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Escaping X. Software engineer. Mom of 3 🌊. Unsolicited DMs = instant block 🚫MAGATs 🚫crypto 🚫bitcoin 🚫gofundme

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A Texas Congressman Is Quietly Helping Elon Musk Pitch a $760M Plan to Build Tunnels Under Houston to Ease Flooding For years, experts in Houston have been studying the idea of building massive tunnels to divert floodwaters and save lives and property. Now Elon Musk’s tunneling company wants a piece of the project.

NEW: Internal records show how Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt has worked to get Elon Musk access to state and local officials ahead of a formal bidding process for a Houston flood project.

Both stand to benefit should Musk be selected.

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28.08.2025 11:32 πŸ‘ 988 πŸ” 511 πŸ’¬ 68 πŸ“Œ 50
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28.08.2025 11:01 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Portland ICE goons violently slam a protester πŸͺ§

30.07.2025 00:33 πŸ‘ 3990 πŸ” 2370 πŸ’¬ 654 πŸ“Œ 312
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He called his 17 year-old daughter β€œa piece of ass”, so, yes.

18.07.2025 00:34 πŸ‘ 777 πŸ” 199 πŸ’¬ 93 πŸ“Œ 17
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This Stephen Colbert monologue from Monday night, followed by a bit about the MAGA contingent calling for Trump to release the Epstein files, is the reason why Paramount fired Colbert and canceled his show.

That, and the Midterm elections are coming up, and he would continue to go after Trump.

18.07.2025 00:37 πŸ‘ 2778 πŸ” 921 πŸ’¬ 123 πŸ“Œ 81
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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.

They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.

www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

30.04.2025 22:44 πŸ‘ 10004 πŸ” 5706 πŸ’¬ 752 πŸ“Œ 930
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Insanity. Sheer insanity.

22.04.2025 14:13 πŸ‘ 12158 πŸ” 3691 πŸ’¬ 279 πŸ“Œ 152
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Sen. Jim Banks on the job held by a fired federal worker he mocked: "It was a woke job."

Then in the next breath Banks admits he doesn't know what his job actually was.

02.04.2025 21:43 πŸ‘ 15027 πŸ” 4046 πŸ’¬ 2033 πŸ“Œ 679

FACT: You don't destroy the CDC unless you want people to die in large numbers.

01.04.2025 23:48 πŸ‘ 8912 πŸ” 2549 πŸ’¬ 347 πŸ“Œ 160

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧡 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

03.04.2025 03:29 πŸ‘ 28155 πŸ” 13861 πŸ’¬ 911 πŸ“Œ 3470

Closing rural post offices will do the same thing that closing rural schools has done: Empty out rural towns.

Why? To sell off farmland for rock bottom prices to the oligarchs. Water and mineral rights and CAFOs polluting with impunity.

It’s been the plan for decades.

27.03.2025 13:12 πŸ‘ 19932 πŸ” 7335 πŸ’¬ 711 πŸ“Œ 384

The fact that the Department of Justice has not, and will never, launch an investigation into this massive national security breach tells you all you need to know about this lawless and profoundly corrupt Administration.

27.03.2025 10:49 πŸ‘ 38754 πŸ” 10101 πŸ’¬ 1144 πŸ“Œ 345
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Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted the database of all the research. Pure evil, right maga?

20.03.2025 01:13 πŸ‘ 16704 πŸ” 5612 πŸ’¬ 954 πŸ“Œ 345
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'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.

The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities

18.03.2025 18:31 πŸ‘ 2200 πŸ” 1095 πŸ’¬ 127 πŸ“Œ 267
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ICE Barbie Kristi Noem is cosplaying as a Coast Guard pilot today.

18.03.2025 16:02 πŸ‘ 5565 πŸ” 962 πŸ’¬ 1263 πŸ“Œ 203

This isn't going to stop. This country is a powder keg about to blow and this is just a sign of it. You cannot move this quickly to dismantle democracy and expect people not to react.

18.03.2025 17:52 πŸ‘ 2152 πŸ” 404 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 17

Illinois leads the nation in many areas, but none more so than being the number one producer of soybeans, horseradish, and pumpkins.

Our ag traditions are passed down through generations β€” 96% of our farms are family-owned.

Happy #NationalAgDay to them and all of our state!

18.03.2025 17:18 πŸ‘ 1760 πŸ” 174 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 7
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Sometimes I wonder if people take me literally when I refer to Trumpβ€”the main subject of my professional research as a journalist and historian for ten yearsβ€”as a lunatic.

Please take me literally. This is an unwell man whoβ€”without $410+ million his dad gave himβ€”would have ended up living in a box.

18.03.2025 17:43 πŸ‘ 4301 πŸ” 960 πŸ’¬ 301 πŸ“Œ 64

This guy co-sponsored a bill to have "Trump Derangement Syndrome" classified as a mental illness YESTERDAY.

18.03.2025 17:55 πŸ‘ 6589 πŸ” 2116 πŸ’¬ 252 πŸ“Œ 137
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He still hasn’t ended the war in 24 hours like he promised, but apparently he is setting up hockey games with the guy who is murdering civilians, torturing prisoners, and kidnapping children.

18.03.2025 17:57 πŸ‘ 5860 πŸ” 1568 πŸ’¬ 585 πŸ“Œ 119

Friendly reminder that the monster criticized by Chief Justice Roberts was created by Chief Justice Roberts.

18.03.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 6912 πŸ” 1278 πŸ’¬ 207 πŸ“Œ 43
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10.03.2025 01:41 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sorry not sorry.

07.03.2025 18:05 πŸ‘ 10150 πŸ” 2019 πŸ’¬ 235 πŸ“Œ 95
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From Scotland for ya Donnie

07.03.2025 18:14 πŸ‘ 17420 πŸ” 1281 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 2
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07.03.2025 18:17 πŸ‘ 3199 πŸ” 722 πŸ’¬ 121 πŸ“Œ 55
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The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.

This "immediate cancellation" violates the law. If the Admin thinks Columbia has violated Title VI by being deliberately indifferent to antisemitic harassment, it has to give Columbia a chance for a hearing first, make findings on the record, & wait 30 days.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

07.03.2025 18:27 πŸ‘ 2981 πŸ” 960 πŸ’¬ 114 πŸ“Œ 106
A tweet from John Cusack featuring an edited image of a red Tesla Cybertruck with a swastika on its side. The image includes bold white text reading "SWASTICAR" and a subheading in red stating "...THE FASCIST THING ON FOUR WHEELS."

A tweet from John Cusack featuring an edited image of a red Tesla Cybertruck with a swastika on its side. The image includes bold white text reading "SWASTICAR" and a subheading in red stating "...THE FASCIST THING ON FOUR WHEELS."

At least the memes from this era will be killer.

07.03.2025 18:30 πŸ‘ 6315 πŸ” 937 πŸ’¬ 164 πŸ“Œ 38
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Editor’s Note | Why the Mississippi Free Press is Leaving X Twitter’s time as a useful news-sharing tool has passed since it transformed into the toxic wasteland known as X.

"There are so many stories we never could have told if not for the connections we made on Twitter. But that bird has flown the coop," Ashton Pittman writes.

Here’s why the Mississippi Free Press will no longer post on X: www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...

07.03.2025 18:38 πŸ‘ 597 πŸ” 113 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 9

In case you missed my latest: Vandal Strikes Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, Rebrands It β€œFat Nixon”

07.03.2025 18:43 πŸ‘ 2037 πŸ” 416 πŸ’¬ 94 πŸ“Œ 33