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@300mirrors @Arealmfngl Because we are ALL poor compared to the British Royal Family.

@Arealmfngl Why did you assume that all immigrants are poor?

So do most children of immigrants but I guess it's less impressive when they're poor

@effthealgorithm This is slam poetry.

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

@jemelehill @DrCABerry I’m safe until November 2031, and my boyfriend is good until May 2033! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

I’m so glad my passport doesn’t expire until 2030.

@NicholasFerroni Those of you saying that “kids are too young to know this movie/these actors.” I’m saddened that your parents, grandparents, older sibling, aunts/uncles, fun neighbors, literally any trusted adults in your lives never showed you movies that they loved from before you were born.

Here’s the “family photo” I keep on my desk, and not a single student has ever questioned it.

Michael Jackson had to cut a deal with a drug lord to film this video. The Brazilian government tried to block the shoot. A judge banned the filming. The police refused to enter the area. Rio was bidding to host the 2004 Olympics and didn't want the world seeing footage of its poorest neighborhoods. So Spike Lee walked into the favela (Rio's version of a hillside slum) and found the local crime boss. His name was Marcinho VP. He ran one of the city's biggest gangs, Comando Vermelho. He also happened to be a huge Jackson fan, and he provided the whole production with security for free. A higher court eventually overturned the ban. The police still wouldn't go in. So 1,500 police officers and 50 residents acting as security guards sealed off the favela. Jackson arrived by helicopter. He walked the streets handing out candy to the kids. The people who lived there had woken up early that morning to sweep the streets and take out the trash before he got there. Mid-shoot, two women burst through security. One knocked Jackson flat. Spike Lee helped him up and he kept dancing. That exact take is in the final video. For the Salvador half of the shoot, he worked with 200 drummers from a local group called Olodum. The media coverage put them on the map in 140 countries. They'd been a regional act before the shoot. They became a global one after. Over 200 million people watched the premiere around the world. The song itself peaked at #30 in America. In Germany it went to #1 and stayed on the chart for 30 weeks, the longest run of any Jackson song there. The video crossed 1 billion views on YouTube in 2023. Only one other Jackson video has done that: Billie Jean. He's the first solo male singer from the 1900s with two videos over a billion. The day after Jackson died in 2009, Rio's mayor announced they'd put a statue of him in the same favela where the video was shot. Locals said the turnaround of their neighborhood started with his visit.

@DemetriusRO6 @TiMichel85 The racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, sexual assault allegations, mocking the disabled & our veterans, 30K+ documented lies in his 1st term, 34 convicted felonies, AND the Epstein/Trump Files were totally FINE. These people really drew the line at gas prices.

People dumping Trump over gas prices and not child rape is scary.

@adventuregirl @_SJPeace_ @AtxGirlnScrubbs We are. It’s doing nothing. There’s a group of HUNDREDS of people called “Bearing Witness” who stand outside the very ICE facility every day, M-F, that Rep. McGovern visited this week. It’s stopping zero cruelty inside.

@_SJPeace_ @AtxGirlnScrubbs I don’t understand why there aren’t thousands of people protesting down there? Who organizes these type of protests?

-no showers for over 40 days. -lights kept on all night & people sleep on concrete floors. -complaining of hunger ~ Rep. Jim McGovern Our brothers. Look at them. Look at how they are begging for help. Putting their hands together "please help us" 😭 THIS IS NOT OK! RETWEET 💔

Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following: $510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research $82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated) $61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated) $240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated) $659 million - Community building grants $47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated) $449 million - Economic development grants for communities $1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA) $993 million - Scientific research and technology standards $150 million - Support for American exports and trade $2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs $8.5 billion - Funding for public schools $1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated) $2.7 billion - College access and higher education support $15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects $1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated) $1.1 billion - Scientific research funding $386 million - Environmental cleanup programs $150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research $4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated) $768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance $819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children $775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated) $5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention $5 billion - Medical research (NIH) $129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research $356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response $1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants $707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure $52 million - Airport and transportation security $40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats $53 million - Funding for homeland security operations $3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated) $1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated) $393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness $529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated) $489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities $50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated) $60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws $58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated) $45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated) $1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety $20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated) $1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated) $395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated) $234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs $101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws $46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad $2 billion - International humanitarian aid $1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated) $4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs $2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships $642 million - International economic and treasury programs $315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad $486 million - Grants for public transit projects $4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure $372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities $145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure $204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities $1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement $100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated) $1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection $2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds $90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated) $3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research $297 million - NASA technology innovation programs $1.1 billion - International Space Station operations $143 million - STEM education programs $309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs $170 million - Small Business Administration operations $158 million - Loans for small businesses

@SophiaAutomates @awkwardgoogle Inability to get tourist visas? Cost of flights and lodging? The groom could have helped with either or both of these things.

@awkwardgoogle Why couldn’t they attend in the first place?

Her parents couldn’t attend, or so she thought. The groom secretly brought them from Brazil for the ultimate wedding surprise

@JWe9378 @iluminatibot They can also get blown up first. My sister’s fiance grew up low-income and enlisted for the sole purpose of hopefully using the GI Bill when he got out. He came home in a flag-draped casket instead. RIP St. Sgt. Joan Duran: KIA in Baquba, Iraq on August 10, 2007. 💔

@iluminatibot If he or she joins the military and serves their country, they can get it for free or reduce the cost significantly.

American takes out a student loan for $8,645. After years of payments, he’s paid $7,450. His current balance? $8,750. He pays $7,450 — and somehow owes MORE than the original loan. This is usury, and it should be illegal

@iluminatibot @MuslimMarine I borrowed a total of $72,500 between 2004-2010 for my Bachelors degree. I have paid back roughly $124,600 and still owe 8 more payments of $600. Student loans preyed on low-income students like myself who just wanted an education and a chance to pull ourselves out of poverty.

She Called The FBI In 1996. They Opened A File. Then They Told Her It Never Existed. She Spent 29 Years Being Called A Liar. September 3, 1996. A file is opened inside FBI headquarters. Classification: child pornography. The woman who made the call is identified only as "a professional artist." She described photos she had seen inside a Manhattan mansion. She described the man who owned those photos. She described what she witnessed being done to young girls. She gave them everything. Then she waited. Nobody called back. Nine years later, a local detective in Palm Beach knocked on a different door. Found forty victims. Handed the FBI photographs, videos, and documented evidence of child trafficking across multiple states. The FBI opened a formal investigation. Two years later — they closed it. One plea deal. Thirteen months. Out by noon every day on work release. The trafficking continued. The FBI kept receiving tips. For eleven more years, women were brought to his island, his Manhattan townhouse, his private ranch. For eleven more years — the file sat there. It took a newspaper reporter to force the arrest in 2019. Thirty-three days later, he was dead. Now twelve women — listed only as Doe 1 through Doe 12 — are standing in federal court. They're not suing his estate. They're suing the FBI. They want $100 million. And they want every internal document, every memo, every email showing exactly who received each tip — and made the decision to do nothing. But here's the part that changes everything. When the FBI's own internal review was published in 2020 — it didn't mention the 1996 complaint. Not once. For another five years, the woman who made that call was told: your report doesn't exist. In December 2025, the DOJ confirmed it did. One page. Dated September 3, 1996. Which means someone inside the FBI knew that file existed — and chose not to include it in their own review. The question isn't whether the file was real. The question is: who decided to make it disappear? usstories.mstfootball.com/lam/twelve-wom…

@InviteWisdom Same here!!!

@IAmSophiaNelson Don’t include me in that. I warned everyone I could when that fucker came down the escalator. I’ve been screaming for years. I will not be included generally in that train wreck

They are all telling us what they are going to do. #Project2025 laid it all out. We didn't take it seriously enough. Period.

@kathleenelee @heirmeg Yes. I saw this video on TikTok a few weeks ago. The two boys and the older, blonde girl are from one dad. The 10 month old girl and the baby she’s carrying are with the man filming.

@heirmeg The way he says he's calling dad too makes me think the new baby is with his step dad (who is seemingly filming) so that's just another layer he'll need therapy for

i don’t find this funny at all that’s a clear indicator that there’s already not enough attention etc to go around, he’s in real distress

@DebBrow16344984 @RogueMoney369 @KimDotcom Exactly. So many of these Trump voters who now regret their choice still won’t admit out loud that they “couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Harris” because she was a woman and/or because she’s Black. It’s pathetic, really.

@RogueMoney369 @KimDotcom What was it? The financial help for home caregivers or first time home buyers or the fact that she was a black female that made her a worse choice than a criminal, sexual pervert?

Sorry I supported Trump. He’s the ‘most evil’. I really didn’t know. My apologies.

@rebeccajkey @Edvinng @Raindropsmedia1 Your district isn’t currently under state receivership like Houston is.

@Edvinng @Raindropsmedia1 In the district where I taught, going over the paid leave days would just be docked from her monthly salary and no one would force her to resign. Maybe there’s more to the story.

Houston teacher was forced to resign because she took 2 unpaid days off to care for her sick newborn—having a baby used up all her PTO. And she needed a whole U-Haul to take her stuff with her while clearing out her classroom. 👀😳💔

@Edvinng @Raindropsmedia1 Keep that SAME ENERGY when and if the adorable child in your profile pic ever gets sick!

Well, it is quite unfortunate that she went against the rules governing her services. We have to set emotions aside when analyzing these issues. That child has a father, whether they are married or not, and the father can stay with the child those two days while she goes to work. My token opinion.

@Raindropsmedia1 What a bad day to be a teacher in a state that also doesn’t have maternity leave for teachers and who is bilingual. This video made me cry 😭

@Rtloyalist2 @grahamformaine Thanks, jerk. He grew up low-income and wanted to go to college to be a HS Math teacher in inner city Boston. He enlisted to serve our country and then hopefully use the GI Bill to fund his education. He died a hero.

@CardoSoWhat @grahamformaine Easy way not to die in Iraq Yknow

I can assure you your prayers didn’t save my friends from dying in the last war you supported.