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  • On Polymarket, ‘privileged’ users made millions betting on war strikes and diplomatic strategy. What did they know beforehand?

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  • Eh, I think there is also some insider betting that goes on. Like, how hard would it be for someone with classified knowledge of attack plans to bet some country is going to get bombed right before pushing the button?

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    America is drinking more coffee but less of it from Starbucks

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  • Bit idea: the Howard Johnson's scene from Mad Men but with a millennial taking their gen z partner to a starbucks

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  • It would be kinda funny that a famously orange man is persecuting a Mr. Lemon if not for the whole "there's a tyrant trying to stomp the last vestiges of the American free press out of existence and I don't know if anyone's gonna stop him" thing

  • ‘Wall Street Sweetheart’ Kevin Warsh Picked to Run Fed After Changing Views to Match Trump’s | Common Dreams

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  • If you pick someone from the Hoover Institution don't be too surprised when things going 1929 on everybody

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    n Trump Administration Live Updates: Kevin Warsh Is Named Fed Chair

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  • Fucking New York times, he was nominated and is subject to Senate confirmation for a job he couldn't even start until May but your headline makes it sound like a king's decree and I don't believe for a second you don't know what you're doing

  • Senators Push for Answers on ICE's Surveillance Shopping Spree

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  • Writing a letter to this fuckin' guy is seriously their plan?

    For four years, the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security, appointed by former President Donald Trump, has criticized President Joe Biden’s administration for lax immigration enforcement. Now, a confidential watchdog report delivered to the White House on Wednesday is accusing the inspector general of abuse of authority and substantial misconduct — and it suggests the president fire him.

    A panel of other inspectors general from across the federal government, after investigating DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari for years, has concluded that Biden should discipline him “up to and including removal.”

    The panel’s conclusion and its suggestion that Cuffari be fired were described to POLITICO by a person granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the report.

    Archived at https://archive.ph/ocwuh

  • Did Donald Trump's US 'unlawfully abduct two people from Scotland'?

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  • I thought this was a BBC adaptation of The Kilmar Abrego Garcia Story

  • Border Czar Tom Homan: ‘I’m staying ‘til the problem is gone’

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  • It really is always projection

  • Border Czar Tom Homan: ‘I’m staying ‘til the problem is gone’

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  • I think he means "I hope this extremely easy to move goalpost will allow me to justify the next atrocity the idiot assholes who work for me commit."

  • "Not Going to Bully Me": Rep. LaMonica McIver Faces 17 Years in Prison over ICE Jail Inspection

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  • Gotta disagree with this one, if a lawmaker or executive commits a crime they should be punished the same as everyone else. I absolutely think McIver is innocent of the bullshit charges against her here, but I also think there's a ton of Republicans currently holding office who need to be arrested and jailed until trials can sort them out.

  • Noooooo

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  • I'm hearing that my summary won't be helpful, so I don't need to spend my time on this request, which certainly works for me. You are, of course, welcome to take any notes for yourself that you would find helpful, and I would be happy to review those if you would like.

    Thanks for your time!

    e; wait, in this scenario am I a supervisor giving you orders you have to follow or a coworker making a request for some information? I was assuming the second option, but yeah if I were your boss and had any ability to punish you for not following my orders I would absolutely put them in writing.

  • The share of Americans medically obese is projected to rise to almost 50% by 2035

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  • You can get fat eating healthy food too.

    Hence why I said "eat healthy" not "eat healthy food"

    It's calories in and calories out

    Hence why I said "and get regular physical activity" to raise the second part of that equation

    If you eat less than you consume you will lose weight. Eating less works for 100% of people.

    Eating "less" could still be more than you're consuming if you don't have any physical activity, so, no, just eating less will not work for 100% of people

  • The share of Americans medically obese is projected to rise to almost 50% by 2035

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  • "You will get down to your desired weight by your 92nd birthday" sounds like something that wouldn't work for a lot of people to me

  • The share of Americans medically obese is projected to rise to almost 50% by 2035

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  • Actually, eating less won't work for a lot of people and you could easily end up doing more harm to your health than the obesity is doing if you push it far enough

    What you need to do is eat healthy and get regular physical activity to coax your body into metabolizing things like it should. Of course, healthy food and the space to exercise both cost money, so yeah - poverty is to social problems what boiling water is to generating energy.

  • Amy Klobuchar Calls for Unity as She Begins Run for Minnesota Governor [NYTimes 🎁 link]

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  • The salad comb thing is honestly probably the most charming story I've heard about her

  • Noooooo

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  • According to my recollection, you accepted full responsibility and pledged to do better going forward. You also promised not to embezzle any of the company's money going forward, which was a weird thing to say unprompted.

  • Noooooo

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  • Avoiding my calls because verbal conversations make you anxious? Fair enough, I will spend an embarrassingly long time to write, re-read, delete, re-write, re-read several times, re-delete, re-write a third time by blending versions one and two, re-read and realize I didn't explain something, re-write and realize that something else is irrelevant, re-read and realize it wasn't irrelevant because two paragraphs later etc. until I have a message that can't possibly be misread, send it, and then agonize about writing something that was misread until I hear back from you while pathologically refreshing my inbox.

    Saying you can't talk now but scheduling a time for me later? Totally fair, you have a whole ass job outside of my stupid problems, if they can wait I will wait and if they can't I'll go back to paragraph 1.

    Avoiding my calls because you think I'm dumb but won't just tell me how I'm being dumb so I can try to make improvements? Congrats, my new work project is making your work life a living hell until you either quit or schedule a call with me where we can discuss preferred communication styles and how to demonstrate mutual respect.

  • California bill would ban ICE agents from jobs in teaching and policing

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  • Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin, not on someone's voluntary history of involvement in a fascist organization

    Yall realize this goes both ways

    This is why every single ICE agent and anyone who sympathizes with them needs all their political power removed immediately before they can hurt this country anymore than they already have, they will try to retaliate against any kind of accountability for their organization's many crimes

  • Rep. Ilhan Omar Assaulted by Protester at Town Hall Meeting

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  • Yeah, but this is a weird usage of that term. Normally it's for old dudes who are maybe a bit corny (because old) but basically good dudes. Like, FD Signifier's fans call him unc all the time.