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Image is whats on twitter now. All tweets about their propaganda, silent censorship, silently censored, removed. Twitter is no longer a social media site.

The last image was the Canadian Womens Hockey Team Beat Russia, 6 to 1. The Russians showed up late without test results, so Canada played in masks, every minute of every period. I was and am, filled with admiration.

Entire Site Is Content Warning. Fascism is harming my friends, taking democracy, its ugly, be warned. Triggers.

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Well, you can't please everyone. https://www.comicsands.com/funky-new-usps-delivery-vehicles-2668587146.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

kevinrns ,
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@georgetakei

I HATE, and never again visit xitter filled sites.

rbreich , to Random
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How Corporations Are Trading the Planet for Profit | Robert Reich on MSNBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLr4OomQFZU&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

kevinrns ,
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@rbreich

Some people think lose the planet is a euphemism for costing ypu more, or not funding clean up.

There can be life on this molten lava rock because there is life

It took billions of years building a fragile sprout. Each part supports the rest. Some parts, we dont know which, are linchpins.

The warning that continents would be warmer, didnt include drier continents meant forest fires, as even the soil became kindling, or hydro dams stop producing.

Look up linchpin.

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59 years ago today, Griswold v. Connecticut guaranteed the right to birth control.

Justice Thomas says the Supreme Court should "reconsider" that ruling.

And this week, 38 GOP senators voted against the Right to Contraception Act.

Republicans are coming for birth control.

kevinrns ,
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@rbreich

Coming for women. Nixon's top White House Aid explained pot and drug hysteria were specifically created to harass, arrest and jail young white and black men, who opposed Vietnam.

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EV sales slowdown is mostly a Tesla problem, according to sales data

Almost every other automaker is seeing double-digit EV sales growth.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/06/ev-sales-slowdown-is-mostly-a-tesla-problem-according-to-sales-data/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

kevinrns ,
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And we have seen stories of "EV hiding" - both sales and hiding stock. I think geniuses at car companies are 'gaming the system' taking payments from EXXON. Seriously. But this is a rant, I only have the articles, the data and past behaviour.

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Joe Biden is getting tougher. Whether it's on the border, Russia, Israel or with the press, the President is taking a more aggressive stance. The question remains: will it help move the needle ahead of November's election? Writer Jay Kuo digs into this crucial question in a brand new piece from The Big Picture. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/biden-tough-israel-russia-border

kevinrns ,
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@georgetakei

Buden has had 40 MONTHS of adding new jobs EVERY SINGLE MONTH, May Biden added 275,000 new jobs, and the economy keeps roaring. Building windfarms, taxing wealthy corporations, and when we give him both houses, a 25% tax on Billionaires.

Want to repair wealth inequality, protect women, voting and have hundreds of thousands of new jobs every month?

Best President since FDR. Best.

rbreich , to Random
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All nine Republican senators running for reelection this year just voted against the right to contraception:

John Barrasso
Marsha Blackburn
Kevin Cramer
Ted Cruz
Deb Fischer
Josh Hawley
Pete Ricketts
Rick Scott
Roger Wicker

So much for the party of "freedom."

kevinrns ,
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@rbreich

All Nine GOP Senators voted against a woman's right to contraception and abortion. Republicans want women to be brood cows.

Republicans.

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Why are multimillionaires and billionaires like Peter Thiel, Rupert Murdoch, Travis Kalanick, Steven Mnuchin, and others are rallying behind Trump?

Yes, the tax cuts. But there's more.

The more Trump tears down democracy, the safer the oligarchy becomes.

kevinrns ,
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@rbreich

We can govern ourselves by law and democracy, or be ruled guns and money.

arstechnica , to Random
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Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature will record everything you do on your PC

Recall uses Copilot+ PC features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

kevinrns ,
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And sends it to microsoft. The cop you didnt know you needed, watching your financial, personal, sexual, political activities, because rich men.

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Effective tax rates before and after the Trump tax law:

Verizon
Before: 21%
After: 8%

Walmart
Before: 31%
After: 17%

AT&T
Before: 13%
After: 3%

Walt Disney
Before: 26%
After: 8%

FedEx
Before: 18%
After: 1%

This is what a corporate giveaway looks like.

kevinrns ,
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@rbreich

Its important to warn, but also important to celebrate.
Biden CANCELLED those tax thefts to corporations, a trillion dollars of corruption and unfairness.

THEN Biden ADDED a tax, just on the un-taxed largest corporations, who had not paid taxes since BOOMERS went to high school.

Then spent that money on massive offshore windfarms and free heat pumps for your home, and 7 BILLION in residential solar grants.

You might want the last two, because heat death is coming to your state.

georgetakei , to Random
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Well, this was unfortunate. https://www.comicsands.com/philadelphia-unversity-apologizes-for-announcer-2668247063.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

kevinrns ,
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@georgetakei

It was not the announcer who caused this, more correctly the woman is a victim, it was the setup by the administration who produced cards with unprofessional versions of "phonetic spelling" of the names, unseen by anyone before. SAH-man-THA ritch-hard-sun, is not reading, is not a name.

AT BEST they knew their would be a problem in what they were arranging ir they wouldnt have made the bizarre cards for her to read.

No commentor has told this story well, no comedian, no news.

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S&P 500 companies bought back $181B of their shares in Q1 to pump up their value.

Buybacks are projected to reach $925B this year.

In 2025, they’re estimated to hit over $1 TRILLION.

Why is this driving inequality?

It's simple: the top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.

kevinrns ,
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@rbreich

Prune it back.

rbreich , to Random
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Trump asked Big Oil execs to give him $1 billion for his campaign.

He promised lower taxes and a rollback of Biden's climate regulations and clean energy programs in return.

Trump is literally willing to take bribes in exchange for the destruction of the planet.

Be warned.

kevinrns ,
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@rbreich

Donnt, it will be your last mistake.

Everyone note who finabces Trumnp now, it cancels them forever. For History. For ALL TIME.

rbreich , to Random
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Your regular reminder that if not for the Trump and Bush tax cuts, federal revenues would keep pace with federal spending indefinitely.

Instead, these tax cuts have added $10 trillion to the debt.

The so called "party of fiscal responsibility" is full of it.

kevinrns ,
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@rbreich

And your reminder that Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower had robust wealth taxation and the LONGEST ECONOMIC BOOM in history. And they paid off the debt from WW2. And built highways.

Biden has 40 MONTHS of continuos job growth. Only matched, only matched by Roosevelt, Truman Eisenhower.

FDR built a fairer America, and it works. Biden is too.

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Clarence Thomas hearing Trump's immunity case, when his wife Ginni was directly involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, tells you everything you need to know about the Supreme Court's new code of "ethics."

It's a sham.

kevinrns ,
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@rbreich

rbreich , to Random
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We are witnessing a historic rebirth of union power, and I couldn't be happier to see it.

kevinrns ,
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The not a

arstechnica , to Random
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Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules

Ruling: Thumbprint scan is like a "blood draw or fingerprint taken at booking."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/cops-can-force-suspect-to-unlock-phone-with-thumbprint-us-court-rules/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

kevinrns ,
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That is horseshit. There is NO connection between warrentless search and a fingerprint.

The court presumably did not rule on forcing people to provide a password. And THAT proves the "silly" point about fingerprints.

If you live in one of these jurisdictions (I dont know which the court created this loophole for) DISABLE Finger print security and use a STILL LEGALLY PROTECTED password.

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There were 4,349 book bans across the US during the fall 2023 semester.

That's more than the bans reported during the entire 2022 school year.

Nothing scares conservatives more than a multi-racial generation of young people who ask critical questions and speak truth to power.

kevinrns ,
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@rbreich

Powerful powrrful wild warriors of freedom and earth.

arstechnica , to Random
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Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°

Study tracks the past costs of climate events and projects them into the future.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/climate-damages-by-2050-will-be-6-times-the-cost-of-limiting-warming-to-2/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

kevinrns ,
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To decipher this post.

The damages from carbon fueled climate change ALREADY costing more than building New Energy to end carbon.

Canada in one year above billions in other climate damage lost 30 billion trees

30 billion trees, the Canadian Wildfire Catastrophe🇨🇦🔥🚨in 2023, is more trees than would be cut in three centuries of logging. Canada isnt 200 years old. Paris east to Bonn Germany, down deep into the Alps, across west to Lyon in France. All burned into the soil

georgetakei , to Random
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Respecting a person's pronouns doesn't need to be this difficult. https://www.comicsands.com/shivani-dave-julia-hartley-brewer-2667787634.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

kevinrns ,
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@georgetakei

In unrelated but similar situation 20 million people today in the world, were born with intersex genitals. 20 million people doctors, surgeons and parents decided gender as they have for generations.

To no one's notice, no one's business, no news items. Their sexual identity chosen for them by doctors.

That some, with good, great, metal, physical and none of your business reasons, ALSO choose to present who they are, be who they are, is why PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS is guaranteed.

georgetakei , to Random
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Oh, come on. https://secondnexus.com/nyt-messengers-abortion-biden-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

kevinrns ,
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@georgetakei

This isnt funny anymore. The New York is participating in Trump's coup. A conspirator.

Boost

rbreich , to Random
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Modern fascists always attack women, immigrants, & LGBTQ+ people first. They long for a white-led, patriarchal, theocratic society.

Remember that when you see reproductive rights, gay rights, and migrant rights stripped away.

kevinrns ,
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@rbreich

I disagree. The spreading of hate is its own thing. Harming is its own thing. Think of fascists as haters "enjoying" the pain they inflict and your picture of fascism is clearer.

They want nothing else.

georgetakei , to Random
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Beautifully simple and true.

kevinrns ,
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@georgetakei

People doubting misapply and confuse knowledge with the smarts.

It is time to remember that smarts are ALREADY THERE and just the names of the capital cities is missing.

Before they had the words in their vocabulary, a child told me my face "was too spicy, you need to curve" this is VERY young, they did not have words for skritchy new beard, but spicy is an amazing use of the food word (they know hot food) and they had no experience of the word shave, and "curve" is holy cow!

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