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Progressive, history & science nerd, Philly sports fan. He/him.
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Timothy Burke
1 day ago
Last week Donald Trump registered the trademark "Donald J. Trump International Airport." This week Florida Republicans voted to rename Palm Beach International Airport Donald J. Trump International Airport," putting taxpayers on the hook for licensing fees that go straight to him
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State House votes to rename Florida airport to Donald J. Trump international
The Republican-controlled Florida House voted 81-30 in support of the name change to President Donald J. Trump International Airport
https://www.wesh.com/article/house-votes-change-florida-airport-donald-j-trump-international/70411746
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Craig Calcaterra
1 day ago
A guy who got his job via a process far closer to strange women lying in ponds distributing swords than anything approaching democracy provides a clearer statement about the Rule of Law than anyone in America has bothered to do for some time.
bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Max Kennerly
3 days ago
Deplorable state of U.S. media on display here, deliberately misleading the public. You can literally type into Google the same question
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was asked and the AI will give you her same answer because "strategic ambiguity" has been official U.S. policy her whole life.
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Mina Kimes
3 days ago
Go birds
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Sam Bagenstos
4 days ago
This is a really good piece by Aziz Huq and
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Raising Billions in Federal Funds. That’s Not a Good Thing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/opinion/trump-federal-money-slush-fund.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M1A.bJkH.TNAmosmWXQH_&smid=bs-share
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Eric Blair
7 days ago
Nuremberg
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST
8 days ago
I feel exactly the same way about AOC today that I did about Obama in 2006, in that their candidacy feels like a longshot, yet at the same time the most natural & correct thing in the world
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The Alternate Historian
8 days ago
Yeah there is a general belief that if the American Revolution was avoided, slavery would have ended in the colonies around the same time as it did for the British in OTL, but I have doubts. Slave owners would have greater influence in Britain and you certainly risk a war for independence over it.
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J. Mijin Cha
11 days ago
This is on Musk and he should be held accountable.
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WildPartyInviteDecliner
11 days ago
Incredible live tv moment.
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Bad Bunny is a birds fan? Love this guy already
www.reddit.com/r/eagles/com...
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From the eagles community on Reddit: Who are you rooting for tonight? Me? Ill be rooting for him...
Explore this post and more from the eagles community
https://www.reddit.com/r/eagles/comments/1qzlgp3/who_are_you_rooting_for_tonight_me_ill_be_rooting/
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Reconstructionist
13 days ago
The drum I have been beating for a long time is that if America's suburbs start politically homogenizing the way that rurals have... it is Extremely Bad for the GOP
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Kevin Collins
13 days ago
Mark my words: If he wins re-election in anything more than a squeaker, his name is going to start being talked about for 2028. The field is far from set. As I've said before, Obama didn't even start appearing in 2008 polls until fall 2006
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Max Kennerly
15 days ago
Love how the presumption here is that the President doesn't know what he's sharing and that's fine and normal. Sorry, no, if the President doesn't know what he's sending out then that is indisputable proof of gross incompetence, cognitive unfitness, or both.
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Will Stancil
15 days ago
The people who tilted the election were semi-literate knuckleheads at the absolute extreme edge of low-propensity voting; it’s ludicrous to claim they’d have defected from Trump en masse if Harris had used slightly different words or chosen some marginally different theme. They wouldn’t notice
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LisaToddSutton
16 days ago
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Bro did they just nuke the entire world factbook website and archives? I can't even find any old info on their website anymore. Hope someone archived this publicly, or else the physical copies and a few ebooks will be all that's left.
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16 days ago
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Alex Ip 葉清霖
16 days ago
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
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Cato Institute
17 days ago
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
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NewsCurrentNow
17 days ago
Philidelphia DA Larry Krasner warns ICE: If an agent commits crimes in Philly, I will charge you. You will be arrested. You will stand trial, and you will be convicted in state or federal court and you will do your time. Donald Trump can't pardon you for a state court conviction.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda)
18 days ago
tactics so devoid of strategy that the tactics become the strategy
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
18 days ago
It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.
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Jjinandtonic
19 days ago
Lmao i missed this, at 0:33 i think Trump shits himself You can hear the wet fart and the lady in green behind gives a look
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Trump Does Not Take Reporters' Questions After Signing Executive Order In The Oval Office
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
https://youtu.be/u_6kGluvINg
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VE, cybersocial occult investigator
19 days ago
I don’t mean this to be dismissive but the way that most people perceive and interpret the function of LLM chatbots is a form of enchanted animism. The turbulence in the water isn’t being caused by a river spirit (even if it is fun and the predominant culture to act as if river spirits are real).
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Congressman Castro is an inspiration!
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19 days ago
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Robert Black
20 days ago
This, if I did my math right, is what the map would look like applying this 31% swing uniformly to the 2024 results
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Richard Kadrey
20 days ago
Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.
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mtsw
20 days ago
I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?
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Bari Weiss is in the Epstein files... At this point it might be easier to list the right wing or rich ghouls who *aren't* in there
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Wilfredo Torres
22 days ago
For Liam.
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Mikey Mike
23 days ago
I’m willing to bet that this lifestyle is a lie and that they don’t live like this, just pretend to. It’s marketing, the main purpose of which is to say ‘we are the ‘John Galt’ style superheroes, invest in us’.
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mtsw
23 days ago
Krasner for AG
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Whenever a Trumpster points to a random Trump policy and smugly says "I voted for this", ask them how they feel about voting for this too. Monsters, all of them.
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23 days ago
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Mikhail Gorbaechev
23 days ago
Listen man I just want to know what languages Old Europe was speaking.
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John Ganz
23 days ago
POLYBIUS, the authoritarian consolidation index, is live. (daily updates for now)
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT
24 days ago
Near zero Upper Midwest, Great Lakes, Northeast right now.. $NG_F $UNG
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
25 days ago
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
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Kevin M. Kruse
25 days ago
Border Patrol is pulling out of Minneapolis. Bovino is ending his punitive tour of blue cities. Calls for Noem's resignation are mounting, even in conservative media. Senate Democrats are dug in now on refusing to fund DHS and ICE. "Abolish ICE" is now a mainstream position. They are losing.
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e.w. niedermeyer
25 days ago
I know I've posted this interview a lot, but I think it's really important in this moment. A crucial part of hardening your heart against evil is deciding what path to redemption you're willing to allow. How might someone overcome their complicity, and how do you know their contrition is real?
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling
25 days ago
Wow, and this is pretty profound.
www.instagram.com/reel/DS7a5pn...
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brainjojosh on Instagram: "Your life is speeding up because your brain is running a compression algorithm on your existence.How to make it stop? Learn and do …"
Your life is speeding up because your brain is running a compression algorithm on your existence.How to make it stop? Learn and do new things!#neuroscience #timeperception #cognitivescience #neuroplasticity #slowliving #braintips #timemanagement
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DS7a5pngGrU/?igsh=MXRrODB3cXh6YWVucw==
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David Brauer
26 days ago
The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
(supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)
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Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/
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Len
26 days ago
imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus
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Governor JB Pritzker
27 days ago
It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.
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Natalie Wynn
27 days ago
The American Revolution started over less
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我不喜欢万税爷
29 days ago
On principle monarchy is bad but on the other heads of state with any sort of democratic legitimacy are worse, so I begrudgingly find parliaments with neutered monarchs to be my favorite system despite all the obvious philosophical problems.
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How are we gonna have the World Baseball Classic here in a month and a half?
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Almond
about 1 month ago
So basically, some meme account made up a sales number, which was picked up and incuriously reported by the Times of India, which then got cited and laundered by Grok hallucinating a bunch of reputable sources, leading to actual democratic governor Gavin Newsome broadcasting the false statistic.
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One of the great threads
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Reconstructionist
about 1 month ago
authoritarian regimes are actually more sensitive to public opinion than democratic ones because they do not have a reliable mechanism to reset their legitimacy (ie actual elections)!
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