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  "Russian state outlet RIA Novosti published, and then deleted, an article by Alexander Nosovich, which floated nuclear missile strikes on Lithuania. Putin called Estonia’s leadership clowns. Per Bloomberg, Finnish F/A-18s and Swedish Gripens jointly intercepted Russian aircraft over the Gulf of Finland for the first time." https://www.meidasplus.com/i/217561163/russia-threatens-natos-eastern-flank #Putin #Russia #War #Ukraine #NATO #Europe #EU #Finland #Sweden #News #Press #WorldNews...

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  "More than 20 people have been shot by federal immigration agents since Trump took office in January 2025. Six people, including three U.S. citizens, have been killed in those shootings, nearly all of which involved officers firing at people in vehicles." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/us/ice-shooting-austin-texas.html #DonaldTrump #Trump #ICE #Shooting #Crime #Murder #Guns #DHS #GOP #Politics #Immigration #News #Texas #Minnesota #USA #US #UnitedStates #America

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  “While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and #oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings. He golfs and trades stocks,” said Ossoff, of #Trump. “See, he doesn’t want to do the #job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of #Qatar.” https://www.publicnotice.co/p/natalie-harp-trump-ossoff #DonaldTrump #NatalieHarp #GOP #Politics #News #Press #US #USA #Jon...

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  "The real embarrassment for Trump is Michigan’s 8th Congressional District. The candidate #Trump endorsed, Amir Hassan, got beaten by a man named Thomas Smith, who ... suspended his own campaign weeks ago. Let me say that again… A Trump-endorsed candidate lost to somebody who quit the race. And it wasn’t particularly close. That’s how toxic this endorsement has become in parts of this country." https://www.meidasplus.com/p/wednesday-news-updates-election-night #DonaldTrump #GOP #Poli...

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  Trump: "Is today a 'destroy Iran' day, or a 'pause for negotiations' day?" Aide: "Let me check with your stock broker." (Sorry, I don't know who to credit for the cartoon.) Edited to add: It's apparently an AI remake of a Foxtrot (cartoonist Bill Amend) original work. (See post below.) #Cartoon #PoliticalCartoon #Politics #DonaldTrump #Trump #Iran #War #Corruption #US #USA #UnitedStates #World

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  "The #eggs in question have the potential to be contaminated with #Salmonella enteritidis... The salmonella scare comes after an explosive diarrhea outbreak ... On top of that, the New World #screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, has infested cattle in #Texas & spread to other states, causing an estimated $1 billion in damages. The #Trump admn has cut a lot of the programs that prevented these types of outbreaks in the past" https://newrepublic.com/post/213473/rfk-jr-salmonella-o...

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  Another Mysterious Epstein Death On the #Epstein front, French model recruiter Daniel Siad, who spent over a decade arranging meetings between #JeffreyEpstein and young women, has been found dead near Paris. His name appears more than 2,000 times in the DOJ’s Epstein files, and he was under active #criminal investigation in #Paris at the time of his death. An autopsy is pending. This just keeps on happening… https://www.meidasplus.com/i/208092391/another-mysterious-epstein-death #EpsteinFiles...

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  "Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal." - Mayor Zohran Mamdani https://bsky.app/profile/mayor.nyc.gov/post/3mr722e77z22z The International Criminal Court declared that Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, but as far as I know, Mayor Mamdani is the only US politician brave enough to state it in clear unequivocal terms. Please watch his whole video statement. #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #War #WarCrimes #ICC #Netanyahu #BenjaminNetanyahu #Politics #USPol #News #Mamdani #ZohranMamdani #NY...

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  "The #Trump admn announced that it’s pausing $1 billion in #Medicare & #Medicaid payments to California & Minnesota [two states that strongly resisted Trump's #ICE attacks], accusing the states of widespread fraud... states have appealed these cuts in court and won. #Minnesota & #California will likely sue to get their funding back, and they’ll have plenty of evidence that the #WhiteHouse is targeting them for vindictive reasons." https://newrepublic.com/post/213335/rf...

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  "The same White House that pressured #Romania to free the [ #Tate] brothers and intervened with #DHS on their behalf could have to decide whether to hand them to the #UK for trial on nearly five dozen charges. Blocking the #extradition would extend a pattern of intervention the #WhiteHouse has already tried to minimize.... If #Rubio, via #Trump, decides to protect yet another pair of sexual predators, the midterm ads will write themselves." https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/safe-under-...

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  Brian Tyler Cohen on being put on Trump's "Media Offenders List": "after seeing how #law firms & universities & #tech companies & legacy #media outlets have all capitulated to #Trump ...I wanted to make sure I used this moment to *not* do what they’ve done even if it would’ve been easier & frankly safer for me to have just quieted down. Capitulation begets more capitulation & cowardice begets more cowardice." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/brian-tyler-...

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  "It shouldn’t be all that surprising that the recent instances of alleged voter fraud are coming from the #Republican Party, the same party that idolizes a county clerk found guilty of tampering with voting machines, celebrates a rule-skirting billionaire, and bows at the altar of an election denier and alleged fraudster." https://newrepublic.com/post/212823/republicans-massachusetts-florida-election-fraud #Trump #GOP #Republicans #Politics #Fraud #Crime #Elections #Voting #News #US #...

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  " #DonaldTrump ’s latest attempt to weasel his way out of paying E. Jean Carroll involved a bold-faced lie to a federal judge. In a legal filing... Trump’s attorneys asked Judge Lewis Kaplan not to release some of the funds he owes to the beleaguered columnist on the basis that the president’s petition for a new hearing was still pending before the Supreme Court. The only hiccup: The #SupremeCourt had rejected Trump’s petition filing." https://newrepublic.com/post/212836/donald-trump-...

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  A Danish reporter asks (Sect General of NATO & former Prime Minister of the Netherlands) Mark Rutte: "You sit next to #DonaldTrump at moments when he talks about conquering Greenland, talks about lashing out at allies like Spain... things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?" [I wish more reporters would ask this of more political leaders.] #Trump #NATO #MarkRutte #Journ...

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  "Beyond lucrative contracts, the admn is accused of building a partisan political #database disguised as a #government domain... Freedom250’s website... extensively logs user #data. Event registration is powered by Campaign Nucleus... openly boasts about using #AI to analyse personal data and target “persuadable” voters. Unsuspecting visitors... unwittingly fed their personal information directly into this #Republican campaign apparatus." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/0...

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  "On the one hand, yes, it is very nice that the #SupremeCourt rejected the #Trump admn’s BLATANTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL order to unilaterally end the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship. This is nice in the same way that it is nice when a person walking past you on the street doesn’t pull out a gun and shoot you. The Court’s majority followed the Constitution. Yay.... Give each of the six justices in the majority a cookie." https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-supreme-court-sc...

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  "The #SupremeCourt declined to hear Trump’s appeal of the $5 million verdict won by E. Jean Carroll. This means #Trump has officially run out of appeals. There is no more legal path forward for him on this. We can now say, with full and final certainty, that #DonaldTrump has been adjudicated a sexual abuser and found civilly liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll. Pay up, Donald." https://www.meidasplus.com/i/204147740/major-supreme-court-decisions-and-more-to-come...

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  "A narcissist obsessed with a reflecting pool is the peak of life imitating mythology." - Guy Curtis [No idea who created the Trump as Narcissus artwork, sorry.] #DonaldTrump #Trump #ReflectingPool #GOP #Politics #DC #WashingtonDC #Narcissist #Narcissism #Mythology #Art

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  "Graph of #StraitOfHormuz crossings since June 2025. See that little spike all the way on the right? The one that's much lower than the leftward 2/3 of the graph, and immediately crashes back down? That's what the US #government and quite a bit of US #media tell us is fully open, with normal traffic." -Nicholas Grossman #Iran #War #DonaldTrump #Trump #GOP #Politics #Oil #Shipping #News #Press #US #USA #World

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  "Developers talk not just about how the #AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the #job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. More concerning, developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their #jobs as well as they used to." - @404mediaco https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say...

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  House Oversight Dems release a new report that details, from bank records, how the sweetheart deal that Alex Acosta gave #JeffreyEpstein helped further enrich #Epstein and expand the network of sexual abuse of adolescent girls. "This report is just the beginning." The Price of Non-Prosecution: The Evolution of Epstein's Trafficking Network from Palm Beach to Paris and Beyond https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/the_price_of_non-prosecution.pdf #EpsteinF...

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  @JuliusGoat@mastodon.social These young men are willing to change themselves to gain the approval of patriarchal misogynistic men, but are un-willing to change themselves to gain the approval of women. Then these young men blame women for not being attracted to them, even though the men have done *nothing* to make themselves attractive to women. These young men have *chosen* to sabotage themselves, to make themselves more appealing to misogynistic men than to women.

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  "it cast masculinity as essentially dominating and femininity as essentially dominated. It also created an expectation that every man was owed at least one female... And I say man and female because I notice that this is the terminology used by men who still seem to believe they are owed at least one female. A man is a person. A female is a category. People will tell you things without knowing it, if you know how to listen." - @JuliusGoat@mastodon.social https://www.the-reframe.com/f...

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  “Did you catch the story about #Trump trying to raid the Treasury to the tune of $10 billion? ...This is not just the most corrupt presidency in American #history, it is among the most #corrupt regimes on earth. To find rivals, you must look to places like the #Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos or #Russia under Putin.” https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-corruption-irs-lawsuit-plane-crypto-scam-pardons #DonaldTrump #GOP #Corruption #Politics #USPol #News #Press #US #USA #UnitedStates #America

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  "When #Trump started weaponising #US tech platforms ... he put the whole world on notice that he could shut down their govts, judiciaries or companies at the click of a mouse. And... he's whacked the whole #world with #tariffs that violate the #trade agreements that imposed those anticircumvention obligations that protect America's defective #tech exports. Now there's no longer any reason to keep those laws on the books. Happy Liberation Day, everyone!"...

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  "The #Trump administration rejected all 4 #women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an #industry group called the United Soybean Board... From the Pentagon to the #US Dept of Education, the Trump administration has vowed to root out policies that promote diversity, equity and inclusion... Normally, soy farmers pick their representatives and the #USDA signs off. This time, the USDA rejected... five of the farmers" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-ad...

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  Cory Doctorow @pluralistic with another brilliant article: "Comrade Trump continues his unbroken streak of destroying the American empire's grip on the world, hastening the renewables transition, de-dollarizing global trade, and killing the world's suicidal habit of entrusting its digital life to America's defective, enshittified tech exports" https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/02/denazification/#no-more-mx-nice-lib #Enshittification #US #Trump #Tech #Ne...

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  "you, as an ordinary Texan, can’t change these laws in the way Ohioans did because of an old and arcane little power... called the #CitizenInitiative. Nationwide, about half of states empower ordinary citizens to collect signatures & force a statewide vote on proposed constitutional amendments or statutes... These plebeian-friendly polities are concentrated in the American West, but they straddle the partisan divide. ~@gusbova @TexasObserver https://www.texasobserver.org/the-reason...

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  "You concede every factual claim your interlocutor makes. Yes, #Trump is corrupt. Yes, Trump tried to overturn the election. Yes, Trump’s loyalists are unfit. Yes, the reframing of #Jan6 is awful. Yes, the family enrichment is unprecedented. Yes, the response to political murders is morally egregious. You concede all of it. You then argue that none of these concessions can justify changing your vote" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-most-articulate-apologist #GOP #Cor...

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  "My big takeaway from this chart is that all but three groups support impeaching Trump: Republicans, Trump’s 2024 voters, and seniors (who oppose impeachment by 4 points, 47-51)... But also of note is that 21% of Trump’s own 2024 voters now say he should be impeached. That’s roughly one out of every five of the people who put him back in office." https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22-strength-in-numbers-verasight-impeachment-polling #DonaldTrump #Trump #Impeach #Impeach...