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@catskittyns

Cheering for elevated rail transit (Skyline) in #Honolulu so the haters cannot erase us - YIMBY cuz #Hawaii has ignored economists lamenting our housing scarcity ● discord: catskittyns#4014 ● Trolls, Tulsi stans, accounts with zero mutuals blocked on sight

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How We’re All Now Paying the Price for the Myth of Trump’s Competence The administration’s war with Iran is setting a mountain of taxpayer dollars on fire every day—mostly because he doesn’t know what he’s doing.

The man is, whatever his other faults, just way in over his head. Maybe Democrats should say that more often. The fact that he’s costing taxpayers a billion dollars a day on a war most of them didn’t want may be a good place to start. trib.al/PZf14Pr

09.03.2026 12:11 👍 197 🔁 81 💬 14 📌 10
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I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But...

...maybe there wasn't much planning?

09.03.2026 11:46 👍 3432 🔁 1024 💬 242 📌 84

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

09.03.2026 04:33 👍 6902 🔁 1066 💬 147 📌 55

this picture is a good summary of how and why January 6th was, at a fundamental level, a successful insurrection.

09.03.2026 01:54 👍 744 🔁 195 💬 2 📌 7

This raises the obvious question of what kind of thing the Trump admin might need the National Transportation Safety Board to do that a conscientious Board member would reject.

09.03.2026 00:33 👍 1614 🔁 536 💬 33 📌 9

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

09.03.2026 01:26 👍 10586 🔁 6421 💬 11 📌 2
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Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

08.03.2026 17:30 👍 7383 🔁 3120 💬 88 📌 151

In other words Trump-Netanyahu have effectively carried out massive uncontained poison gas attacks on Tehran and its people.

08.03.2026 12:53 👍 503 🔁 229 💬 9 📌 9

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

08.03.2026 16:56 👍 4210 🔁 920 💬 17 📌 52
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So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

07.03.2026 16:25 👍 12344 🔁 4809 💬 551 📌 472
Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...

“Iran is a nation of people, not a video game others play to entertain us”

Archbishop of Chicago pens a letter criticizing the White House for its hype videos.

www.archchicago.org/en/statement...

08.03.2026 06:52 👍 369 🔁 132 💬 3 📌 1

It feels like another tipping point is being crossed rn… back-&-forth refinery strikes, Tehran in flames. Trump demanding unconditional surrender, de facto boasting of bombing Iranian desal. US & Israel are pushing Iran to fire everything it has at the region’s weakest links. Unimaginably dangerous.

08.03.2026 04:38 👍 308 🔁 146 💬 5 📌 3

Diesel jumping by almost $1 — in one week — should go over well in Texas. ⛽️

07.03.2026 16:14 👍 576 🔁 165 💬 49 📌 14

is this bad

08.03.2026 01:14 👍 33 🔁 6 💬 9 📌 0
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

07.03.2026 21:00 👍 9223 🔁 6016 💬 604 📌 1528
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Sen. Whitehouse to uncover connections between Trump, Russia, and Epstein. YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Good speech. Most US press got bamboozled by Bill Barr's scheme. Trump's collusion with Russia was always real, continues to be. www.youtube.com/live/ylvTFvJ...

05.03.2026 23:02 👍 1628 🔁 596 💬 33 📌 53

these food recalls and exposures are going to keep happening under this administration. He changed policy and cut funding in his previous tenure and Biden never fixed it. Now, it is worse. Share widely to protect people.

06.03.2026 14:50 👍 80 🔁 67 💬 3 📌 0
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Seems troubling.

More troubling would be the idea that the Administration might have bombed Iran without expecting this.

06.03.2026 23:36 👍 3782 🔁 1092 💬 301 📌 79
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"The latest employment report just came out... and this is my worried face."

06.03.2026 15:26 👍 1382 🔁 501 💬 77 📌 35
Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a construction worker's outfit. The other shows her in a police officer outfit.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a construction worker's outfit. The other shows her in a police officer outfit.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a nurse's outfit. The other shows her in an electrical worker's outfit.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a nurse's outfit. The other shows her in an electrical worker's outfit.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a military outfit while riding aboat. The other shows her in a firefighter's outfit using a firehose.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a military outfit while riding aboat. The other shows her in a firefighter's outfit using a firehose.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a Westernwear outfit. The other shows her in a police officer's outfit.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a Westernwear outfit. The other shows her in a police officer's outfit.

good news. kristi noem has already found eight new jobs

06.03.2026 06:12 👍 14250 🔁 2007 💬 708 📌 239

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

05.03.2026 20:14 👍 7356 🔁 2031 💬 155 📌 88
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The Bygone Era of Supreme Court Support for Voting Rights Sixty years after upholding the Voting Rights Act, the Court has dismantled most of it.

Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act.

We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy.

New from me at @brennancenter.org:

06.03.2026 15:15 👍 1082 🔁 427 💬 12 📌 14

If you hear a politician claim there really IS a “war on cars” in your city hall (and we don’t mean in an ironic way, like @thewaroncars.bsky.social does it), you have full and enthusiastic permission to steal @brenttoderian.bsky.social’s reply below. #UrbanTruth

05.03.2026 23:28 👍 174 🔁 40 💬 4 📌 2
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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

05.03.2026 23:41 👍 12276 🔁 7420 💬 293 📌 337
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Pokémon Company Objects to White House Use for Its Political Memes “No permission was granted for the use of our intellectual property,” the company said. The Trump administration frequently promotes policies with content from video games.

Pokémon Company International pushed back against the White House’s repeated use of its intellectual property after the Trump administration published a “Make America Great Again” meme that used characters like Pikachu and Magikarp.

05.03.2026 21:20 👍 203 🔁 46 💬 9 📌 6

i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need

05.03.2026 16:31 👍 1434 🔁 336 💬 25 📌 0
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But does Noem get to keep all her cosplay costumes?

05.03.2026 19:48 👍 656 🔁 97 💬 45 📌 11

I mean, he posted before he told noem he had fired her, maybe he hadn’t asked mullin if he wanted the job yet either

05.03.2026 19:39 👍 72 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0

If your staff doesn't pull you off the stage in this moment, it's probably because they hate you.

05.03.2026 19:28 👍 106 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 0

It is genuinely possible that Kristi Noem is giving a live speech right now while completely unaware that the President has just fired her by tweet.

05.03.2026 19:07 👍 149 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 1