@MZHemingway Yes we, the government, spied on you and lied to the press about you for years, but let’s let bygones be bygones right?
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Effort and Integrity
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Democrats loved using your taxpayer dollars to weaponize the federal government and commit lawfare against every single Republican they could. Unsurprisingly, they now say they oppose repayment for the harms they subjected others to.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@ReichlinMelnick
This is a THEFT far worse than Watergate. There is no other word for it. They are stealing $1.78 BILLION dollars to pay Trump‘s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money and be laughed out of court if they filed a lawsuit for money damages.
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@Ilhan @RepRashida There are essentially no Jewish people in any of the surrounding states. Maybe you should explain why they all fled.
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The Nakba never ended. The genocide of Palestinians continues as the Israeli military escalates violence in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon.
I'm joining @RepRashida in co-sponsoring a resolution to recognize the 78th anniversary of the Nakba and Palestinian refugees’ rights.
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib@RepRashida
The Nakba never ended. The Israeli apartheid regime is still committing genocide in Gaza and violently erasing entire communities across Palestine and Lebanon. I'm leading a resolution to recognize the 78th anniversary of Nakba and reaffirm Palestinian refugees' right of return.
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@elonmusk They never realized that prioritizing diversity actually means judging people based on race or sexual orientation vs actual talent.
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@PastPaulitics You should also note if the other actors’ wives are black, latino… Increasing the number of Jews by noting if their spouse is Jewish, while not doing the same of other actors, is wrong and antisemitic.
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Nolan's "The Odyssey" is a very diverse film - except that it has zero Greeks in it.
It has Americans and Brits a plenty, even an odd Canadian and Lebanese, but no Greeks.
10% of the named cast are Latino, and 1 in 6 of the featured characters are portrayed by people of black African background. But no Greeks.
It has Koreans and Indians, and there are even representatives of both the Hindu and Sikh faiths. But no Greeks.
There are no Greeks in this foundational story of Western civilization bequeathed to us by the Greeks. But 1 out of 3 of the actors in this film are either Jewish or have a Jewish spouse. Just coincidence, I'm sure.
Just remember that "diversity" for these people means many things, but it doesn't include us. And it doesn't include Greeks.
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The production of Christopher Nolan received permission for 15 days of filming in Greece with a budget of 16 million euros. The Greek state gave them 6 million as a subsidy from the money of Greek taxpayers, who were never informed about the cast of the film or the distortion of the most important work in our history.
The issue here is not that they received money. We Greeks would gladly have given all 16 million for Nolan to shoot a faithful Odyssey. But it should have been a film that properly represents us Greeks, Hellenism and stays true to the values and writings of Homer. Not so we Greeks could pay for a Black Helen and Clytemnestra, a Batman-like Agamemnon, a trans Achilles or Elpenor (a woman playing a male role), a Black Athena, and a script based on the worst possible "translation" that exists.
In short, Nolan disrespected all Greeks, while the Greek people are now officially in the crosshairs of racism and the falsification of their history and culture. Woke Hollywood must die.
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@NickKristof @Megankstack You are such a fucking idiot that you cited articles about human rape of canines.
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I share @megankstack's exasperation, but to those who say that canine rape is impossible, despite the many Palestinians who have described it, I'd note that at least three different medical journal articles discuss rectal injuries in humans from anal penetration by dogs. Sigh.
Megan K. Stack@Megankstack
@HBendaas I draw the line at arguing over mechanics of dog rape 🤢
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@TheBabylonBee It’s like they all have undergone a metamorphosis to become Rachel Maddow
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@VerminusM @elonmusk Seizing all the means of production, through taxation, would nearly eliminate incentives to advance society - because entrepreneurship requires risk+reward. It is not coincidence Musk, Jobs, Gates, Brin, Bezos and others became successful in America. Our system encourages genius.
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Why is it always "seize the means of production" and never "create the means of production"?
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@CBSNews This is not news. Anybody can sue for anything. Are you reporting all lawsuits, no matter how ridiculous they are, now?
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A nonprofit group is suing to block the Trump administration's blue resurfacing of the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
cbsn.ws/3RexIFd
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@pmarca Matt - Is it hoarding when you invest each company’s success into building another great company, with more employees and investors who grow wealthy with you? Is it better for the government to take that money, spend it in 1 year and destroy it?
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@PalmerLuckey @AOC To the idiot haters: Entrepreneurs create immensely more value than employees. Jobs, Musk, Gates, Bezos and others’ genius allowed 100K+ employees and investors to become millionaires. Working at Apple for 10y, from the original iPod to the iPhone, I was blessed by Jobs’ genius.
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@AOC The idea that all billionaires got their money by exploiting peopl doesn't hold up to any scrutiny.
JK Rowling wrote books about cheeky wizards. I invented a better way to make virtual reality headsets and games to play on them. We just made things people wanted.
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The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers.
If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems.
The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale.
We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability.
Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_
AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”
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@GavinNewsom Not free to California taxpayers, rather free for you to take credit. Anyone can give away other people’s money.
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HUGE NEWS: California just became the FIRST state in America to provide FREE DIAPERS to all new parents.
Launching this summer.
Since I became Governor, we have made preschool FREE, school meals FREE, and expanded paid family leave.
Stop talking about lowering costs for families — DO IT!
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@KatieMiller Dancing Covid vaccine needles… and we could all do without those
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@RealBrittHughes A certificate for $50 off diapers would seem to be a much cheaper and better solution
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This sounds cool. But wait.
400 diapers will last a family with a newborn approximately five weeks.
The program will cost the state approx. $12.4 million this year alone.
That money will be funneled through a company called Baby2Baby, which will then provide their branded diapers to 400 participating in hospitals (California has over 500 hospitals in total.)
Meaning that instead of lowering taxes and letting families keep their own money to buy essentials like diapers, California takes their money, pumps it through a “nonprofit” that has overhead and whose CEO made $240,000 in 2024, to provide a “free” service available only in certain locations, and that you could have bought yourself for much cheaper.
FactPost@factpostnews
Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced California will be the first state in the nation to provide free diapers to newborns. Families will receive 400 diapers when discharged from the hospital.
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@draloneboy @wesyang So she wants an open southern border to let in millions of unvetted illegal immigrants, but not to bring in 50-70K very talented immigrants through H-1B? Got it.
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Abby Phillip: “I do think the H-1B program needs some attention. It needs some degree of reform.”
Kevin O’Leary: “Abby, do you want the next Einstein to come to America or Shanghai?”
Abby Phillip: “I’m not fighting against an H-1B visa, folks. I’m the daughter of immigrants. Both of my parents are naturalized citizens of this country... There are real concerns that people have about companies that abuse the system.”
Kevin O’Leary: “We’re talking about genius, bringing 65K genius to America.”
Abby Phillip: “Kevin, you know it’s not just genius. Sometimes they’re abusing the system and bringing in medium to low wage workers [to replace Americans].”
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@CAgovernor There are hundred of fraudulent healthcare “businesses” stealing billions from California’s citizens. Maybe look into that…
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I'm offering $50,000 rewards to anyone providing information that helps crack unsolved crimes in California.
If you know something, it is your duty to come forward to give victims and their loved ones justice.
Every case matters, every victim matters, and California is determined to secure accountability.
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@KarenBassLA Building more housing. During your first admin, you enabled more destruction of homes, by not keeping reservoirs full to put out fires, than you ever built.
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Reducing homelessness. Building more housing. Funding public safety.
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@mattvanswol President Obama authorized continuous spying on an incumbent president and his team. Watergate was an attempted break in, to try and learn weaknesses of an opponent. The wire tapping Obama authorized allowed democrats to spy on the incoming administration.
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What’s the name of the person you believe did more damage to America than anyone else?
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@pmarca Seemed tech companies, in particular, have been amassing workers(not necessarily productive) for many years. Why do you think that was?
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The confounding factor is that virtually every big company is overstaffed by 2-4x and has been for decades. AI is the catalyst/excuse to finally fix that. Of course nobody wants to say this out loud.
rohit@krishnanrohit
One bearish sign of all the AI layoffs is that the companies couldn't figure out how to produce even more by keeping the people and adding AI. I'm not entirely sure how to think about this.
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