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What can we anticipate should Trump get elected in November? There’s one thread that hasn’t be thoroughly unraveled yet. And it needs to be, because it ends in disaster. What will happen to the federal agencies that protect our health and safety? Let’s...
by b3LLsb33r
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on Sat Apr 06, 2024 at 12:06 PM PDT
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The House voted recently to force a sale of TikTok away from its Chinese owned company or be banned in the United States. �This is likely mostly a tempest in a teapot as the ban is not likely to ...
by angryea
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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According to the Wall Street Journal the DOJ has opened an investigation into the Alaska Airlines blowout: The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into the Boeing 737 MAX blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight, according to documents...
by rudewarrior
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on Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 07:43 AM PDT
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It starts with an anecdote. I usually fly out of Salt Lake City, so that means Delta Airlines but recently I took a series of cross-country flights on Southwest. It was cheaper, and there were reasons. Don’t get me wrong, the flights were on on time,...
by martinjedlicka
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on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 12:08 AM PST
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Recently, William Keegan, a senior economics commentator for The Observer , expounded upon the damage that Brexit wrought upon the British market, writing :
We spent almost 45 years opening our ...
by snielson
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 08:00 PM PST
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That’s a rhetorical question. Of course we haven’t. And we won’t until we and enough of the public take control our commons, physical and digital, including system wide networks to individual contributions. We’ve trashed much of our physical commons,...
by greenandblue
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 03:01 PM PST
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A new paper shows how RTBs (Real Time Bidding) providers enable anyone to track anyone and anyone to get sensitive information about people’s medical history, opinions, and locations. �The ...
by angryea
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on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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Sorry, I write really long things here :) My goal is to help inform future conversations. I don’t claim to be the definitive source of knowledge, rather, I want help inform and hopefully assist others in understanding better so that our knowledge as a...
by emaglive
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on Tue Nov 07, 2023 at 09:12 PM PST
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Arabian countries have the morality police to enforce religious laws. We in the U.S. also have the morality police. We just call ours the vice squad. Here in the 21st century, it's about time we legalize, tax and regulate all vices. That includes...
by Art Smart
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on Mon Sep 25, 2023 at 10:24 AM PDT
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As I get older, despite Churchill’s supposed wisdom, I find myself getting more and more radical about most subjects. �From civil rights of all kinds to capitalism to labor rights to the bloody ...
by angryea
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on Thu Sep 21, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Adam Smith told me the invisible hand would protect me. Health insurance companies would enter the competitive marketplace and I would be offered choices. Consumer choice within the market would keep premiums low and services easily obtained. If I felt...
by davelovell
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 05:45 AM PDT
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Congress responded to the fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio earlier this year with bipartisan alarm, holding a flurry of hearings about the potential for railroad crashes to trigger even larger ...
by Associated Press
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on Sat Aug 05, 2023 at 10:15 AM PDT
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I just finished reading a post describing the collective unhealthy attitudes of capital and wealth but an important point is being missed in the discussion. Blasting billionaires into space or crushing them like an empty beer can, or any of dozens of...
by bassicdave
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on Fri Jul 07, 2023 at 09:07 AM PDT
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I think we have all been exceedingly patient as we’ve watched Elon Musk systemically detach Twitter from all the things that made it an actually useful means of communication and witnessed the ...
by Hunter
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on Sun Jul 09, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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After another devastating school shooting, the familiar clamor for increased security sounds through Republican echo chambers. Some lawmakers, driven by a reckless belief in the power of firearms to deter violence, insist on arming our educators and...
by msouza
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on Tue Apr 25, 2023 at 10:30 AM PDT
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What do Chief Justice John Roberts, Israeli politician Bibi Netanyahu, Republican legislators who want Independent State Legislatures, and bankers all want? They do not wish to have any checks and balances. Bibi Netanyahu and his political party do not...
by Thomas Hailey Kloecker
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on Wed Mar 22, 2023 at 07:32 AM PDT
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by Mark Fiore
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on Fri Mar 17, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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by Mark Fiore
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on Fri Mar 03, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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What you are NOT hearing about a solution for the East Palestine Rail Disaster and the Rail Industry By now you have probably heard quite a bit about the derailment in East Palestine, OH that involved a massive spill of toxic chemicals. There’s no question that what happened is still having an impact weeks later, both on the ground in the community...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Feb 28, 2023 at 08:32 PM PST
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The death toll from a series of massive earthquakes that rolled through southeast Turkey on Feb. 6 now stands at 36,000. At least 4,000 more are dead across the border in Syria. Expectations are that these numbers will continue to climb, and may still...
by Mark Sumner
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on Tue Feb 14, 2023 at 10:37 AM PST
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- Today, the state of Louisiana managed to do something I didn’t think possible — they found a new low. Once Jeff Landry, a far-right acolyte, was elected governor I knew the place was going to be in rough shape. The state legislature is hopeless, with...90 comments 302 Recs
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- Today should be an interesting day in Judge Merchan’s court room.� Donald Trump reposted an attack by Fox’s Jesse Watters on the jury members selected for Trump’s current trial in NYC on ...235 comments 459 Recs
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- Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, my heart has been heavy at the suffering of so many innocent people in Ukraine. War is always a tragedy, but this war is particularly touching to me because of its David vs. Goliath, good vs evil quality. The bravery...155 comments 321 Recs
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- Trump and Jesse Watters, as well as conservative influencer media, just bullied a juror into leaving Trump’s Manhattan Criminal trial. I have read Democrats raging against the poor woman, calling her a coward, but really, can anyone blame her? Juror...25 comments 58 Recs
- GET OUT THE VOTE BIG TIME! HERE ARE THE RESOURCES YOU NEED TO DO THAT! Hope Springs from Field PAC (background in this DKos story). Voters of Tomorrow (younger voters) led by Santiago Mayer Leaders We Deserve (younger voters) led by David Hogg The...27 comments 167 Recs
- Fed Chair Jerome Powell reveals the cause of persistent inflation - economy is becoming uninsurable.Jerome Powell, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, was nominated by Donald Trump in 2018 and confirmed by the US Senate. President Joe Biden renominated him when he entered office in January of 2021. The job of the Fed...197 comments 507 Recs
- From Electrek (Industry blog) : In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California's main grid for 30 of the past 38 days. Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering Mark Z....169 comments 679 Recs
- I’m hoping Mark Sumner will be up with a live blog but there’s a load of stuff already happening: All from WaPo Liveblog: Justice Juan Merchan dismissed Juror No. 2, a nurse who said she had concerns after people she knew identified her as a juror and...383 comments 347 Recs
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