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causeycan.bsky.social
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The Biggest Losers in Trump’s Megabill: “recipients of food aid” “Medicaid users” “college borrowers” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Not disturbing at all, can they replace CEOs first?

BREAKING: Judge Burroughs grants Harvard's request for a temporary restraining order, barring the Trump administration from revoking the university’s student exchange certification. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

RIEDL, on the House Budget: “.. [It] will cost more than the 2017 tax cuts, the pandemic CARES Act, Biden's stimulus, and the Inflation Reduction Act combined.” @yahoofinance.com 🇺🇸

Great. ACAB forever and always.

When the tables start to turn on millions of dollars of propaganda and people start realizing a genocide is happening—took way too long.

Jfc

In the wake of Luigi Mangione’s alleged killing of a health care CEO with a partially 3D-printed pistol, we built the exact same weapon ourselves—and test-fired it. www.wired.com/story/luigi-...

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This week, the GOP slid an amendment into the budget reconciliation process that would ban US states from enacting laws that govern AI. This of course was not an aberration—it’s the direct result of Silicon Valley lobbying efforts, and big tech’s union with Trump and the Republican Party.

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BREAKING: PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — One person killed after a vehicle explosion outside fertility clinic that police say was 'intentional act of violence'.

Please for the love of god will someone do this!!!

Jajajajajaja

No U.S. citizen should be detained by law enforcement, at the border or anywhere, because of their protected speech. ICE and CBP are the "enemies domestic" that federal officials swear an oath to defend against. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...

As someone in finance who knows everyone will be covering tariffs today—the Medicaid cuts they lied continually about, are part a new bill. This is the bigger story today and if passed, this will harm and kill Americans.

Good read open.substack.com/pub/loloverr...

Growing up in the '70s I'd read about strongman rulers in far-off places like Asia or Africa who had billion-dollar Swiss bank accounts and mansions in the French Riviera while their citizens were mired in poverty, and wondered how that could be allowed to happen Now I know

Shits getting weird…

> @jemelehill.bsky.social

Will be interesting to see what this costs us—and I don’t mean money.

"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...

One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search. In this op-ed, politics editor @leximcmenamin.com addresses the environmental costs of AI that not many seem to be talking about ⤵️

Welp, that’s didn’t fucking last long.

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

Yes—caw caw mf