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Folks on the other place trading competing 'analysis' of Govt debt levels / surpluses 'handed over' by red/blue led Govts. Few things to consider...
1. We could only reduce public debt by increasing private debt. We now have v.high private debt and we're getting milked by banks and rentiers. [🧵1/n]

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:

Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down

Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace

Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs

Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

Trump's team has spent more than $5 million having images of him with Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs bleached from the internet

Would be very terrible if this went viral!

And here we all are at the beginning of WWIII. Interesting how much a distraction it is from Trump's involvement in the biggest sex trafficking ring in the history of the world 🌎 EVER. Release the fully unredacted Trump/Epstein files. NOW.

I just left a classified briefing on Iran, and here's what I can say: it is so much worse than you thought. You are right to be worried.

While the McDonald’s CEO gets roasted for his awkward burger taste test...

McDonald’s is among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

And McDonald's CEO recently raked in $18.2M — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

That should leave a bad taste in your mouth.

BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

Dear MAGA: Remember when Qanon was going to work with Trump to arrest all those pedophiles in Epstein's files?

So... ... What happened there?

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.

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wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog bc you hadn't invested the appropriate training, then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ... Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"

In my experience interacting with the US State Department, they lie to us citizens for PRACTICE.

You’re on social media, so this should concern you.

The U.S. government has been asking platforms like Meta for user data.

You don’t have to be paranoid to see the problem. You just have to be paying attention. If you’re online, this includes you.
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A short overview of how Peter Thiel and Palantir have been systematically weaponizing your data.

Against you.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Richard Nixon in 1977: "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal"

Another deeply corrupt president in 2024: "He would saves his Country [sic] does not violate any law."

Crooks excusing their own venal behavior.

Keyword: “relevant.” Translation: nothing to see here.

No one should trust the DOJ to decide what counts as relevant. We all know there are millions of unreleased docs.

🚨 The DOJ says it has released all of its “relevant” records on Jeffrey Epstein, but some lawmakers are demanding more.

👀 👀

The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape.

After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.

Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?

Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

Call your Senators.

Indianapolis, Indiana: Anti-ICE protesters march on 2/14/26, openly exercising their 2nd Amendment rights.

Karoline Leavitt: “We’re moving on from Epstein.” The Internet: “The fuck you are.”

A Calvin & Hobbes cartoon. Calvin and Hobbes are staring at the stump of a tree in some dismay. Calvin says to Hobbes "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

Smart man, but I still prefer this answer

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

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AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

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I'm at their second benefit show right now. (They just opened their 3rd set with "American Idiot.) These white suburban parents are wearing t-shirts with slogans like "RADICALIZED BY BASIC HUMAN DECENCY" and "NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND BUILT BY STOLEN HANDS." (4/?)