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Everyone, please read this thread and share. Musk is closing down Social Security offices and it is not being reported. You have to go to the DOGE website to find it. Here are all the details: www.rawstory.com/anxiety-moun...

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How can 150 year olds (born in 1874) be receiving Social Security checks when SS wasn't even introduced until 1935?🤔 And how math works.

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Warren Buffett said his company has paid the US government more than $101 billion in taxes since he took the helm 60 years ago, more than any other company in history, according to his annual letter to investors on Saturday.

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Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.

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In 2024 it cost 3.7 cents to make a penny; 2006 was when it last cost less than a penny to make one. In 2024 the mint produced 3.2 billion pennies and lost $85.3 million in the process. The downside, people use more nickels which cost 14 cents.

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Alnur Mussayev, former head of Kazakhstan's intelligence service, accuses Donald Trump of being recruited by the KGB in 1987 under the code name 'Krasnov.' An affair that has its roots in the Cold War. There is currently no proof of any of this but doubt swirls...

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In South Carolina, tonight: “I have an ectopic pregnancy. It’s on my ovary. They’re making me risk my ovary even though I don’t want to. They refuse to do the surgery.” #ForcedBirthNation Original Post: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2yCKENt/

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As someone who camps at Yosemite a few times every year... this is frustrating. And so pointless.

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This is not good.

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Hollywood on defensive as Trump’s anti-DEI crusade targets creatives https://www.ft.com/content/0411d5ba-eeee-41be-a902-685264808d05

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This is why Musk wants to dismantle or cripple the FAA. He was being investigated for some of space X activities.

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Common knowledge to common criminals methinks!

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Steph's second All-Star Game MVP award placed him in rarified company alongside NBA legends 🙌

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"This is just a special weekend all the way around." Steph Curry won All-Star Game MVP once again, but the Warriors star recognizes the bigger picture of an exhausting-yet-worthwhile weekend in the Bay (via @tristirodriguez.bsky.social)

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Fascism is when Donald Trump bans 1600+ vetted Afghan Muslim refugees who helped USA against the Taliban—but now issues an Executive Order accepting white Afrikaner South Africans as refugees to the USA. It was never about justice or national security. It was always about advancing white supremacy.

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"To be playing in the All-Star Game, and you did not make the All-Star team, is absurd." Draymond is NOT a fan of Rising Stars playing in tonight's big event 😳

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Jimmy Butler's arrival has Draymond Green confident the Warriors will win the NBA Finals this season 🏆

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“The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state’s worst in nearly 30 years.” apnews.com/article/meas...

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This is what oligarchy looks like.

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Known San Francisco hater Charles Barkley appears to have changed his tune, making a massive charity donation after a morning of volunteer work in the city 🤝

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As many as 300 Texans may now be infected with measles. www.chron.com/news/houston...

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"National Nuclear Security Administration officials on Friday attempted to notify some employees who had been let go the day before that they are now due to be reinstated — but they struggled to find them because they didn't have their new contact information." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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In the year since Alexei Navalny died suddenly aged 47, dozens of Russians are still being arrested, tried and imprisoned for engaging in activities related to him and his memory reut.rs/3EBwTQC

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Draymond 🤝 Jimmy Read more: bit.ly/3CT1Qzg

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Russian cryptocurrency kingpin Alexander Vinnik arrived in Russia overnight after being released by the U.S. as part of an exchange deal that saw Moscow free American teacher Marc Fogel.

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Medicare Advantage beneficiaries who are suing UnitedHealth Group over allegedly wrongful denials of care that were based on artificial intelligence scored a victory Thursday.

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BREAKING: This is the lieutenant governor of New York calling for Mayor Eric Adams to resign. This is a bfd #ByeFelicia

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Also worth noting that they put aside organizational differences to align behind this message. No organization is named here. Just the signatories. And we’re Jews. We argue over everything. This is a minor miracle of conscious.

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❌ U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren didn't say, "There is nothing in the constitution that says ordinary Americans have a right to see what we are spending tax dollars on."

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It's kinda funny how the average economic news story went from "what does unemployment measure" to "what is the Naval Purchasing Act, the protectionist law making computers cost 7,000 dollars" to "what does it mean when the government quote unquote spends money"

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Can we rename it Gulf of International Laughingstock?

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NEW: In its notice outlining the large cut in university funding, the US National Institutes of Health seems to draw on a report from a conservative think tank that denounces the “political left.”

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There's no evidence Hamas has used U.S.-funded condoms for aerial bombs, as President Donald Trump claimed.

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It will be difficult for the kids these days to believe, but in <checks notes> mid-2024 this was perhaps the second most important issue in 🇺🇸 politics, after "the president is old & not fully in charge of his mental faculties." Now? 🦗

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!!! I don't know anything about football, but as a labor law professor, I think I'm now obligated to become an Eagles fan

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Telling my grandkids we climb light poles when the Eagles win in honor of the New Deal, electrification, & most importantly the Philadelphia Eagles #GOBIRDS 🦅🦅🦅

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Did Mahomes just get tacked by his own guy?

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