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Parallels from 100 years

Spanish Flu/COVID

VERY WEALTHY /inequality/thumbs on the scales

Russian aggression/upheaval

What's next?

Repeat crash?

Then progressivism?

Like everything in US culture that was visible but somewhat implicit, this has been blown out & made theatrically, inescapably obvious in the era of Trump. Trump's a white wealthy male who was a failure & a fuckup *from the beginning & at every stage*, yet the system still delivered him the rewards.

Sounds like this is what DOGE was rooting around for

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Biden was trying to bring back FDR policies. His visions will eventually be vindicated. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

Those of us who are GenX grew up under FDR policies and as a result benefited greatly.

It's a shame so few are able to make that connection.

We’re at the ‘watering-down-soap-Clorox-and-Windex’ part of the economic cycle. 😔

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

Exclusive: US military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission, sources say U.S. military officials involved with President Donald Trump's expanding operations in Latin America have been asked to sign non-disclosure agreements, three U.S. officials say, a development that raises new questions about a military buildup that Venezuela fears may lead to an invasion.

I don't understand this. Members of the military are required to keep national defense information secret - no NDA needed.Unless it's about unlawful orders? I wish we could see a copy of the NDA. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."

I continue to be kinda flabbergasted by the fact that the dynamic of this shutdown has been Democrats begging Republicans to let them help them not shoot themselves in the foot and the GOPs response has been "oh you hate that? Well we're gonna shoot ourselves in the dick too just to spite you."

In honor of fucking grokpedia launching 🙄 I've made a monthly recurring donation to Wikipedia and if you have the ability and care about free and accurate information, you should too.

Obviously California has issues but this defense of their policies by Newsom is worth watching.

TN is a low tax state - for the top. regressive for the bottom. our services and laws punish working people also (bottom in infant & maternal mortality, poverty, school spending, violent crime, etc..)

Does that mean a brief cessation is a cease fire? Is that how it works?

so this month i’m supposed to buy a pumpkin, then next month a turkey, and december a tree? can anyone explain what the fuck is going on?

PS where does Fairfax Drive hit Langston Boulevard?

That person ran an absolute red light and he was going at speed. This wasn't a situation of stopping and then going too soon. He just rolled right on through that red light. 🚨

I canceled mine in November. It's the only response now I think. How can the Washington Post defend this?

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

I also have to wonder if the combination of donors plus coming out of his own pocket means he's going to try to claim some kind of ownership stake in it.

He did that all through his first term and I don't recall a Tapper Tell All back then either.

I'm not convinced he has beaten "injecting bleach into the veins" yet. That was 2020.

You threw this out to the open Internet and are getting helpful advice from concerned strangers who have dealt with a lot of trial and error.

And this is how you are treating all of them ?

One of us is gonna have a good day, at least.

Cheers!

It wasn't unsolicited you're literally complaining on the Internet. You are indeed soliciting advice.

Well, I don't know you and I have no idea what you're taking, but I can tell you that three Advil work for me. If you're regularly taking five AT A TIME (?!), that's not good for your kidneys and it's probably causing other problems

"Absurd"

Three Advil just before you go to bed. I promise you it works.

Not two, that's not enough, it needs to be three.

You'll sleep like a baby

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Many people forget that the first country the Nazi’s invaded was their own.

When someone tells you they aren’t into politics or that they aren’t affected by politics…

(h/t NATO Green)

#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue

@hcrichardson.bsky.social of note. Republicans want his words stricken from the record.

And another thought:

The White House is owned by the United States National Park Service, if I'm not mistaken (??)

Of course he is absolutely gonna run roughshod over all of our beautiful national parks in this country.

He thinks they belong to him.

He hasn't even reached the one year mark.

All hat, no cattle.

Didn't the young marauding men of ISIS do exactly this to many of the ancient treasures? Or was it the Taliban?