Kate B

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Wow, it's weird how the media narrative of a far right populist wave keeps crashing against reality in every country that actually requires them to win a majority of votes to take power

The 2nd leading pollster projects a similar result—if anything a higher range for the Left coalition. This wld be a much stronger result than expected for the Macron bloc. If confirmed, key takeaway: Left & Macronist voters transferred onto each other much more than expected. Clear anti-RN front.

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter

Get a grip

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there are exactly two kinds of people who convert to Catholicism as present day adults, knowing all that is publicly known about the church’s rampant fuckery: either you are here to fuck shit up from the inside to push the church to where it SHOULD be ….. or the fuckery was a feature and not a bug

The Harrison Butker speech is exhibit six thousand for that meme about recent Catholic converts wanting to send everyone to reeducation camps while lifelong Catholics provide shelter to immigrants and the poor.

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when you get mad at me this is who you're mad at

i just feel like more of you need to be aware of finland's eurovision contestant, who calls himself windows95man

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Mary Wallace, the first female bus driver for Chicago Transit Authority, 1974 (colorized)

Lol, lmao

Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can get stuck, putting drivers at risk of a crash

Tesla recalls the Cybertruck for faulty accelerator pedals that can get stuck | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com It's technically the Cybertruck's second recall, but it is the most serious to date, and it caps a tumultuous week for Tesla.

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Speaking of “uses for new tech that aren’t incredibly evil”:

I’m very impressed by all the new multimedia stuff that’s being done with VR and projection mapping at Rome’s ancient sites nowadays. This is the multimedia tour at the House of Augustus, and I’m doing the Domus Aurea VR tour later.

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The four years of Covid

someone do a wellness check on conan after his first hot ones

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Here is is: my long-threatened tradwife piece. Come for my takedown of the tradwife as a fantasy of renouncing adulthood; stay for the inquiry into a very confused and sloppy pro-tradwife book, which appears to make a choice feminist case for lobotomies. www.bookforum.com/print/3004/l...

Wife Sentenceswww.bookforum.com Lisa Selin Davis’s confused history of homemakers – Moira Donegan

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Pretty sure he didn't

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you do not to be competent to do awful, terrible damage to a country. i strongly recommend people actually read up on the reality of Nazi governance. that we think of the Nazi state as somehow competent and efficient is a propaganda victory for the ages

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Shout out to anyone currently experiencing anything

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just a reminder that aside from gentrifying ethnic foods that Trader Joe's is actively trying to dismantle the National Labor Relations Board

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Feel like running the very famous and cool brand Vice, especially with how low they paid people, would be a self sustaining business if only 45 people doing nothing weren’t making like 19 million a year.

"There was still some plausible deniability left in the whole scam if you wanted a reason to ignore it I guess for example if you were a white male hipster who never had anything bad happen to you in your life."

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In 2021, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell offered $5 million to anyone who could disprove his claim that he had data showing voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Now, he must pay a 64-year-old from Nevada that award, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Mike Lindell must pay man $5M in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ challenge, judge sayswww.washingtonpost.com Robert Zeidman entered Mike Lindell’s 2021 “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge after the MyPillow CEO claimed he had data proving 2020 election interference.

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Ebola has been one of the most feared infectious diseases, killing half of those who are infected and with few treatment options. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Ebola vaccine cuts death rates in half — even if it's given after infectionwww.npr.org Ebola is one of the most feared infectious diseases, with more than half of those infected dying. A vaccine has now been shown to cut that mortality rate in half.

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Wow, that video seems like it has compelling information. Unfortunately, watching it would take at least ten times as long as reading an article covering the same material, so I won't be clicking play.

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Important update on this story here: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ouray-colo...

Hundreds of copies of newspapers in a Colorado town were stolen a day after the paper published a story about an alleged rape at the police chief’s house

Entire Edition Of Newspapers Stolen On Day It Publishes Story About Rape At Police Chief’s Homewww.huffpost.com “It’s pretty clear that someone didn’t want the community to read the news this week,” said Ouray County Plaindealer co-publisher Erin McIntyre.

Small-town Colorado newspaper theft was to protect victim, not police chiefwww.thehandbasket.co I spoke to the man who confessed to stealing the papers about his real motivation for doing it.

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I know our major media outlets are busy doing 10 stories per day about Ivy League campus intrigue but I feel like the fact that 215 bodies were discovered in a pit behind a jail in Jackson MS earlier this year probably merited a mention or two. Maybe even a few follow up questions.

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AI people 1 year ago: "We're close to changing literally all aspects of human life, replacing 90% of jobs, and perhaps creating supercomputers that will murder us all." AI people today: "Whoops just kidding."

OpenAI's Sam Altman says human-level AI is coming but will change world much less than we thinkwww.cnbc.com Sam Altman said concerns that artificial intelligence will one day become so powerful that it dramatically reshapes and disrupts the world are overblown.

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Boeing is apparently trying to throw Spirit Aerosystems under the bus for their role in this the 737 MAX issue. I was curious who Spirit Aerosystems is, and apparently it's Boeing's former Wichita division that they sold off to private equity in 2005 and outsources parts to. Hmm. Hmm!

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The maddening thing about 'let the people decide' is Trump lost the popular vote by a 2.9 mil margin in '16 and then attempted a coup when he lost by 7 mil 4 yrs later. His party lost every year in between. The people have decided repeatedly and there's no guarantee we wouldn't have a repeat of '16.

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An ancient holy banger

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Union Pacific Fired Him Rather Than Heed His Warnings of Dangerous Rail Conditions Time and again, Johnny Taylor’s duty to keep the rails safe from disaster conflicted with his employer’s desire to keep its trains running as fast & as frequently as possible, putting his career and family in peril.

Union Pacific Fired Him Rather Than Heed His Warnings of Dangerous Rail Conditionswww.propublica.org Time and again, Johnny Taylor’s duty to keep the rails safe from disaster conflicted with his employer’s desire to keep its trains running as fast and as frequently as possible, putting his career...

K I feel that this headline should also include THE LIVE BEAR that got loose on another flight??? Have I been flying with bears all this time and not known it??? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

Horse breaks free mid-air, forcing cargo plane’s return to New Yorkwww.theguardian.com Boeing 747 cargo plane turns back after horse becomes untethered in flight and pilot says ‘We cannot get the horse back secured’

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MEGA FACTCHECK EVs are “likely crucial” for tackling transport CO2, says the IPCC – and sales are rocketing But EVs are facing relentless hostile media coverage So, after months of work, here's a massive chart-filled debunk of 21 misleading myths about EVs: www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21...

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The 20 Farming Families Who Use More Water From the Colorado River Than Some Western States Tens of millions of people — and millions of acres of farmland — rely on the Colorado River’s water. But as its supply shrinks, these farmers get more water from the river than entire states.

The 20 Farming Families Who Use More Water From the Colorado River Than Some Western Statesprojects.propublica.org Tens of millions of people — and millions of acres of farmland — rely on the Colorado River’s water. But as its supply shrinks, these farmers get more water from the river than entire states.