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California@lemmy.world•Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California
14·5 days agoWhat a trash politician.
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politics @lemmy.world•New CDC Guidance Could Revive a Rare but Deadly Disease
22·7 days ago“Meningococcal disease is a terrible, terrible disease,” explained Walter Orenstein, MD, of Emory University in Atlanta and former director of the U.S. Immunization Program. He recalled seeing pediatric cases during his infectious diseases training in the 1970s “that were just awful and unfortunately led to a number of children dying and the potential for brain damage in those surviving.”
The acute, severe disease is driven by the Neisseria meningitidis bacterium. Infection can lead to bacterial meningitis, sepsis, and pneumonia. About half of people with the disease present with meningitis, which can include sudden onset of fever, headache, a stiff neck, nausea, and altered mental state.
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politics @lemmy.world•Schumer, Jeffries Refuse to Join Democrats' Growing Calls to Slash ICE Spending | Common Dreams
32·8 days agoWho needs the diet version of fascists?
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politics @lemmy.world•Insiders Spill on Stephen Miller’s Daily Yelling Meltdowns
61·11 days agoWell to be fair Steve Bannon is a literal nazi and his brain is a smooth sphere of angry mushy hate so…
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Uplifting News@lemmy.world•Bison return to Illinois' Kane County after 200 years, a crucial step for conservation and Indigenous connectionEnglish
22·13 days ago“The bison are there to teach the prairie how to be a prairie, so the prairie remembers how to be a prairie,” Young said. “And the prairie is there, so the bison can remember how to be bison.”
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politics @lemmy.world•This Is a Blatant Illegal Act of War Against Venezuela by Trump | Common Dreams
2·14 days agoIn my opinion no and that is the point.
Drive up prices by artificially constricting supply…
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politics @lemmy.world•Is there any legal justification for the US attack on Venezuela?
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politics @lemmy.world•Is there any legal justification for the US attack on Venezuela?
29·14 days agoIf the US faces no consequences for the invasion of Venezuela, experts believe it could embolden other countries to carry out operations which may contravene international law.
“The most obvious consequence is that China will take the opportunity to invade Taiwan,” Robertson said. “This is the most appropriate time for it to do so, bolstered by the precedent of Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and of course his appeasement of Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. In fact, I would say that Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is the crime of aggression, the same crime Putin has committed by invading Ukraine.”
This is an overthrow of a foreign government. It’s an act of war. It is an open-ended declaration of foreign occupation. And as all at the microphone either proudly declared and reluctantly admitted, it was pulled off without consultation with anyone outside their little circle.
That’s what’s impeachable. If Trump understood what he was saying, he was violating all concepts of checks-and-balances. If he didn’t understand, he is incapacitated.
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politics @lemmy.world•Senate to vote next week to block Trump’s military action against Venezuela
21·14 days agoIf the only choice you ever make is to fold than what meaning can time possibly have for you anyways? Every moment is every other moment, all one synchronous performance of cowardly capitulation to fascism.
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politics @lemmy.world•John Bolton on the US Strikes on Iran: ‘Better Late Than Never’
21·15 days agoThe enemy of your enemy… can still be your enemy.
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politics @lemmy.world•Live Updates: U.S. Captures Venezuelan Leader, Trump Says
5·14 days agoShitting pants, “acing” dementia tests and arbitrarily toppling the governments of other nations.
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politics @lemmy.world•Democrats Aim to Make GOP Pay as 'Angry' Voters See Health Insurance Premiums Soar
182·15 days agoYeah except what if we just try to shame everybody into voting for a centrist candidate they aren’t inspired by at all?
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politics @lemmy.world•‘I don’t think we should have billionaires’: mayor Zohran Mamdani in his own words
27·16 days agoThe way I see it, billionaires are best understood as an autonomous cancerous process of money hoarding money, the human being who is the billionaire at the center of it hardly has any agency, just raw and pure complicity in the growth of the cancer enveloping them in a replacement of their human identity with an approximation of one constructed from financial abstractions.
Billionaires think they are making more and more important choices as they get richer but what really is occurring is they are becoming less and less a relevant part of the money they hoard in terms of what actions that entity of money takes and why it does so.
To be a proud billionaire is to be a proud insect host for the paratisoid wasp that is wealth hoarding. It is a strange and disturbing ideology from the perspective of an insect to take pride in being the vessel for a process that will most certainly annihilate you from within.
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politics @lemmy.world•‘I don’t think we should have billionaires’: mayor Zohran Mamdani in his own words
331·16 days agoI also can’t think of a more insane pick than to let that individual be Elon Musk. Really shows how billionaires fail their way to the top.
At the end of the day I think billionaires owning space companies undermines the pursuit of humans going into space and studying space in general as it is difficult enough to justify to the average person normally that space exploration is important but when you have the people leading the pursuit of it hoarding enough wealth to lift an astounding amount of people out of poverty, then the association of those people with space exploration threatens to make space exploration a target of populist austerity sentiment unfairly because by its very nature it is a loud thing that draws lots of attention.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump family business delays launch of $499 gold smartphone
261·18 days agoDo you think you will be able to uninstall the Burger King app from Trump phones?
If I were conservative I think this site would drive me crazy.
Good
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump’s funding cuts put America’s consumer watchdog on the brink of collapse
1·18 days agoI AM SO TIRED OF WINNING
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump’s funding cuts put America’s consumer watchdog on the brink of collapse
2·18 days agoYeah, it is a bit like how angler fish use “small fish populism” to get their dinner by dangling a lie in front of small fish until it is too late for them.

The “rightwing populism” nodule of this angler fish is visible in the top left corner of image
















wow so surprising