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Atheist. Vegan. Altruist. Work as a computer programmer. Student of stoicism and risk parity. Cat parent. Maintain a solitary bee house to support native pollinators. Amateur vegetable gardener. Currently reading The Soul of Wealth by Daniel Crosby.
“The BLS might have carried forward prices in some categories, effectively assuming 0% inflation… If these technical factors are the main source of weakness, we could see reacceleration in December.”
Trust these numbers? Economists see a lot of flaws in delayed CPI report showing downward inflation
Thursday saw the release of a much lighter-than-expected inflation report for November, and economists are already questioning its significance.
www.cnbc.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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CMS is saying they can do this because this care is not "healthcare" and thus they aren't regulating practice of medicine... seems like a slippery slope? what stops them from next saying abortion isn't healthcare?
Under the proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration today, any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital would be barred from providing gender-affirming care to *any child*, even if the care is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid.

public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
December 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Every word from Donald Trump is a lie and a con job because that is who he fundamentally is—a liar and a con man.
Trump is taking money out their housing allowances approved by Congress and giving it to them in a “bonus” so it looks like it came from him. It’s just a shell game with military pay from the ultimate con man
December 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The Transportation Security Administration is now sharing passenger data with ICE to enable Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

trib.al/TdrHID7
Trump Admin Is Secretly Giving ICE Names of All Air Travelers
It’s just the latest evidence we’re living in a dystopia.
trib.al
December 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The Fed just made a big move and in so doing gave a clear rebuke of Trump’s economic policy.
GPT CONTEXT: The Fed just Trump-proofed itself. By reappointing every regional Fed president months early, they closed the only window a president has to reshape the system. These leaders now serve through 2031 — locking out political interference in monetary policy. #econsky #federalreserve
December 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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🚨BREAKING: Massachusetts and Nevada are the latest states sued by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) over their refusal to hand over unredacted voter rolls to the Trump administration, the department announced Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump DOJ Sues Massachusetts and Nevada In Expanding Bid to Seize States’ Private Voter Data
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Warren: "The president says here's what he thinks should happen to CNN. If that doesn't make your hair stand up, I don't know what does. That's him saying, 'You've got to make a deal w/me. That might involve a $1m a dinner & buying crypto & getting rid of a pesky news outfit I don't like'"
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The US government is in the hands of unserious people.
December 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Who could have predicted this after Trump loyalist E.J. Antoni was installed at BLS because Trump didn’t like the real numbers Erika McEntarfer was reporting?
December 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The United Sates government is now playing pirate, seizing seafaring vessels for the riches they contain. For the love of sanity, could other countries please start imposing sanctions on Trump and his criminal cabinet?
Trump says the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro. Using U.S. forces t...
www.yahoo.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Trump is attacking the sovereignty of states because he’s financially invested in AI.
That's called a Dictatorship.
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?

A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
December 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The National Security Strategy document released by the Trump admin *blows up* established US foreign policy. Embassies are now for promoting US business interests. We’re backing away from NATO and the UN. The government will fund a US business takeover of North American countries. 1/2
December 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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This is an excellent read. The more you know. #Science 🧪

“… we were advancing toward elimination of hepatitis B in the United States,” says Ward “I am deeply concerned that if the ACIP rescinds this policy, they’re going to contribute to the spread of hepatitis B rather than its elimination.”
Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says
A panel of US vaccine advisers voted to rescind a recommendation that all newborns should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
www.nature.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Imagine your country being seen as a hope for a new life for thousands of people wanting to live and contribute in your towns and instead of being proud of it you go no nope nope this country should be a scary shitheap people should be scared to come here how dare they think we are good
December 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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America is the personification of this saying:

If there’s 9 people at the table and a nazi sits down and no one gets up, there’s 10 nazis at the table.
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.

via @stateline.org
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/medi...
Medicare’s new AI experiment sparks alarm among doctors, lawmakers
A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.In…
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Trump and Miller are deporting the Dreamers.
A freshman about to board her flight home for Thanksgiving. After a night detained in TX, she was put on a bus with shackles on her wrists, waists & ankles before boarding a deportation flight. She’s lived in the U.S. since she was 7.

ICE isn’t out to make us safer. They’re out to enact fascism.
A 19-year-old college student was about to board a flight to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when she was detained at Boston Logan International Airport and deported to Honduras two days later, her father and lawyer said on Sunday.
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Trump’s WLF and Alt5 are heavily invested in each other. If pillar of the US stock market NASDAQ caves under pressure from Trump to keep Alt5 on the index, US will no longer have a free market.
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM