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What my brain sees every time Bessent talks on the telly:
May 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
What my brain sees every time Bessent talks on the telly:
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In the, apparently increasingly likely, event that someone doesn't receive their Social Security benefit I would recommend that your first stop not be trying to call SSA directly. Report it to your local Congressperson or Senator's office, using their website constituent services form if possible
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The most obvious thing about this is it is evil and sociopathic. But there’s another element: speaking as someone who has both prosecuted fraudsters and defended people very wrongfully accused of being fraudsters, it’s absolute bullshit.
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BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.
March 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
In the, apparently increasingly likely, event that someone doesn't receive their Social Security benefit I would recommend that your first stop not be trying to call SSA directly. Report it to your local Congressperson or Senator's office, using their website constituent services form if possible
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Imagine getting a hair transplant and this is happening outside your window
🇹🇷 Mass protests continue in Turkiye against the arrest of Erdogan's main opponent - the mayor of Istanbul
March 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Imagine getting a hair transplant and this is happening outside your window
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I think we’ve moved from uncertainty over policy, to certainty that there will be bad policy.
March 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I think we’ve moved from uncertainty over policy, to certainty that there will be bad policy.
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one of the stories Kevin Drum championed over his career was the causative link between environmental lead poisoning and other societal ills. I think it's one of the most important stories of the last 20 years and Drum was one of the main reasons people knew about it. RIP
March 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
one of the stories Kevin Drum championed over his career was the causative link between environmental lead poisoning and other societal ills. I think it's one of the most important stories of the last 20 years and Drum was one of the main reasons people knew about it. RIP
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The sheer amount of social media nonsense about the fires is head-spinning. "While it takes time and effort to extinguish flames and dispatch reliable information in favor of the public interest, opportunistic liars need no such time to push their agendas." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
As Los Angeles burns, we're seeing a conflagration of lies and disinformation
Bad-faith actors, including Donald Trump, are blaming the outcome on "diversity" in the fire department and a nonexistent “water declaration resolution."
www.motherjones.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The sheer amount of social media nonsense about the fires is head-spinning. "While it takes time and effort to extinguish flames and dispatch reliable information in favor of the public interest, opportunistic liars need no such time to push their agendas." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Some helpful info and resources. Stay safe.
January 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Some helpful info and resources. Stay safe.
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I see a bunch of people arguing that inflation was transitory, and I don't know of a single person who in 2021 argued that 2.8% core PCE inflation at the end of 2024 would meet any definition of transitory.
December 20, 2024 at 3:24 PM
I see a bunch of people arguing that inflation was transitory, and I don't know of a single person who in 2021 argued that 2.8% core PCE inflation at the end of 2024 would meet any definition of transitory.
Me thinks he doth project too much…
November 26, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Me thinks he doth project too much…