Trump admin agrees to pay $1.25M to 2016 Trump adviser over surveillance DOJ OK'd the settlement with Carter Page, but he could still press claims against ex-officials.

A new wholly corrupt settlement handing your money to Trump cronies.

It’s notable for several reasons:

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So I'm 41 and do all of these already.

A t-rex with a feather tutu around its waist. It is roaring as a guy named Ted rides by safely on an ATV. The text reads: Ted wasn't sure how he ended up in the Cretaceous Period, but he was sure glad he wore a helmet. Good job, Ted.

We were told dinosaurs have feathers.

2 days ago my maga neighbour was like "if the covid vax is so good how come you get it every year" so I made a super sad face and dropped my voice and confessed that I was addicted to vaccines and wife is not happy with me because I have been expressly told to stop winding him up but HOW TO RESIST

I deeply loathe liberals and centrists who laugh at red states and say they deserve their fate. As if you can't be a good person, or woke, or antifascist, or whatever, because you were born in gerrymanderedland without the financial and social mobility to move easily.

"I'm sorry. Which deranged, offensive, aggrieved, unending Truth social post from the president over the past 24 hours are you referring to?"

This is your periodic reminder that Democrats introduced legislation in 2021 to ban gerrymandering nationwide and every republican voted against it except two who were absent.

Yawning at sleepy kittens to make 'em yawn back. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't!

Democrats did not want to do any mid-decade redistricting. It was Trump who started it in June 2025 with a phone call to Greg Abbott after more special election losses. Dems warned they’d respond. But Texas did it anyway - without the consent of the voters. Then Dems responded.

People who were openly rooting for a president-for-life a year ago mad about gerrymandering sounds like you’re just losers who don’t like losing

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Tweet from Pete Hegseth: "The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately."

In World War I more U.S. soldiers died of influenza than from combat. In America's first 145 years of war more soldiers and sailors died from infectious diseases than from enemy action. In every single war in human history more combatants have died of illness and disease than bullets and the blade.

sorry if this is an asshole reaction to this but i just don't understand these people who want to work until they die in a way that robs them of the opportunity to enjoy retirement, tarnishes their legacies of good things they've done and also makes things worse for people in this country.

While a step in the right direction, these proposals are inadequate. To create a system where every vote counts equally, the Constitution must be amended. To do this, Congress should pass legislation reducing the size of Washington, D.C., to an area encompassing only a few core federal buildings and then admit the rest of the District’s 127 neighborhoods15 as states. These states — which could be added with a simple congressional majority — would add enough votes in Congress to ratify four amendments: (1) a transfer of the Senate’s power to a body that represents citizens equally; (2) an expansion of the House so that all citizens are represented in equal-sized districts; (3) a replacement of the Electoral College with a popular vote; and (4) a modification of the Constitution’s amendment process that would ensure future amendments are ratified by states representing most Americans.

Seeing as how the Democrats will soon control both chambers of Congress, allow me to introduce you to the most based idea ever suggested in the Harvard Law Review:

"Congress should admit each Washington D.C. neighborhood as its own state."

nothing will ever convince me ABBA wasn't just a polycule who had a side project take off

Sore Loser Month

one of the problems with the pre-trump immigration system was that when you tried to explain to people how complicated and byzantine the process for coming here legally was, they simply would not believe you

trump has "fixed" this by simply making it impossible to come here legally

Literally the prime years of my life, lived in the shadow of a chimpanzee descending a golden escalator

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So many decisions made over the century. This article is sad but having grown up around farms, similar situations are playing out across this country today. Though the speed at which the Florida orange industry collapsed is staggering.

Today, I’m launched my first column for The 19th's Revolutionary, a project that explores our country's journey from exclusion to belonging.

It begins with Elizabeth Freeman — a formerly enslaved Black woman who sued for her freedom and helped define what belonging in America could look like.

Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden.

This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years.

But he’s the one who is actually doing it.

Oil spills from the Iran war are visible from space | CNN Satellite images show oil swirling in the water after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes on oil facilities and ships. Experts fear an environmental catastrophe

Happy Earth Day. The Iran war is an environmental disaster

Kash's kayfabe lawsuit His defamation claim makes a mockery of the law.

"Patel didn’t file this to win. He filed it to show Trump he’s not just a dilettante flying around on the FBI jet, but a loyal crony fighting back against the fake news ... come on, dude, we’ve all seen your little beer party with the hockey team. A sober, serious public servant you are not."

Every day, somewhere not nearly as far from you as you want to admit, this happens.

What?

Breaking: Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel will lead a government delegation to Canada to promote U.S. spirits consumption.

If this is true we can know exactly how many days off Kash has had. He was confirmed Feb 20, 2025, 426 days ago. So for both him and previous directors, days off + days working = 426. For kash, dw = 2 pddw and do = pddo/2. With some simple substitution, kash has taken 142 days off and worked 284.

I think it's important to recognize that different processes move in different time-frames. You don't plant a seed and plan to harvest fruit from that plant on the same day. In this same way I don't think it makes sense to push the wrong tools on students at the wrong phase of their learning.

Ohio's current secretary of state took to Facebook to complain about VA. All the comments are calling him out on the gerrymandered mess that is Ohio.

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