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btaf45

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  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Having that high-deductible health plan might kill you, literally

  • This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like

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  • I know lots of people who refuse to get a flu shot because they say it gives them the flu. We were finally going to get a flu vaccine that did not have any risk of making you get the flu. But Trump who got thru college by having his sister do all his homework and drug addict RFK have overruled our entire science community and decided Americans can't have this. The rest of the world will be getting this for sure.

    MAKING AMERICA NOT SO GREAT AGAIN

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  • 'We Are Going to Run the Country,' Trump Says of Venezuela After Maduro Abduction | Common Dreams

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  • [behind right-wing opposition leader María Corina Machado]

    She is not "right wing". She is pro-democracy. She was the real winner of the 2024 election is a landslide but Maduro wouldn't leave office. Which is what people worry about Treason Trump doing. CNN has shit journalists.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado

    [In 2023, Machado won the opposition primary to become the unity candidate for the 2024 presidential election. The Venezuelan government subsequently barred her from running in the election.[1] She named Corina Yoris as a replacement candidate, who was later replaced by Edmundo González. The opposition presented vote tallies that showed González winning the July 2024 election in a landslide, while the government-run National Electoral Council declared victory for Maduro without presenting evidence.[2] Shortly after the presidential election, Machado announced that she had gone into hiding, citing fears for her life and freedom under the Maduro government.[3]

    In 2025, Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She was named one of BBC's 100 Women in 2018, and listed among Time magazine's 100 most influential people in 2025. In 2024, Machado received the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize and the Sakharov Prize (shared with González) for representing Venezuelans fighting for democracy]

  • US sees spike in flu cases in December, after most severe season since 2018

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  • Make America Not So Great Again

  • NASA's Largest Library Shut Down By Trump Administration. Books Will Be 'Tossed Away'

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  • Make American Not Great Again

  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    NASA's Largest Library Shut Down By Trump Administration. Books Will Be 'Tossed Away'

    www.ndtv.com /world-news/nasas-largest-library-to-permanently-close-on-jan-2-books-will-be-tossed-away-10170584
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    ‘A state of crisis’: record number of Americans are pessimistic about US healthcare system

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/dec/31/healthcare-americans-poll-data-insurance

  • Trump gives a partisan prime-time address insisting the economy is stronger than many voters feel

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  • Traitorapist Trump effectively said this:

    "Why aren't people believing my lies anymore?? Obviously I need to be telling more lies since people aren't believing my lies."

  • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, former Trump loyalist, says she is resigning from Congress

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  • Marjorie, you are a bully for years and then you reveal yourself to be a sniveling coward at the very moment you stop being a bully. You are pathetic.

  • Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds

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  • TrumpBodyCount++

  • Pfizer’s mRNA Flu Vaccine Works Great, but RFK Jr. Might Not Allow You To Have It

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  • TrumpBodyCount++

  • Grok generates sycophantic praise for Elon Musk after new update

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  • "Elon's intelligence ranks among the top 10 minds in history"

    "Elon's narcissism ranks among the top 10 sociopaths in history"

  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
    btaf45 @midwest.social

    The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Pfizer’s mRNA Flu Vaccine Works Great, but RFK Jr. Might Not Allow You To Have It

    gizmodo.com /pfizers-mrna-flu-vaccine-works-great-but-theres-a-potential-problem-2000689075
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Appeals court panel mulls $1M penalty for Trump in lawsuit against Hillary Clinton

    www.politico.com /news/2025/11/18/appeals-court-penalty-trump-lawsuit-hillary-clinton-00658614
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds

    www.theguardian.com /environment/2025/nov/19/trump-emissions-policy-could-cause-climate-deaths
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Looming affordability crisis set to hit Americans with health insurance through work

    www.politico.com /news/2025/11/20/insurance-premiums-employer-increase-affordability-00660176

  • The 'Surprising' Pro-Slavery Reason Why George Washington Rejected Black Soldiers During the Revolutionary War

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  • [Ken Burns six-episode docuseries The American Revolution premieres on PBS Nov. 16]

    Darn I missed the first episode.

  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Why Trump's plan to help GOP keep control of the House could backfire

    apnews.com /article/trump-redistricting-gerrymandering-congress-texas-california-2c5587f38df6428953c15ed43d631e53
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    The End of the American Empire

    www.theatlantic.com /podcasts/2025/11/the-david-frum-show-margaret-macmillan/684981/

  • Trump Escalates War on Leftists With Antifa Foreign Terror Label

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  • Anti-Christianity and anti-capitalism have nothing at all to do with "terrorism". There are plenty of Christian and capitalist and neofascist terrorists as we all saw on 1-6-2001. The founding fathers said in the Tripoli treaty that the USA is not a Christian country, it is a country with freedom of religion. Even "anti-American" does not necessarily mean anyone is engaged in terrorism. Probably only a small fraction of such people are. Ironically Traitorapist Trump and GOP neofascist's War On Democracy are the chief anti-American threat in the country today.

  • Trump Escalates War on Leftists With Antifa Foreign Terror Label

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  • The Republican Party needs a terrorism label.

  • Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show

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  • They probably aren't even counting all the political scams and disinformation. In the past year FB has tried to push right wing extremist propaganda from about 40-50 different sources on me, despite me banning each one, one at a time. What the fuck FB??? Why are you trying super hard to peddle Fascism on Americans? Why are the people running FB such incredible sociopaths? I also got 4 posts from left/liberal sources, and I rejected those too. Why the f*ck would anybody wish to use something as crappy and untrustworthy as Facebook to get political information from? Only if the source was Bernie Sanders himself would I consider "subscribing".

    Zuckerberg deserves the phrase "fascist sociopath" on his tombstone.

  • ‘Good luck, losers’: Gavin Newsom responds to Republican lawsuit over Prop 50

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  • At the same time, nobody loves to fold a winning hand more than the Democrats.

    That's what so great about Newsom accomplishing this. After making some early missteps, Newsom is successfully fighting back and it is so refreshing to see that it's not just progressives anymore who are pushing back hard against Traitorapist Trump.

  • Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson

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  • He lovingly caters to a class so wealthy that they feel no allegence to any country or nation. While at the same time decrying globalists.

    This is an excellent point.

    The term globalist is just another dogwhistle in the long history of fascist dogwhistles.

    Traitorapist Trump getting billions of $$ from the Saudis for his "cybercoin" he invented out of thin air makes him quite the globalist also.

  • Donald Trump enters his lame duck era

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  • Is he claiming that there are 3 years he’s got his hands glued together?

    Nope. Its not claiming that. The article is pointing out a significant thing just happened. For the very first time in this term, GOP congressmen rejected a major demand of Traitorapist Trump. That is the definition of "lame duck" status. The implication is that now that GOP congressmen have successfully rejected a major Trump demand without any negative consequences at all, its going to be much easier to do this in the future. It doesn't mean that every Trump request will be denied, just that Trump's bullying should be much less effective now. Not only does Traitorapist not have unlimited powers, even his own party is rejecting him now.

  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    ‘Good luck, losers’: Gavin Newsom responds to Republican lawsuit over Prop 50

    www.kron4.com /news/california/newsom-responds-republican-lawsuit/
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Donald Trump enters his lame duck era

    www.politico.com /news/2025/11/06/donald-trump-lame-duck-00639349

  • Lawrence O'Donnell Brutally Highlights Latest Reason Why 'Donald Trump Is Living In Fear'

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  • Lawrence O'Donnell regularly delivers devastating critiques on Trump, his incompetent flunkies, and the embarrassing failure of the media such as the New York Times and white house press corps to cover him competently. He often compares today's events with how things worked in the past to show just how badly things have become fucked up today. This is my favorite news show and the only one I record so I don't miss it.

  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Lawrence O'Donnell Brutally Highlights Latest Reason Why 'Donald Trump Is Living In Fear'

    www.huffpost.com /entry/lawrence-odonnell-latest-reason-donald-trump-living-in-fear_n_690c822be4b0f73c45eca846

  • Hey, Lefties! Trump Has Stolen Your Game.

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  • totally just summarized the article apparently few on here bothered to read.

    Yes. My opinion of David Brooks is not very high but he did have some actual points here that you summarized well.

  • We should all be boycotting politics@lemmy.world

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  • Jordan was definitely thought policing you though. He made it obvious when he argued against it while also banning it.

    Yeah he does that a lot. If you wrote out a list of all his unwritten rules and banned opinions there would probably be over a hundred.

  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Fiserv’s former CEO left the company in crisis. Trump put him in charge of Social Security.

    www.marketwatch.com /story/fiservs-former-ceo-left-the-fintech-company-in-crisis-trump-put-him-in-charge-of-social-security-d2109ef8
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    COVID-19 mRNA vaccines can trigger the immune system to recognize and kill cancer, research finds

    www.livescience.com /health/cancer/covid-19-mrna-vaccines-can-trigger-the-immune-system-to-recognize-and-kill-cancer-research-finds
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
    btaf45 @midwest.social

    Prison Staff Gagged, Inmate Vanished After Leaking Info on Ghislaine Maxwell Coverup, Insider Says

    dailyboulder.com /prison-staff-gagged-inmate-vanished-after-leaking-info-on-ghislaine-maxwell-coverup-insider-says/
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Texas Guardsmen photo mocked online after Hegseth's 'fat troops' speech

    www.expressnews.com /news/article/pete-hegseth-texas-fat-troops-viral-photo-21096155.php