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Lecturer, writer, & socent interested in systems thinking, inequality, politics, & degrowth. Otherwise, I'm usually cooking, gardening, wandering, or dwelling on humanity’s big troubles. Morph (social enterprise): bit.ly/m/morph Me: bit.ly/costrike
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I went deep on the Adams/Trump quid pro quo thing. Please have a look and share. dystopianpresent.beehiiv.com/p/somethings...

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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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He's definitely in the sowing phase

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We don't need Beldar adding another layer of evil

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It's time to run him out of town

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"The Editorial Board then added “None of this reflects well on the Bondi Justice Department. Rather than accept a meeting with the leader of the most important US Attorney’s office, the new AG passed the buck to her deputy awaiting Senate confirmation...

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"Bove accepted Sassoon's resignation & told her that she and her team would be investigated for being “unwilling to comply with the order to dismiss the case.” The WSJ Editorial Board responded to this maneuver with disbelief, writing “An investigation because she resigned on principle? Really?”"

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"Bove & Adams' Supporters are trying to delegitimize accusations of impropriety. Adams’ attorney recently sent a letter purportedly w/that aim, but I can’t read the quote below as anything but a list of potential favors from Adams, followed by a warning of his inability to deliver if he’s removed."

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The more I read, the more transparent this seemed, and it seemed pretty damn transparent from the outset. I think we're going to really regret it if we don't reign this in.

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It's wild to see the Deputy AG make a lame argument for dropping the charges against Eric Adams after several of his Republican colleagues resigned in protest of the planned move. Then, given the chance of cover from Bove's letter, a bunch of Dems instead resigned or called for Adams to step down.

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I went deep on the Adams/Trump quid pro quo thing. Please have a look and share. dystopianpresent.beehiiv.com/p/somethings...

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good time for academics to join AAUP

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"The moment was captured yesterday at (CPAC) where Steve Bannon tossed off a Nazi salute and Musk appeared in a “Dark MAGA” baseball cap sporting a chainsaw and basking in the adulation of the MAGA/CPAC faithful awash in the joy a certain kind of individual derives from destruction and pain."

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👇

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If they announce any major changes to the USPS, it's general strike/mass protest time.

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Give me a minute

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WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.

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"Business culottes"

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👍

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This duplicitous mf doesn't know what duplicitous means

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It's corruption and coercion all the way down

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"большие шары" is apparently "Big Balls" in Russian.

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"We need to link proposals 4 socializing finance to a critique of conventn'l monetary policy. We need to challenge the sharp lines btwn planning, prudential regs & monetary policy proper. In reality, every action taken by the central bank channels credit towards some activities & away from others."

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Enrique sowing...

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99% say we can't afford billionaires.

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"research into the “continued influence effect” (CIE) has shown that people will often use retracted information even if they remember that the information was false. Moreover, the effects of negative misinformation are harder to counter than the effects of positive misinformation."

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They're cutting the spending limit on government employee credit cards to $1 per transaction. I'm am entirely sick of this shit

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