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House Republicans Enjoying Paid Time Off Fantasize Ways To Screw Over Nation's Lazy Federal Workers

In case you didn't know - the BTC whale closed 90% of his BTC short and fully closed his ETH short, making around $190-$200M profit in just one day on Hyperliquid. The crazy part is that he shorted another 9 figs worth of BTC and ETH minutes before the cascade happened. And this was just publicly on Hyperliquid imagine what he did on CEXs or elsewhere. I'm pretty sure this guy played a huge role in what happened today.

Someone made at least $200 million trading crypto moments before Trump’s tariff announcement today.

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

Weird how we can't ever improve things bc "I had to suffer, why should we make things better for the next generation?" is such a pervasive thought-terminating cliche, except when it comes to AI in which case it's all "I'm sure glad my kids will be spared the hell of thinking that i went through"

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip Turns out the cop was also an abuser

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted on X: The Republican controlled Senate used the nuclear option today to override the 60 vote rule in order to confirm over 100 Trump nominees, yet continues to claim Democrats are causing the shutdown. Spoiler alert, the Republicans in the Senate can also use the nuclear option to reopen the government and override the Democrats just like they literally did today to confirm Trump nominees. https://yahoo.com/news/articles/senate-republicans-confirm-more-100-215256183.html

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Gentrification and fascism go hand in hand.

Reminder as the Senate is set to vote again on re-opening the government that it is *entirely* within Republican ability to do so with zero Democratic votes.

The threshold is 50 votes, and they can simply set aside the filibuster for this vote if they so choose. They've done it before. Recently.

A reminder on the 8th day of this Republican shutdown: Speaker Johnson could call Members back to negotiate to re-open the government any time he wants. He's choosing not to.

Republicans would rather raise costs and kick millions of Americans off their health care.

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

SCOTUS will probably make it legal for bigots to torture gay and trans people in all 50 states

It's a good time for many queer activitists to learn about ABA and the origins of conversion therapy

These are not separate fights. The autistic community and the queer community should work together

Amy McGrath isn't running for Senate

She's running to increase her clout in the Dem Party ecosystem

Don't give her your money

If you're looking to support a Senate candidate who can flip a seat and will appreciate you for more than magical internet money, donate to @grahamformaine.bsky.social

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

When's their flags at half-mast? When's their bipartisan resolution? When do these children get 24/7 coverage of their too-short lives and endless interrogation of their murderer's ideology?

the best thing chuck schumer could do for the republic now is to keep getting arrested like brad lander. there's no governing to be done now. theres just forcing these morons' hands

Their only move is waiting for Republicans to screw up badly enough to win the next election by default, except now we're in a situation where, even if they do win the midterms, it won't stop what's happening. You need a whole different set of guys for this moment

Between Bryan voting to enable Trump's brownshirts, and Cory Booker voting to advance the nomination of Jared Kushner's father, Charles Kushner (after Charles Kushner called Cory a "very special friend").

I really don't think the DNC needs to be apart of the conversation for resisting Trump AT ALL

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

If you are just catching up, after CBP shot a woman, angry community members showed up to protest the agents who have been terrorizing their community for weeks.

It ended with more chemical munitions, arrests, and CBP recklessly speeding off through a cloud of tear gas.

I’m supposed to believe both that trained and paid journalists couldn’t see through Project 2025 spin but also they’re the people best positioned to tell me what’s happening and how I should feel. Why? They failed at their jobs by their own admission.

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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I wish people would just be honest and admit they aren't really bothered by police brutality as long as they aren't the targets.

Just fucking say it already and be done. Just acknowledge that nothing will change your mind, and you'll never vote to defund police

Portrait of Jane Goodall, with quote text: We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

“We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.”

Blessed be your memory and legacy, Jane Goodall. We will do our best to continue the work.

bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Your local law enforcement agencies are proud to announce that you now have fewer rights to public space than a hastily erected fence does

Your tax dollars