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We live in the golden age of scam artists. There's probably not a week that goes by in which every single person in the modern world doesn't receive at least one phone call, text message, or email attempting to drain their bank accounts. It's a pure numbers game; 99% of these attempts will be unsucc

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I don't think ever in my lifetime has there been a recession so obviously and directly caused by proximate policy choices

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It’s very funny the degree to which Dems tried to contort themselves into avoiding any taxes on people making <400k meanwhile Republicans come in and immediately slam the “largest regressive tax in dollar terms ever” button

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There's still a certain kind of centrist pundit who maintains that Dems overreacted to all the Russia stuff during Trump's first term.

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I was just on American flight 3083, for LaGuardia. As we touched ground, the plane suddenly sped up and climbed back up. The plane strained to quickly gain altitude. After something like five harrowing minutes, the pilot finally announced, “there was a plane in the ground that was too close to us.”

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All the most maddow-brained winemom Russiagate stuff was basically true and Trump just successfully covered it up by firing people, pardoning co-conspirators and obstructing justice. And the media (who likes Trump and wants to help him win) helped him.

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Yeah every illuminati/Rothschilds/George Soros conspiracy theory has been pretty much rendered moot.

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Pretty sure you could construct guillotines with American-made materials.

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The Trump Recession is gaining steam

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This is all lies. Reporting has made clear that - Food and health spending is still paused, or contracts have been cancelled entirely (e.g. Ready-to-use therapeutic food for starving children) - Money owed for work done during Biden still hasn't gone out - Musk's people are the blockers

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The single greatest mistake urban liberals made in the last 100 years was putting up so many roadblocks to new building development. It fueled the current housing shortage, stymied economic growth, and pushed millions of Americans into a state of near constant anxiety as living costs take up a highe

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As America's most famous biographer, Robert Caro has spent most of his life rifling through archives, so much so that he's amassed a massive archive of his own. Now, that archive is housed at a New York museum, and it's a safe prediction that historians will continue rifling through it for centuries

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The oil companies know that much of their future profits will need to go toward cleaning up their drilling sites, so they're trying to cash out now, basically by borrowing against those future profits and distributing the money as dividends. The idea is that they'll all just eventually declare bank

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NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

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Egg drop soup Egg clumsy Egg bad waiter Egg fired again Egg turn to life of crime

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Every single Democratic candidate should be running on the platform of defunding Elon Musk. Basically pledge to vote 'no' on any budget bill that directs a single penny toward SpaceX or any of his companies.

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Musk will sue every one of us for not buying his cars electrek.co/2025/03/01/t...

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Every year, the horse racing industry generates billions of dollars -- not from its actual fanbase, which is tiny, but from rent-seeking carve-outs that are written into law. Basically, a percentage of all gambling income is funneled into a sport that often struggles to attract more than a dozen spe

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For most Americans, Trump's tariffs still exist in the abstract, in that they're vaguely aware that the taxes will result in higher prices at some point. But for millions of small business owners, these tariffs represent an existential threat that's constantly being held over their livelihoods. Most

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SCOOP: The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to a whistle-blower from USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

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For context, the Trump admin spent weeks LYING to judges saying that this funding had been unfrozen.

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It’ll take time to quantify the deaths caused by the end of US aid but early internal sector figures go from 250,000 in the next few months, to 3 million+ this year

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I think we’re one plane crash away from the collapse of the entire airline industry

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Democrats could easily host their own State of the Union where they just interview Americans who have been hurt by Trump. It’s the world’s easiest layup and yet they probably won’t take it.

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The book The Population Bomb was published in 1968 and warned that the exponential growth of humanity would essentially drain the world of its resources within the next hundred years. Little did the authors know that, by the time of publication, population growth had already peaked. Now, nearly ever

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This is quite an extraordinary round-up of news of how Trump's breach of contracts with farmers is creating dire conditions for individual farmers, agriculture and addressing climate change sustainableagriculture.net/blog/funding...

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Funding freeze leaves Kansas farmers unpaid for work they already completed www.hppr.org/hppr-news/20...

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If you are the kind of person who is reflexively angered at the sight of someone looting a $2,000 TV during a riot, well this plundering of the FAA amid fires across the federal government is Elon Musk walking out of the Best Buy with a $2.4 billion TV.

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The Trump Recession is building steam.

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I have given birth to a lovely baby boy named Pleistoanax Deckard. I will not be revealing the father at this time.

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A Crowd chants "Zelenskyy is a hero" outside of the Tesla Dealership in Manhattan. LFG! ✊🏽

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NEW: When the Trump Admin abruptly cancelled almost all USAID programs, it also refused to pay $2bln the U.S. govt owes for work that’s been done. One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Can’t even begin to articulate how dumb the Reels algorithm is. It always just defaults to suggesting videos like this. Meta spends tens of billions of dollars a year on an engineering force whose greatest achievement is figuring out men like breasts.

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NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

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Space X Protest still growing. At least 2k people

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⚡️ A crowd gathered outside a Tesla dealership in Manhattan, chanting “Zelenskyy is a hero” as anti-Elon protesters occupied the showroom. The demonstration comes amid growing criticism of Musk’s stance on Ukraine and his alleged ties with Russia.

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Democratic Congressman Tom Suozzi just received a huge standing ovation in a Trump +5 Congressional District at Hofstra University after talking about how despicable Trump‘s behavior was in the Oval Office with Zelensky. Americans are furious.

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HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

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This is the QAnon of the left. Just people cosplaying as secret agents.

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Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

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This "Democracy is dying, please send me $1" shit from the Democrats is so off-putting. You'll get a flood of money if and when you do something to earn it, not just because Trump said something bad about you

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Exactly. Invest that money in the media you want to exist in this world. There are tons of progressive news orgs that could use that money to beef up their staff.

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On the surface, the American economy looks solid, with historically low unemployment and steady GDP growth. But at the same time, white collar workers, particularly those entering the job market out of college, are finding it almost impossible to even get employers to respond to their applications.

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I will read people's takes / articles / arguments about po-faced regretful Trump voters but in my heart I believe the same thing about them as what I said to my mom when I found out she voted for Trump: you failed the moral test of your lifetime and you aren't a serious person

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Luckily, old people don’t vote

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It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

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I think that Democrats should boycott the State of the Union, which is pointless. Instead, of having a Democrat provide the rebuttal, they should bring in recently fired federal workers to describe the important work they used to do.

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Hi, former White House intern, DNC communications staffer, and re-election team partner here: One does not ‘slip’ into the Oval Office. Does not. Period, ever. That’s not a thing.

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