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| [Working Families Tax Cuts Act] Just last year, on July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the Working Families Tax Cuts Act. This historic legislation included a tax cut that allows Americans 65 and older to keep more of their hard-earned Social Security benefits. Thanks to President Trump, over 35 million American seniors received an average of $7,500 in relief this tax season. |
 [Time Is an Illusion] Meaning the past, present, and future exist simultaneously. If time travel exists, we wouldn’t be able to remember doing it. Link |
| [“Hey, guy who is calling posters racist”] White Americans make up the largest total number of welfare recipients in the U.S. HOWEVER when measured PROPORTIONALLY to their total population size, Black Americans have the highest rate of welfare participation, followed by Hispanic Americans. |
 Government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish. ~President Abraham Lincoln 1863 |
| [Communists] The inept individual that wrote this post (Editor: what post?) should have to go to Russia and/or China and truly find out what Communist are all about. Keep in mind the Veterans of this nation that have fought and died so Gen Z-err can say this garbage! Video |
 Winds in excess of 130 mph hit north-central South Dakota early Monday, breaking records and causing significant damage. The Wind Farm Near Highmore, South Dakota, has critical damage. Link |
| Cruise ship policy is back on the agenda at City Hall this Wednesday. With future use of the Navy’s Outer Mole still unclear, Commissioner and mayoral candidate Sam Kaufman has sponsored a resolution that requests the Navy’s cooperation in maintaining the City’s longstanding One Ship Policy. The One Ship Policy directs large cruise ship operations away from Mallory Dock and the Outer Mole and establishes priority docking at the privately operated Pier B Cruiseport. Faithfully implemented by the City for the past 50 months, the One Ship Policy has led to a 50% reduction in environmentally damaging large cruise ship operations. |
 Remember that Americans don’t know the difference between socialism and communism. So when you are writing posts remember that. |
| For the first time ever, more power was generated from renewable sources than coal. |
 [The Constitution] If you are an American and have never read our Constitution – it is far past time you did – here is the link |
| China’s Alibaba to ban employees from using Anthropic’s coding tool. Anthropic’s Claude Code has a tool that can help identify China-linked users. Anthropic has accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting its AI model capabilities. U.S. and China locked in frantic race to become the leader in AI. Link |
Some people do the  Macarena as a dance. I do it to check my pockets for wallet, keys, and phone. We are not the same. |
| [Techno in a monastery] Are you ready?’ The Greek priest whose doom metal album is the year’s hippest record. His church thinks electric guitars are the devil’s work. But Father Tabakis is on a mission to change that – with Paradise Metal, a religious dubstep album that outdid Daft Punk and Aphex Twin. TO THE MOTHER OF GOD |
 [The Social Event of the Season] New York prepares for wedding of the century amid Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce rumors. Swifties braved a heatwave on Thursday in New York to get a glimpse of preparations at Madison Square Garden. Link |
| [New Camera] A special wireless-free Nikon camera is publicly available for the first time. Video Review |
 [Diving Bug] Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of hours-long diving and terra-aqua travel. Link |
| Mystery identity of ‘Green Boots’ climber – who became a macabre landmark frozen in ice after dying on Everest – is finally solved after DNA test. Link |
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| [Apricot Computers] An underrated British brand. Link |
 [Buttons] How one German button maker searched the rivers of the American Midwest for the shells that could make him a fortune. John Boepple settled in Muscatine, Iowa, where he produced pearl buttons made from freshwater mussel shells. His innovations brought economic prosperity to the town—and disaster to the local mussel populations. Link |
| AI can’t be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan’s top court rules. Link |
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| [How To Ask For Help From People Who Don’t Know You] No matter what you’re doing, from building a civilization on Mars to getting a summer internship, you will have to ask people for help. Yet, most people get this crucial skill wrong. They put themselves at the front of their request, when they should be putting the other person there. But isn’t getting help just charisma and luck? No, asking for help is a skill, not an attribute you are assigned at birth like green eyes. Link |
 [Artificial Cells] For the first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides. Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the lab. Link |
| [Power] One essential skill for rising to power is the ability to escape blame. Never admit you were wrong. |
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| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 7/3/26 at 7:45 am. |
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