batshit fuckwit sending fake boat to fix imaginary Greenland health crisis perfectly normal stuff

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ICE the Exhibit: How a Public University Folded Under Political Pressure UNT canceled an ICE-critical exhibit and covered the windows in brown paper. No explanation. When art disappears, what else is being hidden?

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A conversation on my 79th With students and friends a half-century younger

A conversation on my 79th
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After-tax income under the Trump/GOP budget:

-People making less than $17/k year: LOSE $1000
-People making between $17k and $51k/yr: LOSE $700
-People making over $4.3M/year: GAIN $389,000

This is what class warfare looks like.

Your Mother’s Day weekend reminder that the so-called “party of family values” has historically blocked:

-Paid family & medical leave
-Universal childcare
-Universal pre-K
-Expanded Child Tax Credit
-Programs to support reproductive health

Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.

this week in stupid: May 10 edition JD loses it, Nancy refuses it, and so much more...

it's Saturday, and it's time for "this week in stupid: May 10 edition" — JD loses it, Nancy refuses it, and so much more...
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Under the Trump budget plan just passed by Congress, a staggering 70% of House Republicans would personally financially benefit from extending major tax loopholes.

More money for them, paid for by cuts to YOUR benefits.

pro tip: if your government claims to have no money for children's heathcare but will eagerly waste millions on a gaudy military parade to stroke the fragile ego of a broken-inside president, you just might live in a shithole country

I miss Bidenomics

Ten days after the election:

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Jimmy Carter on the American oligarchy He was a truth-teller. We should remember what he said — and act on it.

Shortly after Citizens United, Jimmy Carter issued a stark warning about the role of Big Money in politics. May we remember the truths that he told us — and act to remedy them. bit.ly/4j6N1cC

Getting rid of fact checking does not promote free speech. It just provides a platform to foreign adversaries and other peddlers of disinformation.

Trump Is Already Walking Back His Campaign Promises From lowering prices to disavowing Project 2025 to vaccine policy, Trump’s promises are looking hollow

One of the more brazen slogans Donald Trump trotted out during his campaign was “Promises Made, Promises Kept,” a quippy way of claiming that when he makes a promise, he keeps it. But does he though?

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X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m.

Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app?

If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

Love you Bernie you are the real deal you’ve always been for the people you would’ve made a great president! I am a Bernie bro forever. I feel the Bern! ✊

Dear President Biden,

In the spirit of Dark Brandon, please use one of your Executive Orders to CANCEL ALL STUDENT DEBT.

That way, if trump wanted to reverse it, he'd have to disappoint all those families and reinstate all that debt.

You have immunity.
Just do it.

Signed,
US