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NEW: The Trump administration has locked Minnesota out of $200 million in federal food and climate grants awarded last summer. Projects breaking ground this year were depending on that money. minnesotareformer.com/2025/02/21/t...

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NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

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"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

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This is the right message. What we're witnessing is a socioeconomic sickness. Megalomania brought on by severe concentration of wealth. It will destroy everything if it's not addressed

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One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world just lost $1.4 billion (with a B) to a hack. This is 5x as much as the previous largest exchange hack in history.

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In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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Spoiler: The glue is failing in freezing weather. Because they used glue on the Cybertruck.

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Something darkly funny about the whole realignment arc of American politics is that there are a non-trivial amount of people who were Obama die-hards and are now full QAnon, and there are a lot of former straight-ticket GOP voters who now think McConnell is the architect of the American downfall.

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Gangster capitalism. www.wsj.com/business/med...

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JFK was 43 when he became president! We don't have to keep electing people in their 70s!

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the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

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Never stopped Republicans from gumming up the works

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Obviously this is bad and very stupid, but the tenor of this kind of Trump communique is very funny to me. It's a real HOA energy, just someone being annoying and small who knows they're being that way, and who more or less sees that as both their highest personal calling and the purpose of the job.

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BREAKING — I've confirmed the DOGE staffers at SSA. They are Marko Elez (who was previously fired for racist posts and then reinstated), Ethan Shaotran, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gautier Cole-Killian. This is per Social Security Works, a non-profit working to protect/expand Social Security.

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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Instead of doing something simple and effective, why not do a very a complicated form of a nothing that hands a loaded gun to your opposition? That's the Democrat Promise

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Some interesting posts re: John Fetterman's staff turnover

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gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

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I cannot emphasize enough that the New York City subway is not scary. It’s one of my favorite parts of living here. I grew up in the suburbs having to drive on highways everywhere and that’s way scarier

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This is a very interesting thread, and shows how treacherous "real" spending numbers can be. Always worth recalling: nominal values are real. Inflation-adjusted values may be useful or necessary for some purposes, but they occupy a lower ontological tier.

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egg gone slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Voters have a 7 point stronger reaction to Trump's failure on egg prices than they do to his abuse of executive power #FocusonEggs #EggsareTheWay #TeamEggPrices

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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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The people running the federal government hate New York City and want to punish people who live here for (by and large) having views and living lives that they dislike. Any gussied-up justification is working backwards from that desired result

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LGBTQ+ self-i.d. rises from 3.5% in 2012 to 9.3% in 2025 news.gallup.com/poll/656708/...

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Top Trump aide and incoming Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: Trump's goal "is very simple -- to abolish -- his goal is to abolish the Internal Revenue Service"

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The current spike in egg prices makes me want to re-up this post on what it means to say that inflation is driven by the supply side. The term is not as straightforward as it might seem! jwmason.org/slackwire/wh...

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I really hate the "put up with the grime, it's a city" mindset, but I hate this sort of declinism more. A country that gives up on public transit bc it's scary, and crams more people into cars, is a failure.

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bird flu is festering in dairy cattle, and unlike with chickens, there is no federal program to contain it. instead of creating one Trump is gutting the USDA and CDC, specifically its disease control programs www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

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i think the “NPC” insult is dehumanizing and illiberal and rich coming from a guy who thinks entirely in mindless dinner party cliches. in fact, all you need to know what he will think about anything is to know what parties he goes to.

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“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

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Elon Musk's elderly co-President Donald Trump has good days and bad days but it's increasingly only days where he can't remember the names of cabinet offices. Brains leaking out his ears.

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JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

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New—Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner stepped down bc she wouldn't comply w/ DOGE. Lower-level staffer Leland Dudek replaced her. In a now-deleted LinkedIn post (pre-promotion) shared w/ me, he said he was placed on admin leave bc he "circumvented the chain of command" to help DOGE.

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Conservatism as a project is basically a quest for a wise and benevolent king who will uphold tradition, keep the money flowing to the superior people and stomp hard upon the scum. And when push comes to shove, they don’t care that much whether the king is wise or benevolent, or about tradition.

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We’re in a bubble. When it pops it is going to be really ugly. Ilya Sutskever’s new company has no product and is raising $1 billion at a $30bn valuation. Mira Murati’s new company just announced a complete nothing burger. The longer this goes on the worse it will be. techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/s...

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so exempt strictly chronological feeds from this? this notion that “ah whoops well the black box put the blood libel in front 50m, whatcha gonna do” is insane. If a small town local newspaper runs a column baselessly someone a pedophile, they’re in serious trouble. why give Meta immunity here?

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lmfao do you know how unpopular you have to be to poll 4 points behind international aid and 12 points behind the IRS here

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Some guerrilla art at this Brooklyn bus shelter.

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👀 Trump’s antitrust regulators just endorsed Lina Khan’s enforcement guidelines that Kamala Harris refused to endorse as she and her campaign aides courted donors who were demanding Khan be fired. But hey — Kamala just got her CAA Hollywood deal, right?

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Breaking: The Trump Admin has killed second avenue subway and the Inter borough Express rail project. This will have to be fully funded by the state to get completed.

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This Jewish American shot two Israelis - because he thought they were Palestinians. The victims then thought they'd been attacked by an Arab, and posted; "DEATH TO ARABS". It seems absurd, but exposes the ignored evil of anti-Palestinian racism 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/he-shot-tw...

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77 year old Lt. Gov. of Mississippi Delbert Hosemann just collapsed on the state senate floor.

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