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They're dismantling the agency that can, if it did robust enforcement, fill the deficit. For every $1 it spends on enforcement it generates $5-$9 in revenue. We lose ~1 trillion dollars each year to tax fraud, mostly from the rich. Musk paid no income tax in 2021 www.propublica.org/article/the-...

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Winnipeg never beating the weirdest place in Canada allegations

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The ol’ Trump polling boost for domestically beleaguered incumbent politicians. Tiniest of silver linings

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The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

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Catching up on old Guardian issues, aging well 🙃

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In 2023, it was revealed that Vitaly Churkin — described in the paragraph below and in other passages of HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT — was a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein: www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...

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🚨 Help us locate 'lost' Jewish books! 🚨 The Leo Baeck Institute’s Library of Lost Books is calling on citizen scientists to report sightings of books looted by the Nazis. Read about the initiative & how you can help here: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtraine... #LibraryOfLostBooks #CitizenScience

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: How did Elon Musk actually recruit for DOGE? Using Palantir-linked, young engineers who fanned out across online chat groups and Discord servers: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 14 days ago • 66 comments

Incredibly good read

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The timeline delivers 🙏🥄

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All these bros conveniently forgetting that the U.S. government was instrumental in creating the Internet through NSF grants to universities and research hubs through the 80s and 90s.

submitted 16 days ago • 54 comments

This is the payments system that Elon Musk now has access to. Must listen with @nathantankus.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 17 days ago • 58 comments

big tech capitulation this time round has truly been something to behold

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Neither the mainstream press nor our political system seem to have digested the fact that the U.S. president is trying to illegally annex a NATO ally using economic coercion.

submitted 19 days ago • 285 comments

This was a mid Community season plotline

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes you do, unfortunately, gotta hand it to him

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

5 years ago today Britain left the EU. Between 2020-2023, Brexit drove up food prices by 4% a year on average. Research from Jan David Bakker, @joshdelyon.bsky.social , @richarddavies.bsky.social and myself. You can read the paper here: tinyurl.com/27vjakwa

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It feels like every time I investigate something in central London, it leads back to Asif Aziz. Please read this about the Prince Charles Cinema, exclusive deals to import Nestle products to wartorn Angola, and property deals in every corner of the capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/prince-cha...

submitted 22 days ago • 14 comments

Polymarket odds on when there’ll be polymarket odds on martial law

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“Everyone owes Baudrillard an apology” has rattled around in my skull every month since 2016

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TikTok says it removed a network covertly campaigning for Calin Georgescu, whose shock victory in the recent Romanian election threw the country into crisis (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Subscribe to The Onion. Maybe we can buy Red Lobster next.

submitted 100 days ago • 804 comments