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What the Murder of the UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Means to America | The New Yorker

#america #crime #culture #health #healthcare #insurance | <blockquote>If one were to, hypothetically, blow up an unoccupied private jet in protest of the fact that the wealthiest one per cent of the global population accounts for more carbon emissions than the poorest sixty-six per cent, this would be seen by many people—like Thompson’s murder, and unlike the tens of thousands of human deaths per year already caused by climate change—as a sign of profoundly alarming social decay.</blockquote>

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a brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks

#america #communications #diy #history #telephony

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The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism - In These Times

#america #bitcoin #crypto #economy #fascism #politics | <blockquote>The crypto market's inevitable crash will pull America's politics in an even scarier direction.</blockquote>

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Trump Is Trying to Overturn the Election, but I’m Not Panicking—Yet | The Nation

#america #democracy #law #politics #suppression | <blockquote>All the reasons I think the Trump-GOP gambit to deny Biden’s victory will not change the fact that he will become president on January 20.</blockquote>