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“Both nationally and internationally we’re ruled by a ruling class whose profits are based primarily on complex forms of rent extraction, backed by coercive force.” -David Graeber

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End the interview right there

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Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan promised we'd be all better off. But we just ended up poorer with a system that resembles Feudalism.

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For Pride, I’m remembering Lucy Hicks Anderson, trans woman who transitioned as a kid in the late 1800s. She was an incredible socialite and cook, so much so that when she was arrested and a banker got her out of jail because they had a party and she was the cook! We have always been here.

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Annie by far would be the funniest senator. And if there were a medical emergency she could help with that, too. No need for constituents to die prematurely and unnecessarily!

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Ukraine's attack on Russia yesterday has been woefully underreported in the US. Drones were dispatched from trucks inside Russia. More than 40 Russian aircraft were attacked, including strategic bombers. Some are still burning. Russia's estimated losses already exceed $2B.

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Oh, Joni…

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“…We teach children pro-social behaviors… But then, when they grow up…they are often rewarded for many anti-social behaviors.”

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👀 @AdamKinzinger lights up stone-hearted @RepTimBurchett as he runs cover for cutting off aid to the neediest people in the world

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So, according to QAnon and Trump, Biden died in 2020, was replaced by a body double, but the one they picked to replace him was weak and infirm, and somehow Jake Tapper didn’t notice anything. Got it.

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Mike Johnson blatantly lies on Meet the Press: "You can underscore what I'm about to tell you -- there are no Medicaid cuts in the big beautiful bill ... what we're doing is an important, and frankly heroic thing."

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Other things OMB chief Russ Vought has said — caught on tape, and revealed by my colleagues: “We are in the late stages of a complete Marxist takeover of the country.” -J6ers are “political prisoners” Trump presidency “is nothing more than a gift of God.” www.propublica.org/article/vide...

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Noem goes full red scare: "Harvard has perpetuated Chinese Communist Party priorities and students on their campus."

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TODAY: Trump’s budget guy @russvought lies 🤥 that nobody will lose Medicaid after these deep cuts, and claims Trump’s agenda is not Project 2025 — which he wrote. (He also downplays the sickening Ernst “We’re all gonna die” quote and calls her constituents “astroturfed”)

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⚡️Exclusive footage shows the SBU attack on strategic bombers at Belaya Air Field in Russia's Irkutsk region.

submitted 12 hours ago • 68 comments

PSA: One of those anecdotal data points that might be useful to know—more than a quarter of my mom's ward at her nursing home has contracted Covid in the last 10 days or so.

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We are all just hogs to slaughter to this ghoul.

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Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health. But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."

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Musk may (or may not) be leaving Trump regime, but we do know the 32 federal investigations into Musk's companies that were all started before Trump came to office, are paused, dismissed or simply disappeared. Re-sharing my article on this: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/did-trump-...

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I took a trans-Atlantic flight last week—am I in trouble

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In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

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There is literally nothing but Trump's desire to protect Putin which is keeping the USA from levelling harsh sanctions on Russia, providing Ukraine more weapons, and helping Ukraine win its war against a sub-par Russian military.

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This has to stop. Has to.

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"DHS officers entered Nadler’s district office and accused staff members of 'harboring rioters.' A Nadler staffer is seen crying and being handcuffed. Another officer is at a door trying to enter a private area of the office while a staffer asks for a warrant." gothamist.com/news/homelan...

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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

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President Xi of China has sent a state gift to Donald Trump. It's a prized Chinese Orange Silkie Chicken.

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That would be awful. Don’t share this.

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I can’t believe the media covered up the fact that a clear mental incompetent was running the government while out of his mind on drugs, despite it being widely known in DC circles, to preserve their access to the White House. There should be huge recriminations for this.

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"I’ve read my Bible from cover to cover, and I don’t ever remember Christ ever saying to a sick person: 'Thou art sick, but behold, we shall all perish.'”-- @charlotteclymer.bsky.social

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It's Friday Night, which means Trump's weekly science bloodbath. BUT WHY DOES HE DO THIS ON FRIDAY NIGHTS? Simple: He's a coward! Americans overwhelmingly support science! His attack on science is unpopular and he wants to bury it in the news cycle. Not on our watch. #StandUpForScience

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Going out the way he came in (high off his ass)

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If only there had been signs on Inauguration Day…

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If you put two NYT stories together you do get “man allegedly completely strung out on drugs uses the US government to kill 300,000 people”

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Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics…

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