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What a line from Warren Buffett this morning:

“Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer."

[applause] 🙏🏼
May 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Let's elevate the fighters:

Van Hollen for risking his life to find Abrego Garcia in El Salvador
Booker for his 25 hr speech to expose on Trump & Musk's corruption
Schatz for blocking 300 Trump nominees
Bernie & AOC for rallying hundreds of thousands of Americans
Newsom for suing Trump over tariffs
April 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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“American government, American foreign policy, and American trade policy are slowly being transformed, not to benefit Americans but to benefit the president, his family, and his friends.”

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Kleptocracy, Inc.
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
www.theatlantic.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Republicans want banks to charge you higher fees.
House Strikes Down $5 Overdraft Fee Limit, Sending Issue to Trump (Gift Article)
Lawmakers also struck down a rule giving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau supervisory power over tech companies’ payments apps.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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If you're a billionaire, then you'll barely notice a few thousand dollars a year in higher prices at the store from these Trump tariffs - plus you can count on him to get you another big tax break for the wealthy.

But for everyone else, this is a big deal, and a bad one.
April 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Trueism: Presidents don't have a lot of impact on the economy.

Fine Print: Because most don't do totally insane things.
April 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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He's just pulling these tariff numbers from the air, isn't he
April 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Longest speaking filibuster ever was 24 hours, 18 minutes by Strom Thurmond in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

In a few hours, that record will be shattered by Sen. Cory Booker, a Black man, laying out the case for saving democracy from an aspiring despot.
April 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points.

And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.
April 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Rich ppl telling folks crypto is a viable savings plan is like sharks telling you that the water is warm and safe to swim in.
March 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL

Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
www.spiegel.de
March 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.

Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
March 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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I’m not saying someone’s so pressed I was on the cover of Teen Vogue that they started posting a bunch of misinformation about trans ppl- no wait, I am. I am saying that
March 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Also, it’s owned by a jackass
All you need to know about Twitter
March 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Nauseating. This man will literally destroy his own country and kill millions of children abroad rather than go to therapy
World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.
March 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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We’ve been taught to believe that the menace to society was the fraternity alpha male. It isn’t. Society is being subjected to the sociopathy of a bunch of tech CEOs who, in my view, did not get laid enough as young men.

www.profgalloway.com/porn/
Porn | No Mercy / No Malice
Pornography is the McDonald’s of sex — fast, convenient, and utterly divorced from nutrition. —Anonymous I was at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this month. A young man, married with two k...
www.profgalloway.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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More please.
"Edmunds found that March 2025 represents the 'highest ever share' on record of Tesla trade-ins...

"Teslas accounted for 1.4% of the cars traded in through March 15, up nearly 300% from the same month last year, when just 0.4% of trade-ins were Teslas..."

www.huffpost.com/entry/tesla-...
Tesla Trade-Ins Are At An All-Time High
JPMorgan analysts said this week they struggled to think of another time “a [car] brand has lost so much value so quickly."
www.huffpost.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Tesla dead in Germany. #TeslaTakedown
March 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Mike has been a friend of mine since we were young reporters at the @washingtonpost.com in the 1980s. He brims with talent, integrity and commitment to the truth. This is exactly what I expected and he had hoped he could stave off, which is a trash move by trash people. Throw them out.
March 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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This is the Serbian people protesting their pro-Putin autocratic regime.

Similar uprising in Hungary against GOP darling Viktor Orban.

Our time is coming.
Hundreds of thousands gathered against impunity, autogenocide, and oligarchy. A government that doesn't stand with it's people, stands against them. #3E #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide #EndOligarchy #SerbiaProtests
March 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Dear allies, the investigation of the Lithuanian prosecutor’s office has confirmed our suspicions that responsible for setting fires to shopping centres in Vilnius and Warsaw are the Russian secret services. Good to know before negotiations. Such is the nature of this state.
March 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Not sure when the penny is going to drop that this dude means what he tweets, does and sig heils www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...
Elon Musk Shared, Then Removed a Post Absolving Dictators for Genocide
The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people, but rather public sector workers were.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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He’d certainly know about deeply unprofitable. Don’t take my word — Google it. This aside, what nonsense comparing America to a private company (yes, some tech dudes are that reductively stupid). You can be for more government efficiency and not support the random bonfire of cruelty that DOGE is.
March 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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JPMORGAN slashes $TSLA Q1 delivery estimates “to just ~355K, which is -8% y/y .. and -28% q/q
from 495K in 4Q24 ..

“.. We struggle to think of anything analogous in the history of the automotive industry, in which a brand has lost so much value so quickly ..”

Cuts target price to $120 (prior $135
March 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM