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“Cruelty was incentivized for profit and boosted by algorithm. Good-faith arguments could not happen when both ‘good’ and ‘faith’ had vanished. But Americans were not supposed to discuss that: not in a way that acknowledged collective pain.”

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So he’s just approving russia’s next attack on civilians

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“Whatever gift Yarvin has for attracting attention, his work does not survive scrutiny. It is full of spurious syllogisms and arguments retconned to match his jaundiced intuitions.” But this profile falls short on exploring the dangers with & drivel of Thiel-Vance’s dim-witted guru Curtis Yarvin.

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Maddow on JD Vance’s dimwit guru Curtis Yarvin. Do you want to preserve democracy, a government of, by, and for the people? Or do you want Trump, Musk, and Thiel? A CEO aka dictator? This is their goal. If you want the former you’d best not sit out the coming weeks. youtu.be/VeVhHNSe9Ks?...

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Why are public schools under attack? AFT President @randiweingarten, breaks down in her new book, ‘Why Fascists Fear Teachers,’ the long-planned strategy to undermine education and lifts up the powerful role educators play in protecting truth and democracy. Pre-order now at aft.org/book.

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Think about the economic ramifications of this for the greater Baltimore area. This is why I’m fairly sure we’re going to have a recession even if tariffs get blocked.

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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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Idiocracy undersold it

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"The fact is, the battle over “DEI” has always been a fight about labor, work, and who has access to the jobs and political institutions that build and protect wealth. If we ever forgot that, we’re learning it again now." slate.com/news-and-pol...

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The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies | MIT Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/02/1...

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Thanks to drastic policy changes in the US and Big Tech’s embrace of the second Trump administration, many people are moving their digital lives abroad. Here are a few options for browsers, search engines, and email providers to get you started.

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“A succession of top agents, all women, were given an ultimatum: Take a different post or be asked to retire.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/u...

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The private sector will not fill the gaps. The size of the cuts is too big, and the incentives does not align to do basic research or train the next generation of PhD students. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

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Futures open at 3 Pacific, fwiw

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Trump as “visionaire”? Another neologism from bigot Russell Vought. Where did he learn to lie like this? From his Marine Corps veteran father? At evangelical Wheaton College? A core course Public Lying 101? From his years at the Heritage Foundation? His time working for felonious Trump 45?

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Vought blatantly lies about Medicaid cuts on CNN, claiming "no one will lose coverage as a result of this bill"

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He actually said “Jerrypicked.” But self-described Christian nationalists like Russell Vought have their own peculiar lingo. Trump appointees lie about past statements and future goals as easily as normal people breathe.

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Everyone knows Trump doesn’t read, but this is bonkers… Tulsi Gabbard is considering bringing in a Fox News producer to turn Trump’s daily intel briefings into Fox-style broadcasts to compensate. NOTE: Trump’s only taken 14 briefings as of May. Biden took 90. Obama took 63 in the same time frame.

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25th A.: “Whenever the VP & a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress … their written declaration that the Pres. is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” Problem: Trump & his cabinet picks are all fucking lunatics.

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Look at these fucking heavily armed thugs manhandling crying women.

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Sooner rather than later, apparently.

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European #championsleague Final, the world’s Super Bowl, Paris SG 2, Inter Milan 0 @ HT from dreary Munich. Need Ray Hudson on call. EPL fans consider EPL best in World; we Spanish league fans know better. This marks first year since 2004 no team from England, Spain, Germany in final. Barça 2026!

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This is from 2017 and tragically not only can we still post this song in 2025, but nasty seems a benign description for the evil we’ve since seen. The great Joan Baez with a song about Donald Trump, “Nasty Man,” from a concert benefiting refugees. #skymusic youtu.be/gdSn_D6C2PI?...

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SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

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They decided to make the school whiter and more conservative and all of the sudden graduation rates aren’t the end all and be all around who should be admitted.

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The NY Times can try as hard as it wants to normalize Elon Musk, but I’m just not buying it—except maybe to the degree he’s hardly the only abusive, self-indulgent billionaire on the planet.

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Fabulous thread. For decades the U.S. has been left behind in almost all quality of life metrics, but when it comes to mortality rates and the availability and affordability of healthcare we are hurtling toward “shithole country” status.

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WSMV: “state troopers are being summoned to arrest the homeless… working for a proprietary security organization in which the troopers are paid with private dollars by a downtown Nashville business organization...” www.wsmv.com/2025/05/29/s...

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Here are the #BigTen schools with the most combined regular season and tournament championships for 2024-25: 8 - Oregon 7 - Ohio St, UCLA 6 - Mich 4 - Penn St 3 - Mich St, N’western, USC 2 - Indiana, Nebraska 1 - Wisc, Minn, UW 0 - Purdue, Illinois, Rutgers, Maryland, Iowa

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Time wounds all heels.

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@50501mi.bsky.social Calling all activists 🤳🪧❗#nokings

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#schwarbomb, 303rd of his career. Kyle Schwarber with his 19th home run of year, 438’ blast into the 2nd deck; Schwarbs now one behind Ohtani, tied with Raleigh, one more than Judge. Phillies 4, Atlanta 3 in top of 8th Blank Check Tour rolls on for this free agent at end of year.

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Two new books show how the health-care industry’s pursuit of profit helped break trust and pave the way for dangerous ideas, writes Adam M. Lowenstein:

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Quite possibly the three most odious people on planet earth. www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08...

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I’m an NCAA softball, not baseball, fan, but could not help but notice that with Nebraska, Oregon, UCLA, and USC making the tourney, Big Ten baseball likewise on the rise! The conference of truck stops and football stadiums, with attached universities, moving up in the full spectrum sports world.

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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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“The Trump story, by contrast, is almost too big to see, too upsetting to confront. If we faced it, we’d have to do something—something proportional to the scandal of the most flagrant self-enrichment by a politician that this country, or any other, has seen in modern times.”

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Trump's DOJ has granted Boeing a non-prosecution agreement over the 737 MAX crashes, despite the company's repeated attempts to deceive regulators. Boeing donated $1M to Trump's inauguration and has paid AG Pam Bondi's former lobbying firm at least $480K. Follow the money.

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