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  • Trump’s declassified docs reveal that Russia tried to help him in 2020 – a claim the president has long denied

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  • Am I crazy or was this already pretty well known information? They also were all over social media on fake accounts and even paid a bunch of influencers to have pro republican opinions on a ton of big politicized topics.

  • Supreme Court expands presidential firing power, overturning 90-year-old ruling

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  • This is what I don't understand either. John Roberts said:

    Subordinates who exercise the President's power are subject to removal by him. Then, and only then, can they remain accountable to the President, and the President to the people

    Like, what? What sense does this make? Does this not objectively make it NOT independent? Does this not objectively destroy the separation of powers? Why is an independent agency accountable to the president? Aren't they there to serve the people only and not one person in the white house? How are they exercising the "presidents power?" The president(very purposefully) is not supposed to have that power. They do. That's... kinda the point. Isn't that like the definition of an independent agency? I don't understand what he's even trying to say here.

  • American Society Has Proven Too Weak to Stop Dangerous, Unstable, Violent, and Egomaniacal Trump | Common Dreams

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  • The problem is the people that voted for the Republican candidates are (mostly) absolutely thrilled by their voting history. Even if they aren't, there are tooooons of Republicans that would rather eat a mile of shit than ever vote for a Democrat. Welcome to the world of ultra polarization. We're divided beyond recourse.

  • Trump fires all 24 members of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s governing body

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  • The reasoning is so obvious it doesn't need explanation. Science disagrees with a ton of their rhetoric. So science = bad. The way we change that is get rid of all people that know/study science, and replace them with people that will say whatever you want until science becomes what you want it to be.

    Climate change is the best thing ever to happen to both earth and humans will be an upcoming headline I'm sure.

  • Wonder why?

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  • It's so so much better when you see the full quote. He thought he was the normal one in his family lol. Keep in mind this is his own words from his diary.

    “I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be."

  • ‘We lose the midterms’: Republicans worry Iran might have already cost them Congress

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  • I'm not going to pretend I'm a political expert but from everything I can tell you are spot on. The right here is moving farther right at a much faster rate than the left is moving left. The other interesting (and depressing) caveat is that people that lean right, at least recently, tend to be much more staunchly right in their beliefs. People that lean left are often times more splintered. Which is why you get people like Bernie Sanders that are outspokenly independent but run as a left Democrat because they have a much better chance of winning if they join up with one of the two parties and they find a good amount of support on the left but virtually none on the right.

    And yes! From the rooftops yes! I agree with you that it's on the Democrats (or either party really but since the Democrats have ground to make up we'll go with them) to move the party and meet the voters but so far they absolutely refuse to do so. This is why you are seeing such a high degree of dissatisfaction within the democratic voter base. The party is forcing candidates out that the people in their own party don't really want, much less people that are undecided. It is truly surprising how out of touch they are with their own voter base. Which stinks because the right is (at least until very recently) very strongly united behind their movement.

  • ‘We lose the midterms’: Republicans worry Iran might have already cost them Congress

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  • Because people like you...

    Ah damn. I thought there was a decent chance at a constructive political discourse. But I see I we're just skipping straight to finger pointing (which is quite entertaining as all signs point to us being at least ostensibly politically aligned). But you are right. I concede. This is all because of me and evil people like me. You're 100% right. Surely it has nothing to do with the system that has all of us boxed into nicely manicured corners.

    Just remember the 1st and only rule of political finger pointing in the US. Keep it eye level or lower. Don't look up.

  • ‘We lose the midterms’: Republicans worry Iran might have already cost them Congress

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  • I mean yeah of course. But look at how many people in the country actually are 3rd party. Like I said if the country wasn't very clearly and decisively divided into 2 parties it would be different. But the fact is people in the US now are typically either pretty far left or pretty far right. The amount of people in the middle (like truly in the middle) is absolutely miniscule - less than 3% last I checked. If 100% of the 3rd party people voted 3rd party, it wouldn't amount to much sadly. I would absolutely love for that to change but we are wedged so far into these two parties that it will be a loooong time before that happens.

    Your opposition party would be absolutely thrilled if you voted 3rd party. There is no conspiracy to stop you from doing so. I'd argue the bigger conspiracy is against changing how we vote and how a winner gets chosen as that would make it much easier for a 3rd party candidate to make headway. As it stands, the more people they can get to throw their votes away instead of voting for someone that actually has a chance of winning (unless it's their party of course) the happier they'll be.

    I would be so happy to be wrong here but over the years this has only gotten worse and worse, exacerbating the problem and pushing us farther into this hellhole of diametrically opposed political theatre. But at least we are HOT HOT HOT as a country now right?! 🔥🚒 🔥

  • ‘We lose the midterms’: Republicans worry Iran might have already cost them Congress

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  • I'm right there with you but until there's an alternative voting system (like RCV, STV, or STAR or something), a vote for a 3rd party is as good as a vote for the opposition party. It sucks but that's the price of a ridiculous divided 2 party system. Well, there's many prices to pay for that actually but that's one of them...

  • Pam Bondi 'could be disbarred' warns criminal lawyer after Trump firing

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  • I feel like it would have to be state level or nothing right? I can't imagine she won't get pardoned for anything and everything on the federal level unless she crosses Trump or something. She bent over backwards kissing his ass more than anyone. I gotta imagine she has a pardon waiting for her.

  • Judge strikes down Trump's 'unlawful' executive order defunding NPR and PBS

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  • Yep. As usual. Mission has already been accomplished. But I'm sure there will be severe punishments for breaking the law. 100% sure. So totally sure. Positive.

  • Bernie Sanders and AOC introduce bill to pause building of new datacenters

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  • Around me it's not so much that the data centers use so much that it raises the price for everyone. It's that the state government wants their business so bad that it has agreed to raise the prices of utilities (water and electricity) for everyone living around the area to subsidize the operational cost of the datacenters. Our electricity bill is up 30% from 2024 and most of the datacenters are still under construction

  • Prepared for this day

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  • Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC

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  • He's pretty much embraced this. It's kind of funny. His network ad reads for other CBS shows are literally "[name of show], watch it or don't, I don't care. I leave in may" lol

  • I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too

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  • I used to run a small electronics repair business and you are 1 billion percent correct. Slowly watching things over the years become unrepairable was just such an obvious business decision for profit over customer satisfaction. There is absolutely no reason to make those changes unless you have a profit driven motive. So so so many electronics used to be like the fairphone your mom has. Pop it open, take out what's broke, replace it with some OEM or 3rd party part you bought for like 2 dollars and you're all set. It's so frustrating nowadays with how purposefully difficult manufacturers make any repairability. Can't even change a damn battery in your phone now! lol

  • 'No One Should Have a Copyright on Vance Being Booed': Video From Olympics Blocked on X

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  • It's all about mic placement. Ive had the good fortune to play sports on live tv in front of large crowds a good amount and it's not uncommon at all for the crowd sound on the broadcast to be way different than in person. That being said, I'd bet there's a different broadcast from a different country where you can totally hear the boos.

  • Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement

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  • Earlier than that it's absolutely insane that anyone believes anything this dunce says now.

  • White House: Turns Out People Think ICE Kinda Sucks

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  • I don't even know what the narrative any more. For a long time the affordability thing was a hoax. Then it wasn't a hoax but they already solved it. Now they're back to working on it?

  • We’re Nearing the Day When ICE Thugs Just Open Fire on Crowds

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  • They're just waiting for the day an ice officer gets killed. That is their wet dream. The instant that happens, this crap will ramp up 50 fold. They cannot wait for that moment.