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Me: Twitter is bad but why do I keep scrolling it? My Feed: TTRPG people being nice and supporting POC/LGBTQ folks, SW supporting and praising one another, Podcasters sharing jokes and info, and animal pictures.

HOMELANDERRRRR, RIP THIS NIGGA IN HALF NEXT EPISODE, AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

The supervisor wouldn't even let a worker help a woman who immediately began doing chest compressions on the man who fell to the ground and told him to go back to work.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers in the facility were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to The Western Edge. Link: thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-is-….

“Israel continued its large-scale bombing of Hezbollah targets” - NYT “Israeli jets drop 160 bombs on Hezbollah targets” - LA Times “Israel's military called it the largest coordinated strike in the current war, striking more than 100 Hezbollah targets within 10 mins” - PBS/AP

"Nicknamed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act, the bill would require the millions of Americans who use apps and play games on their phones to provide ID to do so. The legislation, of course, sells itself as a way to protect the children. In practice, however, it would serve only to eviscerate First Amendment rights and give Big Tech more data for hackers to steal. Congress should clear this bill from its legislative cache and find a way to protect children that doesn’t treat everyone like a kid." @garre

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@ClaireMax An absolute queen!

My sweet old lady in her heated bed 💕

Abdul El-Sayed: “If you’re out of a job, it’s probably because a corporation figured out how to automate your job. If you’re out of a home, it’s probably because a corporation is speculating on the home that you should have been able to afford. If you’re out of healthcare, it’s probably because a corporation has figured out how to monetize you because you get sick”

@viotubing Yes

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@Rin_Vixen Red!

New dye ‼️

Attack By Police on Tribals in #Odisha! This video proves the brutality n tyranny of police on tribals of Rayagada protesting to protect their environment from corporate loot! Police acting as private army of Vedanta is not acceptable.@TribalArmy @sushant_says @DhanadaKanta

@starshinesprite @StopTweetingMia I know this is probably fake but the idea of this as content makes me want go full hermit

What is his deal LMAOOO

Brutal atrocities against Tribals in Odisha, yet much of Indian media stays silent. Voices suppressed, lands taken, resistance crushed. Will international media step up and expose the truth?

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FWIW, this story has been out for three days now and the governor’s office has not disputed the facts. They apparently don’t like the headline. Stitt: Here's the truth about Invest in Oklahoma | Letter @GovStitt @OklahomaWatch oklahoman.com/story/opinion/…

I need you to sit with this for a second. A sitting US president, the most powerful man on earth, launched a cryptocurrency project where his family quietly pocketed 75% of all revenue before a single retail buyer could even sell their token. No liquidity. No exit. Just a one-way door with a MAGA flag on it. And almost nobody is talking about how utterly devastating this was for the ordinary people who trusted him. World Liberty Financial (WLFI) wasn't built for you. It was built on you. The structure was never hidden, it was just written in the fine print that hype cycles don't let you read. The Trump family and insiders: 75% of token revenue. The retail investor who saw Donald Trump's face on the website, who believed this was the financial revolution he promised, who scraped together $500 or $5,000 because they finally felt like the system was working FOR them for once? They got a token they couldn't sell at launch and a front-row seat to watching their money become someone else's net worth. Think about who bought WLFI. It wasn't hedge funds. It wasn't institutions with lawyers and risk teams. It was regular people. Trump supporters who finally felt included in something big. Crypto newcomers who saw a president endorsing a project and thought "this must be legitimate." People in Ohio, in Texas, in Florida who don't have Bloomberg terminals or insider access, just a phone, a dream, and a wallet they opened because the man they voted for told them this was different. This was theirs. It wasn't theirs. Donald Trump was the "Chief Crypto Advocate." Barron Trump, a teenager, was placed on the advisory board. Eric Trump promoted it. Don Jr. promoted it. Melania had her own NFT plays running in parallel. The entire family transformed the Trump name, a name millions of Americans treat with genuine reverence, into a multi-pronged monetisation machine aimed squarely at the wallets of their most loyal followers. This is the part that should make your blood boil regardless of your politics. These weren't strangers being scammed. These were believers. And belief was the product being sold. Now layer in the conflict of interest that makes this truly historic in its audacity: Trump was simultaneously campaigning on crypto deregulation. He was promising to fire Gary Gensler. He was pledging to make America the "crypto capital of the world." He was dismantling the SEC's enforcement posture. He was, in plain English, using the power of the presidency to remove the exact regulatory framework that exists to protect retail investors from exactly the kind of token structure WLFI was built on. The cop wasn't just looking the other way. The cop was the one running the scheme and had abolished the law at the same time. This is not speculation. This is the documented, public, on-chain, SEC-filing reality of what happened. And here's what kills me most. The crypto space spent years fighting for legitimacy. Builders sacrificed. Developers worked for free. Communities organised. The entire movement was founded on one idea: that financial systems could exist that didn't prey on the little guy. That code could replace the gatekeepers. That ordinary people could finally access the same tools as the wealthy and powerful. And then the most powerful family in America looked at that movement, looked at that dream, and saw an audience to monetise. They didn't join crypto. They strip-mined it. The people who got rich from WLFI had their names on the term sheet. The people who got poor had their hope on the line. There will be those who say retail knew the risks. That crypto is always speculative. That nobody forced anyone to buy. And technically, legally, in the fine-print sense, maybe. But there is something categorically different about a president of the United States putting his face, his family, his political brand and his policy power behind a token sale aimed at his own voter base. The asymmetry of information, trust, and power is so extreme it breaks every normal framework for "buyer beware." When the most trusted person in your political world tells you this is the future, "do your own research" is not a real defence against that. It was never a fair fight. The Trumps will move on. They always do. There will be another project, another launch, another opportunity to convert political capital into financial capital while the people who funded it are left holding bags they can't unload. This is the pattern. This is the business model. But retail crypto investors deserve to hear it said plainly, loudly and without the usual hedging: You were not investors in their vision. You were the exit liquidity for their wallets. And they did it while calling it freedom.

Ordinary people put their money into a crypto lending pool. Then World Liberty Financial — the Trump family’s venture — used that same pool to borrow $75 million for themselves. They drained it. The people who deposited their savings are now trapped in bad debt they didn’t create. The man who co-founded this venture with the Trump family — Steve Witkoff — is currently in Islamabad negotiating the Iran war on behalf of the United States. The UAE Royal Family owns 49% of the company. Pakistan built its stablecoin into their national financial system. Pakistan is now mediating the ceasefire. The token crashed 82%. The depositors are still trapped. Witkoff is still negotiating. Nobody is coming for their money.

Racism explains why people keep leaving out Keith Porter.

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