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Journalist who believes in FACTS & nothing else. Adept stock market dabbler. I love cats & dogs. Trump is pure evil. I live in a Texas blue dot.
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It's absurd to debate whether militarized repression is a distraction or how hypothetical swing voters will react in 18 months. This is happening. Now. And we're less than 5 months into this administration. Wake up.

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LMAO 🤣

submitted 11 hours ago • 47 comments

"I think the world needs a lot more angry women right now." -Greta Thunberg

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

Store closures lead to massive 274% spike in retail layoffs in first half of 2025 Macy’s, Joann and CVS are among the major retailers announcing widespread store closures and job losses as the U.S. economy struggles All is good according to Trump www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

A Matter Of Time ….

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A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.

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Health insurance companies have lost the trust of the American people, and for good reason. They can begin to restore it by ensuring that access to vaccines remains covered and ignoring the quackery and utter nonsense likely to come from Kennedy’s new vaccine committee.

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It's pretty remarkable how decisively this repudiates the line we're hearing this morning from *a lot* of pundits who make tons of money telling people what to think about politics.

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86% of my Fox News viewing focus group agreed with the statement: "LA is a lawless war zone ruled by Soros-funded gangs." When asked why Fox News owner Lachlan Murdoch makes LA his primary residence, the respondents replied that that isn't the real Murdoch, but rather a clone or body double.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

If you are attending a #NoKings rally/march on Saturday, consider bringing an American flag! We need to make this clear: we are Americans and we will not abide a wannabe king MAGA doesn't own our flag

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Fox "News" played some of Gov. Newsom's speech, then garbled the sound and cut it off, saying they were having audio problems. Sure they were. 🙄 MSNBC and CNN didn't have any audio problems.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

I know it's super inconvenient for everyone trying to go to work and get the kids into summer camps and all that, but the White House is literally trying to start a civil war

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My comments with Bundle www.bundle.app/en/finance/m...

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JPMORGAN: “.. No company we cover has experienced as much decline in 2025 consensus EPS since March 25 as has Tesla .. competition is intensifying .. We suggest selling Underweight-rated TSLA and using the proceeds to buy what we view as superior risk reward auto parts suppliers ..”

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Big Tech's emissions increased 150% in just 4 years, "thanks" to the exploding electricity demands of slop-bucket LLMs that boil lakes to rephrase the internet Generative AI is worse than useless; it is making it impossible for us to limit climate change www.energymonitor.ai/news/interna...

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Musk's Twitter is now running paid advertising calling for the extrajudicial execution of protesters in Los Angeles. In most countries around the world, this is a criminal act.

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My latest in Joy’s House: I’m in L.A. So I can tell you firsthand that the only crises here are ICE, Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, the Fox weekend guy that’s running the Pentagon, and Donald Trump. open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

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This was always clearly the objective and many in the media also insisted on treating anyone who said so clearly like they were some kind of lunatic bsky.app/profile/carn...

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NB.1.8.1 has mutations that could increase the virus’s transmissibility and decrease the efficacy of certain neutralizing antibodies against it. www.wired.com/story/who-mo...

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When you talk to the troops who have nobody to shoot because everyone is dancing or handing out vegan ice cream cones at our protests in The Failed State of California, remind them that campus cop Lt. John Pike said he suffered PTSD from doing this

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I hope every person delivering food to the hungry, medicines to the sick, and shelter to the displaced tonight is successful... 😔 Too many stories of evil in the world right now... too much. I don't even know where to look anymore.

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Once Australia and the US were firm allies now they just shoot our reporters in the street with rubbers bullets. www.instagram.com/reel/DKraoCt...

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