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  • More people are going hungry now than at the height of the pandemic

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  • Could not agree more, we had an absolutely revolutionary moment where we could have locked a bunch of that stuff in place and started building an economy that actually works for people, but Biden and moderate Dems were all "We need to go back to 'normal'! 'Normal' polls good!" because they have no fucking idea how politics works and spend time chasing trends instead of making them, and now we have no safety net and no Democratic president.

  • Wisconsin Democrats want 100 percent tax on Trump 'Anti-Weaponization' fund payouts

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  • Yep, also California

  • Newsom to impose 100% tax on California payees of Trump’s $1.8bn fund

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  • Ah, so he's not actually doing anything anyone else couldn't do, he's just asking other people to do something. That makes more sense but I would not have gotten that out of this headline.

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    Wisconsin Democrats want 100 percent tax on Trump 'Anti-Weaponization' fund payouts

    www.wpr.org /news/wisconsin-democrats-100-percent-tax-trump-anti-weaponization-fund

  • Platner Opens Up 9-Point Lead Even After Pro-Collins PAC Spends Millions on Negative Ads

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    Proposed bill would tax New Yorkers who tap ‘anti-weaponization’ fund at 100%

    www.nbcnews.com /news/us-news/proposed-bill-tax-new-yorkers-tap-anti-weaponization-fund-100-rcna347133
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    More people are going hungry now than at the height of the pandemic

    www.npr.org /2026/05/27/nx-s1-5836441/food-insecurity-economy-new-york-fed

  • Newsom to impose 100% tax on California payees of Trump’s $1.8bn fund

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  • Crazy their state constitution allows the governor to just unilaterally impose taxes like this, I would have thought that would be something their legislature has to do

  • Howard Lutnick Donated $5 Million to House Republicans Before Epstein Testimony

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  • In a $5 million dollar undisclosed location

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    MAGA’s Favorite Dem’s Trumpy Texts Exposed in Bombshell Leak

    www.thedailybeast.com /trumpy-texts-from-maga-favorite-dem-john-fetterman-exposed-in-bombshell-leak/

  • 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
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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
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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
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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
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    OpenAI acquires popular tech talk show for ‘low hundreds of millions’

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

    inv.nadeko.net /watch
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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
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    SPIRITUALLY DEPRAVED & MISERY-INDUCING LANDSCAPES OF NORTH AMERICA Episode 1

    inv.nadeko.net /watch
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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
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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/