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Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night. When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." đź« đź« đź« đź« 

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What could go wrong? 🤷‍♂️

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Explain to me how there’s a *national state of emergency* necessitating unilateral presidential authority to impose tariffs on imports, but also notwithstanding the *emergency* some (but not all) of the tariffs can be held in abeyance for an arbitrary 90 days

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AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

submitted 73 days ago • 1114 comments

New Orleans Book Festival 2025 - the schedule is out and we have a killer lineup! Come join us 3 weeks from today, March 27-29 on the campus of @tulaneu.bsky.social bookfest.tulane.edu/schedule

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There’s truly nothing better in life than listening to @djsoulsister.bsky.social on Mardi Gras weekend, Saturday night after Tucks and Iris, on the grill at the house and it’s 75 at 8:30

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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

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This is very good. Clear and succinct.

submitted 117 days ago • 82 comments

@gruber.foo There's a typo in the first line of your Apple in China post - "Simon and Schuster" has a "c" in it.

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