akelacooper.bsky.social

@akelacooper.bsky.social

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Writer: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1, Luke Cage. Malignant. M3GAN. The Nun 2. It's a pleasure scaring the shit outta you.

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I didn't see @scalzi.com cross-post this here, but thought I throw the screencap up on here, with the added kicker that, if there's any collective lesson we learned in our experience in The Bad Place, is that you just need to unapologetically block, block, block anyone that you don't vibe with.

He's gonna give us something we've been begging for? The pressure to drop out must be getting to him

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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I'm busy today, so here's my 2000+ word response to everything that happened on this anti-Black platform yesterday. You can read it, or not. www.patreon.com/posts/racism...

Racism, Transphobia, and the Bluesky Brigade | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon

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From those who know him best...

JD Vance's Law School Roommate Rips Vance As 'The Perfect Fit' For Trump After VP Selectionbit.ly J.D. Vance's former law school roommate explained why Vance is the "perfect fit" for Donald Trump's campaign.

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shouts to People magazine (seriously), which did this simple breakdown of Project 2025 that you can share out and your friends and family will likely read it bc it comes from such a benign source

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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Philip Bump

Pretty clear he was tapped exclusively to rally the SV donor class — Musk, Thiel, Andreessen — into getting in line and funneling untold cash into the RNC. Any other pretend explanation is just kayfabe.

We all gotta get the message out there but Dems need to be hammering home this point in ads in every swing state

Amazing story about what happens at the VA Hospital when you ask the Project 2025 question: "How are you going to pay the utility bills when Social Security and VA benefits get cut?" tweet: x.com/FlindyD/stat...

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Said it before, I’ll say it again, tell people Republicans want to take away their tax refunds.

Project 2025 raises taxes on a family of four with two parents earning a combined $100,000 by $2,600, in order to fund a tax cut of over three times their combined income for someone earning $5m. x.com/SteveRattner...

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well then

RFK Jr apologises after leaked phone call in which Trump seems to offer deal

RFK Jr apologises after leaked phone call in which Trump seems to offer dealwww.theguardian.com Independent candidate’s son posts video online in which Republican also rambles about vaccines, horses and babies

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Kim Shumway

Every time I say this, I'm gonna repost this excellent thread on practical things regular folks can do! Winning is possible, but no one said it would be easy. So: do something to help.

I've volunteered for political campaigns for literally 40 years. And one thing that's always helped when things look bleak is the knowledge that there is ALWAYS something practical you can do to help make things better -- whether through electoral politics or other kinds of service. For example...

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I was just thinking this morning I should start writing postcards again

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Mere Smith

If he were hand picked by "god" then why didn't he outright win in 2020? Is "god" not able to tip the scales for him like He does for sports teams?

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The attempted assassination of Donald Trump does not erase the crimes that Trump himself has committed against American democracy, or the crimes he would commit if given the chance, and no one is obligated to pretend otherwise www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trumpwww.theatlantic.com This crime does not erase what the former president has done, or what he has promised to do.

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Just made a handy quick reference chart for all of our skittish friends.

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Something you may have missed yesterday - The Biden Administration is going to unveil a nationwide rent control proposal. It's going to be challenging to implement, and will require control of both chambers, but they're working on it. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Biden to unveil plan to cap rents as GOP convention beginswww.washingtonpost.com The policy plan comes as the president tries to assure Democrats about the viability of his candidacy.

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we're living through a generational, life-changing technological revolution and it's getting almost zero attention compared to AI spambots

Some nice copy here …apparently California now has batteries roughly equivalent to 5 Diablo Canyons (in capacity, not run time…)

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If you want to know what my nightmares look like, it’s this and being unprepared to do skits in high school Spanish.

AI maxers (who push for unheeded development and deployment of artificial intelligence, or e/acc) are thrilled with JD Vance being Trump's VP pick - Vance a classic Silicon Valley venture capitalist - pro open source AI “We are so unfathomably back.” www.404media.co/ai-maxers-th...

AI Maxers Thrilled with Trump’s Vice President Pick JD Vancewww.404media.co AI maxers coming out in support of Vance and Trump more than they already have is not surprising given their libertarian bent.

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Aileen Cannon is a good example of how Project 2025 would work. You put a barely qualified fascist in every government position that matters and BINGO. Fash times in the USA!

Jesus Christ...

Biden has been about the most pro-union President you could ask for. So the President of the Teamsters spoke at the RNC, praising Senators like Hawley and Vance. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Sadly we'd need the Dems we put in office to recognize the threat we're under but all of them over the age of 50 are pretending it's still 1994 rules instead of 2024.

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

This is easy to understand when you accept that they don't believe in Trump as a person. Trump is an avatar for all their grievances and bigoted tendencies. They are voting for themselves.

How do you not spare a half hour to make a phone cal, to console the family who lost a loved one to a bullet meant for you? How do you still vote for that man when his opponent did try to show you compassion?

JD Vance exists b/c in the panic after the 2016 election white liberal were desperate for any way to explain/excuse their conservative relatives and instead of listening to black ppl who were screaming "It's the racism" they made Vance a best selling author, which gave him the platform he needed

Thanks for the easy block

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Oh, I totally forgot: Vance also blurbed Jack Posobiec’s “Unhumans” book, the one that casts leftists as agents of “unhumanity.” Unity, folks! 🙃

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Vance was Heritage's pick so don't forget about Project 2025, which proceeds apace

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Just going to put this one here: "Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance argues against need for rape and incest exceptions in abortion laws" - WaPo 2021

Breaking News: Donald Trump selected J.D. Vance, the Ohio senator and “Hillbilly Elegy” author, to be his running mate. nyti.ms/4d1NIjo

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I can't say this without sounding paranoid because it should absolutely make you paranoid, but JD Vance is absolutely the surrender-Europe-to-Putin candidate.

JD Vance learns to love Trump, and Putinwww.youtube.com You remember “Russia, if you’re listening” and the flood of social media disinformation.But you’ve never heard the strands of Putin’s attack on the 2016 elec...

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There is no VP pick on earth who could serve as a better motivation for Democrats to unite and to vote than J.D. Vance. He is Trump's Republican Party incarnate--hypocritical, dishonest, incapable of shame, composed of nothing but ambition, greed, and unearned grievance. (And I'm being nice.)