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submitted 57 days ago • 264 comments

We were cleaning Chinas clock economically. Many predicted they would surpass us by now, and they haven’t. But this tariff stuff will close the gap. Idiots

submitted 62 days ago • 900 comments

“Tax our wealth” – that’s the message from millionaires across the UK whose campaign is hitting the road ahead of the government’s spring statement...

submitted 75 days ago • 35 comments

Webpage detailing Jackie Robinson’s military service removed by Pentagon in latest DEI purge

submitted 76 days ago • 188 comments

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

submitted 76 days ago • 3318 comments

It's really quite something. Russia's economy IS bigger than Mexico's. But not dramatically so. ~$2.2 trillion vs ~$1.8 trillion and Mexico has a more complex and diversified economy. I come back to these points because we're highly integrated with these two quite large and prosperous economies.

submitted 77 days ago • 12 comments

Any story that covers Tesla vandalism but doesn’t mention Musk’s league of incompetent racists letting kids in Africa die as a big motivating factor is just billionaire propaganda.

submitted 76 days ago • 18 comments

“Polestar wants to deliver the final blow. … Polestar is offering anyone who owns or leases a Tesla $5,000 off a lease on a brand new Polestar 3. Combined with their latest $15,000 Polestar Clean Vehicle Incentive, any Tesla driver can buy a Polestar 3 for a whopping $20,000 off.”

submitted 76 days ago • 691 comments

FYI: Russia broke their "ceasefire" within 30 minutes.

submitted 77 days ago • 31 comments

🔥Volcanic lightning - an electrical discharge caused by colliding particles of ash and ice rather than from a thunderstorm.

submitted 78 days ago • 744 comments

Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

submitted 77 days ago • 2666 comments

🥹🥹🥹 Or farm has acres of wild meadow with plenty of milkweed waiting for them! 🧡🖤🧡🖤🤍🧡

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.

submitted 78 days ago • 806 comments

False Hellebore - One of my favourites with its dark green colour and fleshy leaves.

submitted 77 days ago • 23 comments

Quinoa is grown all over now but 20 years ago it was almost unknown. USAID, working with countries in the Andean region, helped develop and popularize the nutritious grain, thereby raising living standards and reducing food insecurity. It’s just one example of what we’ve lost.

submitted 79 days ago • 132 comments

He couldn’t even run a charity without breaking the law—Now he believes he’s in charge of the Supreme Court, Congress, our rights, and the U.S. justice system. Who’s going to stop him?!

submitted 77 days ago • 1070 comments

When people talk about "American Exceptionalism" they now usually mean that Americans are exceptionally bad a running a country.

submitted 78 days ago • 511 comments

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submitted 78 days ago • 27 comments

“‘I was put in a cell, and I had to sleep on a mat with no blanket, no pillow, with an aluminum foil wrapped over my body like a dead body for two and a half days.’”

submitted 78 days ago • 1420 comments

This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.

submitted 79 days ago • 1325 comments

So the Admin has defied the order of a federal judge. www.newsweek.com/rubio-touts-...

submitted 79 days ago • 729 comments

This is heartbreaking and enraging.

submitted 80 days ago • 9 comments

If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

submitted 80 days ago • 2091 comments

This whole "bullying Canada" business seems like a movie where a cocky young punk decides to abuse & demean the kindly elderly neighbor...only to discover the old man is some unstoppable war hero badass...

submitted 83 days ago • 338 comments