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The Portlander in the chicken suit is obviously dangerous. 🙄

I voted too.
Yes on 50.

Fight back!

I just filled out my California ballet and am proud to have voted YES on Prop 50. ✅

Democracy only works if we show up.

P.S. Don’t poke the bear.
#Vote #California #Prop50

Already voted!

Yes on 50!

Fight back now!

Sorry no.

Farmers got subsidies that made them feel rich with Trump 1.0.
They knew what was coming with 2.0.

They’re the biggest welfare queens in history.

They can eat dirt.

Soybean farmers are the biggest welfare queens in the country.

They voted for the tariff guy.
They should suffer the consequences.

Exactly!

Farmers want a handout after voting for tariffs. Sorry. No.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

I stand with Dowd.

Violence is not acceptable nor justified.

But nothing Dowd said was as incitful as Kirk’s daily free speech.

Banana Republic.

Exactly!

Representing American citizens is an honor. If you don’t want to focus 100% in that task, don’t run for office.

Aaron Peskin has a warning for Daniel Lurie about his S.F. ‘family zoning’ plan — San Francisco Chronicle Critics of Mayor Daniel Lurie’s plan to allow tens of thousands of new homes in San Francisco are ramping up their political pressure. And if detractors — including former Supervisor Aaron Peskin — do...

Build denser housing around transit.

That’s a no brainer.

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Anyone not willing to support a gay or trans kid is not ready to be a parent.

Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. — The Washington Post The key evidence was presented last month to a jury, which found the company partially liable for the 2019 crash in Key Largo, Florida.

Every Tesla driver should read this.

After another deadly failure of “Full Self Driving” mode, here’s how Tesla handed the critical data about the crash:
- uploaded data to their private server
- tried to delete the local copy
- claimed they couldn’t find the data

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Well isn’t this lovely.

Opera star sings Habanera (from Carmen) in the airport (?)

What a terrific voice.
#opera

I don’t care if they’re staged, we need more profl free public #music and #art.

Project 2025: Fascist Christian Nationalism.

How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes — The Atlantic A clever new paper puts concrete numbers to the taxes paid by members of the Forbes 400.

Good read.

“The top 499 wealthiest Americans tax rates were lower than the average paid by all American households.”

We are all getting screwed by billionaires.

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Vance: “If you go back to WWII, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation.”

Narrator: “World War II ended with Hitler’s suicide, two atomic bombs, and Germany & Japan’s unconditional surrender.”

Does he know anything about anything?

They only painted the USA side of the wall black. You know, to keep Americans from climbing into Mexico.

And, of course, that’s the North side of the wall, you know, the side that sits in the shade.

😆😆😆

Painting the Northern side black to, you know, absorb heat from the sun.. 🙄

That’s fine if it’s in addition to a progressive income tax. Those sources alone wouldn’t cover our current government spending.

Zero political chance, however, that we’ll add these ‘wealth’ or ‘asset’ taxes.
But go for it.

The Supreme Court hands down some incomprehensible gobbledygook about canceled federal grants — Vox Late Thursday afternoon, the Supreme Court handed down an incomprehensible order concerning the Trump administration’s decision to cancel numerous public health grants. The array of six opinions in Na...

“As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writes in a partial dissent, the decision is “Calvinball jurisprudence,”

KBJ is a force!!

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Ghislaine lies as easily as TACO.
Her statement is 100% BS.

Ex-OpenAI researcher says $10K UBI payments 'feasible' with AI-growth — Business Insider AI leaders have long championed a universal basic income. Most basic income pilot programs range from $500 to $1,500 a month, no strings attached. Former OpenAI researcher Miles Brundage said those nu...

The AI-bros are always pitching a UBI to make up for their planned destruction of all jobs.
But who’s going to pay for that? Not the AI-Bros; I mean how will they become trillionaires if they need to pay taxes?
🙄

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Love the fact that he got mad only after watching the male cheerleader “over and over again”.
Dude.
😆

I now NEED to see this in the Winter Olympics. 😆

This is A+ trolling

Advocates fear Trump's crackdown in D.C. will put many homeless people behind bars The White House says people living on the street in Washington, D.C., can avoid jail by going to a shelter. Homeless advocates say there aren't enough shelter beds.

Allowing someone with addiction or mental health issues to sleep in the street, where they’re exposed to drug dealers and assault, is NOT compassion.

Compel housing, healthcare, and detox (not jail).

What would you do for your kid?

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The origins of the US trade deficit and the futility of tariffs The most persistent driver of America's unsustainably large trade deficit is foreign investment in the United States, not other countries' trade barriers. If President Donald Trump manages to shrink t...

Best summary of US trade deficits I've read yet!

"Despite Trump's fixation with eliminating the trade deficit, his policies are distinctly counterproductive."

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