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Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

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I assume we'll be hearing about this from the New York Times for four weeks straight, right?

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1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. The Pentagon loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

submitted 18 hours ago • 101 comments

The regime is threatening to arrest Democrats for fulfilling their official duties in their official capacity. They are trying to make it illegal to oppose the regime.

submitted 18 hours ago • 29 comments

Fucking monsters

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As Democrats slowly mount a resistance against Trump’s second administration, there is no worse person to elevate than a shameless self-promoter with an inflated sense of his political gifts and accomplishments. newrepublic.com/article/1949...

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.

submitted 20 hours ago • 269 comments

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

submitted 22 hours ago • 963 comments

60% of Americans have a chronic condition. Among people over 65, it's 95%. Saying most of our health care spending goes to chronic conditions is just another way of saying it goes to health care.

submitted 22 hours ago • 152 comments

Overdraft ate half a paycheck and most of what was left had to go to bills. Please consider throwing some support my way with a picture idea for me to make. Doing everything I can. Thank you for looking and my stuff. Trying to finish the stuff I'm working on.

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I keep thinking about FDR's "Four Freedoms" speech, and how "freedom from want" and "freedom from fear" are still radical notions in this day

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Are we sure we want this guy screaming about societal collapse on the front page of the Guardian, or nah

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And why was Baraka there in the first place? Turns out the private prison facility is violating the law, but also unwilling to be served with legal process apple.news/AV9JgWB8fQq6...

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Republicans are Nazis.

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This is such an excellent point and media should be reporting it this way. (This is in reference to Miller’s preposterous but still dangerous claim earlier today about the executive branch considering suspending the writ)

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Trump and Noem opened an ICE detention center in Newark without permission and in clear violation of the city's ordinances. And when confronted by Mayor Baraska, they did what authoritarians do. They arrested and disappeared him.

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I think we are great risk of a future where unregulated use of tech turns America’s educational system into something even more segregated and classist than it is today - poor kids get largely automated “education” and surveillance discipline, rich kids get gentle low-tech instruction from humans.

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Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.

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We can take the quotation marks off now, to be honest. This is the most accurate and honest way to describe the situation

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According to a congressman present, ICE arrested the Mayor of Newark in his own city while he was outside of an ICE facility. He wasn’t protesting or trespassing—he was serving as Mayor. This regime is lawless, reckless and trampling on the constitution.

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Probably one of the last times I'll share something from the NYT, if only to demonstrate that you shouldn't rely on them for information or spread their articles: They lie. It's illegal in New Jersey to run for-profit immigration prisons. The mayor had every right to be there.

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Why would you hold someone in a secret location for trespass?

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The mayor of Newark was arrested today while protesting at a federal immigration detention center operated by GEO Group — a private prison company and major Trump donor. Kudos to Ras Baraka for standing up to this authoritarian regime.

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Q: What do Bill Ackman, Anthony Scaramucci, Tanya Zuckerbrot, Randy Levine, Jonathan Kushner, and Geoffrey Berman have in common? A: They're prominent Trump supporters who are funding Andrew Cuomo's campaign for mayor. Yikes!

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Using police powers of the state to control, punish, or manipulate adversarial political actors is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. In a democracy, a conflict between a mayor and the federal government would be mediated by the state, courts, and good faith actors, even if they disagree.

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“Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at an ICE Detention Center where he was protesting its opening, a federal prosecutor said.”

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📢 If you’re able to get to Newark: Protest outside Department of Homeland Security office! 📢 620 Frelinghuysen Ave. Newark, NJ 07114 Organizations and community members on the ground are asking for support and for all of us to stand with them now.

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Innuendo Studios, some of the best YouTube video essays ever, I don't even know what to say, help out if you can www.gofundme.com/f/help-ian-p...

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There are legitimate issues with the pharmaceutical industry and how it's regulated; the wellness industry is even more predatory, like it's not even close. Woo woo bullshit on par with leeches and humors

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nothing good has ever come from presenting disabled and sick people as a literal threat to the nation

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This will 100000% be used to ban literally anything at all. But everyone will hear "ban porn" and go along with it because we live in the stupidest time in history

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I don’t care if you hate porn. Please for the love of god don’t get stuck there cognitively. Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.

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Project 2025 explicitly makes that specious connection. Call your reps and tell them to shut this down. reps.fyi

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Again, he does not live here. He does not understand the city. He just wants a political position of power so he can enact his Trumpian revenge. He was actively hostile to NYC when he was governor. Do not rank him.

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When my parents got married, their marriage was illegal in seven states. That’s how recent this shift is: my (still living) parents could not visit some states for the first four years of their marriage.

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So I figured I’d go ahead and formally announce this: I’m moving out of Texas to be up in Canada where it’s safer for me. Moving is expensive. I’m putting together a stream with friends on Monday, May 12 in order to raise money to help with it. I’ll be playing Sonic Adventure 2 for the first time

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i will never get past this. the collapse of the global trade system because one guy does not understand what a trade deficit is.

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Really need this met. Anything helps, thank you.

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You and your family are being forced to pay higher prices at the store so Elon Musk can get richer

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Despite what slavers would have us believe, slavery has never made financial sense and still does not now with the US paying $6,000,000 to El Salvador for them to cage & torture & work 238 human people to death www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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Hey all! I’m sure you’re tired of seeing this. But this is the last time I’ll post my Venmo and PayPal. I’m trying to pay rent and bills and take care of Echo. I’m super grateful for any money. I’m truly so sorry to ask but every little bit helps. Here’s my Venmo venmo.com/u/BBoolean

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Abigail Spanberger, Democrat running for Virginia Governor, says she wouldn't sign a bill that fully repeals right-to-work. Any politician who wants to serve working Americans needs to unequivocally stand against anti-union right-to-work laws and support the labor movement.

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for the love of god, as a child that grew up through poverty - we gotta save Public Media. Kids deserve and escape even when there is nothing else. early education value is diminishing amongst the youth rapidly. the kids are being left behind

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the "this fucking guy" theory of history is extremely compelling!!

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Hilarious statement from the inventor of presidential immunity

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"Israel killed nearly two-thirds of the 124 journalists who died around the world in 2024" - you would imagine this would cause a commotion in the world of news journalism, wouldn't you.

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