THE $168 BILLION WAS TAKEN ILLEGALLY AND THE GOVERNMENT DIDN’T WANT TO GIVE IT BACK. Kill me I’ve wasted my life.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Bessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."

The Boro Columbus pipeline continues. #Crew96

Columbus Crew transfer Max Arfsten to English Championship side Middlesbrough FC | Columbus Crew

MLS Cup and Leagues Cup winner, two-time MLS All-Star and World Cup player heads to Europe after four seasons with Black & Gold

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this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

"Why can't you just appreciate how revolutionary the job-taking, environment-degrading, information-shredding, technology-hoarding, economy-swamping machine is?" My brother in Christ, there may indeed be a revolution in part because of "AI," but it might not be the one you wanted.

Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.

Politico@politico.com · 2d ago

Michigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.

A very important reel about how basically Emma, Christopher Nolan’s wife, is actually the one behind everything. www.instagram.com/reel/DbbDJw4...

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I truly don't know if Mamdani's grocery stores will "work," but here's the thing: at least he's trying something. I wish more politicians would try things, even if they didn't work, when people were in need.

This is such a lazy piece. It's like "this is a price control, and price controls always fail." First, it's not a price control. It's a government subsidy. Second, price controls don't "always" backfire. They prevent gouging in emergencies and help regulate monopolies.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Hey yeah time to dust off those 2020 tweets about how PEOPLE WITH UNDERLYING HEALTH ISSUES DESERVE TO LIVE TOO, YOU ABSOLUTE GHOULS.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

I cried after my first Covid shot.

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12mo ago

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

🧵This regime is surely guilty of a lot of evil, but there's a special cast to the evil of denying a reality THROUGH WHICH WE ALL LIVED that stole at *least* 1.2 million of us. That's more people than the populations of St. Louis, New Orleans, Boise, & Anchorage, combined. One of them was my mom.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

I don't think there's ever been much of an intellectual justification for this kind of culture, to me the aggro Q&A is pretty transparently service to inert nerd masculinity and serves no other function

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 5d ago

I don’t really want to get into this with people who feel this way, but i don’t think this is a good thing! We don’t need to behave this way! It’s not healthy to approach academic discourse as an exercise in harshness!

I read this 30 years ago and it rewired my brain. A must read on the ways the auto industry undermined mass transit in the US. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

CNN@cnn.com · 7mo ago

The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX

The attacks on trans athletes are the most obvious and pernicious attempt to eventually get rid of title nine entirely. What a shitty time to be a kid who wants to play sports.

People got very weird about this guy briefly because of a dumb Atlantic article, but he’s actually good and he’s running against Max Miller poindexterforcongress.com

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Union ironworker Brian Poindexter is running for Congress to stand up for working families and deliver real representation—not empty promises.

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Anyone who has worked with domestic violence victims know the answer to this is too often yes.

Am told at the blue ash Ohio ICE office today that a bunch of springfield Haitians were told to just “check in” at are now having ankle monitors put on them, which, uh….. they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that

Y’know, with how much #Crew96 won immediately after he left, Zelarayan doesn't get his props. He anchored that 2020 team. If Mendez can bring anything close to that to the table, we'll do well. #Crew96

@SovietShooter@sovietshooter.bsky.social · 4d ago

That was Zelarayan-esque. #Crew96

There is no test to see if writing is AI

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5d ago

So I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.

"Triumphant return of Leo Messi" says the announcer when describing Inter Miami's draw, at home, against an opponent lower on the table.

I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

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The sooner the better. MLS has never learned its lesson. Invest in your teams, ALL of your teams. Raise the level. Stop relying on Messi, Beckham, etc for a temporary boost.

John Zidar@john-zidar.bsky.social · 4d ago

The crowd is louder now than at any point in the first half simply because Messi is jogging on the sideline. This place is gonna be 70% empty in two years when he leaves.

Wow, our defense has not improved at all. So glad we decided to sign another CB in his 30s with injury issues. Glad we have done fuck all to improve. #crew96 Let's take a look at Camacho

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This game is messy. (Not Messi). #crew96

Rich urbanites need to allow apartments to be built near them to lower rents and they need to allow themselves to be taxed more to fund services and housing if they want to eliminate homelessness. Both involve sharing (money/space/amenities), which the rich urbanite is loathe to do.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is the exact problem, right here: people would rather make up a social justice warrior to get mad at than take a hard, honest look at the problem.

I miss the World Cup. I’m not sure what to do with myself today. I don’t have enough energy for projects but am vaguely antsy

Public health nurses have been pulled from other duties in Washtenaw County, MI, to call hundreds of people sick with cyclosporiasis, and try to help them remember everything they ate in recent days.

Nurses chase Cyclospora using grocery receipts, food apps and detailed interviews

Public health nurses have been pulled from other duties in Washtenaw County, MI, to call hundreds of people sick with cyclosporiasis, and try to help them remember everything they ate in recent days.

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