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Look at this chart.

Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world?

Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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EVs beat petrol cars on lifetime emissions — even on “dirty” grids.
Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km.

We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Spotify Wrapped is usually a fun way to reflect on what you’ve listened to over the year and share your tastes with friends.

But it hits different when it’s paired with propaganda for Trump’s deportation machine.

Use our social toolkit to share the truth about Spotify: app.sosha.ai/toolkit/spot...
December 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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blood thirsty maniac
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), to reporters, after viewing video footage of the U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean on Sept. 2:

"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."
December 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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It's time! Darlene Love sings "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" in our 2024 supercut 🎄👶🏼🏠
youtu.be/x18rIFgPej4
Darlene Love Sings "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" Supercut 2024 | David Letterman
YouTube video by Letterman
youtu.be
December 18, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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From October, 2022.
Eight months after Russia invaded his country.
This is not a dictator.
This is someone who is defending democracy for the world.
Dave With Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy | David Letterman
YouTube video by Letterman
youtube.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Wow.

"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”

- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”

They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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December 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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“Effective immediately, 100 will now be 5,100 and—I’m reading off the official statistics from my people—500 will be 25,500,” said Trump
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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BTW, there are a LOT more than 40
December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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USA today!
November 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Oh my. When you've lost the Babylon Bee …
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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thedemocraticcoalition
"Trump doesn't understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it." - Senator Mark Kelly

Well said.
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Hey, Ray! Maybe stay off her for one freaking minute?!?
(also, is she allowed to have a first name and her own identity?)
Better Homes and Gardens - September 1963
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Putin’s piggy
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Trump didn’t read before posting:

“OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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“The Tribune cannot afford to continue to limit who has access to independent and trusted news,” executive editor and CEO Lauren Gustus said. “Making the news is only the first step — we must also ensure people can find it."⁠
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/11/21/newsmakers-2025-gala-salt-lake/ 
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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GOP Congressman Don Bacon:

“Freedom loving Americans must tell the President that we reject the worst appeasement seen since 1938.“
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I’ve said this every month for a year.
November 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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This needs to get a LOT of traction.
November 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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You know who has Universal Healthcare provided by the government? Folks in Argentina do and the US taxpayers sent them $40 Billion Dollars so they can keep it. How are your premiums doing?
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM