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‘Silicon Six’ accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years

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The U.S. is paying El Salvador $6 million to house hundreds of immigrants deported from the United States in an immense and brutal prison there. Experts are questioning the legality of this payment amid alleged gross human rights violations. buff.ly/gcMhb6R

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Two dead, five injured after Tesla crashes into Orange County Transit bus

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Bill Maher jerked off my uncle at Quiznos

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KUOW’s Kim Malcolm spoke to journalist Jenny Kleeman about what happened to her family friend when she tried to travel to Canada from Washington state.

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Over 100 words and phrases are now banned the Department of Agriculture’s research division, many of them essential to any discussion of climate.

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SCOOP: DOGE is getting audited.

submitted 5 days ago • 146 comments

The simultaneous crash of the stock market and the bond market is super ominous. But also a totally foreseeable consequence of this insane tariff policy. So is it incompetence or part of a plan to crash the economy? An increasingly important question.

submitted 5 days ago • 669 comments

Per Google: In 2023, only 4% of the building blocks – known as Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients – of life-saving drugs, including asthma and diabetes medications, were produced in the U.S. Some 82% came from China and India, according to data from US Pharmacopeia's (USP) Medicine Supply Map.

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There was a spike in Google searches for "how do tariffs work." Pretty sure these are MAGA folks who should have looked this up before they elected Donald Trump. 🤦‍♀️

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

Any further questions about the integrity of this court?

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Sure, Kamala Harris would have have preserved our global power and domestic prosperity. But she would have done so as a Black woman. by Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller

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We found the government “waste, fraud, and abuse”.

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This.

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And no one in America doubts why he's doing this.

submitted 5 days ago • 350 comments

pro tip: if your government claims to have no money for children's heathcare but will eagerly waste millions on a gaudy military parade to stroke the fragile ego of a broken-inside president, you just might live in a shithole country

submitted 5 days ago • 423 comments

This is big: House Republicans tucked language into the budget res “rule” that bans the House from voting to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration used to impose tariffs. TL;DR lawmakers who vote for this are officially giving up their power to revoke his tariffs until October.

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Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

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ICE's leader said that his dream is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages story via @jerodmacevoy.com

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"That must be done by other government employees, people on the payroll paid by the taxpayers."

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What’s even keeping Trump at a 43% approval rating? At this point, it’s the right-wing media that’s doing the heavy lifting.

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At this precarious moment, we need more, not less, humanities research and creative production.

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The FHFA under Director Bill Pulte has withdrawn much of the Biden administration's fair housing regulatory efforts since his confirmation last month. And he's done it through a series of tweets. That has a lot of mortgage market watchers concerned. news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...

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CNBC's @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social makes a rare and bold (and likely spot-on) observation about the real potential that Trump, his administration and/or elected officials participated in insider trading just prior to Trump's disastrous "Liberation Day" tariffs announcement. #CORRUPTION

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JUST IN: The Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump to enforce the Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now, handing the White House a significant victory.

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Between this and the experience at Twitter I think there's now enough evidence to say that "not buying toilet paper for the office" is a core aspect of Elon Musk's management philosophy. It also raises some worrying questions about the state of Musk's own ass.

submitted 7 days ago • 75 comments

big shadow docket decision coming: can the us government exile you to a torture prison overseas vs no it can't

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my humble opinion is that if your job is to manage risk and make big decisions about markets and you screw up your judgement this badly you should be disqualified from ever managing money and also shunned completely from speaking on the subject in public again

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he did this just after going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl. he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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"While Trump retains the ceremonial position of Head of State, signing executive orders with flourish and basking in symbolic pageantry, Musk has effectively become Head of Government, wielding unprecedented control over federal agencies."

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The Trump administration has until 11:59 p.m. Monday to return to the United States a Maryland man who the government admits was accidentally deported to a high-security prison in El Salvador.

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“When words stop meaning what they’re meant to mean, then we’re in trouble.” In a new interview, the novelist Katie Kitamura talks about why writing is particularly important right now. glfdig.st/wRx6yw2

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

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1272 protests listed for tomorrow. THAT is BIG. 686 were counted in the US for the January 21, 2017, women's march, in which 1% of the country marched. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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It's midnight in Washington, and in case you're catching up... So far tonight, Republicans have blocked amendments that would: – Remove tariffs hurting families – Protect disaster response and recovery - Secure Social Security benefits - Preserve federal lands (Thread 🧵)

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“Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” ~The Diary of Anne Frank

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not meant to dig on anyone. but quotes like this are a reminder that a lot of people are two or three stages removed from having the slightest idea of what's going on. that's not an invitation to feel superior to other people but to see the value of political organizing, good media over bad etc.

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🚨 SCOOP 🚨 DHS is asking IRS to locate 7 MILLION suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records. It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation. IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.

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“I can never give allegiance to anyone else other than to follow the science as we see it."

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Unknown numbers of Ukrainians received emails by mistake from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security saying their humanitarian protected status was being revoked and they would have to leave the United States within days, the agency said Friday.

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Naval Academy’s full list of nearly 400 books on race, gender pulled from library

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Sweeping job cuts and reorganizations taking place at the US Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leave the United States “weaker as a nation,” Dr. Peter Marks told CNN.

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Welcome

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The worst news of the week. "The U.S. Senate confirmed Harmeet Dhillon, a veteran lawyer with a history of attacking voting rights, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 11 days ago • 1091 comments

Kamala Harris: There were many things that we knew would happen.. I’m not here to say I told you so

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there’s nothing as forged and faked as the welfare check logs at a prison

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Almost half of the country’s health insurance now rests in the hands of a man who once sold miracle pills — with zero proof they worked — on daytime TV.

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The two most powerful Republican politicians in America - the president and co-president of the United States - are publicly praising and defending and excusing the crimes of a far-right foreign politician who leads a party founded by a Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi. We are in a very, very dark place.

submitted 11 days ago • 494 comments