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@Alfred Did Alexander Garaham Bell or Elisha Gray first invent the telephone?

@ecksmc

Seems a bit inflated to me. 3 billion for 5 million users. If my math is correct, that would make CoSo's 168,000 users worth over 100 million.

We'll see what the open market does to the stable genius :)

Partial government shutdown expected at midnight after Senate fails to pass bill
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The partial shutdown is set to begin at 12:01 a.m. ET on Saturday.
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The legislation covers funding to the departments of Homeland Security, Defense, State, Treasury, Health and Human Services, Education and Labor.

cnn.com/politics/live-news/fed

@Alfred Who was the "headless man" in a photograph with the Duchess of Argyll in the Profumo scandal?

Will Elon Musk cover :Asshat: ‘s Bond?

Republicans Call for Retirement Age Hike in Clash With Biden
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The Republican Study Committee, meanwhile, called for policy changes that would reduce spending on Social Security by $1.5 trillion and Medicare by $1.2 trillion over the next decade.

news.bgov.com/bloomberg-govern

Putin Declares Victory in Sham Presidential Election: Lack of transparency, barred candidates, and vote-stuffing allegations marred the election’s legitimacy.
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All genuine opposition candidates were barred from running, imprisoned, dead, or in exile.

foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/18/p

‘𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠’: 𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩’𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐨𝐧𝐚

The state Republican party is undaunted by electoral defeats of those claiming voting is rigged – and election officials are bearing the brunt of their fury

“It’s very sad,” Fontes said. “It’s a sad state of affairs that in a civil society, in one of the most advanced civilizations that anybody could have imagined, we have to worry about physical violence.”

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m

When turning pages on a book, do you turn the pages from the:

Vladimir Putin officially received 78% of the vote in 2018. He's a defacto dictator, so the election is a sham, but what will the official result be this year?

meanwhile:

will shut down CrowdTangle, its data transparency tool widely used by journalists and researchers to track misinformation and viral content on Facebook and Instagram, just three months before the US election.

(WSJ article)

archive.ph/ZCO18

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