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I was prompted by Facebook to create an image using their AI. It wasn’t great.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

May look like a similar trajectory to Dow Jones, but TSLA is much worse.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

401k blues

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: THREAD: The VA is now asking employees to snitch on each other for "instances of anti-christian bias." You'll be rewarded with 30 pieces of silver (kidding). This is from an email from Doug Collins (I won't post screenshots in case there are irregularities used to identify leakers.) 1/

submitted 65 days ago • 491 comments

When 100 university presidents unite to condemn state coercion, it’s not politics — it’s institutional survival. Their message is clear: higher education will not be governed by intimidation, nor traded for federal dollars wrapped in ideology.

submitted 66 days ago • 18 comments

Congress better be ready to take out the trash once the stock market inevitably crashes. They appear to be a bunch of feckless morons.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a recalibration of economic control. Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way. When the dust finally settles, they will own more. The rest of us will own less. A lot less.

submitted 81 days ago • 919 comments

next to a tanking stock ticker, Maria Bartiromo acknowledges we might be heading toward a recession

submitted 81 days ago • 706 comments

Katherine Clark: "What they are doing here is wrecking the infrastructure of Social Security so they can rob the benefit ... it is an outrageous ripoff of the American taxpayer that we are seeing from this administration."

submitted 84 days ago • 513 comments

At a U.S. Senate hearing, Gen. Christopher Cavoli pushed back on defeatist narratives: “Nothing in war is inevitable.” He noted Ukraine’s strong defenses, its transformation into a modern army, and stated that while a major offensive is difficult, defeat is unlikely. Ukraine stands!

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

“Previous trade disputes have lasted decades, rattling markets and boosting consumer prices. Protectionist policies can lead to entrenched interest groups fighting to keep tariffs in place, and ripple effects can extend beyond U.S. borders.” www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

the Dow has now given back all gains made since November 5

submitted 109 days ago • 689 comments

"Transmission of government data to private companies presents far greater privacy and power implications than most reporting identifies A private entity with the capacity to develop AI technologies could use government data to leapfrog its competitors and wield massive influence over society"

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

“The Solong left the Scottish port of Grangemouth on Sunday evening and was headed for Rotterdam, the Netherlands, when it careered into the Stena Immaculate, which was at anchor off the coast near the city of Hull.”

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Hassett: "We've got a Biden economy. Still, most of Biden's policies are in place. If you look at the Atlanta Fed GDP now number, it's showing negative first quarter, which is kind of a metric of the inheritance of President Biden."

submitted 109 days ago • 693 comments

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submitted 109 days ago • 3 comments

"A renowned medical school whose faculty helped treat a young cancer survivor honored this week by President Donald Trump is facing potentially devastating funding cuts because of the White House."

submitted 109 days ago • 83 comments

Morning Bluesky. The first big sign that Orban’s Fidesz is in trouble in Hungary. Big swing to Peter Magyar’s TISZA. Maybe Trump really is poisoning the well for Far Right demagogues.

submitted 109 days ago • 51 comments

A reminder that a pro-Israel agitator drove his car into a line of Columbia student protesters last May and hit one of the people there to protect them. The charges against him were dropped.

submitted 109 days ago • 30 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 110 days ago • 587 comments

Tesla sell-off happening now. Nearly 10% already today.

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NEW: UK, Germany and France issue joint statement on "catastrophic" humanitarian situ in Gaza, warning Israel could be in breach of international law by halting entry of aid. "Humanitarian aid should never be contingent on a ceasefire or used as a political tool."

submitted 114 days ago • 59 comments

Trump: Free speech is back in America Rep. Al Green (being shoved into a CIA rendition van): You did what now?

submitted 114 days ago • 45 comments

MAKING THE LIBERALS COMPETITIVE AGAIN In January, Canada's Liberal Party was down 20 points. Then Trump amped up his tariffs and taunts. Now Trudeau's party is running neck-and-neck with Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives // Amanda Coletta reports from Toronto www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 114 days ago • 9 comments

The Commerce Department is about to give billions to Elon Musk as part of internet program: report

submitted 114 days ago • 8 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 114 days ago • 1728 comments

americans who currently consider canada to be an ally/friendly country: 82% canadians who currently consider america to be an ally/friendly country: 33% -yougov

submitted 114 days ago • 100 comments

The new and destroyed GOP in a nutshell

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Run Elon, Run and don’t stop until you get to Mars, never to return.

submitted 114 days ago • 2 comments

Make. It. Plain.

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

Did you notice the President Toe Licker kept his back to the Democrats and never tried to engage with them? www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/p...

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

The lying is off the charts. He banned "illegal" protests earlier.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

The nose needs to be longer

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Translation: ‘I AM A FUCKING IDIOT’

submitted 114 days ago • 40 comments

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

submitted 123 days ago • 2128 comments