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Bustedknuckles

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  • Trump voter: Somebody asked him ‘To what extent are Americans' financial situations motivating you to make a deal?' Trump didn't care. I was angry. I voted for you, and you don't care about me?

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  • It for sure sucks now! Lieberman killed the public option and things have only gotten worse since then as we haven't taken on the usury of insurance, PE hospitals, and pharma, but the ACA was a step in the right direction that's been continuously sabotaged ever since it was implemented

  • DHS says it's 'drawing up plans' to ban international arrivals at SFO

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  • I hate the framing of "we're not allowed to terrorize people". You are allowed by statute to enforce the law basically everywhere in the USA - sanctuary cities just don't volunteer to help you do it because their job is enforcing their laws and protecting their communities, and helping you assholes makes that harder

  • Trump voter: Somebody asked him ‘To what extent are Americans' financial situations motivating you to make a deal?' Trump didn't care. I was angry. I voted for you, and you don't care about me?

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  • Mind-blowing how people have forgotten the time before the ACA, which limited insurer excess profit and forbid denial due to pre-existing conditions

  • Why Trump isn’t bothering to hide his corruption

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  • It shouldn't be, but I bet being a billionaire and being able to do whatever you want leads to them thinking "hey, I can do this taboo thing". Like the Most Dangerous Game stuff

  • Stadium construction begins at White House for UFC Freedom 250

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  • Max circuses, minimum bread

  • Democrats are already preparing Trump investigations if they retake the House

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  • Seriously, it feels like people think Dems should be building an oubliette right now. The process of rooting out and punishing corruption/incompetence starts with investigations (if you don't have absolute power) - so they'd better be damn ready to hit the ground running

  • TIL that reading scores have plummeted in school districts around the U.S.

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  • Man, I don't know. A lot of the extra expenditure is probably going to special needs services and new educational tech/programs. Between the two, in more skeptical of the latter. Walk into any kindergarten around here and you'll see big screen TVs in front and an iPad for each kid. I'm sure the bigger expense is licensing the "Alpha-friends" show or whatever and I'd love to see that go.

    I also think COVID was hugely disruptive - not only to the kid's learning but also to parent expectation that their kids try in school - Oregon has terrible parental support of kid attendance and learning. Parents need to blame their kids for failing more

    As for solutions, I think we need to scrap No Child Left Behind. Leave kids behind in their last grade until they pass - I think MS did that, some say to inflate the scores. Loading teachers with students that don't have a foundation makes it worse for everyone. Tying standardized test scores to funding also turns a metric into a target and worsens thing.

    I don't know man. It sucks and I'm just an idiot on the 'verse, but after seeing the 'whole language' approach fail so hard, I'm also skeptical of experts

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  • Before the gerrymandering fuckery, I daydreamed briefly of a veto-proof majority. It seems any plan to do anything will need R buy-in or wipe out, or extra time

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    Why is the Democratic party still hiding its 2024 election autopsy?

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  • I was so mad when he ran again. I had a distinct memory of him running as a "transition" president in 2019 - which my fool ass took to mean one term

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    Why is the Democratic party still hiding its 2024 election autopsy?

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  • I distinctly remember when they told Walz to stop calling out how weird the Elon/Vance/Trump crew all were. It was working and I couldn't understand why stop. Some wormtongue consultant or PAC? It was baffling

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    As AIPAC Spends Millions to Oust Him, Massie Unveils Bill Requiring Pro-Israel Lobby to Register as Foreign Agent

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  • I hope it's written well enough that it includes "non affiliated PACs" that are coincidentally funded by foreign governments. AIPAC loves pretending it's not AIPAC

  • TIL that reading scores have plummeted in school districts around the U.S.

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  • It's not just financial though. Mississippi spends around $12k per student, and Oregon spends about $17k - that's over 40% more per kid. California spends $24k. The way we do schools needs to be fixed top-to-bottom

  • TIL that in fiscal year 2026, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program has admitted 6,066 South Africans, 3 Afghans and nobody else

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  • We now have a basically "whites-only" refugee program. How did racism win?

  • Trump’s abrupt U-turn on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz came after backlash from allies

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    Stay tuned for covid season 2

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  • Let's just hope it isn't a new, mutated strain - they would've noticed already if it was, right?

  • Trump’s abrupt U-turn on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz came after backlash from allies

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  • Would things be different in a parliamentary system? I'm not actually so sure. Every single member of the house of representatives is up for election in November and they don't seem worried enough about their electoral chances to restrain him in any way.

    Congress is still nominally the strongest branch of US government and they're fully abdicating their responsibilities. What would a parliamentary system solve when one party is a death cult?

  • Trump’s abrupt U-turn on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz came after backlash from allies

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  • Getting ready, I suppose. We need an actual grassroots movement with commitment and organization. General strike seems about all that's left to us

  • Trump’s abrupt U-turn on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz came after backlash from allies

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  • We can, in theory but shit's hard in practice. Any systems for exerting collective power have been incredibly degraded, some of which has been intentional by motivated power systems. We don't have local community groups with power anymore - we need strike funds, mutual aid groups, local leadership and activism... And none of that is really in place right now.

    My take is that lack of collective power is giving rise to lone gunmen types that don't feel they have any recourse

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  • The anxiety about our climate sucks, man, sorry. Definitely not enough places for kids. I go for walks with my daughter sometimes. Library isn't a bad option either