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slugdoug.bsky.social

@slugdoug.bsky.social

A liberal trucker, but not THE Liberal Trucker

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Thought I'd re-post this pre-Trump warning. Mostly to remind myself that no one listens to the dire warnings we Liberals issue until those warnings are boosted by Never Trumpers and repackaged as their own Brilliant Insights far, far too late. driftglass.blogspot.com/2014/06/it-w...

driftglass.blogspot.comIt Will Shock You How Much It Never HappenedAcross the internet you will find people expressing their bleak indignation over what is happening to the memory of the Tienanmen Squa...

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Today, Cairo’s population is under 1,700 residents. Once majority-White in the 1960s, the town’s demographics inverted following the unrest. Cairo is approximately 75.7% Black and 20.6% White. Racism killed this town.😔 #KeepItWoke #DedicatedToTam✡️🕊 www.abandonedspaces.com/towns/cairo-...

abandonedspaces.comCairo, Illinois Suffered Economic and Racial Struggles That Turned It Into a Ghost TownCairo, Illinois, was once a bustling community that thrived thanks to its unique location. Now, it has become an eerie ghost town.

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NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

propublica.orgThe FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the WayAfter the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Scammers gotta scam. But this is next-level gaslighting

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

NEWS: Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Iowa Ashley Hinson says her family can barely afford groceries. Her disclosures say she’s worth up to $7M richer since taking office. And the “all my stocks are sold” claim? Also false. The receipts 👇

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This is the second time this has happened. CBS News's Investigative unit got a retired ICE agent to break down the Good shooting frame-by-frame. On the record, he said the agents were entirely out of line. The piece was only posted online and never broadcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ywL...

youtube.comRetired ICE agent breaks down deadly Minneapolis shootingYouTube video by CBS Evening News
Niall Stanage@niallstanage.bsky.social

This is a devastating interview. Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good. Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

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Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t be taken public. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks. AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS or Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKD...

youtube.comAnthopic, OpenAI Should Not Be Allowed to IPO, Says Ed ZitronYouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

Going on Bloomberg between 4:07 to 4:18pm ET to talk about how AI has no ROI and the greater AI bubble www.youtube.com/live/f39oHo6...

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⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 A White woman's false accusation of rape sparked the Springfield Race Riot of 1908. It led to the start of a multiracial civil rights movement. Pull up a seat.🪑(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory blackpast.org/african-amer...

blackpast.orgSpringfield Race Riot, 1908In mid-August 1908, the white population of Springfield, Illinois hastily reacted to reports that a white woman has been assaulted in her home by a black man. Soon afterwards another instance of an as...

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Friends, I’ve been around politics for over 50 years. I’ve never seen anything as brazenly crooked and corrupt as what Trump and his cronies did this week.

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A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

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President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

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Imagine reducing the need for knee replacements by 62%! A groundbreaking injection could rejuvenate your cartilage using your own cells. What if aging joints could be treated without surgery? This research might just change everything. 🦵✨

sinapti.caStanford finds the switch for joint aging: an injection could prevent millions of knee replacements - SinapticaA team from Stanford University has identified a key protein that controls the aging of joint cartilage and developed an inhibitor capable of reversing it, open

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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Ari Melber's show put together a supercut of an 8-minute Trump rant about snakes that raised concerns about his mental wellbeing

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BREAKING NEWS: There was some kind of upset at the White House this morning. People are whispering that Trump is at Walter Reed. The president either had another stroke or his vagina neck is dilated ten centimeters and he's having that baby.

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A French general just looked at Trump’s plan to build a runway inside Iran to fly out uranium under active bombing. His response: “American officials should stop snorting cocaine between meetings.”

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Listened to an interview with Josh Owens, a former contributor to Alex Jones’ Infowars. His assignment was to film someone dressed as a member of ISIS easily crossing the Mexico border. Problem? Border Patrol stopped them. So they filmed at a river not on the border. And got over a million views.

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They used your tax money to buy a fuck jet

Anna Kramer@annackramer.bsky.social

I found the amount of money that the White House gave Department of Homeland Security for "executive travel," including "leasing jets." It's $205 million. Details below, in our new story about Dems probing the Corey Lewandowski pay-to play allegations

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The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

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While the headlines are chasing shadows, we have the receipts on the biggest stories today. From impeachment filings to shock election results in Georgia, the tide has turned. Read the full thread for the breakdown: 👇

dworkinsubstack.comImpeachment Charges Filed Against Pam Bondi, A Trump Nomination Derailed With One Question, and Dem Stuns In Georgia’s Reddest DistrictPlus, the SAVE Act continues to get crushed in the Senate as Trump sabotages his own agenda

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Pro-Trump WSJ admits MAGA economy is 'lousy' President Donald Trump’s economy is “lousy” and could be improved if he removes his tariffs, a newspaper that normally supports Trump wrote on Friday.“There’s no denying the February report was lousy,” The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board wrote on Frid

alternet.orgPro-Trump WSJ admits MAGA economy is 'lousy'President Donald Trump’s economy is “lousy” and could be improved if he removes his tariffs, a newspaper that normally supports Trump wrote on Friday.“There’s no denying the February report was lousy,” The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board wrote on Friday. “The U.S. shed 92,000 jobs and revised do...

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Free newsletter: The AI bubble's info war demands that we believe in things that aren’t true, like the economic fundamentals of the AI industry are perfectly sound, or that Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are anything other than warmongers. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubble-is-an-information-war/

wheresyoured.atThe AI Bubble Is An Information WarEditor's Note: Apologies if you received this email twice - we had an issue with our mail server that meant it was hitting spam in many cases! Hi! If you like this piece and want to support my work, ...

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Six days on, a New York Times investigation concludes that the US bombed the school. 175 are dead, 150+ of whom are schoolgirls aged 7-12. The My Lai massacre for our generation. The Hague - and Hell - awaits.