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Trump is selling the White House at a rate of roughly $1 billion a month (!) - the biggest scandal in US history, 10X worse than Watergate This needs a name: Cryptogate This needs a complete guide, which I've written This needs us to demand action My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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Welcome to our new neighbors at the Maudelle Miller Shirek Community in South Berkeley! This 100% affordable housing development has: 🚌 easy access to public transit 🔑 87 new rental apartments for low-income households 🏠 12 units reserved for formerly unhoused households. 1/5

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i need every single trans and cis person alike to remain steadfast in recognizing how not normal and not okay headlines like these are. these are fascist-aligned thoughts. we are not a debate, we are not a liability, we are not something to neutralize. fuck you, @politico.com

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

These op-eds always say things like "many Americans know a trans person", but they never say "many Americans are trans". That way, The Trans Question remains an intellectual exercise, and this centrist pud doesn't have to consider he's talking about actual human beings.

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I guess hiding your face in shame still doesn't actually keep the leopards from eating it

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Axios is reporting Dems are trying to kill the anti trans healthcare ban with the Byrd rule, after our reporting was the first to float this idea in the public. This was not a given. We had to fight for it. Thank you @jael.bsky.social @thefreeradical.org and EVERYONE calling Senators!!

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

Reports of Bluesky's death have been greatly exaggerated.

submitted 4 hours ago • 24 comments

A useful FYI for newcomers surprised at Ireland's consistently robust stance on the genocide in Gaza; in addition to being a rare Western country that knows how the pointy end of colonialism feels, our UN peacekeeping troops in Lebanon have been weathering IDF attacks for <decades>.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

People say tech companies aren't innovating anymore but look at this: Meta, which has burned billions on the Metaverse, has just innovated a new way to burn billions on a product that definitely won't work lol

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Joe is so bright in the cloudy light 🪶

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i am not a wedge issue im a person

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will be v interesting to see if the NYT devotes the attention to this it gave to the president of Harvard's citations!

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

This is a Nazi term, used in the same context as the Nazis. There's no even scintilla of doubt here. The State Department is opening an official Office For Doing Nazi Ethnic Cleansing. Marco Rubio should be hounded out of every public space, forever, by screaming outrage.

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For those who don’t know, breaking up payments like this (structuring) is a common money laundering technique and banks flag it automatically.

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Redirecting federal law enforcement to focus on the lowest crime-rate subpopulation is pro-crime policy.

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I know it doesn't stop them from being exhausting but please know the reason there's a relentless stream of thinkpieces from centrists or right-leaning dems going DITCH THE TRANSES is because the public opinion as a whole is "just leave them alone, jesus" and they fucking hate that

submitted 3 hours ago • 9 comments

there are more than 3,500 child marriages a year in the US where 1/1000 trans kids get to medically transition. republicans have fought really hard on multiple occasions to keep one of those legal. guess which one!

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For folks living in the United States, participating in this sort of thing is a federal crime and will land you on the radar of the US Office of Foreign Assets Control If you don't go broke defending yourself from the federal indictment first, you'll likely go broke while you're in federal prison

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

Because Obama has one.

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unions: they get the job done

submitted 21 hours ago • 109 comments

Say it with me SHAUN KING IS A SCAMMER

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Elite centrists are really obsessed with trans people in a profoundly unhealthy and weird way, like no one does more to raise the salience of trans people (almost always in a negative way) then like the most out of touch rich busy bodies you can think of

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BREAKING: After three months of confinement at the Northwest Detention Center, Lewelyn Dixon will be released today. An immigration judge ruled that Dixon, a longtime US permanent resident and citizen of the Philippines, should be allowed to stay in the United States.

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Reminder about the Court of International Trade, which Trump will inevitably attack as partisan, dangerous, etc. Three judges: Katzmann - Obama - Senate voice vote (meaning zero objections, nobody bothered to ask for a count) Reif - Trump - also voice vote Restani - Reagan - also voice vote

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

A lot of people are constitutionally incapable of understanding that there are laws that don't give a shit about them and that they can get in real, actual trouble.

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vocal opposition to democratic gerontocracy is nifty because it serves a constructive purpose — passing the torch — and a political one: signaling independence from The Democrats.

submitted 9 hours ago • 150 comments

On Earth 2.0, folks on the other side of the aisle would say loud and clear that if "everyone involved in the deal understand the payment as the price of merger approval" then it is a bribe, and all of those people should expect to go to prison if it goes ahead in the next administration

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"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way" "chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:

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Lynda Sayce plays a piece of lute music that was recently discovered in an archival document at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Since the handwritten lute tablature was folded and reused as scrap paper, it's problaby the first time in 400 years that this music is heard.

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

technically it's a polyghoul

submitted 22 hours ago • 125 comments

Oh I am not shitposting, folks. Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple. Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk. They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad

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Couple things: 1. Elon is full of shit. Ignore the credulous media. He won't stop wreaking havoc. 2. We're winning, but it will take time. Take to the street, fight back, make your voices heard. Dump your Tesla, sell your stock. Join a #TeslaTakedown protest or create your own at TeslaTakedown.com!

submitted 22 hours ago • 45 comments

like some others mentioned, h5n1 kills nearly every bird it infects. deaths from bird flu are horrific and full of suffering. this is unethical, dangerous, and cruel pseudoscientific experimentation

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

So many enlightening facts about Zuck here, but arguably the best: Biden called him “Little Twerp” and “F---erberg.”

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Cocktail party politeness politics at their finest. Ignore the inconvenient (and incredibly dangerous) whole of what someone says, focus on the few incidentally not insane things, and tut-tut anyone who wants to kick them out as "rude" or "gatekeeping" or "closed-minded".

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Constituent: Trump and his cabinet in addition to being totally unqualified and inept are breaking laws by ignoring federal judge's orders. When are you going to do the responsibility you are elected for by holding the executive branch accountable up to and including impeachment?

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Newsletter: I wrote about the ridiculous $6.5bn all-stock deal between Jony Ive and OpenAI, how little Ive has done since leaving Apple, how impossible it is to make the mythical "third core device," and how the media needs to stop acting as OpenAI's marketing arm. www.wheresyoured.at/measures/

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

it’s really, really fascinating how both porn and drag are the two main visual influences on right-wing women’s cosmetic presentation right now

submitted 22 hours ago • 10 comments

Might I suggest that the fact that folks are continually surprised when their friends or family get detained by ICE despite this pretty clearly being administration policy is indicative of both a failure to curate information diets, but also a media failure?

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J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.” 🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk

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if the musk-trump coalition continues to fray i suspect we will see a lot of "i was at DOGE" tell-alls and i think a useful heuristic for understanding them will be "anything that makes elon look like a freak is true" coupled with "anything that makes DOGE employees look like lesser freaks is a lie"

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Fascinating to watch Labour in the UK act out every fit of Yglesias-like Popularism and get more unpopular every step of the way. The truth is that what Popularists mean by "Popularism" is "do things that are popular with big donors."

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