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If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry.
If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.
If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.
March 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry.
If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.
If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.
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"How can he look so jacked if his muscles aren’t super functional and he isn’t stimulating them very well?
The answer to that question is steroids." www.offmessage.net/p/does-rfk-e...
The answer to that question is steroids." www.offmessage.net/p/does-rfk-e...
Does RFK Even Lift, Bro?
An investigation—and a thought experiment.
www.offmessage.net
February 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"How can he look so jacked if his muscles aren’t super functional and he isn’t stimulating them very well?
The answer to that question is steroids." www.offmessage.net/p/does-rfk-e...
The answer to that question is steroids." www.offmessage.net/p/does-rfk-e...
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Leopard: I will eat your face
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
J.P. Morgan econs on Trump’s latest are “increasingly concerned that the policy mix may tilt into an unintentionally far less business-friendly stance. The sustained 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico set to start this weekend is materially different than the tariff increases built into our baseline.”
February 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Leopard: I will eat your face
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
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Bad Week 2025 day 16 - are you doing okay?
January 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Bad Week 2025 day 16 - are you doing okay?
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January 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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🚨 🚨 🚨 HOMEWORK 🚨 🚨 🚨
The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is [email protected].
Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.
The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is [email protected].
Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.
January 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
🚨 🚨 🚨 HOMEWORK 🚨 🚨 🚨
The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is [email protected].
Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.
The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is [email protected].
Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.
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America is now in the third frame
January 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
America is now in the third frame
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the people who built this thing need to be caned in public until they lose consciousness
January 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
the people who built this thing need to be caned in public until they lose consciousness
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I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs
As Zuckerberg pontificates about masculinity and traditional values, he does so in soundbites as lifeless as his former paeans to gender and racial equality
www.irishexaminer.com
January 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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January 2025 as a meme
January 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
January 2025 as a meme
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UnitedHealth found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.
fortune.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
UnitedHealth found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
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In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.
See what changes are in store for your county.
By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
See what changes are in store for your county.
By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North…
propub.li
January 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.
See what changes are in store for your county.
By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
See what changes are in store for your county.
By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
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"Why should I pay a small amount to help myself and my community when I can pay an exorbitant amount just to help myself? Taxation is theft, but price gouging is just good business. So gouge me all you want. Just don’t trample my freedoms by taxing me."
I Will Pay Any Amount to Not Pay My Taxes
I’ve gotten myself into a bit of a jam. A series of natural disasters is barreling towards my home, and there is a severe shortage of resources and...
buff.ly
January 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Why should I pay a small amount to help myself and my community when I can pay an exorbitant amount just to help myself? Taxation is theft, but price gouging is just good business. So gouge me all you want. Just don’t trample my freedoms by taxing me."
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If you are in the Los Angeles area, here's where to get information on the fires:
- View the fire map at fire.ca.gov
- Download the Watch Duty app
- Sign up for NotifyLA alerts with the city at emergency.lacity.gov
- View the fire map at fire.ca.gov
- Download the Watch Duty app
- Sign up for NotifyLA alerts with the city at emergency.lacity.gov
January 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
If you are in the Los Angeles area, here's where to get information on the fires:
- View the fire map at fire.ca.gov
- Download the Watch Duty app
- Sign up for NotifyLA alerts with the city at emergency.lacity.gov
- View the fire map at fire.ca.gov
- Download the Watch Duty app
- Sign up for NotifyLA alerts with the city at emergency.lacity.gov
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At the same time the largest conservative outlets were screaming about censorship, #Meta was internally clocking them as the biggest producers of hate speech on Facebook.
Simultaneously, one employee notes: "We make special exceptions to our written policies for them."
Simultaneously, one employee notes: "We make special exceptions to our written policies for them."
January 8, 2025 at 5:36 AM
At the same time the largest conservative outlets were screaming about censorship, #Meta was internally clocking them as the biggest producers of hate speech on Facebook.
Simultaneously, one employee notes: "We make special exceptions to our written policies for them."
Simultaneously, one employee notes: "We make special exceptions to our written policies for them."
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Silicon Valley has a sociopath problem that hasn’t yet been fully explored.
Meta quietly updated its hateful conduct policy to allow users to refer to "women as household objects or property" among other offensive language.
Calling women ‘household objects’ now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines | CNN Business
Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking. But the company also quietly updat...
www.cnn.com
January 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Silicon Valley has a sociopath problem that hasn’t yet been fully explored.
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We’re in the final days before Trump takes office on behalf of the wealth class.
Here’s a brief guide to preparing for what’s coming, starting to organize, scrutinizing media as oligarchical propaganda, and getting mentally and emotionally prepared.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/preparing-...
Here’s a brief guide to preparing for what’s coming, starting to organize, scrutinizing media as oligarchical propaganda, and getting mentally and emotionally prepared.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/preparing-...
Preparing for the Storm: A Brief Guide to Getting Ready for What's Coming
We're close to the inauguration and the beginning of something very dangerous. It's time to get ready.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
January 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We’re in the final days before Trump takes office on behalf of the wealth class.
Here’s a brief guide to preparing for what’s coming, starting to organize, scrutinizing media as oligarchical propaganda, and getting mentally and emotionally prepared.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/preparing-...
Here’s a brief guide to preparing for what’s coming, starting to organize, scrutinizing media as oligarchical propaganda, and getting mentally and emotionally prepared.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/preparing-...
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“Though there is no way to know how often coverage gets cut off mid-treatment, ProPublica has found scores of lawsuits over the past decade in which judges have sharply criticized insurance companies for citing a patient’s improvement to deny mental health coverage.”
Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.
Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.
www.propublica.org
December 31, 2024 at 2:30 PM
“Though there is no way to know how often coverage gets cut off mid-treatment, ProPublica has found scores of lawsuits over the past decade in which judges have sharply criticized insurance companies for citing a patient’s improvement to deny mental health coverage.”
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This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine!
Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024
Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024
December 28, 2024 at 4:00 PM
This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine!
Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024
Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024
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There is damn near nothing good about AI usage at this point and it’s wild how hard it’s being pushed to appease tech weirdos and CEOs. We’ll be struggling to heat and light our houses and apartments while the rich consumes everything they see to become richer out of sheer greed
New evidence shows AI's thirst for power may be distorting the flow of power to US consumers (gift link):
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse
There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas
www.bloomberg.com
December 27, 2024 at 6:27 PM
There is damn near nothing good about AI usage at this point and it’s wild how hard it’s being pushed to appease tech weirdos and CEOs. We’ll be struggling to heat and light our houses and apartments while the rich consumes everything they see to become richer out of sheer greed
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PSA for cat owners in the US: cats have been contracting H5N1 (bird flu). They are very susceptible to it and the fatality rate for cats is 67%. To avoid it:
-keep your cats indoors. They can catch it from infected birds and mice.
-do not feed them raw dairy
-do not feed them raw meat
-keep your cats indoors. They can catch it from infected birds and mice.
-do not feed them raw dairy
-do not feed them raw meat
Cats in the U.S. Are Contracting Bird Flu: What Pet Parents Need to Know
Cases in domesticated cats have risen dramatically over the past year.
pethelpful.com
December 26, 2024 at 3:20 PM
PSA for cat owners in the US: cats have been contracting H5N1 (bird flu). They are very susceptible to it and the fatality rate for cats is 67%. To avoid it:
-keep your cats indoors. They can catch it from infected birds and mice.
-do not feed them raw dairy
-do not feed them raw meat
-keep your cats indoors. They can catch it from infected birds and mice.
-do not feed them raw dairy
-do not feed them raw meat
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“The “Department of Government Efficiency” will be an Orwellian test case for disrupting society through economic “shock events” that paralyze governance and create mass misery.”
@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
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@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
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Elon Musk: A New and Sinister Force in Government
Autocratic Capture through Partnership with Trump? What Should We Call His Presence in Government?
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December 20, 2024 at 10:39 PM
“The “Department of Government Efficiency” will be an Orwellian test case for disrupting society through economic “shock events” that paralyze governance and create mass misery.”
@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2p4t4ec2
@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
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