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I math-ed it out, and right now your DOGE dividend is on track to be $4.29. Let me show my work.

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Buffett’s annual letter is out — and includes this message to “Uncle Sam” about the tax Berkshire will pay: “Spend it wisely. Take care of the many who, through no fault of their own, get the short straws in life. They deserve better.” 🇺🇸 www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2024...

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KEEP PUSHING! If they won’t do a town hall DEMAND ONE

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Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team when President Donald Trump elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner.

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Here’s the thing: women outperform men academically; on most desireable leadership traits women tend to outperform men; women are less likely to display problematic work traits; women score higher on measures of leadership effectiveness. 1/2

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Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent. truthout.org/articles/tes...

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"While Florida insurers claimed to be losing money in the wake of hurricanes Irma and Michael, their parent companies and affiliates were making billions of dollars, according to a study obtained by the Herald/Times." And it appears that the DeSantis administration tried to keep it under wraps.

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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 19 hours ago • 198 comments

"blue state" where Rs have the top 2 and 3 of the top 5 in medicaid/chip enrollment those reps should probably be reminded of that

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Houston police captain, Daryn Edwards, who was arrested for possessing videos of children being sexually abused & released on a 250k bond, has been arrested again for child rape charges & is being held without bond. www.khou.com/article/news...

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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it's true civic degeneracy. no better than eating fritos and watching snuff films in the basement with a needle in your arm.

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Trump take insulin

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I warned for years Elon Musk uses his companies like his personal piggy banks, siphoning cash & assets to suit his whims. @propublica.org found he’s doing the same thing to fund his coup by already steering a whopping $40 million in just 30 days to his agency/not agency Doge as he plunders our govt.

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Enrique Tarrio just announced a lawsuit against the DOJ. He says it will be funded by their crypto investments.

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*ADAMS JUDGE ORDERS PROBE OF TRUMP DOJ MOTION TO DISMISS CASE

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Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) and CEO Devin Nunes announce the board voted to advance plans for possible new mergers, acquisitions and partnerships in the 'America First economy' Trump's media company is jumping on the grift-for-all bandwagon www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

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I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

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Texas measles outbreak has grown to 90 cases in today's update, from 58 on Tuesday. 16 patients have been hospitalized. New cases include an infant too young to be vaccinated, Texas health dept tells us: www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

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#GoldenAgeOfAmerica 🇺🇸

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reminder that the chaos is completely unnecessary

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Part of the problem with reporting on illegal funding (and job) cuts is that the headlines usually are too abstract, e.g. “Trump freezes $X billion from the NIH’s budget” instead of “Trump defunds cancer research”. People have very little sense of the scale of these agencies but like their work.

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they aren't sending $5,000 checks and not too many would actually "save it", but... in theory, if enough folks were to put the money into 10yr treasuries they would receive interest payments on the government money and possibly drive down mortgage rates

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Dance with the Devil, by @LincolnTownley, 2020, 📸 by Bruce Bennett

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This is even more unconstitutional than usual. Article I gives Congress the power to establish the post office. It cannot be "dissolve[d]" by the Executive.

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Sorry, the gift link didn’t attach to original. Here it is. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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their version of masculinity is making the mother of your child beg on social media to stop ignoring her about her childs medical emergency

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that is Argentina's president less than a week after running a ponzi scheme rug pull cryptocurrency scam on stage at cpac

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🤦🏻‍♂️ Just now at CPAC — Musk awkwardly swings around a chainsaw on stage to symbolize their rampage through the federal government, cutting jobs and programs as they pretend to care about the debt (while paving the way for trillions in tax cuts for the rich)

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"mMt bAd"

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lololololol...

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Elon is on X picking a fight with an actual astronaut and using the R word over the return of the two American astronauts on the ISS who had their stays lengthened (they are not stuck, stranded, trapped or any other similar word). Mark my words that man will absolutely destroy NASA if we let him

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fact check: since congestion pricing started, subway crime is down 36%.

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