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This is not an AI generated concoction as I thought. I received this from a close friend yesterday, a retired CPA, and it should serve as a warning to all. My computer was locked by a Microsoft message. Unable to unlock by myself, I called the number...
by Grandpa Fred
 39 comments
on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 09:05 AM PDT
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Over the past few months, Donald Trump has sold golden sneakers , patriotic Bibles , ...
by Mark Sumner
204 comments
on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 09:09 AM PDT
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There have been several posts here at Daily Kos on Trump’s attempts to cheat his partners and rake in big bucks by selling his twitter clone Truth Social to another company. IMHO, Kevin Drum cuts to the chase in simple language that’s worth a look:...
by xaxnar
21 comments
on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 05:27 PM PST
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My wife and I are retired and have Medicare through an insurance company. Medicare gets paid from our Social Security so the private insurance co. is getting paid by SS funds which is money we contributed to the program over the years of working. We...
by hardlocked
8 comments
on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 03:02 PM PST
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Two founders of Donald Trump’s Truth Social social media platform filed a lawsuit against him on Wednesday. They allege that he and others have been involved in “11th hour, pre-merger corporate ...
by Walter Einenkel
167 comments
on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 02:30 PM PST
with 371 Recommends
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Get some cheap high tops, check Wish, Temu, or a similar site. Spray paint them gold. Then, well you could sell them at a Trump Rally, as the real thing. Or you could just wear them, and explain that you saved $370 by making them yourself. Or you could...
by MeJean
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on Mon Feb 19, 2024 at 05:14 PM PST
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Steve Bannon is having a bad one. A recent filing by Bannon’s lawyers suggests the former top advisor to Donald Trump may have shot himself in the foot when he decided to not pay the nearly half a million dollars he owed his previous lawyer, Robert...
by Walter Einenkel
121 comments
on Fri Jan 26, 2024 at 02:18 PM PST
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So, Nikki Haley — the nation’s currently most famous advocate for “limited government” — turned in a respectable showing in New Hampshire last night. What might that mean for our country? In New Hampshire, people confined to the state’s prisons stamp...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 09:01 AM PST
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A new report compiled by think tank Groundwork Collaborative shows the inflation we continue to see across the country is mostly driven by corporate profits. According to their findings, “corporate profits drove 53 percent of inflation during the...
by Walter Einenkel
142 comments
on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 11:10 AM PST
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It seems some people underestimate gamers.... Here we have the notorious Alex Jones making himself into a fantasy superhero to line his pockets. This “game” — using the word very broadly — popped up on the Steam digital distribution platform recently,...
by sagesource
7 comments
on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 08:35 AM PST
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I’ve started seeing threatening messages warning that a Facebook page for a group I work with has material that violates trademark/copy right, supposedly from Facebook/Meta, and the page will be permanently shutdown/deleted. I’m seeing this coming...
by xaxnar
44 comments
on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 05:57 AM PST
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Throughout Donald Trump's career in business and politics he has established himself as a deceitful, exploitative con man whose only interest is enriching and empowering himself. It's why he has so often stiffed his vendors and partners, shuttered...
by News Corpse
51 comments
on Fri Dec 15, 2023 at 02:23 PM PST
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In December 2022, Donald Trump introduced a set of “ digital trading cards ” featuring a ridiculously fit version of Trump in a series of even more ridiculous AI-generated or photoshopped images.
by Mark Sumner
121 comments
on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 05:24 PM PST
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Here’s what happened to me. I got a robocall yesterday claiming it was from Paypal. It was an alert warning me that someone was attempting to change my password. If it helps the number was (888)401-5203. The automated voice said that someone was trying...
by Mike Rofone
306 comments
on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 01:34 PM PST
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So we decided to flee Indiana. For background, my name is Alexis, I'm a nonbinary trans person, married to my trans husband Ian, and we have 2 kids, Felix, aged 12, and Zinnia age 9. Indiana is currently attempting the "Florida Speedrun" insofar as it...
by A Bleeding God
167 comments
on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 01:47 PM PST
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This was the third time I got a scam call with the "grandson in jail" script. I bungled the first two, but I finally took one scammer to the limit. There must be a thousand possible scripts to explain the grandson in jail, but it is always the same....
by RepackRider
499 comments
on Sun Nov 19, 2023 at 12:55 AM PST
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It started about 4 or 5 days ago. I was reading an article here on DKOS and all of a sudden my web page was redirected to a page that looked like a McAfee Security Scan, but the URL was for a site named system-security-scan.net. I added a screen shot...
by ScienceBeliever
498 comments
on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 09:05 AM PST
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On Tuesday, Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that disgraced former President Donald Trump and his company, the Trump Organization, deceived banks, insurers, and many others by bigly overvaluing both his assets as well as his net worth. This is just one...
by Walter Einenkel
70 comments
on Wed Sep 27, 2023 at 03:30 PM PDT
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So for the past month or so my husband has been getting an message on his phone claiming to be from the United States Postal Service. This message says that his package cannot be delivered due to incomplete address. First of all, USPS does not send out...
by LimitReached
157 comments
on Thu Sep 21, 2023 at 06:52 AM PDT
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Possible SCAM alert: This afternoon, a young man wearing an orange reflective vest and a hard hat helmet knocked on my door. He said he was "from the utility". I asked him "what utility" and he said PG&E. He said that I might have been overcharged last...
by jtg
316 comments
on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 08:10 PM PDT
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