Kaarchin

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Trump personally intervened in the DOJ’s case against LiveNation-Ticketmaster, reportedly telling top officials to “settle it.” LiveNation donated $500K to Trump’s inauguration, then hired a law firm with close ties to Trump weeks before the scheduled trial. The corruption is endless.

Trump Told DOJ to Settle Live Nation Case After Meeting With CEO in Oval Office

Donald Trump directed the DOJ to settle its antitrust case with Live Nation after meeting with CEO Michael Rapino in the

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Film de plus de 3 heures : - qui a le temps ? - et si j'ai besoin de faire pipi pendant la séance ? - sérieux QUI a le TEMPS Minisérie de 4 épisodes de 50 minutes : - intrigant - j'ai trop aimé les 5 premières minutes je crois que je vais tout binger en une soirée

Pour rappel, même avec 8 000 € par mois, sans rien dépenser, il vous faudrait plus de 10 000 ans pour devenir milliardaire. Votre richesse n’a rien à voir avec la leur. Et personne n’a besoin d’une telle fortune. Pour soutenir la lutte dessinée, engagée et indépendante : ▶️ ko-fi.com/allanbarte

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 Un milliardaire gigantesque avec un énorme sac d'argent se tient face à plusieurs tout petit personnages. L’un des petits bonshommes s’interpose entre le milliardaire et les autres et leur dit :- Allez, les amis ! Je sais que c’est dur, mais si on se serre tous la ceinture, on n’aura pas besoin de taxer les milliardaires ! 

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

Important to remember that most if not all the antivaxxers you ever see or hear are vaccinated against things like measles. Their whole movement is forcing children to take the risks that they never do (because they think children are property)

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · last wk.

US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.

US choropleth map showing percentage change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since before the pandemic, by county. Decreases are shown in pink, increases in green.

DYING about the uproar in Very Online marketing circles about this "Anthropic's new models will add machine-readable "watermarks" to Claude-generated text and files to comply with new European Union transparency regulations." May help Not Very Online editors tho 😆 www.axios.com/2026/08/12/a...

Anthropic's text watermarks signal new front in AI detection

Claude-generated text and files will carry watermarks to comply with new European Union transparency regulations.

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Shame liars out of public life; prosecute white-collar crime; regulate away all the business practices built on cheating people. Or just let society decay into incurable anomie and cynicism.

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last wk.

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

If you had Elon's money you could give away 99.9% of it and still have A BILLION DOLLARS. you could fuck off and spend the rest of your life in unimaginable luxury, doing whatever strikes your fancy. but no, better to be alone at 3am telling a computer to make you look like a cool badass

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1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year. Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.

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Zohran Mamdani is backing a bill to hold Amazon accountable for exploiting delivery drivers. Now Amazon is launching a $5M lobbying blitz — led by Chuck Schumer's daughter — to crush it. Instead of spending millions on lobbying, Amazon should pay and treat its drivers fairly.

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Deep Cuts serves up new factions, additional heritages, and world-shaking catalysts plus: alternative rules for Harm, Downtime and more. Put a fresh edge on your game of Blades in the Dark! Also compatible with Blades '68. Pick it up at your FLGS or directly from us here: evilhat.com/product/blad...

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