Mamaryllis
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even dumber. Hes taking non-taxable allowance and giving to them as a bonus which is now taxable.

Theyre getting less than what they would have gotten.
December 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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The one-time bonuses President Donald Trump said Wednesday will be paid out to over a million US service members will be pulled from funds already approved by Congress to cover housing and other household costs for troops as part of a military stipend program.
Trump repurposing money earmarked for troop housing for ‘warrior dividend' bonuses | CNN Politics
The one-time bonuses President Donald Trump said Wednesday will be paid out to over a million US service members will be pulled from funds already approved by Congress to cover housing and other household costs for troops as part of a military stipend p...
www.cnn.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Currently watching CBP agents intimidate Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss in a Home Depot parking lot.
December 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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This really is, as Sara says, INSANE memory-holing: Minutes after FCC Chairman Carr told Congress that the FCC "is not" an independent agency (see video below via @atrupar.com), the FCC website started getting scrubbed to remove that description.
December 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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entered into evidence for The Hague: "administration* had no legal justification for these strikes, and no national-security justification either" @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Yup. That's how one should talk to a group of kids WHO ARE ALREADY TRAUMATIZED. Jesus Effing Christ.
December 14, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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This is so perfect. No one have any doubts at this point about what Elon Musk really represents.
December 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Perfect
December 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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It was very naive how many STEM people thought Republicans would stop at the humanities
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Is the reason they had to dig back to 2019 because Trump is golfing?
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Just to be clear: armed government agents are allowed to wear masks, balaclavas, and glasses that completely hide their identities as they disappear people off streets and out of public places, but students can't wear masks while protesting even in approved "time, manner, and place".
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I’m starting to get the sense that it was a bad idea to put a deeply insecure, sexual assaulting Fox News host with a drinking problem and a crusader tattoo who said he was into war crimes in charge of the military.
November 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Right out of the textbooks. Literally "Them."
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Who’s gonna tell ‘em
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Witkoff and Co. priorities in “peace” negotiations:

1) Make money
2) Get Putin what he wants in Ukraine, which will facilitate 1
3) Get connected Americans a piece of the spoils in Ukraine

And that’s apparently it.

Not priorities: freedom, security, justice, law, US allies, avoiding future war
Three powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war with Ukraine.
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Reading the comments, Whiskey Pete will be lucky if he survives the grammarians. There may be nothing left of him for war crimes court to deal with.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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“Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?” Pete Hegseth asked in 2024.

It’s almost as if there were signs!

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November 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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h/t @adamwren.bsky.social

Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM