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“Every authoritarian who successfully destroyed judicial independence did so because civil society failed to unite in time,” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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When we think of social and cultural infrastructure, we may think of libraries, art galleries, community centres and theatres. But what of a tree? How can we understand its social and cultural meaning?

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Trump “BUGGED OUT EARLY FOR GOLF” ⛳️ 🏌️‍♀️… …after he told graduates he had to leave early to “deal with” Russia and China. 😳 EVERY PRESIDENT, except Trump, stays after his speech at West Point to SHAKE EACH GRADUATES HAND. 👩‍🎓 🫡 Trump has NO RESPECT for our military. 🤨

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So he raised the tariffs, paused that raise, paused that pause, then paused that pause of the pause. And no-one knows if it'll be paused again (and if such a pause will be unpaused) or what happens when (or if) the pause whose pause was paused concludes.

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“This is not another partisan drama. This is systemic theft.” medium.com/@spqesq/beyo...

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“A tremor of this future financial earthquake occurred in March 2023. In the span of five days, three U.S. banks collapsed… new research points out that the banks’ exposure to cryptocurrency and the wild bets placed on it by VC firms were central to their collapse.” slate.com/technology/2...

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Obama being more Irish than JD Vance is funny lol

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“the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, told the Ukrainians, “We fought Sweden for 21 years. How long are you ready to fight?” open.substack.com/pub/anneappl...

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Tariffs don't create jobs. They redistribute who does which job. And so employing more Americans screwing tiny screws into iPhones, means employing fewer of them doing other jobs. Which are the jobs the President wants us to dodge so that we can pick up those small screwdrivers?

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“data meticulously collected by Mapping Police Violence[i] demonstrates that police killings have increased every year since George Floyd’s murder, even as violent crime, including the number of homicides have dropped across the country.[ii]” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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JD Vance - “We live in a world that has been made effectively by university knowledge” and to rebuild the nation along the lines of white Christian nationalism, the universities must be destroyed. Vance told the audience, “the professors are the enemy.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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Sometimes I'm surprised by the ideas I need to explain, but I'll still happily do it. Bankruptcy can work well when you're running a company, but it doesn't work when you're running a country.

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The alchemy began in Bush v Gore.....

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RIEDL, on the House Budget: “.. [It] will cost more than the 2017 tax cuts, the pandemic CARES Act, Biden's stimulus, and the Inflation Reduction Act combined.” @yahoofinance.com 🇺🇸

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“The collective shrug that the American people gave to Trump maintaining his grubby little "empire" of crappy properties and crappier products during his first term set the stage for the brazen bribery of his second term.”

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Largest tax hike since WWII

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ICE Impersonarors on the rise www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/u...

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“the Library of Congress is a research library that has NOTHING to do with promoting books, children’s or otherwise.” crooksandliars.com/2025/05/pres...

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The gift is bad enough on its own, but can we talk about how insane it is to use a foreign-gifted jet as Air Force One Air Force One has a lot of capability that a luxury jet simply doesn’t, and that’s before we even consider the obvious spying/bugging/security concerns.

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Oh Look! The inevitable MAGA republican push to eliminate OSHA - worker safety standards and protections. So when all those factories get built, the people who work in them, side by side with robots, are just out of luck if they lose limbs or are exposed to toxic chemicals.

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Excellent essay which clearly demonstrates the unscientifc and brutal nature of eugenics, as seen in 21st century America www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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FIFA, 2026 World Cup

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CRYPTO CORRUPTION * 58 crypto wallets have made more than $10 million each on Trump’s meme coin = Total $1.1 billion in profits. * 764,000 wallets of small holders lost money. * Since January the meme’s creators have pocketed more than $324 million in trading fees. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/t...

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“We need a national shield law in the U.S., similar to the ones that exist in every state except Wyoming. These laws give reporters protections, in state courts, against being forced to disclose confidential sources or leaked information.” open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

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#WorldPressFreedomDay "tRuMp...has brought a troubling deterioration in press freedom." 💢 Reporters Without Borders #Voices4Victory #ONEV1

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The GOP sold science cuts as fiscal responsibility, but here’s the truth: a 25% reduction knocks GDP down nearly 4%. UT San Antonio lost millions overnight, NIH pulled $2B in grants, and towns built on federal research jobs are now scrambling. “Saving money” never cost so much. #Science #EconSky