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US to raise fee for tourist visas to $435 from $185 www.wfla.com/news/us-rais...
www.wfla.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
US to raise fee for tourist visas to $435 from $185 www.wfla.com/news/us-rais...
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New York City billboards are displaying the president’s 91 felony charges.
November 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
New York City billboards are displaying the president’s 91 felony charges.
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Tucked away in the Senate bill to fund the U.S. government is a provision that would ban all hemp products. In PA, that threatens more than 9,000 jobs and $50 million in tax revenue.
Say Goodbye To Your (Almost) Weed Seltzer
The the U.S. government just banned all hemp products, threatening more than 9,000 jobs — and $50 million in tax revenue.
thephiladelphiacitizen.org
November 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Tucked away in the Senate bill to fund the U.S. government is a provision that would ban all hemp products. In PA, that threatens more than 9,000 jobs and $50 million in tax revenue.
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‘They’re playing games’: Illinois lawmakers press Trump administration over stalled lead-pipe funding.
Congress appropriated $15 billion to replace lead pipes across the country. Is the Trump administration withholding it?
grist.org/accountabili...
#Chicago #Illinois #Health #Water
Congress appropriated $15 billion to replace lead pipes across the country. Is the Trump administration withholding it?
grist.org/accountabili...
#Chicago #Illinois #Health #Water
'They're playing games': Illinois lawmakers press Trump administration over stalled lead-pipe funding
Congress appropriated $15 billion to replace lead pipes across the country. Is the Trump administration withholding it?
grist.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
‘They’re playing games’: Illinois lawmakers press Trump administration over stalled lead-pipe funding.
Congress appropriated $15 billion to replace lead pipes across the country. Is the Trump administration withholding it?
grist.org/accountabili...
#Chicago #Illinois #Health #Water
Congress appropriated $15 billion to replace lead pipes across the country. Is the Trump administration withholding it?
grist.org/accountabili...
#Chicago #Illinois #Health #Water
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The United States’ pivot away from foreign aid and democracy-related programs has “given China an opportunity to portray itself as a more stable and pragmatic—and less judgmental—partner,” writes Jane Harman.
Can Democracy Still Make a Comeback?
Hope for a freer future is dimmed but not lost.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The United States’ pivot away from foreign aid and democracy-related programs has “given China an opportunity to portray itself as a more stable and pragmatic—and less judgmental—partner,” writes Jane Harman.
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@repdangoldman.bsky.social is the best. We need more members of Congress like him.
👏👏👏
👏👏👏
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
@repdangoldman.bsky.social is the best. We need more members of Congress like him.
👏👏👏
👏👏👏
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one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.
I sometimes feel like they don’t want to end poverty or reduce inequality because they believe they’re entitled to a class of people they can prey upon
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.
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Nikola Jokic got better at basketball is a sentence I say every year and it never stops being true, this is nuts
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Nikola Jokic got better at basketball is a sentence I say every year and it never stops being true, this is nuts
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Three hours to “Friday’s” third episode
Watch Pluribus on Apple TV. From Vince Gilligan, starring Rhea Seehorn. No, I can’t tell you what it’s about. No, you shouldn’t try to find out. Just trust me. You trust me, right? Go in blind. (Also ignore the stupid ad campaign.)
The only bad part so far is they’ve only released two episodes.
The only bad part so far is they’ve only released two episodes.
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Three hours to “Friday’s” third episode
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"Spy" takes a while to hit its stride, but it's one of the great Hollywood comedies of the 21st century. Criminally underrated.
Pair this with “Spy” for an Allison-Janney-saying-“cunt” double feature!
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"Spy" takes a while to hit its stride, but it's one of the great Hollywood comedies of the 21st century. Criminally underrated.
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Your windshields should be absolutely covered in a sticky mess of bug splats/insect carcasses every time you drive across open country forcing you to stop periodically at gas stations to use their wet squeegees to try and clean up your view of the road at night
Thinking a lot about how poorly our brains recognize long term subtle changes, like climate change or biodiversity loss. We've lost something like 1 out of every 4 individual birds in the US since 1970, more for some species.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Your windshields should be absolutely covered in a sticky mess of bug splats/insect carcasses every time you drive across open country forcing you to stop periodically at gas stations to use their wet squeegees to try and clean up your view of the road at night
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My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time.
No more hiding behind election terms.
No more hiding behind election terms.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time.
No more hiding behind election terms.
No more hiding behind election terms.
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a man was just found not guilty by jury lollification
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
a man was just found not guilty by jury lollification
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As always:
Editor: You get that performance as the washed up old actress ready?
Gloria Swanson: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Gloria Swanson: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As always:
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Mamdani is also Trumpian in that he has multiple ways of bypassing the press entirely. He can make TikToks. He can go on news shows and talk shows—people will book him to appear, and voters will watch. He can give press conferences and speeches, and people will tune in.
Mamdani is the most Trumpian politician the Dems have in the sense that his supporters will give zero shits what the beltway pages write about him and probably see it as success whenever they complain about him, I don't think the press will be very influential re public perception of his tenure
Mamdani is in a no win situation. The press in NYC will respond angrily if he gets his proposals they hate passed. Or, they will call him a failure, if he doesn't get the proposals they hate passed.
If he keeps his organizers energized, he can power through this.
If he keeps his organizers energized, he can power through this.
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Mamdani is also Trumpian in that he has multiple ways of bypassing the press entirely. He can make TikToks. He can go on news shows and talk shows—people will book him to appear, and voters will watch. He can give press conferences and speeches, and people will tune in.
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one other very notable thing that's happened is that Republicans in the Senate have responded to his repeated exhortations to nuke the filibuster by totally ignoring him
unlike some other things we've seen, this is absolutely not the behavior of people who think Dems will never hold power again
unlike some other things we've seen, this is absolutely not the behavior of people who think Dems will never hold power again
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
one other very notable thing that's happened is that Republicans in the Senate have responded to his repeated exhortations to nuke the filibuster by totally ignoring him
unlike some other things we've seen, this is absolutely not the behavior of people who think Dems will never hold power again
unlike some other things we've seen, this is absolutely not the behavior of people who think Dems will never hold power again
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"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
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finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."
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More Democrats should get more combative with the media, in particular by calling out questions that have an unspoken premise of "GOP voters are realer Americans than you," or in this case, "the president can break the law if voters in a city choose a mayor according to their own preferences."
In the 1st question of his brief interview with Mamdani. Anderson Cooper reports Trump’s strongman threats to punish NYC if the Mayoral candidate is elected, as if he gets to select where funding goes according to his whims, & then asks whether voters will find it “worth the hassle” to vote for him.
November 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Khanna: "We should ban any elected official from having cryptocurrency and accepting foreign money, which the Trump family has done from UAE and from this foreign billionaire."
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Khanna: "We should ban any elected official from having cryptocurrency and accepting foreign money, which the Trump family has done from UAE and from this foreign billionaire."
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟
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After the Pentagon forced a mass exit of journalists who understood military finance, tactics and technology, their replacements have arrived: cranks, conspiracy theorists and both foreign and domestic propagandists
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Pentagon’s Preferred Propaganda Model
The Trump administration is trying to muddle reality—and create apathy.
www.theatlantic.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
After the Pentagon forced a mass exit of journalists who understood military finance, tactics and technology, their replacements have arrived: cranks, conspiracy theorists and both foreign and domestic propagandists
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”