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Median income is lower today than it was in 1999, while rent, healthcare, college and regular monthly bills all cost double or more.
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This is cute and funny but the real amazing thing about this video is that elephants are so intelligent they understand the concept of a joke and can make one up themselves.
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Cost of living increases hitting EVERYONE
Robert Downey Jr. has admitted that he is now "surprisingly open-minded to the idea" of reprising his role as Iron Man!
(via @Variety)
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I know no one cares but this is illegal.
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Because it actually was.
Ubers were also cheaper than taxis and streaming was cheaper than cable.
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“Get a better job” they are RAISING RENT 40% AND GAS PRICES DOUBLED IN 2 MONTHS
This isn’t about people not hustling hard enough, it is PRICE GOUGING.
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There's no better example of how completely our government is totally controlled by major corporations than the fact that there isn't a single politician in either party who's trying to build a national profile by going after Boeing.
BREAKING: Tire on Boeing 757 explodes during maintenance at Atlanta airport, killing 2 Delta employees
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Q: How did it take 5 months before a judge saw this video?
A: Because cops are liars who work together to cover up their crimes.
BREAKING NEWS: Mentally ill man, 28, spent FIVE MONTHS in prison for 'assaulting' two cops before bodycam footage revealed a group of officers beat, tased and taunted him after arresting him for NO reason. He was released after judge saw video and granted him a personal bond.
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This should be the biggest story in the news today. Climate scientists weren't expecting this to happen any time soon and instead it's happening right now.
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This headline is amazing because it's acting like there's something bad about DOGS not having a JOB.
Legalization of marijuana forcing some police K9s in Virginia to retire fox5dc.com/news/legalization…
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Again, pandemic unemployment is $1200/month, which is $7.50/hour or $14,400/year.
If employers can't hire staff because they can't compete with those numbers, they need a new business model.
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REMINDER: Boomers invented participation trophies because *they* couldn’t handle it when *their kid* wasn’t the best player on the best team.
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That guy really built a gigantic bomb in his backyard, drove it into the middle of downtown Nashville, blew up an entire city block, and three days later the entire corporate media structure just stopped acting like it even happened.
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This story is crazy. She met a guy on IG, a cop, she flew out to AZ and went on this hike...
And now the cop claims that she was too hot/tired to keep going so she turned around and he just kept hiking.
And apparently everyone is just taking his word about what happened.
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If you get Coronavirus, you need to miss work.
If you miss work in a retail/service job, you get fired.
If you get fired, you lose health insurance (if you were lucky enough to have it).
Therefore:
#BREAKING: Authorities say a man with coronavirus ignored instructions to self-isolate pending test results, instead working several shifts at Hobart's Grand Chancellor Hotel.
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Who could ever have guessed that a system that forces us to spend 80% of our waking hours commuting to/working at jobs that don't pay enough to provide any stability in life would lead to mass societal depression?
Major depression is on the rise among everyone, new data shows nbcnews.to/2rDKe1Q
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Headline: "Protests turn violent"
Video: All the violence is being done by cops
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No reason, just raising prices for a service that hasn't changed, hasn't required more workers, and won't be any different than before just because they want to and no one can stop them.
Delta announced that beginning Tuesday, the fee for first and second checked bags will increase. wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta…
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This is the program that forgives student loans to people who become public school teachers. That's who DeVos wants to screw over. Teachers.
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When you're reading the Eric Adams indictment today, take a moment to ask yourself why the Turkish government and its aligned business interests were willing to go so far and spend so much on bribes to make sure that they could develop skyscrapers in NYC.
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Boeing whistleblower John Barnett was planning to drive home to Louisiana after his deposition on Friday 3/8 before Boeing lawyers asked him to stay one more day to finish his testimony.
His body was found on the morning of 3/9. finance.yahoo.com/news/last-…
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REMINDER: Ticketmaster/LiveNation require touring artists to sign NDAs that prohibit them from mentioning COVID as a reason for cancelling shows.
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They gouged us for 3 straight years and now that people are like "well I guess we just can't buy so much stuff anymore" they're ADMITTING it as a way to get us to buy more stuff again.
Amazon, Walmart and Target all just announced they're cutting prices to bring back customers after making the "mistake" of raising them too high. It turns out they COULD have cut prices all along, but chose GREED instead!
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"Consumers making $45k and less" is 45% of all individuals.
In other words, MCDONALDS is now TOO EXPENSIVE for almost HALF of Americans.
McDonald's says it is seeing decreased traffic from consumers making $45k and less. Eating at home has become more affordable so the chain is losing that group to grocers, etc. $MCD
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If McDonald's supply chain (they're the largest purchaser of beef in THE WORLD) is dependent on prison labor being paid under $1/hour...
The implications are so SYSTEMIC that it means you have to throw out everything you've been taught to believe about how the "economy" works.
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I feel like people aren't worried enough about how the country's largest city is basically overrun by a violent paramilitary that's holding the city budget hostage and violently lashing out at anyone who opposes them.
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You'd think that the deadliest mass shooter of 2023 still being out there somewhere 2 days later would be a bigger deal, but t hen we'd have to talk about how why all the money we spend on cops didn't stop him OR find him and that wouldn't fit the narrative.
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With FaceID, cops can just point your phone at your face while they have you in handcuffs then look through your phone without a warrant.
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When Hitler *was* alive, he was embraced by MILLIONS of Americans.
20k Hitler supporters filled Madison Square Garden for a Nazi rally. Members of Congress helped spread Nazi propaganda in the US. Even after the war ended, some Republican Senators denounced the Nuremberg Trials.
The past year has taught me if Hitler were alive today, he would’ve been embraced by a lot more of you than y’all would like to admit. What a lot of you are willing turn a blind eye to, and allow happen to others today, is exactly how the road to fascism is paved.
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They put Kaepernick kneeling on the cover of Time magazine. People in middle American dentist offices are about to be mad as hell.
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The price of groceries and rent will never go back down.
In one year, they made cost of living go up so much that any raise anyone got at any time in the last 5 years is completely wiped out.
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The thing anyone under age 50 has to realize is that we're probably not gonna die from COVID-19 but we will absolutely be the vectors who spread the disease around to old people who *will* die which is why we gotta take precautions too.
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This is the 57 story Key Tower in Cleveland. At 947 feet, it's the tallest building in the city.
The ship that crashed in Baltimore is 948 feet.
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The price of eggs was fixed. It was not "supply chain issues" or "increased costs due to inflation."
Every major egg producer worked together to fix prices, gouge consumers, and massively increase profits.
BREAKING: America's largest egg producers and industry groups illegally rigged the market to drive up the price of eggs, a jury has found.
Their price-fixing scheme included exporting millions of eggs overseas to drive up U.S. prices around Thanksgiving and Easter.
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Did you know that there used to be laws and regulations that stopped capitalists from just pooling all their money together to buy every profitable business in existence, vacuum out all the value into their own pockets, and then declare bankruptcy? That was before Reagan.
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Paying back the billionaires who take them on 3 week megayacht vacations every summer.
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Elaine Chao's sister drowning in a Tesla that may have driven itself into a lake and then McConnell almost immediately announcing that he's stepping down from GOP leadership 8 full months before the election.... that's something.
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If the US started evacuating US citizens from Beirut, we'd have to admit that Israel's bombings are not "precision targeted" or "designed to minimize harm to civilians."
And that's why they won't do it. They'd rather see Americans die than admit the truth about what's happening.
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This is NOT one of those "is this happening more or are we just seeing it more on social media?" situations.
Planes catching fire midflight, losing panels because loose bolts aren't checked, having pieces of the wing fall off is NOT a regular thing, and it wasn't in the past.
United engine catches fire minutes into flight from Bush Airport: 'Thought we were going to die' abc13.com/houston-flight-uni…
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Trump cheated on his first wife openly and publicly, got a divorce and married the mistress, then divorced her, then got a mail order bride.
Barack Obama proposed to a serious girlfriend before he met his eventual wife Michelle, according to a new biography cbsn.ws/2pFG7AA
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It's very telling that people are so surprised by economic stats like "3 out of 4 individuals make less than $75k/year."
This country is set up to discourage class consciousness/solidarity, and one of the key ways it works is misinformation about how much money we all make.
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Barnett was in Charleston being deposed by Boeing lawyers last week. He was scheduled to give additional testimony on Saturday but never made it.
Boeing then announced that he was found in his truck parked outside of his hotel, dead of a "self-inflicted gunshot wound."
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The Nashville establishment brought this on themselves and now their entire industry is about to get hit by a Beyoncé-sized tsunami.
Beyoncé references her 2016 CMAs performance with @thechicks in her cover reveal post for #COWBOYCARTER.
“This album has been over 5 years in the making. It was born out of an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed...and it was very clear that I wasn't.”
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I'm sure it's just a coincidence that heroin is suddenly hard to find just a few months after the CIA lost its military cover in Afghanistan, the epicenter of global heroin production.
NEW: Heroin is disappearing from drug markets across North America— a trend that experts say is wreaking havoc.
bit.ly/3mE9ORJ
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REMINDER: Congress made a law that says it's legal for them to do this and only Congress can repeal that law.
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For comparison, this is how law enforcement responded when native people peacefully protested against the Dakota Access pipeline.
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Government officials can't use their position to promote private business interests, so Trump promoting his friend's book from the Oval Office is illegal. He doesn't own that office, we do.
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Mixing Worcestershire sauce and garlic powder into the ground beef for 4th of July burgers
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The job market situation is simple:
After the 2008 crash, employers were able to hire workers for much less than they were worth and got used to having a ton of leverage in the employment market.
They want to do the same exact thing now, but workers aren't having it this time.
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The Boeing whistleblower was found dead 3 days ago.
It took 2 days for news of his death to become public, no update from Charleston police, no comments from any politicians, no "narrative" about the story on corporate media, nothing except people like me talking onhere/TikTok.
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The more you learn about THIS history, the more you realize that the "history" you were taught by the US education system is pretty much nothing more than imperial propaganda.
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Notice how the "don't speak ill of the dead" crowd never has a problem when journalists, politicians, and law enforcement speak ill of someone who gets killed by a cop.
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Pelosi, 83 years old, unfathomably wealthy, increasingly unhinged and angry at young ppl who won't genuflect in her presence, for some reason refusing to just retire even AFTER she gave up the Speakership... a perfect avatar for the Democratic Party's leadership structure in 2024
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There's a story to be told about how major US cities and their governments have turned themselves into partners for foreign governments/business interests to develop real estate and make billions in profits that don't benefit anyone who actually lives and works in those cities.
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The Tulsa Massacre should be universally understood as one of the most important and revealing events in all of American history but white supremacy really kept it pretty much covered up for the last 100 years.
Scientists find a mass grave in Tulsa that might be from 1921 race massacre wapo.st/2HmR5bs
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In America, every solution to poverty is on the table except actually paying workers more money.
Teachers can’t afford Miami rents. The county has a plan: Let them live at school. miamiherald.com/news/local/c…
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No matter how many chemical plants blow up...
No matter how many food products are contaminated...
No matter how many trains derail...
In corporate media, they're all "isolated incidents" and nobody's fault.
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The only question right now is "WHY is the entire US establishment willing to go so much farther suppressing dissent about Israel policy than seemingly any other type of dissent other than racial justice protests?"
And the only possible answers are extremely disturbing.
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Did rent/food prices increase themselves, or are there PEOPLE making DECISIONS to raise those prices because they believe they can get away with it as the media just calls it "inflation" instead of PRICE GOUGING?
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"Supply & demand" guys never understand that when they have demands, it means they're at the mercy of suppliers.
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Windhorst ethered Luka so badly that Mavs PR made him do a sit down interview to take responsibility for his failures and limit the damage to his reputation.
Luka Doncic admits he let Dallas down in Game 3, telling his teammates: “My bad, you can’t do that — especially in the NBA Finals.”
Our interview on fouling out for the first time in the playoffs, needing another pain killing shot for Game 4 and trying to make history down 0-3:
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In Mississippi, women who are incarcerated are working at Popeye's for less than minimum wage and even being "hired" out TO INDIVIDUALS to do housework, yardwork, etc.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
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The "sharing economy" was a bait & switch.
First, they get unlimited funding from tech billionaires w money to burn (they literally refer to the budget as "burn rate"), operate at a "loss" to undercut competition, then once their customers are fully captive they jack prices up.
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Southwest just an example. EVERYTHING is teetering on the brink of collapse due to lack of maintenance, lack of investment, lack of modern infrastructure.
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Vaccines work so well that I have no idea what kind of illness “rubella” is even though I know I’ll vaccinated against it.
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Playing Jay Z instead of Sinatra for New York's roll call vote is the perfect example of how this convention is all about the Democratic Party power center FINALLY shifting to the post-Boomer generations.
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Just had a client rescind an offer because the candidate's credit report showed debts "above the level our compliance department has set."
They even had the nerve to say "if he can pay down some or all of those debts, we'd be happy to reconsider him."
HE NEEDS A JOB TO DO THAT
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If people knew what how easy it was to find an affordable apartment before 2010, they'd riot.
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They paid off Congress to make it legal, they didn't announce that it was happening, they put out propaganda (sorry I mean "marketing") to convince people it was better than a pension because "you control your money" and "you can benefit from the stock market like the rich," etc.
Why the fuck did people let companies replace pensions with terrible 401ks. Why was there no backlash to that?Why didn't anyone stop what is abundantly a terrible thing?
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People who describe themselves as "brutally honest" usually turn out to just be rude and inconsiderate.
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2024 is just watching scenes from disaster movies happen IRL and then getting back to sending emails for work.
Just hours before #HurricaneMilton is set to strike Florida, residents in several neighborhoods have witnessed an eerie spectacle
Groups of Sandhill cranes gathering and emitting sharp, urgent calls, as if signaling the need to flee
#Milton
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This was a racist riot, btw. The backlash to "disco" was not about the fact that it was catchy 4-on-the-floor dance music.
July 12/1979 - Disco Demolition Night happened at Comiskey Park which was a baseball promotion to destroy disco records. It was to happen in between a double header, that ended in the second game forfeited due to the field being damaged by the explosion & fans storming the field.
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Like, you fly someone out and go on a hike but then they can't complete the hike... you don't just leave them alone, especially when you know they're somewhere unfamiliar far from home.
There's just no reason to trust that this guy is telling the truth, even if he wasn't a cop.
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$320 million of OUR MONEY directly to war profiteers for a pier that only operated for 7 days and then literally fell apart.
The pier built by the US military to deliver aid to Gaza broke apart, in a major blow to humanitarian relief efforts cnn.it/4bCQpHY
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The report ends with this anecdote. Reporters followed a van that took Black prisoners to a former slave plantation that's now a tourist attraction w a hotel/restaurant.
They were there to work at the restaurant washing dishes.
Slave labor, on a plantation, in the 2020s.
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After the door fell off a Boeing 737 Max in the middle of a January flight, the FAA started auditing the production facilities and found that they're not even CLOSE to following the approved (and legally required) safety standards.
Hotel Keycards And Dawn Dish Soap Used In 737 Max Production As Boeing Fails 33 FAA Safety Checks jalopnik.com/hotel-keycards-…
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The missile strikes were so precise that they could only happen if the drone operator was looking at the top of the car and the top of the car had "WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN" printed on it in large typeface.
BREAKING: Netanyahu confirms IDF killed World Central Kitchen aid workers, says it was 'unintentional'
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Hard to say which is more ridiculous:
-Trump picking a fight with Lavar Ball by name.
-Trump saying American citizens should have been left in Chinese jail
-Trump thinking he alone could decide whether they stayed in Chinese jail or not
Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!
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And these foreign interests trying to cash in on big city real estate development are just following the example set by our own home-grown developers who've been bribing mayors, inspectors, and local politicians for decades to build "luxury" developments that charge obscene rents
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