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Maybe the people who baselessly blamed transgender people for Kirk's murder and spread disinformation and hate should apologize. Folks like Nancy Mace, Don Trump Jr and WSJ

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My God. Chills.

I concur. RKF Jr. fights like hell for quackery. Democrats need to fight like hell for science, health, and rationality.

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The biggest US copper wire manufacturers are still raising their prices even after most copper imports received tariff exemptions.  More evidence that powerful corporations may be using the uncertainty and chaos of tariffs as cover to pad their pockets.

Screw Trumps tariffs. Feed the Gazans. Stop funding Israel's war against Gaza.

Sickens me knowing how many people are starving in Gaza.

Trump is selling a pardon to a child sex trafficker by getting her to promise in advance she’ll exculpate him for the things I’m about to reveal that he did—and it may be the sickest thing a president has ever done. Will media cover it that way? Stay tuned. Not holding my breath.

Enjoying this cooler weather while we patiently wait and hope for rain. #SaugatuckDunes

"I ain't dead yet, mfer..." —Richard Pryor (and America, apparently)

According to a new report, defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon have raked in over HALF of Pentagon spending since 2020. Trump's new $1 trillion annual DoD budget will pad their pockets even further as he cuts the social safety net. War is a racket.

If we aren't going to abolish ICE, why not have them round up all the lawless Americans shooting fireworks illegally?

Where is the business community?? In addition to the obvious humanitarian consequences here, this would mean something like a quarter of a million people who currently have legal permits to work would be forced out of their jobs. That is something employers will notice www.cnn.com/2025/06/25/p...

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Good grief. Any bets how this will unfold?

ICE agents detain people coming out from hearings at immigration court who have upcoming scheduled hearings. ICE agents unilaterally grabs them and drags them away. When people abiding by the law get arrested, and the government openly defies the law, it’s fascism.

It's not even 11am, and the day is getting bleaker all the time.

Preparatory work to identify remains of 800 infants at Irish mother and baby home begins

Is anyone else already dreading a week of fireworks exploding in your neighborhoods. I know it's not July 4 yet, but anticipatory dread is already setting in for my critters and me.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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All along its goal was to gain access to critical government information and personal data to sell it off to the highest bidder.

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How will millions losing health insurance MAHA (were we ever healthy?), @rfk-junior.bsky.social ?

DOGE will almost certainly end up COSTING the government more than the trivial sum they’ve saved. Nothing about the way they’ve operated makes a lick of sense as a sincere attempt to cut waste or ferret out fraud. They do just enough theater on that front to preserve the illusion that’s their aim.

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Those who can, shld donate like crazy. It’s a very visible form of resistance. www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

This is a widely inaccurate & dangerous mischaracterization. The vaccine was developed in fetal cells obtained from two elective abortions in the early 1960s. There is not abortion debris floating around in the vaccine. And the Vatican has okayed its use. RFK Jr. is again spreading disinformation.

From Harper's: The U.S. president solicited ideas from pronatalists on methods to boost the American birth rate, one of which was giving mothers of six or more children a “National Medal of Motherhood”

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.

If you thought this could never happen, you were wrong. And by “you” I mean me. I was wrong in thinking this could never happen.

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Rex Huppke admits that he has worn a Bulls hat. Which means, according to the MAGA mindset, that he's in MS-13. "I’m a middle-aged, non-Hispanic suburban man who’s whiter than ceiling primer, so I’m not sure how or when I became active in Hispanic gang culture." Sharp column by my friend Rex.

We replaced a King and monarchy with Dictator and oligarchy. Sigh.