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Your Putin propaganda isn't any more convincing in a giant font.

Common sense?🤣 Like how if you see a woman carrying pepper spray as defense against attackers that must constitute a provocation to attack her. More like zero sense.

It's really not my fault that you can't grasp the concept of rates. Your life will be very difficult, but no amount of explaining seems to help. And no, consistently, in every survey, climate scientists are in near unanimity. You just cream your pants when you find some heterodox "climate scientist" on the Twitter who tells you what you want to hear. There's really no "debate" to be had on the fact of AGW. Just you loons howling in denial, pretending that all the scientists are conspiring to take away your precious fossil fuels for some unfathomable motive.

You're a crazy person in a crazy person infobubble. Real climate scientists--nearly all of them universally--are shouting from the rooftops. You've just decided it's inconvenient to listen.

So, basically if Trudeau morphed into Trump? So, medical care is expensive because the people who provide care are paid for their time? Also, cotton is too damn pricey now that people don't pick it for free!

Is that an illustration of you botching the baton pass in a Special Olympics relay race? Go work it out in therapy instead of spewing your prolific fiction here.

Musk waltzing in and ignorantly cutting things "that were not needed" has left Twitter a shadow of itself, losing 80% of its value. Anyone who thinks it's a good idea to let him do the same to the US government can't afford to lose 80% of their brain capacity.

How is this lunatic running ANYTHING, let alone the most powerful country on the planet? This is as crazy as anything you internet randos post--with the caps, spelling and grammar to match. President Camacho is now our reality.

You are correct. That's my mistake and an error in the article I posted. But to the larger point, House Republicans aren't spending a million bucks as part of a partisan "money laundering" scheme. This is "business intelligence" for the beltway. They are buying these various subscriptions because the information is valuable.

Tell me again that you can't use a calendar? 8.4 is the total spending since 2016. Republicans in the House are reported to have spent nearly a million just last year. How do you think that percentage will help you?

Who broke your moral compass? Did your parents just not bother? Most people don't need a legal document to direct them to offer aid to their fellow humans in dire need. And, for the record, the constitution doesn't prescribe government action. That's simply not its purpose. It allocates certain responsibilities and protects rights.

This is just a service in which people in policy find value. It's not a partisan conspiracy. Last year, Republicans and committee offices paid for Politico’s products including $9,060 from the Office of the Speaker of the House, $84,000 from the House Committee on Agriculture, and $58,000 from the House Committee on Energy, according to government records. In total, 38 Republicans in the House spent over $300,000 on Politico subscriptions in the first nine months of 2024, and committees led by Republicans expensed almost $500,000 of Politico subscriptions in the same time period, a Washington Post analysis shows.

It's not an FCC violation. Jeebus. You literally have no idea what the subscriptions are for or how they are used. You know absolutely nothing except that some asshat on Twitter said outrageous shit to get a lot of views from hapless goons.

🤣 Sure. Let's assume that all government expenditures are "money laundering." Once again, random-ass bullshit from Twitter MUST be spammed here, and now you folks have to waste even more time pretending that it wasn't bullshit. And, as the article states, the gov began buying from Politico in 2016.

That's all government over many years. This story is, unsurprisingly, just fiction. "Becker and Johnson’s claims are false. The only payments received by Politico LLC from USAID were for two subscriptions to E&E—an energy and environment publication it produces—totaling $44,000 over two years. According to USAspending.gov, an official source for U.S. government expenditure data—and the resource used by Becker in his post—Politico received $8.2 million in total payments from government departments and agencies between fiscal year 2016 and fiscal year 2025. However, only $44,000 of this total came from USAID. In September 2023, a staff assistant for the Center for Environment, Energy, and Infrastructure—part of USAID’s Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation—purchased a subscription to E&E for $20,000. According to E&E, prices for its professional subscription packages typically start in the upper four-figure range and vary based on how many users have access to a subscription. Another subscription to E&E was purchased in September 2024 for $24,000 by the Center for Climate Positive Development—an office within USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security. Funds received by Politico LLC from other government agencies also came mostly from subscriptions to E&E, or for the company’s policy intelligence platform, Politico Pro. The largest spenders have been the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of the Interior (DOI), and Department of Energy (DOE). In July 2020, for example, HSS paid $73,857 for a Politico Pro subscription licensed for 37 users. The department exercised options to extend the contract in 2021 and 2022, and eventually increased its subscription to 49 users in 2023 for $130,185. The DOI similarly purchased a subscription to E&E in September 2021 for $200,000, which it has been extending since. The DOE has also been extending a Politico Pro contract since June 2020 for a four-year total of more than $400,000."

My neighbor installed a new security system at his house, so I had no choice but to defend myself by ransacking the place.

I don't have Pro access or experience, but I'm open to the argument a policy platform could be of value to policy makers. Is it LexisNexis for policy??

Free media that pays the bills with advertising? You're blowing my mind. Somebody should have thought of this 300 years ago. I wonder if anybody else has tried this? Oh, shit! It must be trending. This new trend is amazing!

He's pulling them comically hard. Forbes As reserves of armored vehicles run out amid catastrophic losses in Ukraine and western Russia, the Russian military is normalizing assaults in civilian cars. And not just any civilian cars, but Lada Zhigulis: compact models that are just 16 feet from fender to fender and weigh slightly more than one ton.

So, so crazy. Good thing we're out of the middle east. And the idea that we'd send our boys to fight and die for a Trump casino in Gaza is peak Trump. The stupid half of America will pay with their children.

Sorry, dipshit, they may not have covered this in your infobubble, but it's history in the books. Enjoy your denial.

I wasn't involved in that conversation at all. And no, what kind of functional adult is going to watch some click-baity bullshit from Youtube? Do you not have a job or other responsibilities that that's how you spend your time? Jeebus. I am actively opposed to helping asshats monetize misinformation on social media. Find real news and read that instead. ACTUAL journalists will do the work to tease out the details of the story: what we've committed, what's been disbursed, the form of aid, etc.

Okay, so maybe when you actually have something to share you can come back to the group...

Missing according to whom? Unaccounted for according to whom? Is this just some shit you read on new-Twitter? Do you have facts to contribute, or are we going to debate a rumor? What do you even want to talk about?