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Advance Financial’s Flex Loan charges 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of borrowers in debts that end up in court, where the company has won over $200 million in judgments since 2015. By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com

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Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

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When Trump... -Holds a private dinner for his crypto coin buyers -Promotes Teslas on the White House driveway on behalf of a multibillionaire who spent $277M backing him -Uses state visits to advance his hotel business It's corruption, plain and simple.

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Guess which is going wind up killing more Americans.

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Trump shut out refugees but is making White South Africans an exception

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Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.

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“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones. Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.

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🚨 Hundreds of community safety grants, which helped cut gun violence by up to 70%, abruptly canceled — and millions of dollars in critical funding wiped away. The programs are for crime victims, mental health and hate crime support, and the DOJ says it’s “wasteful spending.” bit.ly/3EJmsee

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I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.

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To be fabulously wealthy today means not having to come across anyone who isn’t. It therefore means not having a clue about how average working people live or what they worry about it. The billionaire class is seceding from the rest of society. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-secess...

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"The Last of Us" star Pedro Pascal is exactly right: You can't claim to stand for freedom while tearing it away from others 🤷

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Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

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With all the videos of police illegally entering people’s home using intimidation & force to detain & deport American if not worse. Black peoples have dealt with that for centuries. It’s police brutality. That is beyond unconstitutional. That is why Colin Kaepernick knelt.… Now do you f’n get it?

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"Christians who sought asylum from persecution by the Taliban are being told they must leave immediately or be deported. "The news came in an email to a group living legally in north Raleigh... Apostles Church in Raleigh had welcomed them after the Taliban took over... www.wral.com/story/they-f...

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From my dog walk in Chicago. I love it.

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Cost of extending the Trump tax cuts for the rich: $4.6 trillion Cost of cutting corporate tax rate to 15%: $1 trillion Remember this as we hear about "wasteful government spending."

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We often look back on the seminal moments in our history and wonder "What would I have done?" This is our moment. This is our time. We must stand up. We must speak out. We must do everything we can to stop a President who has every intention of destroying our democracy.

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Here’s the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS. (Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”)

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Yes, we have to take our medicine. Like bleach for Covid. Or cod liver oil for measles.

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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

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From tax loopholes to defunding the IRS: how America’s tax system is rigged in favor of the rich (and what we can do about it). https://youtu.be/wkiO0_uSJAk?si=nSy4Eh2aDSdfRkkc

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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

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Everyone. Please. Show up on April 5. We need to be out in the hundreds of thousands. Your PRESENCE counts. Handsoff2025.com

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