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Midwestern by birth, California girl for 45 years, now in NC. Fan of excellent sports writing.

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Don’t run for office if your moral code isn’t strong enough to withstand bribery.

Don’t run for office if you think bombing foreign countries for sport is ok.

Don’t run for office if you aren’t willing to fight to make the lives of your constituents better.

This isn’t hard.

07.03.2026 11:53 👍 122 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 1
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“Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy,” Senator Ron Wyden posted on BlueSky. “See you at Nuremberg 2.0.”

Read more: theoregonian.visitlink.me/I-1nFa

05.03.2026 23:50 👍 369 🔁 73 💬 9 📌 4

HOW ARE THINGS COMING ALONG WITH THE COUNTER-TERRORISM UNIT

07.03.2026 01:06 👍 81 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0

Chlorine dioxide is an industrial bleach for lumber and freaks like RFK give autistic kids enemas with it. Kids die from the practice. These people just want autistic kids dead.

07.03.2026 05:56 👍 1904 🔁 801 💬 54 📌 25
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The leopards came for Dan.

07.03.2026 00:31 👍 5336 🔁 820 💬 393 📌 64
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The Mystery Jukebox 4.0 - Michael Gallagher Writes All the rules and conventions for joining in Kitty's Saturday Mystery Jukebox laid out in one place for your convenience.

It's 11AM. Welcome to the Mystery Jukebox 4.0!

Join Kitty & her goblin assistants on the party barge, mooring at a dock, quay or pier near you. Come aboard and share some tracks!

NO REPLIES HERE ⛔
CLICK LINK FOR FULL RULES!

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07.03.2026 11:00 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1

And we all ask once again…

What Congress?

(Nowhere to be found except Lindsay Graham pushing trump to attack).

07.03.2026 11:33 👍 30 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s about time someone said it out loud on a national news show.

Major Gen. Paul Eaton (ret.) — on Trump’s interest in putting boots on the ground:

“We have a situation where someone called a malignant narcissist is unfortunately drifting into a state of dementia that is difficult to manage.”

07.03.2026 05:59 👍 3769 🔁 1405 💬 91 📌 78
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CBP Used Online Ad Data to Track Phone Locations Plus: Proton helped the FBI identify a protester, the Leakbase cybercrime forum was busted in an international operation, and more.

Plus: Proton helped the FBI identify a protester, the Leakbase cybercrime forum was busted in an international operation, and more. www.wired.com/story/cbp-us...

07.03.2026 11:34 👍 97 🔁 35 💬 12 📌 4
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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

07.03.2026 10:34 👍 2886 🔁 1126 💬 53 📌 93
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Exciting news for infectious disease enthusiasts: measles is back in Colorado after years of vaccine hesitancy and misinformation. @spencersoicher.bsky.social reports for @nexton9news.bsky.social:

07.03.2026 05:27 👍 431 🔁 135 💬 25 📌 9
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CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.

07.03.2026 03:03 👍 6080 🔁 3206 💬 188 📌 191

Reupping for the US. Your president isn't very good, you know. A word to the wise.

05.03.2026 16:13 👍 107 🔁 27 💬 3 📌 1
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"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

— Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).

05.03.2026 17:26 👍 1867 🔁 687 💬 88 📌 75

Upon reflection, it was a bad idea to put a a sociopathic demented narcissist in charge of the world’s largest military and then confirm a poser with a small dick complex to run the Pentagon on instructions from a 21st century Goebbles.

07.03.2026 11:37 👍 327 🔁 70 💬 10 📌 3
A flashback to Frog as a child, lost in the woods with his parents. His mother looks worried, and Frog looks scared.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

A flashback to Frog as a child, lost in the woods with his parents. His mother looks worried, and Frog looks scared. From "Shivers" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

“When I was small,” said Frog, “my mother and father and I went out for a picnic. On the way home we lost our way. My mother was worried.

‘We must get home,’ she said. ‘We do not want to meet the old Dark Frog.’

07.03.2026 11:37 👍 170 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 0
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This iceberg was once the biggest in the world. Now it has just weeks left - BBC News A23a was once twice the size of Greater London but now its 40-year journey is coming to an end.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

07.03.2026 04:56 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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DOW has worst week in a year. Terrible jobs report. Higher gas prices due to Iran war. More tariffs. Thanks, Trump.

Follow for more cartoons!

06.03.2026 21:42 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1
07.03.2026 01:49 👍 4191 🔁 422 💬 58 📌 22
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Neguse: It's still unclear as to the ultimate reasons that Trump made that decision. It may be that the corruption that Noem was engaged in embarrassed him. It may be that he was envious of it.

07.03.2026 02:53 👍 2644 🔁 545 💬 109 📌 33

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

07.03.2026 02:38 👍 2579 🔁 297 💬 15 📌 14
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"Wow. A big drop" -- CNBC highlights that labor force participation is now the lowest it has been since in late 2021, before the covid vaccine was widely available

06.03.2026 14:06 👍 5385 🔁 1869 💬 276 📌 151
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There have been some very bad developments today.

07.03.2026 01:03 👍 6759 🔁 2591 💬 665 📌 259
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Oh.

“We have agreed” — how nice of them! Surely they’re doing this work pro bono right?

07.03.2026 01:26 👍 7851 🔁 3109 💬 492 📌 255
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The 2026 Winter Paralympics have begun. Here are the 6 sports athletes are competing in The Milan Cortina Winter Paralympics will feature a record number of athletes and medals across six sports: Para alpine skiing, Para biathlon, Para cross-country skiing, Para ice hockey, Para snowboar...

With more than 600 Para athletes and 79 sets of medals to be awarded, Milan Cortina will feature a record number of athletes and medals. https://to.pbs.org/4rVSVkH

07.03.2026 04:58 👍 105 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2
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Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

07.03.2026 01:20 👍 20318 🔁 5057 💬 568 📌 327
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Leavitt: "The overall mission in this operation is to ensure that Iran can never again possess a nuclear weapon. That was the real imminent threat that was posed by Iran." (Iran never had a nuclear weapon!)

06.03.2026 18:10 👍 3295 🔁 868 💬 430 📌 117
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Born 6 March 1947, athlete Dick Fosbury. Widely regarded as one of the most influential athletes in track and field history, Fosbury revolutionized the high jump with a new technique which came to be known as the Fosbury Flop. He won Gold at High Jump in the 1968 Olympics. #DickFosbury

06.03.2026 22:15 👍 526 🔁 53 💬 26 📌 12
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Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

www.statesman.com/business/art...

06.03.2026 17:07 👍 5104 🔁 1846 💬 67 📌 137

I’m glad Prasad is gone. He should be gone. We’re all better off that he’s gone.

But let’s not fool ourselves that his replacement is gonna be better. We still have to fight for vaccines We *must* keep fighting.

07.03.2026 00:50 👍 117 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 2