Everyone should not have to have a direct line to elected officials in order to ensure that we are not kidnapped by the government.
07.03.2026 19:24
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Everyone should not have to have a direct line to elected officials in order to ensure that we are not kidnapped by the government.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw says culture of misinformation fueled his primary loss: "The truth didn't matter" The fourth-term congressman, who lost decisively to state Rep. Steve Toth, said baseless attacks about his alleged insider trading and gun stances fueled the upset. BY GABBY BIRENBAUM MARCH 6, 2026, 4:25 P.M. CENTRAL REPUBLISH SHARE
"Fire hurts," complains arsonist
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feels telling about American foreign policy punditry that while many decry the aimlessness of Trump’s monstrously wrong Iran war there were far more outraged columns over the harm done to US power and influence and standing and interests and example when Biden rightly withdrew from Afghanistan.
Agree. And people are starting to see it
The irony is physically painful.
it feels like a small thing in context of all of the other things but it is a piece of the larger authoritarian project that there are fewer places to publish essays now and the carefully edited essay as a public form for thinking and responding and criticizing and analyzing is in trouble, i think
Boggles the mind
Again. This matters.
AFTER Putin reportedly shared U.S. weapons positions with Iran? How….odd.
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon speaking during a congressional hearing
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon: “So he is using YOUR Tax Dollars to protect oil tankers from attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, which will cause gas prices to go up — because he started a war using YOUR Tax Dollars”
Totally normal and not completely batshit insane stuff
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Massie on Newsmax: "We're not getting the answers we need from Pam Bondi. I just spent 3 hours at the DOJ this week looking at the unredacted files. And I'm finding evidence of files they haven't released yet." (Note that the Newsmax anchor agrees with him!)
I propose a new law:
Anyone who expresses support for an offensive war shall immediately be drafted to fight in it. No exceptions and no exemptions for any reason, including disability or service as a government official in any office. Presidents and congressmen shall fight in any war they start.
"'It merely would require that it [immigration enforcement] be done within the confines of the Constitution,' she wrote."
The Department of Justice has sued 30 states and DC for access to their unreacted sensitive voter data. My law firm is fighting them in all 30 cases.
We are dedicating so many resources because these are the most important legal fights and the future of free and fair elections is at stake.
This was the result of the unhealed poison of our past and the people who would perpetuate it. Putin just stuck his finger in it
They assume that because we’re not all in the streets and generally striking. If this was france, farmers would be spraying shit on federal buildings and firefighters would be duking it out with the police in the streets while others set fires. There would be absolute mayhem. Here there is crickets
⚡️ Russia reportedly provides Iran intelligence used to target US forces in Middle East.
One unnamed U.S. official described the support as "comprehensive," the Washington Post reported.
CNN's Fred Pleitgen and photojournalist Claudia Otto join demonstrators as the government attempts to put on a defiant face. CNN operates in Iran only with government permission. Follow live updates on the war with Iran here: https://cnn.it/46MnuAV
Lunatics. Unhinged all. Religion is a helluva drug
House Passes Whole Milk Bill, Rejects Bid to Include Dairy Alternatives 😡
Up to 80 percent of BIPOC students are unable to digest dairy, but schools are still not required to provide alternatives.
#USA #AnimalRights #health #DitchDairy #GoVegan
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Unfortunately, the longer he’s in office, it’s increasingly super hard for the rest of the world to distinguish us from them
How is this surprising?
Economy Surprises With a Loss of 92,000 Jobs in January https://bit.ly/4rfGWgY
Faith leaders and Burton’s family will march to the Capitol Monday urging Governor Kay Ivey to grant clemency before the March 12 execution.
#alpolitics
U.S. stocks are falling sharply Friday after getting a whiff of a worst-case scenario for financial markets: a weakening economy combined with high inflation.
Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it."
- Gabriel García Márquez, from "Living to Tell the Tale"
