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A social media influencer was jailed for almost three years for joking Jesus should get a haircut. Ratu Thalisa , a transgender Muslim woman with nearly 450,000 followers on TikTok, was sentenced to two years and ten months by a court in North Sumatra.

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There is no difference between an illiterate person who can't read and a literate person who can read but doesn't

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AP A survey reveals 75% of US Scientists are considering leaving the country due to funding cuts implemented by the Trump administration.

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The end of the Obama Administration the defense budget was 619 billion. The end of Trumps 1st term-740 billion. Tax cuts to the wealthy and again this term. How is this strategy and the current cuts which only has < 1% effect, going to help? More like Making America Broke Again!

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Economists including the Central Bank, are stating the US will be out of money by July, some say as early as May. How is firing thousands of federal workers and shutting down agencies and programs that serve and protect Americans reduce a budget deficit these people and agencies did not create?

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In 2001 at the end of the Clinton Admisitration, the National Debt was 5.7 trillion. Inflatiom 3.4%. Greatest peacetime economic expansion in modern history. The budget was balanced with a surplus. At the end of Trumps 1st term national debt was 27.8 trillion a 40% increase from his predecessor.

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Republicans: Beating down the TG's. then the poor, mentally, I'll, the homeless, the elderly and now children. Besides being inefficient idiots, just mean, thoughtless, sociopathic bullies.

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Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

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During the Obama administration 11.7 million new jobs were created. Trump and the Republicans caused decreases in job growth while Democratic leaders dramatically increased job growth.

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During the first Trump administration only 6.7 million new jobs were created. During the Biden Administration nearly a 100% increase in new job creation was accomplished with over 12 million new jobs created. Clearly MAGA voters swolled a ton of Trump bull shit! Expect the same this term from DT.

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Nightmare trying to figure out which offices are closed. Called Social Security and they say it's not true unless you receive a letter from Social Security. What a cluster! Older peopled scared, families scared for them and have to take off work to figure it out and find a local office.

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My mother is 96 bed ridden with Alzheimers and in a Nursing home. Many Social Security offices are closed. I'm her Power of Attorney. She has been getting her check for 33 years. Musk says all checks will be cut off unless personal verification is completed by April How? She can't go.

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How insane, inefficient and just plain cruel is Elon Musk and Trumps DOGE Program on Social Security. DOGE says you have to go in person to the local Social Security Office to verify yourself. How stupid and inefficient can the government under Truump and Dodge be.

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Politics MAGA pastor vows to direct God to 'be an enemy to your enemies' for $1K By Sarah K. Burris, 2 hrs ago Raw Raw Story Following img.particlenews.com/image.php?ur... The Rev. Paula White in Grapevine, Texas on June 11, 2021. I guess grifting people out of money in God's name is legal!

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People forget Huxley was way ahead of his time when he wrote Brave New World in 1927. Orwell is given most of the credit for anti authoritarianism but people forget he was a student of Huxly's who exposed him to these possibilities in the US

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Brave New World has arrived

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Propaganda and Manipulation: He saw how advertising and media could be used to control people's desires and beliefs. Propaganda and Manipulation: He saw how advertising and media could be used to control people's desires and beliefs.

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In Huxley's "Enemies of Freedom he cited the following: Technological Advancements: Huxley warns that technology, while seemingly beneficial, can be used to control and manipulate individuals, leading to a loss of autonomy and critical thinking.

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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used. Hunter S Thompson

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@mcuban.bsky.social The student loan debt at the end of 2023 both private and Federal is reported to be 1.7 trillion.

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Social Security announced today that more than three million deaths are reported to the Social Security Administration each year and explains that the agency’s records are highly accurate. Less than one-third of 1 percent are erroneously reported. Musk is a liar!

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When Trump took office in 2017 the National debt was 19.9 trillion. When he left office it was approximately 27.8 trillion. Now, Congress raises the debt ceiling give themselves a 40% pay raise. Trump gives additional tax cuts to the wealthy, just like his 1st term. MAGA--hardly!

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22 trillion of our 38 trillion debt came from just Afghanistan. Do we cut defense spending wihch is 50% of our budget now? No! DC goes after the poor, disabled, the sick, unemployed, the homeless, most with a profound mental illness, and those on Medicaid and the elderly on Medicare.

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Politics New analysis says Trump budget plan will take from poorest 40 percent to give to wealthy

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Not just Murrow but Hunter Thompson and add a little Christopher Hitchens. We'd have some firepower then and would be able to get rid of several of these scoundrels.

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Loved your post on Transgender kids. Trump is just waisting money like he did his first term. This issue is just for show and to stir up hate for a very marginalized group. No wonder their suicide rate is 8 times the national average. Just a disgrace!

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Trump is not going to cut the Federal Deficit Past performance is the best indicator of future performance. In January 2016, the national debt was $19.3 trillion. By January 2021, the national debt had risen to $27.8 trillion. Why? Lowered taxes for the wealthy and increased government spending

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I believe it was Blaise Pascal who said, Not to be insane in an insane society such as this is, in and of itself, an act of insanity"

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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. Hunter S Thompson

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Bill that would allow medical professionals to refuse care based on personal, religious beliefs passes TN Senate Source: actionnews5.com share.newsbreak.com/bxdkbym5

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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. Blaise Pascal

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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Blaise Pascal

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