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This data point is really important. The human mind (all human minds) have difficulty comprehending the meaning of “billions”. Know this: the millions they spent are less meaningful to them than the penny on the sidewalk you didn’t bother to pick up. That’s why we must tax them!
Los Angeles Times
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The millions spent by California billionaires against Prop. 40 is about 0.07% of their wealth latimes.com/politics/story/2…

The millions spent by California billionaires against Prop. 40 is about 0.07% of their wealth

The $293 million spent by California billionaires to oppose Proposition 40 is about 0.07% of their estimated wealth.

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Eric Katz@EricM_KatzOct 22
SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24. Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff. State tells @washingtonsun it's screening for "fidelity" and execution of the president's vision👇
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Enemies of Labor 13: J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover spent nearly 50 years running the FBI—and much of that time was spent monitoring people he considered political radicals, including labor organizers.
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Bill Kristol
@BillKristolOct 22
"Ordinarily, moving historical items within the building is a deliberate process overseen by curators. Hegseth’s staff dispatched its own team to relocate an Eisenhower globe. They dropped it...The resulting gash appears to be several inches wide." wapo.st/3WF2YQo

Hegseth wanted Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it.

Photos obtained by The Post show a gash in the World War II-era artifact that resulted from a botched relocation attempt inside the Pentagon.

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This is why learning history is important. The difference between a failed metaphor and a successful one can be a single word. He just said the U.S. economy is sinking. Not a great campaign slogan.
FactPost
@factpostnewsOct 20
JD Vance on the economy: "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
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Happy Heavenly Birthday, Tom! Photo Credit- Adrian Boot
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Billionaires and corporate America didn’t get lucky in court. It rigged the bench against working people, judge by judge. Our new report with @Groundwork exposes the judges doing billionaires' bidding: nominationnotes.substack.com…
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For the conservative legal movement, the only constitutional response to inequality is to perpetuate it. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/a…

Association For Education Fairness: The Supreme Court Just Took a Worrying Case About School...

The conservative legal movement continues to fight the presence of Black and Hispanic children in public schools.

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This is neither normal nor acceptable. Why won’t the GOP live in the reality-based community? It’s like they want to throw this country into chaos. It’s not going to pay off the way they think it will.
David J. Lynch@davidjlynchOct 19
I had to check. But this is an actual post.
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Judd Legum
@JuddLegumOct 19
A brief review of recent technical “errors” at Meta: 1. Restricting the Facebook pages of Brazilian president Lula who is in a runoff election against a Trump-favored candidate 2. Shutting down the pages of Albanians protesting Jared Kushner’s plans to build a luxury resort in the country 3. Rejecting ads for a documentary critical of Elon Musk 4. Shutting down the No Kings instagram page in the middle of a major anti-Trump protest
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The Alito Book Hides the Real History Of Originalism ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cu…

The Alito Book Hides the Real History Of Originalism

In his new book, Alito says that Brown v. Board was consistent with an originalist view of the Constitution. This would be news to the people who created originalism.

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Yesterday, during the No Kings nationwide early voting Day of Action, the group’s Instagram page was taken down for 90 minutes and its administrators were locked out. 

@Meta owes the organizers and the American people an explanation of why it silenced No Kings and undermined its Day of Action.
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MARCHING ON TO VICTORY!! THE BRUINS ARE 6-0!!
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Message from Ezra regarding today’s #NoKings events and Meta’s silencing of the NoKings Instagram account. Corporations: no one elected you. Your profits don’t supersede our rights. Hands off our democracy.
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Today, Saturday, October 17, at ~1:30 PM ET, the administrators of the main #NoKings instagram account lost access & are unable to log in, right in the middle of the day of action. Spread the word & use alt accounts such as #Indivisible. #FreeSpeech #NoFascism
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Good news!! Account back up for now.
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No thank you.
The Hill
@thehillOct 17
Rahm Emanuel tries out a new primary lane: Democratic ‘consultant in chief’ thehill.com/homenews/campaig…

Rahm Emanuel tries out a new primary lane: Democratic ‘consultant in chief’

Rahm Emanuel isn’t waiting for the 2028 presidential race to officially begin.  The former congressman turned White House chief of staff, Chicago mayor and U.S. ambassador to Japan has b…

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Wage theft is a crime. When was the last time anyone went to jail for it? Don’t let it happen to you. Report it and get the money you’ve earned. ✊ #PowerToThePeople
NBC 7 San Diego
@nbcsandiegoOct 17
There have been two high-profile instances of suspected wage theft just in the past few weeks. Sergio Flores from NBC 7 and Telemundo 20 Responds explains what to do if this happens to you. trib.al/tb7mOKP

San Diego company faces complaints after missed paychecks and unanswered calls

There have been two high-profile instances of suspected wage theft just in the past few weeks. Sergio Flores from NBC 7 and Telemundo 20 Responds explains what to do if this happens to you.

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To my mind, there is only one Vision Quest. And it definitely connected emotionally. @MatthewModine
A still of Elmo giving the "six minutes" speech to Louden Swain in the original Vision Quest (1985).

ALT A still of Elmo giving the "six minutes" speech to Louden Swain in the original Vision Quest (1985).

Variety
@VarietyOct 12
REVIEW: Marvel’s “VisionQuest,” like its protagonist, struggles to connect emotionally. “The show plays with some clever concepts, particularly in its visual presentation,” writes Variety’s Alison Herman. “But this imagery is larded with so much convoluted backstory and abstract concepts that ‘VisionQuest’ ends up in the exact same predicament as Vision himself, a synthetic being trying and mostly failing to connect with his emotions.” wp.me/pc8uak-1lHWpm
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She’s right: expand the Court. Working people are getting screwed over by a corrupt court that rules for the oligarchy over workers every time. @KamalaHarris agrees, @KekePalmer agrees: it's time to add justices to SCOTUS.
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