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Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
bit.ly
October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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'One Battle After Another' is a film about America today, at least in the way Paul Thomas Anderson views it. defector.com/paul-thomas-...
Paul Thomas Anderson Goes Big Game Hunting With 'One Battle After Another' | Defector
To call One Battle After Another the most ambitious film of director Paul Thomas Anderson’s career would be a disservice to his filmography. All of his work is marked by ambition, both in the…
defector.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
'One Battle After Another' is a film about America today, at least in the way Paul Thomas Anderson views it. defector.com/paul-thomas-...
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Bill Skarsgard in his nude ‘Nosferatu’ getup would’ve been a better MLB All-Star Week host than Pat McAfee: defector.com/bill-skarsga...
Bill Skarsgard In His Nude 'Nosferatu' Getup Would've Been A Better MLB All-Star Week Host Than Pat McAfee | Defector
The MLB All-Star Game has unfortunately been handed over to Pat McAfee, who spent Monday kicking off the week’s festivities on ESPN. What better way to get baseball fans excited about the Home Run…
defector.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Bill Skarsgard in his nude ‘Nosferatu’ getup would’ve been a better MLB All-Star Week host than Pat McAfee: defector.com/bill-skarsga...
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Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.
Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16 million, clearing way for multibillion-dollar merger
Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16 million, clearing way for multibillion-dollar merger
The king demands tribute.
buff.ly
July 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.
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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)
(Published 2019)
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.
www.propublica.org
April 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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)
(Published 2019)
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My culture (depression meal) is not your costume
March 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
My culture (depression meal) is not your costume
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A new sales pitch for utopia proposes material output as civilization’s savior. But that’s how we got here in the first place.
What’s the Matter with Abundance? | Malcolm Harris
“Abundance” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is new packaging for a tried-and-failed attempt to escape from history on a rocket ship.
thebaffler.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A new sales pitch for utopia proposes material output as civilization’s savior. But that’s how we got here in the first place.
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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
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Almost 800,000 people on here are following a totally-not-real account claiming it's a group of rogue park workers and who are now posting cryptic nonsense to make it seem like they're sending messages to the deep state. Also they're selling resistance merch. WTF are we doing man?
March 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Almost 800,000 people on here are following a totally-not-real account claiming it's a group of rogue park workers and who are now posting cryptic nonsense to make it seem like they're sending messages to the deep state. Also they're selling resistance merch. WTF are we doing man?
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Two exes, one big news story & nonstop laughs—HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940) is comedy gold! It's Public Domain Movie Night on Friday, with an intro by teen author Simone Elias.
📅 Feb. 28
🕢️ 7:30 pm
📍 300 Funston Ave. SF
🎟️https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1259100315939
#PublicDomain #InternetArchive
📅 Feb. 28
🕢️ 7:30 pm
📍 300 Funston Ave. SF
🎟️https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1259100315939
#PublicDomain #InternetArchive
February 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Two exes, one big news story & nonstop laughs—HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940) is comedy gold! It's Public Domain Movie Night on Friday, with an intro by teen author Simone Elias.
📅 Feb. 28
🕢️ 7:30 pm
📍 300 Funston Ave. SF
🎟️https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1259100315939
#PublicDomain #InternetArchive
📅 Feb. 28
🕢️ 7:30 pm
📍 300 Funston Ave. SF
🎟️https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1259100315939
#PublicDomain #InternetArchive
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Okay, so I’m finally putting a thread together: what is the deep-blue Delaware legislature proposing to do and why is it the most evil thing not directly involving Donald Trump happening in America today?
legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/1...
legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/1...
Bill Detail - Delaware General Assembly
legis.delaware.gov
February 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Okay, so I’m finally putting a thread together: what is the deep-blue Delaware legislature proposing to do and why is it the most evil thing not directly involving Donald Trump happening in America today?
legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/1...
legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/1...
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Tomorrow, February 21, 2025, is Red Books Day, marking the 177th anniversary of the publishing of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
redbooksday.org
redbooksday.org
Red Books Day
Join us this year for Red Books Day on February 21, 2022, marking the 174th anniversary of the publishing of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels. It is an international celebrati...
redbooksday.org
February 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Tomorrow, February 21, 2025, is Red Books Day, marking the 177th anniversary of the publishing of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
redbooksday.org
redbooksday.org
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In the wealthiest nation on earth, 25% of seniors should not be living on $15,000 a year or less.
We should EXPAND Social Security, not cut it. I will soon be introducing legislation to significantly raise Social Security benefits and extend the solvency of the program.
We should EXPAND Social Security, not cut it. I will soon be introducing legislation to significantly raise Social Security benefits and extend the solvency of the program.
February 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
In the wealthiest nation on earth, 25% of seniors should not be living on $15,000 a year or less.
We should EXPAND Social Security, not cut it. I will soon be introducing legislation to significantly raise Social Security benefits and extend the solvency of the program.
We should EXPAND Social Security, not cut it. I will soon be introducing legislation to significantly raise Social Security benefits and extend the solvency of the program.
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🔵🔴⚠️The ongoing cold spell affecting USA and Canada is bringing heavy snowfalls and very low temperatures,triggering a #lakeeffectsnow that covers 800km from LakeSuperior to LakeOntario, with all the Great Lakes seen a in this Sentinel-3 view of Feb.17.
February 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
🔵🔴⚠️The ongoing cold spell affecting USA and Canada is bringing heavy snowfalls and very low temperatures,triggering a #lakeeffectsnow that covers 800km from LakeSuperior to LakeOntario, with all the Great Lakes seen a in this Sentinel-3 view of Feb.17.
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If everyone used footnotes instead of endnotes
February 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
If everyone used footnotes instead of endnotes
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Not now, zombie cave spider fungus
New nightmare fuel: zombie cave-spider fungus
Newly discovered fungal species makes zombies of cave spiders on island of Ireland
Dr. Harry Evans, Emeritus Fellow at CAB International, led scientists—including from the Natural History Museum of Denmark and Royal Botanical Gardens Kew—in a study to investigate the identity of a f...
phys.org
February 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Not now, zombie cave spider fungus
Just discovered this absolute must-read by Trevor Jackson on the intellectual bankruptcy of 'democratic capitalism'
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
‘Never Too Much’ | Trevor Jackson
Something has gone terribly wrong. In his 2004 book Why Globalization Works, the economics journalist Martin Wolf wrote that “liberal democracy is the
www.nybooks.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Just discovered this absolute must-read by Trevor Jackson on the intellectual bankruptcy of 'democratic capitalism'
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...