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Maker of images, code and food to varying degrees of success. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.online/@zilog80, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Mark Burton @markhburton.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
The fascist Vox, Tory PP and those dreadful rightwing Catalan nationalists, Junts, blocked long overdue reforms that would have protected tenants, because of course, property owners must be free to ramp up rents, evict at will, all in the pursuit of profits. Spain’s Sánchez calls snap election […]
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/n... Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regional leader Friday.
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A timeline of One Nation’s instability: more than half of Hanson’s MPs have quit or been expelled. As party numbers swell to record levels, Guardian analysis reveals a three-decade history of tumult www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
pauline hanson's head surrounded by coloured dots showing the number of politicians who have quit the party, lost at election, or remain as incumbents
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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 24/09/2026
Well, they've arrested him. Arrested, but not (yet) charged. And not for attempted murder, although reckless endangerment is honestly more than i expected. I thought if they did arrest him it'd just be criminal damage. Let's see how it plays out?
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Far-right activist Danny Tommo arrested after boat slashed in Channel with French coastguard aboard | LBC
Far-right activist Danny Tommo has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage with intent to endanger life after damaging a boat in the English Channel.
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just seen Danny Tommo referred to as "Captain Thugwash" and seriously, that's excellent work.
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Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss
ALT: Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss
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Zack Feddich 📯 @zackfeddich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Da kam mal dieses Sharepic durch mit dem Vergleich der Verträge von 1951 und 2026.
Sharepic mit der Überschrift »Greenland: What is really new in 2026?« darunter zwei Spaten mit Text und dem Vergleich des Vertrags von 1951 und dem von 2026. Es ist in den großen Zügig identisch, zusätzlich »Explicit exclusion of Military basses of non-NATO, Restriction on sensitive Investments, Expansion of US military presence«
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 21/09/2026
Mhmh. I mean, it makes sense to have NATO involved but this sounds a bit odd on an agreement signed by Denmark, Greenland, and the US… www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Denmark says NATO shares responsibility for Arctic security under Greenland deal
Denmark, Greenland and the United States are set to sign a deal on Greenland's ‌security on Tuesday, an agreement Denmark says will put Arctic security under NATO's watch rather than leaving it solely...
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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ok stupid question for econ people - why does the PBO assume consumers will switch to legal ciggies even if the price for legal ciggies comes down? won't the black market just lower prices in response?
The PBO’s modelling of the package, including an 80 per cent excise reduction, estimates the Budget balance would improve by around $8 billion over the first four years (roughly doubling excise revenue) and more than $20 billion over a decade. 

The PBO found that smaller excise cuts leave too large a gap between legal and illegal prices to substantially change buying behaviour. 

At an 80 per cent reduction, that price gap is dramatically narrowed, shifting sales from the black market back into legal businesses.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Hey everyone, just thought you should know that Saskatchewan is beautiful.
A bright yellow tree next to a bright blue lake under the blue sky.  There's a beaver lodge behind the yellow tree at the mouth of a river into the lake.  There is a hill in the background that has mostly green trees, but a few yellow ones.A view down into a beautiful valley with a big fenced-off grassy pasture surrounded by woods with a few yellow trees but mostly green.  The sky has a few clouds but is mostly blue.Looking up a pathway leading into yellow trees, with the blue sky aboveSeveral bright yellow trees contrasting beautifully with the stunningly clear blue sky behind.
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xenia @xenia.therian.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
guitar center is hosting a "you can open for ed sheeran" competition and all the entries are public. its all we are charlie kirk or anitzionist memes lmfaooo openforlegends.guitarcenter.com/cam…
a poster that says you could open for legends
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The New Oil @thenewoil.org · 31/08/2026
#FulcrumSec claims #Manchester Airports hack, theft of 86 GB of data www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secur… #cybersecurity #privacy #DataBreach #airport #travel
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FulcrumSec claims Manchester Airports hack, theft of 86 GB of data
FulcrumSec claims it stole 86 GB of data from Manchester Airports Group. BleepingComputer validated one traveller's record, while samples revealed detailed customer, booking, and travel information beyond what MAG initially disclosed. [...]
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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
"In 1989, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sold off our then publicly owned water and sewerage industry for £5.2 billion. … Private companies have paid out, in 2024 prices, around £83 billion—an average of £2.4 billion a year—as dividends, while loading the companies in debt. Often, those loans […]
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every single Pauline Hanson story reporting on her latest racist comments should also include that a court has upheld that she racially discriminated against Mehreen Faruqi.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Shock me, shock me, shock me that after a 'viral' OMG AI WILL KILL US ALL POST, the AI companies are like, 'oh wow, lucky we have been working on this, no need to independently regulate us, we have this covered'
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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Auckland has officially opened Aotearoa New Zealand’s longest and first true underground railway: the City Rail Link! The former terminal station Waitemata (formerly Britomart) is now a through station with additional underground CBD stations at Te Waihorotiu and Karanga-a-Hape serving all lines.
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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 13/09/2026
What is much less than ideal is that it seems there were major disruptions in the early morning due to a small fire in Auckland's new City Rail Link tunnel within the first hour or two of it opening.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Whether or not the digital duty of care is good policy is one thing. But pretending the Coalition is against it because of ‘freedom of speech’ or ‘protecting the press’ is delusional - ESPECIALLY from Sarah Henderson www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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Coalition's leading culture warrior ties herself in free-speech knots
Henderson has made a career out of declaring what she believes free speech to be, seeking to squash views she doesn’t personally agree with.
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
I still lurk on the r/London subreddit and came across this hilarious piece of activist art which turns a bin into a "smart glasses amnesty bin" that apparently is just across the Ray Ban store. 💅 www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1w… #pervertglasses
A bin with some ad busting layover stuck to it. Under the ray ban and Meta logo it reads "smart glasses amnesty bin" next to a pictogram of a person throwing the glasses into a bin. 

Further text reads: Wearing hidden camera glasses massively increases the likelihood of people thinking you're a nonce

DROP THEM IN AND WALK AWAY WITH WHAT'S LEFT OF YOUR DIGNITY
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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Since writing my article, even more people and companies have decided to fund Omarchy and DHH: Contributing $100,000 each: - Ryan R. Hughes, partner at Oodle - Ed Huang, cofounder and CTO of PingCAP - Adrien Treccani, founder of Metaco - Max Schoening, Head of Product at Notion Contributing […]
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Of course
THE AUSTRALIAN
In the Beetaloo Basin, a story of privilige and poverty is playing out
On the surface the story is a mess of human affairs. But deep underground, 'first gas' could level the playing field for Indigenous Australians - and power the nation for a century.
By CHRIS UHLMANN
In central NTChris Uhlmann travelled to the Beetaloo Basin as a guest of Tamboran Resources.
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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@aljazeera/middle-eas… It's #genocide, fam. The #Israel-i regime and a large plurality of its citizens are actively, openly, overtly supporting genocide. I speak enough Hebrew to confirm that the article's […]
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
A Chinese mother and son spent 5 years on their passion project: an animation about a cow having a dream about walking upright. They did it in SketchUp. It’s so amateur and primitive that people started buying tickets to see how ‘bad’ it is. Honestly, from all the videos I’ve seen of people in […]
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 @liztai.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
牛来 (roughly translated as “Come here, cow) is probably the wackiest story of “the little movie that could” that I've ever heard. Like the recent unexpected blockbuster Dear You, it made multiple times profit of it's tiny budget. But unlike Dear You, people […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
Hand drawn movie poster of a cow
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Kristian Kiehling @kristian-kiehling.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
"How Russian propaganda works abroad, in one sentence per layer: For the right: "Russia defends tradition." For the left: "NATO caused this." For the pacifist: "Weapons prolong war." For the cynic: "Everyone lies equally." For the tired: "It's complicated." […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 21/08/2026
~ Debunking Nigel Farage's claims in the Telegraph that helping homeless people will 'attract more migrants' - Left Foot Forward ~ leftfootforward.org/2026/08/debunki…
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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
Natalie Harp’s Old Trump-Obsessed Twitter Account Exposed archive.ph/khdFG
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CoolMcCool @coolmccool.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
According to iNaturalist, this is a specimen of ***Catacanthus punctus***. And according to what I can find out, it is a type of Shield Bug. Visitor to our campsite in Cooktown, Far North Queensland. Absolutely incredible colours. Went on its way unharmed, after […] [Original post on mastodon.au]
Catacanthus punctusCatacanthus punctus
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As part of what has been an ongoing series of FOIs into government dealings with Palantir, I tried to get docs on how the Defence department had assessed the Palantir contract. All the interesting parts redacted of course. www.defence.gov.au/sites/defaul...
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Das @srdas.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
This whole thing was longer and I have more clips but please enjoy a bit of the joy and exuberance I felt from this minute+ of #Taiko #Drums from an event in #Toyama #Japan (Nov 2O25). #日本 #太鼓
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David M. Levinson ⁂ @transportist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
ICYMI: Urban enshittification www.transportist.net/p/urban-enshit…
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
By my count now four inquiries into datacentres/AI in Australia: NSW, federal, Tas, SA royal commission (which excludes datacentres apparently) www.parliament.tas.gov.au/committees/h...
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Inquiry into AI Data Centres in Tasmania | Parliament of Tasmania
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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
After publishing the results of Discovery Week, we can now give you a first sneak peak at Mastodon 5.0, our next big version. It will bring a new visual look to your screens, a refreshed and calmer layout, as well as a new composer […]
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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
Oops. "A #Tesla 'Robotaxi' running with no safety monitor onboard drove straight through a row of bollards protecting a closed-off lane in Austin, then kept driving." […]
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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
RE: thx.gg/@interpipes/1171106336825533… This is a vastly underappreciated general principle: The risk of using, trusting, and depending on services by a provider significantly bigger than your own org is vastly greater than the risk of using services from a similar-scale or smaller […]
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
There was a lesbian reality dating show from China called LeLaLes. 1. Apparently no one wanted to date each other 2. Contestants were still in love with their exes 3. The director of the show started dating a contestant 4. Messy So, they got ‘lesbian reality’ right but not ‘reality show’
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David M. Levinson ⁂ @transportist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
I created a Transport starter kit here: fedidevs.com/s/MTA1Nw
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Transport on Mastodon - Mastodon Starter Pack
List of Transport related people on Mastodon
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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
The new Qwen 3.7 27B, running as a 17GB GGUF in LM Studio on my M5 Max MacBook Pro, just drew me the best pelican riding a bicycle I've seen from any model that runs on my laptop It did take nearly 21 minutes to generate, and used 22,276 reasoning […] [Original post on fedi.simonwillison.net]
The pelican has the right shaped beak. The red bicycle has the correct shape of frame. The pelican's wing reaches the handlebars. It has legs on both side of the bicycle. There is a pleasing set of clouds, birds, sun, grass and shadow on the image, plus motion lines behind but not in front of the bird.
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Depths of Wiktionary @depthsofwiktionary.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
English entry for "abbr." on Wiktionary. The definition line reads as following:

Noun
1. Abbreviation of abbreviation.English entry for "mispeling" on Wiktionary. The definition line reads as following:

Noun
1. Misspelling of misspelling.English entry for "archaïc" on Wiktionary. The definition line reads as following:

Adjective
1. Archaic spelling of archaic.English entry for "absolete" on Wiktionary. The definition line reads as following:

Adjective
1. Obsolete form of obsolete.
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
British Press and Academic bullying of Jason Arday

 Kathleen Stock @kathleens... - Aug6 (J
Great review, with some bad news for all those
who objected to my calling Arday "Forrest
Gump"
Even for the not-notably-modest genre of the inspirational poverty-porn
memoir, Arday lays it on a bit thick. He compares himself at various points with
Rocky (driven, gritty), Forrest Gump (simple, wise) and God. Seriously: his
mother apparently believed that “just because God wasn’t always visible, that
didn’t mean he wasn’t there”, and held that the same must be true for Arday’s
intelligence.

 Sarah Ditum @sarahditum - Aug 6
Call the cops, I've reviewed the
Jason Arday book
= thetimes.com/culture/books/...

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Sonia Sodha & @soniasodha - Aug6 (J ---
& One of the troubling things about the Arday
affair is it reveals what some self-described
‘progressives’ really think about black people -
and shows they are not quite as ‘anti-racist’ as
they think. Never has the phrase the soft
bigotry of low expectations been more apt.

 John McWh... & @JohnHMcW... - Aug 6
Read this man's resignation letter and
witness a delusion, megalomania, and
dimness paralleled in public figures today
only by America's President.


Helen Lewis @helenlewis - Aug 1 

This man might be the nation's most gifted

storyteller. He could be our new Jeffrey Archer.
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Barbara @barbaramue.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
bbc.com/news/article... He was used as a black token professor by a university, then accused of plagiarism by a racist - now he is dead: Jason Arday.
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
His family said it was "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son" after the academic was found dead in London on Friday.
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🔎 From the archive: What’s Going On a Cambridge? The tragic premature death of Jason Arday puts the university and its safeguarding policies back in the spotlight
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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why?
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CJ Shearwood @cj.shearwood.games · 14/08/2026
This is fine? Right? Two derailments in a single day. It's safe, right? Right?
Two headlines. Below: "Operator boss insists UK trains are safe in heatwave after Lewes derailment", then above "BREAKING NEWS Train derails near Essex town of Wickford" dated as 28m ago.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
One interesting part of checking X is Dave Hughes, who confirmed he only uses Twitter on his iPad, is spending a lot of time arguing with basically everyone on there. Related:
Western Victoria Region
Campaign Launch
You're invited to the
Western Vitoria Region
Campaign Launch
with Jess Wilson & Dave Hughes
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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
Do you know how bad an Israeli pogrom has to be to get Mike Huckabee to denounce it? apnews.com/article/israel-west-bank…
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Settler siege of Palestinian homes in West Bank a 'horrific act of terror,' US ambassador says
The U.S. Ambassador to Israel has condemned the actions of Jewish settlers who are besieging the home of an American Palestinian family in the village of Qusra in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026
Not to brag, but I was spewing out hilariously incorrect information before huge tech companies decided to create AI chatbots and ruin the internet.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the fact that a billionaire can randomly throw $100,000,000 into a campaign against taxing the rich seems like the best argument yet they can afford it
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