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Just walk your former-employer 401k documents into a Fidelity Investments, Schwab, or similar brokerage office and they will do all the paperwork for you to roll into an IRA. 33% of people just cash out. That's bonkers. A 10% haircut + tax disadvantages. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/07/f...

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Patronizing FOX news does not change reality, only your (mistaken) perception of reality.

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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 3 days ago • 644 comments

The proper term is rendition not deportation. Such depravity.

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Everybody is a weirdo in their own way. Don't be so fragile that you have to have to hate people for their weirdness to deflect from yours.

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Mr Ketamine achieved a lot for himself at DOGE. Not a single arrest from the fraud he crowed about finding.

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As with Noem, Duffy, Hegseth, Musk, & McMahon, Trumpism rewards officials who evince a complete lack of interest in, and even a hostility to, governing, & convey a boastful and belligerent ignorance about the most basic functions of their duties.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

submitted 8 days ago • 75 comments

DOGE was always a scam, and other news. #EconSky heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-30-2025

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

This data is too clean to be real, and the chart has more than 50 dots, so what are they counties? The dot sizes are too uniform to be voter counts.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Five favorite B&W movies: The General Miracle on 34th Street Schindler's List Witness for the Prosecution It's a Wonderful Life

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A quarter billion dollars?!?! The average COSTCO store has a quarter billion dollars in revenue each year. ($260M/store in 2024)

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You mean $4T debt increase. Yes, disgusting.

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Like Hemingway's description of going bankrupt, we could lose our privileged position in the global financial system gradually and then suddenly. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-liz-trus...

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Read for yourself this provision of the reconciliation bill, which is the current text just released by the House Rules Committee. Then read: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's essay this morning in @justsecurity.org. Chemerinsky's essay is titled: "A Terrible Idea" www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

submitted 20 days ago • 67 comments

How would Republicans solve their differences if we don't allow them this Republican on Republican violence? I suppose if Trump (as he requests) can do renditions without judicial review, that would solve it.

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Similarly, people with Fuck Joe Biden bumper stickers were obviously calling for people to have sex with the president.

submitted 23 days ago • 81 comments

“An authoritarian project has to come out of the shadows to succeed. The intimidation of many depends on early and well-publicized assaults against a few. The authoritarian wants people to understand DOJ is now a department of political favors and retribution.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-want...

submitted 24 days ago • 35 comments

I need a fourth Google Maps verbosity mode which includes a beep 100 yards before each turn in addition to the rerouting beep I lovingly get when I miss it. Doh!

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In my polling of family, this ruse of a income tax rate increase on top earners combined with a +$1.2 trillion AMT loophole is unbelievably effective. They refuse to understand the hoodwinking even after I explain it three times. SMH www.google.com/amp/s/www.nb...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Hoping @wyden.senate.gov asks Scott Bessent whether Trump will be charged $40M tariff for the $400M jet he's importing from a foreign country subject to 10% tariffs.

submitted 28 days ago • 34 comments

True, but what he is doing to health policy is worse. It's as if this guy has never seen a pandemic. Give it time.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

This new Texas law copies anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany. That legislation consisted of a series of restrictive laws passed in 1933, then the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. This is not an exaggeration.

submitted 30 days ago • 66 comments

LOL, "upselling" "People who purchased fake certifications were subsequently blackmailed ... for having bought fraudulent “unauthorized” academic degrees. This practice created a continuous cycle of extortion, internally referred to as “upselling.” krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/paki...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

We all know Trump doesn't lie to be believed. He lies to be repeated. It's a huge advantage when your opponents refuse to repeat anything, even the truth.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Trump hearing a Black man say "Harvard" and thinking he must've meant "Harlem" is a perfect mix of racism and dementia

submitted 34 days ago • 18 comments

I am not often quoted in @nytimes.com DealBook, but I hope the business community is listening.

submitted 34 days ago • 397 comments

If I meet one more person who voted to end democracy, somewhat knowingly, because they didn't like watching stories about trans athletes, I'm going to scream. Just change the damn channel from FOX.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I want to financially support newspapers, but I don't want the spam. How about a checkbox for that on the subscription page? Seriously, it is a problem, because I don't want to unsubscribe one-by-one to two dozen e-mailed newsletters from one paper. Come on. Have some shame.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Every. Fucking. Word. Of. This. This is the energy and fire we need from EVERY elected Democrat, from city council to the Senate, and everything in between.

submitted 39 days ago • 24 comments

Workplace bathroom doors exist just to block wifi in the stalls.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Ah, yes. Dirty films.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll assume there was no follow-up — asking whether “front-loading” is masking incremental consumer weakness. 🙄 @jeffstein.bsky.social

submitted 42 days ago • 91 comments

Trump reportedly owns 80% of this $3 billion dollar one-day increase.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

No they won't. Today's Republicans are controlled by kompromat, media, and money. Polling numbers are irrelevant.

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👇👇🇺🇦

submitted 46 days ago • 425 comments

AARP is more an insurance scam than an advocacy group, as they supported Trump in spite of his talk about reducing retiree benefits which AARP also refused to acknowledge as his comments.

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Trump now invoking the widely recognized “following the law is too much work” exception to due process. Courts usually HIGHLY sympathetic to this argument. 🙄

submitted 47 days ago • 155 comments

If I were Russia I'd sponsor more extended ASPCA adds on MSNBC than I already do. Get people to change the channel.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

The Onion is satire. If it only jokes that you are awful, then you are in fact awesome. Such coverage is the highest Onion compliment.

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China now assessing tariffs against any country that elects to negotiate with Trump. Checkmate Xi.☠️

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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 50 days ago • 1736 comments

Foreign students at American schools pay much higher rates than domestic students do, so a reduction in foreign attendance whether due to visas or just bad press coverage will impoverish American schools, from Ivy to community. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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