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He's gonna do something absolutely insane, even by his standards. Maybe not immediately, but he's going to do it. Maybe financial sanctions that make trade effectively impossible. Maybe an embargo. Maybe something else entirely.

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Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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As of today, Elon Musk is thought to be responsible for the death of 300,000 adults and kids due to the illegal closure of USAID (source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...) That's a 103 deaths per hour, each day. And it will get worse. His legacy is one of death, destruction, and failure.

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What a way to describe a 4-month period that will lead to 25+ million deaths worldwide.

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NEW: We obtained DHS data that shows the US knew only 32 of the 238 Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador in March were convicted of US crimes, only 6 of those violent. Trump called them “savages,” “monsters” and "the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Ehud Olmert on previously defending Israel against accusations of war crimes: “In recent weeks I’ve been no longer able to do so. What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: the indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. […] Yes, Israel is committing war crimes.”

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IRS’s Direct File wasn't open source while it was being developed. But somebody just made it public!

submitted 16 hours ago • 46 comments

Elon leaving the government

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Elite signaling? Party composition changes? Wonder if Dobbs shifted Overton window for other religious right issues. news.gallup.com/poll/691139/...

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The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...

submitted 18 hours ago • 103 comments

This is a good example of why AI discourse needs to focus much more on how we can use it to build a more equitable economy. A lot of people want to believe we can put the toothpaste back in the tube, but we really can’t.

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DC Circuit steps in - kinda surprised that they overruled a summary judgement like this tbh! APPEALS COURT TEMPORARILY HALTS RULING AGAINST TRUMP TARIFFS FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURT SAYS IT NEEDS TIME TO CONSIDER FILINGS

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having grown up in the 80s and 90s where steroids were legitimately frowned upon in general, it's been weird to watch HGH and related products become pretty mainstream in the last 20 or so years see also: gambling, pornography, etc.

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Bondi cuts out the ABA from the judicial nominations process.

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I have a friend who donated to and voted for this schmuck, and who insists liberals continue to unfairly judge him. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...

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i've been probably higher on Fetterman than most of this website-- he sucks but we can't do anything about it right now-- but if he had anything to do with this, i'm all the way out forever

submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments

vocal opposition to democratic gerontocracy is nifty because it serves a constructive purpose — passing the torch — and a political one: signaling independence from The Democrats.

submitted 1 day ago • 172 comments

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

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Trump’s 2025 pardons so far, by the numbers: Convicted of: – Fraud: 24 – Tax Evasion: 7 – Illegal Campaign Donations: 4 – Political Corruption & Bribery: 8 – Insurrection: 1,500+ A reminder of why descriptive representation matters.

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Bourdain educated Americans about other countries while treating the people who live in those countries with dignity and empathy. He believed in learning from other cultures, and in letting people tell their own story. So of course these ghouls hate him.

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The GOP is increasingly just Evangelical Hezbollah.

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Still kind of ashamed of people on this site who took the bait so hard when the media riled people up about Biden pardoning his son so Trump wouldn’t be able to deliver his promised vengeance.

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Israeli ministers say 22 new Jewish settlements have been approved in the occupied West Bank - the biggest expansion in decades. Defense Minister Katz said the move "prevents the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger Israel"

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struck by how similar the george fitzhugh, infamous apologist for chattel slavery, sounds to the postliberals. this, from “sociology for the south” is almost indistinguishable from vermuele

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Redfin says there are 500,000 more home sellers than buyers, the biggest disparity on record (going back to 2013): www.redfin.com/news/sellers...

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Initial claims rose to 240k, above the highest estimate. That spike looks totally consistent with residual seasonality IMO, not a durable increase in the filings rate. Continuing claims highest since 2021 and do appear to be accelerating, albeit modestly.

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I know it ain't over, and a lot of damage was done, and little is fixed. But if you had told me ahead of Indivisible's "Musk or Us" town halls in February and March that this would be the headline in May, I would have described this as a wild success.

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Continuing claims 👀

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i think this pretty much says it all about their gold standard science

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Visa, Mastecard with identical messages on US consumer. Spending solid through May despite dire sentiment & macro rhetoric. Both cite solid labor market & $V says international markets resilient too. Broken record but watch what folks do, not what they say! $MA $XLF $XLY $SPY

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“Across multiple education provisions in this bill, the data is clear: Millions of college students will wind up paying a lot more, and low-income students will be by far the hardest hit.”

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MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.

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The crazy uncle you stopped inviting to Thanksgiving formed a social network with all the other crazy uncles in the country. That social network gradually became a political coalition which would storm the Capital. Others are forming too, but that’s the worst one we have right now.

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The deeper we get into this crisis, the clearer it becomes that many people simply don’t believe that government belongs to them and should respond to their needs.

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I know it’s not cool and I should “read another book” (I have an MFA, I have read many other books) but I’m genuinely bummed out I’m not going to be able to share Harry Potter with my daughter because Rowling is funding advocacy to make her didi and people like her didi’s lives worse.

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We are boycotting & divesting until Elon's money stops flowing to the criminal enterprises stealing our country. Consistency is key to winning our demands, so come to #Tesla Owings Mills this Saturday at 11AM & bring a friend! RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/hit-m... #TeslaTakedown #DOGE #Baltimore

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Just remembered this and am laughing all over again.

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How do famous right-wing influencers actually poll with young men in 2025? Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...

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