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But...it's a magic wand. We all love magic wands. Magic wands fix everything.
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"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Wonder if the folks involved in the illegal maritime strikes or at DHS have pondered the implications of attempts to undermine the legitimacy of presidential pardons based on the purported cognitive deficiencies of POTUS.
November 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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This appears to be the 3rd lethal US strike in the Caribbean.

Once again, the specific "terrorist" entity targeted is not identified.

No legal justification is offered for this premeditated killing.

President Trump is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. 1/n
September 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Nutrition assistance is NOT corrupt. Food stamps kept my family fed when my mom had to look for work after my dad got sick with MS.

The Trump administration wants kids, seniors, and veterans to go hungry. They are REFUSING to use emergency funds to keep SNAP benefits going.
Brooke Rollins calls food stamps "an extremely corrupt program"
October 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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So the HBCU that raised me is on lockdown because some right winger thinks that's how they get retribution for Charlie Kirk, whose killer is unknown? The automatic response is to kill Black people, who likely have NOTHING to do with his murder. And I'm supposed to empathize with this?
September 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out"

"A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding."

🎁🔗

Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com
Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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THIS. THIS. THIS.
July 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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WATCH: “It has been one of the most obscene and depraved undertakings I have ever seen,” says Chris Hayes on reporting that Israeli soldiers and private American contractors have been firing into crowds of hungry Palestinians who had posed no threat.
‘Obscene and depraved’: New reporting on Palestinians killed while waiting for food
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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by popular demand, excerpts from this article posted in a thread below it
Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite.

www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Trump official who shut down counter-Russia agency has links to Kremlin
Darren Beattie, who alarmed the State Department with his pro-Moscow views, is married to a woman whose uncle has ties to Vladimir Putin
www.telegraph.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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The payouts to Babbitt’s family, the pardons of J6 insurrectionists and war criminals, and the growing push on the right to exonerate Chauvin all show that the GOP will forgive any crime if they see it as defending the set of hierarchies they believe constitutes the real America.
May 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Thou shalt not ban fluoride from your drinking water.

Parks & Rec literally did an episode on this.
May 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Been waiting for these results.

That’s 36 in a single city. Extrapolating out to the rest of the country is . . . overwhelming.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...
Audit: 36 police-custody deaths should have been ruled a homicide
The yearslong audit cited racial and pro-police bias in the work of the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Diamonds Ford thought she was shooting at an intruder when cops raided her Florida home without knocking. Then she was charged with attempted murder.

Read her essay ⬇️
I ‘Stood My Ground’ — but It Was the Police Raiding My House
Diamonds Ford thought she was shooting at an intruder when Florida cops raided her home without knocking. Then she was charged with attempted murder.
www.themarshallproject.org
May 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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What appear to be around 20 federal agents, many masked, swarm Baraka for no discernible reason and start pushing the members of Congress. Again, I haven’t seen all the footage and wasn’t there, but two people who were right there say they didn’t understand why it was happening either.
May 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet.

Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.
May 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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In the U.S. in 1825, *452* out of 1000 children born died before their 5th birthday.

By 1925, that number was 135 out of a 1000 children.

Today, in 2025, that number is *7*

And it is entirely due to advances in medicine, public health, and technology.

9/
April 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs
April 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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An innocent man who committed no crime but is the same race as the person who murdered your daughter should have to spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp is the argument?
April 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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April 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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"Congressional Democrats should do the job that Justice Department lawyers, in contravention of the Supreme Court, are refusing to do. They should take it upon themselves to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia."
Bring. Him. Home.
Our cause is here; our time is now.
www.thebulwark.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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I don’t really give a shit how much of a conservative this makes me sound like, but the United States has suffered an existential collapse in the civic virtue of our citizens necessary to sustain a liberal democracy.
April 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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April 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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We all knew this to be true. But Jesus.
Exclusive: Days before masked ICE agents detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, the State Department determined that the Trump administration had not produced any evidence showing that she engaged in antisemitic activities.
No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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He's manufacturing chaos because he has nothing to offer. No vision. No ideas. No interest in building anything. Just tearing down what others have built.
April 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM