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2026-03-24 07:10:52 UTC

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One reason for the quality of universities in the UK is their openness to foreign students. It may have originated as an artifact of empire. It continued because it worked: it attracted top foreign talent, from the wealth elite and the hopes of small towns across the globe.
Since Thatcher, foreign students have paid significantly more than domestic students, income that universities have come to rely on as a substitute for support Parliament has withdrawn.

2026-03-24 06:57:09 UTC

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If Keir Starmer stopped chasing potential Reform voters, he might keep many of his own. He's a fool. And he's making Labor's staunchest supporters pay the price for his foolishness.

2026-03-22 23:16:20 UTC

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I believe putting antiseptic eye ointment onto newborn's eyes was originally meant to combat syphilitic eye infections. A real problem at the time.

2026-03-20 17:26:54 UTC

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But nothing compared to the fierce bad wabbit.

2026-03-16 00:03:14 UTC

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Just what are White House medics injecting into Trump's hands that they are constantly bandaged or make-upped.

2026-03-14 17:26:41 UTC

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Not quite. The misnamed colloquial name of the act, the Hague Invasion Act, applies to the jurisdiction of the ICC, not the int'l conventions regarding the laws of war. CheneyBush passed the HIA to protect its own ass from crimes committed in Iraq. Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
The ICC is not the only body capable of enforcing them. Nor does that the US won't enforce them mean that other countries won't.

2026-03-14 17:03:05 UTC

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Good quote.
Names matter, though. It's Jean-Paul Sartre.

2026-03-14 16:55:11 UTC

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Casey Means, Trump-Kennedy's choice for Surgeon General, is not a practicing physician. She has a medical degree, but dropped out of her residency, which means she's not board certified in anything.
She sells supplements and wellness [sic] crap, and really, really wants to be SG to lord it over practicing physicians who think her life's work is bunk and makes her a charlatan. It is, she is.
Don't give her authority over American public health.

2026-03-09 15:19:57 UTC

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Casey Means may have a medical degree, but she's not a practicing physician and is board certified in nothing but selling Wellness gimmicks. She should not be anywhere near Americans' public health.

2026-03-08 22:35:33 UTC

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Trump's brain trust has not demonstrated that they've given any thought to how his war in the Middle East ends.

2026-03-06 14:07:24 UTC

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A variation on "double tap," which ordinarily refers to two rounds fired in quick succession to assure a kill. The combined force causes more damage than two rounds fired separately.
As used here, it's similar to when a sniper wounds a target, hoping to lure into his sights other troops and medics, so that he can shoot them, too. Except that it's scaled up many times. It sounds very IDF.

2026-03-05 18:09:27 UTC

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Speaker Mike Johnson proves every day why Louisiana's public schools are at the bottom of the league table. He's not just a lawyer selling cigarettes on a cancer ward, he's telling patients it's good for them.

2026-03-03 17:27:03 UTC

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Sure, but do those hypotheticals include injury and disease to girls coming from a professional sex criminal and his clients?

2026-03-02 17:16:15 UTC

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Elite MDs treated Jeffrey Epstein and his "girls?" They took the money and kept shtum? Is there a protocol when you treat teens and pre-teen girls for STI, without parental consent?

2026-03-02 03:21:45 UTC

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Have another cuppa and think about it.

2026-02-28 21:00:22 UTC

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Mandatory binding arbitration as an exclusive dispute resolution method was never intended for consumers. It was developed for use by economic entities of roughly equivalent heft and resources, not for use by large corporations against the puny resources of the average consumer.
The Supreme Court decided it would be good to force consumers onto a massively unequal playing field, because corporations ueber alles.

2026-02-28 17:49:23 UTC

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It's still no excuse to launch a war without congressional approval.

2026-02-28 02:37:59 UTC

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Dr. Oz is not the originator of the plan to hike individual and family deductibles for ACA health insurance to $15,000 and $31,000, respectively.
Those ruinously high deductibles aren't deductibles. They destroy the ACA without doing the actual politicking necessary to get congressional approval to do it.
It's like Trump, Miller, Musk, and DOGE destroying an agency, leaving one person at the front desk, then telling the courts they haven't really shut the agency down.

2026-02-26 23:10:59 UTC

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The profound risks related to obtaining essential drugs offshore - beyond the obvious business risks of that sourcing model - to the American military is directly related to Donald Trump's abandonment of generations-old alliances.

2026-02-26 22:49:19 UTC

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LOL. How to summarize the difference in two countries while standing on one foot.
Canada wants one tech bro to add "safety changes" to protect Canadians from threats posed by its use of AI.
An American SecDef demands another tech company discard portions of its software, designed to protect against its abuse, or he'll ruin the company.

2026-02-26 22:43:11 UTC

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Let me fix that for you, CBS:
"US orders diplomats in the EU to fight data sovereignty initiatives, designed to protect Europeans from rapacious, privacy invading US tech bros."

2026-02-25 16:41:22 UTC

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MFN pricing for Amazon? Shades of the business practices that built John D. Rockefeller's petroleum empire.

2026-02-19 22:31:59 UTC

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South Texas, near the border with Mexico, is an unforgiving geography at the best of times. Cold, hot, dry, windy or stifling, doesn't matter. A thin tent wall is not much protection from it. Especially not crammed cheek by jowl with other inmates, with little food or water, one toilet and no showers or room to swing a gnat, let alone a cat.
Cruelty is Stephen Miller's point. It's also much more profitable.

2026-02-19 02:38:42 UTC

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Bob Kennedy is Trump's harbinger of death. He revels in his role. He and his patrons imagine that only undesirables will die. LOL.

2026-02-13 18:55:40 UTC

Fun fact: "Winter Olympic village runs out of condoms after three days"
Italian urologists expect busy winter season.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/13/winter-olympic-village-runs-out-of-condoms-after-three-days-milano-cortina-2026

2026-02-13 17:58:33 UTC

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Trump is sending pregnant unaccompanied minors to Texas, the most vicious anti-abortion state in the union? How Stephen Miller.

2026-02-12 19:46:33 UTC

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That advert is as apolitical as a white gown and pointy hat.

2026-02-11 18:23:01 UTC

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If you're testing a weapon designed to attack drones with high-intensity laser beams, you don't do it live over a working commercial airport. You do it over a large military reservation, comprised of space mostly empty of humans.
You don't close busy commercial airspace for ten days, disrupting civilian and military traffic, for a practice session.
Once again, Trump, Hegseth and his other pet running the FAA are lying, dangerously incompetent, or both.

2026-02-10 18:07:50 UTC

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Stephen Miller has only nine months left to put his Praetorian Guard in place to defeat the 2026 elections.

2026-02-05 23:48:44 UTC

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1916 was pretty bad, though, non?

2026-02-05 23:21:12 UTC

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The Lords should strip Mandelson of his peerage.

2026-02-04 21:11:17 UTC

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Jeff Bezos is doing to the Washington Poop what Elon Musk did to Xitter. Turn into a personal political rag that projects his views onto the world, but calls it news.
If a paper of the stature the WaPoop once had fails in this climate, it is because of its political priorities and business leadersheep. In this case, its "hostile business environment" is of its own creation.

2026-02-02 19:45:47 UTC

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Nicely illustrates the most likely business Jeffrey Epstein was really in. His sex crimes business, though pleasurable for him, was his fishing gear.
His passion was to troll for rich, powerful, and connected marks, whom he could pleasure, and then persuade or blackmail into exchanging favors.
That would enhance his network and produce confidential personal, business, and govt information he could exchange for profit and to further enhance his network. Begat, begat, begat.

2026-02-02 01:20:05 UTC

Trump wants to close the Kennedy Center, whose business he tanked by taking it over, for Two Years for unannounced and unplanned "renovations."
That's what a low-end developer does when he can't rent a single property in a new development.
BTW, he's supposed to get approval to do that, he's supposed to have plans in place, a budget and a source of funds. Odds are pretty good he has none of that, zero, nada. He thinks everything's a game.

2026-01-28 00:59:51 UTC

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Does predator Bob Kennedy's "vaccine advisor" sink or swim when thrown into a dunking pond? That's how you tell whether he's lying or not. That's about the level of science this guy believes in.

2026-01-21 20:23:00 UTC

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Donald Trump doesn't play by the rules.

2026-01-21 19:13:57 UTC

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Why would anyone, let alone a young boy, walk around his own neighborhood carrying his "papers?"
Frankenstein's monster was more rationale and had more compassion than these ICE goons.

2026-01-20 06:33:01 UTC

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Keir Starmer is an accident happening as we look on.
Naive doesn't quite explain the gullible thinking that an industry as large, powerful, and profitable as the audit industry would so improve its cozy relationships and procedures as to NOT need enhanced regulation makes Neville Chamberlain seem like a raging cynic.

2026-01-20 02:39:51 UTC

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AI doesn't think. It rapidly computes the most statistically likely response to a question, based on however complete its database is.
Consumers need to be able to shut down the AI in any device: a tv, an appliance, a computer, whatever. That's precisely what Tech Bros do not want us to be able to do.

2026-01-16 02:39:23 UTC

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How many nurses could the average NYC hospital hire or give raises to, if it were to cut one administrative vp, go-fer, "chief of staff," or MBA?

2026-01-14 15:27:47 UTC

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Shirley, no sane reporter takes their smartphone or GPS watch, both of which track time, pathways and locations to within ten feet, to a meeting with a key source or leaker of govt secrets.
Shirley, no one employed at Jeff Bezos's Washington Poop would do that, would they?

2026-01-08 00:08:37 UTC

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ICE goons don't want an objective third-party to view the body and any visible evidence, before they've cleaned it up. Especially not a trained observer like a medical doctor.

2026-01-07 18:20:47 UTC

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Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) rarely end well for employees, let alone customers. A few become obscenely rich. But executives turn from running a company to managing their biggest investors, who quickly control boards of directors and set vastly different priorities.
They also constantly paint lipstick on pigs by taking on ginormous amounts of debt, to make their apparent financial returns seem sexier. Financial cemeteries are littered with the corpses of companies who did that.

2026-01-06 22:38:30 UTC

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Reichsfuehrer SS Stephen Miller thinks he's Trump's alter ego, and has the same power and immunity Trump does. LOL.
He has presumably given up traveling overseas for a lifetime. I can't imagine how he'd gain entry, except to Russia or Germany, if the AfD were to gain power. Otherwise, he's declared himself a criminal.

2026-01-03 22:45:10 UTC

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Stand trial? What are the odds this is a secret proceeding - owing to "national security" concerns - and the public only learns the result, plus a few snippets of one-sided propaganda from Trump and Bondi?

2025-12-30 15:55:14 UTC

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"Emergency demolition" of buildings in DC? LMAO. There's no emergency beyond Demolition Man Trump's hoping to profit from redevelopment. It's also a distraction from being president and...the Epstein files.
I note Jeff Bezos's WaPoop has picked one of the worst photos possible. It's not representative of the buildings in DC Trump has set his developer's heart on destroying.

2025-12-29 19:58:59 UTC

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Don't forget the multiple fake accounts scandal.

2025-12-27 22:02:01 UTC

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Consumption by the poor, working and middle classes is transparent: rent, food, health care, education, tax returns, etc. It's consumption by the wealth elite that's hard to trace, owing to an industry of courtiers who can hide it behind family businesses, trusts, cut-outs, etc.
In the UK, for example, you can live on a residential street and not know - or be able to find out - who owns several houses on it, owing to blind trusts and offshore tax haven holdings.

2025-12-27 21:53:17 UTC

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No, a consumption tax in lieu of an income tax is not "worth considering." It would be much more vulnerable to manipulation than an income tax.

2025-12-25 22:31:25 UTC

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Tesla gave away its money to Elon. Many of its receivables are from sister companies, not real buyers.. Will it have a dime left to compete?

2025-12-24 18:39:07 UTC

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The WaPoop says warehouses, the world says Concentration Camps.

2025-12-22 20:32:32 UTC

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LOL. Politico's agitprop works harder at disuniting Dems than Dems do.

2025-12-20 20:45:09 UTC

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The "consequences could be lasting?"
You mean, unlike the lives and health of those forced to go without access to vaccines for preventable diseases?

2025-12-18 18:49:09 UTC

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Numbers are only mirrors Trump can hold up to show how gorgeous he is. If numeracy and accuracy were considerations to him, he would not have been convicted 34 times for state financial fraud related felonies.

2025-12-18 02:42:13 UTC

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Shades of O. Henry's, Gift of the Magi.

2025-12-14 18:30:41 UTC

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Their health policies make millions of Americans sick and kill thousands. They impoverish millions more. They demoralize the military through laughably incompetent leadership, racist and sexist firings, and cutting funding for essential services, such as the VA.
They cut the Post Office, and cut funds for highways, education, and disaster relief. They are preparing for a coup, whether their own, or on behalf of foreign enemies' or an oligarchy.

2025-12-10 04:16:46 UTC

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Individuals have little ability to evaluate one drug or procedure over another, or one provider over another.
Consumers have no ability to affect the decisions of large monopolistic, for profit medical providers or insurance companies, especially not with an influx of private equity investments in niche areas such as ambulances and emergency care.
The idea that they could reflects a grade school version of American capitalism, perhaps the most extreme version on the planet.

2025-12-08 01:19:16 UTC

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Cruelty is where ICE goons start. No one knows where they end.

2025-12-05 23:31:16 UTC

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Ah, but what's the net investment, $50 billion, minus across the board cuts elsewhere?

2025-12-02 00:36:31 UTC

Kash Patel is failing as the leader of the FBI? Only half the world predicted that.
This hit piece and its dubious sources are careful to focus only on Patel. But no FBI or DoJ, of which the FBI is a part, has been as direct a puppet of the president as they have been under Donald Trump.
Trump is the one who's leadership is failing, personally and through his perverse selection of people to run his most important agencies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/fbi-kash-patel-leaked-report

2025-12-02 00:20:52 UTC

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The reasons you give for the high cost of university education should be renumbered. From top to bottom, they would read, 2, 4, 3, and 1.
The biggest influence by far is the dramatic reduction in legislative funding for public higher education. I would add the abuses heaped on education by the student loan industry, which enables colleges to adjust their fees based on how much students can borrow, regardless of their own costs.

2025-11-30 01:06:35 UTC

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I predict a dramatic slowdown in the construction, golf course maintenance, hotel and restaurant service, and child care industries in Texas.

2025-11-28 18:33:59 UTC

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Trump's cohort's health policies seem built on the assumption that medieval plagues only struck down peasants. They should read a little Edgar Allan Poe.

2025-11-27 18:29:35 UTC

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Trump's one-on-one strategy for global health aid is designed to increase his leverage over individual countries and to increase his opportunity for graft. Improving global health doesn't seem to enter into it.

2025-11-20 02:09:27 UTC

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What's the legal authority for Trump to sue states that regulate AI?

2025-11-18 02:59:19 UTC

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Actually, all gifts to US officials belong to the USG. Congress has to permit them to go to a presidential library or anywhere else. There's no automatic shortcut for the president to predesignate where a gift goes.
But like the $400 million Qatari aircraft, Trump thinks direct gits to his library, as a cutout for him, are thspecial, so long as he can determine what happens to them.

2025-11-13 23:21:57 UTC

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The USG shutdown was an excuse for Russell Vought to stop paying SNAP payments. He must be working hard to find other reasons to not pay it or to delay paying it. Then there are the further cuts coming in 2026.

2025-11-04 17:48:28 UTC

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It's not remotely paranoid.
Big Box stores have rigged the system for decades. They extort so much in local and state subsidies and tax holidays - sometimes they are allowed to collect and keep sales taxes for themselves - that the land and building for a store are paid for in full before the store opens.
Imagine breaking even before you open the door. Capitalists love a level playing field only when someone else is playing on it.

2025-10-28 22:06:37 UTC

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Florida's Decimator General, Joe Ladapo, will be long gone before the multiple infectious disease plagues he's unleashing begin to fester. Can't wait for the malaria and Yellow fever, too

2025-10-27 06:29:12 UTC

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Ironically times, since Donald Trump is fully engaged in a plot to seize America - from the White House.

2025-10-19 01:35:58 UTC

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What happened to Joe Ladapo, FL's top doc?
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

2025-10-18 19:06:20 UTC

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There are many ways to avoid using AI in your browser. The simplest is to type "-ai" at the end of your search string.
You can also go into settings and turn it off, but that requires more work.

2025-10-14 19:38:06 UTC

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Nothing gives Donald Trump the power to murder at will on the high seas. Transporting illegal drugs, even if true, for which he's provided no evidence, does not give him the power to commit murder.
That would mean he's issuing the military illegal orders. Military officers are legally required to disobey an illegal order. So how is the military squaring that circle?
Trump's list of people he has to pardon grows longer every day. Or will he leave them hanging high and dry?

2025-10-11 23:45:09 UTC

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The images of inflatable frogs will make it harder for the prosecution to lie about the evil intent of protesters.
Apart from making it impossible to run away at speed, they make the claim laughable. Undoing that impression is probably not something this administration's gutted DoJ will be any good at.

2025-09-27 18:27:33 UTC

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Yep. AI is just an "investor story."

2025-09-25 18:39:39 UTC

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Donald Trump has been doing that for fifty years.

2025-09-14 17:31:05 UTC

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GOP legislatures have been underfunding, or privatizing, state universities for three or four decades. Trump has given them permission to underfund all schools and to divert public funds at will to private, for-profit and/or parochial schools.

2025-09-13 16:57:44 UTC

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Trump would lament torching a warehouse full of contraceptive devices as much as he would torching a warehouse full of Al Capone's booze. He never touches the stuff.

2025-09-09 00:30:04 UTC

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A "fully-depreciated" woman? By that, do Epstein and Trump mean someone who's just turned 18?

2025-09-03 21:13:33 UTC

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As you say, most people today are ignorant about milk-born diseases, and what people did to avoid them before pasteurization became common.. Milk is a fabulous medium for pathogens.
They're also ignorant about the dangers of lethal communicable diseases, because vaccines virtually eradicated them. They will reemerge under Trump and Kennedy and their eugenics movement.

2025-08-31 23:52:07 UTC

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Shades of British Empire. Donald Trump wants his govt and, presumably, its successors, to occupy the Gaza Strip, a territory that he plans to turn into a private enclave and resort?
Trump wants the USG to provide free security for his investment - which is unlikely to cost him a dime - for ten years, or however long it takes to secure it. Given the history of the Middle East, that's likely to be forever. He treats the USG as if it were another Trump employee.

2025-08-31 17:34:24 UTC

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For Donald Trump, taking over Gaza and running it for 10 yrs, in the fashion of a League of Nations "Protectorate" (de facto colony), means he gets to put up his beach resort and keep it permanently.
What will he do with the Gazans unable or unwilling to change change his beds, wash his linens, and clean his pools?

2025-08-27 02:09:34 UTC

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Sebutinde has amply demonstrated that she is unable to judge ANY case objectively. Her religious beliefs are so extreme, they prevent her from exercising objective legal judgment.
She should be made to give up her seat on the ICJ and not allowed to sit as a judge in any court.

2025-08-26 22:08:28 UTC

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The "medical freedom" movement? LOL. AKA, the free snake oil salesmen movement?

2025-08-25 16:40:11 UTC

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Reality argues against your appreciation of one actor.

2025-08-19 14:28:14 UTC

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Nice to see a war criminal admit his crimes - and those of his co-conspirators - so publicly.

2025-08-16 14:37:11 UTC

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Nice catch. With an entire air base at its disposal, team Trump uses unsecure printers/copiers at an Anchorage hotel to print meeting details with Valdimir Putin?
Have they not heard that, for decades, office machines have had built-in memory, and keep records of what they print/copy? I wish this were unbelievable and that heads would roll over it. They won't.
Is Trump keeping Pete Hegseth as SecDef because his OpSec is even worse than the White House's?

2025-08-15 23:39:09 UTC

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Your comment would be more effective if you described the "compliance in advance" by National Geographic that irks you.

2025-08-15 23:29:24 UTC

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Exclusive, binding arbitration is suitable only for large enterprises that are dealing with equally large enterprises.
It is abusive to allow such enterprises to force consumers to use it. The power differential is obscene. The process is rigged to the interests of those who pay for it.
The process is secret. Even if you win, you can't tell anyone why, how much you won, or what systemic threats the corporation you dealt with poses to all consumers.

2025-08-14 03:04:41 UTC

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Fines or jail time for DC's homeless for what, Ms. Leavitt? Refusing a govt invitation to get out of town?

2025-08-13 19:03:05 UTC

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Seems like anything would be cheaper than paying for or betting on AI. Anything. This ain't about improvements or cost-cutting, it's about dominance, which is also a description of how Trump operates.

2025-08-11 17:45:37 UTC

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The odds of all five journalists being killed by the IDF on the same day approaches the astronomical numbers conspiracy theorists associate with the multiple deaths of witness to JFK's assassination.

2025-08-09 01:15:21 UTC

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The focus on Hamas may be as misplaced as the focus on controlling a city the IDF already effectively controls. Netanyahu's hardline Cabinet has publicly declared it wants to rid the world of Palestinians the way Hitler did the Jews, and has used that very analogy.

2025-08-09 01:12:45 UTC

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I suspect the jury's out on the reasons Netanyahu is starving Palestinians into extinction. Getting Hamas to "surrender" is probably only one of them. His Cabinet is full of people who would do it for no reason at all.

2025-08-07 01:27:36 UTC

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Transporting people in the back of that sort of Penske van is prohibited, I believe, in all 50 states.

2025-08-05 16:33:44 UTC

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Dave Eggers has accurately but fictionally portrayed the rapaciousness of tech bros for some time. As he portrays, if you don't buy into the CEOs performance art about how people-oriented he and his company is, you can't work there.

2025-08-02 01:55:55 UTC

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Trump wants to reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test? Donny first. He's as fit physically as he is mentally and morally.

2025-07-30 20:05:38 UTC

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Expect all manner of insurance companies to follow suit, regulators be damned.

2025-07-27 23:50:40 UTC

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Yep, a host of American companies made a mint during the Nazi era, trading with the enemy. I'd start with a list of John Foster Dulles's clients at Sullivan & Cromwell.
Congress even compensated some American companies for the loss of their German operations, owing to American bombing during the war. An amazing subsidy.

2025-07-27 23:14:43 UTC

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IBM and GM figure prominently among Nazi collaborators.