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Look where so many people falling for the excuse that “it was only locker room talk” has gotten us.
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This is because the Pentagon and Trump don’t like Anthropic’s language preventing their tech from being used to surveil Americans or for autonomous weapons. Which means the Pentagon wants to use their tech to surveil Americans and build autonomous weapons apnews.com/article/anth...
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Trump’s billionaire allies will now own CNN, Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post — plus 185+ local tv stations and news in 100 markets.
They also control X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and Twitch.
This is all by design to manipulate and surveil us.
Pay attention.
Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.
27.02.2026 14:51 — 👍 16575 🔁 6947 💬 541 📌 369
Interviewer: "What's your take on how he's framing the economy?"
Me: "It's that he's lying."
Harrowing.
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The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.
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Donald Trump canceled Direct File after giant tax prep companies spent millions lobbying.
Why? Because Direct File let you file your taxes for free.
So today, I’m introducing a bill to make Direct File the law of the land. And 160 members of Congress are joining me.
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Need to answer a question about labor law?
@mattbruenig.bsky.social built a Claude skill that writes a legal memo on any NLRA/NLRB-related topic with specific links to decisions, court opinions, manuals, and agency memos
Plot with error bars of change in traffic fatalities versus day relative to album release
bar plot showing the number of traffic fatalities on "Non-album release days" and "Album release days"
US traffic fatalities increased 15% on the release days of the top 10 most-streamed albums. That's 18 more deaths per day
new research from Patel @chrisworsham.com Liu & Jena
They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.
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From the report: "The figure above shows a set of day-specific estimated effects of the agent surge on employees working measured in percentage points. Each blue dot represents how many percentage points away the number of employees clocking in was from its expected value. Expectations are measured based on trends in other metro areas with similar trends in the years leading up to this period. The grey area describes a margin of error."
The DHS agent surge in Minnesota reduced employees working in the MSP metro by 2.8%, total hours worked by 1.9%, and open business locations by 1.7% through mid-February. Estimated impact: $106 million in lost wages.
new research from @aaronsojourner.org and @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social
oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.
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Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%).
But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)
"From 2005 to 2007, Schank was the chief learning officer of Trump University."
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Screenshot from Substack headline: In 2025, the seven biggest health insurance conglomerates: * Collected almost $1.7 trillion in total revenues, $175 billion more than in 2024 * Made more than $54 billion in profits *Covered 10 million fewer people than in 2024
"2025: Big Insurance’s $1.7 Trillion Year"
by Wendell Potter
HEALTH CARE un-covered
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A tariff that expires in 150 days isn’t a long-run industrial policy. Firms invest on multi-year horizons. If the policy is temporary, the investment response will be, too: mostly none.
(This was recorded when the tariff rate was 10%; it's now 15%.)
The widely touted gap in economic performance between the U.S. and Europe has more to do with measurement by our statistical agencies than the genuius of entrepeneurs like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-grand-...
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In just 25 hours, the U.S. has had four tariff regimes:
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2. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) - IEEPA tariffs
3. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) - IEEPA tariffs +10%
4. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) - IEEPA tariffs +10% + 5%
Greenland has 56,000 people. Its health services are publicly funded by the Danish government.
It doesn't need a 1000-bed hospital ship that's in drydock, anyway.
Mobile, Alabama, where Mercy and Comfort are dry-docked, has 187,000 people & turned down Medicaid expansion under the ACA.
It might.
Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."
20.02.2026 18:37 — 👍 8982 🔁 3474 💬 1781 📌 1629Absolutely stunning display of inhumanity: double amputee in ICE detention forced to crawl through across the floor of a bathroom just to shower. Follow Tim's shocking reporting of detention in Georgia @onofftherecord.bsky.social
21.02.2026 15:15 — 👍 29 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1"About one third of Democrats (36%) and Independents (34%) say they are “very” worried about affording health care, as are about one in four (24%) Republicans. This includes one in four MAGA Republicans (23%) and non-MAGA Republicans (24%)."
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Horizontal stacked bar chart titled "Health Care Costs Are the Top Household Expense the Public Worries About" based on a KFF Health Tracking Poll conducted January 13-20, 2026. The chart shows the percentage of public worry across four levels—Very worried, Somewhat worried, Not too worried, and Not at all worried—for five expense categories: Health care, Food and groceries, Rent or mortgage, Monthly utilities, and Gasoline or transportation costs. Health care shows the highest concern, with 66% of respondents being very or somewhat worried. Expense Category,Very worried,Somewhat worried,Not too worried,Not at all worried Health care,32%,34%,22%,12% Food and groceries,24%,33%,28%,15% Your monthly utilities,22%,35%,27%,16% Your rent or mortgage,23%,29%,25%,23% Gasoline or other transportation costs,17%,35%,30%,17%
KFF: "health care costs are the biggest worry compared to other household expenses for all adults, regardless of partisanship."
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A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE
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UK: Prince Andrew arrested.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
