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GAVIN NEWSOM: So, again, you were talking about the importance of-

EDGAR THE BUG WEARING HUMAN SKIN FROM MEN IN BLACK: SUGAR WATER

GAVIN NEWSOM: Yes, sugar water. And my party hasn't acknowledged how much people love sugar and water. My son was shouting SUGAR WATER at me the other day on xbox.
March 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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the dems who dont understand that now is the time to go all-out, balls to the wall attacking this guy and his party have no business being in politics
“.. His 56 percent disapproval rating on the economy is the highest mark measured in a CNN poll since the beginning of his first term.”

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
March 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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If you are an American conservative, there is nothing anyone can say or think about you that can possibly be worse than what you actually are.
The Trump administration has deported a 10-year-old girl to Mexico who is a US citizen and is recovering from brain cancer.

Her family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup when they were detained.
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.
www.nbcnews.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The US-made Patriot has stopped Russian attacks in Ukraine, while boosting its own reputation. If Trump limits access, there's no direct replacement.
US-made Patriot missiles have protected Kyiv. Europe doesn't have an easy replacement.
The US-made Patriot has stopped Russian attacks in Ukraine, while boosting its own reputation. If Trump limits access, there's no direct replacement.
www.businessinsider.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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uh oh you guys Big Balls got in trouble for trying to sell off the National Mall
The AP reported late last night that the GSA list had been edited down to 320 properties for sale (from 443.) This morning, they're *all* gone.

Here's an archived link of the original list:
Non-core property list
Learn about our lease cost avoidance plan and its successes.
web.archive.org
March 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Like I said:
Move fast and break people
For Elon Musk's government, the psychological warfare is the point.
www.thehandbasket.co
March 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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BREAKING — FEMA Acting Chief Counsel Joshua Stanton has been put on administrative leave & walked out of the building after being given the role *just last week*, an agency source tells me.

Previous chief counsel Adrian Sevier had been with FEMA since 2000 and was office's longest-serving chief.
March 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is advising parents to let their kids go play in traffic and everyone covering this lying ghoul should be absolutely clear about that
If, by "unconventional" you mean "completely useless." It's 2025, we have effective prevention tools. There's no both sides here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/h...
March 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Weihong Hu, a hotelier with close ties to Mayor Eric Adams, stole tens of millions from a temporary housing program that was designed to stop the spread of Covid-19 in New York’s jails, according to federal prosecutors in Brooklyn.
Adams Donor Weihong Hu Is Accused of Taking Millions From Covid Housing Program
Brooklyn’s U.S. attorney said Weihong Hu and two men set out to “line their own pockets” at the height of the pandemic. Ms. Hu has helped raise funds for Mayor Eric Adams of New York.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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"Now maybe, just maybe, some upper-middle-class folks might be able to afford a fancy private school with a voucher to help, but working-class and middle-class kids are going to be stuck just where they always were.Why should we spend public money to help just that one thin slice of the population?"
Molly Ivins on School Vouchers (1997)
Another bad idea whose time has come in the Texas Legislature is upon us. It's time to revive my old proposal that Texas be made into a national laboratory for bad government. Having a bad idea in you...
www.texasobserver.org
February 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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That so-called hotline Nancy Mace claimed to set up to encourage victims to come forward?

Nobody actually answers—and leading domestic violence advocates in Mace’s home state say they don’t want victims to call. @juliannemcshane.bsky.social has the scoop:
Please don't use Nancy Mace's so-called victim hotline, advocates say
No one picks up. That's not a hotline—it's Nancy's answering machine.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Insiders are blowing the whistle on Kash Patel, claiming that Donald Trump’s appointee to run the FBI lied to Congress during his confirmation hearings and is already directing a “purge” of the bureau while he’s still a private citizen.
Whistleblowers Reveal Private Citizen Behind FBI’s Extreme Purges
Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, has allegedly been lying to Congress this whole time.
newrepublic.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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With DOGE, Elon Musk is not only sidelining Congress and threatening to defy the courts; he is also smuggling into our federal bureaucracy the seeds of a new authoritarian regime—techno-fascism by chatbot.
Elon Musk’s A.I.-Fuelled War on Human Agency
Musk seeks not only to dismantle the federal government but to install his own technological vision of the future at its heart—techno-fascism by chatbot.
www.newyorker.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Without federal support, American communities will struggle to deal with a challenge as pervasive as climate change, market analysts and environmental advocates say.
Trump funding freeze could leave communities on their own as climate threats grow
Without federal support, American communities will struggle to deal with a challenge as pervasive as climate change, market analysts and environmental advocates say.
www.npr.org
February 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Texas saw a 12.7% rise in infant mortality after implementing a strict #abortion ban. The increase was 7x higher than the rest of U.S., primarily affecting babies with severe congenital malformations. https://buff.ly/4aW6mK5
January 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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THIS is why your parents and grandparents stayed together. Relationships weren't better, society was worse. We are freer now.

..and Republicans WILL take it away, if we let them.
November 29, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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I work at a warehouse up the street from my house. It is very hard work! I typically work a 10 hour day and pack over 2000 packages.
November 29, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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Trump’s White House is filling with alleged sexual abusers ... led by him
Trump’s White House is filling with alleged sexual abusers ... led by him
As the far right celebrates a win for their gender, a raft of people accused of misconduct is named for the cabinet Donald Trump was found civilly liable last year for the defamation and sexual abuse of the writer E Jean Carroll - just one of the more…
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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For voters worries about their ability to put food on the table, a hedge fund manager leading the Treasury Dept seems unlikely to share your concerns.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/b...
Trump Taps Investor Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary
The hedge fund manager will be responsible for steering President-elect Donald J. Trump’s unconventional economic agenda.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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😳wild to see it all in one place like this. prospect.org/politics/202...
November 24, 2024 at 5:00 AM
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Period
November 21, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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Piers Morgan: “50 years ago, before Roe came in, it wasn't a federal law. So why are you so exercised about it?"

BTC: "Prior to Black people having the right to vote, they weren't allowed to vote. I'd be worked up if that was rolled back, too.“
November 22, 2024 at 7:07 AM