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PNW optimist who is worried about the state of things and copes by reading, knitting, hanging out with friends and in nature, and loving on my fur pal, Oliver.

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“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

03.03.2026 14:19 👍 6329 🔁 2723 💬 245 📌 149
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after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

03.03.2026 17:55 👍 24785 🔁 6086 💬 1100 📌 760
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation hiring Digital Content Researcher & Producer in Williamsburg, VA | LinkedIn Posted 12:30:03 AM. Who We AreFounded in 1926, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a private, not-for-profit…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

I'm hiring! 🏛️

This is a VA-based, hybrid 3-year position for a historian working on digital projects related to religious history. We'll also be hiring a historian working on onsite programming and training related to religious history.

Feel free to reach out! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

27.02.2026 22:15 👍 208 🔁 124 💬 6 📌 5

For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

01.03.2026 19:18 👍 3465 🔁 2345 💬 21 📌 12
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Trump returned to the WH and admired new statues installed in the Rose Garden, but won’t answer a reporter’s question about the three U.S. troops who died in combat.

Reporter: “What’s your message to the families of the service members who were killed?”

Trump: walks away.

Priorities noted.

02.03.2026 03:15 👍 1915 🔁 842 💬 174 📌 49
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Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated — and Suggestions Otherwise are Fake News The world is far safer after President Donald J. Trump’s highly successful, decisive precision strikes against the Iranian regime’s key nuclear

It's still on the WH Website

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

02.03.2026 04:36 👍 558 🔁 204 💬 27 📌 9
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WASH POST: “Push from Saudis, Israel… No imminent threat…”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

02.03.2026 05:17 👍 821 🔁 323 💬 115 📌 44
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Just reupping this image from my newsletter last week, that I hope people will feel free to save and liberally spred around the interwebs. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

27.02.2026 00:02 👍 9474 🔁 3705 💬 307 📌 135
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In case people don't have IG account. Omg, so adorable.

27.02.2026 05:11 👍 38 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
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Living in the Wild Wild West: America Alone Has a Propaganda Problem

It’s my 🎁

Can I get an RP?!

🧵Living in the Wild Wild West:
America Alone Has a Propaganda Problem open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

25.02.2026 17:31 👍 113 🔁 81 💬 12 📌 5

see

23.02.2026 15:21 👍 1695 🔁 362 💬 5 📌 4
Mike Lee: Cartel hitmen wear masks. Leftists aren’t complaining

Mike Lee: Cartel hitmen wear masks. Leftists aren’t complaining

Mike Lee deleted this tweet lmao

24.02.2026 00:14 👍 7735 🔁 1573 💬 606 📌 169

Spread the news

23.02.2026 23:50 👍 105 🔁 68 💬 1 📌 1
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An Open Letter to Elon Musk America is an Idea, Not an Ethnicity

🚨🧵An Open Letter to @elonmusk:
America is an Idea, Not an Ethnicity

American culture has never been about shared blood, shared ancestry, or even shared origin. From the beginning, it has been something far more radical than that.

American culture is an idea. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

18.02.2026 17:41 👍 233 🔁 60 💬 9 📌 9
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BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

23.02.2026 22:50 👍 26714 🔁 12716 💬 887 📌 957

This is by far the most concise explanation of why the latest Microsoft news is being received so negatively.

Mr. Mystal nails it yet again.

21.02.2026 01:50 👍 386 🔁 70 💬 3 📌 2
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Even election officials who like voter ID have issues with the SAVE America Act "It's a classic 'show your papers’ law designed to make it harder for US citizens to vote," Sec. Jocelyn Benson said.

Even some of the SAVE America Act’s cosponsors are misguided about the bill’s identification requirements for registration, mistakenly believing a state driver’s license compliant with the 2005 REAL ID Act would be sufficient. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

20.02.2026 18:13 👍 2132 🔁 968 💬 114 📌 43
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A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

RIP Ruben Ray Martinez

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

21.02.2026 02:21 👍 229 🔁 74 💬 7 📌 1
Justice: shows UK police arresting Prince Andrew. Just ICE: shows ICE with a zip-tied child.

Justice: shows UK police arresting Prince Andrew. Just ICE: shows ICE with a zip-tied child.

So on point.

19.02.2026 21:31 👍 365 🔁 132 💬 1 📌 6
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Today, despite giving eight days’ notice of my visit to the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, I was denied the ability to meet with detained people.

No matter what obstacles this administration throws at us, I will continue to come back and conduct oversight.

20.02.2026 01:10 👍 375 🔁 109 💬 15 📌 3
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⚡️UPDATE: Under Trump the Tennessee Valley Authority is sticking with coal rather than clean energy — and letting Elon DOUBLE xAI’s power draw… with no public input.

The oligarchy is straight-up looting our state, and our country.
grist.org/energy/the-n...

20.02.2026 01:21 👍 947 🔁 454 💬 41 📌 26

If it’s a tax on them, elites make it sound like a tax on you. If it’s a tax on you, they make you wonder if it’s a tax at all.

When you understand that, you can see how the news media actually created conditions in which some middle-class Americans unknowingly voted for their own immiseration.

18.02.2026 20:25 👍 477 🔁 226 💬 10 📌 3

Hegseth has made clear that he thinks he’s on a modern day crusade.

18.02.2026 20:03 👍 1284 🔁 404 💬 63 📌 11
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Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family.

I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

17.02.2026 17:45 👍 7621 🔁 2145 💬 163 📌 129
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Eric Trump Invests in ‘Low Cost Per Kill’ Drone Company The president’s son has joined a deal to take the Israeli company Xtend public.

How many ways can they enrich themselves off of our suffering and deaths?

The limit does not exist.

17.02.2026 23:55 👍 101 🔁 31 💬 5 📌 2
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This is what a rigged economy looks like.

14.02.2026 23:01 👍 11336 🔁 4353 💬 316 📌 186
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FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

10.02.2026 23:32 👍 8842 🔁 2742 💬 48 📌 243

I’ve cared for young women dying of cervical cancer. It’s devastating and largely preventable now with the HPV vaccine.

When a vaccine prevents cancer, the question isn’t whether to re-examine it, it’s why would we hesitate?

#medsky #oncsky #obgynsky

10.02.2026 23:29 👍 212 🔁 75 💬 12 📌 3
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Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

10.02.2026 17:24 👍 245 🔁 270 💬 3 📌 4

So so good!!! The joy.

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