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  • Bezos says taxing him more won't help teachers. Mamdani disagrees.

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  • Even republicans deserve credit if it was them

    Absolutely fucking not in general because fuck the Republican party,

    But also absolutely fucking not in this specific case - between them slashing government services and inflating the hell out of the economy the average person's standard of living is down while the deficit is still up. That cut in income taxes is like giving someone a thimble of water after setting them on fire, but also they flooded the sink and made a mess in the kitchen doing it somehow.

  • Bezos says taxing him more won't help teachers. Mamdani disagrees.

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  • By lying shamelessly

  • Army cuts dozens of medical training courses amid funding woes

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  • Seriously, normally we at least wait until they're veterans

  • Army cuts dozens of medical training courses amid funding woes

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  • Incomprehensible amounts of corruption in the military industrial complex

  • Charges dropped against activists in Chicago immigration crackdown amid grand jury misconduct claims

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  • Oh, but after their closed door meeting where they got to review grand jury transcripts that are still redacted for us plebs the prosecutor promised he only just found out about this jury tampering and that nobody in his office intended to break the law, so it's totally fine! /s

  • The Feed Is Fake - That “viral” song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama was probably the product of a stealth marketing campaign.

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  • I mean, the kind of person who will actually notice the coercive nature of the governing structures of other platforms and seek out a different space like this one here tend to be ornery. There are some bad politics sometimes to be sure but I think they're organic.

  • The Feed Is Fake - That “viral” song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama was probably the product of a stealth marketing campaign.

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  • They're real people and honestly I think they make reasonably interesting music, but I could name a dozen bands/artists off the top of my head who are just as interesting and who didn't blow up like they did

  • The Feed Is Fake - That “viral” song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama was probably the product of a stealth marketing campaign.

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  • I mean, yes, but

    Shady marketing and propaganda aren’t new, of course, but what is new is that the entire infrastructure of public conversation has been quietly captured by both.

    I don't think I agree that the entire infrastructure has been captured, but I do think we're at a new stage in the neverending conflict between observation and persuasion

  • Trump Says He Supports Spencer Pratt for L.A. Mayor, Calls Him “A Big MAGA Person”

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  • If only Trump can show a little bit of restraint and resist his impulse to slap his name all over everything he can maybe that will work out for him

  • U.S. national debt officially hits $39 trillion—adding $5 billion a day since October

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  • I'm talking about printing money and using it to pay bond holders.

    I think that would do even more to devalue the dollar and inflate things than just cutting checks to households would, if only because bond holders are the types to watch everything the government does and try to get a step or two ahead with their trades and stuff. They'd see that and react like the CNBC hosts did when the GameStop guy said he was gonna buy eBay by just issuing a bunch of new stock.

  • Trump Epstein files critic Thomas Massie loses GOP primary as president’s revenge crusade rolls on

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  • Good, get that grip tight as you possibly can and drag the whole evil party down with you

  • The Feed Is Fake - That “viral” song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama was probably the product of a stealth marketing campaign.

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  • You're a cynical shit!

    For real though, I'm probably an overly optimistic shit, but I think your second analogy is closer to the truth, but even still a bit short of it. You're right about hidden crevices becoming havens, but life doesn't just survive in those havens, it mutates and evolves. Inevitably it grows out of those havens, and usually it gets eaten by some predator at that point, but sometimes that can make a predator really sick, maybe even kill it. And the forest overall can start to change again. So really I don't think the Internet is a forest as much as it's one big organism, and we can be the viruses.

    To torture another metaphor, give a million monkeys typewriters and I think it's inevitable you'll get monkey Woody Guthrie and there will be a monkey revolt, because creating any kind of art and thinking artistically rejects the premise of objective valuation that capitalist logic has as a necessary premise. Art does not have inherent value like a tool or other made objects do, and it continually resists and undermines its own abstracted commodification in its pursuit of novelty/originality/authenticity. Disney tries to copy paste a Star Wars plot and only succeeds in setting a pile of money on fire, but people will be talking about Sinners for years even though nobody knew they wanted a Jim Crow horror film until it was a thing.

    The fact that throughout human history and all sorts of different social conditions the impulse to make silly useless valueless art rises up again and again tells me this social structure of capitalism is built on quicksand.

  • The Feed Is Fake - That “viral” song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama was probably the product of a stealth marketing campaign.

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  • Nah, some dead cells and scar tissue in a few places maybe, but the immune system and cognitive capacities are still there I think

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    The Feed Is Fake - That “viral” song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama was probably the product of a stealth marketing campaign.

    www.vulture.com /article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html

  • The Feed Is Fake

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  • "Popular culture that isn't even popular" is crazy levels of capitalist innovation

  • Aging Millennial Humor [Sarah Scribbles]

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  • ♫ Will the circlejerk be unbroken, by-and-by OP, by-and-by? There's a better joke awaitin, in the replies, oh in the replies ♫

    e; no for real tho, I love how each generation finds their own way to be dumb

  • US Rep. Thomas Massie loses Kentucky GOP primary to Ed Gallrein in another victory for Trump

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  • I mean, money they're spending in a primary is money they aren't spending in a general, but there's definitely way too much money in politics overall

  • House Democratic leaders condemn Texas candidate for antisemitic comments

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  • She also talks about wanting to mass castrate pedophiles and attacked the San Antonio Current for basically just reprinting what she said, and the amount of money that got thrown at her primary campaign out of nowhere by an organization that set things up so they won't have to report their donors until after the election is really strange at best, so I really think she's a bit crazy and her campaign is going to implode no matter what at this point,

    But what a fucking fumble from the Dems. With a little bit of support from the party maybe we could've toned down her weirdest shit and run a good campaign here, but no, we're just going to hand a house seat to the Republicans I guess.

  • House Democratic leaders condemn Texas candidate for antisemitic comments

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  • I don't see her saying anything about wanting to persecute Jews. I see her saying that she wants to imprison American Zionists, but like half of those are evangelical Christians.

    I definitely don't like how she's now blaming a local journalist for her getting death threats when that reporter just reprinted what she said, and who knows who is behind her with American campaign finance laws being what they are, so I would be very surprised if her campaign doesn't collapse in the general,

    But the fact that the Democratic party couldn't work with this lady and teach her a little bit of messaging discipline before things got to this point is a mistake that's now going to haunt us all summer. She has some questionable judgment but seems like somebody who could have been worked with, but now instead we're just going to give a House seat to the GOP because of a moderate purity test.

  • Drake Fans & BTS Army Clash After Spotify Botches Streaming Record: Spotify admitted it manually miscounted streams and handed Drake a 2026 record that actually belongs to BTS and their song “Swim.”

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  • I want to live in a world where Drake is irrelevant

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    Drake Fans & BTS Army Clash After Spotify Botches Streaming Record: Spotify admitted it manually miscounted streams and handed Drake a 2026 record that actually belongs to BTS and their song “Swim.”

    allhiphop.com /news/drake-fans-and-bts-army-clash-after-spotify-botches-streaming-record/
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    Louisiana congressional primaries suspended as a result of the Supreme Court's ruling

    apnews.com /article/congress-louisiana-primaries-supreme-court-03cdb6951d7fefb448bfd2f37f98c0ea
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Feds say they’ll drop conspiracy charge against remaining ‘Broadview Six’ protesters - Prosecutors’ sudden change blocks defense from seeing grand jury transcripts

    capitolnewsillinois.com /news/feds-say-theyll-drop-conspiracy-charge-against-remaining-broadview-six-protesters/
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    ICE frees El Gamal family after re-arresting mother, 5 children

    www.texastribune.org /2026/04/25/el-gamal-family-dilley-family-detention-texas-redetained-egypt/
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    Senate votes to kickstart partisan funding process for ICE. Here's how that works.

    www.npr.org /2026/04/23/g-s1-118330/congress-dhs-spending-reconciliation
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Exclusive: Four women describe sexual misconduct by Rep. Eric Swalwell, including a former staffer who says he raped her

    www.cnn.com /2026/04/10/us/eric-swalwell-sexual-misconduct-allegations-invs
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    Ex-staffer says Eric Swalwell, candidate for California governor, sexually assaulted her

    www.sfchronicle.com /politics/article/eric-swalwell-allegations-22198271.php
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    OpenAI acquires popular tech talk show for ‘low hundreds of millions’

    www.ft.com /content/4fe4972a-3d24-45be-b9fa-a429c432b08e
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Stephanie Sterling - "YouTube: The Online Predator's Best Friend"

    inv.nadeko.net /watch
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Senate agrees deal to fund most of DHS

    www.semafor.com /article/03/27/2026/senate-agrees-deal-to-fund-most-of-dhs
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    SPIRITUALLY DEPRAVED & MISERY-INDUCING LANDSCAPES OF NORTH AMERICA Episode 1

    inv.nadeko.net /watch
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    One dead after explosion at pro-regime al Quds demonstration in Tehran - Iran called on citizens to take to the streets, before Israel carried out a fresh round of strikes

    www.independent.co.uk /news/world/middle-east/iran-tehran-quds-day-demonstration-strike-b2937857.html
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Internal DHS watchdog: Noem is obstructing our work

    www.politico.com /news/2026/03/03/dhs-noem-obstruction-00810919
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    In a big Senate race reversal, U.S. Rep. Angie Craig voices regrets over vote on immigration law

    www.mprnews.org /story/2026/03/02/democratic-senate-candidate-angie-craig-says-she-regrets-vote-on-laiken-riley-immigration-law
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    Rhode Island clergy sex abuse and cover-up laid out in explosive report. What it says.

    www.providencejournal.com /story/news/crime/2026/03/04/rhode-island-clergy-sex-abuse-and-cover-up-laid-out-for-the-first-time-what-to-know/88643925007/
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    Albuquerque’s Mayor Said Arrests Were “Not the Solution” to Homelessness. Yet Jail Bookings Have Skyrocketed.

    www.propublica.org /article/albuquerque-homelessness-citations-surge-tim-keller
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    Lawsuit alleges Vermont prison failed to treat diabetic inmate before fatal fall

    vtdigger.org /2026/03/03/lawsuit-alleges-vermont-prison-failed-to-treat-diabetic-inmate-before-fatal-fall/
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    Bill to establish statewide oversight of jails in Washington dies in Legislature

    apnews.com /article/prisons-washington-general-news-77faa681916e6957537c1846f79a9ccb