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Younger than my parents. Older than my kids. Get the odd job.

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Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.

07.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 769 πŸ” 431 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 49

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

06.03.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 13657 πŸ” 2972 πŸ’¬ 326 πŸ“Œ 185
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β€˜Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students β€” and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

05.03.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 5555 πŸ” 2678 πŸ’¬ 284 πŸ“Œ 585

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

03.03.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 10763 πŸ” 3277 πŸ’¬ 198 πŸ“Œ 245

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

01.03.2026 01:32 πŸ‘ 9636 πŸ” 2627 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 26
MOE: +/ - 2.5 PTS FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026

OCBS NEWS POLL | YouGov

HOW SHOULD THE U.S. APPROACH IRAN'S CURRENT LEADERSHIP? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT NEGOTIATE WITH THEM THROUGH DIPLOMACY PRESSURE THEM WITH SANCTIONS NOT GET INVOLVED REMOVE THEM FROM POWER WITH FORCE

38% 22% 22% 18%

MOE: +/ - 2.5 PTS FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 OCBS NEWS POLL | YouGov HOW SHOULD THE U.S. APPROACH IRAN'S CURRENT LEADERSHIP? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT NEGOTIATE WITH THEM THROUGH DIPLOMACY PRESSURE THEM WITH SANCTIONS NOT GET INVOLVED REMOVE THEM FROM POWER WITH FORCE 38% 22% 22% 18%

MOE: +/- 2.5 PTS| FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026

@CBS NEWS POLL | YouGov TRUMP NEED APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS FOR MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT 74% NEEDS APPROVAL 26% DOES NOT NEED APPROVAL

MOE: +/- 2.5 PTS| FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 @CBS NEWS POLL | YouGov TRUMP NEED APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS FOR MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT 74% NEEDS APPROVAL 26% DOES NOT NEED APPROVAL

CBS News conducts a poll.

It finds that only 18% of Americans advocate removing Iran's leadership "by force," and 74% say Trump needs congressional approval before starting a war.

So their headline is, "CBS News poll on Americans' views on Iran prior to conflict."

www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...

01.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 1306 πŸ” 386 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 31

You can trace this group -- which fights for oligarchic, low-tax, low-service, exploitative capitalism and uses racism & xenophobia to prevent solidarity among the working class -- more or less to the country's founding. They've been squarely under the GOP banner since at least 1980.

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An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human. At the 184-year-old Cleveland Plain Dealer, a top editor’s push to let AI draft news articles is boosting traffic β€” and spooking staffers.

At a Cleveland newspaper, reporters assigned to the suburbs β€œare now expected to file four stories a day with the help of AI.”

Also: one reporter β€œsaid they were caught off guard when their annual performance review indicated insufficient AI use.”

Gift link wapo.st/4aX44e1

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You can just say things.

28.02.2026 08:21 πŸ‘ 4671 πŸ” 1317 πŸ’¬ 90 πŸ“Œ 98

conservative think tanks believe corporations should get to do whatever they want to *unless* the thing they want to do is ethical, in which case the government should get to ban them.

28.02.2026 02:43 πŸ‘ 371 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

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New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues.

In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."

27.02.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 5625 πŸ” 1682 πŸ’¬ 108 πŸ“Œ 102

This is consistent with what we’ve found in our polling - term limits for Supreme Court justices are extremely popular and enjoy bipartisan popular suppprt

Dare I say it? With the right kind of elite alignment, it could even be β€œamendment-level” popular support (still unlikely)

26.02.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

i love that the alternative conservative media apparatus is just open sexual assaulters and pedophiles

26.02.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 2674 πŸ” 387 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 6
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How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System A New Miami Herald Investigation

(Free) How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System and Why This Story is Important open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

26.02.2026 13:28 πŸ‘ 1117 πŸ” 605 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 27
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ABSOLUTELY AGREE πŸ’―%.......

25.02.2026 10:31 πŸ‘ 7894 πŸ” 2775 πŸ’¬ 139 πŸ“Œ 101
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Hey remember this

26.02.2026 04:34 πŸ‘ 796 πŸ” 132 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 2

I think about this more or less constantly in my day job. Electoral politics has become a battle of 10-second clips and how to get them on your FYP.

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Definitely the first State of the Union where the president talked about the military killing unarmed fishermen as a laugh line

25.02.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 7297 πŸ” 1716 πŸ’¬ 154 πŸ“Œ 56

I think we need to move away from electoral democracy as a political system.

It has clearly failed - and just to pre-empt anyone who says it's the best of the available systems - I disagree and think the widespread adoption of a Sortition system (like how we select trial juries) would be superior.

24.02.2026 00:34 πŸ‘ 222 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 85 πŸ“Œ 18
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RFK Jr. fought pesticides for years. Now he's backing their production Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his support for an executive order that would aim to boost the production of a controversial weedkiller ingredient called glyphosate, even though it is widening a political fault line for the administration ahead of the midterm elections.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. crusaded for years against a controversial herbicide ingredient known as glyphosate. But now that he's the nation's top health official, Kennedy is falling in line with President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at boosting glyphosate’s production.

24.02.2026 00:00 πŸ‘ 298 πŸ” 125 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 19

if there is one more huge day of snow that leads to many days trapped indoors with a toddler because the snow is too high I’m going to crawl into the jan brett mitten with all the live animals

24.02.2026 00:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

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The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

23.02.2026 00:10 πŸ‘ 22907 πŸ” 8815 πŸ’¬ 5580 πŸ“Œ 3314

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

22.02.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 10726 πŸ” 4004 πŸ’¬ 255 πŸ“Œ 95

Wow Canada dominated the whole game. And winner through the five hole.

22.02.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I know β€œthinkpiece on Clavicular” sounds dire, but this one is really good about how and why Clavicular was suddenly everywhere last week

open.substack.com/pub/couldabe...

22.02.2026 12:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Margaret Sullivan on how Trump coverage still falls short "A different, more skeptical approach is absolutely necessary."

New in PN: A conversation with @sulliview.bsky.social on the state of political coverage in 2026

"This is a long-term campaign against a reality-based press. Thanks to a lot of factors that are going on in the overall media ecosystem, it’s been successful."

21.02.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 1055 πŸ” 307 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 11
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a man in a suit and tie is saying " don 't debate me " Alt: Gene Rayburn on the Match Game is saying " don't debate me "

Re: tarrifs

The thing to remember: none of the massive retail price increases from the last year will ever be rolled back. Just like the covid price gouging scams, those increases are here to stay.

20.02.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 308 πŸ” 98 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 3
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Suspects in Fairfield home invasion on Candlewood Road to appear in court Friday The names of the individuals arrested in the incident or what charges they may be facing have not been disclosed.

Suspects in Fairfield home invasion on Candlewood Road to appear in court Friday

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