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The ROI on Tim Cook's $1 million donation to the Trump inauguration is astronomical www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/t...

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Not for nothing, but how, exactly, is it legal to send people for punishment in a foreign prison (esp with no due process)? Were the funds being used for it appropriated for this purpose? I feel this has just become a thing no one questions

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body rotation studies

submitted 1 day ago • 126 comments

So efficient!

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The Trump regime is working to deter dissent. Anyone who goes against Trump could end up on a target list. This is having a chilling effect on five major pillars of society — universities, science, the media, the law, and the arts. It's straight out of the fascist playbook.

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One of the greatest ongoing scandals of today is that our elected officials — Democrats included — continue to refuse to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.

submitted 1 day ago • 150 comments

Chess moves. How the game of chess moves around the world.

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“What surprised me the most this year is that instead of government efficiency, the plan was to set the government up to serve powerful corporations rather than regular people who wanted to…sign their Social Security forms online, or file taxes directly for free.” www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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The U.S. House adjourned without taking up the Senate bill that would have allowed DC government to spend local taxpayer dollars. #TaxationWithoutRepresentation was bad enough. Now Speaker Johnson is depriving 700,000 Americans of the right to fund our own government. 51st.news/house-fails-...

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The OLD Christian way, going back to the crusades. So efficient!

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So fast! So efficient!

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But RFK wants HIS answer, not the scientifically valid one.

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Our retirement savings walking out the door.

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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

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"That’s what, in practice, “a pause in paying invoices,” which is happening in a lot of other federal agencies too, really means. Uncle Sam is welching on contracts and stiffing creditors." The Federal Government is sacrificing its "ultimate trust" reputation to do business the Trump way.

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Corruption, Corruption, Corruption...

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So efficient!

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New consumer sentiment data just out for April: Americans’ expectations for how the economy will fare over the next year are now at their worst in 45 years. Consumer confidence is down 40% since Trump’s inauguration, including a 20% drop among Republicans.

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It was always about personal profit

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

I was waiting for someone to put this all together. Patience rewarded. 👇

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Marc Andreessen really, really hates universities, which seems to be a pretty common sensibility from billionaires who have spent too much time online. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 133 comments

Very informative chart from Washington Post

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No, it doesn't reflect "uncertainly in the science world." It reflects an anti-intellectual attack on science.

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Speaking as a parent of that age group, phones are part of it. However, standardized testing is the main culprit, IMHO, kids are given short sections of a few paragraphs to analyze because teachers are forced to teach to the test. Standardized testing has been a race to the bottom,thanks Dubya

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I realize this is over Donald Trump's head, but killing foreign tourism will increase the trade deficit.

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It's unreal that Republicans want to reverse the recent ban on trichloroethylene (TCE). We put so much of this deadly chemical into the environment that oceanographers can detect it in the most remote areas of the ocean.

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students are being deported for writing op-eds, not vandalizing a library. Taking part in a protest, not taking over a campus. Rubio is making claims about guilt without offer any evidence.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

No more cruise vacations for me!

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That's because Fox is a propaganda outfit, not a news organization. Its goal as proven by their $800 million settlement for lying is to bamboozle people to support Trump. Fox's goal is not to inform. Again, that's something news organizations aspire to.

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👇👇

submitted 2 days ago • 149 comments

So efficient!

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"I'm a rich guy likes to buy access to public officials, and its a lot easier to do that with the Trump administration" is a compelling message.

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So most 401K owners lost a fortune from their retirement in the last week but Trump's Oligarchs and friends made a fortune???? Why the fuck would anyone average income republican support this insanely destructive and personally damaging act of corruption?

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Share this everywhere. I believe there should be immigration enforcement. I believe there shld be an immigration enforcement agency. But this one is simply lawless to the core. That fact is just inescapable.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

Trump's tariffs are having an impact! Free trade from previous adversarial trading partners!

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Occasional PSA: Cable outlets aren’t designed to deliver us the most important news. Their goal is to capture us with the ‘best’ video of the day. The audience-tested hope is that we never look away. PPSA: Stay sane — simply look away… — Prof. Laslo

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"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

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1/ Undocumented immigrants pay $26 billion into Social Security each year, with little expectation of receiving any benefit. 2/ It won't just be immigrants: "The potential for errors can be very consequential" said a Bush era Social Security official

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It has been 18 days since we learned that those involved in Signalgate recklessly endangered the lives of American pilots. The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is an abomination. This should outrage every single Member of Congress.

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