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In politics, being deceived is no excuse. — Leszek Kołakowski
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Less than 24 hours after misleading claims started circulating that tied Politico to USAID, the White House vowed to end subscriptions for the insider news outlet's services and others.
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How conspiracy theories about Politico led Trump to cancel subscriptions
Less than 24 hours after misleading claims started circulating that tied Politico to USAID, the White House vowed to end subscriptions for the insider news outlet's services and others.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5290282/politico-subscriptions-usaid-x-musk-trump
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HUGE news hardly anyone is talking about it. The Federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is basically the gov't HR department & is purging non-loyalists. An unvetted ally of Elon Musk w no OPM experience is using OPM to collect info on civil servants outside OPM who are seen as a threat 1/3
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They're trying to rewrite history. This is too much.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House Republicans announce new subcommittee to investigate Jan. 6
Congress previously investigated Jan. 6 and the efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election when Democrats controlled the House.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republicans-new-subcommittee-investigate-jan-6-rcna188808
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Those who wish to destroy our democratic institutions through violent means are vindicated. The service of those who have tried to protect our nation is scorned.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/p...
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Trump commutes sentences of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders as he pardons over 1,000 January 6 US Capitol rioters | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, and commuted the sentences of leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/politics/january-6-2021-capitol-riot-pardons-trump/index.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawH74G1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWYmxotUxEIoLEY5SE1weSTLep_wk3vnIok8Q2Pl74FLgm7Ko6vTTG5x7w_aem_Rrgr4UA2IuO3F-rTbLjc3g
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"It needs to be said clearly: There are those who systematically work by all means to drive away migrants, and this, when done knowingly and deliberately, is a grave sin." -- Pope Francis
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This is a good and fitting way for Biden to end his term. For all the mistakes he's made, this is a bright moment. It's a stark contrast to the incoming president who relishes making people suffer.
www.npr.org/2025/01/17/g...
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Biden shortens sentences for nearly 2,500 people, setting a record
Democratic lawmakers had urged President Biden to use his clemency powers to address disparities in sentences for offenses involving crack cocaine.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/17/g-s1-41788/biden-pardons-commutations-drug-sentences
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"The considerable, indeed extraordinary, legal protection afforded by the office of the chief executive is a factor that overrides all others," Merchan said. "Despite the extraordinary breadth of those protections, one power they do not provide is the power to erase jury verdicts."
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Trump avoids punishment at hush-money sentencing
Donald Trump will be the first president to take office with a felony criminal conviction.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-be-sentenced-hush-money-case-days-before-his-inauguration-2025-01-10/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHzR_BleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdh4b3Vj2XcsJzMIy0jiJAIseXKEO-4vVnnjgKRFc_UmB4Z9vFVlaOjf7A_aem_L6_Ew_I9ypmetjEA3KxL6g
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"Desperate for some relief from the relentless drone strikes, the Russians need every air-defense battery they can get... The North Koreans obliged with a missile launcher few have seen outside of a Pyongyang parade. "And then Russian drones destroyed it."
www.forbes.com/sites/davida...
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North Korean Troops Rolled A Rare Air-Defense Vehicle Into Kursk. Confused Russians Blew It Up.
The unusual vehicle combined a wheeled chassis with a radar and missiles from a Russian Tor launcher.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/01/13/north-korean-troops-rolled-a-rare-air-defense-vehicle-into-kursk-confused-russians-blew-it-up/
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Anne Applebaum
10 months ago
Think of the time being wasted by diplomats and experts in Europe and Latin America, as they start planning how to counter American attacks on Panama or Greenland. Time that could be spent thinking about a unified response to Russia and China.
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Today is the anniversary of the violent attack on our Capital, where a mob attempted to block our democratic process so that manchild Trump, who couldn't accept his loss, might illegally stay in power.
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How fitting that US flags will be at half staff during the inauguration. How unsurprising that Trump is disparaging the memory of President Carter and the US flag code.
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Why are US flags being flown at half-staff on Inauguration Day?
President-elect Donald Trump has expressed frustration that flags will be flying at half-staff when he takes office later this month.
https://apnews.com/article/why-are-flags-lowered-on-inauguration-day-520fac89857563e8b2bb46910a8ab152
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What is Trump lying about today? He's blaming a terrorist attack carried out by a *US-born Army veteran* on immigrants. He's desperately looking for his Reichstag fire.
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New Orleans attack updates: Suspect 'inspired by ISIS,' was military veteran
Fifteen people were killed and dozens injured when a pickup truck plowed into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/1-dead-vehicle-strikes-crowd-new-orleans-police/story?id=117246329
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Darth Putin
10 months ago
It's weird how time works. It's already 2025 in Polynesia, in the USA it's still 2024 but in Russia it's 1951.
#HappyNewYear
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American clergy should take note. In other countries, there are those willing to stand up for their neighbors at great personal cost. What are US clergy afraid of? Offending some people? Losing tax exempt status?
www.euronews.com/2024/12/30/c...
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https://www.euronews.com/2024/12/30/catholic-priest-in-belarus-sentenced-to-11-years-as-crackdown-tightens
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They're practically telling people to go ahead and cheat on their taxes.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Congress stripped IRS of another $20 billion in government shutdown fight
Republican lawmakers have now clawed back half the investment the Biden administration made in the tax agency.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/26/irs-funding-cut-20-billion-shutdown/
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Here's another reason to shop at Costco:
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Costco is pushing back — hard — against the anti-DEI movement
Walmart, John Deere, Tractor Supply and other companies are changing or walking away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in response to right-wing pressure. But Costco believes DEI imp...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/costco-pushing-back-hard-against-201119769.html
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Hate is expensive.
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How Trump Plans to Deport 4% of the U.S. Population | WSJ
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
https://youtu.be/eqPgAU1JRL4?si=RVO-1vrrK_UZ16TH
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Bethlehem marks melancholic Christmas for second year in shadow of Gaza war
The excitement and cheer that typically descends on town in the occupied West Bank on Christmas are nowhere to be found.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/24/bethlehem-marks-melancholic-christmas-for-second-year-in-shadow-of-gaza-war?fbclid=IwY2xjawHZQbZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHa5Xf1zhTs9q1WfNkQu3D6LREpBPgRqNSplWCAL5xh6K4btvbiigwkU5sg_aem_2ZC-hZVIlKIFqIwc-cXCng
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Jack Jenkins
10 months ago
So, if you want to attend a worship service with President-elect Trump at his inauguration this year, you can. But so far, there's only one option, and there's a catch: you'll need to either donate $100,000 or raise $200,000. It's pay-to-pray.
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At Trump’s inauguration, reports of a pay-to-pray
(RNS) — According to a report, you can pray with Trump and Melania. It'll only cost you $100,000.
https://religionnews.com/2024/12/23/amid-uncertainty-around-religion-at-trumps-inauguration-reports-of-a-pay-to-pray/
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Trump's top pick for Attorney General "violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress", according to the House Ethics Committee.
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Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws
A report by the House Ethics Committee found former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid multiple women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-gaetz-ethics-report-released/
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Good. It's the least he can do considering the incoming president can't wait to use his authority to start killing people.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/p...
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Biden commutes most federal death row sentences to life in prison before Trump takes office | CNN Politics
President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is taking 37 people off federal death row to serve out life sentences behind bars — a decision that leaves only three federal prisoners awaiting execution ...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/politics/biden-federal-death-row-trump/index.html
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The Democrats gave Trump the presidency in 2016 when they passed over Sanders for Clinton. They have learned nothing.
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Ocasio-Cortez faces uncertain political future
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is facing an uncertain future after a pivotal setback this week, when she lost her race to lead Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. The 74-year-old Re…
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5051451-ocasio-cortez-house-defeat-future/
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ABC News Shows What It Looks Like When Corporate Media Bows to Trump
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ABC News Shows What It Looks Like When Corporate Media Bows to Trump | Common Dreams
We are beginning to see this all over the U.S. political-economic system — giant corporations and hugely wealthy people going out of their way to appease King Trump even in advance of his coronation.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-attack-on-free-press
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Facebook really is evil. They keep keep helping dictators and war criminals.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories
Palestinian news outlets have seen a steep drop in audience engagement since October 2023.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c786wlxz4jgo?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR15jhlV14kuSkVbIk7y44vcfi7LDGa71FjBKx2xQJPbTqmpTgxhVJsK-sU_aem_LBGfH5SIzdDrEbniF1O2jA
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News Eye
11 months ago
Unimaginable. The liberation of the women/children section of Sednaya prison. Cut off from the world, they’ve no idea what’s happened. A man shouts: “You are all free now. Don’t be scared. Go home.” “What happened?” a woman asks “The Regime fell. You are free.”
#Syria
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"As The American Prospect so aptly put it, 'only about 50 million customers of America’s reigning medical monopoly might have a motive to exact revenge upon the UnitedHealthcare CEO.'"
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Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People
Just over a year before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered in cold blood in Midtown Manhattan, a lawsuit filed against his firm revealed just how draconian its claims-denying had become...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/murdered-insurance-ceo-had-deployed-175638581.html
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Republicans don't want Americans to know how bad Trump's picks are. They're only delaying the inevitable.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/p...
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House Republicans vote to block release of Gaetz ethics report | CNN Politics
House Republicans voted on Thursday to block a Democrat-led effort to release a long-awaited Ethics Committee report on allegations against former GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/politics/house-vote-matt-gaetz-ethics-report/index.html
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Many of those defending Biden's pardon of his son seem to be displaying a greater concern for tribalism than for justice. Unfortunately, this does give Trump more ammunition.
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Maria Popova
11 months ago
The Georgian govt is trying to do what Lukashenka did in Belarus in 2020-2021. The question is whether the Georgian security agencies will go along to the bitter, violent, repressive end or will splinter, abandon, and bring the regime down.
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺
11 months ago
Alex is doing God’s job. I don’t even know how to describe the amount of tear gas used. Yet people aren't going anywhere.
#GeorgiaProtests
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Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny" is insightful and wise and very much needed. If you haven't read it yet, please do. It happens to be much discounted on Amazon right now:
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Snyder, Timothy: 9780804190114: Amazon.com: Books
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https://a.co/d/g6RWUAV
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Anne Applebaum
11 months ago
People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
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"Donald Trump’s transition team is planning for all political appointees to receive sweeping security clearances on the first day and only face FBI background checks after the incoming administration takes over the bureau and its own officials are installed in key positions..."
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Trump officials to receive immediate clearances and easier FBI vetting
Exclusive: president-elect’s team planning for background checks to occur only after administration takes over bureau
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/26/trump-transition-team-fbi-security-clearances-background-checks
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"There's economic impact whether it's bluster or not."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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'It's going to be hard': US firms race to get ahead of Trump tariffs
The US president-elect's import taxes may be just talk until he takes office - but they are having an impact anyway.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rxe1wv9ero
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Gutting infectious disease research is insane. It will severely slow research progress on Long COVID (a condition I still suffer from), as well as other diseases we already face, and mean we will be less prepared for new infectious diseases. This is a big F-you to millions of Americans.
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Trump chooses US COVID policy critic Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday chose Stanford academic and U.S. COVID policy critic Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health, the country's top public funder of medical research with a budget of some $47.3 billion
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-chooses-us-covid-policy-critic-bhattacharya-lead-nih-2024-11-27/
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We're going to need higher interest rates to counter the increased inflation cause by Trump's tariffs, which of course means higher unemployment... Global recession, here we come!
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Trump promises a 25% tariff on products from Mexico, Canada
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive order imposing a 25% tariff on all products coming in to the United States from Mexico and Canada.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-promises-25-tariff-products-mexico-canada-2024-11-25/
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Once again, this is the evil which the US is about to unleash
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Trump Pentagon pick attacks UN and Nato and urges US to ignore Geneva conventions
Revealed: Pete Hegseth writes scathingly of key institutions and says ‘If you love America, you should love Israel’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/25/pete-hegseth-book-attacks-nato-alliances
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Musk is an ignorant bully. Here he is mocking the assertion that Ukraine is an independent country.
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Some good, if bleak, perspective.
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Ryan O’Connell
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Sturgill Simpson speaking some truth last night in Boston
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I'm starting to see trolls on Bluesky... Just block and report, and then move on.
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Some helpful tips for avoiding arguments at Thanksgiving. h/t
@obviousplant.bsky.social
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High school pallbearer services fill a need when the deceased don't have family
"The real service ... is when you can show up and be present to people."
https://www.today.com/parents/high-school-pallbearers-veterans-rcna180785?fbclid=IwY2xjawGvNVVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTqslZ5Srag9pVm0SGBhyPoEIjXNu1ExpFuHqogGM2nWPaV-WAZ93P_ymw_aem_m4U90BdRIPl_ns8Trvnomg
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A good read.
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The Atlantic
11 months ago
Pete Hegseth has published three books in four years. Jonathan Chait spent the last week reading them—and concluded that Hegseth is almost certainly the most dangerous of Trump's cabinet picks.
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I wonder if she'll try to cut the government's secret weather control program used to create hurricanes.
www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/p...
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Greene to chair new DOGE subcommittee on Oversight next Congress | CNN Politics
House GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced that she will chair a new Oversight subcommittee in the next Congress that will work with the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency led by El...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-doge-oversight/index.html
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