No one needs to wonder any longer how nations morph into police states under the thumb of dictators determined to wreak vengeance and destroy the lives and livelihoods of millions. It happens gradually and then suddenly.
No one needs to wonder any longer how nations morph into police states under the thumb of dictators determined to wreak vengeance and destroy the lives and livelihoods of millions. It happens gradually and then suddenly.
Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
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Stuff it
And to end it, *life has to become uncomfortable enough for enough Americans to do something*. Sadly, a too-huge slice of tuned-out people possess limited critical thinking skills/civics ed. His actions must affect them personally in a profound way. He counts on that. It's how we got here.
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Please do go on.
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And again. Thanks for helping elect Republicans. š
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So you can't argue without turning to insult. Way to go. Your argument still sucks
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Stop with the purity tests already
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Not a Canadian thing but not worth fighting over.
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Press corpse.
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Trouper
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Surrogate biology, microbiomes, and behaviors have been shown to influence surrogate babies.. sounds like he got confused as to the extent. We're still learning about those intertwined influences of nature and nurture.
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People are allowed to grow and change. He was college-aged when he wrote that, I believe.
Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The Trump administration is not setting the course for a four-year term. The Trump administration is setting the course for an everlasting dictatorship. If Americans donāt want that, the window to stop them is closing quickly.
Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.
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Water into wine?
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Mike Judge continues to be prescient.
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Honestly, they don't seem to
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No
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Still waiting for the bus, kiddo?
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No it's not. It never is.
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And the courts haven't cared. Or Congress.
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How does that make America healthy again, pray tell?
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I thinks it's the racism, pure and simple. Sexism also.
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Has the bus come and picked you up yet, or is mom taking you to school today?
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Yawn. I can play all day. Get a hobby.
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You can't engage on the issue, that's apparent
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So strange. What is into you?
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It's everywhere online. Wall Street Journal broke the story
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Bizarre
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What are you, 10?
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Someone has issues, apparently.
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Methinks you need a dictionary
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Precisamundo.
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It's not. You apply and get an insurance card. There no money being sent each month. Common misconception.
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What a waste of resources
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What store?
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The drip-drip of incompetence turns into a flash flood...
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That's just caving
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Kansas is red, why screw Kansas too?
WATCH: āA Dem running in Colorado caught using an image of Canadian mountainsā¦ the biggest controversy in the race since the REPUBLICAN VOTED TO CUT $1 TRILLION FROM MEDICAID. Weāll see which impacts that race.ā š„ This is how you do it. Wish every state had a kyle clark
I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
Missouri passed a law in 2023 that prohibited healthcare providers from performing pelvic exams on unconscious or anesthetized patients without their informed consent because IT WAS LEGAL TO PERFORM A PELVIC EXAM ON AN ANESTHESIZED PATIENT WITHOUT CONSENT UNTIL 2023ā¦
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I just don't understand how it's legal to send people to a country they're not from.
Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
JIANG: What is the NEC's estimate for how many people could lose healthcare coverage? HASSETT: The bottom line is the best way to get insurance is to get a job
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After the fact yawn. Useless.
This is a really important point. Most Medicaid recipients likely have NO idea that theyāre about to lose their coverage.
āāsalad bar extremismā is a mix-and-match worldview where misogyny is blended with white nationalism, anti-government sentiment and conspiratorial thinking to justify violenceā theconversation.com/i-analyzed-m...
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This is not true. You can have Medicaid coverage without being ill. It's insurance coverage.
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Executions are more expensive. Years of appeals. This is cheaper.
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I wish people were so kind and helpful always I had a disappointing incident yesterday but hopefully it's an outlier.
I'm often amazed what Fox News puts out when the network has such a huge budget. Someone actually wrote this script for Kayleigh McEnany and thought it sounded great. @badfoxgraphics.bsky.social this one is chef's kiss.
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I make verbal mistakes all the time, don't fault him a bit. Mushy mouth. And public speaking is part of my job. Not going to pile on... he's not necessarily sexist or anything else. Occam says no razor needed. Grace.
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But those are brown people. Pronatslists like the color white.
I will turn 50 this September. I was born in 1975, and I represent the only generation of American women born with full rights that have been lost in the same lifetime. My generation has witnessed anti-progress. A cultivated backpedal. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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Barrett was unable to name all 5 1st Amendment protections at her confirmation hearing, so... www.nbcnewyork.com/news/nationa...
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?
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Or just reality itself...
Turtle Mutual Aid:
I'm trying to imagine a Democratic president saying openly and proudly that he would be sending federal agents to target the 'Republican Power Center' in Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. We would be in the midst of a civil war before he'd finished saying those words.
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I thought it was agreed that signing DJT meant Stephen Miller.
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Those values are very similar. 24 vs 19, 61 vs 74. Not like they're reversed.
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He's in the minority, means nothing. Republicans should call out.
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She'll still always be seen next Tuesday.
š genuinely donāt understand why people are unable to comprehend ādonāt get AI to do something for you if you canāt understand whether it has produced the wrong answerā.
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What elections?
One thing we didnāt touch on: If Trump gets away with this, he will absolutely do the same thing during the 2026 & 2028 elections. He will manufacture unrest just like in LA and send federal troops to every major city as a way to intimidate voters and decrease turnout. Functional end to fair elex.
Libertarian tech bros discovering big corporations are less efficient than government www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...
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Bureau of Labor Statistics bls.gov
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Great, more global warming for AI
Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social
The Democratās top line ad theme for the midtermsā¦
This is a masterpiece from Will Bunch at the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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It's everyone reporting on Tapper ad nauseum
Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...
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No small donors?!
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I can't keep up.. who?
yes this is famously how free societies treat their universities
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I'm a subscriber, actually
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All right then. It's wildly naive that rebuilding the country will be easier than some believe, as you write, without evidence. The stain of Trumpism is wide and consistently underestimated.
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Still true: how do you know when a republican is lying? Their mouth is moving.
Soā¦about AIās energy useā¦ āā¦to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses āabout 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality imageā. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.ā
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Not really. SSDD.
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It's the same way each time. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Wrong
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No
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
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Joe Biden's dentures in his nightstand jar would make a better president than Frump. Let's move on!
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Surprise surprise. That happen when we coddle kids.
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I'm not even clicking this nytimes. Nothing is working yet something must be done.
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Why are they playing into their game. JFC I can't stand some of these folks
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What does this mean?
Welcome to the liquidation of American dominance in science
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So?
Trump's tariff war could reduce the supply of Christmas toys. But deporting children could reduce the demand.
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Good grief. 1. Duh. 2. Should be 100%.