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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize trans people has completely lost touch with the common humanity."
August 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize trans people has completely lost touch with the common humanity."
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Blumenthal: "My stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal."
August 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Blumenthal: "My stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal."
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i’ll never get over how blatantly and proveably lying is one of the best political strategies of the modern age
August 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
i’ll never get over how blatantly and proveably lying is one of the best political strategies of the modern age
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Greystar was using rent-setting algorithms from software company RealPage, the subject of a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed the firm was helping landlords decide prices in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior.
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
America’s Largest Landlord Makes Deal With DOJ to Settle Price-Fixing Claims in RealPage Case
Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a...
www.propublica.org
August 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Greystar was using rent-setting algorithms from software company RealPage, the subject of a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed the firm was helping landlords decide prices in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior.
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
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"If Crater Lake were fully staffed this summer, it would have eight park rangers, said a current park employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Instead, it has three...."
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Crater Lake National Park superintendent resigns as staffing plunges
Kevin Heatley stepped down Friday as superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, as internal data shows a sharp decline in the National Park Service’s workforce.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"If Crater Lake were fully staffed this summer, it would have eight park rangers, said a current park employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Instead, it has three...."
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"Reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service..."
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Opinion | Is This the Beginning of the End of America’s National Parks?
www.nytimes.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"Reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service..."
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"The underlying point isn’t to chastise the firms for making the wrong decision; it’s to remind those firms that it’s not too late to reverse course and join the ranks of the firms resisting Trump’s gambit..."
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Law firms that appeased Trump confront the consequences of their misjudgment
Law firms that gave into the White House’s demands thought they were making a wise business decision. They’re now learning otherwise.
www.msnbc.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"The underlying point isn’t to chastise the firms for making the wrong decision; it’s to remind those firms that it’s not too late to reverse course and join the ranks of the firms resisting Trump’s gambit..."
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Our neighbor to the North is lead by a brilliant economist, who is tough, but fair and decent.
Our neighbor to the South is lead by a brilliant engineer, who is tough, but fair and decent.
We are run by a total ignoramus who is flawed in every way a human being can be & is destroying our country.
Our neighbor to the South is lead by a brilliant engineer, who is tough, but fair and decent.
We are run by a total ignoramus who is flawed in every way a human being can be & is destroying our country.
April 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Our neighbor to the North is lead by a brilliant economist, who is tough, but fair and decent.
Our neighbor to the South is lead by a brilliant engineer, who is tough, but fair and decent.
We are run by a total ignoramus who is flawed in every way a human being can be & is destroying our country.
Our neighbor to the South is lead by a brilliant engineer, who is tough, but fair and decent.
We are run by a total ignoramus who is flawed in every way a human being can be & is destroying our country.
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Thank you Canada!
Congratulations on your election results.
Congratulations on your election results.
a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is waving in the wind
ALT: a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is waving in the wind
media.tenor.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Thank you Canada!
Congratulations on your election results.
Congratulations on your election results.
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Decency has never been missed so much.
April 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Decency has never been missed so much.
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1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation
Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation"
Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company
Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation"
Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company
Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family
On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.
popular.info
April 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation
Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation"
Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company
Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation"
Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company
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A better copy!
April 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
A better copy!
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Judge Luttig on latest executive orders on Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor
The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.
April 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Judge Luttig on latest executive orders on Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor
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Breaking News: The IRS agreed to share information with ICE to help locate people for deportation, court records show. This is a fundamental change in the IRS, which had gained the trust of migrants and encouraged them to file their taxes.
I.R.S. Agrees to Share Migrants’ Tax Information with ICE
The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to gain the trust of migrants and encourage them to file their taxes.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Breaking News: The IRS agreed to share information with ICE to help locate people for deportation, court records show. This is a fundamental change in the IRS, which had gained the trust of migrants and encouraged them to file their taxes.
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The Internal Revenue Service has reached an agreement with immigration authorities to share tax information about some immigrants without legal status, marking a major change in how tax records can be used.
The IRS finalizes a deal to share tax information with immigration authorities
The Internal Revenue Service reached a deal to share tax information about some immigrants without legal status, marking a major change in how tax records can be used.
www.npr.org
April 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The Internal Revenue Service has reached an agreement with immigration authorities to share tax information about some immigrants without legal status, marking a major change in how tax records can be used.
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Guys, guys, guys. It’s not math. It’s not finance. It’s not economics.
It’s all about psychology. Abnormal psychology.
Read the DSM-5’s chapters on Cluster B personality disorders.
And then it all becomes clear.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...
It’s all about psychology. Abnormal psychology.
Read the DSM-5’s chapters on Cluster B personality disorders.
And then it all becomes clear.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...
April 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Guys, guys, guys. It’s not math. It’s not finance. It’s not economics.
It’s all about psychology. Abnormal psychology.
Read the DSM-5’s chapters on Cluster B personality disorders.
And then it all becomes clear.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...
It’s all about psychology. Abnormal psychology.
Read the DSM-5’s chapters on Cluster B personality disorders.
And then it all becomes clear.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...
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He signed our economic death spiral. 104% tariffs on China.
April 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
He signed our economic death spiral. 104% tariffs on China.