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If you’re new to the internet discourse here’s a free guide! Boomer = anyone older than you who you don’t like Millennial = anyone younger than you who you don’t like

submitted 70 days ago • 41 comments

Ambrose Bierce said "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." Trump's policies may be God's way of schooling Americans in economics.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

In 44 years of writing columns for the Chicago Tribune, @chicagotribune.com, I have never once been told what position I had to take or not take, and never once been told what I could or couldn't write about. That's still the norm at the Tribune, but not The Washington Post.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Is it hard to understand? Is it REALLY hard to understand?

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

"The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is now forecasting that U.S. economic output will decline 2.8 percent in the first quarter of 2025 after nearly three years of growth." wapo.st/43AkJ4T

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

If the US is going to be ruled by a monarch, I'd prefer we just petition the Brits to forget that 1776 spat and let us become part of the United Kingdom.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 84 days ago • 295 comments

youtu.be/9cJ1IZsp750?...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Trump calls for an investigation into Ann Selzer

submitted 187 days ago • 391 comments

Caturday

submitted 188 days ago • 0 comments

I wish more people were on bluesky that I follow. I wouldn't have to keep going over there then

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