Willard
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Just saw someone refer to the entirely preventable measles outbreak in South Carolina as “Freedom Freckles” and I am deceased. 💀
(And seriously, please get vaccinated. This is absurd and absurdly dangerous.)
(And seriously, please get vaccinated. This is absurd and absurdly dangerous.)
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Just saw someone refer to the entirely preventable measles outbreak in South Carolina as “Freedom Freckles” and I am deceased. 💀
(And seriously, please get vaccinated. This is absurd and absurdly dangerous.)
(And seriously, please get vaccinated. This is absurd and absurdly dangerous.)
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The pay-to-play and shakedown systems in place are obvious:
1. In Apr, Trump announces 46% tariff on Vietnam
2. In May, Eric Trump attends groundbreaking for new $1.5 bn Trump golf resort in Vietnam
3. In July, Vietnam becomes only the second country to reach a tariff deal, cutting its rate to 20%
1. In Apr, Trump announces 46% tariff on Vietnam
2. In May, Eric Trump attends groundbreaking for new $1.5 bn Trump golf resort in Vietnam
3. In July, Vietnam becomes only the second country to reach a tariff deal, cutting its rate to 20%
All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The pay-to-play and shakedown systems in place are obvious:
1. In Apr, Trump announces 46% tariff on Vietnam
2. In May, Eric Trump attends groundbreaking for new $1.5 bn Trump golf resort in Vietnam
3. In July, Vietnam becomes only the second country to reach a tariff deal, cutting its rate to 20%
1. In Apr, Trump announces 46% tariff on Vietnam
2. In May, Eric Trump attends groundbreaking for new $1.5 bn Trump golf resort in Vietnam
3. In July, Vietnam becomes only the second country to reach a tariff deal, cutting its rate to 20%
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There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
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1/2 Several weeks before he came onto national scene, last summer while Biden was still in the race, I was at a tech conf where Walz gave 40-minute keynote, about the way advanced geospatial data systems were transforming all sectors in Minnesota. Gov, ag, educ, mfr, research, sustainability [cont]
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
1/2 Several weeks before he came onto national scene, last summer while Biden was still in the race, I was at a tech conf where Walz gave 40-minute keynote, about the way advanced geospatial data systems were transforming all sectors in Minnesota. Gov, ag, educ, mfr, research, sustainability [cont]
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That’s the tax rate era I want back!
This is what Duffy wants air travel to be:
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
That’s the tax rate era I want back!
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Yo Yo Ma's performances span so many generations; in 1962 he and his sister performed in front of President JFK & Eisenhower
Leonard Bernstein introduced him and his sister.../1
Leonard Bernstein introduced him and his sister.../1
November 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Yo Yo Ma's performances span so many generations; in 1962 he and his sister performed in front of President JFK & Eisenhower
Leonard Bernstein introduced him and his sister.../1
Leonard Bernstein introduced him and his sister.../1
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Whether it’s Barack Obama, appearing in a tan suit or Donald Trump appearing 1700 times in Jeffrey Epstein‘s emails, both presidents made some highly controversial appearances.
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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The Epstein case against Trump is as if everyone is looking at a 500 piece puzzle with 2 pieces missing and pretending they can't make out the picture for certain.
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The Epstein case against Trump is as if everyone is looking at a 500 piece puzzle with 2 pieces missing and pretending they can't make out the picture for certain.
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Today's newsletter: www.readtpa.com/p/a-new-reut...
A New Reuters Report Illustrates the Right-Wing's Media Takeover
Embedded with cabinet secretaries, coordinating with government agencies, showing unwavering loyalty to Trump—these aren't journalists. They're propagandists.
www.readtpa.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Today's newsletter: www.readtpa.com/p/a-new-reut...
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This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭.
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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One day people will realize hate is a tool fascists use to control each infected host until it dies.
Love is life itself, freedom, creation, renewal, hope.
A man lights a flare in crowded symphony hall in Paris as the Israeli Philharmonic plays.
They respond by playing HATIKVAH!
Am Yisrael Chai🇮🇱
Love is life itself, freedom, creation, renewal, hope.
A man lights a flare in crowded symphony hall in Paris as the Israeli Philharmonic plays.
They respond by playing HATIKVAH!
Am Yisrael Chai🇮🇱
November 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
One day people will realize hate is a tool fascists use to control each infected host until it dies.
Love is life itself, freedom, creation, renewal, hope.
A man lights a flare in crowded symphony hall in Paris as the Israeli Philharmonic plays.
They respond by playing HATIKVAH!
Am Yisrael Chai🇮🇱
Love is life itself, freedom, creation, renewal, hope.
A man lights a flare in crowded symphony hall in Paris as the Israeli Philharmonic plays.
They respond by playing HATIKVAH!
Am Yisrael Chai🇮🇱
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This healthy food program sounded like a MAHA dream.
Republicans killed it anyway.
More on the end of the Healthy Opportunities Pilot in North Carolina 👇
Republicans killed it anyway.
More on the end of the Healthy Opportunities Pilot in North Carolina 👇
The Medicaid Program That Saved Money, Turned People’s Health Around — and Got Killed
The end of the Healthy Opportunities Pilot in North Carolina is a story of how MAHA might actually be realized — or not — at the state level.
www.politico.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This healthy food program sounded like a MAHA dream.
Republicans killed it anyway.
More on the end of the Healthy Opportunities Pilot in North Carolina 👇
Republicans killed it anyway.
More on the end of the Healthy Opportunities Pilot in North Carolina 👇
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A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.
www.bbc.com/news/article... @paulisci.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article... @paulisci.bsky.social
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.
www.bbc.com/news/article... @paulisci.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article... @paulisci.bsky.social
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A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
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🚨BREAKING: A civil rights organization sued the Trump administration Saturday over a new policy barring nonprofits from helping new U.S. citizens register to vote. The lawsuit calls the policy part of a “broader effort to ensure that new Americans cannot exert their democratic will on the nation.”
Lawsuit Blasts Trump’s Bid to Keep New Citizens From Registering to Vote
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🚨BREAKING: A civil rights organization sued the Trump administration Saturday over a new policy barring nonprofits from helping new U.S. citizens register to vote. The lawsuit calls the policy part of a “broader effort to ensure that new Americans cannot exert their democratic will on the nation.”
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Econ 101 midterm question: Based on what you know about risk pools and adverse selection in healthcare markets, will giving people money instead of giving them money to buy health insurance lead these markets to function more effectively, or will it just lead more people to be uninsured?
November 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Econ 101 midterm question: Based on what you know about risk pools and adverse selection in healthcare markets, will giving people money instead of giving them money to buy health insurance lead these markets to function more effectively, or will it just lead more people to be uninsured?
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“Much like we may look at a photo of JFK…moments before his assassination in Dallas and wonder how that terrible tragedy could have happened, we may look at this photo of Trump and wonder how this terrible tragedy is happening in our Oval Office now.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/will-this-...
www.americaamerica.news/p/will-this-...
Will This Photo Define the Trump Years?
A Saturday Prompt
www.americaamerica.news
November 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“Much like we may look at a photo of JFK…moments before his assassination in Dallas and wonder how that terrible tragedy could have happened, we may look at this photo of Trump and wonder how this terrible tragedy is happening in our Oval Office now.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/will-this-...
www.americaamerica.news/p/will-this-...
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This both enrages me and makes me sad. thejhansiway is a content creator on YouTube and IG. Excellent. Funny. Timely. And she was targeted in a way where she felt unsafe staying in this country.
We must do better as a nation.
youtu.be/LPXVwkLqjwE
We must do better as a nation.
youtu.be/LPXVwkLqjwE
I really HATE why I had to leave the USA
YouTube video by The Jhansi Way
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This both enrages me and makes me sad. thejhansiway is a content creator on YouTube and IG. Excellent. Funny. Timely. And she was targeted in a way where she felt unsafe staying in this country.
We must do better as a nation.
youtu.be/LPXVwkLqjwE
We must do better as a nation.
youtu.be/LPXVwkLqjwE
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“In a genuinely free society, we would never have to think about freedom. We could take freedom for granted. At other times, I think many fortunate—particularly white—Americans have felt free not to reflect on this question. But those times are over.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/have-you-t...
www.americaamerica.news/p/have-you-t...
Have You Taken Freedom for Granted?
A Saturday Prompt
www.americaamerica.news
November 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“In a genuinely free society, we would never have to think about freedom. We could take freedom for granted. At other times, I think many fortunate—particularly white—Americans have felt free not to reflect on this question. But those times are over.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/have-you-t...
www.americaamerica.news/p/have-you-t...
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BREAKING 🚨: U.S. Banks
Fed Reserve just pumped $29.4 Billion into the U.S. Banking System through overnight repos 🤯 This amount far surpasses even the peak of the Dot Com Bubble 👀 Probably Fine, carry on
Fed Reserve just pumped $29.4 Billion into the U.S. Banking System through overnight repos 🤯 This amount far surpasses even the peak of the Dot Com Bubble 👀 Probably Fine, carry on
November 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
BREAKING 🚨: U.S. Banks
Fed Reserve just pumped $29.4 Billion into the U.S. Banking System through overnight repos 🤯 This amount far surpasses even the peak of the Dot Com Bubble 👀 Probably Fine, carry on
Fed Reserve just pumped $29.4 Billion into the U.S. Banking System through overnight repos 🤯 This amount far surpasses even the peak of the Dot Com Bubble 👀 Probably Fine, carry on
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I mean, they seriously put this black woman in a maid costume in the gaudy bathroom to attend to the white women? Ffs. Racist fuckers. And pretty Princess clearly doesn’t give a shit.
November 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I mean, they seriously put this black woman in a maid costume in the gaudy bathroom to attend to the white women? Ffs. Racist fuckers. And pretty Princess clearly doesn’t give a shit.
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🧵 This is trending on Korean socials
November 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
🧵 This is trending on Korean socials
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I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.
The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.