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I think the correct thing is for state governments to pass legislation to seize federal employment taxes to make up the promised shortfall and put them directly to their own coffers.
This unlawful withholding of funds needs to stop. There are so many Coloradans depending on this funding and the ripple effects will have no political boundaries.
www.coloradopolitics.com/news/governm...
www.coloradopolitics.com/news/governm...
$570 million in federal funding remains inaccessible to Colorado following Trump's freeze, officials say
Colorado's governor and both of the state's U.S. senators asked the director of the federal budget office Monday to unlock what they said was more than $570 million in federal
www.coloradopolitics.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I think the correct thing is for state governments to pass legislation to seize federal employment taxes to make up the promised shortfall and put them directly to their own coffers.
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Musk killed these people.
February 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Musk killed these people.
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The Constitution. The judicial branch. Separation of powers. Checks and balances. A nation of laws. The President of this country is not a king.
Please repeat.
Please repeat.
February 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The Constitution. The judicial branch. Separation of powers. Checks and balances. A nation of laws. The President of this country is not a king.
Please repeat.
Please repeat.
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A classic image enhanced with cutting analysis
December 8, 2024 at 2:49 PM
A classic image enhanced with cutting analysis
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The timeline on this TikTok ban is nuts.
January 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The timeline on this TikTok ban is nuts.
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Beginners guide to what’s going on in Syria:
December 1, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Beginners guide to what’s going on in Syria:
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Damn it’s like you want *all* the people in the cabinet not to be sex offenders or have Nazi tattoos or openly talk about how they’re going to use their position to get revenge on their enemies, give up the purity politics folks
December 1, 2024 at 1:45 AM
Damn it’s like you want *all* the people in the cabinet not to be sex offenders or have Nazi tattoos or openly talk about how they’re going to use their position to get revenge on their enemies, give up the purity politics folks
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👇🏽💰 CFPB has returned over $20 Billion to consumers. Vivek & Elon aren’t attacking it for your sake.
November 29, 2024 at 1:18 AM
👇🏽💰 CFPB has returned over $20 Billion to consumers. Vivek & Elon aren’t attacking it for your sake.
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A lot of political commentary over the last few days sounds like Ned Stark, clinging to the power of what Cersei dismisses as a mere "piece of paper."
Maybe the historical inflection point that was the 2024 election will register to more people next year.
Maybe the historical inflection point that was the 2024 election will register to more people next year.
November 14, 2024 at 4:33 PM
A lot of political commentary over the last few days sounds like Ned Stark, clinging to the power of what Cersei dismisses as a mere "piece of paper."
Maybe the historical inflection point that was the 2024 election will register to more people next year.
Maybe the historical inflection point that was the 2024 election will register to more people next year.
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Typhoon #Kong-Rey is headed for #Taiwan and is forecast to make landfall at Category-4-equivalent intensity.
It's *extremely* late in the season for this -- the latest landfalling Cat2+ typhoon in Taiwan was Krosa on October 6, 2007!
Radar loops available at bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/radar/
It's *extremely* late in the season for this -- the latest landfalling Cat2+ typhoon in Taiwan was Krosa on October 6, 2007!
Radar loops available at bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/radar/
October 29, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Typhoon #Kong-Rey is headed for #Taiwan and is forecast to make landfall at Category-4-equivalent intensity.
It's *extremely* late in the season for this -- the latest landfalling Cat2+ typhoon in Taiwan was Krosa on October 6, 2007!
Radar loops available at bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/radar/
It's *extremely* late in the season for this -- the latest landfalling Cat2+ typhoon in Taiwan was Krosa on October 6, 2007!
Radar loops available at bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/radar/
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this is correect. he's on the brink and he knows it. the facade has fallen
Elon Musk is diving into politics because his businesses are shaky at best and floundering at worst, and he doesn’t have any more ideas, and has correctly clocked that a second Trump administration is the scenario where he’s least likely to be exposed as a fraud www.fastcompany.com/91215909/the...
Move fast and break democracy: The real reason Elon Musk needs Donald Trump to win
Musk's pro-Trump super PAC is pouring tens of millions into the presidential race, just as his image as a visionary businessman blurs.
www.fastcompany.com
October 25, 2024 at 2:11 PM
this is correect. he's on the brink and he knows it. the facade has fallen
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From something I wrote in 2016:
"A press corps willing to place the news subservient to business interests is, as Mussolini discovered, already disposed to and effectively practicing censorship. One need only organize their obedience."
medium.com/@kfrydl/medi...
"A press corps willing to place the news subservient to business interests is, as Mussolini discovered, already disposed to and effectively practicing censorship. One need only organize their obedience."
medium.com/@kfrydl/medi...
Media Monopoly and Corporate Greed: The Platform of Fascists and their Imitators
To say there’s a clear line of succession from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini to Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is to state…
medium.com
October 25, 2024 at 4:41 PM
From something I wrote in 2016:
"A press corps willing to place the news subservient to business interests is, as Mussolini discovered, already disposed to and effectively practicing censorship. One need only organize their obedience."
medium.com/@kfrydl/medi...
"A press corps willing to place the news subservient to business interests is, as Mussolini discovered, already disposed to and effectively practicing censorship. One need only organize their obedience."
medium.com/@kfrydl/medi...
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the fact that multiple newspapers are altering their coverage of the election based on fear of reprisal from one candidate is, in fact, a Giant Fucking Story
The Washington Post won’t endorse a candidate in the presidential race for the first time in 36 years www.npr.org/2024/10/25/n...
www.npr.org
October 25, 2024 at 4:19 PM
the fact that multiple newspapers are altering their coverage of the election based on fear of reprisal from one candidate is, in fact, a Giant Fucking Story
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I feel very safe knowing that one of the rare things an NYPD employee can actually get in trouble for is making sure that other cops are following the law, and that the NYPD’s union is so laser-focused on the rights of its members’ illegal window tint jobs www.nydailynews.com/2024/10/18/n...
NYPD commander orders tint on windows be removed from cop’s personal car: complaint
An NYPD precinct commander is the subject of an Internal Affairs investigation into claims he ordered his executive officer and other subordinates to peel the tint off the windows of a cop’s …
www.nydailynews.com
October 22, 2024 at 12:40 PM
I feel very safe knowing that one of the rare things an NYPD employee can actually get in trouble for is making sure that other cops are following the law, and that the NYPD’s union is so laser-focused on the rights of its members’ illegal window tint jobs www.nydailynews.com/2024/10/18/n...
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Disinhibition is a sign of cognitive impairment. Given how the NYT interpreted anything that Biden did through that lens, it’s notable that they never mention that possibility here www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/u...
At a Pennsylvania Rally, Trump Descends to New Levels of Vulgarity
The G.O.P. nominee repeated crude insults, and his supporters relished each moment. But the display could alienate swing voters.
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Disinhibition is a sign of cognitive impairment. Given how the NYT interpreted anything that Biden did through that lens, it’s notable that they never mention that possibility here www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/u...
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Carla Sands, Trump's former ambassador to Denmark, believes "15-minutes cities" means people are geo-fenced to within 15 minutes of their home and need special permission to leave.
This possible Trump adviser says electric cars, walkable cities and even talking about climate change are harmful
Former Ambassador Carla Sands focuses on energy issues at the America First Policy Institute, a Trump-aligned think tank.
www.politico.com
October 19, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Carla Sands, Trump's former ambassador to Denmark, believes "15-minutes cities" means people are geo-fenced to within 15 minutes of their home and need special permission to leave.
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the polls and the forecasts are not the election. at most they are representations of potential outcomes. the election is being fought out right now, on the ground, and the only way we’ll be able to impose a narrative on it is after the fact
October 20, 2024 at 6:44 PM
the polls and the forecasts are not the election. at most they are representations of potential outcomes. the election is being fought out right now, on the ground, and the only way we’ll be able to impose a narrative on it is after the fact
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SCAM ALERT – IMPORTANT
The cat has already been fed.
The cat has already been fed.
October 13, 2024 at 9:29 AM
SCAM ALERT – IMPORTANT
The cat has already been fed.
The cat has already been fed.
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A fun quote from James Cameron about the Terminator movie as cops use music from the film to promote their Cybertruck:
“Cops think of all non-cops as less than they are, stupid, weak, and evil. They dehumanize the people they are sworn to protect and desensitize themselves in order to do that job.”
“Cops think of all non-cops as less than they are, stupid, weak, and evil. They dehumanize the people they are sworn to protect and desensitize themselves in order to do that job.”
California Cops Show Off Absurd New Cybertruck With Music From Terminator Movies
Because if we learned anything from the Terminator franchise, it's that cops are good.
gizmodo.com
October 8, 2024 at 8:38 PM
A fun quote from James Cameron about the Terminator movie as cops use music from the film to promote their Cybertruck:
“Cops think of all non-cops as less than they are, stupid, weak, and evil. They dehumanize the people they are sworn to protect and desensitize themselves in order to do that job.”
“Cops think of all non-cops as less than they are, stupid, weak, and evil. They dehumanize the people they are sworn to protect and desensitize themselves in order to do that job.”
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Every job that entails maintaining a functioning and healthy society is actively under attack at both the professional level and, if you are unlucky, the individual level
Can I just-
It is absolutely poisonous that the right wing continues to make faithfully doing your job a risk to your life. I felt it as a library worker, every teacher I know feels it, doctors, journalists, now the damn weather reporters who are mostly known for keeping people safe and dad jokes.
It is absolutely poisonous that the right wing continues to make faithfully doing your job a risk to your life. I felt it as a library worker, every teacher I know feels it, doctors, journalists, now the damn weather reporters who are mostly known for keeping people safe and dad jokes.
“Ignorance is becoming socially acceptable.”
Meteorologists talk of death threats from the army of crazed conspiracy theorists who believe the government can control the weather.
Meteorologists talk of death threats from the army of crazed conspiracy theorists who believe the government can control the weather.
October 9, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Every job that entails maintaining a functioning and healthy society is actively under attack at both the professional level and, if you are unlucky, the individual level
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Broadcast and cable news shows aired a combined 22 hours and 35 minutes of coverage across 468 segments about Hurricane Helene. Only 15 segments mentioned climate change. www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-ne...
National TV news largely failed to connect Hurricane Helene to climate change despite clear signals
Hurricane Helene devastated the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions after making landfall on September 26. The storm, which killed at least 135 people with hundreds more still unaccounted for and left ...
www.mediamatters.org
October 1, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Broadcast and cable news shows aired a combined 22 hours and 35 minutes of coverage across 468 segments about Hurricane Helene. Only 15 segments mentioned climate change. www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-ne...