Aaron Wagner
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Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.
April 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.
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With Trump trying to get rid of ActBlue, it’s clear he’s trying to turn America into Russia
April 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
With Trump trying to get rid of ActBlue, it’s clear he’s trying to turn America into Russia
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they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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cannot be said enough how much these people genuinely hate your freedom to live your life as you choose. newrepublic.com/post/194212/...
Team Trump Drafts Dystopian Plan to Get Women to Have More Babies
Trump’s White House is devising some interesting strategies to try to convince women to give birth more.
newrepublic.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
cannot be said enough how much these people genuinely hate your freedom to live your life as you choose. newrepublic.com/post/194212/...
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
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They cannot make it more obvious what they're doing and where they're taking us.
For the love of god. See it. Hear it. Fight against this shit before there's no fighting to be done. Please. Give up these delusions that this isn't happening.
For the love of god. See it. Hear it. Fight against this shit before there's no fighting to be done. Please. Give up these delusions that this isn't happening.
Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
April 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
They cannot make it more obvious what they're doing and where they're taking us.
For the love of god. See it. Hear it. Fight against this shit before there's no fighting to be done. Please. Give up these delusions that this isn't happening.
For the love of god. See it. Hear it. Fight against this shit before there's no fighting to be done. Please. Give up these delusions that this isn't happening.
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The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!
April 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!
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The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
scim.ag
April 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.
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April 9, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?
April 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?
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We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond.
Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern
The funding pause amid civil rights "investigations" into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
The funding pause amid civil rights "investigations" into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond.
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Information about individuals in higher education institutions being targeted by ICE is collected here. Don't look away.
www.wearehighered.org
www.wearehighered.org
April 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Information about individuals in higher education institutions being targeted by ICE is collected here. Don't look away.
www.wearehighered.org
www.wearehighered.org
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So we’re 75 days into trumps second term, people are protesting everywhere. Markets have had two days of absolutely apocalyptic losses. There are grad students being disappeared and a man with an autism awareness tattoo was sent to a super scary prison in El Salvador. They’ve cut cancer research..
April 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
So we’re 75 days into trumps second term, people are protesting everywhere. Markets have had two days of absolutely apocalyptic losses. There are grad students being disappeared and a man with an autism awareness tattoo was sent to a super scary prison in El Salvador. They’ve cut cancer research..
We tried to warn everyone we could. But no one would listen.
Robert Wolf on Fox News: "This big beautiful economy that actually was rolling pretty good with jobs and inflation coming down feels more like the Game of Thrones red wedding. I mean, it's not going well."
April 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
We tried to warn everyone we could. But no one would listen.
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Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials. Imagine if I had said to law firms that you will not be allowed into government buildings.
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me
April 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials. Imagine if I had said to law firms that you will not be allowed into government buildings.
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me
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So Trump Puppet Greg Abbott finally responded!
He’s so terrified.
CALL THE SPECIAL ELECTION NOW, GREG!
He’s so terrified.
CALL THE SPECIAL ELECTION NOW, GREG!
April 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
So Trump Puppet Greg Abbott finally responded!
He’s so terrified.
CALL THE SPECIAL ELECTION NOW, GREG!
He’s so terrified.
CALL THE SPECIAL ELECTION NOW, GREG!
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The people who literally zombie-swarmed Applebee's in 2020, pressing their face against the glass shrieking, who claimed that being asked to wear masks is a civil rights violation, freaked out over every possible grievance, etc
Are now going "listen, great sacrifices and hardships are necessary"
Are now going "listen, great sacrifices and hardships are necessary"
April 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The people who literally zombie-swarmed Applebee's in 2020, pressing their face against the glass shrieking, who claimed that being asked to wear masks is a civil rights violation, freaked out over every possible grievance, etc
Are now going "listen, great sacrifices and hardships are necessary"
Are now going "listen, great sacrifices and hardships are necessary"
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This alum says do it. Fight back. Do not surrender to Trump’s war on academia and academic freedom. This is autocracy. Leading institutions must stand up to it. Lead the way. Those that yield grease the path to authoritarianism.
April 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This alum says do it. Fight back. Do not surrender to Trump’s war on academia and academic freedom. This is autocracy. Leading institutions must stand up to it. Lead the way. Those that yield grease the path to authoritarianism.
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Every lede like this is a fundamental journalistic failure.
(There is no "relentless antisemitism on campus" and you don't need to give the administration's propaganda priority). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
(There is no "relentless antisemitism on campus" and you don't need to give the administration's propaganda priority). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
April 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Every lede like this is a fundamental journalistic failure.
(There is no "relentless antisemitism on campus" and you don't need to give the administration's propaganda priority). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
(There is no "relentless antisemitism on campus" and you don't need to give the administration's propaganda priority). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
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Folks, the *goal* is to tank the dollar. That’s a feature not a bug. Once again begging people to read through this very comprehensive guide to what we’re dealing with right now: www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capi...
(more on the dollar stuff in particular: www.vcinfodocs.com/implications...)
(more on the dollar stuff in particular: www.vcinfodocs.com/implications...)
Venture Capital Extremism — Venture Capital Status
www.vcinfodocs.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Folks, the *goal* is to tank the dollar. That’s a feature not a bug. Once again begging people to read through this very comprehensive guide to what we’re dealing with right now: www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capi...
(more on the dollar stuff in particular: www.vcinfodocs.com/implications...)
(more on the dollar stuff in particular: www.vcinfodocs.com/implications...)
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US drinkers will pay more for cocktails, champagne and foreign beers, brands will disappear from bar menus and jobs will be lost on both sides of the Atlantic as a result of US President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs, drinks industry bodies said reut.rs/4lgoIKf
Trump's tariffs set to drive up bar bills and wipe out spirits jobs
U.S. drinkers will pay more for cocktails, champagne and foreign beers, brands will disappear from bar menus and jobs will be lost on both sides of the Atlantic as a result of U.S. President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs, drinks industry bodies and analysts said on Thursday.
reut.rs
April 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
US drinkers will pay more for cocktails, champagne and foreign beers, brands will disappear from bar menus and jobs will be lost on both sides of the Atlantic as a result of US President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs, drinks industry bodies said reut.rs/4lgoIKf
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thank you donald trump for your diligent work as you make the US a stagnant, backwater pariah state and playground for sociopathic tech oligarchs
April 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
thank you donald trump for your diligent work as you make the US a stagnant, backwater pariah state and playground for sociopathic tech oligarchs