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I recently saw a dentist, who told me I would qualify for the new Canadian dental plan and a replacement crown would be mostly covered in six weeks. I don't miss wondering if I will have access to vaccines, healthcare costs, fluctuating tariff rates, or issues with my immigration status.

the Supreme Court rules 6-3 to reverse Vatican II

Don't be fooled by this bill's name-- this is a book banning bill that will exclude LGBTQ books from all public schools NATIONWIDE.

Call your congresspeople and tell them to VOTE NO on this nakedly bigoted book banning bullshit.

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This should be a front-page scandal.

second paragraph is one of the funniest paragraphs ever in a statement of interest, concerning a person who is not actually listed among amicii. is the pope ordering SCOTUS to strike down the eo..... well, he's not NOT ordering SCOTUS to strike down the eo

(Bloomberg) -- The global smartphone market will contract 12.9% in 2026 because of the unprecedented memory chip shortage, marking “a crisis like no other,” according to researcher IDC. The new forecast, a dramatic revision down from earlier estimates, gives the latest accounting of the ongoing memory crunch that’s affecting every corner of the electronics industry. The demand for advanced memory to power artificial intelligence tasks has drained global supply until well into next year and now jeopardizes the business model of many smartphone makers. IDC now sees roughly 1.1 billion mobile shipments in 2026, down from 1.26 billion the prior year and erasing years of gradual gains. Smartphone manufacturers are adapting to the elevated component costs by reining in specifications, eliminating unprofitable entry-level models and pushing consumers to buy more premium devices. “The tariffs and pandemic crisis seem a joke compared to this,” said IDC Senior Research Director Nabila Popal. “The smartphone market will witness a seismic shift by the time this crisis is over — in size, average selling prices and competitive landscape. We don’t expect the situation to ease up until mid-2027, at least.”

No public link for this yet, buy W O O F that's a big number

great replacement except they want to import racists

MAGA Activists Pitch Trump on Chilling “National Emergency” Plot Pro-Trump activists say they’re in close contact about an executive order that would expand the president’s powers to intervene in elections.

This election plot is being pushed by Peter Ticktin, Donald Trump's friend from "boarding school"? You mean the New York Military academy Donald attended from age 13 - 18? Peter Ticktin who was once disbarred in Florida for professional misconduct?

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So people ICE is seeking pay taxes

Imo what is happening on x is that the algorithm loves racist and anti semitic content, and the people who are on there marinate in it all day, and the epstein files has offered an excuse for even left identified people to indulge in the trangressive pleasure of public bigotry as a little treat

Judge: IRS broke law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving DHS data A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency and federal immigration authorities.

Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.

Political storm in Wyoming as far-right activist caught handing checks to lawmakers Photograph shows conservative activist handing slip to Darin McCann and Marlene Brady holding a similar paper

The grift has become so normalized they don't even need to hide it. No "donations" to "foundations." No "business investments." Just straight up handing over checks.

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Has it all gone wrong between Trump and Starmer? ‘The Special Relationship only exists when the Americans want something,’ a former Downing Street aide observed after Donald Trump rejected the Chagos Islands deal. There are profound differences betw...

“We have continually shown them intelligence that shows the Russians are lying. The Russians are privately mocking Trump over his naivety about Putin’s intentions. Putin doesn’t want to end the war.” spectator.com/article/has-... Has it all gone wrong between Trump and Starmer?

It really should not surprise anyone that JD Vance is incapable of taking responsibility for anything. His entire persona is built upon blaming other people for the circumstances in which he finds himself.

Time for the States to Gear Up for Trump’s Fake Elections Exec Order The Post has an article today, an exclusive they say, about a...

Time for the States to Gear Up for Trump’s Fake Elections Exec Order talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/time-...

Studies of voter rolls have found very few noncitizen voters.
As of July 2024, the Heritage Foundation database found only 24 noncitizen voting cases from between 2003 and 2023.

Republicans on the cable shows this morning

-- Suddenly talking again about need to "take" Greenland
-- Hyping importance of "strangling" Cuban government
-- Encouraging Trump to "topple" Iranian regime

The Trump movement is totally out of control. This will not end well.

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.

For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/

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Like many of us on the academic and research site have said and keep saying it is a grey zone war against the states and is intended to break the states and populations at scale using as minimal violence as necessary to harden and grow the infrastructure of the fascist police state.

German Jews' Passports Declared Invalid | Holocaust Encyclopedia October 5, 1938. On this date, the Reich Ministry of the Interior invalidated all German Jews' passports and required them to have a "J" stamped on them.

Relevant.

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Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.

They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

Kansas lawmakers bypassed the committee process by doing a whole bill amendment and pushing this in two days. They then overrode the governors veto. They used emergency designation to make it go into effect immediately. There's no grace period. The amount of targeted animus here is staggering.

I distinctly remember how much people complained about how "we didn't elect Hilary" in the 90s when she was simply lobbying Congress for legislation, a thing literally anyone is allowed to do.

The cruelty and inhumanity of this Administration’s policies have left another person dead—as CBP dropped off Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee living in Buffalo NY, alone on a cold winter night miles from his home.

This cruelty must end.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

Put in other words, their lack of effort in building a coherent, credible narrative for why US force is necessary and what it intends to achieve means that the course they are embarking on isn't resilient, but incredibly fragile.

Can you explain why we're going to war?
Not until after we've started the war.

Actually, it’s hurting children.

Baby died after L.A. County placed her with dad previously jailed for child abuse, lawsuit says The mother of Tilly Servin, an infant who prosecutors believe was tortured to death, is suing Los Angeles County’s child protection agency for leaving her daughter in the custody of her father, who ha...

A lawsuit and court transcripts we obtained paint the horrible final months allegedly suffered by a Long Beach toddler who died after L.A. County DCFS put her in the custody of her father, a felon with a child abuse conviction. Latest w/ @rellis.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

This is bigotry, pure and simple.

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