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“Billionaires who popularized stock-based lending include Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Both borrow to avoid having to sell shares—which could trigger a taxes and dilute their voting rights—in companies they founded.” www.wsj.com/finance/the-...

Walter Koenig, was, of course, Chekov. But if you want to honor his memory by watching some of his best(sorry) work, please check out his appearance as the evil Psi-Cop "Bester" in Babylon 5. He's a fantastic presence and a great foil to all of "our heroes." Fair skies, Mr. Koenig.

Thread. Cosign.

This week's comic: RIP Peter ⁨

I have a friend who is a social worker doing the same work as this social worker. She has also told me stories of women like Amy Acton's mother.

Bags of full-size Snickers: $23.00 Cheating death: Priceless

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attracting media attention with "stunts" was literally the entire core of the civil rights movement. visuals of cops and other officials harassing, beating, killing organizers was pivotal. the civil rights movement would have gone wild for selfies and tweets.

Maybe the BBC should get someone who actually knows what he is talking about then.

No, damn it!

If I criticize Israel for detaining a group of Jews for working in Palestine, am I being antisemitic? I need to know the rules.

Halloween in Hanbok 19

Bitch I called your office the night before he was confirmed and said that for this one vote I qualified as one of your constituents because I'm of childbearing age and he was absolutely going to overturn RvW.

PENDULUM (1999) Acrylic on Panel - 11" x 9" At times, the light of knowledge seems to illuminate only the negative side of our existence and becomes a burden to the spirit. #art

To Beltway elites, folks like Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham and Jim Clyburn symbolized the "Good Washington" that was soiled by the uncouth Trump But here they are in steakhouses ripping off taxpayers with bogus contracts in return for campaign cash Yo, pundits, your life is based around a lie

I spat out my peppermint tea 🤭

please note that the word that is emphasised here is 'MY'. for the leopard meme to be applicable, a person must have known and expected a particular outcome to happen, just not to THEM 'people' is implicitly understood to have meant 'those other people' rather than 'me'

What happened *after* the Labyrinth.

"I suppose you could say that insisting on the rights of all people is issuing a "political purity test." But this ignores the fact that those who refuse to enter the tent unless you push other people out of the tent are *also* issuing a political purity test." www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...

Starting to encounter user nics like 'Rational Thinker' and 'Skeptical Atheist' again. The posts that came from these users were exactly opposite in nature I remember this distinctive style of posting on older forums. Readers recognized posts to ignore on seeing a new users with this kind of name.

This was how the “furries want litter boxes in schools!” hoax got ripped up and (mostly) died. People asked for proof, and every time a school got mentioned the administrators and teachers were quick to say, “No, wtf are you talking about?” Amazing what can happen when reporters ask for proof...

"When I was a kid, nobody died of measles." Yes, because WE GAVE EVERYONE A VACCINE TO PREVENT DEATHS FROM MEASLES.

Once again, women working for Trump do not have any of the protection or extra chances that men do. (This is in no way meant to defend Noem/Wiles/etc...) But if your answer to "Why is the Trump admin doing X?" does not start with misogyny, racism, or both, you're usually missing the story.

E H Shepard continued to work for PUNCH for over 50 years. He grew heartily sick of the bear though, and here is his last account of his most famous character from 1966. #Winnie #WinniethePooh #Pooh

Yeah, everything we're hearing about AI cyber threats we were hearing about IoT a decade ago, huh? And I wrote an article about IoT security years ago and it started out with quotes which very much sounded like warnings about IoT security but were in fact about Bluetooth in about 2001.

proof that racism makes you hopelessly stupid

Like a zombie that won't stay buried, "We CAN'T make 'Blazing Saddles' NOWADAYS!" is being paraded around. Again.

Clickbait has broken the one brain cell the pundits share and they just can’t comprehend why normal people wouldn’t want to share space with a chud wearing a Pinochet helicopter fan tee.

Right-wing cartoonist Bob Howie's 1964 reimagining of what the "Lefty Wing" and Civil Rights Act would do to individual rights. (Howie was like a real-life version of the Onion's Stan Kelly.) In addition to the Jackson Daily News, Howie's cartoons appeared in the White Citizens' Council newspaper.

In my mind the defining feature of Trump II is that is ✨actually✨ a kakistocracy. RFK Jr and Russ Vought have very little in common politically, but they do share one essential quality: they are absolutely the worst person alive for the jobs they have.