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They never don't look painfully stupid

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Democracy isn’t dying in darkness it’s being dismantled at the hands of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. @allisonjriggs.bsky.social won this election fair and square back in November. Her opponent is a petulant Confederate cosplayer who can’t handle losing. Concede Jefferson Griffin.

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WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?

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DHS, the new Gestapo

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WATCH LIVE: Fighting Oligarchy Tour with AOC And Bernie Sanders in LA

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LIVE: AOC is just started speaking at her largest rally yet in Los Angeles. Watch HERE: www.youtube.com/live/T2449Ua...

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The dream is dead

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If they had anyone worth noting, their face would be plastered across state media. They don’t. This is human trafficking.

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Imagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed Are there any states offering support for their businesses ?

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My law firm is currently litigating 49 voting and election cases in 21 states. States with the most cases: AZ, GA, NC, NV, FL, LA, PA. I expect new cases will be filed this week.

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BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

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THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

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new hubble image to cleanse the timeline ✨

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NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

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I long for the days when the stock market wasn't crashing as often as planes and helicopters.

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NEWS: Consumer sentiment PLUNGED 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, the second-lowest reading on records going back to 1952. April’s reading was lower than anything seen during the Great Recession.

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Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

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Warren Urges S.E.C. to Investigate Trading Around Trump’s Tariff Pause You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...

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We went from Putin gate, to Signal gate then tariff gate and he's still in the White House. 😡

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

Donald Trump just put tariffs on a penguin. No — I’m not joking.

submitted 11 days ago • 151 comments

If the point of Donald Trump’s tariffs was to destroy the US economy By making consumer goods unaffordable Tanking the stock market Setting up America for crushing retaliation And pissing off all of our allies He’s doing a helluva job

submitted 12 days ago • 71 comments

The slime oozing down the White House walls is palpable.

submitted 13 days ago • 57 comments

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications.

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Christian nationalists don’t actually believe in heaven or hell or they wouldn’t act the way they do…

submitted 14 days ago • 299 comments

It continues to be horrible. We can't let them erase history. open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

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More than 40% of retired workers apply for Social Security by phone. Trump wants to end this service on April 14. This will crowd our Social Security offices, which already have 30 million visits/year, and are facing cuts and closures because of Trump. This must be stopped.

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We Should Have Seen What Sally Mann Saw 40 Years Ago: A 12-year-old girl is in the midst of a profound transition. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o... You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...

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The Tax Foundation estimates that the f*ckwit felon's tariffs could knock the US GDP by roughly 0.7% & cost about 500k US jobs. The stable genius will obliterate our economy that under Biden was called the envy of the world. It'll be yet another Trumptastrophe. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Listening to the Speaker of The House, I'm going to assume... 1. No resignations will occur, 2. There will be no congressional hearings, 3. Nothing is going to happen. Our entire federal government is fucked...

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I'm no lawyer, but it seems like discussing war plans in Signal outside a SCIF is maybe just a little bit worse than using a private server to send emails that weren't even marked as classified. But what do I know.

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Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the names of individuals to be killed. That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF. I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.

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act.audubon.org/a/nepa-2025

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I love this

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This is insane.

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Richest man in the world celebrating cutting money for public education

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That’s not how this works only Congress can do that. An EO can NOT undo the Education Department. Trump signs executive order to dismantle the Education Department. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

submitted 25 days ago • 27 comments