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Washedupcynic @ Washedupcynic @lemm.ee
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  • Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Try to Woo Back Elon Musk

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  • They should not try to win him back. They should deport his bitch ass to mars on one of his own rockets.

  • Newsom asks judge for emergency intervention in Trump troop deployment in LA

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  • Is this the same hill that claimed Kamala was lying about trump using the military to punish anyone that opposed his authority?

  • Trump's Cognitive 'Decline' Suggests He 'Might Not Make It Through Four Years,' Republican Strategist Says

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  • Sadly, the grim reaper pulled the actress that played Houlihan on mash out of the claw machine instead of trump.

  • Israel's Backers Are Now Advocating The Assassination Of Greta Thunberg

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  • Any time I hear his name, all I can think about are his ladybugs. 🤢

  • Least anticipated game in history

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  • I am having flashbacks to my postdoctoral fellowship.

  • [US] Consumer sentiment hits second lowest reading on record

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  • Many consumers won't have increased optimism in the economy even after the tariff pause.

  • Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026

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  • Quit netflix ages ago, but is add blocking not going to work here? I addblock on hulu no problem.

  • Congressman Shri Thanedar Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors | U.S. Congressman Shri Thanedar

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  • Impeachment is a formal process used to formally accuse a public official, including the president, of misconduct while in office. It's a legislative action, not a court trial, and is the first step in the process of potentially removing the official from office and disqualifying them from holding future office. The House of Representatives initiates impeachment proceedings by drafting and voting on "articles of impeachment," which are essentially charges of misconduct. If enough people in the house vote to impeach, they kick it over to the senate to have a trial. It takes 2/3 or 66% of the senate to convict before he can be removed from office. The last 2 times the house was able to vote on the articles of impeachment. When it got kicked to the senate the last 2 times, there weren't enough votes to convict. This is because republican senators were more interested in protecting the republican party than they were the country. Most of us would rather lawfully remove Trump from office. The constitution is still important and many of us still believe in it. Even if it's not successful, it still has a purpose. The people that vote no on impeachment are going on public record to aid an abet his crimes, potentially opening themselves up to legal consequences once trump is gone. Also, exhausting all avenues of the law makes civil disobedience more legitimate should things get bad enough to come to that.

  • politics @lemmy.world
    Washedupcynic @lemm.ee

    Congressman Shri Thanedar Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors | U.S. Congressman Shri Thanedar

    thanedar.house.gov /media/press-releases/congressman-shri-thanedar-introduces-articles-of-impeachment-against-president-donald-j-trump-for-high-crimes-and-misdemeanors

  • [Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation

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  • I just shelled out to upgrade my 9 year old PC. Upgraded from an rtx 1060 to 4060. My current i5 is like 9400F and now I am upgrading to a 13400f. I've been wanting to and holding off for a while, but if things are going to get more scarce and more expensive, might as well do it now while I have money to spend.

  • Mark my words: they will put Kamala 2.0. or Gavin in the race for president instead of AOC or any other progressive.

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  • I'm 45. Am I old enough to be an old ass liberal? I love AOC and I hope she succeeds.

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    Jerkoff

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  • My best guess is that you are from Iran? If memory serves, this got kicked off via the Anglo-Persian oil company, 51% owned by the Brits. (They go by BP now.) The company was a private entity that was treating the Iranian workforce poorly in terms of qualify of life and profit sharing with workers. The ruler in Iran was tired of their country and land being used to generate profits for foreign entities. The profit sharing with the company was renegotiated in the somewhere in the 1930s. (my memory is a bit spotty on the exact date.) In Narrator voice: The company did not abide by that agreement. During world war 2, the allied forces basically occupied Iran to secure the oil fields to keep supply chains intact during the war; so this would have been happening in the 1940s. This created a push for nationalizing the company and supply of oil, leading up to the 1950s and in 1951 is when Iran nationalized it under prime minister Mossadegh. There was lots of back and forth between the Brits and Iran, and threats of going to international court. The Shah was a bit more friendly to how business was being done between Iran and the Birts. This led to an attempt by the Shah to replace Mossadegh in 1952, and led to riots against the Shah and perceived foreign intervention. This failed. Mossadegh was pissed and eventually Mossadegh expelled the British embassy in October 1952. The brits cried to the USA, which led to the CIA to depose Mossadegh via the Shah, using underhanded bribery and corruption type shenanigans. This led to another 2 decades of Iran getting fucked by the brits and the USA, which eventually was a factor in the hostage crisis in 1979. Yeah, America was pissed about that. I was born in 1979 and have very early memories of Reagan saying shit like we won't negotiate with terrorists. When Iraq went to war with Iran, the US was on the books as supporting Iraq. There was an embargo preventing the US from selling weapons to Iran. That didn't stop the USA. They funneled weapons and training to contras in Nicaragua who would then supply Iran, simply because the USA didn't want Iran to be influenced by the Russia and communism. This is not taught in American public schools at all. American history curriculum usually ends with the civil rights movement. This was all stuff I had to learn on my own after hearing about it first hand from my best friend who lived through the Iraq/Iran war in the 80s. Yes, we are the baddies.

  • Art of the deal

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  • I don't disagree with any of that.

  • Art of the deal

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  • Germany was economically crippled by reparations imposed after World War I. Read up on the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty, signed in 1919, demanded Germany pay 50 billion gold marks (approximately $220 billion in today's money) to cover civilian damage. This debt, along with other harsh terms of the treaty, contributed to hyperinflation, economic instability, and resentment that helped the Nazi party come to power in Germany.

  • Trump Warns US Economy Could Slow If Fed’s Powell Doesn’t Cut Interest Rates - Bloomberg

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  • He wants reduced interest rates so the uber rich can get cheap loans to buy up even more while the economy is crashing.

  • politics @lemmy.world
    Washedupcynic @lemm.ee

    Read Conservative Judge’s Full Opinion Rebuking Trump Administration Over Abrego Garcia Case

    time.com /7278774/judge-harvie-wilkinson-opinion-read-full-text-trump-abrego-garcia/
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    Washedupcynic @lemm.ee

    FCC chief targets Comcast-owned outlets over ‘news distortion’

    thehill.com /homenews/media/5253421-fcc-brendan-carr-comcast-license-abrego-garcia-case/

  • Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US

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  • The Rs would celebrate the Ds getting detained in El Salvadore. Everyone going together would be risky as F. If they all get detained, there are no Ds to push back against this shit.

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    Got Permanently Banned from Reddit for Criticizing trump & edolf. Who Else Here for Similar Reasons?

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  • hús-brenna is the practice of setting someone's house on fire and refusing to let them leave the burning structure.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Washedupcynic @lemm.ee

    Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims

    arstechnica.com /cars/2025/04/tesla-makes-its-cars-lie-about-their-mileage-lawsuit-claims/

  • Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government

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  • BSKY is full of cam girls. I started getting random follows from people with no posts, and nothing on their profiles except links to the pages where they sell videos of themselves. Went straight to mastadon.

  • Coal Miners Sue Trump Admin After It Halts Black Lung Protections

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  • Classic leopards ate my face. May they have the lives they voted for.

  • A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

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  • The whistleblower’s disclosure was accompanied by a cover letter from his attorney, Andrew Bakaj of Whistleblower Aid, which said that, after he raised concerns internally about DOGE’s inroads into the agency, he received a physically taped threat on his door containing personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog. They also attempted to intimidate him.

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    Washedupcynic @lemm.ee

    Columbia Activist Arrested by ICE at His Appointment for Citizenship

    www.nytimes.com /2025/04/14/nyregion/columbia-student-palestinian-arrested-ice.html
  • Trump Watch @lemm.ee
    Washedupcynic @lemm.ee

    Trump administration sues to invalidate dozens of union contracts and is judge shopping in TX

    www.reuters.com /world/us/trump-administration-sues-invalidate-dozens-union-contracts-2025-03-28/