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  • Trump threatens EU with tariff investigation after Google hit with $3.45 billion antitrust fine

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  • Of course he did - that's the sort of service they've paid him for.

  • It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan

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  • Yes, it is.

    They are, in the purest sense of the term, traitors. They have overtly and deliberately betrayed their own party and their voters.

  • President Trump Is Alive. The Internet Was Convinced Otherwise.

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  • I don't think it's so much "believed" as "hoped."

    Specifically, people hoped that the staggeringly dangerous and destructive deranged megalomaniac currently destroying the US had died, since at this point, in a world in which virtually none of the politicians, government officials or journalists who are actually in a position to do anything to at least slow the US's Trump-led sprint to neo-feudalism can be bothered to lift a finger, him dying is about the only hope we billions of ordinary prople have.

    But of course, the NYT is at the forefront of the journalists who can't be bothered to actually demonstrate any principles or integrity, so all we get from them is this bit of sycophantic pabulum.

  • Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing

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  • I assume it's not just a pathetically transparent and tone-deaf attempt to distract from the genocide, but specifically a way to get Trump wholly on-board, since nothing makes his little tiny dick pudgy quite like beachfront property.

  • Giuliani Is Hurt in Car Crash in New Hampshire

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  • Well - he'll still be Rudy Giuliani...

  • A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers

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  • Funny that the headline makes something spookily cloak and dagger out of something that's really just sort of trite and pathetic.

  • In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Among the Hardest Hit | President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees

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  • By design.

    It's incremental white supremacist eugenics - disproportionately fire minorities, cut Medicaid to even further tie health insurance to employment, then sit back and watch while minorities disproportionately die.

  • Senator Sanders says U.S. Health Secretary Kennedy must resign

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  • Ah.

    I'm betting that, like all too many people, he's a binarist.

    That seems to be the reasoning error at the heart of miasma theory.

    The thing is that there's some small measure of truth to it. Good health really does, to some degree, depend on good nutrition, good hygiene, a sound immune system and so on. But the way in which those things actually matter is the degree to which they help people fight off sickness (or to which their absence makes people more prone to sickness). The ultimate cause is, rather obviously, germs, viruses, etc., but we're better able to resist them if we're generally healthier, enjoying good nutrition and good hygiene and so on.

    But that's not the way Kennedy sees it. His simple-minded take on it is wholly binaristic, and essentially reactionary to boot. He can't or won't grasp the nuance of sickness being caused by germs and viruses and bacteria and things like poor nutrition and poor hygiene making us more susceptible to them - to him, it has to be entirely one or the other. And apparently mostly because disreputable people profit undeservedly from pretty standard capitalistic manipulations of health care based on germ theory, he's decided that germ theory is entirely false and miasma theory thus entirely true.

    So maybe not so much a lunatic as a shallow, confused snd deeply invested binaristic contrarian. Though I think a case could be made that that's not far enough removed from lunatic to make any meaningful difference.

  • Senator Sanders says U.S. Health Secretary Kennedy must resign

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  • Kennedy's an interesting case.

    With the rest of Trump's appointees, it's tough to suss out exactly what they're about. They're generally some combination of corrupt, ideologically blinded, power-hungry, narcissistic and emotionally unstable, but it's hard to be sure just how much of which they are.

    But with Kennedy, it's simple - he's a raving lunatic.

  • BREAKING: Trump Axes Secret Service Protection for Kamala Harris Weeks Before Book Tour

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  • It'd be bad enough if this was just the Toddler-in-chief being petty, but it's a sure bet that it's not - that he's very pointedly and deliberately telling his violent racist supporters to kill her.

  • A Small Army of Overpaid TikTokers Is Not Going to Save the Democratic Party

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  • As Mamdani is illustrating, the secret is actually incredibly simple - all you have to do is listen to people then sincerely advocate for their interests.

    The problem is that that's literally impossible for essentially the entire Democratic leadership and most of their candidates. They don't listen, they're not sincere and they're wholly owned by the wealthiest donors and represent their interests exclusively. So they're stuck blundering their way through whatever dumbass strategies their overpaid and not-coincidentally well connected consultants dream up, and trying to blame leftists when they predictably fail.

  • Speaker Johnson pushed Medicaid cuts. His constituents worry about their own coverage

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  • When asked for comment, Johnson looked puzzled and said, "Constituents?"

  • Minnesota prosecutors charge woman for racist slur at playground

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  • I don't mean to imply that Christians are necessarily white nationalists.

    But I'm not the least bit surprised that the people who are supporting her self-evidently fancy themselves Christians.

  • Minnesota prosecutors charge woman for racist slur at playground

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  • As of Tuesday, she had raised over $800,000 on the Christian fundraising platform GiveSendGo

    Figures.

    Leave it to the Christians to support a racist who bullied a child.

  • Israeli army unit involved in deadly Gaza hospital attack ‘angry’ over Netanyahu’s ‘regret’, say the strike was approved and coordinated with the senior command

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  • One of the very few satisfying things about gung ho murderous assholes is their self-righteous shock when the psychopaths they worship throw them under the bus.

  • Democratic leaders support arming Israel – their voters see Gaza as a ‘genocide’

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  • At this point, the DNC is not merely an enemy of the Democratic party, but the most determined and destructive enemy it has. The DNC does more harm to Democrats than Republicans ever possibly could.

  • Trump Order to Kill Cashless Bail Will Exacerbate Inequality While Doing Nothing to Fight Crime, Experts Say

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  • By design.

    Class war isn't something that might happen - it already is happening. Trump and the Republicsns and their billionaire cronies and patrons are already fighting it, and winning by forfeit.

  • ‘Out here all alone’: Texas health officials’ pleas for help were ignored by CDC as measles cases grew, report says

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  • Welcome to Trump's America, where the CDC's job is to ignore diseases.

  • Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba's appointment as U.S. attorney for New Jersey was 'unlawful,' judge rules

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  • Right, but that doesn't matter in the long run because no ruling against her will stand, because if all else fails, the Trump regime can just appeal it all the way to the Supreme Court and those corrupt and compromised shitweasels will rule in his favor. Probably without explanation.