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Edit: Watchdogs say Trump Dinner for Memecoin Investors is “Brazen Corruption” While the President has long taken emoluments in defiance of the Constitution, selling access to cryptocurrency buyers is Trump’s most overt abuse of entrusted power for personal gain yet. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...

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“You shouldn't be within a thousand miles of the directorship of the IRS.”

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JUST IN: Attorneys for Burmese and Vietnamese migrants accuse the Trump administration deporting them to South Sudan in violation of a court order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Trump, who cut the National Weather Service, has been silent about the 23 people who were recently killed in storms and tornadoes in Kentucky. Instead, he’s been posting multiple Middle East trip propaganda videos featuring himself.

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BREAKING: The New Jersey Transit strike will end Monday after a tentative agreement was reached between the union and transit managers. The strike brought the nation's third-largest transit system, which services a total of 350,000 riders, to a halt.

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My goodness. Angels (sans Trout) have swept the Dodgers 😮

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the French didn't "give" us the Statue of Liberty. It was built with $250,000 of funds raised privately in France and $300,000 of funds raised privately in the United States.

submitted 5 days ago • 258 comments

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

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DOGE cut off Social Security Administration spending so now workers have to use their own money to buy office supplies. Meanwhile Elon Musk makes $8 million every single day from the government.

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NPR has a very high opinion of @marthawells.com Murderbot. I dang sure loved the books! www.npr.org/2025/05/16/n...

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Widely covered MIT paper saying AI boosts worker productivity is, in fact, complete bullshit it turns out. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-says-it-no-longer-stands-behind-students-ai-research-paper-11434092?st=sF3Wvo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly considering a barbaric pitch for a TV show where immigrants compete for U.S. citizenship. The Daily Mail reported that it obtained a 35-page program pitch for a show called The American, created by writer and producer Rob Worsoff of Duck Dynasty.

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Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold

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this is insane. kfor.com/news/local/h...

submitted 9 days ago • 436 comments

Not even a concept of a plan 😂

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Of course he did

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“.. Under this deal, it will now be cheaper to import a UK vehicle with very little U.S. content than a USMCA compliant vehicle from Mexico or Canada that is half American parts.” @thehill.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social thehill.com/business/529...

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NEW — I’ve obtained audio of new acting FEMA head David Richardson threatening staff in an all hands meeting this morning. As first reported by Reuters, he told those who resisted change in the agency, “Don’t get in my way…I will run right over you.” Listen to the clip here:

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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

submitted 14 days ago • 161 comments

This is a great illustration of why wholly unqualified extremists shouldn't be running essential government agencies.

submitted 14 days ago • 191 comments

A 25-year-old DOGE bro at the CFPB held $715,000 in stocks that ethics lawyers told him he wasn’t allowed to own while working there — then DOGE fired those ethics lawyers. This is corruption. Always call it out.

submitted 16 days ago • 93 comments

GlobalX, airline used for Trump deportations, gets hacked: report

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The Qatar Economic Forum is hosting a public session on how to make money off of Trump’s bribery and corruption schemes. This is where we are.

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Money can’t buy taste

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“Do not mock us.”

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BUFFALO, NY: We are mobilizing to protest the arrest and detention of a group of UFW farm worker leaders we believe are being held at the Batavia ICE detention center. We believe targeting known union supporters in the name of immigration “enforcement” is an outrage. These workers must be released.

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

102 pages of straight fire from Judge Beryl Howell storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 20 days ago • 116 comments

BREAKING: Federal judge rules that President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the Perkins Coie law firm — the first of several such orders — is unconstitutional and, accordingly, "null and void." Background at Law Dork on the original TRO in the case: www.lawdork.com/p/perkins-co...

submitted 20 days ago • 56 comments

This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

submitted 20 days ago • 986 comments

President Trump signed an executive order to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS, two US broadcasters that rely partially on government financial support — his administration's latest effort to sanction institutions it views as opposed to his political agenda reut.rs/4jKP0Dy

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The President just effectively signed a statement that he is committing a crime, violating a criminal statute enacted with overwhelming bipartisan majorities (it passed 96-2 in the Senate). Here is the law and his post. 1/3

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A @reuters.com investigation identified 11 judges whose families faced threats after they ruled against President Trump. Many have come after billionaire Elon Musk attacked them on his social media platform. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

submitted 21 days ago • 37 comments

“Trumps says” is a cottage industry of reporting. It’s not very informative. How about “Despite lacking unilateral legal power to do so, Trump says Harvard….”

submitted 20 days ago • 74 comments

Honestly this is just incredible content.

submitted 21 days ago • 336 comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook said that planned US tariffs on foreign imports will add $900 million in costs in the current period

submitted 21 days ago • 19 comments

Has he run out of incompetent obsequious people to appoint for top roles that he has to recycle them for other posts?

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"owning a calendar turns out to be the most important economic tool you can have right now." Lemme 'splain because reading the economic numbers over coming weeks will be tricky.

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Damn good data reporting from the @bloomberg.com crew here www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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In Oklahoma, children will be taught that the 2020 election was stolen.

submitted 22 days ago • 269 comments

The Canadian dollar strengthened to a six-month high against its US counterpart and posted its biggest monthly advance in a decade reut.rs/4iHRu4c

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