Patti O'Brien
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4th generation Washingtonian, Fenian, Irish Republican. Dual citizen with Ireland
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John Hudson
2 days ago
SCOOP: A suspected Iranian drone attack hit the CIA’s station in Saudi Arabia in what would amount to a significant symbolic victory for the Islamic Republic as it lashes out at U.S. targets and personnel across the Middle East, sources tell Ellen Nakashima and me
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Just Jack
13 days ago
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Irish Literary Times
20 days ago
W.B. Yeats
#valentinesday
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NFL Daily News
28 days ago
A statement from the family of Christian A. "Sonny" Jurgensen III
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Scott Horton
about 1 month ago
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
about 1 month ago
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Will Bunch
about 1 month ago
How it started How it's going
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Kyle Griffin
about 1 month ago
Breaking NYT: Federal prosecutors have now issued subpoenas to at least five Democratic officials in Minnesota — including Walz, Frey, and Keith Ellison — ramping up the Trump Justice Department's investigation into their response to the Trump admin's aggressive immigration crackdown.
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Prosecutors Subpoena Minnesota Democrats as Part of Federal Inquiry
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/politics/subpoena-minnesota-democrats-immigration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Aidan O'Sullivan
about 2 months ago
There has to be any number of trophies and medals from Community Games, Irish dancing, junior B hurling championships, CĂşl Camps, 5k runs, etc the Irish could send him? Distract him for a while?
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Steve Vladeck
about 2 months ago
This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...
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Wil McMillen
about 2 months ago
Oh my god this lady rules. I love this. Just make fun of these poseurs.
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John McCafferty
about 2 months ago
12 Jan 1588: b. John Winthrop, future governor of the
#Massachusetts
Bay Colony: 'wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill'
#otd
in Edwardstone
#Suffolk
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Langdon Grant
about 2 months ago
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
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Phil Lewis
2 months ago
BOSTON (AP) — Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of late President John F. Kennedy, has died, family says.
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Sunny Moraine
2 months ago
Someone within 2-3 hours of Baltimore please give this handsome lil man the best Christmas present ever
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Hoyt
3 months ago
Just saw this and lol’d (I laugh to keep from crying)
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Adam Parkhomenko
3 months ago
Art
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
this shit is just beyond parody, man
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Marisa Kabas
3 months ago
SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/s...
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Cory Booker Weds Alexis Lewis in a Private Ceremony
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/style/cory-booker-wedding-alexis-lewis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E8.k2aO.dq3nMya0C6tn&smid=bs-share
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Thanks, I Hate It
3 months ago
New meme format just dropped:
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Olga Nesterova
4 months ago
Whoever made this, you nailed it.
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Murshed Zaheed
4 months ago
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump era.
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Sahil Kapur
4 months ago
NANCY PELOSI IS RETIRING
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Nancy Pelosi, first female speaker of the House, won't seek re-election to Congress
The California Democrat led her party in the House for two decades. Her decision will open up her San Francisco-based seat for the first time in nearly 40 years.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/nancy-pelosi-first-female-speaker-house-wont-seek-re-election-congress-rcna239324
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Jen Bendery
4 months ago
BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi announces retirement from Congress "I will not be seeking reelection to Congress,” she says in a new video. “With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative."
www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...
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Nancy Pelosi Announces Retirement From Congress
The historic former House speaker and Democratic Party power broker is hanging it up after nearly four decades of representing San Francisco.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-pelosi-retirement-congress_n_6908ebc1e4b0ad5446e105c9?zj2
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Sky News
4 months ago
Prince Andrew to leave his home at the Royal Lodge - as King begins process to remove his titles
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Prince Andrew to leave his home at the Royal Lodge - as King begins process to remove his titles
The King has initiated the "formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew", Buckingham Palace said in a statement.
https://news.sky.com/story/bluesky-13460931
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Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/timothy-mellon-donation-troops.html
4 months ago
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Special Envoy for the Shield of the Popehats
5 months ago
Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1
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Will Bunch
5 months ago
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John McCafferty
5 months ago
There are these days when Sisyphus readily comes to mind. (Titian, Museo del Prado)
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Phil Lewis
5 months ago
GOP Rep. Mike Lawler and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries get into it outside a news conference at the Capitol (video via Rachel Schilke)
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5 months ago
The flash apparently official. CBS News died at 1pm central standard time, 2pm eastern standard time, some 38 minutes ago.
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Hoo boy, this Hegseth thing is humiliating. Gonna be a very long day of cringe-inducing performance.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
5 months ago
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Kathleen Bachynski
5 months ago
I made the mistake of venturing onto Facebook… Where HHS no longer seems to know how to spell acetaminophen. Of course, that’s the least troubling part of their proclamations.
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Rachel Maddow
6 months ago
"Homan indicated he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office... "On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills..."
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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568
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Acyn
6 months ago
AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
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John Hudson
6 months ago
New: Trump announces that he ordered another military strike on alleged drug smugglers on a boat coming from Venezuela, killing "3 male terrorists." This is Trump's latest step in transforming a law enforcement function into a televised military assassination program
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George Pearkes
6 months ago
Deseret News reporting Kirk has died, citing Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz
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Kara Swisher
6 months ago
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Ben Mathis-Lilley
6 months ago
credit to Holly Allen on our art team (not on Bsky I don't think) I did not realize you could actually check the signature against _a different friendly note he wrote to Jeffrey Epstein_
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The Wall Street Journal
6 months ago
Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.
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Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed
Lawyers for Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book.
https://on.wsj.com/4pdY0Ux
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C-SPAN
6 months ago
#BREAKING
: C-SPAN is coming to YouTube and Hulu this fall! Press Release: www.C-SPAN.org/YouTubeTV Press Release: www.C-SPAN.org/Hulu
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Aaron Rupar
7 months ago
Trump: "I was just sent a picture from somebody who wants to be there very badly. He's been very respectful of me and our country but not so respectful of others. But he'll -- I'm gonna sign this for him. But I was sent one. That's a man named Vladimir Putin, who I believe will be coming."
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Jonathan V. Last
7 months ago
The FBI is raiding John Bolton's house, right now.
www.thebulwark.com/p/developing...
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DEVELOPING: The FBI Is at John Bolton’s House
In a dawn operation, FBI agents descended on the home of Trump’s former national security advisor.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/developing-the-fbi-is-at-john-boltons
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The Boston Globe
7 months ago
Two former patients are suing a noted former surgeon and Mass. General for medical malpractice, alleging the gender-reassignment operations they underwent were experimental and unsupported by medical research.
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Mike Luckovich
7 months ago
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Foundations step in to offer $37 million lifeline to public media
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Foundations step in to offer $37 million lifeline to public media
The Knight, MacArthur, Ford and Robert Wood Johnson foundations, plus the Schmidt Family Foundation and the Melinda Gates-led group Pivotal Ventures are contributors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/19/npr-pbs-foundations-funding/
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Ian Livingston
7 months ago
Outside Dupont north metro
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David Corn
7 months ago
This just in…
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Trump plans raids on DC's homeless tonight, sources say
Advocates are scrambling to relocate people from tent encampments before imminent arrests.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/donald-trump-plans-raids-on-dcs-homeless-tonight-sources-say-mpd-national-guard/
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