Beer Laimbill

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thirty or forty years old with two young children, please excuse me I am very tired

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Biden is gonna win the 2024 Presidential election

I've made no bones about the fact that I think Biden has gotten a bit of a raw deal, but it seems almost impossible to image him forging ahead with a campaign while reports circulate that the most prominent Dems (Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries, now Obama) think he should get out.

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The only good thing is that, again, if this does not motivate Americans to reject this fucking rabble, then nothing will.

I've seen a lot of one-offs of people holding these signs, but what is truly chilling is a sea of these being held up by delegates.

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Trump's election is not inevitable. Voters have agency. That is the entire point of democracy.

I've seen a lot of one-offs of people holding these signs, but what is truly chilling is a sea of these being held up by delegates.

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Faine Greenwood

i would pay extra for a device the manufacturer promised they wouldn’t add AI bullshit to

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This is the move

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Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

hey remember how Ron Howard made a movie out of JD Vance's book? nice work Opie, way to go you idiot

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The Constitutional Crisis is already here. You are living inside it. No way back, for better or worse. Either fight to win the future or concede to fascist tyranny taking over our country, the world's largest economy and mightiest military.

ok, got the kids down, weekend nearly over. Time to go get stoned in the garage and then do the dishes

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A second insurrection. Stop comparing these people to the founders. They are the Confederacy.

A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

"Lambda’s heat pumps use R290, or propane, as a refrigerant, which is considered both more efficient and more environmentally friendly than some older refrigerants on the market."

The hunt for the most efficient heat pump in the worldarstechnica.com A new generation of engineers has realized they can push heat pumps to the limit.

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frankly, the first defeat that we can hand them, in November, is the easiest possible one we are going to be offered, and we'd be fools not to make it happen.

a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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look i'll be clear, I will be voting, and encouraging everyone I know to do the same, against donald trump and the end of democracy in this country in november. I do not care if that means i'm voting for a man who is literally dead.

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Despair creeping in? Worried things ultimately won’t work out for you? Is Hell getting a bit too Hellish? Consider setting those worries aside and trying Grim Determination and focusing on helping who you can however you can Ask your doctor if Grim Determination is right for you

One of the worst things about online in the last few years has been the idea of "cringe" and how its been used to crush the ideas of believing in things, wholeheartedness, hope.

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Logged in here and holy shit I need democrats to have less shame and more composure like hell yeah it’s Weekend at Bernie’s and we’re gonna run the shit out of our dead President WATCH HIM WAVE [tugs at sleeve to make his arm move]

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the combination of the Federalist Society's efforts to raise a generation of judicial reactionaries and the fact that judicial impeachment is a dead letter have led to an unsustainable situation far from threatening it, court packing and reform are necessary for rule of law to exist at all

NEW: When Judge Aileen Cannon drew the Trump classified documents case, two more experienced judges in Florida's southern district—including its chief—urged her to step aside and let someone else take it. She refused. (gift link)

Judge in Trump Documents Case Rejected Suggestions to Step Asidewww.nytimes.com Two federal judges in South Florida privately urged Aileen M. Cannon to decline the case when it was assigned to her last year, according to two people briefed on the matter. She chose to keep it.

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An easy way to support your public library is to make use of it—even if only to visit. We keep (anonymized) statistics not only on circulation totals but on attendance & visits and even on patron-staff interactions. Big numbers please trustees and municipal/county administrators. 📚

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

currently grappling with the realization that the Challengers score might be my favorite thing from Trent Reznor since the turn of the century. Gonna have to listen six more times to be sure

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If at least half of incarcerated people have ADHD & consistent stimulant medication in ADHD kids reduces future criminality, you'd think policy makers would make it priority to ensure everyone is properly screened and treated for ADHD unless there's some very profitable industrial complex at play

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Like TSCC s03 John Connor, But Better

Please listen to me very carefully right now: Learn to take and celebrate small short wins, to build momentum and morale, or you and everyone you need to fight beside you will be burned out, demoralized, and demotivated before the next big opportunity comes along.

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June 12 is Loving Day. It is the anniversary of when SCOTUS decided Loving v. Virginia on June 12, 1967.

On January 6, 1959 Mildred & Richard Loving were convicted of "cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth" (miscegenation) and forced to leave the state of Virginia instead of spending a year in prison. Eventually Loving v. Virginia legalized interracial marriage.

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Scholars call BS on ChatGPT like: “Large language models have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations” "We argue that these falsehoods [are] better understood as *bullshit* in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005)"

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technologylink.springer.com Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

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I wish I'd written this; I've said similar things in private conversations, but beyond agreeing with the substance, it has a moral clarity and style that I could not have managed

The Bloody Riverwww.liberalcurrents.com Consolidated liberal democracy is the only path to enduring peace.

every presidential poll right now: 14% of this state's electorate say they're gonna vote for Trump and a Dem senator at the same time. Trump's gonna win more African-American votes than any Republican since Eisenhower. 22% are "undecided" on whether or not the moon is made of cheese

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Housing prices are the single most important part of people's lived experience of "the economy" and the only way to make them better is to build a hell of a lot more housing. This is progressive. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/housing-is...

Housing Is The Economywww.hamiltonnolan.com Nothing gets better until we build more housing.

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if you operate in crisis mode at all times and focus exclusively on everything that is bad and getting worse eventually you will end up as an apathetic depressed husk convinced that nothing you or anyone else does will make a difference if you really want to do good, don't let this happen to you

My husband is reading a really interesting book about activist burn out, and basically every chapter that looks at specific historical activists shows that being unable to acknowledge even minor victories leads to burn out and depression.

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NEW YAWK BABY BEST CITY IN DA WORLD LETS GO METS BABY LOVE DA METS IM WALKIN OVA HERE

New York best city in da world

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so what else can we convict Donald Trump for I'm gonna be chasing this dragon for the rest of my life