Michael Ruminer
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Fairly leftist :-) ✍️Blog:
https://medium.com/@m-ruminer
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Robert Reich
1 day ago
Gender affirming care?
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Propaganda for the President wrapped up in an official gov't email account.
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I may have a new love interest - this story.
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Trick🌊
17 days ago
Same guy: Steve Bannon was famously arrested by federal agents on August 20, 2020, aboard the $28 million superyacht, which was anchored off the coast of Connecticut. The 150ft luxury vessel was owned by his business partner & associate, Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui (also known as Miles Guo)
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Interesting, but not at all surprising.
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24 days ago
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
26 days ago
"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.
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El Jefe De Security ("Retired" )
27 days ago
Yea makes sense. Vibe coding is just pair programming for introverts.
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Radley Balko
about 1 month ago
Our ongoing national embarrassment . . .
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Popehat
about 1 month ago
I think we can agree that it is a net positive for Free Press people to stay home.
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Michael Clemens
about 1 month ago
“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Woman held by ICE for 25 days, despite U.S. citizenship claim, gets a passport
Attorneys for Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales had presented a Maryland birth certificate and other documents as proof of her U.S. citizenship.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/06/02/woman-held-by-ice-25-days-despite-us-citizenship-claim-gets-passport/
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Chris Geidner
about 2 months ago
This answer alone should destroy this administration. This conversation is essentially: “people are hurting.” “ceos are fine.”
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Scott Shapiro
about 2 months ago
DO YOU SING?
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Read this, please. As bad as the post makes it sound, it is worse.
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about 2 months ago
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Carl Quintanilla
about 2 months ago
* US DHS SECRETARY MULLIN SAYS AGENCY COULD SOON STOP PROCESSING INTERNATIONAL TRAVELERS AT NEWARK AIRPORT OVER IMMIGRATION DISPUTE -- FOX NEWS INTERVIEW
@reuters.com
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 2 months ago
You may remember Republicans absolutely losing their mind when Obama released $1.7 billion in frozen Iranian assets.
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Have to leave the country to apply for a green card. What a mean and horrible thing.
about 2 months ago
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Brad Heath
about 2 months ago
Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.
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Has anyone ever gotten a "deal" where they will never be investigated, and thus prosecuted for future crimes? It's a super pardon.
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Aaron Rupar
about 2 months ago
VAN HOLLEN: An individual who was pardoned by Trump went on to molest 2 children, & he tried to buy their silence by saying he would give them funds from your slush fund. Can you commit to not making that person eligible for a payout? BLANCHE: You're obviously lying V: I am reporting what he said
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Radley Balko
2 months ago
Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.
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emptywheel
2 months ago
Over on Xitter,
@harryjsisson.bsky.social
(who seems not to post here anymore) catalogued one part of Trump's batshit meltdown overnight. Note how many of them focus on Trump's 2016 conspiracies, which are probably responses to Brennan and Comey appearing on MSNOW.
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driftglass
2 months ago
In his 2nd Inaugural, Abraham Lincoln delivered what might be the most devastating rebuttal to the Both Sides lie in history. "Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came."
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(Still) An(gr)i Bundel
2 months ago
We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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The New York Times
2 months ago
In Opinion After the Virginia Supreme Court overturned a state redistricting vote, “the correct response is to fight back in the name of the people, who made their choice in a free and fair contest,” Jamelle Bouie writes. “Democrats must meet the moment. Or move over for people who will.”
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Opinion | Democrats Who Are Soft on Republicans Have Got to Go
Virginians must fight back against its Supreme Court in the name of popular sovereignty.
https://nyti.ms/42XhSkT
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Alex Ip 葉清霖
2 months ago
BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.
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The Associated Press
3 months ago
A new study suggests that the comet that rambled past us from another star last year likely originated in a cold, isolated corner of the galaxy that had yet to gel into its own solar system.
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Scientists trace latest interstellar comet's home to a cold, isolated corner of the Milky Way
A new study suggests that the comet that rambled past us from another star last year likely originated in a cold, isolated corner of the galaxy that had yet to gel into its own solar system.
https://bit.ly/3OiElpa
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I just want my shoes and merino wool shirts.
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3 months ago
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The Scaramucci of marathon talks.
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3 months ago
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Click through and go to the original full thread.
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Helen Kennedy
3 months ago
And now the president of the United States with a special Easter message:
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Seth Cotlar
3 months ago
It's hard not to think of Paxton's definition of fascism when considering the extent to which the federal government under Trump has been reduced to a) a rogue murder state outside the nation's boundaries and b) a rogue, ethnic cleansing/mass deportation operation *inside* the nation's boundaries.
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Kate Klonick
4 months ago
If you were wondering how the class field trip went
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How many times do you think the loser has brought up a nuclear attack?. I can hear him now- "we did it in Japan, and it worked"
4 months ago
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NY Times Pitchbot
4 months ago
Fuck yeah.
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Carl Quintanilla
4 months ago
#LeadTheChargeLindsey
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Live so that Trump cheers your death.
4 months ago
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This guy is determined to take over the world:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/n...
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U.S. Prosecutors Investigate Colombia’s President, a Onetime Trump Foe
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/nyregion/colombia-president-petro-investigation-drugs.html?nl=breaking-news&segment_id=216979
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Bill Kristol
4 months ago
Generations of Marines would be interested to hear that boots on the ground on an island is not boots on the ground in combat circumstances.
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Gillian Brockell
4 months ago
This
@the-independent.com
story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/
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John Brooks
4 months ago
Okay but what if Trump was personally criticizing you as an official act in his capacity as president?
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These people are idiots.
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If only we had allies, and if only a coalition had been formed, and, most importantly, if only the overly emotional old man had not attacked Iran.
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Brandon Friedman
4 months ago
He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.
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Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal is at least the 12th person to die in ICE detention this year.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/afghan-asylum-seeker-dies-ice-custody-us-advocacy-group-says-2026-03-15/
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Cinephilia & Beyond
4 months ago
“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”
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Carl Quintanilla
4 months ago
* TRUMP: HOPEFULLY CHINA, FRANCE, JAPAN, S.KOREA, WILL SEND SHIPS
@bloomberg.com
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Chris Geidner
4 months ago
the president of the united states just said he found out the country he started a war with had boats sometime after he started that war
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Carl Quintanilla
4 months ago
😞
@dailykos.com
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Ron Filipkowski
4 months ago
Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.
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