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This is the big reason I can’t spend time there. It’s seeing people I follow, well-regarded colleagues and friends, who cannot help but take the rage-bait.

Opened Twitter just now. One thing I can't stand what everyone is doing over there is they keep engaging with rage bait tweets and accounts.

I deeply empathize! I know I’m in the For You tab when I see several tweets in row of people I don’t follow that have me thinking, “Oh this seems manufactured in a lab to annoy me, specifically,” and I think that’s by design! It’s bad there!

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Besides filling up the marshes, the June rains also brought out a lot of insects! We might not like the mosquitoes, but a lot of birds sure do! This barn swallow, along with some of its friends, was swooping around the marsh looking for bugs!🪶

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Voters want their state to opt in to Sun BUCKS www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/6/...

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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Thinking about this in the context of some liberals who talk about abandoning certain regions of the country or giving up on certain potential voters

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in no way is it exclusive to the right but it is so creepy how the right is so astoundingly obviously conscious of and violently opposed to any policy or social change which would shift the burden of all this expected & often required unpaid labor off of women

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They vote!

[thinking as I clean up my own kitchen] every wine mom is fighting an uphill battle against entropy in the form of her loved ones every single day. They are not the type to give up when things get tough or tedious

Some of our best organizers are women who spend their every waking hour trying to get the most sensitive, stubborn, and least reasonable people on earth (children) to do what they want then to do

Brought to you by my Quaker friend who was telling me about some training he got about facilitating meetings that sounded a lot like a classic classroom management technique ("I see you have something else to say, Doug, but let's see if anyone else is moved to speak before we come back to you.")

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A probably related observation is that every civic org, church group, cub scout troop and political campaign relies on a small army of women doing invisible scutwork.

Women are the welfare safety net and the backbone of communities

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Sometimes I see posts like this and don't understand the context and for one millisecond I think maybe I don't follow enough people and then I remind myself I follow exactly the right amount of people and not knowing about the barf bowl discourse is totally fine.

I'm going to be honest, barf bowl discourse is a real step up from where we've been, great work everybody

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like this for example

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imagine being a french right winger spending the last week's since the EU election absolutely giddy at the prospect of the end of centrist rule, only for centrist rule to be replaced by a left coalition

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I love it when the far right are ‘sad and disappointed’. 🇫🇷 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

France's far right 'sad and disappointed' over election resultwww.bbc.co.uk With the champagne on ice, they thought they were on the brink of victory - but it didn't happen.

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They’re already doing the birtherism again. Lol

If they do put Kamala Harris on the top of the ticket, I am prepared for a level of misogynoir unwitnessed since Rosa Parks sat down on that bus.

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Some of you will say to me, you’ll say, “Nate silver used to be good!” And I will say “Hush. This is not a man changed, this is a fulfillment of who this man has always been.”

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WaPo just being racist and hoping it was Lieu (because of his position of influence, and it helps their narrative) and not following up speaks to why you should take everything they print with a shaker of salt.

WaPo confused Mark Takano with Ted Lieu. Oy. "The House Democrats who said Biden should drop out of the race were Adam Smith of Washington, Jerry Nadler of New York, Mark Takano of California and Joe Morelle of New York." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Four more Democrats in Congress call for Biden to step aside in the 2024 racewww.nbcnews.com The new calls come from lawmakers who hold top Democratic positions on key congressional committees.

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The splintering of the left in Germany and the obedience of the center holds a warning for us all

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There’s a group of kids on the corner selling lemonade. They yell “LEMONADE” at every passing vehicle, but the only people I have seen stop for a drink so far are on foot or bike. There is no shortage of free parking on the street. Maybe this is analogous to local business districts. 😉

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Bingo.

It drives me nuts when people say we need to make sure poor people have access to AI. The entire schtick is focused on providing AI slop to the masses while ensuring the elites get real human professionals. Having a human teacher or doctor or lawyer cannot become a bespoke luxury for the wealthy.

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Enough people (a plurality) voted for the Nazis to persuade Hindenburg that he had to share power with them. It wasn't entirely an elite-driven phenomenon

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The reason the Pacific Northwest is so fascinating and eerie to Americans is because it functions as a gateway to an uncanny realm of magic and terror (Canada)

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“Fireworks are going off in the Place de la République in Paris. People are climbing the statue of France’s beloved Marianne, the Republic's personification of liberty, equality and fraternity… Despite any political differences between them, these voters stood together against the far right.”

French election results 2024: Projections show surprise lead for left alliancewww.bbc.com The far-right National Rally, which hoped for an historic victory, appears to have been pushed into third place.

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the smoke clears and macron is found lying face-first on the ground, it was unclear what trick he was attempting to do

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