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Old one but still relevant www.theguardian.com/world/2024/s...

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Among the many other stupid things about today is that Trump's reported deal to save TikTok appears to let it keep running exactly as is without addressing the reasons Congress banned it in the first place www.platformer.news/trump-tariff...

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TRUMP DITCHES FALLEN SOLDIERS' DIGNIFIED TRANSFER FOR GOLF DINNER Trump won't attend the dignified transfer of 4 U.S. soldiers at Dover AFB who died in Lithuania. He'll be at his Saudi-backed LIV Golf dinner in Florida instead. The soldiers were honored by Lithuania's president.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1217 comments

‼️ Putin can no longer end the war, even if he wanted to, the war has become the foundation of the Russian economy and society, and the onset of peace will cause the collapse of the entire system, — Foreign Policy

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MASSIVE SHIFT Pro-democracy channels on YouTube are now growing faster than right-wing channels for the first time. MeidasTouch is proud to lead the way as the fastest-growing YouTube channel in Q1 2025. Keep this momentum going: YouTube.com/@meidastouch

submitted 22 hours ago • 977 comments

Republicans in Congress are hoping you won’t pay attention to them for the next 36 hours. Why? Because they're pushing through their unpopular plan that gives tax handouts to billionaires and billionaire corporations and leaves everyone else in the dirt. youtube.com/shorts/RZ-nl...

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As Allison Pohle notes, the trend lines keep going in the wrong direction for air travel from the country that traditionally has sent more inbound travelers to the United States than any other in the world. Actions = Consequences. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

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Another $2.6 billion in cuts to NIH are coming by next Tuesday www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/n... The shredded image fits

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100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election. 70% of these donations went to Republicans. Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts for the rich. This is what oligarchy looks like.

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NEWS: Whirlpool Corp. announces Iowa's largest layoff of 2025 in Amana manufacturing facility. Nearly 1/3 of the company’s workforce in the Iowa facility will be let go due to current market conditions.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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BREAKING: Senators Chuck Grassley (R) and Maria Cantwell (D) introduced a bipartisan bill to reassert Congress’s authority over tariffs. It requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of imposing new tariffs, which would expire unless Congress approves them within 60 days.

submitted 1 day ago • 354 comments

We warned you of their plan

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Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

submitted 2 days ago • 885 comments

What could possibly go wrong?

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RFK Jr. announces HHS reinstating some programs, employees cut by mistake https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/rfk-jr-announces-hhs-reinstating-programs-employees-cut-120465881 #fivethirtyeight #elections #news

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🚨 FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON CALLS FOR PAUSE ON FUTURE AND RECENT INVESTMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES (audio translation)

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Wisconsin's Supreme Court race is now the most expensive court race in U.S. history — largely due to donations from out-of-state billionaires. As Justice Louis Brandeis said, we can have great wealth in the hands of a few, or we can have democracy, but we can't have both.

submitted 4 days ago • 172 comments

My reach on X before and after the election. I really think they flipped a switch.

submitted 4 days ago • 77 comments

The consultant-driven, 90s-era, ad-focused campaigns HAVE TO GO if we have any chance of winning in the future. Our side let Republicans take the lane of economic populism. We have to take it back. FASCINATING conversation. 👇👇👇

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🇩🇪 Germany’s Ministry of Finance now confirmed that the 🇷🇺 #shadowfleet tanker #Eventin and its cargo have been seized and confiscated. This creates the conditions for the ship and its cargo of approx. 100,000t crude oil with an estimated value of around €40 million to be sold.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Where do I go to get my apology from the folks on the left and the right who assured me that Trump was the antiwar isolationist candidate?

submitted 5 days ago • 222 comments

We're doing much better preventing sudden cardiac arrest mortality among marathon and half-marathon runners jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @jama.com #ACC25

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Wird jetzt mal höchste Zeit, US-Unternehmen nach ihrer Tariftreue, Zulassung von Gewerkschaften und Betriebsräten zu fragen. Ohne das gibt's kein Geschäft mehr in Deutschland, oder?

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Er übertraf eine acht Jahre alte Bestmarke: Der slowenische Skispringer Domen Prevc hat einen Weltrekord aufgestellt. Den Wettkampf in seiner Heimat gewann er trotzdem nicht.

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Klaus-Michael Kühne ist einer der vermögendsten Deutschen. Hier verteidigt der 87-Jährige die Oper, die er in Hamburg errichten möchte. Und wehrt sich gegen den Vorwurf, die NS-Geschichte seines Unternehmens zu vertuschen.

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Here’s how to request your 23andMe data be deleted—and why you might want to.

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

Are we great again yet?

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Hundreds of international students in the US are getting an email from the State Department asking them to self-deport owing to campus activism — for something as innocuous as sharing a social media post.

submitted 6 days ago • 284 comments

An American woman detained in Afghanistan has been released by the Taliban, according to a social media post on Saturday by a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, just days after the U.S. removed multimillion-dollar bounties from the heads of three senior Taliban officials.

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FEDERAL SPENDING SURGES Despite chaos caused by Trump, Musk, and DOGE, federal spending is on pace to come in 7.4% higher this year than last. The federal government has spent $1.893 trillion in 2025 as of March 26, compared to $1.763 trillion at the same date last year. 1/

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Elon Musk’s America PAC and Building America’s Future disclosed spending about $17M on Wisconsin’s court race. Backing the same candidate are billionaire Richard Uihlein and Americans for Prosperity, a dark-money group founded by the Koch brothers. By @megomatz.bsky.social

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Emanuel: Ever since the US showed weakness toward Putin in Ukraine… Within a week or two, China launched an unprecedented naval exercise against our ally Australia... They made unprecedented moves against Japan, against Vietnam, in the Philippine area, and on Taiwan’s straits. They see weakness

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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

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Elon Musk just announced he sold X to xAI in a really unusual transaction that values the AI company at $80 billion and the social media company at $30 billion. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/t...

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NEW: Organizers behind a pronatalist conference with far-right ties in Austin, Texas this weekend have set up matchmaking events for attendees that include the option of getting married on site as part of their greater effort to repopulate the world, WIRED has learned.

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NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

submitted 9 days ago • 699 comments

Donald Trump cannot cancel the 2026 elections. But he can make it very difficult for them to be free and fair. His executive order is aimed at doing just that. Here is my promise: We are going to sue to stop him and we will win.

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Uh oh the Trump administration accidentally added us to their group chat

submitted 11 days ago • 140 comments

nightmare group chat

submitted 11 days ago • 2077 comments

JD Vance, "Denmark is not being a good ally" "If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"

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Turkey arrested Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu of Istanbul, the top political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on accusations of corruption and terrorism on Wednesday. Imamoglu was set to be named the opposition’s presidential candidate. nyti.ms/4ho834z

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French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump

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