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Vegetable planting machines in AZ. The way the machines work is hundreds of small plants are loaded onto the belt and the worker then drops them into a circular wheel so they drop in evenly spaced intervals onto the ground. They can drop up to 45-60 plants per minute. #WeFeedYou

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Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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You know the list of grievances against the king in our Declaration of Independence? Do yourself a favor and read it. Is Trump using the grievances as a checklist of things to do? He’ll find some of them impossible to replicate. But damn!

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Yikes! Markets down yet again.

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Trump Administration Abruptly Clears Out Migrants It Sent to Guantánamo A transfer operation on Thursday repatriated 177 Venezuelans via a handoff in Honduras, while one migrant was brought back to U.S. soil. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Just how did Zelensky insult Trump? What did I miss?

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Amazon now owns the rights to the James Bond franchise:

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APNewsAlert: NEW YORK (AP) — James Bond film producers cede creative control of franchise to Amazon MGM after decades of family stewardship.

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The SS United States is heading to the Gulf of Mexico and Mobile, AL before heading to Destin, FL for its final destination under the sea.

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USS United States has departed the 215

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UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

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AP: The Trump administration is falsely claiming that tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving Social Security payments. apnews.com/article/soci...

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At the beginning of “The Brutalist” this quote by Goethe grabbed my immediate attention: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe themselves free.”

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Must listen to this! It’s worth spending about 30 minutes to listen to Malcolm. “Stop playing the game!”

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The corruption will be televised.

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READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com: "Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

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NYT: “State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks” “The department plans to buy armored Tesla vehicles. Elon Musk, who is leading efforts to cut government spending, has won more than $13 billion in government contracts in the past five years.”

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The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, United States DOGE Service, as an entity insulated from public records requests or most judicial intervention until at least 2034 (Important reporting here by NYT Minho Kim) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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