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apnews.com/article/trum... threatens 50% tariffs on EU and 25% penalties on Apple as his trade war intensifies

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This is an outstanding book. My students are going to read several chapters from it this fall in my new class on social conflict

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My students are gonna be reading part of this book this fall.

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submitted 64 days ago • 12 comments

Reminder: Dr. Oz had to pay $5.25 million to settle a class action suit for promoting phony weight loss cures. He is a conman. No wonder Trump likes him. Now he's in charge of running Medicare and Medicaid.

submitted 76 days ago • 202 comments

This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.

submitted 76 days ago • 5276 comments

Will American voters ever learn that Republicans are awful for the economy? Reagan = 1987 stock market/ S & L crash Bush Sr. = commercial real estate crash Bush Jr. = worst financial crash since 1929 Trump 1 = Covid crash Trump 2 = tariff crash, possible fiscal crash.

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If Democrats can't make something out of a billionaire member of the president's cabinet talking to billionaire podcast hosts about how people can go a week without a social security check then they should probably disband.

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Former commissioner of Social Security Administration is warning Democrats to get their shit together to stop DOGE, saying he believes that DOGE has already taken 90 percent of of the actions necessary to crater the social security system.

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As recently as 2024, denouncing microplastics was a key part of RFK Jr.’s political identity. Yet, he’s part of an administration doing more than any in history to dismantle every mechanism that we could use to address this danger.

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John A. Hemingway, Last Survivor of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/w...

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So if you're a tourist visiting the US, and ICE decide you're a Venezuelan gang member, they can put you immediately onto a plane to El Salvador where you'll be locked in prison for a year with no charges, no hearing, no trial, no right to consult a lawyer, no phone call?

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www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025... Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

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www.newsweek.com/jasmine-moon...

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Trump’s Commerce Secretary Confirms Plan to Gut Medicare—and More newrepublic.com/post/191740/... via @newrepublic.com

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Republicans cut Democrats entirely out of their process for the CR, didn't want any of our input, and would have been blamed by a majority of the American public for a government shutdown. There was no reason to cave to them. Chuck Schumer has to go.

submitted 98 days ago • 364 comments

@therickwilson.bsky.social has an urgent message for the Dems: SHUT IT DOWN! Watch:

submitted 98 days ago • 1124 comments

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I am quite sure that around 80% of Americans want to keep the Education Department and the same for USAID. Are we really going to let 20% of the dumbest people in the country completely dismantle our federal government?

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🧵Here's Why Democrats Can't Meet This Moment And How We Can Fix It The Professional Left Can’t Save Us Because It Doesn’t Exist (Yet) Read for free and please repost!!! open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

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"They are trying to break this agency in order to turn the public against it, so they can privatize it, liquidate it, and steal at least a portion or all of the $2.7 T that's in the fund. People should rise up." Former Social Security Admin Commissioner Martin O'Malley.

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Don't look at your retirement accounts today

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“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

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This was posted as a full page paid advertisement in today’s New York Times

submitted 108 days ago • 1048 comments

With a reduction in Medicaid (no, there isn't remotely enough waste/abuse in Medicaid to fund the billionaire tax cuts), rural hospitals will be closing in 2025. Doctors are already starting to shun rural areas; who would want to set up practice in a town that depends on Medicaid?

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The Atlanta Federal reserve is predicting a major recession because of Trump‘s policies.

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True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fc6... Seal said he wrote this song in 1991 in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall and protests in China, sensing an immense shift toward democracy in the world. Now, it seems like things are going in reverse.

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

www.amazon.com/More-Dangero... I have to buy this book.

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

Time for a #ScienceMarchOnWashington with star power like Bill Nye. We need leaders like @zekeemanuel.bsky.social petitioning college presidents to go to Congress, and teach-ins by Nobel Laureates to teach students what's happening. Where are the leaders? Repost to help find them 🧪

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

You know, if they'd just STOP doing Nazi shit all the time, we'd stop calling those fuckers Nazis. It's not that complicated.

submitted 124 days ago • 437 comments

Wow. Trump has fired the federal Veterans Affairs staff running the Veterans Crisis Hotline. This will have a major impact here in North Carolina.

submitted 124 days ago • 60 comments

MAGA lost their damn minds over the email lady's private server, but are crickets over Elon's 19-year-old "Big Balls" guy having access to all of our private info.

submitted 132 days ago • 216 comments

Gas prices are up, eggs are unaffordable, an evil billionaire just stole everyone’s personal data, airplanes are falling out of the sky, and Canada now hates us. I guess making a recently convicted felon the President of the United States wasn’t the best idea after all

submitted 133 days ago • 52 comments

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

submitted 134 days ago • 1717 comments

If only experts existed who could warn Americans repeatedly that foreign aid is money spent to pay Americans and buy things from Americans but no one's ever said it out loud so who can blame people for not understanding

submitted 133 days ago • 199 comments

Dear @Doge If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing

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