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If I had to meet JD Vance for even a short period of time, I’d have a stroke and go into a coma as well Pope Francis Death Latest: Pope Francis died of a stroke and heart failure, Vatican says - www.reuters.com/world/live-p...

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It's sad that I looked at 9 media outlets in SF (TV and print) and only found 3 references to protest. One was a rehashed NYT article with no reference to the SF protests, one had the beach photo and one about a few hundred who marched from Chinatown to Embarcadero. No Civic Center coverage

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😳 what's going on here 🤷‍♂️

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If you’ve held your tongue in mixed (political) company to avoid confrontation, you have a taste of what it means to be in the closet

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When Canadians say “elbows up” they mean it

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If you ever wondered how your 401k could get robbed, look to this tariff plan. We've all been robbed

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Two words. Market manipulation

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At this rate MAGA won’t even be left owning the kind, let alone anything else

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A side effect of the slumping market will be oligarchs buying the dip, consolidating corporate power and even more wealth.

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I’m sure the stiff tariffs on Lesotho will bring back America’s Diamond mining industry

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"third term" is a smokescreen. there may be truth to his belief he will continue in office, but its a diversion. These are not the tariffs your looking for...

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What better way to avoid using the military on civilians than to put insurrectionists on the payroll www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Musk is facilitating the enshittificaion is the USA

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I blame the auto pen

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FAFO. How’s that vote look now?

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Will it detonate if he votes against Israel? www.huffpost.com/entry/netany...

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The word of the day is F*cktose intolerant: the condition of being completely unable to tolerate other people’s BS 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

submitted 38 days ago • 22 comments

June 21,1788-March 15, 2025. It was a good run

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Since he’d rather not miss his book tour than stop enabling the destruction of the government, let’s give him plenty of time for that book resist.bot/petitions/PZ...

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Chuck Schumer gave a master class in how to gut the filibuster from a minority position.

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Mark Kelly for Minirity Leader. Now

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Sorry, its not the Ivy's fault on this, its the culture to succeed at all cost, by parents living vicariously thru the kids. I'm an Ivy grad and I was never pushed to do anything just so I would get in. The rush to succeed made all colleges get more selective www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Fetterman is the new Sinema

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I should have expected that core inflation topping 3% again would be "eased more than expected" by WaPo. Gotta spin it for the Dear Leader's benefit

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Granted CA has Prop 12 requirements, but wholesale eggs I need to buy for hospitals are now $160 for 15 dozen. Thats 0.88 an egg. Thats over $7 a pound for comparisonsake. Eggs used to be cheap protein, now they are luxury items.

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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social you should be ashamed of having Kirk on AND flipping on LGBTQ+ rights. Never call yourself an ally again. More like a shameful toady

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