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The Federal Reserve acted intentionally to burn off "excess savings" from COVID relief.
This is a rehash of the vibecession debates but median household income adjusted for inflation hit a record in 2024 (2025 data will be released in September). It’s just *not true* in any objective sense that people don’t have money anymore. It may *feel* that way but that’s different from reality.
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At Tompkins Distro we support our neighbors with hot food, treats, fruit, pantry items, hygiene supplies, coffee & cocoa, and other resources such as masks, covid tests, know your rights info etc We could use some help with handwarmers this winter! www.amazon.com/registries/g...
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The Jeffrey Epstein story is about the moral rot endemic among our elite. Time to go Carrie Nation on them www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...
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Some thoughts on Jeffrey Epstein, the American Empire and Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow youtu.be/KTfIX440qUA?...
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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"On Wednesday, Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, rode the full route of the M57, a crosstown bus that traverses Midtown Manhattan and is one of the city’s slowest, to remind New Yorkers that he wanted to speed up their commutes."
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🆘️Urgent Appeal to Save Our Children: No meds, food or safety chuffed.org/project/1422...
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imagine if someone told you in 2003 that Dave Matthews would have better politics than Radiohead
Dave Matthews, who protested Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Congress last summer, held up signs that said “STOP KILLING CHILDREN” AND “STOP THE GENOCIDE” at Lovin’ Life Festival in Charlotte, NC on Sunday
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this is a nightmare
BREAKING: The Supreme Court, on a 5-4 vote, ends the TROs in the Alien Enemies Act litigation, holding challenges must be brought in habeas and in the jurisdiction in which detainees are held. The court also holds that notice and an actual opportunity to bring a habeas case must be given.
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DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
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People are constantly saying the most demented, evidence-free shit about kids and smartphones aibm.org/commentary/g...
We'll see more of this as the tech bubble bursts.
I worked for a prototyping machine shop that made parts for meta's vr hardware. Some of the worst designed parts I've ever had to manufacture, churned out by a constantly shifting team of designers with absolutely no frame of reference for how much something should cost to make.
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Replying to @niedermeyer.online
The first time I ever decided to actually see for myself if Tesla was doing what Musk said it was doing, a decade ago this year, I caught them faking battery swap technology to defraud California's ZEV credit system. Ever since it's just been on fraud after the other. slate.com/technology/2...
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Lando Calrissian? More like NAMDLA Calrissian.
a dumb thing prequels do is answer shit that doesn't need answered (e.g. where han solo came from—a greedy guy is named greedo here, we're fine) and create permanently irreconcilable questions, like: how is "he fucked a robot" not in the first 3 things you say about a guy you know who fucked a robot