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Moms for Liberty Buncombe County and the Asheville Tea Party are promoting an anti-trans “Exposing Gender Ideology” event next weekend.

The Tea Party group advertised it alongside their raffle for a Ruger 380 pistol.

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Her name is Jane

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Mark's right: If you can't report on clearly, concisely and persistently on Trump's authoritarian rot, then you are part of the problem.

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Problem: White House is concerned by reports that several men in the cabinet are drinking on the job.
Solution:

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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

BBC news "found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview was made public."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The visionaries As always, if you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, Sparky’s List! You can get it in your inbox or read it on Patreon…

new toon!
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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...maybe - just maybe - he's actually the worst president in history

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Never been more convinced that House Alito was behind the Dobbs leak. Getting it out there locked in Kavanaugh's vote amid Roberts and Breyer efforts to flip him, then Alito argued that the dissenters needed to hurry up because of security threats. How incredibly convenient

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I'll simply say again that for Shlaes to resurface in The Economist at this moment is an indicator of an ambient concern that Rooseveltian policies and politics are increasingly likely. The thing about the New Deal is, it was *immensely popular.* That's terrifying to certain people

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LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings Protest Flight records show that Los Angeles police dispatched drones 32 times over last month’s No Kings rally.

NEW: Flight data reveals that the LAPD's "Drone as First Responder" program—sold to the public as a public safety measure—is in fact being used to spy on anti-ICE/anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles.

theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

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Bust up big corporations and tackle Wall Street’s greed.

Get big money out of politics.

Strengthen unions and boost wages.

Pass Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare, and so much more...

This is the agenda Democrats need to fight for.

It's not enough to simply be anti-Trump.

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US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets

Not said enough! 🙏

US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The “$2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets…”

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Photo of a longhaired tortie cat lying on a sunny sidewalk with grass lawn on either side. It has a round little dark object in front of it, a toy maybe.

Photo of a longhaired tortie cat lying on a sunny sidewalk with grass lawn on either side. It has a round little dark object in front of it, a toy maybe.

Photo from my collection, writing on the back says “General Nuisance. Summer 1954”.

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Kash Patel with his signature bulging eyes.

Kash Patel with his signature bulging eyes.

Kash Patel first learning what discovery is.

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My cousin Shawn took weed to impress a girl when we were teenagers and his asshole & penis switched places. All the doctors at the (real) Pitt threw up when they saw it. Be my guest and Get “high” if you want this to happen to you

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Advice for @erc.europa.eu :

Prohibit the use of LLMs for grant writing. Let applicants sign a declaration that they have not used such systems and that the text is written by them and them alone.

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Oil prices rise and markets fall after US seizure of ship hits Iran peace deal hopes FTSE 100 slides and UK gas prices up amid fears strait of Hormuz will be closed for extended period

Whoopsie!

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"

A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"

ghoulish

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Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.

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'The Fear of 13' Brings Wrongful Conviction to Broadway The Innocence Project partnered on the new play, which stars Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson.

A new play brings #wrongfulconviction to Broadway. “The Fear of 13” opened this week, and features two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody and Golden Globe nominee Tessa Thompson, alongside Kim Kardashian as producer. We’re honored to partner with them!

Read more: https://bit.ly/4vHzU81

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Typical Trump move, he only does it when he personally benefits.

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Karoline Leavitt

@PressSec
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness

Karoline Leavitt @PressSec Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness

we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help

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This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about eliminating workers.
This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about eliminating workers. YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

Dockworkers on the West Coast broke every productivity record — and are now being replaced by AI anyway.

This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about eliminating workers.

youtu.be/35CDCU5chKE?...

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The World is Rejecting Trump's Unwinnable Iran War & Israel's Unforgivable Genocide

Trump has no exit strategy from his failed Iran War, so he's doubling down on chaos, belligerent threats, & violence as Israel continues its genocidal rampage across the Mid East.

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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a man in a black shirt is crying with #schitts creek written on the bottom ALT: a man in a black shirt is crying with #schitts creek written on the bottom

Don't know how stupid I have to be to give a dude in politics in 2026 with Nazi tattoos a pass, but if your Nazi apology paragraph is any indication...

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The Fraud's Prayer:
Our Father, who art in the White House,
hallowed be thy combover;
thy blingdom come;
thy will be dumb;
In Washington as you are in Florida.
Give us this day our daily round of golf.
And forgive us our insider trading,
as we refuse to forgive those who investigate against us...

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Keep Walking The Walk,Mayor Mamdani.......

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By Ross Douthat

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"where panic and capital feed on each other like twins in the womb of a hulking, unknowable monster" is a solid definition for rfk jr.'s health policy strategy

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