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Possibly the best interview of all-time

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“DuPont referred questions to Chemours, its chemicals spinoff, which declined to comment.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/climate/sludge-fertilizer-farmland-superfund.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

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Resistance is NOT futile

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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

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In the mid-1980s, Charles Bronson delivered one of the hardest Earth Day PSAs ever seen by mankind.

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Pope Francis called on the world and 1.4 billion Catholics to confront climate change. He brought attention to the issue but it's not clear he changed many minds.

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Why has the deep state done this

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They’re too late.

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If he says it to his followers enough before it happens - it becomes true.

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“…once a dictator takes power,dehumanizing forces are suddenly all around.This is how an authoritarian changes a culture: by getting supporters to cheer on grotesqueries of all manner, including the cessation of the freedoms he’s telling you he is about to seize.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

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Art.

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Among so much shit, a genius is detained and others are planning their escape.

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Two headlines in the New York Times today.

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Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

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Biggest insider trading market manipulation scheme in history. They aren't even bothering to hide it.

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“‘If we still had a rule of law, a robust system for the rule of law, it would be investigated’… “… S.E.C., which reviews possible violations of federal securities laws, declined to respond to questions about Mr. Trump’s post.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

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“The idea that empathy is actually bad has also been gaining traction among white evangelical Christians.” ⬅️ This “traction” is social media’s mind melt - powered by the oligarchs who win with fascism.

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My NEH grant was terminated in service of a new focus on “patriotic programming,” but as an American and an Americanist, I know that resisting this dangerous decision and the broader movement of which it is a part is my patriotic duty. Wrote abt it @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1936...

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Today's real 'fake news' incident (which added $2.4 trillion in market value and erased it nearly as quickly) hopefully will be dissected in every journalism class and newsroom. www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/m...

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“He told agents they had the wrong guy, but they aggressively ordered him to get on the ground. They didn’t allow him to show ID to prove he’s a citizen and instead they grabbed him, put him face down on the pavement, handcuffed him and took out his wallet.” www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

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We can surrender to the forces of autocracy, bigotry, xenophobia, and minoritarian rule. Or we can organize the pro-democracy majority to reclaim its power. We choose to organize: indivisible.org/groups

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THE RESISTANCE IS GROWING. 🔥

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NYT - A video on the cellphone of a paramedic who was found along with 14 other aid workers in a Gaza mass grave, shows ambulances and fire truck that they were traveling in were clearly marked and had their emergency lights on when Israeli troops fired on them.

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This. Is. Awesome. And so overdue!!!

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Economic Suicide by Dipshittery

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Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

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No one elected Elon Musk to head the “Department of Government Efficiency,” and his companies are profiting hugely from contracts paid for by taxpayer money. Musk could also benefit from his destruction of our government, because it may help his companies escape accountability for illegal actions.

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So weird how this keeps happening. www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t...

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Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians on Thursday, including at least 27 sheltering at a school, Gaza's Health Ministry said.

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Can’t help but feel that if President Bernie Sanders pulled this move the entirety of American business would try to get him pushed out of office immediately.

submitted 26 days ago • 1121 comments

Welcome to Idiocracy.

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Straight down seems bad

submitted 25 days ago • 1779 comments

Senators Chuck Grassley (R) and Maria Cantwell (D) just introduced a bill to reassert Congress’s power over tariffs. —President must notify Congress on new tariffs within 48 hours of imposition. —Congress must approve them within 60 days or they expire. www.cantwell.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

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More than 275,000 layoffs were announced last month, reaching a level not seen since the pandemic, according to a new report. The biggest culprit was one particular employer: the federal government cnn.it/42dIxcF

submitted 25 days ago • 234 comments

So good. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social

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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

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