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The Great Climate Insurance Collapse is coming. Silencing the fire alarms doesn’t save you from fire. Fossil fuel lies don’t change the truth. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | What Zillow Won’t Tell You
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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220 judges, including 23 appointed by Trump, have ruled that this administration’s mass detention policies are unlawful.

They are sending tens of thousands of innocent immigrants into for-profit prisons with subhuman conditions and no access to attorneys. It’s horrific.
December 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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today outside immigration court someone said to the gaggle of photographers “thank you for the work you’re doing.” and one of the agents replied with “thank you” and the guy looked at him and said “not you.” 😂
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Yup!
Why cut Social Security benefits when you could tax billionaires and deliver checks through the rest of the century?
December 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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👇👇
December 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Truth.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This is why I can’t take Mark Kelly (along with the rest of this crowd of shameful cowards what are you even doing???!!!!) seriously. He is unwilling to go from words to meaningful action to stop the authoritarianism.
11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:

Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
December 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Ohio GOP senators have passed a bill to would allow a display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, and mandate it if the document is donated. This is just one of recent bills that would mingle Christianity with the public education system ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/03/o...
Ohio Republican lawmakers continue to pass legislation mingling religion with public schools • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio Republican senators have passed a bill that would allow and put a display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. This is just one of the recent pieces of legislation that would add…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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The only reliable data we are going to get on this stuff now comes from the private sector. bsky.app/profile/atru...
🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:

In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.

In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Businesses in Ohio and surrounding states are seeing rising prices and declining activity in several sectors, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has reported. Some of it's attributable to massive import taxes imposed by President Trump, businesses said. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/02/c...
Cleveland Fed: Businesses report increasing prices, declining activity • Ohio Capital Journal
Two reports by the Cleveland Fed indicate that the Trump tariffs and other factors are feeding inflation and softening the economy.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Reminder
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Trump just commuted the 7-year sentence of David Gentile, a private equity leader who helped defraud thousands of people out of some $1.6 billion, almost as soon as his prison stint began.

"I lost my whole life savings," one person wrote, adding, "I am living from check to check."
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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If a Psych prof assigns students an essay response paper with explicit guidelines and then flunks a student for turning in a paper that ignores those guidelines but instead makes vague gestures to "the Bible" then THAT IS NOT A VIOLATION OF THE STUDENT'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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people are entitled to their religious freedom, but not to a passing grade in a university psychology course because you espouse poorly formulated Christian beliefs bsky.app/profile/kiss...
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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A report reveals the DOJ—after frantically realizing the files would be released—has been paying FBI agents nearly $1M in overtime to work on the “Epstein Transparency Project."

Ostensibly aimed at protecting victims' privacy, the project could also prevent exposing Trump. trib.al/xWOhQsA
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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So far, Trump has pardoned:

Changpeng Zhao (founder, Binance) - pled guilty to money laundering. Facilitated millions in transactions for terrorist organizations such as Hamas.

Ross Ulbricht (founder of the Silk Road) - the dark web Costco of illegal drugs.

1/3
November 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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So Trump just pardoned the former prez of Honduras, who:

-took a $1M bribe from El Chapo:
-was aided his in clemency campaign by Roger Stone
-ran for reelection despite a law against it, thus setting off political violence that killed dozens.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record.

Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM