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GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson plans to do whatever it takes to help Trump win with $100 million PAC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

That's called betting on a dead horse

Trump is a threat whether he wins or loses, Biden says in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

He should go after the ones bankrolling him and pushing hard wing ideologies to him. But yet again the same would have to apply to democrats financing billionaires. I guess let's shoot the messenger and hope no one smarter and more popular comes after him.

Biden administration announces more than $2 billion in grants to boost US power grid in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Compare this to the 3.5B grant to.bomb Gaza

Sloths 🦥 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

These giant slots dug these giants tunnels to hide from whom?

Elon Musk backs down from $45 million a month pledge to Trump, says he doesn’t ‘subscribe to cult of personality’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Rats and sinking ships

‘Bizarre beliefs’ and ‘creepy friends’: JD Vance could be Trump’s biggest mistake in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh he'll fit just fine

Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (30 children)

Though it won't show up as negative in the bill, not even a discount

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Gaza's sick and malnourished children die as hospitals collapse from Israel's war (www.npr.org)
 

A lethal combination of displacement, disease and malnutrition are killing Gaza's children as they wither away without healthcare.

Lauren Boebert tried to make a gay joke about Pete Buttigieg. It backfired completely. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It would have been easy to joke about Pete buttiboughtbyboeing, without being anti-gay. But it would require not being anti-gay

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Biggest takeaways from Mavericks-Timberwolves Game 1 of the West finals (www.espn.com)
 

The NBA's Western Conference finals got off to a dynamic start as the Dallas Mavericks took Game 1 against the Minnesota Timberwolves in a Minneapolis thriller on Wednesday.

Entering the fourth quarter trailing 83-82, the Mavericks rallied behind 15 of Luka Doncic's team-high 33 points in the final period to pull out a 108-105 win.

Netanyahu angrily rejects move to seek his arrest, lambasts the ICC saying it has compared Israel to "mass murderers" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He's right, he completely smashed their records, he needs his own medals for his massive achievement in murders and massacres.

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2024 NBA playoffs: What will decide Celtics-Pacers and Timberwolves-Mavericks in the conference finals? (www.espn.com)
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Timberwolves stage largest Game 7 comeback in NBA history to down champion Nuggets (www.theguardian.com)
 
  • Minnesota Timberwolves 98-90 Denver Nuggets
  • T-Wolves roar back from 20-point deficit against Denver
  • Timberwolves will face Mavericks in Conference finals
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Blinken orders crackdown on leaks (www.politico.com)
 

Blinken crackdown on leaks, leaked to the press

Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Don't think it stops here. Interest groups and billionaires have always been busy reforming and reshaping politics to maximize their interests. Here it's blatant, but it tells you also the story on why we don't have public healthcare or free education.

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California university president put on leave for ‘insubordination’ after meeting Gaza protesters’ demands (www.politico.com)
 

California State University placed Sonoma State campus President Mike Lee on leave Wednesday after he agreed to protesters’ demands to involve them in university decision-making and pursue divestment from Israel.

Germany may introduce conscription for all 18-year-olds in c/[email protected]
Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

It's not US labor that is the most costly, it's US executives and c-suites

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AIPAC Is Secretly Intervening in Portland’s Congressional Race to Take Down Susheela Jayapal, Sources Say (theintercept.com)
 

The pro-Israel group is funneling money through a “pro-science” PAC, according to two members of Congress.

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Trump Lawyer Says Having Political Rival Killed Could Constitute 'Official' Presidential Act (www.rollingstone.com)
 

Sotomayor: If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military to assasinate him, is that within his official acts to which he has immunity?

"That could well be an official act," Trump lawyer John Sauer says

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Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution (www.theguardian.com)
 

The two tobacco companies Altria and Philip Morris International combined made up 2% of the branded plastic litter found, both Danone and Nestlé each produced 3% of it, PepsiCo was responsible for 5% of the discarded packaging, and 11% of branded plastic waste could be traced to the Coca-Cola company.

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The Next US President Will Have Troubling New Surveillance Powers (www.wired.com)
 

Over the weekend, President Joe Biden signed legislation not only reauthorizing a major FISA spy program but expanding it in ways that could have major implications for privacy rights in the US. Archive: https://archive.ph/6v4mf

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Champions league 1/4 finale (lemmy.world)
 
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21.19°c New record for global sea temperature (lemmy.world)
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