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florduh
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Not to compare that bloated game show host to an American hero, but:
Eugene Debs: When a prisoner ran for president | BrandeisNOW
Thomas Doherty is a professor of American Studies at Brandeis. This article originally appeared on The Conversation.
www.brandeis.edu
CANtalk
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As press freedoms decline in Israel, people there see the war differently from the rest of the world - Advocates say government restrictions, media self-censorship mean realities of Gaza war unseen in Israel
The Donald Trump I Saw on The Apprentice -For 20 years, I couldn’t say what I watched the former president do on the set of the show that changed everything. Now I can.
For 20 Years, I Couldn’t Say What Donald Trump Did on the Set of The Apprentice. Now I Can.
The con we pulled on America just won’t die.
florduh
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This is how the oldest newspaper in the only democracy in the Middle East has to tweet to get around the government censor:
Very funny (and ballsy) way to do it.
sedentree
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Maybe this actually belongs in the Fake News thread? 
www.dailystar.co.uk
Best headlines of all-time from our friends at Britain's most outrageous tabloid
WARNING: NSFW - contains explicit, adult material. If you thought some of the stories and headlines thrown up by the coronavirus pandemic were inconceivable, you need to see these yarns from years gone by
www.dailystar.co.uk
florduh
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This disgusting prick can't condemn Niki Haley for the same reason they must slime everyone who protests against the mass slaughter in Gaza as antisemitic: "Finish Them!" is the explicit policy of the Biden Administration
If you found Haley's actions loathsome but happily support the Biden Administration, it's because you're a Liberal who only cares about aesthetics, and nothing more.
GetLeft
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To whom is this addressed, really? I know no one who happily supports the BA.
florduh
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There's definitely a Blue MAGA contingent out there, but fair point. He is the least popular President since they invented polling. Running against a convicted felon and the second least popular President since they invented polling.
I know we're supposed to save democracy, but it's already dead and starting to stink at this point.
cybrguy
Putin is a War Criminal
Ah ha ha ha ha ha... https://bsky.app/profile/helenkennedy.bsky.social/post/3ktsfm5fboc2y
Apparently the poster deleted what I had shared so have this instead...
Apparently the poster deleted what I had shared so have this instead...
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florduh
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This has been one of my favorite weeks since Trump got COVID
Where have I seen this exact "cry" before
Where have I seen this exact "cry" before
florduh
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A scientist, a leftist and a former Mexico City mayor. Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s next president and its first woman leader in more than 200 years of independence, captured the post by promising continuity.
While America is deciding between a felon game show host, a dying lifelong mediocrity from the Senate, and the dumbest Kennedy with LITERAL brain worms, Mexico has elected a female, Jewish, leftist, climate scientist to their presidency. Hell yeah.
Judge rejects call to immediately shut down Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy dispute
A federal judge has rejected a request to immediately shut down conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' media company as disputes in his bankruptcy cases widen. U.S.
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florduh
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Walgreens Joins Target, Amazon, Walmart In Announcing Steep Summer Price Cuts
Walgreens is reducing prices for more than 1,300 items, it said Wednesday.
www.forbes.com
LOL I thought these corpos HAD to raise prices due to "inflation"? Turns out they were just jacking them up to see if they could get away with it. Frankly because the corporate media, like the NYT, gave them cover by pretending that the majority of inflation was anything other than simple price gouging.
We are in a bifurcated economy. The top 10-20% are riding high on the surging stock market and skyrocketing real estate prices.
The bottom 80-90% have seen modest wage increases over the past few years. But that increase has been completely swallowed up by:
1) Insane rent increases (landlord gouging)
and
2) Corporate price gouging on consumer products ("inflation")
Regular people have been cutting back on spending. Retailers are running out of rich people to sell to. So now they have to reduce prices
chillAtGVC
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Inflation can have a couple of causes. What you are seeing now is the result of govt spending money they did hot have (borrowed) during COVID.
"Long-lasting episodes of high inflation are often the result of lax monetary policy. If the money supply grows too big relative to the size of an economy, the unit value of the currency diminishes; in other words, its purchasing power falls and prices rise. This relationship between the money supply and the size of the economy is called the quantity theory of money and is one of the oldest hypotheses in economics."
"Long-lasting episodes of high inflation are often the result of lax monetary policy. If the money supply grows too big relative to the size of an economy, the unit value of the currency diminishes; in other words, its purchasing power falls and prices rise. This relationship between the money supply and the size of the economy is called the quantity theory of money and is one of the oldest hypotheses in economics."
Inflation: Prices on the Rise
Inflation measures how much more expensive a set of goods and services has become over a certain period, usually a year
www.imf.org
cybrguy
Putin is a War Criminal
That is the lie we keep getting told. Inflation is a function of government overspending. And it is likely true that in some cases it is, but not in the current case. In the current case the "inflation" is a result of corporations using supply chain issues and product shortages THAT NO LONGER EXIST as an excuse to increase prices on all of their products and services. Not because they're costing them more, but because they see an opportunity screw the public and make windfall profits while pretending that the economy is driving up the prices. In this country right now it is not the economy, it is greed.
chillAtGVC
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That there is a Conspiracy Theory, not economics.
florduh
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LOL. Did you not read my post? If it was the "money supply", corporations WOULDN'T HAVE THE OPTION TO LOWER PRICES. Jesus fucking Christ.
The "money supply" is barely a blip on what's causing our recent inflation. It was supply chain disruptions (caused by corporations). And gouging, by corporations.
This isn't an opinion. You're simply wrong.
The "Economics" you're talking about is ideology or religion, not science.
Honest question, are you a multimillionaire? If not, I'd stop spouting this Milton Friedman bullshit. It's not for you.
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Scientists Find a Cannabis Compound Inside Totally Different Plant
Scientists have discovered cannabidiol, a compound in cannabis known as CBD, in a common Brazilian plant, opening potential new avenues to produce the increasingly popular substance.
www.sciencealert.com
Big Mac vs. Supermac: McDonald’s loses EU trademark fight
EU top court ruling says the fast food giant can no longer trademark Big Mac for chicken.
www.politico.eu
florduh
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I'm sorry...but what the fuck is going on with that country?
apnews.com
www.middleeasteye.net
This image is so cartoonishly evil, it looks AI generated. Like if we had full color HD cameras during the segregation era in America.
Israeli nationalists march in Jerusalem as a far-right minister boasts of Jewish prayer at key site
Thousands of ultranationalist Israelis have marched through a sensitive Palestinian area of Jerusalem in an annual procession, chanting racist slogans.
Far-right Israelis attack journalists and Palestinians at Jerusalem 'Flag March'
MPs join Israelis on notorious rally through Old City, hours after hundreds raided Al-Aqsa Mosque
This image is so cartoonishly evil, it looks AI generated. Like if we had full color HD cameras during the segregation era in America.
Radwin Bodnic
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What's going on ? Hate.
Gaza detainees shackled, blindfolded and in nappies at Israel hospital - BBC News
Allegations centre on a military hospital where, a whistle-blower said, painkillers were "routinely" not used in procedures.
www.bbc.com
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Israel bombs Gaza school housing displaced Palestinians, kills at least 40
Attack comes amid ‘insane escalation of violence’ that has overwhelmed hospitals in central Gaza, aid group says.
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florduh
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Here's the thing. If you're an Israeli who lost someone on October 7th, or the Second Intifada, I totally understand the hatred.
But I, unlike the entire American news media, or every American politician save for about 3, extend that same understanding to Palestinians as well. Especially given the lopsided death and destruction they've experienced over the past 80 years.
The stupid fucking media pretending like Palestinians have to be indoctrinated into hating Israelis. No, dumbass. They learn to hate when their school gets burned to the ground by an Israeli plane dropping an American bomb. Or their little brother's head gets blown off right in front of them. No "indoctrination" necessary.
Frankly, The Onion had more intelligent commentary on this whole tragedy than the entire news media:
florduh
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‘A tyrant bent on domination,’ Biden says of Putin during D-Day speech
Speaking in front of 180 World War 2 veterans, Biden linked the struggle against the fascism of Nazi Germany with that of Kyiv's against Russia.
kyivindependent.com
Fuck Putin and modern day Russia. But it's important to remember on the anniversary of D-Day, that America did not defeat Nazi Germany. The Soviet Union did.
Don’t forget how the Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler
'It was the Western Allies' extreme good fortune that the Russians, and not themselves, paid almost the entire 'butcher's bill' for defeating Nazi Germany'
Something like 80% of the Nazis who died in that war were shot by a Soviet bullet.
America is like the rich kid in a college group project who didn't show up until the night before it was due and tried to take credit for the whole thing.
One of my roommates in college had a grandmother who survived the Holocaust. She would never tolerate any slander of Joseph Stalin in her presence. She'd shake her head and say "Yosef liberated the camps...he liberated the camps..."