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I remember in grad school there was an econ professor who said, yeah, we don’t really manufacture anything anymore but we’re a very nice and stable place to live and people with money want to visit, study, and move here, and as long as that stays how it is we’re fine.

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A significant reason why our elites got behind ending Jim Crow and respecting free speech and civil liberties had to do with the Soviet Union. We wanted to show we were the land of freedom and equality and opportunity for all and behind the Iron Curtsin was tyranny.

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A reader make a good observation: When the U.S. govt was panicking and claiming TikTok was pushing too much content showing the suffering and the reality in Gaza, we now know for sure Instagram was actually suppressing the same.

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This is flagrantly illegal - actually criminal. Musk can do this but he should check the statute of limitations. Slam dunk prosecution if he was at all involved with this

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Do you have any idea how hard it was to get fired by the Milwaukee police department in 2012? Borderline impossible. This is insanity:

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The United States stands for — or is supposed to stand for — freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of assembly, freedom to petition to government to redress grievances. It is Noem and people like her who truly despise our country’s founding values.

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Problem: Fraud in the Social Security program. Solution: Force all elderly people to create an account on X. Genius level stuff.

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Yes, other countries are just lining up to team up with our Mad King on his global rampage. All part of the plan. This isn’t hysterical fantasy at all.

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Why is Charles Murray allowed to come to our country as a guest and express his opinions about war and our foreign policy. Shouldn’t he be indefinitely detained and eventually deported? Or is it only certain opinions are illegal?

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🙊

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Sacks and Chamath don’t need Trump’s help to look like idiots but it’s still fun when he does it to them

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All good, I’m sure Japanese and Chinese tourism is still strong…

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The other reason it’s so annoying that this app is flooded with bots is that I often want to engage with some of the nonsense people say, but then I remember they’re probably not people so just skip it.

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🚨Israel is threatening to bomb a part of the Baptist Hospital in central Gaza City and has ordered its immediate evacuation. Journalist Anas Al-Sharif reports. (Translations by Drop Site. Original post below)

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NEW at @dropsitenews.com | Grassroots Resistance Builds Against Israeli Occupation of Southern Syria Locals in southern Syria are taking up arms against an Israeli occupation that began after Assad’s fall. By @mazmhussain.bsky.social www.dropsitenews.com/p/syria-occu...

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Iran and U.S. likely to move direct talks to Europe, a significant step

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Who started the escalation? I missed the beginning, somebody fill me in on why this is genius

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NEW: British lawyers representing Hamas just filed a legal case challenging its UK designation as a terror group. They charge the UK is aiding the Gaza genocide, undermining the right to armed resistance & stifling debate in the UK about Hamas’s aims and actions. www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-terr...

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Hamas launches legal battle in UK, demanding to be removed from terror listing www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-terr...

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i Hola Ecuador! ¿Recuerdan nuestra investigación que reveló cómo Diana Salazar usó el asesinato de Villavicencio para perjudicar a Correa? Ahora lo confirma su viuda.

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By more than double -- 46-22% -- independents think Trump is slapping on tariffs to get leverage over companies who will then have to plead with him for relief and show loyalty

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🚨🚨Huge news out of Ecuador: The widow of a slain presidential candidate confirms a major investigation by @dropsitenews.com: that the US-backed atty general Diana Salazar and President Daniel Noboa conspired to frame Correaistas for the murder of her husband in order to hurt them in the election

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🎥 WATCH | Drop Site was live today with Abubaker Abed in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. He shared a detailed look at the crisis on the ground, as Israel ramps up its attacks while enforcing a full blockade on food, medicine, and other essential supplies.

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NEWS: Israeli soldiers have shot dead a Palestinian woman near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank, claiming she had thrown stones and “intended” to carry out a stabbing attack. The allegation remains unverified, with no independent evidence provided.

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Breaking News: Elbridge Colby has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Pentagon’s Under Secretary for Policy. The confirmation vote was 54-45, with support from three Democratic senators.

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“In your opinion who is locking the Gazan people in there? For example, is the UN able to carry out urgent medical evacuations if they want to?”

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Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo asked the UN Secretary-General—who has so far refused to call what’s happening in Gaza a genocide—whether he understands why others are using that word.

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My pop gets a shoutout on BP

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Who asked Netanyahu for his opinion on a nuclear deal between the United States and Iran? This is so tiresome. Go home, dude.

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The aggressive ignorance kills me. Reading Wikipedia and saying “wow” is fine. There’s a lot of fascinating information on Wikipedia. But nobody is hiding it from you.

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This nugget about the athletes at the Wuhan games having covid-like symptoms has been sort-of know but not really. It really destroys the market hypothesis.

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Anything that starts with “Trump has been clear…” can be discarded

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Stunning number: OR Books tells me they've sold 55,000 copies of Refaat Alareer's "If I Must Die" in four months. That makes it by far their biggest seller in the history of their publishing house. It out-sold most books that made the NYT bestseller list in that time period.

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Musk backed Trump because he said Western civilization would end if Trump didn't win and now:

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In a few minutes Abubaker Abed will be joining us live to discuss if you are subscribed to get our emails

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End the burger shop trade barriers now

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NEW at @dropsitenews.com: Under Relentless Israeli Bombing and Lacking Everything, a Gaza Hospital Is Triaging Genocide Abubaker Abed reports from Al-Aqsa Hospital, where medicine and supply shortages are causing docs to lose patients they could have saved www.dropsitenews.com/p/al-aqsa-ho...

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