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Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

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If I had any kind of power and realized I had sent a person to prison by mistake, I wouldn't be able to rest until they were released. What kind of psycho can just go on with their life?

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“Government action so heinous and absurd that even Justice Alito disagrees” Challenge unlocked.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

I really was not planning to do a first thing in the morning piece, fuck

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The cool thing about getting rid of FDIC personnel is that when the banks start dropping like flies, they might not have the capacity to shut them down quickly. Oh, what fun we will have when depositors are posting about frozen accounts in dead banks on social media!

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The penguin uprising begins

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I would really enjoy hearing a proponent of the efficient market hypothesis explain the last two days of stock market activity.

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This only leads down very evil roads.

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That time George Osborne committed the UK to austerity, genuinely killing 100,000s (www.gla.ac.uk/news/archive...), all based on an excel spreadsheet error? (www.thelondoneconomic.com/lifestyle/ge...) Actually a core part of 40k's backstory, as it created the daemon infused into Guilliman's soul.

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So much of cybersecurity is "We must secure the Orphan Crushing Machine so that unauthorized people do not crush the orphans," and not "Why the fuck are you building an Orphan Crushing Machine in the first place?"

submitted 4 days ago • 51 comments

everyone at a university who is not in AAUP and/or a union should fix that ASAP

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A midnight hello from Morton Tankus, retired Vice President of Morgan Stanley in charge of the COBOL system which determined Financial Advisor compensation, and Nathan Tankus newsletter writer, payments & money expert, and sudden investigative COBOL journalist.

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It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

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Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

submitted 3 days ago • 314 comments

Not just fear (though that is totally justified). Also #BoycottUSA. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

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Bro why would I wait for a marshmallow there's one literally right here bro? Think about it bro.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

This is how a hegemon that has several decent universities sets its trade policy.

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"The decline of the West is not necessary or historically inevitable. It is the result of choosing policies dictated by its rentier interests." -Michael Hudson

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BREAKING: The House will vote on the SAVE Act today. If this bill becomes law, millions of American citizens could be blocked from voting. 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.

submitted 3 days ago • 862 comments

It's up, its out. I covered a hell of a lot. There are a few things I didn't end up having the space or the brain functioning left to cover. But I'm gonna crash now. See y'all in 6 hours. Promote the piece in my absence. www.crisesnotes.com/our2025lehma...

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns youtu.be/AE1ct5yEuVY?...

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Latest comment on The Chaos. open.substack.com/pub/bondecon...

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JUST IN: Three days after a judge awarded $6.6 million to whistleblowers fired for reporting him to the FBI for allegedly using his office to protect a prominent real estate developer in exchange for helping him cheat on his state senator wife, Ken Paxton announces he is running for US Senate.

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Progressive trade policy and tariffs. www.thenation.com?post_type=po...

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So basically this is the visual I have in my mind when reading an academic paper that contains a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model that attempts to measure a non linear non equilibrium dynamic system we call the economy. I still do this shit by choice...🤔

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I get the contradictions and challenges of reshoring manufacturing, but any posting about that wo reference to union wages & benefits gets an automatic block.

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Gotta hand it to them, it’s a sick burn

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thinking more about how crystals, essential oils, himalayan salts etc are basically an american consumer quasireligion? or at least a form of magical thinking

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DING DONG THE WICKED WITCH IS [STILL] DEAD!!! Happy Thatcherversary, everybody!

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It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

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