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Hi, I’m Mike. I live in LA and it’s all fine. Really.
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
when you’re upset at the cool kids for not inviting you to their lunch table
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3 months ago
"The fact is, though, that if you hold your breath waiting for moral and effective resistance from the GOP, you are likely to end up dead."
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I went back on the
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podcast and chatted with Josh about FF4:First Steps! Hope you enjoy.
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps from Marvel Studios - Movie Review - iFanboy Special Edition Podcast
YouTube video by iFanboy
https://youtu.be/BsWbAG9egtk?si=lK9CK3ZExKBbPQYv
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Joyce White Vance
5 months ago
This is disgusting. Even in the era of no shame, it’s shameful.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
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Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/justice-department-brett-hankison-sentence-breonna-taylor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XE8.DiU9.p_GjRd1NwVmq&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Rachel Esselle
5 months ago
$123 million held back from Virginia. I live in a community where 70% of the children at our Elementary School fall below the poverty line. Free school breakfast and lunch are integral to keeping these kids healthy and ALIVE. Cruelty is the point.
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Jen Taub
5 months ago
☎️ Call 202-224-3121, now. We are on the precipice of a murderous regime. I am not exaggerating. Call you member of Congress TODAY to tell them to vote NO on the $170 billion budget to imprison non-violent, hardworking immigrants in dangerous concentration camps.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nar...
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Jen Taub LIVE - Gruesome Trump Truth. Death Camps in USA!
YouTube video by Jen Taub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NarG5Qqcho
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In the Quest to Shrink NASA, Trump Forgets National Security
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...
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Opinion | In the Quest to Shrink NASA, Trump Forgets National Security
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/opinion/nasa-national-security.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Senator Ron Wyden
5 months ago
Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.
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"We would be turning off some fabulous missions that are doing extremely well.”
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White House works to ground NASA science missions before Congress can act
“We would be turning off some fabulous missions that are doing extremely well.”…
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/trump-administration-moves-to-tighten-the-noose-around-nasa-science-missions/
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The White House took down the nation's top climate report. You can still find it here
The National Climate Assessment is the most influential source of information about climate change in the United States.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5453501/national-climate-assessment-nca5-archive-report#:~:text=The%20White%20House%20took%20down,can%20still%20find%20it%20here&text=The%20website%20that%20hosts%20the,change%20affects%20the%20United%20States
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hilzoy
6 months ago
The very idea that Pete "hired because Donald Trump likes people he thinks *look like* their jobs, and despite being an unqualified alcoholic" Hegseth could dare to remove HARRIET FREAKING TUBMAN's name from a ship because mumble mumble DEI mumble mumble is enraging.
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Truly-
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Some parts of Trump’s proposed budget for NASA are literally draconian
“That’s exactly the kind of thing that NASA should be concentrating its resources on.”…
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/some-parts-of-trumps-proposed-budget-for-nasa-are-literally-draconian/
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Matt Novak
8 months ago
There we go. From the New York Times: “But according to a person familiar with the situation, a Bukele aide placed the two glasses with cherries and salted rims on the table in front of Mr. Van Hollen and Mr. Abrego Garcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo.”
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this is all so stupid, it's getting hard to *breathe* straight.
www.theverge.com/news/650974/...
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Donald Trump’s crusade against offshore wind just got more serious
The Trump administration halted construction of a permitted wind farm.
https://www.theverge.com/news/650974/offshore-wind-donald-trump-empire-new-york-halt
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen
8 months ago
First the rumour was a 20% budget cut. Then, 50%. Now the president's NASA budget is out and it's a 68% cut to astrophysics ($1.5B to $487M). Even if this gets reversed in four years, we will *never* recover the missions, partners, people who will be gone.
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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Massive cuts to NASA science proposed in early White House budget plan
The preliminary version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, known as a “passback,” would cut the agency’s science budget funding nearly in half.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/11/nasa-science-budget-cuts-trump/
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Michael Battalio
8 months ago
Cuts to
#science
of >50% at NASA and >75% at NOAA would end US climate and space science research. NASA cuts are '...an "extinction level" event':
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
"At this funding level, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research is eliminated...":
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Rep. George Whitesides
8 months ago
My statement on the huge cuts to NASA science proposed by the President, which would decimate American leadership in space and damage NASA facilities across the county -- including JPL in California:
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Jasmine 🌌🔭
8 months ago
science is actively being destroyed.
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Rick Wilson
8 months ago
“How could Trump have bankrupted a casino?” is no longer a rhetorical question.
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Seriously
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David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹
8 months ago
2002: They hate us for our freedoms 2025: They hate us for our good-looking steaks
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Rex Huppke
8 months ago
The tariffs themselves will almost surely tank the stock market tomorrow, but finance people seeing exactly how outlandishly dumb these fools are will likely do even greater damage moving forward. There can be no confidence. It’s like a pack of hyenas on PCP running the economy.
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CAKE
8 months ago
The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. This number can connect you to both the House of Representatives and the Senate offices.
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Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández
8 months ago
This is what Trump and Musk are doing during a measles outbreak. Today, 10,000 staffers were fired at CDC—including measles and bird flu experts—while dozens of free vaccination clinics were canceled in Texas. These billionaires don’t seem to care that children will die from their cruel cuts.
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Dozens of free measles vaccine clinics close in Texas as federal funding is cut
Many clinics had been planned at schools in the Dallas area with low vaccination rates.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-dallas-vaccines-hhs-funding-cuts-rcna199144
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What’s up? Mr. Booker.
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Julian Sanchez
9 months ago
If Musk doesn't end his evening in a squad car, Wisconsin is just announcing that sufficiently wealthy & connected people get to publicly announce they're committing crimes, and the state will be too afraid to do anything about it. Criminal law is for the poor.
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Death Becomes Her superfan - now with decorative gourds
9 months ago
I feel that if, in 2010, you had told me that Citizens United would lead to someone literally giving oversized $1 million checks to voters in exchange for their votes, I would have called you a delusional conspiracy theorist. And I would have been wrong.
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Alt National Park Service
9 months ago
Wisconsin residents are receiving text messages from a (202) D.C. area code, falsely urging them not to vote in the upcoming election. These messages are not legitimate.
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Andrea Junker
9 months ago
1. Tulsi Gabbard was overseas while participating in the Signal chat. 2. Steven Witkoff was in Russia when he was added to the Signal chat. 3. Russia infiltrated Signal some time ago to use it against Ukrainians. It’s high time to Benghazi the shit out of Trump’s administration.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
9 months ago
NEW:
@motherjones.com
reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
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Marisa Kabas
9 months ago
just profoundly disturbed by the kidnapping and disappearing of people right off the streets of this country. hard to think about much else—and there’s so much else.
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Ben Wikler
9 months ago
If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
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This guy is insane and dangerous.
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...
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RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’
“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-would-be-better-if-everybody-got-measles/
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digby
9 months ago
Ask yourself what you would have thought in 2015 if the president --- actually any national politician ---something like this to the press. You would have said that he was batshit crazy. And it is.
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The war against the poor continues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
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E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/climate/epa-closure-environmental-justice-offices.html
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Telling that the dumbest president in history goes after education. What a pathetic loser.
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Super fun to watch this successful launch but can’t help feel severe dread about potential NASA cuts by this awful anti-science administration.
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That Watch Duty notification sound generates quite the physical reaction
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Murshed Zaheed
9 months ago
NEW. Trump poll nos. on foreign policy tanking 📉 ‼️ Unlike Trump, Americans personally sympathize more w Ukraine overRussia by 56-3 👀 Disapprove Trump's foreign policy by 13 pts (50% to 37 %); in Jan they approved 39% to 37%. Ambushing Zelensky at Oval despite propaganda looks to be a disaster.
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Analysis | Americans don’t love Trump’s methods on Ukraine
They increasingly support a negotiated end to the war and even territorial concessions to Russia — but not necessarily like this.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/05/americans-dont-love-trumps-methods-ukraine/
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Dan Diamond
9 months ago
New: DOGE sought access to a sensitive database kept by federal child-support office Powerful system contains income info, Social Security numbers for *nearly all U.S. workers* DOGE initially rebuffed by a career civil servant who questioned legal authority More TK w
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DOGE targets child support database full of income data
DOGE's attempt to access a federal database with sensitive information has provoked yet another internal disagreement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/06/doge-hhs-ssa-data/
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It’s so stupid. All of this is so freaking stupid.
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Angry
9 months ago
In today’s hellscape news, the Trump administration is planning to cut 80,000 jobs from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA is already short-staffed and wait times are abhorrent. Veterans will die because of this move.
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Keys for Liberty
9 months ago
Legal case for Emergency Care to save women’s lives gets dropped.
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TofuNYC🗽🇺🇦🚫👑
9 months ago
Trump, like Putin, is attempting to interfere in Ukraine's election process by holding secret talks with Zelensky's opponents, but there's a problem for Trump and Putin-- Zelensky is still massively popular compared to the rest of the field. FUCK TRUMP
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Christopher Webb
9 months ago
Trump has stopped sharing intelligence and paused military aid with Ukraine. He claims he’s trying to make peace and end the war, but all he’s really doing is weakening Ukraine and strengthening Putin. Trump is a Russian asset. (The Harbor Building, Los Angeles)
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John Skiles Skinner
10 months ago
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
https://18f.org/
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Nicole Tersigni
9 months ago
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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There is petty and there is this:
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
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Trump admin imposes $1 credit card limit on National Park Service employees
The Trump administration reduced most government purchase cards at the National Park Service to a $1 limit.
https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/national-parks-credit-card-freeze-20202603.php
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He’s already got my ire; he’s— It’s— not getting my time.
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