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$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year:
-1.4 million people on Medicaid
-19 million kids getting free school lunches
-1.4 million people getting affordable housing
-1.1 million hungry seniors fed
-0.8 million children given free child care

12.03.2026 03:22 πŸ‘ 1859 πŸ” 805 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 31

Apart from the moral repugnance, this is so revealing of how ignorant conservatives are about poverty. Poor people have to think about money ALL THE TIME. They worry constantly about what everything costs, how to substitute one purchase for another, what bill can be put off until payday, etc.

11.03.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 3053 πŸ” 697 πŸ’¬ 162 πŸ“Œ 26
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i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

11.03.2026 05:02 πŸ‘ 11211 πŸ” 2855 πŸ’¬ 443 πŸ“Œ 898

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

10.03.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 13846 πŸ” 3159 πŸ’¬ 91 πŸ“Œ 237

He has also deported dozens of dissidents back to Iran, where they were likely executed.

09.03.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 1177 πŸ” 308 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 2

to me it rocks that this company that has never come within light-years of making money and has a bad product with zero practical use cases is the pivot point of the global economy because a bunch of embarrassing Burning Man dorks just decided it should be

07.03.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 2233 πŸ” 533 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 12

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

07.03.2026 03:12 πŸ‘ 4166 πŸ” 1024 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nintendo suing US government over tariffs
aftermath.site/nintendo-tarif...

06.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 2322 πŸ” 529 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 465

I legitimately cannot tell if AI tech bros are actively lying or if they are literally and fundamentally this stupid

06.03.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

06.03.2026 13:53 πŸ‘ 5874 πŸ” 1720 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 75

I don’t think people have grasped what it means to have a WH & a military who commits mass murder over and over for the sole purpose of committing mass murder.

06.03.2026 13:23 πŸ‘ 894 πŸ” 287 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 21

My school district is being forced to lay off several educators and a librarian because of a $500,000 budget gap, or roughly the amount spent on the war while I was typing this post.

06.03.2026 12:40 πŸ‘ 1119 πŸ” 305 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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hah she has no idea!!!!

05.03.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 682 πŸ” 159 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 49

NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED

05.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 12389 πŸ” 1575 πŸ’¬ 513 πŸ“Œ 884
Lanterns  | Official Teaser | HBO Max
Lanterns | Official Teaser | HBO Max YouTube video by HBO Max

Okay, this actually looks really good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1jc...

05.03.2026 00:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How to win in November

04.03.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 10999 πŸ” 3052 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 39

This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesnβ€˜t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.

04.03.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 3371 πŸ” 755 πŸ’¬ 163 πŸ“Œ 24

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

04.03.2026 13:28 πŸ‘ 6005 πŸ” 1504 πŸ’¬ 101 πŸ“Œ 47

Resident Evil Requiem is excellent.
I honestly didn't know, and was not prepared for the fact that it is a direct (and in real time) sequel to RE2.

03.03.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

28.02.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 17023 πŸ” 6535 πŸ’¬ 470 πŸ“Œ 552
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Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song β€œLet Down” without permission.

Full statement from the band:

27.02.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 6285 πŸ” 1563 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 139
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This has me crying in real life πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

🦁

27.02.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 3289 πŸ” 1214 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 155
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Hard to argue with the voters on this one

27.02.2026 13:14 πŸ‘ 270 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 1

art of the deal, baby

26.02.2026 23:44 πŸ‘ 4509 πŸ” 645 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 19
Inside this latest Trump-Mamdani meeting: 
-Last time the two met, Trump asked him to return with ideas to build big things. Mamdani came back with a massive housing proposal
-Mamdani's team created mock headlines to show Trump how such a project would be received. He was "very enthusiastic."
-Mamdani pushed for release of Columbia student detained today, Trump calls him later to tell him she's being released
-Mamdani gives Susie Wiles a list of four other students he wants help with, all targeted in pro-Palestinian protests https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-housing-3835daca395dbe46c2f3da2433ec24f4
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Inside this latest Trump-Mamdani meeting: -Last time the two met, Trump asked him to return with ideas to build big things. Mamdani came back with a massive housing proposal -Mamdani's team created mock headlines to show Trump how such a project would be received. He was "very enthusiastic." -Mamdani pushed for release of Columbia student detained today, Trump calls him later to tell him she's being released -Mamdani gives Susie Wiles a list of four other students he wants help with, all targeted in pro-Palestinian protests https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-housing-3835daca395dbe46c2f3da2433ec24f4 Quote Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Fascinating

26.02.2026 22:41 πŸ‘ 4963 πŸ” 779 πŸ’¬ 119 πŸ“Œ 291

Joy is an act of resistance. And this is that:

26.02.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a scandal for ICE, but also an indication of just how much they're scraping the bottom of the barrel.

They've had multiple applicants with outstanding warrants for their own arrest walking in looking to play cop. That's apparently how dumb some of these goons are.

26.02.2026 15:06 πŸ‘ 1506 πŸ” 469 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 8

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

26.02.2026 12:05 πŸ‘ 12079 πŸ” 3492 πŸ’¬ 77 πŸ“Œ 39

worth reading the whole story for all the awful details - including literal bounties for other people to rat out trans people using the β€œwrong” bathroom

26.02.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 595 πŸ” 254 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 9