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Nearly all make unfortunate choices on important issues due to biases and willful ignorance.
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Nearly all make unfortunate choices on important issues due to biases and willful ignorance.
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Khashoggi widow calls on Trump for ‘justice’ ahead of Saudi crown prince meeting.
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I lost everything when my husband Jamal Kashoggi was murdered
Mohammed bin Salman’s first visit to the White House since Jamal Khashoggi was killed seven years ago is my chance to finally seek justice, says his widow Hanan El-Atr Khashoggi
www.independent.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Khashoggi widow calls on Trump for ‘justice’ ahead of Saudi crown prince meeting.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/jamal...
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Kenyan Workers Get Abused Abroad. The President’s Family and Allies Profit. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w...
Kenyan Workers Get Abused Abroad. The President’s Family and Allies Profit.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Kenyan Workers Get Abused Abroad. The President’s Family and Allies Profit. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w...
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Blame the shutdown on citizens who prefer politicians to vanquish their opponents rather than to work for the common good theconversation.com/blame-the-sh... We're also at fault collectively for electing a convicted felon with a business record of bankruptcy, corruption, and cheating to lead us.
Blame the shutdown on citizens who prefer politicians to vanquish their opponents rather than to work for the common good
Politicians get blamed for government shutdowns. But does the fault lie also with citizens, who are more invested in punishing partisan rivals than in demanding competent government?
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November 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Blame the shutdown on citizens who prefer politicians to vanquish their opponents rather than to work for the common good theconversation.com/blame-the-sh... We're also at fault collectively for electing a convicted felon with a business record of bankruptcy, corruption, and cheating to lead us.
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MAJOR ALERT: 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
"I Worked For Hyundai. What I Saw Will Shock You."
Children found working in Hyundai earned less than $10 hour.
Workers getting injured & workers can only go to Hyundai approved doctors which falsified medical documents & forced injured workers to work w/ injuries.
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"I Worked For Hyundai. What I Saw Will Shock You."
Children found working in Hyundai earned less than $10 hour.
Workers getting injured & workers can only go to Hyundai approved doctors which falsified medical documents & forced injured workers to work w/ injuries.
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I Worked For Hyundai. What I Saw Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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November 14, 2025 at 3:24 AM
MAJOR ALERT: 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
"I Worked For Hyundai. What I Saw Will Shock You."
Children found working in Hyundai earned less than $10 hour.
Workers getting injured & workers can only go to Hyundai approved doctors which falsified medical documents & forced injured workers to work w/ injuries.
.
#news
"I Worked For Hyundai. What I Saw Will Shock You."
Children found working in Hyundai earned less than $10 hour.
Workers getting injured & workers can only go to Hyundai approved doctors which falsified medical documents & forced injured workers to work w/ injuries.
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#news
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Just here for the idiotic comments 🤣
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Just here for the idiotic comments 🤣
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Protein sources, seed oil panic, aspartame fears — nutritional scientist Dr. Layne Norton dismantles the internet's favorite fitness myths here!
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Protein sources, seed oil panic, aspartame fears — nutritional scientist Dr. Layne Norton dismantles the internet's favorite fitness myths here!
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November 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Protein sources, seed oil panic, aspartame fears — nutritional scientist Dr. Layne Norton dismantles the internet's favorite fitness myths here!
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SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China."
latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social
latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social
Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China."
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This is mob rule:
Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...
Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...
November 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This is mob rule:
Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...
Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...
"Truth is a greater crime than rape in Israel."
- @jeremiasrobinson in the comment section of this video:
youtu.be/LKsQFt3oTyE
Meanwhile, the other side tortures even their own supporters. (Screen shot, 5 Nov. 2025 New York Times news article)
Severe abuses and propaganda from both sides.
- @jeremiasrobinson in the comment section of this video:
youtu.be/LKsQFt3oTyE
Meanwhile, the other side tortures even their own supporters. (Screen shot, 5 Nov. 2025 New York Times news article)
Severe abuses and propaganda from both sides.
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Truth is a greater crime than rape in Israel."
- @jeremiasrobinson in the comment section of this video:
youtu.be/LKsQFt3oTyE
Meanwhile, the other side tortures even their own supporters. (Screen shot, 5 Nov. 2025 New York Times news article)
Severe abuses and propaganda from both sides.
- @jeremiasrobinson in the comment section of this video:
youtu.be/LKsQFt3oTyE
Meanwhile, the other side tortures even their own supporters. (Screen shot, 5 Nov. 2025 New York Times news article)
Severe abuses and propaganda from both sides.
The poor and middle class are paying taxes, the rich are paying accountants, and the wealthy are paying politicians.
- @mhdksafa.bsky.social
- @mhdksafa.bsky.social
The morning after this same administration fought to deny food to 42 million people, we read:
"In addition to the $4 trillion in tax cuts that President Trump signed into law in July... the administration is now adding hundreds of billions of dollars in new breaks for big businesses and investors."
"In addition to the $4 trillion in tax cuts that President Trump signed into law in July... the administration is now adding hundreds of billions of dollars in new breaks for big businesses and investors."
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The poor and middle class are paying taxes, the rich are paying accountants, and the wealthy are paying politicians.
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Twenty-four reasons why we are hooped open.substack.com/pub/reeswill... - even one might be too many.
Twenty-four reasons why we are hooped
On human cognitive deficiency
open.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Twenty-four reasons why we are hooped open.substack.com/pub/reeswill... - even one might be too many.
The USA DOJ has a very long history of deceptive abuses, many illegal and or against innocent citizens.
Which many news stories in recent years - as well as historical accounts - corroborate. This is also my own personal experience.
They continue to worsen.
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Which many news stories in recent years - as well as historical accounts - corroborate. This is also my own personal experience.
They continue to worsen.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
The Undoing Of The Department Of Justice
Podcast Episode · Fresh Air · 11/04/2025 · 44m
podcasts.apple.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The USA DOJ has a very long history of deceptive abuses, many illegal and or against innocent citizens.
Which many news stories in recent years - as well as historical accounts - corroborate. This is also my own personal experience.
They continue to worsen.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Which many news stories in recent years - as well as historical accounts - corroborate. This is also my own personal experience.
They continue to worsen.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
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I spent an evening with the Concord Coalition, learning and discussing how to balance our nation’s budget — the right way: bipartisan and people-focused.
Real leadership means working together to make government accountable and effective.
#ServeThePeople #GA03 #FiscalResponsibility #Leadership
Real leadership means working together to make government accountable and effective.
#ServeThePeople #GA03 #FiscalResponsibility #Leadership
October 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I spent an evening with the Concord Coalition, learning and discussing how to balance our nation’s budget — the right way: bipartisan and people-focused.
Real leadership means working together to make government accountable and effective.
#ServeThePeople #GA03 #FiscalResponsibility #Leadership
Real leadership means working together to make government accountable and effective.
#ServeThePeople #GA03 #FiscalResponsibility #Leadership
It should surprise no one that Trump and the fascist Republican Party have recently said they plan to classify anti-fascists as terrorists, which the FBI 'investigates'.
⬆️ Double disgrace. ⬇️
"FBI fires special agent who helped oversee Trump investigation, sources say."
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
⬆️ Double disgrace. ⬇️
"FBI fires special agent who helped oversee Trump investigation, sources say."
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
FBI fires special agent who helped oversee Trump investigation, sources say | CNN Politics
The FBI has fired a special agent who previously helped oversee public corruption cases, including an investigation that became part of former special counsel Jack Smith’s probe into President Donald ...
www.cnn.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It should surprise no one that Trump and the fascist Republican Party have recently said they plan to classify anti-fascists as terrorists, which the FBI 'investigates'.
⬆️ Double disgrace. ⬇️
"FBI fires special agent who helped oversee Trump investigation, sources say."
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
⬆️ Double disgrace. ⬇️
"FBI fires special agent who helped oversee Trump investigation, sources say."
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
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www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... “Patel not only acted unlawfully but deliberately chose to prioritize politicizing the FBI over protecting the American people,” the suit says. It adds that “his decision to do so degraded the country’s national security by firing three of the FBI’s most experienced
Fired FBI officials sue Patel, claiming he bowed to Trump's 'campaign of retribution'
Three fired FBI officials have sued to get their jobs back, calling their terminations part of a “campaign of retribution” carried out by a director who caved to political pressure from the Trump admi...
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September 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... “Patel not only acted unlawfully but deliberately chose to prioritize politicizing the FBI over protecting the American people,” the suit says. It adds that “his decision to do so degraded the country’s national security by firing three of the FBI’s most experienced
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“Trump administration videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage that was months old or recorded thousands of miles away, an analysis found.”
Trump’s admin uses deliberately misleading info regularly to justify policies.
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Trump’s admin uses deliberately misleading info regularly to justify policies.
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We checked DHS’s videos of chaos and protests. Here’s what they leave out.
Official videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage that was months old or recorded thousands of miles away, a Washington Post analysis found.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
“Trump administration videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage that was months old or recorded thousands of miles away, an analysis found.”
Trump’s admin uses deliberately misleading info regularly to justify policies.
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Elizabeth Taylor: Lola darling, you know there are only two things I dislike about you?
Lola: Really? What are they?
Elizabeth Taylor: Your face.
- The Mirror Crack'd (1980), movie
Ladies & gentlemen, I present Elon Musk's Grok A.I. chatbot, with its answers to the same question, moments apart.
Lola: Really? What are they?
Elizabeth Taylor: Your face.
- The Mirror Crack'd (1980), movie
Ladies & gentlemen, I present Elon Musk's Grok A.I. chatbot, with its answers to the same question, moments apart.
October 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Elizabeth Taylor: Lola darling, you know there are only two things I dislike about you?
Lola: Really? What are they?
Elizabeth Taylor: Your face.
- The Mirror Crack'd (1980), movie
Ladies & gentlemen, I present Elon Musk's Grok A.I. chatbot, with its answers to the same question, moments apart.
Lola: Really? What are they?
Elizabeth Taylor: Your face.
- The Mirror Crack'd (1980), movie
Ladies & gentlemen, I present Elon Musk's Grok A.I. chatbot, with its answers to the same question, moments apart.
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Why should they, when the public elects politicians & parties that habitually mismanage & overspend, regardless of how much tax government imposes?
And when faced with this reality, the public overwhelmingly - & in practice unanimously - evades, misdirects, minimizes, distorts, & denies this fact?
And when faced with this reality, the public overwhelmingly - & in practice unanimously - evades, misdirects, minimizes, distorts, & denies this fact?
October 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Why should they, when the public elects politicians & parties that habitually mismanage & overspend, regardless of how much tax government imposes?
And when faced with this reality, the public overwhelmingly - & in practice unanimously - evades, misdirects, minimizes, distorts, & denies this fact?
And when faced with this reality, the public overwhelmingly - & in practice unanimously - evades, misdirects, minimizes, distorts, & denies this fact?
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Almost all humans are - to varying degrees - creatures of folly, delusion, irrational biases, and willful ignorance.
Wealth is not o condom protecting us from such traits. Indeed, wealth magnifies personality:
Donating 100s of millions promoting fascism, worse sovereign debt, and health epidemics.
Wealth is not o condom protecting us from such traits. Indeed, wealth magnifies personality:
Donating 100s of millions promoting fascism, worse sovereign debt, and health epidemics.
October 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Almost all humans are - to varying degrees - creatures of folly, delusion, irrational biases, and willful ignorance.
Wealth is not o condom protecting us from such traits. Indeed, wealth magnifies personality:
Donating 100s of millions promoting fascism, worse sovereign debt, and health epidemics.
Wealth is not o condom protecting us from such traits. Indeed, wealth magnifies personality:
Donating 100s of millions promoting fascism, worse sovereign debt, and health epidemics.
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We were warned but refused to listen: Trump will push $15 trillion in debt to facilitate this.
NYT: `The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group that seeks lower deficits, found that Trump’s various plans could add as much as $15 trillion to the nation’s debt over a decade.`
NYT: `The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group that seeks lower deficits, found that Trump’s various plans could add as much as $15 trillion to the nation’s debt over a decade.`
Trump’s Plans Could Increase U.S. Debt While Raising Costs for Most Americans
A new analysis finds that Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump’s plans would both add to the deficit, but Mr. Trump’s proposals could create a fiscal hole twice as big.
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2024 at 12:37 AM
We were warned but refused to listen: Trump will push $15 trillion in debt to facilitate this.
NYT: `The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group that seeks lower deficits, found that Trump’s various plans could add as much as $15 trillion to the nation’s debt over a decade.`
NYT: `The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group that seeks lower deficits, found that Trump’s various plans could add as much as $15 trillion to the nation’s debt over a decade.`
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Reuveni's disclosure is spotlighting a growing concern that the DOJ is letting partisan pressure override the rule of law.
Read more: whistleblower.org/in-the-news/...
Read more: whistleblower.org/in-the-news/...
Fired Justice Department lawyer says he refused to lie in the Abrego Garcia case
Erez Reuveni, a fired Department of Justice lawyer who's now blowing the whistle, says he witnessed a disregard of due process and for the rule of law at the DOJ.
whistleblower.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Reuveni's disclosure is spotlighting a growing concern that the DOJ is letting partisan pressure override the rule of law.
Read more: whistleblower.org/in-the-news/...
Read more: whistleblower.org/in-the-news/...
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Mellody Hobson reveals the moment she knew her husband George Lucas was “the one.”
Hobson also discusses the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, her marriage to Lucas and fan mail she sent to Oprah Winfrey.
Watch more: on.wsj.com/46TZZX8
Hobson also discusses the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, her marriage to Lucas and fan mail she sent to Oprah Winfrey.
Watch more: on.wsj.com/46TZZX8
October 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Mellody Hobson reveals the moment she knew her husband George Lucas was “the one.”
Hobson also discusses the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, her marriage to Lucas and fan mail she sent to Oprah Winfrey.
Watch more: on.wsj.com/46TZZX8
Hobson also discusses the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, her marriage to Lucas and fan mail she sent to Oprah Winfrey.
Watch more: on.wsj.com/46TZZX8
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America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.
www.theatlantic.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.
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"On the Media" invited me on to chat about my recent piece on Stephen Miller's theory of how to do fascist politics, and how JB Pritzker's understanding of it is shaping a new kind of Democratic response. It's short and well-edited! Hope you enjoy:
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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Authoritarianism, but Make It Look Normal. Plus, the Family Taking Over American Media. | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The “Dual State;” and a new media empire.
www.wnycstudios.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"On the Media" invited me on to chat about my recent piece on Stephen Miller's theory of how to do fascist politics, and how JB Pritzker's understanding of it is shaping a new kind of Democratic response. It's short and well-edited! Hope you enjoy:
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...