Chris

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Amateur astrophotographer, immature TTRPG gamer with The AARPG Podast, science enthusiast, and a whole mess of intestines and other squidgy bits. @speerwerfer on the bird site circling the drain.

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The right is now having its own meltdown because Trump can’t make becoming Hitler his official campaign stance

In a world full of @nytimes.com, be a Münchener Post.

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Mr. Trump is the biggest traitor in American history. He’s a delusional psychopath. He’s a narcissistic maniac. He’s a criminal conman. He’s a cheater. He’s a coward. He’s a fascist. He’s a moron. He’s a rapist. He’s a racist. He’s a loser. He’s a liar. Vote Blue.

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A Trump win based on a Leftist boycott WOULD teach the Democrats a lesson. The lesson they would learn is that there are votes available to their right, but there are no votes available to their left. They will learn this lesson quickly, and do the logical thing given those incentives.

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I'm a literal journalist who has lived through a lot of history. The way you "send a message" is through organizing, protesting, voting in primaries, advocating, donating, not donating, etc. What you do on presidential-election day is CHOOSE WHO WILL BE IN POWER. It's not for messaging.

Two of the best totality pictures I got of the #eclipse as seen through the thin, high clouds of Mazatlán. Shot at focal length of 200mm.

My favourite pic from the #SolarEclipse as seen from our visit to #Mazatlan Mexico. #2024Eclipse #Eclipse

Mazatlán

Nothin', just a pretty sunset in Mazatlán.

If the skies stay like this Monday, it'll be perfect. If they don't, at least there are 3 bars within 10 paces, and it's an all inclusive resort.

Tomorrow, we hop on a plane and begin our journey to Mazatlán for a much needed vacation AND A CHANCE TO SEE TOTALITY DURING A SOLAR ECLIPSE, Y'ALL. I mean, sure, we're stopping to see the daughter and grandkids first, too, which I suppose is also cool...

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i’m on the mend from surgery, but not in enough pain or on enough drugs not to be furious. nex deserves better. if you’re as pissed as i am & can spare it, give to the folks in oklahoma helping lgbtq2s kids marooned there. there should be someone to help us when adults decide we don’t deserve it.

Wow. The Tulsa District Attorney will not file any charges against the minors who assaulted Nex Benedict in a school bathroom the day before he died. They called the altercation "an instance of mutual combat."

Charges won't be filed in connection with Nex Benedict's death, Tulsa County DA sayswww.koco.com The Tulsa County District Attorney's Office will not file charges in connection with the death of 16-year-old nonbinary Owasso High School student Nex Benedict.

Freedom Oklahomawww.freedomoklahoma.org Freedom Oklahoma

In the US election in November, your only realistic options are to get a little closer to the America you want, or a LOT further from it. Black women in particular consistently make the right choice. Will you? Or will you throw it and the rest of us away for your vanity?

I want to complain about taxes, but it's less the amount that's the problem, and more the time spent figuring it out, coupled with the lump sum payment and having to guess each year how much extra the govt should withhold per paycheck to spread it out and cover the balance.

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Crime is down. Inflation is down. Border crossings are down. Everything Republicans want you to be scared of is a lie. They are gaslighting you. They have nothing. No policies. No solutions. They are totally unfit. Vote them all out. Vote Blue.

DAY MOON

I worked on my garden tractor today! I want to move to a place where I don't need a tractor. Or afford someone to cut the grass in my yard for me.

I just sent an international wire transfer, and I feel like a competent grown adult human who is responsible and conducting international business transactions. It's all a lie, of course.

Buffalo cauliflower bites are not anywhere near as good as actual buffalo wings. But they're not bad, TBH.

I ❤️ the inventor of the heated steering wheel. That is all.

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Can we just end this madness?? Fvcking vote in November. #BidenHarris 2024 🇺🇸

Huh...a ladybug on a wall 12' away, with a mobile phone camera. Science, man.

Don't ask me why I speak French to just ONE of my chinchillas, and the other two get English. I JUST DO. And one of those two gets royal English. Him being a king and all.

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...surprising no-one.

members of Congress share more links to low-quality news sites than the public on Facebook; Republican members share considerably more than Democrats & this gap is increasing. only Republican members get increased engagement when sharing low-quality sites www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Partisan Differences in the Sharing of Low-Quality News Sources by U.S Political Eliteswww.tandfonline.com How often do political elites in the U.S. share low-quality news sources? Are there differences between the parties? While past work has investigated individuals sharing low-quality news sources, t...

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It's so weird to me how this doesn't seem to spark much urgency in the media. Widespread misconceptions mean you're not doing your job! Not everything has to be "news" in the sense of a novel event, we've got to figure out how to remind people of background conditions..

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I’ve been covering the “He Gets Us” Jesus PR campaign since 2022. I was the first or at least one of the first to expose it as a right-wing evangelical recruitment effort, though RD and I didn’t get credit when bigger outlets picked the story up religiondispatches.org/behind-the-i...

Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it's the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasyreligiondispatches.org This month, a $100 million advertising campaign and website have been launched nationwide to help a particular figure rebrand. In the current climate, just who, do you think, might warrant such a mass...

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phenomenal piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social on the contortions necessary to entertain the idea that the fourteenth amendment simply should not apply to trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Gift Article: Disqualifying Trump Is Not Antidemocraticwww.theatlantic.com But ignoring the Constitution to please his supporters would be a complete breakdown of the rule of law.

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I feel a lot of people keep waiting for the "first" woman to die because of Dobbs. But multiple women have already died because of it. It's just not reported. jessica.substack.com/p/how-to-rep...

How to Report Post-Dobbs Deathsjessica.substack.com The New Yorker reports that a woman has died—so why not call it what it is?