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Former Issue & Advocacy Communications Consultant Current believer in fighting fire with fire; writer of fiction; amateur photographer; Italian language student; and baker - but only immediately after watching an episode of The Great British Baking Show
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Who would have thought we'd live to see the day when a small country like El Salvador pretty much tells the Supreme Court and President of the United States to F-off

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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.

submitted 2 days ago • 187 comments

Sean Duffy hypes tariffs on Newsmax next to a ticker showing the stock market tanking (again)

submitted 5 days ago • 240 comments

Matt Priest, president of the largest footwear trade group, says he doesn't think footwear manufacturing is coming back to the US. via PBS News

submitted 6 days ago • 62 comments

Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.

submitted 7 days ago • 101 comments

'Careless People' Is the Book About Facebook I've Wanted for a Decade

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Breaking: Sen. Richard Blumenthal says he plans to place a hold on ALL Trump nominees going forward. This will force Republicans to hold individual votes to override each hold, which will severely slow down their agenda. 🔗: www.axios.com/newsletters/...

submitted 8 days ago • 1340 comments

a lesson for every college, law firm, business, etc. — if these chodes demand you do something, your first response should be some form of "make me"

submitted 8 days ago • 71 comments

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

submitted 8 days ago • 372 comments

People convinced themselves they were in a recession and voted for a guy who’d put them in one.

submitted 9 days ago • 108 comments

This explains so much about what we're going through right now www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments