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Meanwhile

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The 10 richest Americans got $365 billion richer in the past year — and they’re on the verge of a huge tax cut apple.news/A6zRkYkzvQRG...

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Magic! GOP can make $2.3 trillion in debt & a $500 billion Medicare cut disappear! “Congress could instruct the White House budget office to disregard the reconciliation package’s debt impact … .” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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I wish @tepizep.bsky.social @beachpebblegirl.bsky.social @stevesawyer12.bsky.social @jakichantler.bsky.social @11tulips.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social Large cats descending on DC would save us

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Bibi’s a monster. He allowed food to be delivered to Gaza this week, but “said he made the decision under pressure from Israel’s allies, including the United States, whose politicians he described as not being able to ‘handle pictures of mass starvation.’” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Willing to bet a very large amount that most of that 413% rise in “assaults” on ICE agents represent unarmed people attacking ICE fists with their faces and boots with their kidneys. Because these people are lying scum.

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Yes and the fact those numbers remain that high for detaining someone like Kahlil over their speech speaks to something seriously wrong in our collective psyche

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I can't say this loudly enough: THE REPUBLICANS DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE VOTING ON. They just know they were told to vote yes. "Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do and die." www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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I hope Democrats remember this when they talk about "Civility" and keep bending the knee to bad faith Republicans who dispense cruelty. Remember this.

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I just love it so very much when people do shit like this!

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These Medicaid cuts will be extremely bad and they’re just to offset tax cuts for very wealthy people www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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GIFT ARTICLE Screw consumers or screw shareholders? Easy call for utilities. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/b...

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GIFT ARTICLE: Flying squirrels in a photographer's backyard. I have to share this article! wapo.st/3S9npzy

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"President Donald Trump has claimed his surge of new tariffs will produce trillions of dollars of foreign investments in the U.S. economy. But some of the people working to lure those investments to U.S. cities and states say they’re not seeing the investment boom, at least not so far.

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"Facing a significant increase in the number of SpaceX launches, British officials detailed their concerns about the safety of Turks and Caicos and other Caribbean territories after debris from an earlier failed launch littered beaches and roads." www.propublica.org/article/spac...

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Two stories that make the same point that trump refuses to admit — trump's tariffs will raise prices for America consumers. “Well, tariffs are taxes, and when you put a tax on a business, it’s always passed through as a cost. So, there will be higher prices." politicalwire.com/2025/05/18/b...

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