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"They forget to ask why the richest people get public praise for giving back pennies compared to what they extract. They forget to ask why children need investment accounts instead of stable housing, food, medical care, and schools that aren’t falling apart."

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"Americans have been trained to applaud the spectacle. They forget to ask why one of the richest men in the country gets to decide how twenty-five million children experience their first introduction to money."

The Biggest Heist in America Is Being Sold as a Gift to Children America loves a good illusion. It loves the performance of generosity from people who built their fortunes on systems that leave everyone else scrambling.

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"The trick here is simple and old. You starve the public systems until they’re so weak that anything looks like relief. Then you let a billionaire deliver a drop of water and call it a miracle."

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In-line targeted ads, featured brand takeovers, and algorithmic tinkering...

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And there's still a smidge of the year here left to go!

So, chin-up gang, let's roll up our sleeves and try to pack just a bit more disappointing fallout from woefully un-checked techno capitalism into 2025 here...

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Why do journalists have no apparent solidarity whatsoever? This rancid POS jabs his finger in a woman reporter's face and calls her "piggy" and none of the other journalists there says a word?

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A short thread of observations using Max Andrew's tool to explore the network of relationships revealed in the Epstein estate email cache. @thatsjustlikeyouropinionman.com
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1. There is a tight inner circle, densely connected. Trump is in the near outer rim.
epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com

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"The Western hemisphere is America's neighborhood..."

Getting to appreciate some process is awesome.

Thank you for sharing.

Last night in Iowa

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Someone else said this first - @johnrogers.bsky.social, I think - but a billionaire is the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb in terms of sheer destructive potential for a would-be democratic society.

How much worse, then, is a trillionaire?

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Damn, even the cat voting?

not the worst way to pony up

#Hygge

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Source, if interested: avi-loeb.medium.com/first-eviden...

""It is a bad professional practice for theoretical astrophysicists to conclude that the data must be wrong just because they do not have a theoretical explanation for it.” Needless to say, the same lesson applies to the anomalies of 3I/ATLAS."

Open-mindedness seems to be quite alien in academia. 👾

This is an important book filled with deep insights into great power competition. The historical overview is fascinating. The experience driven analysis is even more compelling. I highly encourage this read!

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PRODUCER: "We'll also be launching a new "political news gossip segment" next Wednesday and, naturally, we're going to call it, "The Tea Spilled by Morning Joe."

I know, right?!

Joe's nephew already made up a bumper graphic, so here's what the rest of you all need to do..."

THE REST OF US ALL:

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.

Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

In MA, folks enrolled in SNAP who have active EBT cards with at least a $1 balance will still be able to access fresh produce with their cards through the Healthy Incentives Program. That funding doesn't go away Nov. 1, when SNAP does. www.mass.gov/info-details...

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Let's go ahead and normalize Christmas-themed costume-wearing for Halloween so it will no longer be at all weird that tv commercials on tv are already featuring jingly-jangly "Happy Holiday" asshole messaging.

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