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the dollar menu doesn’t exist, $5 fridays at smoothie king are gone, $5 footlongs at subway are completely extinct, the dollar store is the $1.25 store, 4.99 cookout trays are now $8…..this used to be a respectable country

This is what privatized healthcare has gotten us.

This is a picture of f Michelle Dionne Peacock, a 59-year-old Black woman. She was murdered at the hands of a white supremacist who was convinced she was transgendered. (she was not).

This is what you end up with when your media is owned by the world's richest man.

Voters: Can we have $15/hr or codify Roe v Wade? Biden: Congress won't let me, I'm too weak 😔 Congress: You're not allowed to commit war crimes. Biden: Bombs away, Jack 😎

I have no law degree and even I know the Court cannot adjudicate a hypothetical. This is an embarrassment of a new dimension. All of the billionaire gifts were inexcusable but now they’ve given up the pretense of legitimacy. It’s just pure impunity.

WaPo confirms The New Republic: One of the central figures at the heart of the LGBTQ+ rights case out of Colorado that the Supreme Court ruled on this week was a fabrication. "The court filing in Stewart's name has left many baffled, including Stewart himself, who said he was concerned that the case had proceeded without anyone verifying if the request was authentic." washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…

Can any lawyers out there explain to me how a case can get all the way to the Supreme Court without someone doing basic fact checking on the credibility of the plaintiff’s actual claim?

This is a bonafide scandal. On the legal level, it means the Court decided a case that wasn't a real case or controversy as Art III requires. On the political level, it Man cited in Supreme Court LGBTQ rights case says he was never involved washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…

If Biden canceled all student debt, do you know how many people would finally be able to go to the dentist for the first time in a long time?

I don’t understand this apartment for sale at Tudor City in NYC. There’s just…not even an attempt at a kitchen? Did the apartments here not originally have kitchens? Were they all added later over time? streeteasy.com/building/45-tu…

Riding a brand new Blue Line train for the first time… and I love it. You can actually hear the overhead announcements! And read them at the end of each train car!

The state of Missouri sued *on behalf* of MOHELA—a student loan servicer who has an incredibly atrocious track record of making borrowers' lives worse. For months, they allowed themselves to be used as a pawn, a fake plaintiff, in the lawsuit against student debt relief.

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Oh my gosh! Duke made tuition free for anyone who’s parents make < $150K per year. If parents make < $50K they get free tuition AND free books and room & board! This would have literally changed my life in undergrad.

We're asked to feel sorry for the billionaires who imploded on the ocean floor. We're expected to think wall to wall coverage is normal. We're called inhumane if we don't express sorrow over their deaths. But the fact is: the existence of billionaires causes death. For millions🧵

OceanGate is a private business and was operating in international waters. Its owner and staff scoffed at safety regulations. They sent an unworthy vessel into danger with NO backup plan or emergency beacon. One thing we are NOT going to do is blame this on the US Coast Guard.