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Fifty years after he was graduated from Princeton University, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered the baccalaureate address at his alma mater. This is how he ended the speech:

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(from the archives)

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When you see posts like this, it's helpful to keep in mind that Donald doesn't think like a watchful statesman, he thinks like a greedy crook. These posts are not intended to bring jobs back to America, they are intended to manipulate stock prices to bring money back to Donald and his oligarchs.

submitted 6 days ago • 119 comments

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

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-$1.5T in new tax cuts predominantly for the rich -$700B in Medicaid cuts -$500B in Medicare cuts -$300B in SNAP cuts -Leasing public lands to Big Oil -Ending IRS Direct File -Ending clean energy tax credits -Banning AI regulation in the states The oligarchy's wish list.

submitted 7 days ago • 239 comments

Good Morning The House has passed this HORRIFIC budget bill. House Republicans, how can you look in the mirror knowing you will hurt so many of your constituents? BUT AMERICA It is NOT over Now the SENATE So, please Call Your Senators Bombard them with CALLS 202 202 224-3121 FACTS ⬇️⬇️

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Trump is killing America's small farms: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

submitted 8 days ago • 165 comments

Let’s be real: It’s not immigrants committing mass shootings, it’s white supremacists. Jasmine Crockett always stays on point. Love her for always saying what needs to be said. 🔥 #MomSky

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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." -Hannah Arendt

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SPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK: “.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration." @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/n...

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Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

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in addition to him repeating insane racist conspiracy theories, it occurs to me that the reason he has time to hold long press conferences everyday is that he doesn’t actually do anything

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AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

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Dismantling and privatizing is the goal www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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FRIEND: "We're at risk of slipping into fascism." ME: "Oh, honey . . . when they are arresting judges and mayors, we've already slipped."

submitted 19 days ago • 423 comments

Affected agencies: OMB, OPM, DOGE, USDA, Commerce, Energy, HHS, HUD, Interior, Labor, State, Treasury, Transportation, VA, AmeriCorps, EPA, GSA, NLRB, NSF, SBA, and SSA. (No, I'm not sure DOGE is an agency but whatever.)

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