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MAGA says there is a right way and a wrong way to emigrate to the United States and apparently the right way is to lose your passport in your home country, travel illegally through a second country before coming to the United States to escape justice.
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It’s probably a pretty big deal when you’re an unregistered agent of a foreign government and negotiating on behalf of the United States in every conflict zone where we’re involved and a few where we are not.
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Breaking - Grand jury declines to indict Cassidy Hutchinson over Jan. 6 testimony
Hutchinson, a former White House aide, testified before lawmakers about President Donald Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021.
@washingtonpost
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VO: "Hey Flavio, you just lost the Brazilian Presidential election! What are you going to do."
Flavio: "I'm going to Disneyland!"
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Whoever it is that is the next Prime Minister of Israel, I just hope they support re-instating non-stop flights from Tel Aviv to The Hague.
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BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.
Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.
This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.
I can't get over how close elections can be.
In the Brazil election, if one person in fifty flipped their vote, the outcome would change.
To me, that's a tiny margin. Tiny tiny tiny. I just don't understand how *any* election can be this close.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won reelection Sunday, defeating Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of President Trump.
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After “Homeland”, “The Diplomat” is the second political drama series I know, where a woman President of the US is written to embody a Trumpist authoritarianism.
A woman. For some reason.
In “The Diplomat” they even echo his hair.
Resolution about Travis in "Nobody Wants This" (Netflix) S03E03 ("Housewarming")?
Taken directly from "Mad About You" S01E04 "Out of the Past" - where Jamie tells Paul that Lynn Stoddard (his college crush) thinks of him as the one who got away.
This is a stunning polling result. I've never seen anything like it.
If Democrats absorb its meaning, it could change all of politics going forward.
New: Low-info voters, who put Trump in the White House, now look even more anti-Trump than high-info voters, and give Dems bigger margins on the generic ballot.
1 out of 3 Trump voters who can't name the party in charge of Congress now back Dems for 2026
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Of all the Trump 2024 voters, the low-information voters (who are about 1/3 of his support) are swinging hardest away from the GOP in 2026.
This is an absolutely stunning polling result by G. Elliot Morris' "Strength In Numbers" blog.
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Are there crimes - other than rape - that can result in a mass pile-on of accusations and harassment, when the victim is identified?
Because I think it's the only one.
BREAKING: A judge in New York on Friday decided the former Cornell University student known as Jane Doe can pursue her sexual assault claim against the university and seven fraternity members while remaining anonymous. abcnews.link/6VDZ0s4
Will it be the tariffs on road salt?
BREAKING:
The United States is expected to remove 50% tariffs on some Canadian products in a bid to help Maine Senator Susan Collins and other Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections.
Full Story: on.wsj.com/4i6fCyU
I'm sure I'm not alone in watching S04 of The Diplomat and thinking it's a continuation of the story of Josh Lyman.
Even though @bradleywhitford's character is nothing like Lyman.