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Semi-retired Ivy League lawyer -- had the “Western Civilization” education that right wingers want for all, but I actually read the books. Very worried about our country now. We all need to figure out effective counter-measures -- beyond posting here.

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Israeli Strike Kills 4 Al Jazeera Journalists, Network Says

Even if Israel was right about one journalist being tied to Hamas, how does that justify murdering the others?

This — and the purposeful starvation of Gaza and the 60,000 dead (and counting) — will be a stain on Israel for generations to come.

Time for regime change.

11.08.2025 15:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good summary of why taxes on exports -- like Trump's extortion of Nvidia and AMD -- are unconstitutional.

constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay....

Oh, and they are also extortionate. Did I mention that?

11.08.2025 14:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Welp

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Resist Christofascism.

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U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

So f*cking wrong in so many ways.

Pure extortion.

And I say that as someone who once tried to get Nvidia to pay single digit royalties on patents they were obviously using.

11.08.2025 01:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ANTI NETANYAHU is
NOT ANTISEMITIC

NETANYAHU Denies Famine
Starvation is RAMPANT

NETANYAHU LIES

Massive Protests in Tel Aviv

11.08.2025 00:35 — 👍 357    🔁 137    💬 25    📌 3

I’m stumped!!

10.08.2025 16:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.

This miserable fraud has poisoned the national conversation about lifesaving vaccines with his conspiracy theories, but he is also doing so much more to destroy science and progress.

This will grind lifesaving research to a halt and set us back decades for no good reason.

06.08.2025 15:44 — 👍 2476    🔁 843    💬 167    📌 57

The quote doesn’t claim that god doesn’t exist. Interesting that you conflate being anti Christian with being anti theist.

10.08.2025 15:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Aside from the Khmer Rouge, who destroyed a country that didn't have a pot to piss in to start with, has any country ever scored as spectacular an own goal as the USA is currently?

09.08.2025 02:53 — 👍 35    🔁 9    💬 5    📌 0

Not street tacos. Ironically, they are perfectly chaste.

But don’t get me started on enchiladas.

10.08.2025 14:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Washington Monument.

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Today is the day that Trump was supposed to impose tough new sanctions on Russia if they didn’t agree to a cease fire.

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FLASHBACK: Jeffrey Epstein pleaded the Fifth when asked if he and Trump ever socialized with girls under 18.

That speaks volumes.

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These nuclear reactors fit on a flatbed truck. How safe are they? Firms are close to bringing the first “micro reactors” to market, with hundreds being shipped within the decade and dotting the landscape. Is America ready?

Unfortunate choice of words?

"...the commercial microreactor had been dismissed as too expensive, impractical and dangerous to distribute widely. But soaring demand, driven in large part by the explosive needs of AI developers, is causing large-scale energy users to reconsider."

07.08.2025 14:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“A Department of Justice spokesperson said in a statement, "Jared Wise is a valued member of the Justice Department and we appreciate his contributions to our team."

07.08.2025 13:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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TEXAS @repcasar.bsky.social : “Imagine in another country a corrupt president was trying to change the election laws. Then that president’s political ally threatened to remove all the legislators of the other party to get it done. That’s what’s happening in Texas right now.”

06.08.2025 01:06 — 👍 7684    🔁 2889    💬 177    📌 110

weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him

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Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

One man’s delusions will disrupt many scientific careers and could cost millions of lives.

06.08.2025 14:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fascism is expensive.

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A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

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“Vegas Is Dying”: Tourist Backlash, Soaring Prices, and Trump Fatigue Drive Sin City’s Stunning Decline Las Vegas, once America’s glittering oasis of hedonism and high-roller indulgence, is hitting a losing streak—and this time, it’s not just a blip on the roulette wheel. New financial disclosures fr…

Trump on his way to bankrupting even more Casinos.

So much winning.

03.08.2025 22:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

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Police use Taser on protester at Marjorie Taylor Greene town hall
YouTube video by Guardian News Police use Taser on protester at Marjorie Taylor Greene town hall

youtube.com/watch?v=OgDp...

Remember this.

A protester tasered.

Marjorie Taylor Greene and her crowd applauding.

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