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So, a senior Justice Department official — along with several members of Congress — used the authority of their offices to boost an obviously dubious conspiracy theory accusing a federal employee of a horrific crime.

And now it’s clear the allegation was baseless.

www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
How an innocent woman's name was tied to the Jan. 6 pipe bombs
The FBI has ruled the woman out as a suspect in the 2021 plot, sources said, but only after her name circulated on social platforms and a conservative news site.
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Just because Trump brought RFK Jr. aboard to firm up the kook vote doesn't mean health writers have to keep looking for some kernel of truth in there somewhere.
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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No less than €180 billion in frozen Russian assets are dispersed across the European Union.

The EU plan would be to deploy €140 billion (£122bn) of these assets as a zero-interest “reparations loan” to Ukraine, providing Ukraine with urgently needed resources.
Making Russia pay: the EU’s plan to rebuild Ukraine
A proposal to loan Ukraine billions in frozen Russian assets has split members of the EU on the right course of action
kentandsurreybylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Unless the robot car industry starts self regulating, the ever-increasing number of robo-traffic jams is going to unify both sides of the war on cars in one of the weirdest political coalitions 🙃
Waymo privatized another public street:

Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco

Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.

The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.

OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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But let's remember: those now-discarded DOGE kids stumbled so that Vought could run. Now he's working with proven systems for starving and wrecking government capacity, against a government with a weakened immune system. The damage is going to be generational.
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Some outlets are reporting that DOGE "doesn't exist" anymore. But the fine print on that overturns the whole story: DOGE is just dropping its tarnished brand, not the chainsaw. 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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also, everything thats actually bad about really-existing socialism--eg personality cults, secret police, mass imprisonment, state propaganda, heavy-handed central planning, zealous and venal apparatchiks, rampant corruption and dysfunction, etc--are all endemic features of maga and the trump regime
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.
Harry Truman, 1952
BREAKING: Republicans pass bill to condemn Socialism, 285-98. 86 House Democrats voted yes, further demonstrating that we have two right-wing parties in America. 2 members voted Present, and 47 members of the House did not vote (20 R and 27 D).
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Just give people money. Minimal overhead, minimal politics, easy to measure outcomes. So direct, efficient and effective. Give people money. It’s cheap, and it works.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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guy who won't stop calling things "liminal" found dead at the end of a normal hallway
February 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's actually no need to tolerate swastikas in our military ever. We don't need policy papers on this. We don't need long discussions and to "better understand" those who wear them. We can just ban all Nazi imagery and call it a day.
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.

One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Its very very bad that the President publicly posts a statement that, were I to post the same thing about him, would have the FBI knocking on my door.
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Maximizing visibility by blinding other drivers is such an elegant metaphor for America
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Regulate private equity.
🚨 EXPOSED: Parents are being threatened for recording their own kids’ hockey games. Private equity bought the rinks, banned filming, and now charges up to $50 a month to watch youth sports.
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 AM
It really starkly shows the severity and precarity of the current situation that these folks felt the need to make this statement.
“Don’t give up the ship.
You can refuse illegal orders.
We have your back.”

🇺🇸Veterans offer support to those in active service.🇺🇸
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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You can just tell him no! Practically everybody hates him!
an important message to elite society in general:

this is an unpopular, weak and failing lame duck president and you can just tell him no
can we appreciate just how badly Johnson and Trump played this Epstein vote? total failure of a pressure campaign, delayed for months to ensure it stays in the news and immediately swamps "the Dems caved" as soon as the shutdown ends, and now it passes 427-1

couldn't have gone worse if they tried
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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I think this could work
July 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:

Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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A bounty? Very slave catcher of them. This league is gonna have to take a stand at some point. There's no "both sides" to this. At some point, racism and transphobia have to be a deal breaker.
From @karleighchardonnay.bsky.social at Outsports:

Jennifer Sey, who said the NWSL had “several males” has issued a $10,000 bounty to the next player to “speak out like Elizabeth Eddy.” An anonymous donor added $5000. Clay Travis said he’d double it.

NEAT.

www.outsports.com/2025/11/14/2...
Transphobic clothing brand feels every athlete has a price - Outsports
Anti-trans activewear XX-XY teams up with sports shock jock Clay Travis to pay athletes to speak out against trans women.
www.outsports.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM