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no thanks 🙂

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www.newslaundry.com/2025/04/14/a...

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I don’t think I’ve made a worse financial decision in my life than developing good taste

submitted 23 hours ago • 72 comments

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

submitted 3 days ago • 163 comments

I'm looking forward to the US hosting the World Cup next year

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Killing your greatest export is an unusual tactic in the midst of a trade war. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

A joint union that workers at two world-famous Los Angeles museums formed through AFSCME District Council 36 is now official. Read more. www.afscme.org/blog/its-off...

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my favorite moving-to-Oregon thing is when you get a new dentist they always look in your mouth and go "you're not from around here, are you?"

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

It never feels good sending money to the government but it has never felt as bad as it does today. I know I have paid to produce so much suffering I’m not an idiot but there was always a plausible deniability baked in. Like how they put blanks in one of the firing squad rifles.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Idk, maybe I'm naive, but I think Bernie talking about Gaza and about Medicare for All at Coachella was a good thing

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The Rwanda plan is the most relevant, imo but worth also mentioning that Australia has been doing this with Nauru for more than a decade. The big escalation in our case is the use of 3rd country prisons for legal residents with no criminal history

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i work at the factory that makes resealable snack pouches making sure the “tear here” label is too high above the ziploc thing when you rip it off. every day i leave work i get shot at in the parking lot by a half dozen guys wearing shirts tucked into jean shorts

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

I'm becoming a "they dont teach you taxes in school" guy. How the hell do we just let people off the hook for social security after 170k???

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This guy is obviously wrong here, but he seems chill in general. Cool motorcycle, kids he's proud of, some decent politics

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I hate the villain Charles Schwab

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

submitted 4 days ago • 251 comments

I just joined r/septoplasty and I'm already talking about "breathing in 4k" and "lord clots."

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

5 posts into thread about ideological diversity: "of course I support what's been happening to Palistine organizers"

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I need a Guys episode on climbers, probably with Mattie Lubchansky

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People on here will make 5 posts a day asking for money to support their independant journalism and then you look at their website and its 5 articles over the last two years that are all like, "Why Spiro the Dragon is Still Relevant in 2024."

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"I don't think the great harm of slavery was the involuntary servitude and the forced labor and all of the cruelty. I think the great harm of slavery was the narrative that we created to justify enslavement."--Bryan Stevenson 🗃️ dailyprogress.com/news/local/a...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

hot new conservative idea i just came up with. what if we put tariffs... on the incomes of wealthy individuals

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

"We have the power of the strike. That is the one power that no president or court or employer can ever take away."

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I dont know what is going on here

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

On an alternate timeline, Bawls won the energy drink wars. Bush was defeated in a landslide. 9/11 was thwarted by one guarana-infused bostonite. Musk is still bald. Chinese and American leaders toast the "The Century Of Mutual Prosperity" with a chilled Bawls. It is also called the "Bawls Peace".

submitted 11 days ago • 79 comments

Imploring the United States to try adopting one of my life values: Not Making It Everyone Else’s Problem

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

I'm hearing that the banks are going to run out of money. Better get there first thing in the morning and demand all of yours quick!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

JD Vance ascends to Presidency amidst an economic crisis becoming the youngest and first millennial President begins his first address to the nation. "Umm so that just happened. President Trump served this nation well—" *CUT TO: a second camera and JD looks right into it with an Office Jim look*

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

They should let me open the wimdows on the train (stinks in here)

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Having exausted all other options — having seen all other defenses fail — all our hopes for being rescued from one of the most deranged and stupid national leaders in history now rest with the highest and final authority in this country: the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

submitted 10 days ago • 149 comments

if they're set on doing another great recession you should at least be able to get a PBR tallboy and pack of american spirits for $5 again

submitted 14 days ago • 82 comments