paul502.bsky.social
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⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️
STARTING TOMORROW.

Nevada. Arizona. Colorado.
You, me, and Bernie.
Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙

See you there 💪🏽🌞
March 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.

If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
benefit.me
March 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Well, Elon Musk *is* like Howard Roark in the sense that he's dynamiting his Tesla stock value
Elon Musk Thinks He’s an Ayn Rand Hero. Nope: He’s One of Her Villains.
Recent years have revealed the Silicon Valley venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs who worship Rand to be racists, fraudsters, and looters.
www.thebulwark.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?

They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.

That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.

The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
March 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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The kind of immigration activism that arose in the Obama era with the Dreamers has continued and evolved:
The Next Generation of Immigration Activists Is Growing Impatient
They’re turning to social media—and building major audiences there—in hopes of rallying more folks against Trump.
www.thebulwark.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford at a press conference that he would move forward with a 25% surcharge on electricity exports to three US states starting Monday, warning that he will would turn off access if the United States adds new tariffs on Canadian goods.
Ontario premier threatens to ‘shut off electricity completely’ for US if trade war escalates | CNN Business
President Donald Trump may have delayed most – though not all – of the tariffs he had imposed on Canada and Mexico, but that hasn’t stopped America’s northern neighbors from responding forcefully in r...
cnn.it
March 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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“Here is this phenomenon that lives right under our nose, that we barely noticed,” says Mark Dingemanse, a linguist at Radboud University, “that turns out to upend our ideas of what makes complex language even possible in the first place.” (via @knowablemag.bsky.social)
Huh? The valuable role of interjections in human conversations
Utterances like um, wow and mm-hmm used to be dismissed as irrelevant linguistic detritus. But some linguists now think they play an essential role in regulating conversations, and may be the hardest…
buff.ly
March 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Pants on fire
Mike Johnson: "The problem is they're being ambushed by right now by in many cases paid protesters. You've got George Soros-funded groups. They are very well organized ... the actual constituents of these Republican members can't actually make it into the arenas."
March 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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getting what done? he's not doing anything.
KATIE COURIC: Do you think the Democratic Party has become too progressive?

HAKEEM JEFFRIES: I think it's important for us to be the party of common sense solutions and getting it done.
March 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Facts
This Repub CR, that they claim will keep the government open, is a perfect example of why you must read bills.

Inside the text, you’ll find cuts everywhere, and so much money taken from vets you wouldn’t believe it. These guys are frauds.

Nice try! Hard NO! Throw it in the 🗑️
March 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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For those who wanted to share this video off platform. Here it is on YouTube

youtu.be/OiPa9VY9PH8?...
Fired workers deserve benefits. Call your representatives
YouTube video by Mark Cuban
youtu.be
March 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I'm sorry for raining on this parade, but the "transgender mice" talking point is bullshit, but not because someone mistook "transgenic" for "transgender."

The blog post that kicked it off (from a partisan bullshit website) listed a number of papers testing the effects of sex hormones on animals.
March 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I'm sorry for raining on this parade, but the "transgender mice" talking point is bullshit, but not because someone mistook "transgenic" for "transgender."

The blog post that kicked it off (from a partisan bullshit website) listed a number of papers testing the effects of sex hormones on animals.
March 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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That research is important and helps us understand the world better. Calling it "making transgender mice" is stupid and comes from a place of wanting a society that does not contain trans people.

I'm not sure that being wrong about the "transgenic/transgender" thing helps, though.
March 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM