Elaina McCartney
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Retired Mars rover camera operator. Lake dweller. Pro-democracy. Pro-science.
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The importance of a sense of humor in a time when non-serious power-hungry clowns deserve ridicule: bravo Zaid and Frost, shoutout to Monty Python.
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Can We Hold On to Our Sense of Humor?
A Saturday Prompt
https://open.substack.com/pub/america/p/can-we-hold-on-to-our-sense-of-humor?r=84r9q
about 1 year ago
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Ron Filipkowski
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Lemon’s lawyers coming out throwing haymakers in the first round.
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Ron Filipkowski
about 6 hours ago
Now Hegseth wants to decide where troops can take college classes in their off-duty time. I’m glad I was able to use this program while on active duty to go to the accredited school of my choice.
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Ron Filipkowski
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Trump surrounds himself with white nationalists, fraudsters, grifters, and sex abusers. Some are all four, including him.
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Ron Filipkowski
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Hegseth blew up another boat and killed more people. We have no idea who they were or what they were doing because it’s just “trust me, bro” while we kill people.
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Ron Filipkowski
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 307. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics.
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 307. 2/13/26
… ICE Director Todd Lyons admitted in a statement today that ICE officers lied under oath in an investigation that led to criminal charges against two innocent men: “Today, a joint review by ICE and D...
https://open.substack.com/pub/meidastouch/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-307-21326?r=9qw74&utm_medium=ios
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Antonia Juhasz
about 7 hours ago
Olympic Athletes Launch Campaign to Ban Fossil Fuel Sponsorship
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Olympic Athletes Launch Second Campaign to Ban Future Fossil Sponsorship
As someone who has skied since he was 10, Swedish cross-country skier Björn Sandström said it’s “impossible not to connect the dots” between the sport he loves, the warming climate, and the fossil fue...
https://www.theenergymix.com/olympic-athletes-launch-second-campaign-to-ban-future-fossil-sponsorship/
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Mikhail Shaidorov winning Olympic gold for Kazakhstan is a beautiful underdog story
#MilanoCortina2026
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bryan (drafts era)
about 7 hours ago
ilia malinin hugging mikhail shaidorov immediately after losing men’s free skate
#olympics
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Ellie
about 6 hours ago
Looking at the SP vs FS segment placements for the men and wow is it Ordinals Gone Wild. Among the crazier swaps: Ilia: 1 ->15 Adam: 3->12 Mikhail: 5->1 (!!) Stephen: 10->2 (!) Shun: 9->3 Yuma: 2->6 This is peak Menning!
#MilanoCortina2026
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welcome to the glennaissance
about 6 hours ago
because I need to heal, here's the very touching moment when ilia malinin congratulated mikhail shaidorov on winning gold seconds after his own dream was crushed
#MilanoCortina2026
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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦
about 3 hours ago
#Ukraine
President Volodymyr
#Zelenskyy
awarded Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych the country's medal of freedom after he was disqualified from the
#Olympic
skeleton competition over his "helmet of remembrance," which depicted athletes killed since russia's invasion reuters / Instagram
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Rebel with a Cause
about 5 hours ago
TRICKLE UP!!!💯💯🤬🤬🤬💯💯 tRumpstein's budget chief Russell Vought reportedly DIVERTED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS EARMARKED FOR USAID!!! THE FEDERAL AGENCY THAT ONCE PROVIDED GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN AND ECONOMIC AID 😪 IN ORDER TO PAY FOR HIS SECURITY DETAIL!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Millions of Dollars from Now-Defunct USAID Reportedly Paying For Russell Vought’s Security Detail
Russell Vought reportedly diverted millions of dollars earmarked for the federal agency that once provided global humanitarian and economic aid.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/millions-dollars-now-defunct-usaid-213524043.html
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Ron Filipkowski
about 6 hours ago
There is no way Senate Dems should vote for DHS funding while Republicans are threatening to nationalize elections and Trump is threatening to do it by executive order. ICE reforms are no longer enough. Their authoritarianism must be fought with every legislative lever available.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸
about 6 hours ago
C’est la vie 🥂
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Kyle Griffin
about 8 hours ago
Dr. Oz emailed an invite to a Valentine's Day party in 2016 to Jeffrey Epstein. Oz appears several more times in the Epstein files, including an email sent from an account under his name to Epstein on Jan. 1, 2016, that has the subject line "Dr oz." The body of the message is completely redacted.
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Senior US health official Oz invited Epstein to Valentine's Day party, documents show
Mehmet Oz sent the invite almost a decade after Epstein's first sex crime charges became public.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senior-us-health-official-oz-invited-epstein-valentines-day-party-documents-show-2026-02-12/
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JeffTrnka
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MeidasTouch
about 5 hours ago
NEWS: LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas — a massive facility that could detain up to 9,500 people.
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LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas
The unwelcome facility would detain up to 9,500 people
https://meidasnews.com/news/la-lakers-co-owners-firm-linked-to-proposed-80-million-ice-warehouse-deal-in-texas
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Christopher Webb
about 16 hours ago
Whoa! Didn’t expect to wake up to this news. “A year into Trump’s term, voters say Biden was better.” Trump’s net approval on the economy is now -18. That’s 26 points worse than this point in his first term and a brutal 53 points lower among independents. 1/2
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MAGA Senator Took Donation From Epstein Friend Before Key Vote
Ohio Senator Jon Husted received $3,500 from Les Wexner.
https://newrepublic.com/post/206564/maga-senator-donation-epstein-conspirator-vote-block-files?utm_source=newsletter
about 5 hours ago
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Skye
about 11 hours ago
AOC in Munich: “They are looking to withdraw the United States from the entire world so that we can into an age of authoritarianism — of authoritarians that can carve out the world, where Donald Trump can command the Western Hemisphere & Latin America as his personal sandbox”
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Dan Bernstein
1 day ago
The NFL must suspend Steve Tisch immediately. It's mindblowing that we're now demanding a football league act against direct involvement with a child sex-trafficking ring, only because nothing and no one else will. Dan Bernstein Unfiltered on
@312sportschi.bsky.social
. Links below.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
1 day ago
After years of scandal, New Yorkers deserve a government they can trust. That's why I nominated Nadia Shihata — a former federal prosecutor who's taken on organized crime and corruption — to lead DOI. She'll help us build a City Hall that answers to the people.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
1 day ago
There needs to be a class action suit against RFK, Jr., NIH, and Donald Trump for endangering the lives of Americans with their kooky, unscientific negligence.
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Adam Parkhomenko
about 8 hours ago
Well well well
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆
1 day ago
Ukrainian Athlete Disqualified From Olympics Over Helmet Depicting War Dead: ‘The Price of Our Dignity’
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Ukrainian Athlete Disqualified From Olympics Over Helmet
“This is the price of our dignity,” Heraskevych said, in response to the International Olympic Committee's decision.
https://time.com/7377960/vladyslav-heraskevych-helmet-disqualified-skeleton-athlete-winter-olympics-2026/
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George Takei
about 8 hours ago
It's clearly a cover up, and they think we’re all stupid and won't notice.
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The Tennessee Holler
1 day ago
Anyone else sensing a pattern here?
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Mike Hixenbaugh
about 10 hours ago
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
about 9 hours ago
Jeffrey Epstein's December 20, 2016 email to Bill Gates: "come to visit the island. new administration people visiting." What was the upcoming administration in December2016? Oh!
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Acyn
about 9 hours ago
Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
about 10 hours ago
You might think that the inhumane conditions at America's concentration camps is because of this administration's usual lazy incompetence, but, no, it's because of this administration's usual vicious cruelty.
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Jon Cooper
about 12 hours ago
In a major rebuke of Ron DeSantis, the Florida House’s budget for 2026-27 slashes the fund DeSantis used for immigration enforcement, including the building of Alligator Alcatraz, the Everglades immigration detention facility.
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Florida House nixes DeSantis priorities in budget plan
The House budget comes in at about $4 billion less than the governor’s final, proposed spending plan.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/13/florida-house-nixes-desantis-priorities-in-budget-plan/?share=nenelrenae2entgootie
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Robert Reich
about 13 hours ago
The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 10 hours ago
Not only did Trump lose the 2016 popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, once he was in office he launched a massive "voter fraud" investigation to prove that he'd *actually* won the popular vote by several million and then they didn't find a thing and quietly disbanded it.
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 12 hours ago
A
@dailybeanspod.com
listener went for a run in our neighborhood the other day.
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Cheryl T. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦📎
about 13 hours ago
I think her outrageous behavior indicates that she’s already secured a pardon.
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The Attorney General Who Thought "The Stock Market" Was A Defense Against Sex Trafficking
Future Law School Case Study, Pam Bondi
https://johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/the-attorney-general-who-thought
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Krassensteins
about 16 hours ago
BREAKING: DP World Chief Executive Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem has just RESIGNED from after documents released by the DOJ showed he had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Below is Trump and Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem introducing The Trump International Tower and Hotel Dubai. Trump should resign next.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘
about 13 hours ago
Trump’s America because of the trump Epstein files‼️
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Governor Gavin Newsom
about 13 hours ago
I want to be clear: Donald Trump’s administration is temporary. California’s commitment is not. He will be gone in three years. Our resolve to confront climate change is enduring and we remain a stable, reliable partner in that fight.
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Ron Filipkowski
about 14 hours ago
Unconfirmed political hack Corey Lewandowski gets to make policy decisions at a massive federal agency as well as hiring and firing key personnel because he’s having an affair with Kristi Noem. Allegedly, since they continue to deny it even though everyone knows it.
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Sue Carr
about 14 hours ago
So is this enough to scare the shit out of you yet? The government is spying on all of us while they try to rig elections to stay in power. They want trump as the dictator king. He is their patsy to come in and be able to take control of America and its citizens. WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!
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Alt National Park Service
about 14 hours ago
A win! A federal judge has directed the Trump administration to ensure detainees at an immigration facility near Minneapolis have meaningful access to legal counsel, noting concerns that many immigrants may have been cut off from proper legal services.
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Trump judge slams DHS for blocking detainees' access to lawyers
It's estimated to be the 45th time a Trump judge has ruled against the administration on mass immigration detention in the past year.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/13/trump-ice-immigration-detention-judge-court-orders
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Marc Elias
about 14 hours ago
🚨BREAKING: In a big win for Virginia Democrats’ efforts to counter President Donald Trump’s GOP gerrymanders in other states, the Virginia Supreme Court said the state can hold its special election on the redistricting plan.
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In victory for Democrats, Virginia Supreme Court says redistricting vote can go forward
Voters will get to decide on a proposed “10-1” map that could deliver four more Democratic seats in Congress.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/in-victory-for-democrats-virginia-supreme-court-says-redistricting-vote-can-go-forward/
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Just Jack
about 17 hours ago
Obviously false…I think he meant to say we’re the only country in the world with daily mass shootings and widespread medical bankruptcies.
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The Watchdog Coalition
1 day ago
Dems are about to effectively shutdown the DHS. Now it’s time to impeach Kristi Noem!
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Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
Contact Congress today!
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-impeach-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem/
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Glen Dunlap
about 23 hours ago
There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.
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EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions
The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/epa-reverses-endangerment-climate-change-finding-rcna258452
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Christopher Webb
about 19 hours ago
Notice how “resigned” keeps meaning “got caught.” Now do Howard Lutnick.
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