The whole point of money is to be a stable store of value.
If that value fluctuates all over the place, it isnβt useful as money.
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The whole point of money is to be a stable store of value.
If that value fluctuates all over the place, it isnβt useful as money.
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HHS has eliminated EVERY SINGLE SAFEGUARD FOR DATA PROTECTION AT CDC. Giving data to CDC is no longer safe and puts your residents at risk.
Unless and until all CDCβs data protections are restored you should consider CDC a bad actor.
βI spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.β - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
12.10.2025 12:01 β π 8803 π 4636 π¬ 285 π 274Not to mention that the FBI (checks notes) has never had a dem in charge.
So trump is potus and the fbi was under gop control. But yea, it was the βradical leftβ. Because that makes sense.
Sure gramps, lets get you back to your roomβ¦
I guess i hadnβt thought about it that way but Iβm sure youβre right. No accident that Ralph Cramden drove a bus. The bus thing traumatized me a bit as a kid - will i know my stop? Will the bus stop? And that, combined with sitting at traffic lights made me a subway guy, crazy smells & all.
12.10.2025 17:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βThe slow-rising central horror of βWatergateβ is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from itβ - Hunter S. Thompson
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12.10.2025 16:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Qatari pilot 1: βI do not understandβ
12.10.2025 13:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nice work if you can get it
12.10.2025 13:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Signs popping up around D.C. note: βICE kidnapping happened hereβ
www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
Did Jesus ride english or western? Did he prefer warmbloods? I could see him on a paint; did the bible specify?
12.10.2025 12:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.
11.10.2025 20:30 β π 6501 π 1046 π¬ 32 π 36Black unemployment rate has surged over the past four months up from 6 to 7.5%. While white unemployment is down to 3.7%. This is because Trump has a created a climate with his war on diversity that favors hiring whites only. That is 100% what MAGA wants. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...
12.10.2025 11:40 β π 141 π 71 π¬ 6 π 3Emily Latella on βweekend updateβ asks, βwhatβs all this fuss about Bugs Bunny performing at the super bowl?β
12.10.2025 11:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
12.10.2025 04:23 β π 12074 π 2460 π¬ 235 π 123Walk+subway is just a way of life. Aita? ;)
12.10.2025 02:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Never give up HOP.πΈ
11.10.2025 17:28 β π 1725 π 494 π¬ 43 π 15Without cultural appropriation, rich parents and other peopleβs songs heβd be nothing.
What a joke that faux news turns to a middle aged has-been for culture war commentary.
Although i guess that tracks.
They are building a Propaganda State.
They are cooking the books on job creation.
Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.
Things that make you go, βhmmmmβ
11.10.2025 16:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.
10.10.2025 16:45 β π 1427 π 669 π¬ 28 π 79Gus & Deli are fond of sleeping on or by the stairs.
βUse other stairsβ
#dogsofbluesky
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Muskβs aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
08.10.2025 10:41 β π 2350 π 1401 π¬ 55 π 160Lots of ways to understand the contemporary moment but one is the role of owners of immobile assets - oil, gas, coal and land- who want to ensure they can continue to extract rents (and pollute) and who prefer an authoritarian set up to do so. Their threat perception rises with every new eco tech
10.10.2025 15:28 β π 339 π 105 π¬ 14 π 2I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. π§΅
Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.
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11.10.2025 02:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
11.10.2025 02:10 β π 15345 π 8466 π¬ 859 π 1123πΈπΈπΈπΈπΈπΈ!
#amphibiousassault
#peacefrogs
ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sightβsoon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
Huge shoutout to George Soros for funding our supporters with suits and pee bottles.
Hereβs to a successful False Frog Operation In Portland, Chicago, and any city that oppressors invade.