Chuck Staples
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Software / tech / gaming geek. Generally what you see is what you get.
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Kevin M. Kruse
5 days ago
Actually, we *should* be able to expect the president of the United States to be able to restrain himself from personally threatening to kill the negotiators from another country. It's not that unreasonable at all, you pathetic toady.
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The Liberal BoJack
6 days ago
Taking a floating paint chip out of the Reflecting Pool is vandalism. Smearing shit on the walls of the Capitol is patriotism. Got it.
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The Liberal BoJack
6 days ago
Companies replacing junior roles with AI, only to complain about the lack of senior talent in 4-5 years, is going to be the most predictable crisis in hiring history.
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Feathered Stone
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JoAnn
6 days ago
#SweetBeats
#MusicChallenge
6/21 Steve Jordan has drummed with so many, including James Brown, Donald Fagan, Neil Young, Keith Richards, and Robert Cray. This is probably the first time I noticed him, on SNL backing the Blues Brothers. 🥁 Soul Man - The Blues Brothers
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Blues Brothers: Soul Man - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
https://youtu.be/FTWH1Fdkjow?si=h_Ryb1KaImX2XHQG
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️
6 days ago
Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting
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Christopher Webb
6 days ago
People picking up floating pieces of peeling blue paint aren’t the problem. The shoddy workmanship is.
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Christopher Webb
6 days ago
SHAME ON FOX, OR ANY NEWS OUTLET, FOR HEADLINES LIKE THIS. Everyone with eyes knows the Reflecting Pool wasn’t vandalized, and every reporter knows it too. 📌 Former Olympian David Hearn was handcuffed after he picked up a section of the pool liner that was already peeling away.
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Loved finding the “outsmarted by a single cell organism” references online. I guess that means that this administration is dumber than pond scum.
#MakeAlgaeGreenAgain
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Alt National Park Service
7 days ago
Trump is accusing vandals of causing the Reflecting Pool coating to peel, but that’s not what appears to be happening here. The real issue is the administration’s reliance on no-bid contracts and what appears to be a rushed project with inadequate quality control.
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Local Resister
8 days ago
Oh, look. A proper reflecting pond.
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Jon Cooper
7 days ago
I disagree. I’d blame the homeowner (or renter) for hosting a cage match in the front yard, allowing the house to be partially demolished, and not maintaining the pool properly.
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Trump administration reverses decision to scrap ocean monitoring system. Welcome news if it pans out.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump administration reverses decision to scrap ocean monitoring system
Move to dismantle $368m sea observatory initiative faced opposition from experts and lawmakers
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/18/ocean-monitoring-system-reversal-trump-administration?CMP=share_btn_url
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Gary Legum
7 days ago
All glory to Mr. Soros for funding the scientific research that led to the development of the super-algae.
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Sara Margarita Medina Ramos
10 days ago
Directed by Sean Penn
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Chris Murphy
10 days ago
Trade oil for free. No sanctions. A $300 billion reparations fund. For NOTHING. Just going back to pre-war status. Even Fox can't sugarcoat this disaster.
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Margaret G
10 days ago
What's not to love?
#Pinks
#ProudBlue
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MoveOn
10 days ago
A $15 million monitoring program was deemed too expensive. A $1 billion emergency response apparently isn't. Maybe "government efficiency" shouldn't mean firing the people whose job is to stop disasters before they happen.
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Political blame game follows as screwworm parasite threatens cattle in Texas
Screwworms are on their way to becoming a billion-dollar international problem but can be contained if ranchers are vigilant, watch their herds and other wildlife, and quickly treat any infestations,…
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/political-blame-game-follows-as-screwworm-parasite-threatens-cattle-in-texas
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Cindy 📎🇨🇦⚢🏳️🌈
11 days ago
The Hungarian parliament has backed a change to the constitution that limits a prime minister's term in office to eight years, fulfilling a promise by Péter Magyar to prevent Viktor Orbán becoming prime minister again.
#Pinks
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Hungary's MPs block return of Orbán, limiting PM's rule to eight years
The vote fulfils a promise by new PM Péter Magyar to stop his predecessor from becoming prime minister again.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c621zplqrrno
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Morgan J Freeman
12 days ago
And just like that, it completely VANISHED from the media. But a sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Don't trust me... listen to him 👇
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derek guy
10 days ago
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦
10 days ago
⚠️ Boycott Alert ScottsMiracle-Gro (sic) donates $1 million to the Trump Grift Machine.
#CdnPoli
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Patterns like these really make me loathe this game. When you have three letters identified on guess three and STILL have multiple options available at guess six… Wordle 1,823 X/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩
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Andrea Devon
11 days ago
Class always outlasts cruelty. ❤️
#SheShed
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Guardrails of Democracy
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John Pavlovitz
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Jeff Tischauser
11 days ago
once again the Guardian is showing U.S. editors what an accurate headline looks like
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Trump hails Iran deal that fixes nothing except a problem his war caused
Deal will leave things almost exactly as they were before feckless war of choice started
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/15/analysis-us-iran-peace-deal-nuclear-talks-resume?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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The Watchdog Coalition
11 days ago
Rep. Cohen filed articles of impeachment against Chief Justice John Roberts — the first time in 235 years. Roberts has enabled corruption and helped gut voting rights. It’s long past time we fight back. Tell Congress to get it done:
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Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Contact Congress today!
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-impeach-supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts/
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Marc Elias
12 days ago
🚨BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Monday that President Donald Trump directed the Department of Justice to investigate him and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Newsom says Trump DOJ investigating him in latest political probe
“Donald Trump is, simply, the most corrupt president in American history,” Newsom said while announcing the investigation.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/california-gov-newsom-trump-justice-department-investigation/
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Scott Dworkin
12 days ago
I move that we extend this to today as well 😇 Don't forget to subscribe:
www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
12 days ago
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Bill Walter
24 days ago
Fascism, is, at its core, the complete rejection of competence. Expertise, education, diligence, science, those "hard" things are required to lift all of us up. But power, cronyism, corruption, lying, those things work for fascists because they are fine elevating a few by forcing most people down.
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Salting the earth for US science (ACTION ITEM)
Sometimes it feels like scientists in the US are trapped in a burning building and no one is even trying to put out the fire. So few people even seem to recognize that the fire is there.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/30/800047612/community/salting-the-earth-for-us-science/
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Mueller, She Wrote
14 days ago
His name is coming off the Kennedy Center. But just like when it was added, there are tarps obstructing our view. One cameraman caught a glimpse, though.
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Workers remove Trump's name from Washington's Kennedy Center
YouTube video by Reuters
https://youtu.be/mKGekAxHQAY?si=35XBx_yCDvN6MXql
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Chris Murphy
16 days ago
Good morning. This is your daily reminder that the President has lost total control of the Iran War and thus has lost interest. He now only obsesses over his ballroom and schemes to profit off the presidency while gas and grocery prices soar.
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Ricky Davila
14 days ago
The orange felon’s disgusting name is finally coming TF down from the Kennedy Center, but because he’s so fragile, petty and humiliated it was shielded from the public. This beautiful moment was still captured. 💙👊
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Aaron Rupar
15 days ago
Morning Joe interviewed 3-time Trump voters who are disillusioned: "It's been 2 years now. You said you'd bring down grocery prices. I'm the most angry person when I grocery shop" "He's backtracked on every single pitch he had during his election ... I'm not a big supporter of him at this point"
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Barack Obama
15 days ago
I wouldn’t be where I am today without the love and support that Michelle has poured into me over the years. Her story — from her South Side roots to the White House and beyond — is a central part of the Obama Presidential Center.
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The Tennessee Holler
15 days ago
🔥 SEN.
@ossoff.senate.gov
: “This war in Iran is the worst foreign policy blunder since Iraq. And just like the Iraq war, it’s a war built on lies. The ‘America first’ President who said he would end foreign wars, now he says all we can afford is war.”
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Kyle Griffin
16 days ago
Enormous etchings of the numerals "86 47" have appeared on the grounds of the National Mall.
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Enormous etchings of numbers interpreted as threat to Trump appear on National Mall
Police respond to what appears to be the anti-Trump message “86 47″ etched into the grass near the World War II Memorial.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/06/11/apparent-etchings-86-47-seen-trump-threat-spotted-national-mall/
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Jen Rubin
16 days ago
Best argument ever for statehood. I Ds get trifecta in 2028 this is top of the list
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James Fallows
16 days ago
Hey Trump: Go to hell. People in DC pay *more FEDERAL tax* per capita than people of any state. And have zero representation. As I understand it, you personally evade federal tax, and are destroying a city where more people live than VT or ND. Tend to your own sordid business. Leave DC to DC.
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Ron Filipkowski
16 days ago
Iran state media.
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Why yes. Yes I am. Wordle 1,818 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Justin Baragona
16 days ago
And just like the countless other times he's pulled this, the markets surge and oil futures drop.
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dharmalee3❌👑
16 days ago
Rollins says DOGE cuts had “zero to do” with screwworm. False. DOGE cut the USDA/USAID screwworm monitoring program in early 2025. Hundreds of APHIS vets & inspectors left under DOGE pressure. The firewall fell. Now screwworm is in Texas & New Mexico.
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ElieNYC
18 days ago
Literally all the referees, including the American ones, should boycott. But nobody will because most people excuse racism unless it's happening to them personally.
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The Good Rev Rick
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Ron Sparks
19 days ago
Spending millions and completely closing down the heart of New York City just so you can get booed by everyone else at a basketball game is next level delusion. Achievement unlocked, Donald Trump!
#nyc
#newyork
#potus
#manhattan
#nypd
#mamdani
#trump
#knicks
#spurs
#nba
#djt
#usss
#fbi
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No walking allowed in heart of Midtown for Monday's Knicks game
The NYPD and U.S. Secret Service announced a spate of street closures and security measures in anticipation of President Donald Trump’s historic trip to the Knicks’ NBA Finals game.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/knicks-security-zone-no-walking-street-closures-msg/6510031/
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Ron Sparks
18 days ago
It's easier to accept Trump spending millions to shut down Manhattan so an arena full of NBA fans could boo him once you also realize that he's just gonna sleep through the damn game anyway. How is this our 2026?
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Rep. Mike Levin
19 days ago
No amount of repetition makes a lie a truth. Every single case attempting to overturn the 2020 election was overturned, dismissed, or dropped, even by Trump-appointed judges.
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