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Perhaps if he had not spent so much time playing video games so that he could be the #1 video game player he would know that the answer to this question is "All of them."
February 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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all proposed legislation these days is effectively “the laws we already have but this time we really really mean it you guys”
February 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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The book “The Burning Earth” covers 800 years of history to explain how we arrived at the current environmental crisis.
How Empire and Environmental Destruction Go Hand-In-Hand
“The Burning Earth” examines over 800 years of history to demonstrate how violence against people and the planet are one and the same.
buff.ly
February 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Holy shit.

“USAID’s inspector general was investigating a public-private partnership involving Musk’s company just before Musk shut the agency down.

Key USAID web pages mentioning Musk’s company have suddenly vanished from the agency’s website.”

Follow the money.
February 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Z-bloggers report that General-Colonel Gennady Anashkin has been removed from his position as commander of the Russian Southern Group of Forces. The alleged reason is the "situation on the Severodonetsk front" and his "unwillingness to inform the higher command about the true state of affairs."
November 23, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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Screams in medical historian!!!
In 2020, RFK Jr claimed that Dr. Sanjay Gupta lies about the number of flu deaths each year solely to scare people into getting flu shots when they don’t need them. meidasnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr. Once Claimed CNN Lies About Flu Deaths to Scare People Into Getting Vaccinated
RFK Jr. claimed Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta are lying to viewers
meidasnews.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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i wish non-artists would connect their frustration about how "nothing looks cool anymore" with the fact that artists are given less freedom and opportunities in industrial design and user interfaces. we still have creative people and beautiful things, that never went away
November 23, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
November 23, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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Canada’s top military commander, Gen. Jennie Carigna:
"After 39 years of career as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations across the world, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify the contribution of women to their defense and to their service, in their country."
November 23, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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November 23, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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I won’t hold my breath until @ADL and .@housedemocrats condemn this incident like they did the anti genocide protests
STUDENTS EMBOLDENED BY TRUMP

Beverly Hills High School during the 2024 election week, a mob of kids with Trump flags, MAGA hats, and Trump clothing stormed the halls.

Black students have also faced racial slurs & racist graffiti found on restroom walls.

The school district response—underwhelming.
November 23, 2024 at 6:36 AM
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Narrator: it was never true. The media is corrupted.
Surprise. Surprise. The same legacy media which dutifully “reported” how Trump was distancing himself from Project 2025 is now finding out Trump is about to hire one of the architects of Project 2025 to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

Everything is fine.
Trump eyes return of Russell Vought to key White House budget post
The president-elect is interviewing the author of a chapter of Project 2025 for a senior administration posting.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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My new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, explores the history of our deadliest infectious disease. It's also about our horrifying present: TB still kills kills over a million people per year, even though it's been curable since the 1950s.

Signed copies can be ordered at everythingistb.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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The holiday season is upon us, so it's time to start sharing weird AF Victorian Christmas cards!

First up... whatever this is 😂

There's a whiff of Star Wars to this one!
November 22, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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It's weird that Looking for Alaska is the second-most banned book in the U.S., and mostly challenged by evangelical Christians, because the novel is about Radical Hope and how forgiveness is available to all people at all times, which are Christian concepts I wrote about because I'm a Christian.
November 22, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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November 21, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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RFK Jr revealed that his group, Children’s Health Defense, financed “Plandemic,” a conspiracy “documentary” suggesting the COVID-19 pandemic was government planned.
November 20, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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It would never, not one time, occur to these individuals that they would not be more than equal to their new appointments. In fact, they are certain they _deserve_ them.

Remember that the next time you update your resume or aren't sure if you should apply for that job.
I'm looking at these cabinet appointments and vowing to never have impostor syndrome again
November 20, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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nothing to see here

perfectly normal

everything going according to plan
November 21, 2024 at 5:03 AM
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The police report on the Pete Hegseth allegations has been obtained by Mediaite and it is absolutely horrific.

Link here: www.mediaite.com/politics/new...
November 21, 2024 at 5:13 AM
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If you’re looking for primers on federal law, the Congressional Research Service is an excellent resource—balanced, accurate, and clear. Here’s its paper on recess appointments.
crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/...
crsreports.congress.gov
November 20, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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This has been known for a while but worth re-upping bcz it’s part of the theme. An entire administration of abusers.

www.thedailybeast.com/linda-mcmaho...
Trump Pick Linda McMahon Is Facing Her Own Sex Scandal
She joins fellow appointees Matt Gaetz, Peter Hesgeth, and RFK Jr. in this particular category.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:51 AM
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It’s a party of rapists and pedophiles from top to bottom. Not much more evidence needed.
A Trump supporting, anti-trans, anti-gay Republican was elected commissioner of the county where I grew up. He won despite being in jail on election night for a sexual assault in Vegas.

It’s now come out that the woman he assaulted was his daughter.

fox59.com/news/indycri...
Politician pleads guilty in sexual assault case after being elected to Hancock County Council
HANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. — A current central Indiana county commissioner has pleaded guilty in a Nevada sexual assault case, days after being elected to his local County Council. John D. Jessup – a cur…
fox59.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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Leak the report. Pass it on.
November 21, 2024 at 2:08 AM
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A frustrating thing for me right now is the media narrative that RFK Jr is just an “anti-vaxxer” when he has said so many crazy things about other stuff over the years. We compiled 10 nutty clips on various topics, which still barely scratches the surface. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
'Viruses Are Our Friend'— 10 Off the Wall Video Clips from RFK Jr. Resurface on Bluesky
Past comments include denying AIDS and calling vaccinated children "damaged"
open.substack.com
November 15, 2024 at 8:39 PM