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Democracy is in danger—anyone who says otherwise is high. #FightFascism #EndGerrymandering #VetsResistSquadron #WarrenDemocrat💙🌊🌊
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As a proud Minnesota farm girl, I watched my father work before dawn past dark, seven days a week ~ I’d like Sonny Perdue to explain exactly when any hard-working farmer would have time to take a second job! He basically said “Let them eat cake”!!!
www.motherjones.com/food/2019/11...
Trump ag secretary to struggling farmers: Get a job!
Prices are tanking and the trade war drags on. That's the best advice you have, Sonny Perdue?
www.motherjones.com
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Melania praised Russia’s “leadership and persistent diplomacy” hours after her husband told reporters: “I don’t know what the Kremlin is doing.”
Melania Sucks Up to Putin After He Humiliates Her Husband
The first lady hailed “progress” in Russia returning abducted Ukrainian kids even as her husband’s attempts to reach a deal with Moscow became a farce.
trib.al
December 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Total dictator move.
Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Ignore the stock market. If you want to know our real economic health, look at small businesses. They are suffering right now.
Main Street bust threatens the entire economy
The economic fortunes of mom-and-pop businesses are diverging from their larger counterparts.
www.axios.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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"There does seem to be very much a parallel between a hurricane coming to town and CBP agents coming to town."

Trump's occupation of New Orleans is destroying the city, with immigration agents harassing locals, intimidating tourists, and shuttering small businesses.
December 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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how long until Trump bans Chip Somodevilla of Getty from the White House? 😳
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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President Trump on Tuesday pardoned Timothy Leiweke, a real estate developer who had been charged by the president’s own Justice Department earlier this year with rigging the bidding process for a sports arena.
Trump Pardons Developer Prosecuted by His Administration
This summer, Trump administration officials had lauded the indictment of Timothy J. Leiweke as an effort to root out corruption and unfair business practices.
nyti.ms
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.

via @stateline.org
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/medi...
Medicare’s new AI experiment sparks alarm among doctors, lawmakers
A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.In…
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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lol yes when you tell Europe to rearm, this is what happens, you absolute muppets

Can’t wait for the hand wringing that happens when they rediscover stupid nationalistic tendencies and get another arms race going followed by a fucking massive war

Which was all preventable
US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau today slammed European NATO allies for prioritizing their own defense industry over American arms suppliers, according to three NATO diplomats.
Top US official berates Europe over cutting American industry out of defense buildup
Washington is unhappy that some European arms programs limit U.S. participation.
www.politico.eu
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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🔴How Epstein Saved Bitcoin – and Accessed Trump’s Tech Inner Circle

Newly released emails show Epstein helped rescue Bitcoin’s core developers during a governance crisis – drawing him deeper into the Silicon Valley networks that would frame crypto as a way around democratic states
How Epstein Saved Bitcoin – and Accessed Trump’s Tech Inner Circle
Newly released emails show Epstein helped rescue Bitcoin’s core developers during a governance crisis - drawing him deeper into the Silicon Valley networks that would frame crypto as a way around demo...
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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🎤Reporter: Can you tell us about your meeting with Witkoff?

😵‍💫 Putin: I doubt you'll be interested, since it lasted five hours. Honestly, even I got tired of it. Five hours is too long.
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Video evidence of a clear-cut war crime, for which Pete Hegseth bears clear responsibility.
December 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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True story ...
December 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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"Confident of military success, Putin refuses compromise in Moscow talks"
Trump is encouraging Putin in his aggression against Ukraine, prolonging the war.
How can this ruthless aggressor even think of Nobel's Peace Prize? There is no war prize...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Confident of military success, Putin refuses compromise in Moscow talks
European officials, who were not included in the talks, said at a NATO meeting in Brussels that Russia appears to be inflexible in the negotiations.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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MURDER!
Ryan Goodman, a New York University law professor & former Pentagon lawyer: “Even under a law of armed conflict, they were all civilians, & we are not actually in armed conflict. Either way, it was all murder.” @rgoodlaw.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
The Furor Over Trump’s Boat Attacks and a Particular Follow-Up Strike, Explained
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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NEW: Russian federal agencies continue to sponsor programs that facilitate the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia and expose them to Russian industry, culture, and patriotic history.

Read more: isw.pub/OccupationUp...
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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NOW: A status hearing is underway in the case of six people, including Kat Abughazaleh, charged with a conspiracy tied to protests outside the ICE facility in Broadview.
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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New: A classified final version of the Pentagon inspector general’s report into Hegseth’s use of Signal to discuss sensitive military operations has been delivered to lawmakers for review, and a declassified, redacted version is set to be released publicly on Thursday. www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/p...
Classified Pentagon watchdog report on Hegseth’s use of Signal sent to lawmakers | CNN Politics
A classified final version of the Pentagon inspector general’s report into Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to discuss sensitive military operations has been delivered to the House an...
www.cnn.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Starting momentarily: Trump attends peace agreement signing ceremony with Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo at the US Institute of Peace building in DC (which the administration is now calling—without a hint of irony—the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.)

You can watch here:
LIVE: President signs agreement with Rwanda and DR Congo at USIP
YouTube video by FOX 5 New York
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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If you put it on a banner then it's true.
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The whole play of Trumpism: convincing working class people to blame other working class people—so billionaires can keep robbing us all.
Donald Trump Jr-backed start-up scores $600mn US federal government deal
President’s son’s fund 1789 Capital poised to capitalise from father’s administration
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Viking figurines were more than amulets: new analysis reveals their real roles

A new study published in the journal Antiquity provides new insight into how anthropomorphic figurines from the Viking Age were produced, used, and eventually deposited...

More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/viki...
December 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.

A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin

@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.

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December 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Good morning from Haarlem.

#GoodMorningFromHaarlem
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Good morning, beautiful people.
Another shot from my Oregon trip 💛

#Photography #Nature #Oregon #ForestBathing #JustBreathe
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM