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I'm the friend you have to warn your other friends about before they meet me... ...and apologize for after I'm gone. #SorryNotSorry
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Good fucking luck! We haven't enforced Antitrust laws in this country since we slapped Microsoft down nearly 30 years ago...and they are back to doing the SAME EXACT SHIT. We have a government by the billionaires for the billionaires, regardless of how the election turns out, w/both sides complicit.
Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”
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The explanation for this pattern is pretty damn simple: Every time a singular party gains a majority power in the three houses of government, they run amuck, piss everyone off, and cause the massive political pendulum to swing to the other side. This is the shitshow of every two-party system.
Every other decade over the past hundred years has produced at least one midterm that made a big difference in Congress and in national politics more broadly. n.pr/4Bw8GnV
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Rob Bresnahan made his money then cut your healthcare. https://heartlandsignal.com/2026/10/21/rob-bresnahan-sold-health-care-stocks-before-medicaid-vote/
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This is capitalist propaganda. Billionaires don't care about employees; they care about profits. Which is why they are far more likely to use cash on hand to buy back stock than hire more employees or give the employees already there a raise. This is just "Trickle Down Economics" in corporate drag.
Most billionaire wealth isn't in yachts or jewelry — that's just a few percent of it. Most is productive business capital: companies that employ people, build things, and fund research. Tax that wealth and you're taxing the businesses that employ us all. Cato's Adam Michel explains.
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Kind of stunned how many people in my mentions still believe that the point of Section 230 is that if you edit, you lose its protections. That's literally the exact opposite of why the law was written and the exact opposite of what courts have said. But tons of people here believe it. Weird.
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I think in reality what socialism actually means in the American context is that trillionaire Elon Musk got $38 billion from the U.S. government and you got rejected trying to buy a $1 soda on SNAP benefits.
Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
Turns out we had a mass shooting in Georgia yesterday where 2 were killed and 35 injured. I only found out about it due to the BBC's coverage. Funny how none of the US outlets have reported on it, isn't it? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Because AI's circular financing bubble is the only thing keeping US GDP afloat. Reign them in, the bubble pops, and the entire economy goes into a full-blown recession.
I wonder why Trump and Republicans are promoting this industry so heavily and are allowing them to operate free from any guardrails or regulation?
Hey @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social! How do I get a couple of those yard signs I keep seeing? I do NOT want to be signed up for any mailing lists or spam or SMS campaigns or anything like that; may my privacy and sanity be spared. I just want a couple of signs for my yard, that's it! 😉
The US Government is soooooooo prone to "irreparable harm," but only when the Repubes are in control. Definitely the result of fragile old men in office. Call 'em the GOSP from now on: The Grand Old Snowflake Party
If Trump started injecting every immigrant with bubonic plague, the Supreme Court would rule that while they take a year or two to decide if it's constitutional, the program should go forward because to not let Trump inject people with bubonic plague would do irreparable harm to the government
As someone who is entirely self-employed, I pay an effective tax rate north of 28%! If anyone needs a break, it's the millions of self-employed who are the very essence of the "American Dream." Alas, we don't have dark money and Super PACs to rep us...mostly because we're paying double the taxes.
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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🇬🇧 Bluesky's moderation (@moderation.bsky.app) has flagged this bot as spam. Apparently, this happened because it sends too many replies to different users (in other words, it is doing its job), despite the profile properly indicating that it is an automated account.
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Report Reveals Jesus Christ May Have Benefited From Father’s Influential Position To Gain High-Powered Role As Lord And Savior https://theonion.com/report-reveals-jesus-christ-may-have-benefited-from-fat-1833717521/
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Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming https://theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nefarious-plot-to-undergo-years-of-m-1850433563/
The People of Texas deserve to see this report NOW. The only reason to delay the release is to DEFRAUD your voters by failing to provide vital statistics about existing policies ahead of an election. Without the report, I have to assume that 10X as many mothers have died. Prove me wrong!
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In other news...OpenAI spent $7M in compute to solve a math problem with a $1M prize. In case anyone isn't clear on how AI economics work, this was labeled a "win" for the company. 😆💀 www.quantamagazine.org/ai-has-solve...
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Oh, honey . . . You place your children in the custody of priests, pastors, and youth pastors, a demographic proven most likely to molest children. You are *not* protecting and nurturing your children—you're endangering them. And shamelessly lying about Islam and feminism isn't going to change that.
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A decade ago, Florida stripped a teacher of her license for sexually abusing a 16-year-old. Last year, she opened a private school there with ease. As private schools fueled by taxpayer dollars proliferate, states are choosing not to closely regulate who runs them or what they teach:
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There is little evidence that MAGA influencer Nick Adams’ nonprofit has provided the civics education it claims. A review of the organization's finances show that it has paid Adams and his mother more than half its recent annual revenue. (Published July)