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Anglophile counting down the days
Refugees fleeing the civil war in Sudan’s Darfur region are finding little help, in part due to the Trump administration’s devastating cuts to foreign aid. Lynsey Addario’s photographs capture the first humanitarian crisis of the post-American world:
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wait...a wat
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Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
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This is what a rigged economy looks like:
In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.
In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.
This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.
That has got to change.
Eight year old: Who is the pope?
Me: Begins to explain…
Eight year old, interrupting: “It turns out I don’t care about that.”
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My aunt was a dancer on her show for years. Nice to see this!
26.04.2025 20:57 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What happens when the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes like everyone else?
We can invest in a stronger, fairer America — where every kid has a quality education and families aren’t bankrupted by one medical diagnosis.
NEW: Abrego Garcia is getting a lot of attention, but many people are asking about the rest of the men being unlawfully held in CECOT. Here's what's going on with them. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/so-what-ab...
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Me too.
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Anyone have any idea how many students loan holders this impacts ?
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Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…
“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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My maternal grandmother died in the 1918 flu pandemic.
RFK Jr can go fuck himself.
Pete Hegseth lost a court battle over Trump’s ban on transgender troops—so he mocked Judge Ana Reyes, who ruled it “unabashedly demeaning.” Instead of filing an appeal, he threw a tantrum on social media. That’s not leadership. That’s a meltdown. And no, blaming the booze doesn’t help.
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23.03.2025 00:40 — 👍 60113 🔁 15951 💬 1136 📌 843AOC: In every single stop that Bernie and I have had in the past couple of days… every single stop has completely blown out all attendance projections.
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Something special is happening, people. Ignore it or downplay it at your own peril…
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Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
“I take him at his word,” Trump’s envoy says of Putin.
Was there ever a more dangerously naive statement?
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Musk and Trump wanted to start with what they saw as the weakest, wokest government agency, to slaughter it and hang it on a pike as a warning not to disobey the king.
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RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
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A trifecta.
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The President of the United States has the emotional maturity of a teenage bully.
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