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it's telling that instead of letting the free market decide who's labor is more valuable they are passing laws to mandate lack of freedom of movement for (young, black) players to put the thumb back on the scale for (older, white) coaches
This morning on ESPN's First Take, Nick Saban argued player and coach pay are "totally different markets." "That's like asking me 'Does a student's scholarship equal the professor's pay?' I mean, how much value does a coach create for a university?" 📺 💰️
These ghouls would welcome a nuke on a city, because that would be the end of civil liberties and democratic rule in America forever
asked about gas prices, Trump says "if you want to see turmoil and a travesty, let them take out a city with a nuclear weapon ... let them hit us with a nuclear weapon"
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Check your registration NOW! Iwillvote.com ✔️
1/ Republicans don't win elections. They cheat in elections to win. 1.2M Texas voters just got quietly suspended from the rolls ahead of the Talarico-Paxton race. Many don't know yet. Not a glitch. This is the playbook. 6% of all Texas voters, likely Dems #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Re-upping this video. It's so revealing of the mentality we're up against.
Reactionary Evangelicalism is less a religion and more a political machine. MAGA pastor Shane Vaughn recently made this clear, telling his followers to abandon all moral principles. "Lay down your convictions. We don't need them right now. Lay down your principles." h/t @rightwingwatch.bsky.social
I guessed 108/177 countries in 16m 59s in the Elsewhere Challenge 🦊 26/44 🦅 27/30 🦁 18/52 🐪 13/22 🐼 24/29 Think you can beat me?: challenge.elsewhere.to
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Stealing from us like we're conquered territory. Intolerable.
The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.
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For our mega-survey on populist attitudes, we asked whether people would prefer a more multi-party system or a two-party system. The former blew the latter out of the water. Asked about specific reforms to get there, people are less sure. Also, Trump populists are the most fond of the status quo.
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remember the conservative plan for schools: 1) elite secular academies for the wealthy, 2) religious instruction to brainwash the middle class and 3) a prison-like rump public school system to discipline the lower classes into mindless servitude
New from @josephinelee.bsky.social, in our magazine: Districts across the state are arresting and citing young children children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more police.
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People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
Worse than Twitter, private discussions (text, email, whatever) among like-minded wealthy lunatics who are all surrounded by yes-men who talk like ChatGPT in maximum ass-kissing mode.
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They want us to be buyers-of-last-resort for Trump's Saudi and Big Oil paymasters. Their oil assets will otherwise go stranded as the rest of the world moves on to cleaner, cheaper solar energy. We pay, they laugh.
A new WoodMac report finds that the Trump administration's refusal to issue lawful permits for renewable energy development is putting 92 gigawatts of energy and $121 billion worth of investment at risk. The same administration that says the need for power is a "national emergency."
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With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
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Inflation is at a three-year high. Everything costs more — groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket. The math is simple. Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could’ve been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life. It's time we change the equation.
Fox Host: Not great news today when it comes to inflation. Up at 3.8%, so far a 40% spike in terms of grocery prices. Those numbers are up. Certainly not good news Mike Johnson: Not good news. We are keenly aware of it
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It's not inexplicable. Trump promised to make everyone rich and prosecute their enemies, while Democrats didn't actually have a candidate until late July.
Trump didn’t win because his campaign was good. Trump won because something has fundamentally shifted in human societies that makes campaigns like Trump’s inexplicably viable. We really, really need to figure out what that thing is.
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PS. I’d love a signal boost for these important & inspiring figures & stories! @profloumoore.bsky.social @hdichter.bsky.social @nlbm.bsky.social www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/04/cons...
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NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
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gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill. open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
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