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MatthewChat

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Retired curmudgeon, still curmudgeoning.

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rbreich , to Random stuff
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But seriously, is Trump now openly embracing fascism? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/but-seriously-is-trump-now-openly?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

MatthewChat ,
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@rbreich from the 1980s.

georgetakei , to Random stuff
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Wait until they hear about her new last name... https://percolately.com/daughter-changes-name-parents-refuse/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

MatthewChat ,
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@georgetakei They would probably buy her a couch, and expect them to keep that forever too:

MatthewChat , to Random stuff
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@starstryder https://astrodon.social/@JohnBarentine/112458401142793548 Hats off to the Royal Astronomical Society for tackling this issue. "Urgent action is needed to address an insidious and systemic problem within the world of and , a damning new report warns."

https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/urgent-change-needed-tackle-bullying-astronomy-and-geophysics

briankrebs , to Random stuff
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Ruh roh

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html

An upside-down flag, adopted by Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case. After the 2020 presidential election, as some Trump supporters falsely claimed that President Biden had stolen the office, many of them displayed a startling symbol outside their homes, on their cars and in online posts: an upside-down American flag. One of the homes flying an inverted flag during that time was the residence of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., in Alexandria, Va., according to photographs and interviews with neighbors. The upside-down flag was aloft on Jan. 17, 2021, the images showed. President Donald J. Trump’s supporters, including some brandishing the same symbol, had rioted at the Capitol a little over a week before. Mr. Biden’s inauguration was three days away. Alarmed neighbors snapped photographs, some of which were recently obtained by The New York Times. Word of the flag filtered back to the court, people who worked there said in interviews. While the flag was up, the court was still contending with whether to hear a 2020 election case, with Justice Alito on the losing end of that decision. In coming weeks, the justices will rule on two climactic cases involving the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, including whether Mr. Trump has immunity for his actions.
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    MatthewChat ,
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    @briankrebs 6 out of 9 of them lied under oath about roe vs wade being established law to congress. They are long past being truthful.

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    Not a bad business idea 🌮🚚

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei

    Woman with a taco in each hand enthusiastically shouting "It's Taco Tuesday".

    GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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    A video filmed during Donald 's New Jersey rally on Saturday has shown "thousands" of people leaving while the former president was still talking.
    https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-new-jersey-rally-crowd-walks-out-speech-video-1899832

    MatthewChat ,
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    @GottaLaff and after they left:

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    Need this ASAP.

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei if you have an iphone with siri on, you can yell "hey siri where are you" and she will answer "im over here". Pretty close if you have directional hearing.

    rbreich , to Random stuff
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    Is this for real?! | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avk3c7XkmNE&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    MatthewChat ,
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    @rbreich

    MatthewChat , to Random stuff
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    😜

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    That would be quite the goodbye.

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei https://www.threads.net/@openlygaypets/post/C6hxUXTxh8b

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    100% pure Jackman. https://www.comicsands.com/deadpool-creator-hugh-jackman-muscles-2668079002.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei

    briankrebs , to Random stuff
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    It's always amazed me that ID.me, which you have to use in order to interact w/ the IRS online these days, has a top level domain from the country of Montenegro. Ublock Origin says they're injecting tracking links from Italy's TLD when you login at the irs.gov website.

    What's next? Cookies from Colombia? AI from Anguilla?

    MatthewChat ,
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    @briankrebs my guess is that US intelligence agencies are prevented from spying on communications that begin and end in the USA, but if they go outside of the US, they can be legally monitored.

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    This is what passes for "news"? Absolutely pathetic. https://www.comicsands.com/eric-bolling-newsmax-biden-salad-2668104428.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei

    parismarx , to Tesla
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    Elon Musk is betting Tesla’s future on using self-driving fantasies to boost the share price instead of building a real car business. He just gutted the teams working on the Supercharger network (right as other companies are adopting it!) and new vehicles.

    https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-to-lay-off-everyone-working-on-superchargers-new-vehicles/

    MatthewChat ,
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    @parismarx

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    Oh, that is just classic. https://www.comicsands.com/tiffany-gomas-right-wing-influencer-2667837282.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei went from mentally disturbed straight to right wing grifter.

    parismarx , to Random stuff
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    Apple’s Vision Pro is a bad product with an even worse vision for the future of computation.

    New sales numbers prove it’s a failure, but more than that it shows the idea of tech’s inevitability is a myth. We have the collective power to stop tech that doesn’t serve us.

    https://disconnect.blog/the-vision-pro-is-a-big-flop/

    MatthewChat ,
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    @parismarx For $3500 you can get a top of the line gaming computer and monitor. Much more fun than looking like you are insane pinching and air tapping in public.

    parismarx , to Tesla
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    Incredible that Elon Musk been saying Tesla is on the cusp on mastering self-driving for a decade, it’s still nowhere in sight, and he still tells investors if they don’t “believe Tesla is going to solve autonomy, I think they should not be an investor in the company.”

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-23/tesla-s-musk-warns-wall-street-autonomous-future-is-main-goal

    MatthewChat ,
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    @parismarx Musk has been doing the same thing with putting a man on Mars. Look at the dates at the bottom. Fantasy BS.

    dangillmor , to Random stuff
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    The Washington Post's @pbump writes solid commentary, but for some reason the organization calls it "analysis" -- example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/24/trump-key-to-white-house/

    A good rule of thumb, when you encounter a piece labeled "analysis", is to change the word to "commentary" in your mind.

    MatthewChat ,
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    @dangillmor @pbump What a load of BS - Trump called the White House a dump when he was elected.
    “To me, one of the most beautiful buildings anywhere in the world that is not a building, it’s a home as far as I’m concerned. Not even a house, it's a home.”

    MatthewChat , to Random stuff
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    @starstryder Don't leave your door open.

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    NOPE.

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei

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    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    I can assure you, that instinct never goes away 😂

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei

    dangillmor , to Random stuff
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    Cowardice is contagious, as Columbia University's president showed in her congressional appearance. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/opinion/columbia-antisemitism-hearing.html

    MatthewChat ,
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    @dangillmor "By bending over backward to be agreeable, Shafik emerged from the four-hour grilling largely unscathed. All that’s been damaged is Columbia’s guarantee of academic freedom."

    molly0xfff , to Random stuff
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    really upsetting to see former Wikimedia Foundation director and CEO Katherine Maher getting targeted by the rightwing outrage machine in her new role as NPR CEO. she's wonderful, and NPR is lucky to have her. i hope they stand behind her.

    MatthewChat ,
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    @molly0xfff There are hundreds of news stories that completely confirm what she said is true, that Trump is a racist.

    "Africans Are Lazy, Good At Sex, Theft' BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY, & BRING BACK OUR POLICE! THEY SHOULD BE EXECUTED - TRUMP In 1989, race-baiting Donald Trump took out a full-page ad in The New York Times seeking the death penalty for five innocent teen- agers age 14, 15 and 16 years old—four blacks and a Hispanic. They were jailed for varying terms up to 13 years until the real culprit in an assault-rape case admitted to the crime in 2001. In the upper illustration, Donald still was carrying on in 2015. He currently is wooing the black vote in 2020.
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    • parismarx , to Non Political Twitter
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    Elon Musk declared he wouldn’t comply with orders from Brazil’s Supreme Court to ban far-right accounts involved in an attempted coup.

    It shows how Musk uses Twitter to amplify fascism, but also why many countries are increasingly fed up with unaccountable US tech firms.

    https://disconnect.blog/elon-musk-is-already-losing-his-battle-with-brazil/

    MatthewChat ,
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    @parismarx and here he is palling around with the newly elected Argentinian fascist as well.

    briankrebs , to Random stuff
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    People worry about what their kids are doing online. They should probably be more worried about what their elderly parents are doing online.

    Seriously. When was the last time you heard someone suggested installing (legal) spyware (with consent) on your parents' computer, or adding your number to receive SMS when they make a purchase or send money?

    Maybe people already do this. But I never hear anyone talk about it. Let's talk about it.

    MatthewChat ,
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    @briankrebs not spyware, remote access software to fix stuff. Ever tried to tell/cajole/prod/beg an old person to put their task bar back at the bottom instead of the side where they accidentally moved it to? And have them move it back to the side again the next day? FOUR DAYS IN A ROW?

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    Please tell me this isn't an actual thing 🤢

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei my sisters dog loves them. Whenever tbey go out in cicada season its cronch cronch the whole time. She has to wipe the bug guts and parts off his mouth when he comes back in.

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    What a sad pathetic little man. https://secondnexus.com/kern-god-haters-arizona-abortion?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei It's nice that try to include in their prayer circles, but imitating them by "speaking in tongues" is just cruelly mocking them. I would say it goes as far as a white person putting on blackface. https://psychcentral.com/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-speech-patterns

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    What a sad pathetic little man. https://www.comicsands.com/giuliani-earthquakes-targeting-communist-states-2667720241.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei Missouri had the strongest recorded earthquake in US history. Strong enough to change the course of the Mississippi river.

    Stupid, easily disproven lies that flatter MAGA egos.

    rbreich , to Random stuff
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    According to the WaPo: “Donald Trump has privately said he could end Russia’s war in Ukraine by pressuring Ukraine to…cede Crimea and the Donbas border region to Russia.” Did we learn nothing from WWII and the danger of appeasement? Give an inch, he'll take it all.

    MatthewChat ,
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    @rbreich

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    Donald is more deranged by the day. https://secondnexus.com/biden-campaign-trump-nelson-mandela?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei Narcissistic delusions of grandeur.

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    Delusional much, Elon? https://www.comicsands.com/elon-musk-all-time-high-2667695032.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei That's what happens when you fire all the people that are getting rid of bots.
    "They found that the suspicious trajectory favoring X traffic was the work of bots imitating human activity."

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    Field trip!

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei

    briankrebs , to Random stuff
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    Is it possible N. Virginia could feel the 4.7M earthquake this morning whose epicenter was in NJ? Because I definitely thought I did. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/executive

    MatthewChat ,
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    @briankrebs The appalachian granite is very hard and conducts earthquakes up and down the eastern seabord.

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    MatthewChat ,
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    @GossiTheDog 😳 "began by warning Caceres that he was potentially in danger of reprisal from the North Korean state and that he should be wary of the possibility of a physical attack that might be made to look like a mugging, or of someone tampering with his prescription medications"

    jerry , (edited ) to Random stuff
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    Fediverse moderator observation: disagreeing with or disliking someone’s bad takes does not (necessarily) make them a fascist or a nazi. Some people are just regular assholes or shitheads and being hyperbolic doesn’t really help. The terms nazi and fascist are so overused here as to have lost most of their meaning.

    Also, please please please, strive to be kind. I know it’s hard and kindness can’t be unlimited. There are a lot of assholes and shitheads in this world, and treating someone badly has likely never changed their mind nor ever will.

    Thank you for attending my talk.

    MatthewChat ,
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    @jerry “good fences make good neighbors”

    rbreich , to Random stuff
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    RFK Jr. says President Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Trump.

    Rubbish!

    Only one candidate has been charged with a criminal conspiracy to overturn an election. That's Trump.

    RFK Jr isn't running for president. He's running to reelect Trump, and he knows it.

    MatthewChat ,
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    @rbreich

    MatthewChat , to Random stuff
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    Cool job for a .

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    What's the big quesa-deal?

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei cream cheese and cheddar fried until crispy - keto tortilla makes a nice taco.

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    And the grift goes on. https://www.comicsands.com/trump-god-bless-usa-bible-2667607233.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei Free golden bull statue with every purchase.

    briankrebs , to Random stuff
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    Is it me, or does this fscking guy get smaller every day?

    MatthewChat ,
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    @briankrebs One pill makes you larger, one pill makes you small...

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    Somehow, this charlatan has convinced his followers he is a Christ figure. https://secondnexus.com/trump-supporter-jesus-psalm-persecution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    Rittenhouse's inability to address simple facts says it all. https://www.comicsands.com/rittenhouse-flees-stage-kirk-racism-2667581253.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    Dark Brandon does it again 😂 https://secondnexus.com/biden-trolls-trump-golf-club?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei "Pele" :ablobspin:
    "Trump's caddies are aware of his tendencies and accommodate them accordingly. He alleged that Trump often kicks the ball out of the rough, prompting caddies to nickname him "Pele," after the renowned soccer player."

    parismarx , to Random stuff
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    In what world is Truth Social worth $5.5 billion? 😵‍💫

    https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/trump-makes-a-new-fortune-with-public-listing-of-truth-social-93790821

    MatthewChat ,
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    @parismarx i hear his initial partners in Troth Senchal are suing him because Trump cheated them by diluting their shares. Basically he diluted their shares to almost nothing while inflating his.

    He might not be able to cash in until that lawsuit is resolved - several years or so.

    ProPublica , to Random stuff
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    How the U.S. Waged a Global Campaign Against Formula

    Records and interviews show that the U.S. government repeatedly used its muscle to advance the interests of large baby formula companies while thwarting the efforts of and other developing countries to safeguard children’s .

    https://www.propublica.org/article/how-america-waged-global-campaign-against-baby-formula-regulation-thailand?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

    MatthewChat ,
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    @ProPublica 2017 - the Trump administration.

    rbreich , to Random stuff
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    There’s something odd about Trump’s inability to post an appeal bond in his NY civil fraud case. All those buildings and clubs could serve as collateral against a loan to pay the bond…unless they are already pledged as collateral on other loans. Is it all a house of cards?

    MatthewChat ,
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    @rbreich The bond companies will not accept real estate as collateral on such a large bond. Trump either doesn't own it, even though his name is on it, or it is mortgaged to the hilt. https://www.curbed.com/article/trump-lawsuit-real-estate-nyc-letitia-james.html

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    You do not choose the nickname. The nickname chooses you...

    MatthewChat ,
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    @georgetakei

    the character "Bubbles" from the show "Trailer Park Boys". His signature feature is his enormous glasses.

    rbreich , to Random stuff
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    As Biden's EPA bans asbestos, here's your reminder that Trump actively sought to bring asbestos back — possibly as a favor to Russia, the world's largest asbestos producer.

    MatthewChat ,
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    @rbreich

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