Shayne from Missouri

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Missouri Native, Father, Husband, IT Person, Veteran, Harry Truman Democrat, Social Media Time Waster.

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Jesse Baer

The weirdest parts of the time travellings Sports Almanac is when you would see wide swaths of events canceled after dates like 9/11/2001 or for months in 2020 and have an idea that there would be a historical tragedy, but not insight on what exactly it was-will be.

Think it's time I expand this into a short story. "Biff realized by preventing the Airborne Ebola outbreak of 2012, he was saving the lives and careers of enough athletes, coaches and owners to render his Alamanac predictions useless.... but it was the only way to save Lorraine."

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Shayne from Missouri

Doomers love to say the world is getting worse all the time but consider that in the last 30 years we ended both the ozone hole and people getting their faces ripped off by a pet chimp

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Shayne from Missouri

In the exact same nine day period that Biden and his White House and campaign have been flailing, Trump has offered voters a window into his own mental state and vision for term 2 It’s not great! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

QAnon Memes, F-Bombs, and Tribunals: As Biden Faltered, Trump Amped Up the Crazywww.rollingstone.com Trump quietly had his own week from hell while the media was hounding Biden

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Jamie Hannigan

This is the accused offense that George Floyd was extrajudicially assassinated for in broad daylight.

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Shayne from Missouri

Fun fact: Back in 2022, the FOMC was widely derided for predicting only a small rise in unemployment with core inflation rapidly falling. Those projections turn out to have been almost exactly right. www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...

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Shayne from Missouri

Breaking News: The reformist Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s presidential runoff election, reflecting discontent with hard-line policies. The special election was held after former President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash in May.

Reformist Candidate Wins Iran’s Presidential Electionwww.nytimes.com Masoud Pezeshkian defeated an ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, in a runoff.

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Shayne from Missouri

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

How many investment cycles until this view is the new normal?

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Carl Nyberg

I don't how how much, if any, sarcasm is in this.

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Shayne from Missouri

Tory party's strategy of having their entire talent pipeline just be being rich and having had your empathy beaten out of you as a child by the South England Boarding School For Making Monstrous Children apparently not helping them connect with voters

My thoughts on this Independence Day cultofsignal.blogspot.com/2024/07/inde...

INDEPENDENCE DAY (A Nation Worth Fighting For)cultofsignal.blogspot.com July 4th, 1776 was the day of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. We rejected Kings and the idea that it was t...

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz

I thought this is when the studio asks an artist to crank out a new hit just like their last one.

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Shayne from Missouri

July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz

July 5th:

It was disgusting and the mask if off about "Infinite and Swift punishments for the working classes - Infinite leniency for the Oligarchy" policy choices.

One thing about the Trump immunity ruling that was really galling to me... this is same SC who rushed to make sure states could complete *executions* while Trump was still in office. No consideration. Then took ages to carefully craft hurdles to Trump being held accountable for crimes we WATCHED.

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Shayne from Missouri

AP story waits until paragraph 16 to mention police & prosecutors are accused of conspiring to protect the cop who's apparently the real killer, until then making him seem like a lone wolf

Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man. innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...

Missouri woman who has served more than 40 years for murder is declared innocent by judgewww.nbcnews.com She must be freed or retried for the 1980 murder within 30 days, a judge ruled, but the Missouri AG has asked an appeals court to review the judge's decision.

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Shayne from Missouri

Incidentally, the forecast for Fresno, which is in the San Joaquin Valley, the most agriculturally productive region practically anywhere ....

Today, the federal government put itself on the right side of history by seeking, for the 1st time, to establish the precedent that every worker in America has the right to shade, water & rest while working in temps that could kill them. -UFW President Teresa Romero www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

Biden to announce heat rules as climate-related deaths risewww.politico.com If finalized, they would be the first U.S. regulations to protect workers from dangerous temperatures.

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Shayne from Missouri

The story is always the same: major tech companies tell us they care about the environment to silence criticism, then never actually follow through. Google’s emissions are up ~50% in 5 years, following similar news Microsoft is also blowing past its climate commitments.

Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demandwww.theguardian.com Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres

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Shayne from Missouri

The GOP going in HARD this year with people who murder dogs. Bold strategy. Let's see if it plays out!

Possibly the only time this headline has ever been written.

RFK Jr. denies eating a dog while sidestepping sexual assault allegations in Vanity Fair article | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has denied allegations made in a new Vanity Fair report that he had previously eaten a dog while sidestepping accusations of sexual assault lev...

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Shayne from Missouri

Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.

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Amy A

"This Wednesday The Supreme Court..." Brain: "...we're all tragically killed in a post session yachting accident." Brain"

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Shayne from Missouri

Things are going very well when we've reached the "Don't worry, the military won't obey orders to kill civilians" stage of democratic backsliding. It's the sweet spot, where good things happen. Right where we want to be.

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Shayne from Missouri

The more you read yesterday’s immunity decision, the more appalling it gets. My take: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...

Opinion | The Supreme Court Creates a Lawless Presidencywww.nytimes.com It is increasingly clear that this court sees itself as something other than a participant in our democratic system.

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Mark Shatraw

I just want the logs of comms between FedSoc leadership and serving Judges and Officials. FedSoc (and assortment villians) are elected by no one and a single communication shown as giving an order that was followed is grounds for dismissal.

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Shayne from Missouri

Apparently the only thing a President is not allowed to kill is student loans

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Colin Spacetwinks

No donor has ever, in the history of donations, cared about hitting some target before an SEC reporting deadline. That is ONLY a concern of professional fundraisers. The fact this is brought up like it will motivate me, or anyone, is indicative of how up-their-own-ass fundraisers are.

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Shayne from Missouri

SCOTUS has ruled that presidents are essentially monarchs who can commit crimes, bribery is legal, federal regulatory agencies have no authority to keep us safe, and homeless people can be punished for being homeless. Is it any wonder why public approval of this court is so low?

This is the truest realization and the only way out of it is "Every Decison by a Federalist Society judge is without merit and won't be enforced. We will not collaborate with the FedSoc criminal conspiracy?"

Pretty clear that the Federalist Society project to take over the courts for the far right is the most successful and consequential political effort in history. Only took them a few decades. Meanwhile, Dems are like "Let's not be hasty, blue slips serve an important function in preserving comity."

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The Georg