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Trump Accounts: Who Benefits? Likely Not Your Kids Sold as a lifeline for the next generation, Trump Accounts risk deepening inequality while delivering limited gains to the children they’re intended to help.

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Trump Accounts' “free money for kids” sounds generous... Until you realize it’s locked in the stock market and works best if you already have money to add.

All this does is widen the gap.

My prism for looking at the 2028 Dem primary:

Oligarchy is America’s central problem & so any candidates who’ve never once risked their political careers to wage a fight with a moneyed interest should be considered unqualified for the nomination & the presidency itself.

Why Is AI Afraid Of This One Guy? (With Alex Bores) | Lever Time Right now, Big Tech is mobilizing a network of super PACs with more than $100 million in the bank to influence the 2026 midterm elections. Their number-one target? One of their own: a former Palantir…

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What Happens When You Challenge AI Billionaires Alex Bores, a former Palantir engineer turned lawmaker, explains why Big Tech is spending millions to defeat him. After passing one of the strongest AI safety laws in the country, he became a top…

Former Palantir engineer Alex Bores helped pass an AI safety law. Now Big Tech is spending $10M+ on attack ads to stop him.

That’s the scale of money behind this 👇

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this is now my internal monologue literally every single morning

🚨LEVER TIME: He once worked in the tech industry, then he passed landmark AI regulation - now he's a target of retribution.

How tech oligarchs aim to buy an election, destroy Democrat @alexbores.nyc's career & intimidate every other politician in America.

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Addiction Is The Secret Sauce To Sports Gambling Profits A sportsbook technology corporation admitted the quiet part out loud: highly addictive “in-play” bets are central to business.

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One of gambling’s most addictive features is also its most profitable. A lawsuit shows sportsbooks depend on “in-play” betting — even as research links it to loss-chasing and impaired self-control.

Addiction Is The Secret Sauce To Sports Gambling Profits A sportsbook technology corporation admitted the quiet part out loud: highly addictive “in-play” bets are central to business.

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The first quarter of 2025, and especially February of that year, saw the department declining to prosecute cases against thousands of defendants outside of its regular six-month review process.

The Dark Money Funding Trump’s Pet Projects Corporations and lobbyists making undisclosed donations to Trump’s East Wing makeover and other legacy projects could be breaking the law.

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Dozens of corporations — including Palantir and Meta — may have illegally funneled millions into Trump-linked projects, according to a new legal complaint.

We Need More Movies Like This A long-forgotten Ned Beatty performance is a reminder that campy films and TV shows used to make fun of the worst of our political and media culture.

In the '88 film Switching Channels, Ned Beatty delivers one of the greatest satires of politics/media. It's the kind of thing that’s been censored from pop culture.

Beatty plays a right-wing Dem trying to win a primary by executing a wrongly convicted prisoner on live TV. Go watch the clip.

By 2030, global data center power demand is expected to equal that of the sixth-largest power-consuming country.

Stacking The Bench In Favor Of Super PACs The former lead lawyer in a right-wing effort to block a Maine law limiting corporate and billionaire influence in elections is now a judge on the federal court ruling on the measure, thanks to Sen.…

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The Trump administration has tapped the controversy-embroiled Bank of New York Mellon to act as a financial agent of the U.S. government to help launch the president’s new “Trump accounts.”

every now and then the TV people scream the quiet part and expose the intensely sociopathic culture coursing through corporate media

Trump threatened to start a nuclear war and some liberals took to BlueSky to angrily critique a post about a movie — IT’S SO PERFECT 😂

Trump threatened to start a nuclear war and some liberals took to BlueSky to angrily critique a post about a movie — IT’S SO PERFECT 😂

it’s so incredibly chef-kiss meta that so many of the comments on this post are liberals still posting their big mad about the movie, not posting about the war he’s actually tweeting about — the movie has truly become a documentary

stressful day, now de-stressed by a rage-rowing session…not bad for a 50-year-old

People give @davidsirota.com shit about "Don't Look Up" but he nailed it, sorry

Why Congress Won't Stop Hijacking Air Travel | Lever Time Hours-long TSA lines, air traffic controller shortages, and skyrocketing flight prices. Deadly crashes, failing safety regulations, and international threats. There’s no doubt about it: U.S. air…

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Sen. Ron Wyden asks FBI Director Kash Patel: Why is the FBI buying Americans’ data without a warrant?

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deeply envious of everyone whose jobs allow them to avoid all exposure to all content produced by media, influencers, pundits, and every other form of "news"

live shot of all of American politics, culture and society right now

torn between considering live streaming tonight's 8pm nuclear apocalypse...

...and realizing that's literally the joke in our movie about releasing an asteroid-hits-Earth movie on the moment an asteroid hits Earth