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Everything is a dumpster fire
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You know things are going well when McDonald's is more ethical than the actual White House
💥 NEWS: McDonald's shareholders voted Tues. to reject an anti-DEI proposal, 99-1 percent. McDonald's Board said the proposal "unduly interferes" with the company's "flexibility and judgment." MCD: "Our success in the future builds on our history of embracing diversity as a competitive advantage."
May 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
You know things are going well when McDonald's is more ethical than the actual White House
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Biden Faces Mounting Pressure To Let Younger Democrat Battle Cancer
Biden Faces Mounting Pressure To Let Younger Democrat Battle Cancer
WASHINGTON—After a stunning admission that he’d been diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of the disease, former President Joe Biden reportedly faced mounting pressure on Monday to let a younger De...
theonion.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Biden Faces Mounting Pressure To Let Younger Democrat Battle Cancer
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The media can't report on data and inform the public if the government doesn't create the data in the first place.
Neglect is also a form of secrecy.
Neglect is also a form of secrecy.
NOAA will stop updating database tracking costliest weather disasters
The billion-dollar disaster tracker is on a growing list of datasets NOAA says that either scientists will no longer update or the administration will decommission entirely.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The media can't report on data and inform the public if the government doesn't create the data in the first place.
Neglect is also a form of secrecy.
Neglect is also a form of secrecy.
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Definitely don't want to make it easier for people to file their taxes. Nope, definitely not
BREAKING: The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS' Direct File program, an electronic system for filing your tax returns for free.
April 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Definitely don't want to make it easier for people to file their taxes. Nope, definitely not
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A coalition of Jewish groups warns that the Trump administration stripping international students of visas under the guise of fighting antisemitism actually makes Jews less safe and undermines the rule of law.
Trump exploiting antisemitism fears to undermine rule of law, warns Jewish coalition
A coalition of Jewish groups warns that the Trump administration stripping international students of visas under the guise of fighting antisemitism actually makes Jews less safe and undermines the rul...
www.npr.org
April 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
A coalition of Jewish groups warns that the Trump administration stripping international students of visas under the guise of fighting antisemitism actually makes Jews less safe and undermines the rule of law.
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Did I miss the part in this piece where it said Congress is where visa categories and policy are set. Because, y'know, it's like, a law?
Musk’s Team Is Building a System to Sell ‘Gold Card’ Immigrant Visas www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
Musk’s Team Is Building a System to Sell ‘Gold Card’ Immigrant Visas www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
Elon Musk’s DOGE Team Building System to Sell ‘Gold Card’ Immigrant Visas
The project represents something of a shift in mission for Elon Musk’s initiative, from cutting government costs toward a new goal of generating revenue.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Did I miss the part in this piece where it said Congress is where visa categories and policy are set. Because, y'know, it's like, a law?
Musk’s Team Is Building a System to Sell ‘Gold Card’ Immigrant Visas www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
Musk’s Team Is Building a System to Sell ‘Gold Card’ Immigrant Visas www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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"Want you to review this 100hr game in the next 24hrs and we'll pay you $150, but only if you also write the guide and make a video and hit these metrics and-- hey, where are you going???"
Game reviews were the first thing to be farmed out to alternating pools of young freelancers because dwindling full-time staff were overloaded or laid off. Grifters make their living attacking women and PoC over their reviews. And then we wonder where the good game reviews are.
April 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
"Want you to review this 100hr game in the next 24hrs and we'll pay you $150, but only if you also write the guide and make a video and hit these metrics and-- hey, where are you going???"
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Breaking: the Trump admin has “temporarily” paused enforcement of a Biden-era silica rule that was aimed at combating the rising black lung crisis in Appalachia. Coal miners and their advocates have been fighting for *decades* to lower deadly silica dust exposure levels. www.msha.gov/notice-stake...
Notice to Stakeholders
Temporary Enforcement Pause: Silica Rule Issued: April 8, 2025
www.msha.gov
April 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Breaking: the Trump admin has “temporarily” paused enforcement of a Biden-era silica rule that was aimed at combating the rising black lung crisis in Appalachia. Coal miners and their advocates have been fighting for *decades* to lower deadly silica dust exposure levels. www.msha.gov/notice-stake...
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"I did not understand that Trump could find another authoritarian regime willing to accept America’s prisoners in exchange for payment. This innovation is the equivalent of authoritarianism making the jump across the blood/brain barrier."
Concentration Camps and the Deportation of American Citizens
There is no limiting principle for disappearing people into the Bukele gulag.
www.thebulwark.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"I did not understand that Trump could find another authoritarian regime willing to accept America’s prisoners in exchange for payment. This innovation is the equivalent of authoritarianism making the jump across the blood/brain barrier."
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STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
BRING HIM HOME!
Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador.
SMART General President…
BRING HIM HOME!
Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador.
SMART General President…
April 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
BRING HIM HOME!
Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador.
SMART General President…
BRING HIM HOME!
Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador.
SMART General President…
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Musk's DOGE goons physically dragged a high-ranking Social Security executive from his desk for not going along with their plan to list more than 6,000 migrants as dead despite being alive.
www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...
www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...
DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker from Desk
The high-ranking civil servant had opposed a plan to push out migrants by falsely listing them as dead.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Musk's DOGE goons physically dragged a high-ranking Social Security executive from his desk for not going along with their plan to list more than 6,000 migrants as dead despite being alive.
www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...
www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...
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Somebody's maaaaaaad
they can't tell at me like they used to over There.
they can't tell at me like they used to over There.
April 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Somebody's maaaaaaad
they can't tell at me like they used to over There.
they can't tell at me like they used to over There.
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You can tell what Bernie is doing is working because it’s making the New York post furious
April 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
You can tell what Bernie is doing is working because it’s making the New York post furious
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But no thoughts for the hostages that you and Noem put in El Salvador??
They’re using the hostages to try and justify their anti-democratic movement.
Not in our name
Not in our name
April 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
But no thoughts for the hostages that you and Noem put in El Salvador??
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Bro spoke not a single lie and if they keep this up the GOP gonna delete that app tomorrow
April 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Bro spoke not a single lie and if they keep this up the GOP gonna delete that app tomorrow
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Trump’s cohorts have begun wearing Trump pins rather than the US Flag. 🇺🇸
This is no longer the United States of America to them.
It’s Trumpland.
#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
This is no longer the United States of America to them.
It’s Trumpland.
#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
April 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Trump’s cohorts have begun wearing Trump pins rather than the US Flag. 🇺🇸
This is no longer the United States of America to them.
It’s Trumpland.
#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
This is no longer the United States of America to them.
It’s Trumpland.
#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
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@esper.bsky.social come get your juice
April 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
@esper.bsky.social come get your juice
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Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
April 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
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New Buying Power: I wrote about how America built the postwar world order and its own society on “consumer choice” and cheap goods, and what happens if Trump strips that out while also gutting the social safety net. Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Cheap Consumer Goods Are the American Dream, Actually
Trump’s tariffs upend a nearly century-old bargain between politicians and US consumers.
www.bloomberg.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
New Buying Power: I wrote about how America built the postwar world order and its own society on “consumer choice” and cheap goods, and what happens if Trump strips that out while also gutting the social safety net. Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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“If the US is determined to fight a tariff and trade war, China’s response will continue to the end,” Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC said in a statement to WIRED.
Trump’s Trade War Is Strengthening China’s Soft Power
If the US is determined to fight a tariff and trade war, China’s response will continue to the end,” Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC said in a statement to WIRED.
www.wired.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“If the US is determined to fight a tariff and trade war, China’s response will continue to the end,” Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC said in a statement to WIRED.
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I worked in toys for years. This is maybe understating the extent of the problem.
April 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I worked in toys for years. This is maybe understating the extent of the problem.
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This is almost dumber
ICE tells me the illegal “ideas” post they deleted earlier today “was sent without proper approval and should not have been shared. ‘Ideas’ should have said ‘intellectual property’”
Donald Trump’s Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has proudly announced that if it crosses the border illegally, they will stop it.
This includes people, money, products, and… ideas?
This includes people, money, products, and… ideas?
April 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This is almost dumber
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A senior Trump administration official tells Rolling Stone how deeply unfunny Elon Musk is.
"He’s not funny. Like, at all. He makes these jokes and little asides and smiles and then looks almost hurt if you don’t lap up his humor."
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
"He’s not funny. Like, at all. He makes these jokes and little asides and smiles and then looks almost hurt if you don’t lap up his humor."
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A senior Trump administration official tells Rolling Stone how deeply unfunny Elon Musk is.
"He’s not funny. Like, at all. He makes these jokes and little asides and smiles and then looks almost hurt if you don’t lap up his humor."
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
"He’s not funny. Like, at all. He makes these jokes and little asides and smiles and then looks almost hurt if you don’t lap up his humor."
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...