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“You break it, you buy it.” This is a rule most Americans who have ever purchased anything in a store are familiar with. But when it comes to his acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk, true to his image as a “disruptor,” has turned that rule on its head. His mantra seems to be, “You buy it, you break it.”

He certainly seems to be well on his way to screwing up the popular social media platform. And that is his right, according to the rule in America that matters above all: the rule of money.  

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In the US, there are two types of people: actual persons and corporations. If you think that this sounds insane, then you are clearly not a corporation.

In reality, the “actual persons” category also needs to be divided into “people who are rich and can do just about whatever they want” and “the rest of us.” If you are wondering in which group you belong, then the answer is “the rest of us.”

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The Department of Justice just wants to get the classified documents back that Donald Trump took. They want Trump to appoint a Custodian of Records to be responsible for finding any missing documents. No one seems to be volunteering for that position. 

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Long before the first vote was cast in the midterms, Republicans were already making plans for how they would wield the newfound power that they were convinced a resounding victory would deliver.

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Hip-hop artist Ye took notorious white supremacist Nick Fuentes to meet with former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Both have been seeking public attention by touting antisemitism and other hateful views. Normie Republicans need to use this event as an excuse to cut ties with the former POTUS.

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Making fun of Elon Musk and his purchase of Twitter would be easy. Here we have a guy who just wants to be loved… ideally by everybody. That kinda worked until he decided to buy himself the most expensive toy in history.

Religions traffic in what they claim to be divine certainty. So why is it so difficult for them to decide what to think of same-sex marriage? Surprising many, the Church of Latter Day Saints recently decided to endorse it.

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With many races still undecided and control of Congress in the balance (at the time this was written), political journalists across the country are trying to figure out who the biggest losers in this election were. That’s easy: All they have to do is look in the mirror.

After Elon Musk purchased Twitter, journalists pledged to migrate elsewhere on social media. But like a moth to the flame, they found that breaking up, or ignoring, is harder to do than they imagined.

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Throughout our history, there have always been groups of people that posed a threat to other humans or even humanity itself. For example, at some point, the greatest threat to others was probably the Mongol hordes, which were then replaced for a few centuries by European colonists who wreaked havoc across the globe.

Elon Musk has put self-driving cars on the streets of every city in America and has his own personal space program, but what really seems to elicit angst from the media class is his recent purchase of the social media platform Twitter. Could it really be that this is where he presents a grave and present danger?

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In August, voters in Kansas stunned the political establishment. In a landslide vote, 59 percent of them supported a referendum preserving the state’s existing abortion rights. That outcome was rightly hailed as a win for the pro-choice movement. But, more importantly, it was a rare and sorely needed victory for democracy in the US.

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Over the past couple of decades, we have seen a lot of changes to US elections. Nearly all of them have been bad. Corporations are people now; minority voters not so much. The peaceful transition of power is not a thing anymore, and neither are competitive congressional districts. One constant that has remained is televised debates. Which makes sense because they are a completely useless relic of a different era and have morphed into a total waste of time.

The weight of dozens of legal actions seems to be slowly bringing the former POTUS down to earth.

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Liz Truss resigned after 44 days, making her the shortest-serving prime minister in British history. She had advocated for Reagan-style trickle-down economics but neglected to campaign for the policies before becoming PM. At least she had one major accomplishment: She tanked the economy virtually overnight.

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Rather than limiting the cost of insulin to $35, Walker pushed the idea that diabetes patients could control their symptoms by improving their diet. Diet affects patients with Type 2 diabetes, but would not cure patients with Type 1 diabetes.

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Our apologies if you thought duck-and-cover, fallout shelters, and other relics of the nuclear terror were just ancient Cold War history. As President Joe Biden warns of the specter of nuclear Armageddon and tensions rise in the Russia-Ukraine war, it’s time to be afraid again.

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Writers in media and social media posted numerous memes about Florida governor Ron DeSantis surveying the wreckage of Hurricane Ian while wearing very white and very high boots. Here are sample of some of the tweets containing popular DeSantis white-boot memes:

First, the Original Photo of DeSantis in White Boots

https://twitter.com/WrestRoundtable/status/1578780540395978752

Cheerleader DeSantis

https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1577731597767360512

One month before the key midterm elections, OPEC, led by Saudi Arabia, decided to reduce oil production in direct opposition to the request by President Joe Biden to increase it in response to a European and Western boycott of oil and gas from Russia. The result, obviously, will be higher gas prices, and that might have an effect at the polls.

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It’s easy to find out what Republicans are against: democracy, minorities, minorities playing fish in movies, minorities playing flutes, books that offend Republicans, accurate US history, (brown) immigrants, attacks on marriage, gay marriage, interracial marriage (this one is making a comeback after 50 years), restrictions to religious freedoms, religious freedoms for Muslims, things they perceive to be “socialism,” and (unarmed) teachers.

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Her recent rulings in the case of a former president accused of (and essentially admitting to) stealing classified documents and haphazardly storing them at his residence show that US District Judge Aileen Cannon knows only one special master: Donald Trump.

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Opponents of abortion in some states want to ban pregnant women from traveling out of state for an abortion. They want the police to deploy license-plate scanners in order to enforce their travel bans. What next?

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Just about every major publication in the US has profiled Michael Flynn at least once — including several in recent months (you can find a selection here from TheNew York Times, The Washington Post,

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Say what you want about hardcore MAGA and QAnon types, they are highly motivated. When it comes to stopping imaginary pedophile rings, getting educational concepts banned from schools where they weren’t taught in the first place, supporting a made-up wall to keep out fake floods of foreigners, or protecting themselves from Bill Gates personally implanting microchips into their bodies, they have some very strong opinions and are willing to fight for them. 

Paul Pelosi, husband of House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), has been sentenced to a tough-as-nails five days in jail for driving under the influence. He was given credit for the four days he already served. One hopes he will emerge from his ordeal relatively unchanged. 

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Republican candidate for governor of Arizona, Kari Lake, actually did proclaim that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has the same kind of BDE as Donald Trump. This is part of a trend of politicians “working blue” to get a rise out of the crowds and to increase social media engagement about their events. Lake, DeSantis, and Trump all pretend to be election deniers to rile up their supporters. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2osdMe-DfNM&t=39s

Jared Kushner has a new book. What other exciting reads will come out from Trump Republicans?

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A Twitter employee turned over information about Saudi dissidents to the tyrannical Middle East regime. 

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– OPINION –

We are sure that Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray are avid readers of our column, so it should come as no surprise that the FBI (finally) raided former president (and coup initiator) Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound the day after we wrote about his federal records violations and other criminal behavior.

The American justice system is imperfect, which is a charitable way of saying that it’s a real mess. If you are an unarmed Black man, for example, you might want to take your chances running from the cops even if you only committed a minor crime or are innocent altogether. At least that way you’d be more difficult to hit when they start shooting.

If you are a well-connected rich white guy, however, there really is no reason to run from the law, plead the Fifth, destroy evidence, fight subpoenas, perjure yourself, or seek pardons.

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Here is something you need to know about Washington, DC: It’s a big club. The membership includes Republicans, Democrats, bureaucrats, lobbyists, journalists, and, most importantly — not you.

After yapping at each other’s heels all day in the halls of Congress and on TV, they often spend their evenings palling around in DC’s many bars and restaurants. Like Morton’s The Steakhouse, which is where our story begins.

A massive leak of internal documents at Uber revealed a company willing to lie, skirt laws, throw secret money at politicians, and encourage drivers to get involved in protests in 2016 that resulted in violence — which then-CEO Travis Kalanick said would “guarantee success.”

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This one goes out to the “good guy with a gun” folks — the ones who react to every mass shooting by advocating for more guns — to, you know, stop the shooter.

Let’s picture a different version of what would have happened during the July 4th mass shooting in Highland Park, IL. In this brave vision, endorsed by the National Rifle Association and gun manufacturers, the parade route is lined with “good guys with guns.”

Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) logic seems a little unhinged.

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The fight over whether US schools (or churches, synagogues,

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Decades of abuse from the loudly morally righteous has a predictable ending.

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Any comparison of Payton Gendron’s mass murder in Buffalo to the mass assault on the Capitol on January 6 might seem like something of a stretch. 

After all, the deadly January 6 riot resulted from the inability of Trump Republicans to accept an election defeat. The slaughter of 10 people in Buffalo looks more like a one-off act by a deranged racist, obsessed with internet memes propagating the “great white replacement theory.”

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Video shows Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh being shot by an Israeli sniper in the occupied West Bank. But pro-Israel Western media outlets are reporting her killing as though she simply dropped dead.

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Imagine a well-intentioned but perhaps naïve NASA engineer proposing to equip the International Space Station (ISS) with a $3.7 million car alarm to prevent it from being stolen. Seeing how nobody has ever tried to steal the ISS (and that a car alarm would do nothing to stop a thief), this would be a truly useless expenditure. That being said, it would be a harmless waste of taxpayer money proposed by a well-meaning government official. Somebody with more sinister motives, on the other hand, could do a lot of damage with that kind of money. And that brings us to Florida Gov.

After half a century of legalized abortion, the United States Supreme Court is about to roll back the clock of women’s rights to 1972. Can’t wait for their next contribution to the march of progress.

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If you woke up to the news that a Saudi judge had ruled that any man could punch unaccompanied women in the face, or that the Taliban’s Sharia court had decided that girls were no longer allowed to have appendectomies, would you be surprised? Of course not. Maybe outraged, but certainly not surprised. After all, this is the kind of nonsense that women-hating theocracies do.

Justice should not be blind. The reality if the Supreme Court does overturn Roe v. Wade is as obvious as it is bleak.

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Ahead of troubling midterms and seeking to win a disappointed and dispirited nation, President Joe Biden takes the US back to the status quo: war. 

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Should there be term limits? Both Democrats and Republicans are making a compelling case to settle this debate. There is just one problem: While term limits seem like a good way to rejuvenate an aging Democratic Party, they would only accelerate the GOP’s descent into madness.

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