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Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.

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The FAA may cancel a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon and instead give it to Starlink, owned by Elon Musk, WaPo reports. This would be his latest opportunity to get richer off of taxpayers. Musk and his businesses have received $38 billion in federal contracts and subsidies.

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When you buy a new car, it'll be more expensive if Ted Cruz passes his legislation requiring the government to force you to effectively subsidize the conservative AM talk radio conglomerate that gives money to his super PAC. Pass it on.

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In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

submitted 8 days ago • 79 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 8 days ago • 258 comments

Inch by inch, Row by row Lint rolling these black clothes

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I have an enormous bag of Valentine’s Day chocolates and I’m happy to say that my sanity is ready to hang by a thread for another day. 💪

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AMAZON SHOULD INCLUDE THE DANCING BEARS OF NÚMENOR IN THE RINGS OF POWER. RT IF YOU AGREE

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🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 12 days ago • 288 comments

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

submitted 12 days ago • 74 comments

This week, the Washington Post backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause. The group said it signed a $115,000 agreement.

submitted 11 days ago • 29 comments

The Trump administration is cutting funding to the National Institutes of Health. @statnews.com reporter @angusrohan.bsky.social says the cuts will have far-reaching effects for cancer patients.

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

submitted 12 days ago • 1537 comments

This is the real gulf of America

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Law-abiding New Yorkers who work in essential jobs and are raising their kids in the city will be arrested, imprisoned, shackled and maybe shipped to Gitmo as the price for allowing Eric Adams to get away with his crimes

submitted 18 days ago • 31 comments

“What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly.” - Pope Francis

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🫣🫣🫣

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I just want to go back to the time when every single song on the radio was by the goo goo dolls

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who cares about imposter syndrome we’re all half plastic at this point

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🚨NEWS: Trump is firing the inspectors general at specific agencies that have been investigating Elon Musk’s companies and their business matters with the government. Inspectors general are the officials whose job is to root out corruption and fraud.

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BREAKING: 10,000 workers at Kroger-owned King Soopers are now on strike in Colorado, shutting down 77 grocery stores. UFCW workers voted by 96% to strike after their contract expired in January. It's the first big strike of Trump's second term.

submitted 22 days ago • 28 comments

PITCH: An updated version of the curse of Cassandra where she's describing things that are happening now, in front of everyone, but still isn't believed.

submitted 24 days ago • 79 comments

BREAKING: Gwynne Wilcox, illegally removed from the NLRB by Trump, is suing the President. The lawsuit calls her firing "a blatant violation of the National Labor Relations Act" and says that if she doesn't challenge her firing Trump will have nullified the NLRA’s protections.

submitted 23 days ago • 12 comments

Just before the ceasefire deal earlier this year, Kushner doubled his stake in an Israeli firm that stands to gain from expanding Israeli settlements. www.levernews.com/as-ceasefire...

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

Funding is shut off for some Head Start programs in Washington State, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and possibly elsewhere, according to Lisa Desjardins. Preschool programs will have to shut down if they don't receive the funds.

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A pair of labor unions have sued the U.S. Treasury Department in an effort to halt Elon Musk’s team’s dangerous access to a critical government payment system. “The scale of the intrusion into individuals’ privacy is massive and unprecedented.”

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Just saw this posted on FB and had to share.

submitted 24 days ago • 262 comments

Just a reminder that Musk couldn’t get a top level security clearance. And he was under investigation for violating the terms of the clearance he did have. Now he has your Social Security number, your tax returns, and is unilaterally deciding who the government does and does not pay.

submitted 26 days ago • 155 comments

Today in US History: On Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granted black men the right to vote. It was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869. Black Americans were set free by the 13th amendment. The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship. #BlackHistoryMonth

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NEWS: Huge corporations are now considering moving to Texas after the legislature just created a special court system for business — a system that lets the GOP governor quickly fire judges who do not deliver favorable rulings to his donors.

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib has called for a ban on defense contractor stock trading within Congress. At least 50 members of Congress own stock in defense contractors, with their collective holdings totaling as much as $10.9 million.

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🚨NEW: While in office, Kyrsten Sinema pushed bills to limit oversight on cryptocurrencies and took thousands of dollars in campaign cash from the very crypto exchange platform she’s now advising.

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

Starbucks workers make the coffee, but Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol keeps all the beans.

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“America First” means American billionaires and Trump donors first. They’ll continue to get the subsidies, tax breaks, and federal assistance they paid him for. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

If I have to install an app on my phone to make it work, then I don’t want it at all.

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I just want to remind everyone who’s processing what’s happening and discerning where to go from here: Money is fake, suffering is real.

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