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  • Exclusive: Four women describe sexual misconduct by Rep. Eric Swalwell, including a former staffer who says he raped her | CNN

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  • I feel like if this was just a GOP plot they would hold off until Swalwell won the primary and the Dems were stuck with him

  • Swalwell denies allegations of sexual assault as calls grow for him to withdraw from California governor race

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  • Hasn't he taken AIPAC money?

  • Swalwell denies allegations of sexual assault as calls grow for him to withdraw from California governor race

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  • It's more than allegations, this person worked for Swalwell, people saw them together, theres copies of texts they sent a friend at the time saying Swalwell assaulted them, and medical records showing this person got a pregnancy and STI test around that time too. It's circumstantial evidence and not smoking gun stuff, but it's more than just allegations.

  • Swalwell denies allegations of sexual assault as calls grow for him to withdraw from California governor race

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  • Not really, could be that this person just hoped this would go away and tried to forget about it but when they saw his name in the news and realized he could become governor and do what they claimed he did to someone else they felt the need to act

  • More Europeans see US as threat than China

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  • I'm kinda tempted to whip out that community meme with a "human rights violations I can stand, but I draw the line at market destabilization!", but I'm pretty sure we're imprisoning and brutalizing more Latinos and other migrants than China is Uyghurs and other marginalized communities over there at this point

  • Trump promised to cut electric costs in half. Bills in energy-rich West Virginia now top mortgages

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  • The first step of the campaign was getting the average person to hate "politics" "the government" "Washington dc" etc., vague ideas instead of specific people and policies

    Then it's easy to sell people on the basic idea that "the government is too dumb and evil to help anyone even if it tried, but it can punish your enemies pretty good"

  • Trump Just Lost a War for America — No One's Done That Since Nixon

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  • a) This headline forgets W losing Afghanistan

    b) Fuck Nixon, but Eisenhower deserves the blame for Vietnam (admittedly one of the reasons he did that was because he thought it would give him political cover to shut McCarthyism down, but still)

  • Punish the Democrats, she says

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  • Doing nothing to stop it, cheering on Universities and police that beat and punished protesters, refusing to let Ruwa Romman or anyone else anti-genocide speak at their convention, etc.

    Their policy was bad and they were assholes about it at every opportunity. It's honestly amazing she got as many votes as she did.

  • OpenAI acquires popular tech talk show for ‘low hundreds of millions’

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  • Me neither, I feel like all the publications talking about how it's so popular are gaslighting me or being taken by some bullshit bottled streaming numbers

  • OpenAI acquires popular tech talk show for ‘low hundreds of millions’

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  • Did it? I mean, it may have bought President Pedo the couple of months he needed to win an election against a historically awful opponent, but given his 32% approval rating and being stuck in a war that was supposed to distract from the detention camps that were supposed to be a distraction from the tariffs that were supposed to be a distraction from DOGE which was supposed to be a distraction from the pedophilia, I think it's fair to say that buying a mouthpiece isn't a durable solution to the problem of being objectively stupid

  • Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers, calls on Houston to fix Microsoft anomaly — puzzled caller describes ‘two Outlooks, and neither one of those are working’

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  • Doesn't seem to be what this article says

    To some readers, even choosing Outlook as a part of a spacecraft’s communications portfolio would seem to be an anomaly. However, it is a standard part of the "Commercial Off-The-Shelf" (COTS) software astronauts use for their day-to-day operations.

    To be clear, the spacecraft and primary flight systems will run on specialized radiation-hardened hardware and rigorously maintained software. COTS just complements this with a friendly layer, like Windows and Outlook, so astronauts can check schedules, indulge in personal communications, and so on, in a familiar way.

    Sounds like Microsoft products are running on the same hardware as critical systems are

  • House Republicans privately express ‘tremendous concerns’ with Mike Johnson’s play call on DHS

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  • He wanted to do good things, but when he found out the school system was in a massive amount of debt and that the only way to keep the city running without doing extreme austerity would have been to take a bail out from the state that would've hurt his campaign for governor, he did the extreme austerity and let the city suffer instead of sacrifice his personal ambitions

  • The Justice and Homeland Security departments struck a deal to share states’ voter roll data and coordinate investigations into whether noncitizens have cast ballots

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  • Kind of an empty news story when DOJ is simultaneously fighting over half the states in court to even get this data in the first place and likely to lose that fight, but I'm not surprised CBS is pretending this is a done deal to scare people away from voting

  • Pete Hegseth's plummeting popularity blows away CNN data guru: 'On a different planet!'

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  • It's not relevant until it is. Self described democracies that are unable to respond to popular sentiment get unstable.

  • MAGA gov thrown out of restaurant after customers say she made them uncomfortable

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  • Exactly. It's anecdotal but most people I have met in my American life are quietly good people. Their biggest problem is finding the courage to speak up when a loud jerk is doing their thing.

  • MAGA gov thrown out of restaurant after customers say she made them uncomfortable

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  • I know there are some members of this community who are at least as surprised that anybody living in Arkansas has a moral compass

  • Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war

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  • I think it's less a matter of people clinging to anything than just not knowing what to do because of everything you mention in that final paragraph. I think more people are willing to sacrifice for a greater good than is commonly realized, but nobody wants to sacrifice themselves for nothing, and that's almost certainly what would come from trying to take forceful action at this point. I sympathize with being deeply frustrated, but honestly I think the best thing a good comrade can do for the revolution right now is to try to survive for long enough for a better opportunity to present itself.

  • Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war

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  • So it costs the Pentagon $435 to purchase a $15 hammer, maybe, but it all depends on which numbers they choose to present because their accounting practices are a total mess. Yay?

  • Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski

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  • I would include these CEOs of private prison companies in the group of grifters who need some sort of criminal punishment, but if they're willing to give testimony against the government officials they worked with some sort of leniency may be appropriate.

    It's all awful, but in terms of the scale of awfulness the systematic human rights abuses are worse than the graft imo.

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    US Border Patrol arrests 8 migrant workers at Pleasant Valley Farms dairy in Berkshire, Vermont

    vtdigger.org /2025/04/22/u-s-border-patrol-arrests-8-migrant-workers-at-berkshire-dairy/
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    Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation

    dailyprogress.com /news/local/crime-courts/article_9ce921d6-5f61-4546-b0c9-ea2287d8bf16.html
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    Ferguson Must Get Tough on Trump, Illegal Tacoma ICE Jail

    www.theurbanist.org /2025/04/19/op-ed-ferguson-must-get-tough-on-trump-illegal-tacoma-ice-jail/
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    Doge tried to embed staffers in independent criminal justice non-profit, says group

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/apr/16/doge-musk-vera-non-profit
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    American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell

    www.propublica.org /article/rumeysa-ozturk-best-friend-inside-story-tufts-trump-louisiana-ice
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    Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student detained for writing op-ed, denied bail by US immigration judge

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/apr/17/trump-rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-detention
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    Government’s case against Abrego Garcia is based on PG County Cop who was on the State's Attorney do not call list

    baltimorebeat.com /governments-case-against-abrego-garcia-is-based-on-pg-county-cop-who-was-on-the-sas-do-not-call-list/
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    Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters”

    www.wired.com /story/massive-blue-overwatch-ai-personas-police-suspects/
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    Supreme Court to hear challenge to Trump's birthright citizenship order in May

    www.npr.org /2025/04/17/g-s1-58221/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship
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    What are your rights if U.S. border authorities ask for your phone?

    www.npr.org /2025/04/11/nx-s1-5359447/what-are-your-rights-if-border-authorities-ask-for-your-phone
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    Boasberg signals he may hold Trump officials in contempt over deportation flights

    www.politico.com /news/2025/04/03/judge-boasberg-contempt-trump-deportations-00271484
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    How to Get Away With Violating Court Orders

    www.lawfaremedia.org /article/the-situation--how-to-get-away-with-violating-court-orders
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    The Trump Administration Says It’s Defending Jews. It’s Using a Law That Excluded Jews to Do It.

    www.politico.com /news/magazine/2025/03/15/mahmoud-khalil-antisemitism-columbia-00232032
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    Trump Administration officials say they used Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Tren de Aragua members despite court order

    www.npr.org /2025/03/16/g-s1-54154/alien-enemies-el-salvador-trump
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    Full list of Democrats who voted to advance Trump-backed GOP funding bill

    www.newsweek.com /full-list-democrats-voted-trump-gop-spending-bill-2045209
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    Nevada's Democratic Senators split on vote to allow Republican budget plan to move forward

    www.reviewjournal.com /news/politics-and-government/nevada/cortez-masto-rosen-split-on-vote-to-avoid-government-shutdown-3320319/
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    Congressional Black Caucus rejects House spending bill

    thehill.com /homenews/race-politics/5195449-congressional-black-caucus-spending-bill/
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    Jeffries sidesteps Schumer questions amid shutdown revolt

    www.axios.com /2025/03/14/hakeem-jeffries-chuck-schumer-government-shutdown
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    Nancy Pelosi Takes Aim at Chuck Schumer After Shutdown Surrender

    newrepublic.com /post/192787/nancy-pelosi-chuck-schumer-government-shutdown
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    Chuck Schumer clashes with colleagues over House GOP funding bill

    thehill.com /homenews/senate/5194440-schumer-liberals-gop-government-funding-bill/