Christopher

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Medievalist, Futurist, Finder, Pointer. Looking at the long-term future of [something something something].

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Gonna watch “Bob Roberts” tonight.

One of the worst things about a four-day and counting GI bug is being reminded of hawk tuah everytime I vomit, which has been a lot!

Alicent Hightower is Blair Waldorf. Fucking guys she shouldn’t be, trying to bend the world to her vision through force of will.

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Project 2025, page 592: make it harder for employees to be paid at overtime rates by allowing employers to average the number of hours worked over 2-4 weeks

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Rs: We gotta put biblical rules in schools Me: Holy shit! Like a debt jubilee every 7 years? Rs: Haha, no, not that one Me: like "you shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"? Rs: Hahaha not that one either Me: so, uh, which rules exactly? Rs: Oh, you know the ones

Most resumes are screened by algos first, but sure, go on and complain about people using ChatGPT to land a job.

lmao (it's what you deserve for making ppl write essays in a job app)

At some point it just gets to 14 words.

2000 GOP Platform: 31,417 words 2004 GOP Platform: 41,936 words 2008 GOP Platform: 23,773 words 2012 GOP Platform: 31,417 words 2016 GOP Platform: 36,336 words 2020 GOP Platform: 1,811 words 2024 GOP Platform: 5,414 words www.npr.org/2024/07/08/n...

With just one mention of abortion, Republican Party lays out its 2024 policy platformwww.npr.org Despite failing to unveil a new platform in 2020, the Republican Party Monday released its policy goals and aims in its official 2024 platform, where the languages sticks close to Trump.

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They can say all they want about how they cover both candidates' flaws with equal professional scrutiny but they transparently believe the Democratic nomination is something they have the power to influence and the Republican nomination is something they don't

It's really something to contrast how the paper sees its role with Biden or Claudine Gay with how it sees its role with Trump or Chris Rufo

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It is disorienting to see what the New York Times will cover with an active voice (that is demonstrably more accurate) and what it'll obscure with passive voice.

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It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.

That means 7 in 10 want to keep him. Why are you highlighting the smaller number?

Biden trails Trump by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race trib.al/GlWZVox

Every Democratic ad needs to open with, “The Republicans claim to be tough on crime, but their Presidential candidate is a convicted felon.” And then the rest of the ad can kick in: “I’m Kathy Jenkins and come November, I want you to vote for me as animal control director!”

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I can’t believe that under a system that awards unlimited power to unlimited capital, and unlimited capital to those most willing to exploit others, the side that capital favors more is pure evil and achieves its most despicable aims, and the side that capital favors less is foundering beyond parody

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Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?

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grooming industrial complex in shambles

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I will never forget Trump's official White House schedule

Thanks to the Supreme Court last week, Biden can have Musk deported.

I think this is the first time Musk has suggested fellow Americans should be executed.

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I think this is the first time Musk has suggested fellow Americans should be executed.

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I wrote patriotically today. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/a-republic...

"A Republic If You Can Keep It"danieldrezner.substack.com Some Independence Day thoughts about some very un-American ideas.

Waking up on the Fourth of July, the birthday of the country, in our nation’s capital, to a city-wide boil water alert.

Why is this Facebook ad for shorts trying to be all Bukowski?

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Roses are red, Curry has cumin,

Thoughtful piece on 1A and Tim Wu www.techdirt.com/2024/07/03/t...

Tim Wu Is Out Of Controlwww.techdirt.com I guess I should start this out by noting that I like Tim Wu quite a bit, and always felt like I learned something in the past when I spoke with him. He was even one of the people who reviewed and …

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The Hate Theory of Politics.: Ppl don't show up for a candidate they think is Ok. They might not show up for a candidate they like. They sometimes won't even show up for a candidate they love, depending. But they will drag themselves through broken glass to vote against a candidate they hate

I think youre underestimating how much how many people absolutely unequivocally from the very core of their being despise Trump. You know what's stronger than apathy? Hatred.

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NYT : Biden is addled and unfit, unlike Trump, a virile and poweful titan

Trump’s alleged ‘sexual proclivities’ graphically detailed in new Epstein documentswww.independent.co.uk The new papers contain ‘incendiary claims’ about the former president

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Pointing again at my US Blue State Challenge. If you live in a "blue state", pick the red state you hate the most and the issue you care about the most and find a group in that state working on that issue and support them.

One thing I don’t understand is why, when people are outraged by some injustice or affront — like book bans — they don’t first look to see who is already tracking the issue, who’s already working on education + organization. “We need to do something!” People *are*. Find them. Help them.

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The punditocracy has gone both apeshit and feral, but politics isn’t fantasy football and there isn’t One Weird Trick to beating Trump

The pundit class needs to get a gripwww.publicnotice.co Politics isn't fantasy football and there's no One Weird Trick to beat Trump.

The only age requirement of the Presidency is 35. Biden could e 935 years old and would still be more qualified to be President because he is not a vicious, reprehensible simulacrum of a human being.

We need better stories.

Ah, right, Yoda, the old guy who shriveled up and died and left his shaky understudy to beat the evil Empire alone