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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Anna Clark
about 2 months ago
Transparency is a widespread issue, as I wrote in the first of our fluoride stories at ProPublica. "Customer notice requirements are patchy, so people may not even know about it when their fluoridation stops."
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Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started
As federal agencies review their guidance on fluoridation and the nation’s top health official calls fluoride “industrial waste,” state and local governments are pulling back on the practice, upending...
https://www.propublica.org/article/fluoride-drinking-water-rfk-jr-michigan-cdc-hhs
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
about 2 months ago
Joe Biden won the election in 2020. If a future judge can’t admit that, what’s left?
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Me deciding whether or not I want to cuss out ICE or get on my plane.
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan
2 months ago
(CNN) — The Pentagon has identified four of the six US service members who were killed in an Iranian drone strike on Sunday. All four were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command, an Army Reserve sustainment unit out of Iowa.
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Pentagon identifies four US soldiers killed in war with Iran | CNN Politics
The Pentagon has identified four of the six US service members who were killed in an Iranian drone strike on Sunday.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/politics/pentagon-identifies-four-soldiers-killed-war-iran?cid=ios_app
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Bibi has made it known that he doesn’t care about the American Jews, his entire desire has been to get the support of Christian evangelicals. We are paying the price for his ignorance and hubris.
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Seems time to delete my Yahoo e-mail account. No spam filter and wouldn’t be surprised if they’re using it as a revenue source. G-mail is already my primary.
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Saw this on the way to the theatre tonight. Love my city. cc:
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Absolutely my favorite halftime show ever!!
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Garrett M. Graff
4 months ago
This is actually one of the most troubling ICE stories I’ve seen recently — an eye-popping sign of how corrupt, broken, and racist the internal culture is:
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I had a dream where I went up to random Trump supporters and screamed at them to fuck off. I wonder what that symbolizes.
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What do you do when you hate someone in a purely professional basis?
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The most tacky man alive.
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You can’t convince me there’s a better male performance than Josh O’Connor in The Mastermind this year.
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Chris Hayes
5 months ago
Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
6 months ago
A short thread on the extremely successful, victorious protest of hundreds of people in NYC today that kept ICE vans stuck in the garage instead of kidnapping people along Canal St.
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The day he dies the world becomes better.
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Need a burger.
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Sarah O
6 months ago
Yes, we hate you. We hate what you are doing. Save your soul. Quit your job.
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slate
6 months ago
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
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You can frame things however you want. Unless we retake Congress it’s moot within a few days.
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Really understood the people in my social media circle not voting in today’s high profile Mayoral race. Sometimes you don’t have to pick the lesser of two real evils. Sometimes you can just say fuck them all and wash your hands of it.
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Sarah Weinman
7 months ago
This is one of my very favorites from Sherald’s exhibition (which was at the Whitney earlier this year)
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I honestly have no idea how I would vote. Mamdani’s antisemitic, Cuomo loathsome and Sliwa insane.
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7 months ago
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Say that to the New Deal and LBJ.
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Loather
7 months ago
I will vote for any candidate who promises to put every single ICE agent in jail
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Josh Gondelman
7 months ago
I do not use cocaine. Obviously my vice of choice is roast beef sandwiches, and they honestly may take a comparable amount of time off of my life.
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He’s also just lying. He referred to it using its Nazi term for some time.
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Kate Klonick
7 months ago
Good morning.
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It feels like an inverse response to Trumpism. Cling to the worst qualities of an obviously flawed candidate to own the opposition.
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To dismiss the well founded concerns of the Jewish community as basic racism is beyond abhorrent.
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Leah Millis
7 months ago
The
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photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.
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Sanho Tree
7 months ago
Frank was Antifa.
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chriscesq
7 months ago
Pritzker can't say he's fighting the good fight and that we're in this perilous moment, but then allow his state police to do this to protesters. He wants it both ways, but he can't have it both ways and be credible. This is a fight against the federal gov't, but it's also against the police state.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.
7 months ago
I—I’m sorry? Kevin Stitt? I would be less surprised if you told me John McCain rose from the dead to say this.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
8 months ago
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.
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Aaron Rupar
8 months ago
Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"
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Adam Serwer
8 months ago
Do not bow down to these people. Do not allow them to convince you that you must.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...
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Local TV Giant Sinclair Ends Jimmy Kimmel Boycott
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WDET 101.9 FM
8 months ago
Detroit has been without representation by a Black politician since 2023. Donavan McKinney and his supporters want to change that.
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Detroit Black political leaders rally behind Donavan McKinney - WDET 101.9 FM
Detroit has been without representation by a Black politician since 2023. Rep. Shri Thanedar won his seat in 2022.
https://wdet.org/2025/09/24/detroit-black-political-leaders-rally-behind-donavan-mckinney/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news&utm_content=donavan_mckinney_092425
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Laura Bassett
8 months ago
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312042943.html
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Ben Siemon
8 months ago
Kimmel should donate under no circumstances. I don't think he will but God I hope he doesn't. Sinclair channels should be bullied by losing all ABC content immediately. If they don't want some ABC content give them nothing at all.
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Anne Applebaum
8 months ago
The US government and especially the State Dept are now fine with this kind of thing
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Foreign disinformation about Charlie Kirk's killing seeks to widen US divisions
Russia moved quickly to exploit conservative activist Charlie Kirk's shooting death at a Utah college, with groups linked to the Kremlin spreading false and misleading claims that experts say are desi...
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Actors have been particularly silent. Even those who spoke had real fear.
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Adam, I say this as a former Republican, our party is deeply evil.
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Julie&
8 months ago
Libraries shouldn’t be neutral. They should be subversive.
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Everything is truly awful. Unimaginably so. But for the next two hours I get to see Harrison Ford run around Chicago and find the one armed man with a huge bag of popcorn and a giant vat of Diet Coke.
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Thomas Seal
8 months ago
Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO
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Wajahat Ali
8 months ago
Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
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