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“Are you still a believer in America? Because at seven, it’s marginal, right?”
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Yascha Mounk tipping his hand that he and the rest of the centrist & right-of-center media would 100% run the Claudine Gay playbook on Kamala Harris
I agree that Harris has significant weaknesses as a politician but this is an incredibly ugly way to put it. Also: A centrist candidate choosing another centrist as his running mate — still not the left's fault! Leftists hate Harris, that's actually one of her weaknesses.
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The Heritage Foundation is absolutely making overt terrorist threats and everyone you know needs to be aware of this.
Somebody else pointed earlier that the "bloodless if the leftists allow" (paraphrasing) bullshit sentence, is a clear terrorist threat and should probably be called like this.
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The NYPD Commissioner Responded to Our Story That Revealed He’s Burying Police Brutality Cases. We Fact-Check Him. Commissioner Caban identified no inaccuracies in our investigation but instead argued it was unfair and that he’s “in compliance” with the guidelines. Our reporting shows otherwise.
The NYPD Commissioner Responded to Our Story That Revealed He’s Burying Police Brutality Cases. We Fact-Check Him.www.propublica.org In his five-page statement, Commissioner Edward Caban identified no inaccuracies in ProPublica's investigation but instead argued the story was unfair and that he’s “in compliance” with the guidelines...
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.
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Coinbase's "Stand With Crypto" PAC website is now confirming what I reported earlier. More than 99% of the amount they claimed was raised by this supposedly "grassroots" PAC is in fact massive corporate contributions to the FairShake super PAC.
Coinbase’s “Stand With Crypto” PAC claims to have raised $87 million, but their donations list totals up to only $1,176,900. They seem to be double-counting corporate contributions to super PACs to overstate how much their “community” supports this supposedly grassroots project.
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🚨 A top intelligence official admitted they're spying on the college protests re Gaza (and the protests over the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision as well!)
U.S. Gov Finally Admits to Spying on Domestic Protestswww.kenklippenstein.com Intel agencies monitor protests against Israel and the overturning of Roe v. Wade, among others
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Marcellus Williams was cleared by DNA evidence and the prosecutor is trying to vacate the conviction, but the state of Missouri still scheduled an execution date for him. Please sign and share this petition innocenceproject.org/petitions/st...
Stop the Sept. 24 Execution of Marcellus Williams, an Innocent Man - Innocence Projectinnocenceproject.org DNA evidence not available at the time of trial proves his innocence but has not been considered in court. Act today.
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I literally warned y'all about exactly this kind of harmful outcome from GPT integrations, & even told you *why/how* it'd happen. And if it's showing in résumé sorting, then bet it's about break as having been happening in patient portals & police reports & lending application sorters & on & on & on
“UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the ‘Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award’ — lower than the same resumes without those honors and credentials.”
ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability — but it can improvewww.washington.edu UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the “Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award” — lower than the same...
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if we had caught wind of Saddam’s Republican Guard doing shit like this even once it would have been paraded across the evening news repeatedly as proof of the regime’s brutality and a justification for war
“Israeli army forces strapped a wounded Palestinian man to the hood of a military Jeep during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday. A video showed a Palestinian resident of Jenin, Mujahed Azmi, on the Jeep that passes two ambulances.”
Israeli forces strap wounded Palestinian man to hood of military jeepapple.news Verified video shows Jenin resident Mujahed Azmi on vehicle that passes two ambulances during raid
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there are a lot of ways for the state to suppress dissident speech. one particularly bad one is by having armed agents of the state stand by and do nothing while partisan-aligned thugs or paramilitary groups beat you because of your speech, and then have the DA decline to prosecute the assaulters.
LA's District Attorney George Gascon has declined to charge Edan On, the man who injured several people in an hours-long brutal attack on UCLA students' pro-Palestine encampment last month. On was featured by name in a CNN report after his mother celebrated his crimes. www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/u...
LA County declines to charge man recorded attacking pro-Palestine protesters at UCLA, refers case to city attorney’s office | CNNwww.cnn.com The case against Edan On, the 18-year-old accused of attacking pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA in April, has been referred to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office for misdemeanor filing considera...
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5 years ago, when I was on the D15 Community Education Council (Park Slope to Sunset Park to Red Hook), we helped pass a historic diversity plan to change admissions procedure at the district's middle schools. We were told that we would chase families out of the system. Our critics were wrong.
What Happened When Brooklyn Tried to Integrate Its Middle Schoolswww.nytimes.com A new report found that many schools enrolled more racially and socioeconomically diverse groups of students without sparking a major exodus of families from public schools.
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Chatkontrolle: Kuhhandel, während niemand hinschaut Nach einem weiteren Hütchenspielertrick, den massenhaften Angriff auf Verschlüsselung nicht als solchen erscheinen zu lassen, wackelt nun der Widerstand Frankreichs. German: www.ccc.de/de/updates/2...
CCC | Chatkontrolle: Kuhhandel, während niemand hinschautwww.ccc.de
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After the cops rioted against Dinkins (with the support of Giuliani) and threatened DiBlasio's kids, we literally elected a cop, so I guess this is what it's going to be.
At some point, New Yorkers are going to have to decide if they're a city that runs a police force or a police force that runs a city.
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"Today, an eight-member jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, found Chiquita Brands International liable for funding a violent Colombian paramilitary organization...that was responsible for major human rights atrocities during the 1990s and 2000s." nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/colombi...
Chiquita Found Liable for Colombia Paramilitary Killingsnsarchive.gwu.edu Washington, D.C., June 10, 2024 – Today, an eight-member jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, found Chiquita Brands International liable for funding a violent Colombian paramilitary organization, the Uni...
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It's true that the victims of the Tuskegee experiment weren't injected with syphilis—they already had it & were left untreated. However, the US government did deliberately inject hundreds of people with syphilis in Guatemala in the late 1940s. nytimes.com/2024/06/08/o...
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the meta debate is always “are we insufficiently focused on the wrongdoing of Hamas?” You can argue that the left is if you’re looking at it in a vacuum, but we’re not operating in a vacuum.
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there are frequent reminders that palestinian lives just don’t count in the west, but an operation that killed 200+ to save 4 hostages being celebrated like it’s a success is a visceral one
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One of the strongest cases the left can make for itself in the years ahead is that Democratic moderates are not serious about governing.
The payroll-tax increase that Kathy Hochul is trying to quickly pass through the legislature to make up for the massive budget hole she created by axing congestion pricing is already dead in both chambers, says City and State reporter Rebecca C. Lewis
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Not sure why liberals are deploying the "change takes time" argument again when we've repeatedly seen the government enact major, sweeping changes at the drop of a hat since 2001. From the surveillance state to bailouts to economic stimulus, when the ruling class wants to do things, they get done.
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Holy shit: When Will Lewis was newly-hired Publisher and CEO of the Washington Post, he offered NPR media reporter David Folkenflik an exclusive story about the paper's future in exchange for him killing a story about Lewis' involvement in covering up criminal activity at Rupert Murdoch's tabloids.
'Washington Post' publisher tried to kill a story about allegations against him. It wasn’t the first time.www.npr.org The Post's new CEO Will Lewis tried to stop the paper from publishing a story about allegations he faces in Britain. It wasn't the first time he's attempted to head off unwanted coverage. I know, beca...
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I’m not saying we should speed run to “arrest sam alito and clarence thomas” but i think we need to keep this point of comparison in mind when asking what exactly congress can do to compel them or roberts or whoever else to testify for senate judiciary or any other oversight committee
Judge orders Trump ally Steve Bannon to report to prison by July 1 to serve 4-month sentence for contempt of Congress
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State Department will only have one press briefing next week, per schedule leaked to me. Official tells me he can’t remember the last time there was only one press briefing in an entire week
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Their actual, not-hidden argument is that the 2024 election is rigged because America is less white than it used to be. Heritage used to boast that their power was in the superiority of their ideas.
The Heritage Foundation is already declaring the 2024 election rigged beyond repair
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Even Law Reviews are buckling under the weight of the Palestinian exception to free speech. Article is here. perma.cc/L3US-9V8R