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    How Bernie Sanders condemns genocide in Gaza without actually condemning it, American progressives who stand in solidarity with Gaza must reject Sanders and see him for what he is, the favorite puppet

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  • Email entitled "moderation" (the email subject includes the quotes around the word) from Bernie Sanders, sent Sunday:

    What is “radical” is that we are spending close to one trillion a year on the military, and many billions in weaponry for an extremist Netanyahu government in Israel that has waged a horrific, illegal and immoral war against the people of Gaza.

  • Trump White House lines lawn with mug shots of illegal immigrants

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  • Where did you go, Arkansas?

  • Trade war, tariffs 'full-blown crisis already,' U.S. farm exporters say

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  • Probably just fishing for a handout like they got the first time around. They would still vote him again.

  • Covid-like shortages for US consumers ‘within weeks’

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  • It does, and I have an automatic gas shutoff valve as well (it's gone off once before, which made for a pretty surprising morning shower).

    But this is good advice for anyone who lives in a similar area. Don't put yourself in a position where you could lose everything because you were trying to save a few bucks a month.

  • US: ICE deports 3 American children, say lawyers – DW – 04/27/2025

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  • I agree that if they're found to be here illegally, they should be given the choice of whether their American children should remain with them when they're deported.

    I think this should only occur after they receive due process.

    The way to avoid delays in judgment is not to do away with due process. That's trying to cure the disease (dysfunction) by treating the symptoms.

    The way to solve it is by dramatically increasing the number of immigration judges to help reach resolutions quickly. Thousands more. That's a constructive change, not a destructive change. One is long-lasting; one only lasts as long as this administration. Both parties have failed at dramatically expanding the immigration courts like they should have, because this is a political issue they can campaign on.

    But constructive changes are still the right way to improve the system.

  • House Minority Leader Jeffries, NJ Sen. Booker begin sit-in protest on Capitol steps

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  • The sit-in was useful when black people weren't allowed to sit in the whites-only restaurant to eat. Protestors risked jail time and beatings.

    The sit-in was useful when black people weren't allowed to sit in the front of the bus. Protestors risked jail time and beatings.

    What are Congressional Democrats not allowed to do? Do that instead. Risk something. Literally anything.

  • Ex-Hegseth Aides’ Mud-Slinging Ramps Up With Cocaine Allegation

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  • [Joe Kasper, Hegseth's soon-to-former chief of staff] reportedly derailed a meeting with a veterans’ group by telling a story about a night out at a Washington, D.C. strip club. He was also said to have begun a meeting by saying, “Can I just tell everyone around this table that I just took an enormous s--t right before coming in here?”

    Kasper was a Trump nominee. Only the best people.

  • Americans, including Republicans, losing faith in Trump, new polls reveal

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  • Even if they founded it, financial success and being disconnected from the day-to-day work eventually make even the most competent one-time founder delusional and incompetent.

    The complexity of how things work calcifies at the time they stopped being hands-on, so they often think everything should be much easier than it is, because they simply don't understand how the company works anymore. International regulation, enterprise contractual requirements, evolution of new standards, etc.

    And whatever empathy they might have had before is eradicated by their financial success, which literally affects how their brain works and makes them less empathetic to people less successful than them.

    I've worked with both types. They both become the same over time: convergent evolution.

  • Covid-like shortages for US consumers ‘within weeks’

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  • Yes, USD. I bought some fresh food (and do so regularly), but also a ton of non-perishables: lots of canned food, various kinds of rice, cereals, oatmeal, lots of water, etc. Protein and carbs. 48 rolls of toilet paper (I have a bidet so this will last me about two years), and so on.

    I'm building up my reserves. I have a large pantry and several large cupboards to keep it all in, and could probably buy another $700 worth and have a place to keep it. I also cook at home for most meals and so I rotate through these food stuffs faster than you'd expect. There's no canned food older than two years, and most items are newer than six months. I generally buy more than I need, but not usually this much.

    I'm not a "prepper" in an "underground bunker" sense, but I do prepare for emergencies and instability, whatever form it may take: political, yes, but I also live on several fault lines, so "the big one" might happen at some point. In the winter, ice and snow occasionally confine me to my home for a week or two at a time. They're all the same to me from a planning perspective.

    The original price was $850, but I clip coupons and maximize sales and brought it down by over $150.

  • Covid-like shortages for US consumers ‘within weeks’

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  • Let me put it this way. Today I spent over $700 on a massive amount of groceries and various toiletries.

  • Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts

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  • I skimmed a bunch of businesses. From what I saw, most can be broken down into

    • Construction
    • Automotive
    • Beauty
    • Insurance

  • Americans, including Republicans, losing faith in Trump, new polls reveal

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  • Businesses are run by dictators called CEOs. Why anyone would think a person who has spent their entire career operating as a dictator should lead the entire country is beyond me.

  • ICE Can Now Enter Your Home Without a Warrant to Look for Migrants, DOJ Memo Says

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  • Hey. One of my best friends was gay and had depression. He came from a very religious family and struggled with both of these things his entire life. Then he got sick and didn't seek treatment for a medical issue that was curable but fatal if untreated. He died. I think he chose not to seek treatment because it was an out that he didn't have to affirmatively choose.

    The world is a worse place without him. It’s been 3 years and I still think about him almost every day. Please find a better solution.

  • ICE denies detained Mahmoud Khalil temporary release to meet their newborn son

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  • Totalitarians are thin-skinned and paranoid as a rule.

  • First House Republican calls for Pete Hegseth's ouster

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  • Why it matters:

    It doesn't matter. Don Bacon is not representative of Republicans. He is from a split district that voted for Biden and Harris by about 5 points each.

  • Nancy Mace yells 'F**k you!' at man she assumes is gay for asking her a question in an Ulta store

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  • When they shut down all the asylums 50 years ago, they decided to keep one last one open in DC

  • Musk to Force Pentagon to Build and Then Pay Him to Use Network of Killer Satellites

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  • This is the setup to a Bond movie

  • Canadians Reject Gavin Newsom's Plea to Keep Visiting California Over Deportation Concerns: 'I Don't Want to Be Plucked Off the Street'

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  • Pacific States of America

    I would also accept the answer

    California and Cascadia

  • Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa

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  • It's a UK paper. They don't do all-caps for acronyms (meaning abbreviations readable as words), they just capitalize the first letter.