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Because his family doesn't want him either.

12.09.2025 12:53 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.

(Published 2019)

17.04.2025 00:00 👍 2050 🔁 821 💬 44 📌 49
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This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

16.04.2025 18:00 👍 16947 🔁 5988 💬 537 📌 214

It's not gambling when you have that level of insider information.

10.04.2025 00:34 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead Effective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle.

www.404media.co/big-tech-bac...

07.04.2025 00:49 👍 12327 🔁 2297 💬 677 📌 159
Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop

Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop

Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop
theonion.com/gang-in...

27.03.2025 20:00 👍 21926 🔁 3955 💬 102 📌 115

I am an empathetic person, or I try to be. I cannot get myself anywhere near the headspace of someone that would make that phone call.

27.03.2025 19:39 👍 163 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0

The thing I admire most about Jeffery Goldberg right now is that he didn't sit on his incendiary scoop, waiting to reveal it only when he could make money from it in a book, like so many other selfish people who know shocking things about this administration have done and will continue to do.

28.03.2025 14:03 👍 17686 🔁 3345 💬 425 📌 133

What does controlling precednt mean under this Court?

19.03.2025 00:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How are you doing?

Aaril

19.02.2025 16:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And will likely short term mcost the government more than their bogus figure in court costs, roll backs, and improper termination expenses. Never mind the long term costs in fixing the damage and re-building the infrastructure.

19.02.2025 15:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.

05.02.2025 16:19 👍 37218 🔁 5727 💬 1026 📌 289

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

30.01.2025 02:35 👍 189223 🔁 41425 💬 3623 📌 1921

And decades of voter suppression by the GoP!

29.01.2025 21:52 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You named Obama who tried to close it, and did not blame the Republican Congress that blocked him because they had the votes. Trying and failing does not make it Obama's
fault.

29.01.2025 21:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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So here's the deal with Facebook's new fact check & hate speech rules.

Let me explain who I am: from January to July of 2021, starting with the insurrection - actually, because of it - I co-led a team that deplatformed extremists for Facebook. These are our numbers.

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16.01.2025 00:13 👍 75 🔁 40 💬 8 📌 7
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The population of Plains, Georgia is 573. Jimmy Carter knew his neighbors and they turned out to bid him a final farewell. 🇺🇸

04.01.2025 16:27 👍 20999 🔁 2534 💬 221 📌 77
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“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”

— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

04.01.2025 01:07 👍 16616 🔁 4618 💬 328 📌 251

She is more of a journalist than every motherfucker at the New York Times put together.

04.01.2025 16:34 👍 93 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0

Why are Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Pichai and Tim Cook visiting and giving money to Trump ?

Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world.

Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.

04.01.2025 17:01 👍 41283 🔁 9921 💬 2321 📌 737
Pluralistic: Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (17 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net/2024/12/18/l...

21.12.2024 22:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Black wolf looking straight at the camera. Pine forest behind. Yellow eyes.

Black wolf looking straight at the camera. Pine forest behind. Yellow eyes.

We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky.

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20.12.2024 23:36 👍 41631 🔁 10393 💬 844 📌 370
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Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...

12.12.2024 12:07 👍 18166 🔁 3821 💬 395 📌 898
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New York mayor closes shelters for asylum seekers amid rightward turn Eric Adams will close 25 shelters in next two months including Floyd Bennett Field, which houses 2,000 people

Your daily reminder that NYC Mayor Eric Adams, in addition to being corrupt, is also a fascist who’ll do anything to curry favor with Trump to get himself a federal pardon, at the expense of New York’s weakest & most vulnerable persons. He’s a villain & a coward.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

11.12.2024 00:38 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer | WashU Medicine Clinical trial targeted recurrence of hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancer

Early days, but another exciting application of vaccine technology.

And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.

Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....

06.12.2024 00:34 👍 19027 🔁 3327 💬 498 📌 192
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Exclusive: US issues order mandating bird flu testing of milk supply The U.S. issued a federal order on Friday mandating that the national milk supply be tested for bird flu, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Reuters, as authorities seek to grapple with rapid spread of the virus among dairy herds.

Exclusive: US issues order mandating bird flu testing of milk supply

Detected in half of California farms. Now the question becomes, if H5N1 has migrated to cows, can people be far behind?

Is there potential for an novel H5N1 outbreak in Humans?

No one knows.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

06.12.2024 21:45 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

There’s no such thing as working productively with MAGA nihilists like Elon, Vivek and RFK, Jr. They want to bring down our Republic. Don’t normalize them by pointing out a few of their good ideas.

You can’t play nice with the leopards. Let them into your house and they will eat your face.

06.12.2024 11:47 👍 40361 🔁 8525 💬 995 📌 401
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The Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day as early as 2027, with a likely window within 9-20 years after 2023. This won’t bring dramatic change overnight, but it marks a fundamental shift in the Arctic’s natural environment—a stark warning about climate change. #ActOnClimate

06.12.2024 16:02 👍 3547 🔁 779 💬 83 📌 38

We don't need more remakes of old movies. We need more MUPPETS remakes of old movies.

02.12.2024 02:08 👍 28710 🔁 3759 💬 752 📌 403