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“Billionaires who popularized stock-based lending include Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Both borrow to avoid having to sell shares—which could trigger a taxes and dilute their voting rights—in companies they founded.” www.wsj.com/finance/the-...
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"Let’s be clear: this is not religious persecution. It’s a test. And you can study for tests. You don’t even have to study that hard. You just have to believe in Jesus." buff.ly/oFYteni
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One of most interesting pro-voter maneuvers this fall: After facing years of attacks against popular initiatives, organizers in Missouri and Montana are pushing two measures this November that'd give their states arguably the strongest legal protections in the country for direct democracy:
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The corruption we know of is already staggering. Imagine the corruption we don't know about.
NEW: The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view. The exact details of the agreement over oil fields had remained unclear — until now.
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From the department of things I didn’t know until yesterday. 1 in 3 Kroger stores analyzed have overcharged customers. When they overcharge, it's more than 20% above the shelf price on average. bit.ly/4ytZCwQ
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Vice President JD Vance likes to cite food stamp recipients who he says drive Lamborghinis. But the White House ignores a far more prevalent form of fraud: transnational gangs stealing money from SNAP recipients.
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I expend a lot of energy these days trying to turn AI off! I would be very happy if it went away. www.techspot.com/news/114234-...
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... rigged the rules of the economy in favor of those wealthy special interests at our expense. But we can change that in this year, in this state, in this race." THAT is how you run against your own party, not this "I stood up to Biden" nonsense. Just tell people why stuff's broken and
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ADAM JOHNSON: “The raid on @repilhan’s home has thus far received zero of the above media interventions. No editorials, no opinion columns in the Times, Post, or Journal…” theintercept.com/2026/10/15/i...
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Susan Collins wants voters to believe she is a moderate Republican who stands up to Trump. But the truth is Collins only takes sides against the regime when she knows her vote won’t stop Trump.
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“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.
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It looks like Sen Roger Marshall is using taxpayer funds to pay his campaign staff. The scam is unprecedented.
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This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
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Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!
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The first architect on Trump's ballroom who quit last year had clashed with the president on design flaws, arguing that the plan violated building safety codes. "I am the code," Trump replied. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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“When the president of the United States says he is going to 'cheat like hell,’ we should take him seriously and we should take him literally,” says Jacob Soboroff.