Paul Schoe

At FLEXChange.world, I support organisations with Student Exchanges and International Deployments.

My other passion goes towards providing youth with enticing and useful activities with camps and Daring Duck's #adventuresapp.

#YouthExchange #InternationalExchange #Outdoor #Scouting
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2026-05-15 15:23:32 CEST

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Yes, I agree. There are situations as those you mention.
However, statistically speaking, the abuse of the #UK welfare system is minimal.
Abuse is euphemistically grouped into what they call 'Overpayments'. It is 3.3%.
Most likely, the majority of these 'Overpayments' are not abuse but due to administrative issues. In addition, there is 0.4% of 'Underpayment'.
That means 97% of the welfare arrives exactly at the people it is intended for.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-2024-to-2025-estimates/fraud-and-error-in-the-benefit-system-financial-year-ending-fye-2025
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2026-05-13 13:46:45 CEST

RE: https://social.mitexleo.one/@ml/116562990663465737
We are so accustomed to having reduced the number of child deaths that some (thousands) now want to stop vaccinations that are in desperate demand in unvaccinated countries.
Weird that a US minister of health wants to bring the pre-vaccine world back to the USA.
Don't let ignorance kill your children.Follow your doctor's advice. They know the dangers.
#Vaccination #Health #USA #Kennedy
#note1k33…yxq9

2026-04-17 19:21:49 CEST

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Not just conditioned military. Conditioned towards Apartheid from a very young age.
#Israel

2026-04-17 19:08:07 CEST

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The IDF and Israel don't realise it are these acts of deception, that they have conducted over many years, that made people stop believing anything they say.
The last few years, they had to admit over and over again that the information they provided was made up.
That they now have to admit that they used AI to show a killed journalist with a Hezbollah military uniform only shows that even they know that their actions are inhumane and indefensible.
#Israel #IDF #WarCriminals #Liars
@npub1qqm…v4e4

2026-04-11 17:21:11 CEST

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Amazingly fascinating that Claude can now escape it's own sandbox and automatically find vulnerabilities of systems.
The power (intelligence?) is enormous, the potential devastating consequences horrifying.
#AI #Fascinating #Horrific
@npub1san…jgxu

2026-03-30 13:16:49 CEST

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Thanks, that was an interesting read about Iran's Kharg Island.
Small but: 'In the arid environment of the Persian Gulf, access to drinkable water made Kharg a rare and valuable stop for early seafarers. Archaeological evidence suggests human activity dating back to the Achaemenid Empire, around 2,500 years ago.'
'Today, Kharg Island is one of the most heavily protected sites in Iran.'
#Iran #Kharg #Oil #History #FreePress
[@Free_Press](https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press )

2026-03-04 13:31:32 CET

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Very interesting read, this article explaining why AI works cannot get a copyright.
With several examples of interesting and sometimes funny rulings in the past.
One quote:
This is wonderful news for creative workers. It means that our bosses must pay humans to do work if they want to be granted copyright on the things they want to sell.
#AI #Copyright
@npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-02-27 13:21:30 CET

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You must admire the PR-person who came up with this statement:
'The AI system, called BK Assistant, compiles "FRIENDLINESS SCORES" at the fast-food chain's locations based on employees' conversations ..... BUT the technology is not designed to "evaluate individual employees".'
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So we score you, but we do not evaluate you based on that score.
How does that work?
#AI #Everywhere
@npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-02-27 09:53:58 CET

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The worst situation is not that you are refused entry, but that they allow you in and then ICE immediately takes you in for deportation. An ordeal that can take months while filling the coffers of the commercial deportation centres.
#USA

2026-02-27 09:51:38 CET

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I am not afraid that all that AI collecting information will result in a drone strike on me, but I am afraid that systems such as those from Palentir will prevent me from entering the USA by overzealous customs agents who feel that posts such as this are against the US's interest.
I was asked to speak at a conference there next month, but I doubt if in the current political climate I will accept that invitation. Even though going would be a wise move for my company to go.
#USA

2026-02-09 10:41:44 CET

The Prime Minister of #Spain 's clear explanation of why thriving societies should accommodate #immigrants.
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'Challenges are not driven by migrants’ ethnicity, race, or language. but by the same forces that affect our own citizens: poverty, inequality, unregulated markets, barriers to education and health care.
We should focus our efforts on addressing those issues, because they are the real threats to our way of life'
#Immigration
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/opinion/spain-migrants-europe.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KlA.CxMN.hRCPsb53Mn6R&smid=nytcore-android-share
https://archive.ph/VtQS8

2026-02-03 09:14:03 CET

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From this article:
Since Oct. 2023, the US
- has spent upwards of $32 billion (!!) on material and support ,
- deployed the American military against groups that sought to stop the assault by Israel,
- vetoed seven UN Security Council resolutions
- while ignoring or undermining the four resolutions it didn’t veto,
- and repeatedly sanctioned the International Criminal Court after it issued arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas officials.
#Gaza #USA #Horror #Israel
@npub128q…4f74
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2026-02-01 20:53:09 CET

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Watched it. It is unbelievable that in 2026 concentration camps and work camps are increasing again instead of being abolished
The number of deaths will increase. The suffering of family after family heart breaking.
Never again, we once said.
A lesson that even children of involved soldiers and survivors seem to have forgotten.
It is painful that every century, in regions all over the world, we need to relive 'never again' situations.
#ConcentrationCamps #Camps #Genocide

2026-01-08 10:36:12 CET

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'What followed the killing was as revealing as the act itself.
The machinery of the federal government engaged with startling speed, not to slow events down, not to question, not to acknowledge the gravity of what occurred, but to foreclose the narrative before it could breathe.
The language arrived pre-hardened, pre-accusatory, preordained. She was dangerous. She was a threat. She was a domestic terrorist. Her death was framed not as a loss, but as a necessity—didactic, exemplary,'
#Orwell

2026-01-08 10:32:17 CET

RE: https://mastodon.social/@touaregtweet/115858161970365874
'The distance between New Year’s Eve and now can’t be measured in days; it feels more like years of attrition. The onslaught has been unrelenting, a gauntlet of images and violations that refuse to stop.
And still—astonishingly —many of us continue to wake, to pour coffee, to pack lunches, to answer emails, to move through the rote choreography of daily life.
Each step taken with unconscious calculation. You sense the danger everywhere, humming beneath the surface, yet you keep moving.'
#Life
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2025-12-26 15:24:04 CET

Jackie, an AI and cybersecurity expert, speaks at the Marana Planning Commission hearing about the risks for local communities to accept building a data center there.
Data canters are both a financial and an environment disaster.
https://youtube.com/shorts/S45E50V7WLw?si=J-UGf33iMuDJgM8f
#datacenters #Unsustainable #AI

2025-12-06 12:11:14 CET

Another day, another example how #Trump destroys everything he touches. This time the reputation of the #Navy.
"The boat wasn't headed for the US, but for Suriname."
That means the boat was heading south, not north. So there was no doubt in anyone's mind that the boat was NOT heading for the US.
If free elections continue in the #USA, I wonder how long it will take to repair the damage Trump caused. Decades?
Trumpism is being accepted by all organisations as acceptable behaviour.
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2025-12-03 12:22:46 CET

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This personal video from a Navy Chief provides a staggering account of the depth to which ICE, supported by local police, has sunk.
I know that it costs you time, but I implore anybody who is interested in what ICE is doing to the USA, to watch the first three minutes.
In the USA, nobody is safe. Who would have ever expected that we would say that of the USA?
@npub1yyr…lyn2
#ICE #USA #Resist

2025-11-25 03:54:14 CET

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Her speech shows that it is the Israelis themselves who say that Jews are the only ones entitled to Palestine.
It is they who make this a religious issue, while many outside Israel try to differentiate between the Israeli government and the Jewish religion.
It is Netanyahu and people like Melanie Phillips who are the real threat to Jews, both inside and outside of Israel.
With their extreme remarks, they make the world a more dangerous place for Jews.
@npub1k7k…6qz5
#israel

2025-11-18 14:03:38 CET

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Thanks, I didn't know that deep-sea animals can see each other through bioluminescence, which makes their bodies their own light source, with colours ranging from nearly violet to green-yellow.
This is also an important sentence in the article you gave: 'turning on bright lights may permanently blind light-sensitive sight organs.'
That implies that we seeing those deep-sea animals might cause their death, as we need torches to see them.
@npub1764…nuj0 @npub18gr…5675
#DeepSea

2025-11-16 23:21:04 CET

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Thanks, Evan, I'll keep an eye open and will post here if I get any confirmation on reality or of proof of AI.
@npub18gr…5675

2025-11-16 13:38:13 CET

Edit: People are now wondering if this is real or #AI.
Since no source can be found, the bright colours tend to indicate AI, as the colors have no function at a depth where no light arrives.
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This morning, I woke up with this video with some wonders of our world, posted by @npub18gr…5675 on Mastodon.
Be surprised and enjoy this glance at what our earth offers 8,000 meters below sea level.
(I haven't seen anything like this from Mars yet 😉)
#Earth #Wonders #DeepSea #Ocean
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2025-11-16 08:56:46 CET

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Thank you for showing this, I never knew how to repair a hole in a knitted sweater, and this solution makes the reparation visible.
@npub14c2…cstu
#Sweater #Repair #Knitted
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2025-11-03 12:03:39 CET

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Marie Antoinette
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2025-10-13 15:55:42 CEST

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The article ends with:
'It’s bad when the world sees you as a bully;
it’s worse when the world also sees you as weak.
The man who promised to make America great again has probably ended our position of global leadership for the foreseeable future.'
#US #Trump #Weak #America

2025-10-13 15:52:05 CEST

One of the best articles I have read from Paul #Krugman
It explains how #Trump not only has betrayed the world's trust, but also dismantled US #science. Other countries take over while he also threw America’s system of #alliances in tatters. The USA lost the power they had via strategic partnerships.
This week Trump starts his next fight with China, while within a year, America has become more vulnerable to a rupture than #China.
(PS: just ask US #farmers)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-trump-is-making-china-great

2025-09-27 10:35:06 CEST

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Today, September 27, a large rally and concert against the genocide in #Gaza will take place in #Berlin under the title “All Eyes on Gaza” (5:00–9:00 p.m., Großer Stern, Straße des 17. Juni).
Today’s demonstration shows the enormous opposition to the horrific genocide in Gaza. Millions of people are shocked by the sheer brutality with which Israel and its supporters in Berlin and Washington are enforcing their economic and geostrategic interests in the region.
@npub1pr6…g3k5
#AllEyesonGaza
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2025-09-23 12:20:22 CEST

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In the section good news:
A judge on Monday lifted the Trump administration’s order to halt construction of Revolution Wind, a massive offshore wind energy project that would power hundreds of thousands of homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut.
The Interior Department confirmed the order will allow construction to resume at the site.
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Courts work slower than Trump's rants, but over and over again, we see that resistance works.
https://archive.ph/rC1Wq
@npub1ts5…nr6m
#Trump #Resist

2025-09-06 08:39:01 CEST

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Getting upset about something that only a very tiny edge of the population would ever be confronted with is also monumentally stupid.
Rallying people over something that would never happen to them, so that they become afraid that their kids will be converted at school.
Schools with litterboxes for kids who want to claim that they are cats? Another hoax to get people riled up. As if something like that would be school policy.
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2025-09-05 23:23:41 CEST

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Unfortunately, XX and XY aren't the only combinations that are possible.
They form the vast, vast majority, but people are born with different DNA combinations.
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2025-09-05 20:02:09 CEST

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When I look at a person, I never look at anything surgical. I look at how they dress, their style of hair, their make-up, their way of walking and their behaviour.
And in my experience, there is no way that you would not see the difference between transwomen and men.
@npub1m9m…d70p

2025-09-05 19:38:53 CEST

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Let's not forget that this Hyundai battery factory that ICE raided is a competitor of Tesla.
The time has passed when we thought it was an accident that the first foreign factory ICE raided was a competitor of Musk.
Trump is asking foreigners to invest in factories in America, and then this is happening with one of the largest foreign investments.
I am sure that these foreign companies feel welcomed. /s
@npub1akj…7u7q
#Trup #ICE #Tesla #Hyundai #LG #Factories

2025-09-05 19:22:20 CEST

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I disagree that there is no way to distinguish transwomen from men.
Transition is a long and difficult process. During that time, people inside that process are deeply emotionally affected while they prepare for a life that fits them more.
They do not want to stand out. Most of them hate drawing attention and therefore try to fit in as much as possible when they are among women.
Opinions about transwomen are more formed by prejudice than based on actual experiences.
@npub1m9m…d70p

2025-09-05 16:14:41 CEST

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Why is he upset about 'transwomen invading female-only spaces'?
Was he disturbed during his activities, or did his wife complain to him?
The chances of any woman actually meeting and recognising a transwoman in a female-only space are so small that it is hard to believe that it happened to his wife.
@npub1m9m…d70p

2025-08-15 09:59:20 CEST

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This article in The #Nation by #Flicker mentions the 10 #Denmark commandments to resist fascism in #WWII.
“10 Commandments for Danes”; simple moral instructions to stand against the #Nazis.
- Don’t work for the Nazis.
- Don’t shop in their stores.
- Don’t believe their propaganda.
- Protect those they persecute.
- You shall protect anyone chased by the Germans.
- Use the “Cold Shoulder" to bruise Nazi's frail egos.
They became a moral guide for ordinary people to resist.
@npub1xd8…dus6
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2025-08-13 20:33:51 CEST

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I am confident that the Administration will say that these surprising ways nighttime light wrecks the brain and body do not apply to people incarcerated in ICE centres. /s
It is research, so, by definition, it must be ignored.
https://scitechdaily.com/the-surprising-ways-nighttime-light-wrecks-your-brain-and-body/
@npub15qd…0c9m

2025-08-13 09:49:19 CEST

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Thank you both, you made me buy Karen Hao's 'Empire of AI' .
From a NY Times review:
The “paper clip problem” is a well‑known ethics thought experiment in the world of artificial intelligence where the ' harmless' goal of making paperclips ends up using all of Earth's resources.
Karen Hao argues that the pursuit of an artificial superintelligence has become its own figurative paper clip factory.
@npub1z3l…txvc @npub14sz…ur2r
#EmpireOfAI #Hao #KaenHao #AI #OpenAI
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2025-08-02 15:27:19 CEST

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No need to worry. This is the last time that the employment numbers are this bad.
Following the firing of Erika McEntarfer, the head of the government agency in charge of monthly jobs data, the king will now provide the real employment numbers.
He guarantees that in the future the employment numbers will look better. /s
@npub1s58…qy7t
#McEntarfer #Trump #Disaster #NoNumbers #NoAccountability
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2025-07-27 16:21:56 CEST

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If I kill one of your family members, the full condemnation is on me as the perpetrator and you are showered in sympathy.
If you then decide to kill every family member I have and everybody who lives in my apartment building or village, the attention shifts to you due to the unmeasurable inhuman response that you have to my, in itself, despicable act.
Israel's response drew attention from Hamas to their own inhumanity. Most people were on Israel's side.
@npub1zxn…0kqm @npub1qj0…wryw

2025-07-27 16:05:41 CEST

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We always remember the pogroms in Russia and the destruction camps of Hitler. The Munich attacks and the brutal attack by Hamas last year.
But now we will also remember #Israel as the country bombing thousands of civilians and purposely STARVING a population to reach a political goal.
I am just astonished how you have the gall to defend this.
Just as we will never forget the horrors against #Jews, we will also remember the #inhumanity of Israel.
@npub1a7v…muld @npub1zxn…0kqm @npub1qj0…wryw

2025-07-17 17:19:27 CEST

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I find the power of police unions in the USA indeed counterproductive to the mission of the police.
A union should not defend bad and corrupt behavior of their members, otherwise it will become less effective and is able to achieve less for all good members of their union.
@npub1ax9…8tmg @npub1xvv…hgzf @npub17s9…pgtg

2025-07-17 13:25:55 CEST

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Ignorant is indeed the word that comes to mind when reading your posts.
Sorry, unless you are a millionaire and only caring about yourself without knowledge of history, I don't see another reason why you would believe what you say.
@npub1xvv…hgzf
@npub17s9…pgtg

2025-07-17 10:40:27 CEST

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This is the weirdest thing that I have read this month.
I agree with Lea, you should go out in the fresh air and talk to some normal people.
Some achievements of Unions that you also benefit from: higher wages, better benefits, safer workplaces, protection against unfair treatment, minimum wage, the 40-hour workweek, child labor laws, and various worker protections.
In several countries, unions achieve this by strategically working with management.
@npub1xvv…hgzf @npub17s9…pgtg
#Unions #Success
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2025-06-20 21:54:16 CEST

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This is one of the main causes why decades-old companies go broke.
They are purchased as part of a financial game: sell everything and take on debt.
And now the GOP wants to support this even further by adding a tax break in the Trump bill?
Taxpayers must be pleased to support billionaires firing people from companies that were often healthy and had a healthy balance sheet. Until they came.
My only response:
@npub14a5…kxa6
#USA #Theft #GOP #Trump
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2025-05-27 08:56:54 CEST

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#Israel plans to annex the West Bank anyway.
This is just to be able to say: #UK and #France forced us to annex the West Bank.
Netanyahu is totally disingenuous and will expand his cruel extermination unless stopped by force.
@npub179t…aurj

2025-05-06 20:19:49 CEST

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This is also why #Musk wanted his own city rights.
Then he can unilaterally decide that in his city, his factories do not need environmental permits.
I wonder how the rest of Texas and Mexico like it when the #pollution comes to them.
And going to the police because of a dangerous work environment also becomes much more difficult.
@npub1xcd…yvjh
#Environment
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2025-05-02 14:29:55 CEST

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Besides associating this beautiful little girl with what is now happening in #Palestine, I also think about the fact that #Trump is now deporting 2-year-old US citizens to other countries.
I never expected that #Israel would top the charts of #inhumane behaviour, or that the #USA would stop due process for its own citizens.
There was a time when we told bullies to look in the mirror. But these people are proud of their actions, of how much they can hurt others.
@npub1ncp…zvaq

2025-04-08 13:14:19 CEST

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Good news: The #UNHRC has officially reaffirmed that Francesca #Albanese will remain in her role until 2028.
As the article states: A victory against the Disinformation Machine
@npub128q…4f74
#israel #Palestine #StopGenocide
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2025-04-08 12:41:57 CEST

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As the article states:
'The man broke every commitment he ever touched.
The Iran deal. The Paris Agreement. NATO cooperation. WTO norms. Trade deals with Mexico, Canada, and China. He walked away from each of them.
A hard-earned truth:
the United States cannot be trusted to lead.
Not because of one man but because of what half the country has chosen to normalize.
Not because of Trump alone but because every institution built to restrain him failed and then got in line.'
#Trump '#USA

2025-04-08 12:35:40 CEST

Joan #Westenberg in her new The Index news blog:
'Behind every handshake is a nation plotting its exit strategy from the American empire.
The #USA is not being courted—it's being managed.
The trust is gone.
It's gone in Brussels .....
It's gone in Tokyo, in Ottawa, in Berlin ......
Every signature is accompanied by an unspoken caveat: this will not last.
The world learned from #Trump's first term: Treaties are disposable.'
https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/
#TheIndex
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2025-04-01 10:46:14 CEST

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I still find this site one of the best ways to get an impression of the enormity of inequality.
And this site was made in 2018. Bezos's (and Musk's) wealth were more than doubled(!) since then.
1-pixel-wealth.
(You have to scroll right, and scroll, and scroll, and scroll)
https://eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
@npub15t7…08hr @npub1dn3…3xs9
#Inequality #Staggering #1pixelwealth
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2025-03-29 10:01:43 CET

50,000 people killed by Israel in Gaza. Dutch @trouw.nl has the first part of the list of their names on its front page today.
The list is ranked by age; these victims were all zero years old.
@npub1sgj…vpjx #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Murder #Victims #Trouw
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2025-03-06 13:08:36 CET

I saw this image passing by and one of the Toots replied with something I never realized.
This is the end game on rich people not paying taxes on stock:
'The basis for inherited stock is reset to the value on the date of death. If the heirs immediately sell, the capital gain and taxes on that gain would both be zero'
So, only inheritance tax would apply, no capital gain tax. The collateral bank loans are paid off and the rich person lived wealthy without paying taxes
https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/114111578392376876
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2025-01-16 12:19:34 CET

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That #Pixelfed is now in the Top 10 of most downloaded APPs in the USA, also means that we, as a Fediverse community, have to come together.
If you see a link somewhere, PLEASE support your PIXELFED server. Even when it is just with $2, $10 or $50.
Their operational costs are surely skyrocketing and we have to make sure that this does not become a Fediverse debacle but a Fediverse success story.
EDIT: I just received this link:
https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project
@npub15z3…0xrp
#Fediverse #TopApp #Support
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2025-01-15 13:48:54 CET

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Good news.
The memories of the victims of Auschwitz should not be overshadowed by speakers playing politics.
@npub1ncp…zvaq

2025-01-08 12:41:44 CET

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Net als destijds de Duitsers, kunnen #oorlogsmisdadigers nog altijd vervolgd worden.
Dit NOS Artikel:
De Hind Rajab Foundation heeft 27 zaken lopen tegen individuele Israëlische militairen en één grote zaak tegen zo'n 1000 militairen bij het Internationaal Strafhof in Den Haag.
Volgens Raza zijn van de 27 individuele aanklachten die de organisatie heeft lopen er minstens 14 tegen Nederlanders. Zij hebben vaak een dubbele nationaliteit: Nederlands én Israëlisch.
@npub1wpn…0wkz
#Israel #Gaza

2025-01-07 20:21:44 CET

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And this is not a past tense.
The people of the world (not their leaders) will react for decades to #Israel for what they are doing.
We will never forget the WWII camps and we visit #Auschwitz, but we will also never forget #Palestine; we will visit the destroyed #hospitals in the same way.
Trying to understand, but never succeeding, of how depraved people can become.
Thinking about the immense #suffering and #starvation that took place there. Thinking about the #perpetrators.
@npub1t82…5qhr
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2025-01-05 12:28:53 CET

The world is showing their disgust with what is happening in Gaza.
Brazil is one of the first countries to start investigation of an Israeli tourist suspected of war-crimes.
To my surprise the Israeli government shows no restraints in their efforts to annihilate a complete population from their ancestors homes.
The perpetrators might feel kings in Israel, but the rest of the world sees them for wat they are: slaughters and war criminals.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250104-historic-moment-brazilian-court-orders-investigation-of-israeli-war-crimes-suspect/
#Gaza #Israel #WarCrimes

2025-01-03 19:03:25 CET

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Also worth noting in this in-depth article about Luigi are the staggering actions of United Health Care, the insurance company.
- during the pandemic, UHC billed the government $11,000 for the $8 saliva test, a margin of 183,000% .
- UHC's in-house algorithm, nH Predict, forces patients to leave the hospital while still sick, but has an error rate of 90%.
- UHC defers doctors’ payments for months or even years while offering them a loan system to survive.
#Luigi #Mangione #UHC #United
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2025-01-03 18:26:14 CET

A comprehensive article in France about Luigi's background.
- Brian Johnson was shot by someone in his class, or destined to join him in the dominant boys’ club .
- Luigi Mangione is a bro like any other.
- Hadn’t posted anything online for six months.
- In the Mangione case, the hierarchy of reality has been reversed.
- Mangione knows exactly what he is doing, who he is targeting, and why.
- Fans support him with the tools of the time.
https://www.arretsurimages.net/chroniques/clic-gauche/luigi-mangione-lerreur-404-pour-la-presse
#Luigi #Mangione #Prevost

2025-01-03 10:50:51 CET

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Companies are not anonymous actors.
Behind every company action, there is an executive who decided to do that action.
If the company's action is illegal, there shouldn't be only fines, but there should be legal consequences for the executive as well.
This used to be called 'accountability'.
#Legal #Accountability #Companies #Liability
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2024-12-27 14:24:27 CET

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I doubt if you are going to get what you want.
Politizing the departments is explicitly announced as a policy by Trump and his minors.
I hope their work will not hurt you, your family and your friends in the same way that their politicizing civil servants will hurt tens of thousands of appointees and millions of Americans.
@npub1zq8…jytp @npub1qqm…v4e4 @npub1vft…3w3s @npub1mpt…955q

2024-12-27 11:53:23 CET

Henry #Farrell made some remarks about #crypto in 'What will happen to U.S. economic power under Trump?'
Important Trumpworld people like “crypto czar” David Sacks and Elon #Musk, were from the “PayPal mafia” with a core goal in its early days": to displace the US dollar.
As Peter #Thiel described, their ambition was “to create a new currency that would replace the U.S. dollar.”
They see Bitcoin as it might fulfil PayPal’s “vision to create ‘the new world currency.’”
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/what-will-happen-to-us-economic-power
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2024-12-15 17:22:59 CET

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The Financial Times reminded us that influential South Africans are now trying to shape the USA's future
Their vision of life:
Southern Africa under apartheid offered an extreme version of some of the main themes of American life today.
- there was tremendous inequality
- to whites of a certain mindset, this was inscribed in nature
- Like the US, SA was a violent society
- a contempt for government
- made-up stories
https://archive.ph/Y1Uz9#selection-2377.3-2377.224
@npub1205…xfvr
#ft #Trump #Musk #Thiel #Furber #Maga
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2024-12-02 12:34:28 CET

A fabulous tool for all Mastodonners who post pictures: Be My AI.
The software, available for Windows, Android and iPhone takes a picture or image and provides a very detailed description that you can copy into your Alt text (see examples below).
The interface is extremely simple and the program works for art, nature and graphs.
Adding a good Alt text has never been so easy.
Download it here:
https://www.bemyeyes.com/download
#Alt #AltText #Convenient #LowVision #Tools #Mastodon
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2024-12-01 16:48:32 CET

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#Musk, as the owner, has the freedom to cancel #X accounts and even assign them to other people.
He already did that and assigned people a different account because he wanted to have theirs.
That he wants to do that again for Alex Jones, shows that anybody who says something negative about Musk is at risk of losing their account (and #followers).
The only way to be assured of a self-owned, independent follower base is by being on a federated platform such as #Mastodon
@npub18rm…g8c3 @npub1zdv…u3c4
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2024-12-01 13:53:10 CET

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And Charles Kushner also passed on these values to Jared Kushner.
This is what they do to their own family members.
Expect zero empathy from either the Trumps or the Kushners. Their focus is now on building apartments in Gaza with money from Saudi Arabia.
@npub1xp6…702r
#Kushner #Gaza # Trump #Israel
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2024-11-29 13:00:35 CET

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From this article: Trump voters realize that their votes have consequences for their relationships with friends:
“I won’t pass the turkey to someone who supports a party that targets disabled people or takes away reproductive rights.
I won’t sit by the Christmas tree celebrating Jesus while so many are at risk of losing their lives because they can’t get needed care.
I won’t unwrap gifts from people who voted for a party that talked about internment camps.”
@npub1lwd…kl7f
#Trump #Friends
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2024-11-28 17:12:59 CET

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I have the impression that the OP is willing to pay for articles but does not want to pay for dozens of local sites that he only visits once in his lifetime.
I use archive.ph for such situations, but with archive.ph I feel that I am stealing from the authors.
@npub1dvh…w7t9 @npub1vc3…axsh

2024-11-28 17:06:00 CET

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The Dutch company Blendle is doing exactly that: one subscription to read articles in hundreds of magazines.
However, they stopped the US service.
https://www.blendle.support/hc/en-us/articles/4404282186769-What-is-Blendle
@npub1vc3…axsh
#Blendle #Read

2024-11-16 10:47:34 CET

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Frank Kalshoven hier in de Volkskrant:
'Dat het vreemd is om de helft van het grondgebied van een land te gebruiken voor een activiteit die slechts 1.5% bijdraagt aan het inkomen en grote schade veroorzaakt bij de productie.
Misschien is die schade groter dan 1.5%, waamee landbouw een welvaarts-vernietigende activiteit zou zijn.
Nederland heeft geen ruimteprobleem. Wel irrationeel ruimtegebruik.'
@npub13kw…srj8
#Kalshoven #Volkskrant #Boer #Economie #Ruimte
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2024-11-04 00:31:17 CET

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That is a powerful speech by Alicia Keys.
Wow, there are so many literate people among the Democrats.
There is such a difference between listening to them and listening to speakers at a rally of the Golden Spoon Bully.
@npub1kxu…9fca @npub1z4k…g27u [@barbaraj.sobel](https://threads.net/@barbaraj.sobel/ )
#Vote

2024-10-22 11:15:33 CEST

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We are talking about the morality of Trump's bankruptcies to stiff suppliers and workers, and then you switch to the morality of abortion?
Is that your way of saying: I realize that I have no argument in favour of Trump, so instead, I start talking about something else?
@npub1m0j…89yn

2024-10-22 11:00:33 CEST

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So, you will vote for Trump because he never went personally bankrupt.
-- only immoral people stiff workers and small entrepreneurs who successfully completed their tasks.
- only immoral people steal so much from a non-profit for Kids that have Cancer that a court rules that they are no longer allowed to run a non-profit
- There is a difference between using bankruptcy to restructure a business and using bankruptcy to stiffen partners, workers, and suppliers.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hundreds-claim-donald-trump-doesn-t-pay-his-bills-n589261
@npub1m0j…89yn

2024-10-22 10:40:10 CEST

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And your position is exactly what we do not understand.
We do not understand how people can vote
- against their own wallet,
- against their own special security,
- against their own health care,
- against their own rights,
- against their own future,
only to
'give the Dems and Libs trauma'.
@npub1m0j…89yn
#Vote #Democracy #Future
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2024-10-22 10:19:37 CEST

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The NYT article:
'His businesses went bankrupt repeatedly and others failed. He was taken to court for stiffing his vendors, stiffing his bankers and even stiffing his own family.
Avoided the draft during the Vietnam War and avoided paying any income taxes for years. Forced to shell out tens of millions of dollars to students, found liable for wide-scale business fraud.
He has boasted of grabbing women, cheated on all three of his wives.
The full record stands out'
#Trump #LifeLongCriminal
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2024-10-22 10:10:58 CEST

Fascinating NYTimes article on the Golden Spoon Bully.
'What would once have been automatically disqualifying barely seems to slow Mr. Trump down in his comeback march for a second term that he says will be devoted to “retribution.”
He has survived more scandals than ... casting himself as a serial victim rather than a serial violator.
That belies a record of scandal stretching across his 78 years. Accused, investigated, sued by so many ...'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/us/politics/trump-scandals.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
#Trump #LifeLongCriminal

2024-10-04 09:52:57 CEST

This article from the Guardian describes how Israel went from a place where everybody stood by its side to an international pariah state.
“For decades Israel projected itself as a thriving western-style democracy in the Middle East, but the brutality of the war in Gaza has forced the world to look closer.
Now many see Israel through the eyes of its victims, and the contradiction – the paradox – is too jarring.”
'Israel faces major, possibly generational damage to their reputation.'
#Israel
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2024-09-24 00:00:55 CEST

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In my lifetime, and in history books, I have not yet found a system that works better than capitalism.
The current wealth in the hands of a few is ridiculous and horrendous, and an example of capitalism really gone wrong.
Money that should go to education, health care, and infrastructure in the hands of a few.
And that is why we need regulation.
But I have not yet seen another system that stimulates human creativity and innovation as much as capitalism.
@npub1l27…zpk4 [@DavidM_yeg](https://mstdn.ca/@DavidM_yeg ) @npub1k7t…uthl

2024-09-23 22:47:46 CEST

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I haven't yet found an alternative system with better results.
[@DavidM_yeg](https://mstdn.ca/@DavidM_yeg ) @npub1l27…zpk4 @npub1k7t…uthl

2024-09-23 20:53:06 CEST

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Capitalism: an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
I think that Rooseveld is a typical example of a person who introduced regulation to get rid of some of the negative effects of capitalism run wild.
@npub1l27…zpk4 [@DavidM_yeg](https://mstdn.ca/@DavidM_yeg ) @npub1k7t…uthl

2024-09-23 18:02:29 CEST

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Sorry, no time to read the article now, but I bookmarked it.
Since I have no faith in other systems, I prefer to return to a more regulated version of capitalism than the free market that has been pushed onto us during the last 30 to 40 years.
Thanks for the link.
[@DavidM_yeg](https://mstdn.ca/@DavidM_yeg ) @npub1k7t…uthl

2024-09-23 15:30:38 CEST

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A large part of healthy people's unhappiness comes from wanting more, more and more.
If we want to share the world with 8 billion people, there is no place for more, more, more. As a society, have to live within our means.
That has nothing to do with the ridiculous and damaging amount of money that can be hoarded in our current system by the 0.01%
Money that is necessary for the common good, from education, to health, to infrastructure, is landing at the hands of a few
[@DavidM_yeg](https://mstdn.ca/@DavidM_yeg ) @npub1k7t…uthl

2024-09-22 23:55:32 CEST

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I strongly disagree with stating that people are poor because of the comparison with the rich.
Unhappiness comes largely from our obsession with comparing ourselves with other people.
Whether I am poor or not should depend on whether I can meet my family's daily requirements; it should not depend on how much my neighbour owns.
This focus on wanting to have at least as much as the other destroys the world—a never-ending cycle of more, more, more.
[@DavidM_yeg](https://mstdn.ca/@DavidM_yeg ) @npub1k7t…uthl

2024-09-22 22:22:30 CEST

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The definition of wealth varies. To me, somebody who doesn't have to live from paycheck to paycheck and can afford a house and family expenses is wealthy.
Under my definition, more people could be wealthy if they kept their expenses down.
Wealth, to me, is not how much you own but how much freedom you have with what you earn.
@npub1l27…zpk4 [@DavidM_yeg](https://mstdn.ca/@DavidM_yeg ) @npub1k7t…uthl

2024-09-22 21:21:03 CEST

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If everybody is poor, nobody can buy the products that the rich want to sell.
Wasn't it Ford who said: my workers need to earn so much that they can afford to by my car?
[@DavidM_yeg](https://mstdn.ca/@DavidM_yeg ) @npub1k7t…uthl

2024-09-22 10:44:10 CEST

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The wealth that some people have acquired over the last three decades is both horrendous and wasteful.
That is all money they cannot use themselves, and that could have been used for the greater good.
Instead, we reduced regulation to allow, for example, companies to pay wages so low that people still need food stamps to survive. To say capital is worth more than labour.
There is no need to replace capitalism. There is a need to regulate it again.
@npub1s02…zz9t @npub1wzy…v8ec @npub1k7t…uthl

2024-09-22 10:10:04 CEST

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I agree that unregulated capitalism has taken away the wealth workers produced and given it towards the rich.
But capitalism has also spurred a world of innovation, which has resulted in better health care, better food security, and fewer wars than ever before.
We started regulating capitalism early in the 20th century, and it brought unparalleled property to the middle class.
We forgot those lessons. Let's regulate #capitalism again so it works for all again.
@npub1s02…zz9t @npub1k7t…uthl

2024-09-22 10:02:05 CEST

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I prefer to regulate a system that has brought us so much good over stepping into the 'unknown'.
Particularly 'with those stakes'.
Unregulated capitalism is a disaster. But the unknown can be worse.
So, I prefer regulating the extreme inequality that was brought to us by tax cuts for multi-millionaires.
Those tax cuts have resulted in a system without money to invest in education, health care, infrastructure, and helping the poor climb the ladder.
@npub1wzy…v8ec @npub1k7t…uthl

2024-09-22 02:24:08 CEST

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Yet, there has never been another system in which people have made so much progress in food security, health care, and basic necessities.
@npub1s02…zz9t @npub1k7t…uthl

2024-09-22 02:21:27 CEST

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Maybe we should find something better before getting rid of what there is now.
Without a system, the power of the bully will be what rules us all.
@npub1wzy…v8ec @npub1k7t…uthl

2024-09-21 11:04:06 CEST

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Capitalism is still the system that brings the most prosperity to most people
But, as they discovered in the 1920s, capitalism needs to be regulated.
We forgot that lesson. We thought that if we made the rich even richer, everybody would benefit.
There is no trickle-down economics. There is only hoarding
We need to return to a period of prosperity for all —capitalism with progressive taxes—a system that works well for everybody. Even the rich need a wealthy population
@npub1k7t…uthl
#capitalism
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2024-09-03 00:39:13 CEST

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Unbelievable that Musk promotes a Tweet that says:
"This is why a Republic of high status males is best for decision making.
Democratic, but a democracy only for those who are free to think."
It only reminds me of one warning:
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
@npub1ehk…prxs
#Musk #BeWarned
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2024-09-01 12:11:49 CEST

While there is still no peace in #Palestine, and the stopping of daily, hourly suffering should have priority, it is also time to think about what is next.
It is time to think about #Wiedergutmachung.
Just like Germany paid for its enormous destruction and for the horrible camps after WW2, #Israel will have to compensate for the genocide they now invoke and for the #apartheid that they imposed, against international rulings, on occupied territories for decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiedergutmachung

2024-08-17 10:07:34 CEST

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I take that as a rhetorical question 😉 .
Can any person with compassion read this article about Project 2025 and be in favour of it?
@npub1m0j…89yn

2024-08-17 09:53:34 CEST

If you are interested in what Project 2025 is about, then read this article.
Roosevelt's policies resulted in the first middle class that included more than half of all citizens.
Donald Trump, JD Vance, billionaire donors, and six Republicans on the Supreme Court want to turn the clock back to raw capitalism by stripping regulatory agencies out of government, cutting taxes on the morbidly rich, and ending protections for labour.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/are-the-morbidly-rich-sabotaging-337
#Republicans #Project2025

2024-07-29 08:25:05 CEST

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Georgeous.
Thanks for sharing.
Paul
[@noco3n_com](https://mstdn.jp/@noco3n_com )