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Trump: “Let's take a [cognitive] test right now. Let's go down. Joe and I will take a test”

Chris Wallace: “I took the test too when I heard that you passed it. It's not – well it's not the hardest test. They have a picture and it says ‘what’s that’ and it’s an elephant."🤣
(July 2020)
April 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and historians said. nyti.ms/3E9ZtIT
April 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Unique to America, our health care system is designed not to make people well, but to make CEOs & wealthy stockholders incredibly rich. The result: We have the highest infant mortality rate of any wealthy country on earth. How cruel, how immoral is that? We need Medicare for All.
March 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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In the years since the Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion and since Texas instituted one of the country’s strictest abortion bans, the state has seen an increased rate of sepsis among women who lost their pregnancies in the second trimester.
More pregnant women face life-threatening sepsis in wake of strict abortion laws
In the years since the Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion and since Texas instituted one of the country’s strictest abortion bans, the state has seen an increased rate of sepsis among…
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March 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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In its earliest days, the second Trump administration cut off lifesaving food and medical aid to countries worldwide. But at least initially, the budget for expensive artwork to hang in U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide remained robust.
Trump cut lifesaving foreign aid as State Department planned to buy expensive art for embassies
The intended purchases, which total nearly $2 million, were described by a U.S. government official with information about the State Department’s spending plans.
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March 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Again @wired.com Ftw
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Feb 27
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
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February 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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The problem with cleaning your garage out with a flamethrower is that it’s really hard to avoid burning your house down, especially if you have no idea how to use a flamethrower or what exactly you wanted to clean out of the garage, or even if that’s actually your house.
February 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM