Share of election spending by billionaires before Citizens United: 0.3%
Share of election spending by billionaires in 2024: 19%
It is not a coincidence that we're about to get our first trillionaire while working people struggle to afford rent, groceries, and healthcare.
Another tough day for team โthereโs no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.โ
The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art)
Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money
www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...
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Stolen valor.
You shouldn't be allowed to wear shoes like this if you havent stopped Xehanort from using Kingdom Hearts
"People used to be excited about tech, now they dread what data you're going to steal next, they dread what violation of privacy or the environment will turn up next."
this whole missive will make you want to stand on your desk and yell "O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN!," but that bit really got me good
It's all three, but there's also something else: weak, atrophied brains.
Typos are one thing but elite messages go beyond that, they show an inability to communicate beyond mere urges and feelings, and the reason they can't communicate beyond those is because they can't think through those.
does anyone else remember this? i swear New York City's skyline used to have these two giant things right where One WTC is. is this the Mandela Effect?
NO NO NO YOU DONโT
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step โdesigned for normiesโ kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
Roy Mustang type beat
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - โWhen your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.โ
Lets. Fucking. GO.
Operation Epic Fury [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass. It's not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]
@CNN Pizza shop workers took down an armed robber -- but when police took off his mask, they discovered he was their old boss.
and he would have got away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling kids
worth remembering, David Lynch directed โfix your hearts or dieโ specifically at transphobes. it wasnโt a generic โno mean people allowedโ statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
hell yea brother
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
pedocon theory not so much a theory as an immutable law of physics
Digital Painting of a younger Estelle and Joshua Bright from Trails in the Sky. Their practice weapons are scattered above them. They are laying on the grass as speckles of light shines warmly upon them through the rustling leaves. Joshua is gazing upon Estelleโs cheery laughing face, illuminated by the warm midday sun.
from the moment we met
#trails_fa
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#umineko
NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.
Truly a perfect news alert
This is amazing.
When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels.
Thatโs science serving society, even when our political leaders donโt.
If only I could get in a room with them, convince them environmental history is close enough...
'Maintenance support tied to โpriority coursesโ and proposals to withdraw funding from degrees deemed insufficiently lucrative, do more than shape university provision. They send a cultural message about which kinds of thinking are worth public investment โ and for whom.'
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
