Adrian Bonenberger

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Banner month for the Economist.

It held

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So Putin’s last hope now is the USA. Brace yourself, America, you’re about to get everything thrown at you.

Donald Trump’s increasingly theatrical process of choosing a running mate is populating a list of people who 10 years from now will be living as exiles in Moscow fulminating against NATO and the corrupt US deep state

Donald Trump’s increasingly theatrical process of choosing a running mate has fostered a new crop of rising stars inside the Republican party.

In Choosing a V.P., Trump Is Elevating the Next Generation of Republicanswww.nytimes.com The process of choosing a running mate has created a new roster of rising Republicans with the potential to lead the ticket in 2028.

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ConEd sent NY residents an alert this morning asking us to reduce our energy consumption between 2 and 10pm Uh ... sure, just as soon as these folks agree too:

I was talking with a China expert last week, curious about some of the fundamental differences between China and the U.S.; one key difference, he said, is that robust domestic employment is the overriding number one concern for Chinese political leaders. Nothing else is even close

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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The robot is not a bargaining unit member and must not be given bargaining unit work. Faculty unions should be looking over their contracts right now, figuring out exactly how to grieve or otherwise oppose the introduction of these systems.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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It’s the most solipsistic talking point imaginable, bought into and legitimated by many centrists, when the fact of the matter is that the entire cult of MAGA intensely hates America as it really is, while normie libs have 20th century American heroes and love the actual pluralism we’ve got.

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Despite what some are saying, EV sales continue to grow, displacing ICE vehicles, decreasing fossil fuel consumption and emissions. With the availability of smaller cheaper models, the rate of change will accelerate. 🧪🔌💡 www.iea.org/reports/glob...

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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

Der Pass / Pagan Peak… 4 episodes in, it’s good! Really liking it!

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Russia removes VPN apps from the App Store and demand an end to VoIP services, aiming to restrict citizens' access to independent info, and enhance surveillance capabilities, per UK intelligence.

UK intel: Russian authorities target VPN apps and VoIP services in latest censorship move - Euromaidan Presseuromaidanpress.com Russian authorities remove VPN apps from the App Store and demand an end to VoIP services, aiming to restrict citizens' access to independent information, enhance surveillance capabilities, and continue long-standing efforts to control the domestic information environment, per UK intelligence.

Long excerpt from a memoir in the WSJ about how a woman wonders why her husband killed himself and then at the end there’s a photo of her with her new husband that comes more or less out of the blue and ending it on that specific note is so jarring www.wsj.com/health/welln...

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Our word “true” descends from the Old English word for loyalty (trywe) and the Vulgar Latin term for members of a king’s warband (dructis) and describes the relationship between a military retainer and his lord

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Everybody needs to see this quote, understand that this is what Project 2025 is about, and internalize the fact that this is what the Republican Party is doing. This is not a conspiracy theory from the left. They are saying it out loud. #politics #news

He literally said that

Wrote a piece for The Boston Globe about Ukraine mobilizing young men for their military, and how to prevent conscription from returning, the U.S. ought to raise the maximum age of enlistment www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/05/o...

No army for young men - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com Ukraine recently lowered its minimum age for conscription. Should the United States raise its maximum age for enlistment?

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spy vs spy redux (2023)

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Here's a guest link to an opinion piece the NYT published today that is actually worth your time and attention: Gettysburg’s Lost Cause Problem www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

Opinion | Gettysburg’s Lost Cause Problemwww.nytimes.com The site of the battle is hallowed ground, but it is littered with Confederate propaganda.

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the economist sided with the confederacy in the civil war, idk that you're gonna be able to make their Top 100 list of worst shit with ageism and ableism

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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Who's actually pushing violence? It's Trump, writes @maggieastor.bsky.social in this great NYT takedown of Kevin Roberts' "second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”" www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/u...

Heritage Foundation Head Refers to ‘Second American Revolution’www.nytimes.com Kevin Roberts, president of the group that has coordinated the Project 2025 policy plan, said it could be “bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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I was ranting about this to someone EARLIER TODAY who was going on and on about some picture of Justin Timberlake looking like a doose & saying "Millennials thought this looked cool" & it's like nobody thought this was cool, we mocked this contemporaneously

one such occasion was meeting the then-prince

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Gonna stake out this one in case it comes true: Trump names Melania as his VP

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[me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived on a deserted island for a year] it was crazy [friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?

Landed at JFK as it was getting dark and now with the fireworks displays it feels like people are celebrating my arrival home from Ukraine

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anyway. america is a good place. its government has done a lot of bad things, and it's ok to acknowledge those while also embracing the goodness, of which there is also a lot

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look if this country is going to have insane authoritarian leaders can we at least get one with a little showmanship

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This is a dumb article, but also isn't the author's first rodeo, and his other writing shows the real reason he doesn't vote "But my principal reason for declining to take part in elections is moral. It involves, I suppose, a private objection to democracy itself." theweek.com/articles/802...

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

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perhaps one of history’s small mercies is that ben franklin never visited japan

Saw a family of four at the airport and everyone was wearing matching black suede fedoras. Mom, dad, brother, sister

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Only 3% of Russian missiles, drones, and guided bombs hit military targets in Ukraine, with 97% aimed at civilian infrastructure, according to Ukraine's OSCE delegation. In the past week alone, Russia targeted civilian infrastructure with over 800 guided bombs.

97% of Russian missiles, drones, bombs hit civilian infrastructure, diplomat sayskyivindependent.com Only 3% of Russian missiles, drones, and guided bombs hit military targets in Ukraine, while 97% have struck civilian infrastructure, Danylo Kubai, Ukraine's envoy to international organizations in Vi...

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“Yeah, yeah, sure, I know what he’s done to others, but I’ll be the one helper that he doesn’t try to destroy” - Huge Craven Pieces of Shit Who Never Learn