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Jake De Vries
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Assistant Tennis Coach, UC San Diego — WTA Coach — UNC SpAd ‘19 — BU Tennis '17 — he/him/his
California, USA Katılım Mart 2012
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We have signed LS Alex Ward to a Reserve/Future contract.
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Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported?
Noem: Sir, we have not deported U.S. Citizens or military veterans.
Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country in Panama in 1989. Earlier this year, you deported him to Korea. Can you please tell Mr. Park why you deported him?
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"The average American taxpayer spends $36 per year to support the SNAP program. The average American taxpayer spends $670 per year on corporate subsidies."
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At some point you just have to assume that he’s an actively evil person, right? This was a massacre of mostly women and children, largely unarmed, one of the most shameful events in a period of American history that was full of shameful events. You can’t defend it.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth@SecWar
Under my direction, the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their medals. This decision is final. Their place in history is settled.
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Again, in any other presidency, this statement would be a huge scandal. It’d be the top story in the US. The president’s own party would be disowning it. There would even be talk of impeachment.
But right now it’s just another totally normal authoritarian claim.
Matthew Gertz@MattGertz
Trump now threatening "harsh" retaliatory action against Colorado if it does not immediately free Tina Peters, who is serving a nine-year prison sentence for breaching election systems in pursuit of evidence to support Trump's 2020 election lies.
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We cut kid's cancer research because it was considered "wasteful."
But $560,000 on truck wraps and a hype video about how the government is throwing kids in cages is apparently considered necessary spending.
Rolling Stone@RollingStone
Trump’s administration spent $560,000 on new trucks and wraps for an ICE hype video More: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
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To fully grasp how big a trillion actually is.
A million seconds is 11 days
A billion seconds is 31 years
A trillion seconds is 31709 years
There’s something deeply evil about the idea of a trillionaire actually existing
Globe Eye News@GlobeEyeNews
Elon Musk is now officially worth $405.6 billion, projected to become the world’s first trillionaire by 2027.
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Yes congressman, no one liked the option to file their taxes for free, they yearned to pay $200 to TurboTax. Truly a man of the people!
Rep. Jason Smith@RepJasonSmith
Nobody asked for the IRS to be Americans’s tax preparer, filer, and auditor. The House-passed One, Big, Beautiful Bill puts an end to the IRS Direct File Program.
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You could sell all 640M acres of federal land and it would raise less than half what the federal government spends each and every year.
Don’t let Mike Lee sell off your American birthright for six months of government spending.
Mike Lee@SenMikeLee
“We have so much land. We want to put it to use. We’re going to have land release, and on that land we’re going to build housing.” -@POTUS
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All Boomer solutions to debt always return to some variation of "Let's sell our children's future for a more comfortable present."
It's our job to say "No" to that proposition, again and again and again.
R.C. Sproul Jr.@rcsprouljr
Suppose that you personally owe others $37 trillion. Suppose you own millions of acres of land you’re not using, have never used and never plan to use. Now assume others offer to buy your land. Can you think of one reason you would not sell it? Asking for a friend.
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What if we made a special road just for Ubers, and those Ubers seated 1,000 people so each person paid less for a ticket, and we ran those Ubers at predictable times of the day so one could depend on there always being a ride available
Ti Morse@ti_morse
TIL booking a 200 mile Uber is cheaper than a same day flight. @travisk your vision has finally been achieved
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This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots. They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization. Tonight’s game will be played as scheduled.
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I’m seeing that this is irreversible. That the only way the country will get lands like this back is if the corps/countries/individuals who buy it, donate it back. Which will not happen.
This is the largest public lands sell off in modern US history.
Hayden@the_transit_guy
Under the “Big Beautiful Bill,” federal lands like Teton National Forest will be put up for sale to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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Scientists have been publishing climate models since ~1970.
A good way to evaluate their skill is to compare what they expected to happen in the years after the model was published to observed climate changes.
It turns out most models were pretty spot-on:
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