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I'm sure very few people know about this. Inmates in 43 states are charged a per diem cost for "room and board" ranging between $40 to hundreds of dollars. In some states you owe for every day of your original sentence EVEN IF YOU GET OUT EARLY. www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

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Don't worry he's just insanely high and deliriously sleep-deprived

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The guy who essentially just won the next chancellorship, Friedrich Merz, has been doing a press tour for the past week or so talking about how America under Trump can’t be trusted and promising to investigate Musk for meddling in the German election.

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I genuinely think that people who throe a sieg heil should be met with violence up to and including lethal violence, and were I ever on a jury for such a crime I would decline to convict.

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Christ

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“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

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Tomorrow is likely to be a dark day for Germany. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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I repeat, if you or a loved one was recently fired from the federal government during your probationary period, and the reason you were given was poor performance, please reach out to us at www.centerforemploymentjustice.com. We have a plan and may be able to help you.

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Rereading Will Eisner's Dropsy Avenue trilogy, where amid life in 1930s New York he occasionally drops in global headlines that never involve the characters directly but that buttress their daily cultural circumstances

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another good day to remind your very opinionated cousin that Trump has been terrible for crypto

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Elon musk is the greatest unifying political issue this country has seen since 9/11, fumbling this bag would be almost as criminal as his agency

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"A campaign that would make Mao proud." Interesting video on how the personality cult around Mao created a crisis of competence that nearly destroyed the country, with clear and strong parallels to the modern GOP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPcu...

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this is my favorite bluesky-ism along with "fuck the current voters, lets go talk to people who didn't vote, who i also hate and think are morons"

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never bet against America

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Trump doesn't have magic powers. His policies are deeply unpopular. He is losing in the courts. Team doomer is not paying attention to reality.

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96 percent of Congress fails to beat the market yet Elon is out here telling you to freak out about civil service corruption instead of, say, Trump hiring Elon to police the agency that reviews his RFPs

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Yes, your retirement account just lost 5% of its value but don't worry, Elon successfully used your Social Security check to pay for today's ketamine dose :)

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Not to be alarmist but it would appear the modern Republican party is too Nazi for uh, actual Nazis

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Barely two weeks ago Trump fired all the people who prevented things like this

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When @eryk.bsky.social called it an "AI coup" in his essay on Tech Policy Press, it wasn't just a cute phrase. Read the piece, "Anatomy of an AI Coup," here:

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Trump's immigration cops racially profiling brown ppl, IL Sen Duckworth pushes for stronger legal protections to prevent illegal arrests/jailing. Urge your member of Congress to support her bill: https://buff.ly/4hOwlWd Bill info: https://buff.ly/4hOwmcJ

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One thing I really worry about is Dems quietly assuming thermostatic pressure kicks in were not paying attention to what happened to Labour from 2009-2023. It IS possible to under-exploit an incumbent's vulnerabilities.

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They sure love fucking over veterans

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To be fair this is one IRS employee who absolutely should not be in charge of enforcing tax law

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Trump watching the hockey game

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I don't think Trump wants the postal service because he wants to come after VBM. That's the purview of state governments the enemy already controls. I think he wants the postal service because his brain doesn't work anymore and his corporate masters promised his face on a stamp if he privatized it.

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did we ever figure out why there are like fifty CPACs per year

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When these cowards and frauds finish their long, prosperous, and consequence-free natural lives I'm making a national map of their gravesites and popular regional dancing styles to practice on them

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So uh, the firm that launched $LIBRA - the scam coin for which Argentina's Milei is likely going to face impeachment - also helped launch $MELANIA ... and apparently coordinated the "sniping" that created the profit side of the $LIBRA rugpull in the first place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud6G...

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So yeah Democrats need to be preparing for the likely scenario of the economy being quite bad next year finance.yahoo.com/news/bank-am...

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PLEASE check on your midwestern relatives today. Millions of Americans have vowed not to let themselves die before Mitch McConnell does. a very dangerous day for many

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if any Democrat needs a 100% policy position to run on, may i recommend "corporations shouldn't be allowed to use your race, age, and oh also your bank account balance to decide how much to charge you for groceries"

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Been seeing a lot of very smart online politics people assert that the reason Trump is so popular right now is that his policies are popular. This always struck me as an odd take because Trump is currently unpopular and so are his policies www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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'"He spoke out against his former classmate Matt Gaetz. Ritchson and the politician attended school together after the actor’s family moved from Illinois to Niceville, Fla. “That motherfucker. We are adversaries,” Ritchson said.' I stand with America's largest son. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

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Whoa. Microsoft has invented an entirely new state of matter that could lead to a single quantum computer having more computational power than every existing computer combined. In other words, it would likely be able to start Microsoft Teams in under 3 minutes news.microsoft.com/source/featu...

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The Texas Observer is one of the best in the business at the moment. They deserve your support.

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what brave journalist is going to save the US from monarchy by asking Trump to acknowledge that if he's a king he must think any of his kids are qualified to succeed him

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