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Khanna: I’ll break some news — we’re talking with Massie now about getting another major press conference with the survivors early next week at the Capitol. There’s going to be so much momentum, left and right, to say: out with the Epstein class…
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Khanna: I’ll break some news — we’re talking with Massie now about getting another major press conference with the survivors early next week at the Capitol. There’s going to be so much momentum, left and right, to say: out with the Epstein class…
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WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
August 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
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BREAKING: Oversight Democrats just passed a motion in subcommittee to subpoena the DOJ to release the Epstein files. Total vote was 8-2 in favor (all Democrats voted in favor, 3 Rs for and 2 Rs against)
July 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
BREAKING: Oversight Democrats just passed a motion in subcommittee to subpoena the DOJ to release the Epstein files. Total vote was 8-2 in favor (all Democrats voted in favor, 3 Rs for and 2 Rs against)
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June 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Another v good piece at @wired.com :
TL;DR: No timeline promise Musk has made has EVER come true. It's always "full confidence we'll see this next year"
I personally interviewed him at conf in 2011 when he was "highly confident" of *manned* Mars missions by NOW.
www.wired.com/story/theres...
TL;DR: No timeline promise Musk has made has EVER come true. It's always "full confidence we'll see this next year"
I personally interviewed him at conf in 2011 when he was "highly confident" of *manned* Mars missions by NOW.
www.wired.com/story/theres...
There’s a Very Simple Pattern to Elon Musk’s Broken Promises
The entrepreneur’s habit of overpromising on deadlines may be frustrating for investors—but for those looking to see whether a Musk pledge will come good, there’s a key phrase to watch out for.
www.wired.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Another v good piece at @wired.com :
TL;DR: No timeline promise Musk has made has EVER come true. It's always "full confidence we'll see this next year"
I personally interviewed him at conf in 2011 when he was "highly confident" of *manned* Mars missions by NOW.
www.wired.com/story/theres...
TL;DR: No timeline promise Musk has made has EVER come true. It's always "full confidence we'll see this next year"
I personally interviewed him at conf in 2011 when he was "highly confident" of *manned* Mars missions by NOW.
www.wired.com/story/theres...
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Twins sweep the Orioles, improving to 18-20.
Twins have won four of their last five series and this is the closest they've been to .500 since having a 3-5 record on April 5.
Twins have won four of their last five series and this is the closest they've been to .500 since having a 3-5 record on April 5.
May 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Twins sweep the Orioles, improving to 18-20.
Twins have won four of their last five series and this is the closest they've been to .500 since having a 3-5 record on April 5.
Twins have won four of their last five series and this is the closest they've been to .500 since having a 3-5 record on April 5.
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Good for Microsoft — and good for Jenner.
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May 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Good for Microsoft — and good for Jenner.
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Love to see it !!!
Twitter’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research.
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
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Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi...
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
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May 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Love to see it !!!
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pynchon-ass dental practice
April 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
pynchon-ass dental practice
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Not a word of this is true. Literally not a word.
RFK Jr: "We found that there's a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ in children. So the more you get, the stupider you are."
April 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Not a word of this is true. Literally not a word.
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The basic story is that these guys won a slight majority on lying promises to lower grocery prices and deport violent criminals, then acted like they had an overwhelming mandate to raise prices and send hairdressers, toddlers and PhD students to foreign gulags.
April 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The basic story is that these guys won a slight majority on lying promises to lower grocery prices and deport violent criminals, then acted like they had an overwhelming mandate to raise prices and send hairdressers, toddlers and PhD students to foreign gulags.
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Wild to live in the same age as perhaps THE most personally repellent person this nation has ever produced.
Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
JD Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican during trip to Rome
The US vice-president, a self-styled ‘baby Catholic’ who was baptised in 2019, and his family met senior officials from the Catholic Church
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April 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Wild to live in the same age as perhaps THE most personally repellent person this nation has ever produced.
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It's good that Democrats are mailing threat letters to law firms that are complying with Trump's autocratic corruption saying they're likely committing bribery. Very good
16 House Dems Ask Law Firms that Capitulated to Trump If They've Thought about Their Bribery Exposure
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16 Democratic House members asked the law firms that capitulated to Trump if they've thought about their bribery exposure.
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April 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It's good that Democrats are mailing threat letters to law firms that are complying with Trump's autocratic corruption saying they're likely committing bribery. Very good
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“.. Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, who studies trade, said Mr. Navarro ‘may be the worst trade adviser any modern U.S. president has ever had.’”
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April 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“.. Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, who studies trade, said Mr. Navarro ‘may be the worst trade adviser any modern U.S. president has ever had.’”
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Attorneys suing the United States government over the SignalGate group chat allege that new court filings reveal a “calculated strategy” by Trump administration officials to evade transparency laws through the illegal destruction of government records.
Here’s What Happened to Those SignalGate Messages
A lawsuit over the Trump administration’s infamous Houthi Signal group chat has revealed what steps departments took to preserve the messages—and how little they actually saved.
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April 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Attorneys suing the United States government over the SignalGate group chat allege that new court filings reveal a “calculated strategy” by Trump administration officials to evade transparency laws through the illegal destruction of government records.
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Who could have thought that making a wildly unqualified, drunken bigot who championed war criminals and thinks the key to 21st century warfare is pushups the Secretary of Defense would go poorly, with mismanagement of the Pentagon?
‘There Is a Complete Meltdown in the Building’: Pentagon Reportedly in ‘Chaos’ as Hegseth Loses Four Staffers in One Day
“Pete Hegseth has surrounded himself with some people who don’t have his interests at heart.”
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April 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Who could have thought that making a wildly unqualified, drunken bigot who championed war criminals and thinks the key to 21st century warfare is pushups the Secretary of Defense would go poorly, with mismanagement of the Pentagon?
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Bessent clearly doesn't want to be blamed for a recession or a stock market collapse or the already collapsing stature of the dollar. But if he didn't want to blamed, he should not have agreed to become ... Trump's Treasury Secretary
April 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Bessent clearly doesn't want to be blamed for a recession or a stock market collapse or the already collapsing stature of the dollar. But if he didn't want to blamed, he should not have agreed to become ... Trump's Treasury Secretary
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More on this: "The changes will leave Hegseth without a chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, or senior adviser in his front office...'There is a complete meltdown in the building, and this is really reflecting on the secretary’s leadership.'" Via Politico
April 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
More on this: "The changes will leave Hegseth without a chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, or senior adviser in his front office...'There is a complete meltdown in the building, and this is really reflecting on the secretary’s leadership.'" Via Politico
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My latest for MSNBC: The makers of TurboTax gave Trump’s inauguration $1M. They just got their money’s worth. "The end of Direct File fits neatly in the predatory economy Donald Trump and his Republican enablers want." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The makers of TurboTax gave Trump’s inauguration $1 million. They just got their money’s worth.
The elimination of the Direct File program is the tax prep industry’s gain — but a major loss for American taxpayers.
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April 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My latest for MSNBC: The makers of TurboTax gave Trump’s inauguration $1M. They just got their money’s worth. "The end of Direct File fits neatly in the predatory economy Donald Trump and his Republican enablers want." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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donald trump and the entire rights reaction to this moment has shown they were unprepared for any of the backlash they’re receiving and that’s why it has to be kept up
Trump reacts to Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador
April 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
donald trump and the entire rights reaction to this moment has shown they were unprepared for any of the backlash they’re receiving and that’s why it has to be kept up
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Most chode in a sea of them.
April 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Most chode in a sea of them.
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What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Constitutional Crisis Is Here
The Supreme Court told the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison. So far, the administration is pretending to comply while re...
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April 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won't respect an US court orders to release people that it's holding.
REPORTER: You mentioned you're open to deporting individuals that aren't foreign aliens but aren't criminal to El Salvador. Does that include US citizens?
TRUMP: If they are criminals and hit people with baseball bats, if they rape 87 year old women, yeah. Yeah. That includes them. I'm all for it.
TRUMP: If they are criminals and hit people with baseball bats, if they rape 87 year old women, yeah. Yeah. That includes them. I'm all for it.
April 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won't respect an US court orders to release people that it's holding.
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Let me say this again:
If a president can illegally deport someone, conspire with that country’s leader to abandon them to human rights abuses, and face no consequences, we are in a hellish authoritarian moment. What a fucking evil, illiberal government this is.
If a president can illegally deport someone, conspire with that country’s leader to abandon them to human rights abuses, and face no consequences, we are in a hellish authoritarian moment. What a fucking evil, illiberal government this is.
April 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Let me say this again:
If a president can illegally deport someone, conspire with that country’s leader to abandon them to human rights abuses, and face no consequences, we are in a hellish authoritarian moment. What a fucking evil, illiberal government this is.
If a president can illegally deport someone, conspire with that country’s leader to abandon them to human rights abuses, and face no consequences, we are in a hellish authoritarian moment. What a fucking evil, illiberal government this is.
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April 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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