that grant money is appropriated by Congress for the National Institutes of Health to disburse to fund biomedical research after a lengthy application process by individual scientists, work that is not typically done at trade schools…”

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump considers redirecting $3 billion in Harvard grants to US trade schools
President Donald Trump said he is considering taking $3 billion of previously awarded grant money for scientific and engineering research away from Harvard University and giving it to trade schools.
www.reuters.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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it’s good to see there’s still some political will to bring garcia home
Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.
May 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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🇺🇦 Zelensky: The world may be taking a weekend off, but the war continues, regardless of weekends and weekdays. This cannot be ignored. America’s silence, the silence of others in the world, only encourages Putin.
May 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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The reason you can’t afford a home, healthcare, or retirement is because billionaires took your money. If you want these things you have to take it back.
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
May 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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kermit the frog 100% has better advice than my graduation speaker rahm emanuel
“Imagine being a 22-year-old student, who’s graduating with a degree in aerospace engineering, and a frog from The Muppets is telling you to stay connected with your people."

GET A FUCKING SENSE OF HUMOR. Jesus Christ...

www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-set...
Fox News Sets Its Sights on Latest Unlikely Enemy
Fox News commentators zeroed in on a certain famous frog.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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May 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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We have a president who virtually never thinks rationally, logically, or even in sequential steps. Nor can he fully comprehend causes and effects. His base of knowledge on virtually all subjects relating to governance and economics and world affairs is minimal. (1/2)
May 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Kady Grass, a lesbian teenager in Illinois, was severely beaten after trying to use the bathroom in a McDonald's.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
May 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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2007 first tour 💙 you’ve come a long way @wolfvanhalen.bsky.social
New single and video THE END streaming now 🔥🔥🔥
May 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Every detail we’ve learned only makes this worse. Her friends were calling hospitals

“After she never made it to the Iftar gathering, Ozturk’s friends frantically searched for her. Because she has asthma, her loved ones worried she had become ill without access to her medication.“
A PhD student was snatched by masked officers in broad daylight. Then she was flown 1,500 miles away | CNN
Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was walking alone Tuesday night to meet friends at a dinner where they would break their 13-hour fast when six plainclothes officers suddenly encircled her ...
www.cnn.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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March 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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'We don't accept this': Canadian Ambassador explains why Trump's tariff fight is pointless youtu.be/1c7luDqPphA?...
March 7, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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This is what our Transportation Secretary was doing yesterday as planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. I cannot remember a more dangerous time to fly and yet this reality TV actor-turned-Cabinet Secretary is busy watching cars drive laps at the Daytona 500.
February 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Everyone waiting for Trump and Musk to fight is probably in for a long wait. Trump doesn’t care about managing the government. He never did. As always, he’s told you what interests him: real estate. Real estate in Gaza. Real estate in Greenland. Real estate in Ukraine.
February 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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February 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Freeland: Our retaliation is going to be a lot more surgical than that. We are going to go after American stakeholders who matter to The White House. I have proposed a 100% tariff on all Teslas. I am calling on all the countries that are affected by this tariff to join us
February 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: With his latest lie about cop-assaulting Jan. 6 rioters, Trump is saying what you saw didn't happen.
Lawrence: With lie about cop-assaulting Jan. 6 rioters, Trump is saying what you saw didn't happen
Since Donald Trump became the subject of a criminal investigation during his first presidency, Trump has been on a campaign to “delegitimize criminal investigations,” says MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. ...
www.msnbc.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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"The best and the worst thing about vaccination is that it 'makes nothing happen.'

A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."
A leading pediatrician was already worried about the future of vaccines. Then RFK Jr. came along
In a new book, pediatric infectious disease specialist Dr. Adam Ratner details the history of measles, a virus that’s often a bellwether for public health disasters.
www.latimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM