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Give this man a Pulitzer stat
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "Congress has made it clear that the administration has not provided us with sufficient information as to what the administration is doing to have the support of Congress for any actions inside Venezuela."
December 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Remember when the US government claimed the cartels put a hit on ICE agents?

That was never true.
ICE Claimed The Cartel Have Put $50k Bounties On Agents, They Lied
When ICE wants sympathy, it doesn’t go to therapy. It goes to the press.
www.crustnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Objective truths are still out there. It’s just harder than ever to know what they look like.

What’s Up With That?

[StarTalk video: 15min]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4I_...
How to Tell What’s Real Online
YouTube video by StarTalk
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Van Epps had to wait 48 fewer days for his swearing in than Adelina Grijalva.
US Rep. Matt Van Epps (R-Tennessee) was sworn in by Speaker Johnson to succeed Mark Green (R).

Van Epps was elected Tuesday in Tennessee's 7th District.

House now 220R-213D. 2 vacancies (for now): TX-18 (Turner/D) & NJ-11 (Sherrill/D).
December 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Tying our healthcare to our employers was a brilliant move for the billionaires…

Not so much for the rest of us.
December 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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A corrupt president pardons a corrupt member of Congress for corrupt reasons. With multiple guilty pleas establishing a bribery-laundering scheme, Hakeem Jeffries still called the case “thin” and sought cover in a bribery-plagued Supreme Court.

A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.
December 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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So murder is governing?
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna endorses Hegseth's murder strikes: "This is called governing"
December 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.

Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.

Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.

Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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i think this video is pretty good and you should watch it
i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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where does this ass hat come up with his talking points?
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Travis’ house of gas hogs and lead fuckery.
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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This’ll be interesting given the pipe bomber is MAGA and Trump pardoned all the 1/6 MAGA.
December 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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"Corn ethanol requires millions of acres that could instead be used for food crops or more efficient energy sources. One recent study found that solar panels can generate as much energy as corn ethanol on roughly 3% of the land."
Corn’s clean-energy promise is clashing with its climate footprint
Corn dominates U.S. farmland and fuels the ethanol industry. But the fertilizer it relies on drives emissions and fouls drinking water.
floodlightnews.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Jacob Frey on Minneapolis's Somali community: "These are people that have benefitted Minneapolis in a really beautiful way, and to just go after a whole community indiscriminately -- it's unconstitutional, it's flat out un-American, but I guess that's what we've become accustomed to w/ Donald Trump"
December 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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New data on the extent of casualties from the Russian invasion of Ukraine reveals that hundreds of thousands of people have been killed.

“For what did these people die for? What reason were they sent into this horrible meat grinder for?” asks foreign policy analyst Matt Duss.
December 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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What the dumb fuckery is this?
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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It’s one of his big moneymakers.
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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The day will come.
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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I think we're going to find out a lot more about how and why Admiral Holsey left. This was no "retirement", it was an abrupt departure during a major operation.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shocked official Washington in mid-October when he said Adm. Alvin Holsey was retiring, but according to two Pentagon officials, Hegseth asked Holsey to step down www.wsj.com/politics/nat... via @WSJ
“Never before in my over 20 years on the committee can I recall seeing a combatant commander leave their post this early and amid such turmoil,” Rep. Adam Smith said on Monday. interc.pt/3L1T45P
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who came to the U.S. from Somalia, about President Trump's racist tirade against Somali immigrants. n.pr/4oxkCha
Ilhan Omar says Trump attacks on Somali immigrants 'deflect attention' from scrutiny
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who came to the U.S. from Somalia, about President Trump's racist tirade against Somali immigrants.
n.pr
December 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Jacob Frey: "The system that we have in America is that you get held accountable for the crimes that you commit as an individual ... you don't get held accountable as a community member because somebody else did something really awful or stupid."
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM