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Make *no* mistake, it wasn't an 'accidental' deportation, it was a test.

Failing to abide by a court order sets up the precedent to ignore future court orders.

This is not a drill.

YouTube video by AsapSCIENCE Debunking Anti-Vaxxers

This is the first time I'm confessing this. Back when I was 14, I briefly became an antivaxxer and blamed my (diagnosed) autism on vaccines.
This video thankfully managed to pull me out of that belief and got me out of the alt-right. This video truly changed my life. youtu.be/b03U6BYF9L0

“Just calm down and let people enjoy chatgpt.” Sorry, no. I find it creepy that folks are treating a machine that mimics human speech as their friend / therapist. It is feeding you lies. It is destroying your thinking abilities. Shut it off. Talk to other humans. Go outside.

Got diagnosed at the age of 2. My life was over as soon as it started.

An extract of a newsletter from Kelly Evans at CNBC. Listen to what Bessent is saying. "The president is reordering trade," he told Tucker Carlson. "We are shedding excess labor in the federal government and bringing down federal borrowings. And then on the other side that will give us the labor that we need for the new manufacturing" here in the U.S., he said. Just look at the non-reaction to Israel and Vietnam's efforts to bring their tariffs down in order to avoid new tariffs last week. I don't think this White House is looking for opportunities to back down. I think they view this as a one-time shot to remake the entire U.S. economic order, with high tariffs being a necessary catalyst for that. "I believe that this is going to work," Bessent said. "What I do know is that the old system wasn't working. And if you look at a system that's not working, you've got to be brave to change it." Does that sound like language from an administration looking for an exit route? Especially from Bessent, who has the most Wall Street experience of the bunch.

Treasury Sec. Steve Bessent:

“We are shedding excess labor in the federal government…that will give us the labor that we need for the new manufacturing.”

They expect cancer scientists to stitch socks in factories.

80% of Israeli Jews support US President Trump's proposal to ethnically cleanse Gaza, survey finds The vast majority of Israeli Jews support the proposal by US President Donald Trump to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip and expel its Palestinian population, a survey has revealed. According...

80% of Israeli Jews support genocide.

Fucking Christ man.

Controlled opposition.

they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now

2008: "You can't trust everything that's on wikipedia"

2025: "Wikipedia is the last bastion of pure truth online."

here's how to have your own personal copy of wikipedia while it still persists.

What if pokemon traveled on the subway with us?

hello cis friends
this is what people mean by trans genocide

if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported

this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order

it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

The dems are nothing more than controlled opposition

@climateguyry.bsky.social

Excerpt from the bill shows. It reads The bill also prohibits pornography in general, providing for criminal penalties of up to 10 years in prison for production, distribution, or possession. It also provides heightened 10-to-30-year criminal penalties for organized pornography trafficking. "Pornography is both degenerate material and a highly addictive drug," Deevers said. "It ruins marriages, ruins lives, destroys innocence, warps young people's perception of the opposite sex, turns women into objects, turns men into objects, degrades human dignity, and corrodes the moral fabric of society. Any decent society will stand against this plague with the full weight of the law?"

This is not a drill. They’re now proposing a bill in Oklahoma where making, owning or possessing porn means 10 years in jail.

Oklahoma Senator Dusty Deevers introduced SB593, bill to criminalize p*rn in the state of Oklahoma. Calling porn an addictive “drug”
Per @mikestabile.bsky.social

Cryptocurrency Might be a Path to Authoritarianism Extreme libertarians built blockchain to decentralize government and corporate power. It could consolidate their control instead.

That time when I wrote this seven and one half years ago

CEO owns $1 million of company stock. He uses his stocks as collateral to borrow money from the bank. He spends his borrowed money like it's his "income". But legally, debt is not treated as real income. On paper, he has no income. His stocks continue to appreciate. He only pays capital gains tax if and when he sells his assets.

How the rich pay no taxes

Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?' Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.

Goldman Sachs analysts : The money men saying the quiet part out loud

Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies.

Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model

www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...

No distractions..
We gotta pay attention to the background noise...

A paragraph from Ta-Nehisi Coates' book The Message, which reads: "It may seem strange that people who have already attained a position of power through violence invest so much time in justifying their plunder with words. But even plunderers are human beings whose violent ambitions must contend with the guilt that gnaws at them when they meet the eyes of their victims. And so a story must be told, one that raises a wall between themselves and those they seek to throttle and rob."

Ta-Nehisi Coates wields words like sledgehammers.

A whole lot of 'progressives' who think - despite all the evidence to the contrary (i.e. Doug Ford, Danielle Smith, etc.) - that somehow we're 'better' or 'smarter' than Americans, and won't elect destructive right-wing populists to power. It's astounding, and so far the worst part of this site.