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Ever wanted to quit Elon Musk's X platform? Here's how you can do it apnews.com/article/elon-musk…
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A majority of likely voters in battleground states favor caps on rent increases and cutting prescription drug costs. #SanAntonio #SATX #SanAntonioTX
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After President Bien rejected Nippon Steel’s proposal to buy U.S. Steel, the company’s CEO threatened to close down their last remaining company in Pittsburgh and move their operations to a non-union mill.
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Attention to indoor air quality and ventilation is essential defense against respiratory pathogens, including Covid. We're beginning to make progress, as @j_g_allen outlines here, and we desperately need to address other environmental exposures.
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Texas oil billionaires are pumping millions into Trump's campaign to undo Biden’s climate agenda. But support for clean energy policies is growing. houstonchronicle.com/busines… via @houstonchron
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ICYMI: San Antonio Councilwoman Teri Castillo says it’s “dishonest” to claim new $160 million minor league ballpark won’t cost taxpayers money.
Economist Andrew Zimbalist also echoed these sentiments in a conversation with the Current this week.
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Big Oil lobbied for — and won — a new court system in Texas, which will now hear many environmental cases in the state. Guess how many of the newly appointed judges have worked for fossil fuel companies? levernews.com/justice-brough…
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Funding runs out this month for a federal program providing free COVID vaccines to uninsured and underinsured Americans.
@johnyangtv speaks with @LauraSanthanam for more. to.pbs.org/3Mov75O
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There’s the fake unity of oblivious ideological conformity and a genuine unity based on airing out forthright disagreements. The Democratic Party establishment chose the former. However you spin it, this is a silencing of a crucial swing state constituency. It’s atrocity denial.
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Because:
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free,…
Send these, the homeless,
tempest-tost to me”.
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Conti: “As a result of the Defund the Police movement cheered by left-wing politicians, not to mention the work of progressive prosecutors, violent crime skyrocketed”.
Curiously, no hyperlink for this bold causal claim.
currentaffairs.org/news/2023… via @alexbronzini & @curaffairs
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Here’s last Sunday’s story about Hawaii, how outside interests are often prioritized over locals, and why Magnum P.I. is a bastion of television history: youtu.be/j8DxdibHibU
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No way Musk could turn being a stand-up comic and reality TV host into the most popular podcast ever.
Adam Smith said money is command over labor. That’s what Musk has; he can order really smart people to build stuff for him and, despite best efforts, can’t always screw them up.
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"I'm proud to be working class, and I'm proud to be anti-racist working class as well!"
Love this woman - interviewed by @novaramedia in Barnsley today ❤️
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The book Unhumans, by Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec, is a fascist manifesto. It argues that leftists are not human beings, but rather “unhumans” bent on destroying the civilized order. And it comes with a warm and supportive blurb from Ohio senator J.D. Vance.
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Terrified Conservative Planning To Move To 1930s Austria If Trump Loses theonion.com/terrified-conse…
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Stringent COVID-19 restrictions, as a group, were associated with substantial decreases in excess deaths during the pandemic with behavior changes plausibly serving as an important explanatory mechanism, these findings indicate. ja.ma/4ficSfL @chrisruhm.bsky
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Seven major unions just sent a joint letter to Biden calling on him to "immediately halt all military aid to Israel" ahead of Netanyahu’s visit to Washington:
--SEIU
--NEA
--UAW
--UE
--APWU (postal workers)
--AFA (flight attendants)
--IUPAT (painters)
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Except when sheriffs implored you not to pass open-carry laws. Then you back gun zealots over the safety of police officers.
sacurrent.com/news/bad-takes… via @SAcurrent
