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Here's how private equity killed your local mall.

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Want to focus on someone's untimely death today? I'd focus on...

siiiiiick

embarrassing that he can't talk about anything but himself, his politics, and saying the same thing since 2024 and before.

ends justify the means? lying and misrepresentation by SCOTUS judges is appalling and cowardice. make a valid and honest argument... but you can't bc it doesn't exist!

effectively malpractice. not informing the public.

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."

again lowering standards, like DHS, not because of DEI but due to the opposite...excluding talented people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. If DEI was the problem where are all the folks that were prevented by the policies? apparently not making the grade even without any competition?

A victory for Trump, Putin and Netanyahu. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov: “To be honest, I don’t even understand now how anyone can call on others to follow the norms and principles of international law. In fact, it no longer exists.”

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a clear picture of the question we should be asking and what makes Trump's effort likely to manage being less successful than our disastrous military operations in Iraq by @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social in www.liberalcurrents.com/internationa...

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.

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(11/11) In this new normal, costs are individually adjusted to a consumer’s maximum threshold and wages to a worker’s minimum floor. The next time you see a price, know that it may not reflect what the item is worth—but what the algorithm believes *you* are worth.

Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney. If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which they’re currently planning, we’ll all be witness to mass atrocities.

Please... do not do any of this... @evystadium.bsky.social has more. full story by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutr...

We love you Michelle!!!

Black farmers are getting shut out by the Trump administration. John Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association, says the WH told him, they are “moving away from DEI and small farm issues, and they were focusing on large-scale white farms… because they produce the most food.”

Already reposted the quoted post but just started cracking up all over again because I can’t believe we saw a wholesome example of this exact format in the wild

Donald Trump Jr, who has exactly zero experience or competence in manufacturing or defense, has received more than $600,000,000 in contracts from Pete Hegseth's "Department of War."

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

Tribal citizens are being grabbed off the streets by Trump's masked ICE agents. Held for days or weeks while their family has no idea where they are. A Republican's response? "There will be mistakes." @rephuffman.bsky.social wasn't having it 👇

Post about a game you've played but nobody else remembers. I was corrupted in the 70s arcades by Death Race where stuck figures turned into tombstones when you ran over them.

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

So ICE and the White House have been scrambling to pump out meme videos of clashes with protesters and "epic takedowns" and then an ICE agent recording video with his phone shoots a woman dead www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

I think what people who decide to oppose an available option b/c they decided ahead of time that it would fail actually want is to give themselves some sense they can control outcomes. Knowing something will fail and not even trying is failed. But at least it is an outcome, and you controlled it.

I go back to game theory and the Prisoner's Dilemma across multiple rounds. You can't have one side always choosing "cooperate" while the other side always chooses "snitch" and expect things to work. Optimal approach is always "cooperate first; on subsequent rounds, do what the other guy did"

This gentleman's analogy encapsulates the pedophile president's blithering idiocy in Venezuela to perfection. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Epstein redactions aren't believable, and they are valuable to fascists specifically because they aren't believable. Fascists prefer lies to truth. Believing in a lie is preferable to believing a truth, if what you want is to dominate. Believing lies dominates truth. So they believe lies.

This thread captures an aspect of MAGA I hadn't put words to. The lack of any self-created culture and identity. I would add culture or identity "beyond Trump". And Trump is not creative or even interesting, so there is no there there.

Donald Trump is trying to shut down the CFPB, an agency that has returned $21 billion to Americans who were cheated by big banks and giant corporations. I joined my fellow @banking.senate.gov to break down what it means for you. Trump is siding with the scammers. We’re fighting back.

Donald Trump just ended a rule that required airlines to compensate you for delayed or canceled flights. Why? Maybe because the airlines donated big bucks to Trump. Or maybe because the Secretary of Transportation used to be an airline lobbyist. Either way, you lose.

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well said

My colleague, the brilliant @colincarlson.bsky.social posted this on LinkedIn. This is devastating for Colin and his group, but also for science, for the future of the human race. #NSF is starving scientists of resources. This will not get better until we all rise up.

Just seeing this bsky.app/profile/medi...