Diogenes of Snarkadia

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Wit & one liners about science, pseudoscience & anti-science. Pronouns: Jack/Bub.

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They are blocking enforcement of the new idk clarifications (they say rules but I don't think it actually changes any rule) that state that trans kids can't be discriminated against. Because they want to discriminate against trans kids.

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Chris Geidner

I will suggest that "Democrats are not allowed to do anything when in power and Republicans can break the law, it's cool" is not a fair arrangement, nor a productive one

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listen I'm just a serious reporter doing seventy five consecutive stories expressing sudden and breathless concern about how only one of two old candidates for president are old

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If I'm going to survive a global pandemic and a recession and we are running headfirst into fucking fascism then goddamn it, I want a DECADE of decadence and hedonism first

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I think it’s telling that if you search “Trump AND rape” on the New York Times website you don’t get a single article mentioning the E. Jean Carroll case but if you search “Biden AND old” you get 18,026 hits.

latest trump child rape accusation is uh pretty fucking bad and also not surprising

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The one thing we have working for us right now is that Republicans are such monsters they fundamentally misunderstand how to properly capitalize on Biden’s weaknesses.

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pretty weird to think that the usa which just had a king appointed is gonna celebrate no king day tomorrow and the country theyre celebrating the bye bye king from will have their king tell us who will run that country for the next 5 years

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Roses are red, Curry has cumin,

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I listened to NPR for like five minutes today. They had on Sarah Isgur to talk about what a tough spot Roberts was in because Biden was prosecuting his opponent for a crime for which he wasn’t impeached.

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I swear to god there is a guy here in this cafe explaining to a woman about how there wasn't GRAVITY before Newton "made it up." One of his proofs is "how do you think they made the pyramids?"

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OK so over on the Bad Place hundreds of thousands of people are discussing how a judge unsealed Epstein records and Trump is all over them and all I see here(and in most media) is who should replace biden what is going on

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The Epstein grand jury records that were unsealed today contain some entirely unsurprising revelations

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Watching the behaviour of various conservative families over the years and these people are specifically trained from birth to base their lives around excusing and minimising the awfulness of their powerful patriarch. They are natural sell-outs who have a gut level instinct for this stuff.

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2011: Fake Birth Certificate & Fake President 2017: Fake News 2020: Fake Election 2022: Woke Marxist Education 2024: Fake Legal System This is what the fascist assault on democratic institutions looks like.

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That sounds suspiciously like something someone who would eat a human would say. (screenshot via @acyn.bsky.social on Twitter)

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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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Something grimly funny about how like 10 years ago, every harmless crank who believed in stuff like flat earth and fake moon landing would either be radicalized into antisemitism or gradually revealed it, but now all these people are open antisemites and they stumble into flat earth

round earther

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You want your MTV? ⬇️

Thanks to @archive.org, who has assembled a searchable index of 460,575 web pages previously published on MTV's website, you can search the MTV News archive via the Wayback Machine. variety.com/2024/digital...

MTV News Repository of 460,000 Articles Launched by Internet Archive After Paramount’s Content Takedownvariety.com After Paramount pulled MTV News offline, the Internet Archive assembled a searchable index of 460,575 pages previously published at mtv.com/news.

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We've now reached 200 death row exonerations. Meanwhile, the state with the most (Florida) is pushing to limit appeals, carry out executions more quickly, allow death sentences from non-unanimous juries, and impose the death penalty for crimes other than homicide.

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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Courtwww.theatlantic.com Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.

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Seems crazy! But just logical. If a President cannot commit a crime in the course of an official act, like giving an order to the military, how can you prosecute the person who follows the order? There’s a whole code of military conduct about “illegal orders.” All orders are legal now.

There is also every reason to think that this court will expand Trump v. U.S in his second term to extend immunity to those doing his bidding. I.e., “Our holding in Trump v. U.S. demands that government officials be able to enact the will of the executive without fear of criminal proceedings.”

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Seth Cotlar

To put a finer point on it, the Heritage Foundation currently has a fellowship named after a woman who in the 1960s would talk about "killing all the Jews" at parties at her West Palm Beach mansion. She also generously funded organizations that she thought agreed with her. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Here's a letter from one of the Countess's friends to Pedro del Valle in which she fondly recalls "that day she said 'Why don't we kill them all?' How we laughed. She was so cute and so honest...I'm still searching for more evidence that Rocky [Nelson Rockefeller] is a Jew." By "them" she meant Jews

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Look everyone, the Heritage Foundation is just like those scrappy New England farmers who picked up their muskets to preserve their freedom from an overweening government. Anywho, here's the list of donors who gave Heritage >$100K in 2022. This is just one year.

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Last spring the Heritage Foundation sponsored a Leadership Summit by the "Bull Moose Project." Here's the leader of that project talking about his racist and homophobic, "blood and soil" version of what America should be about.

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If NYT doesn't have 10-20 reporters on the Heritage Foundation rn, they're not doing their job. Does that seem like a lot? There were 3 bylines on a story about the residences of 4 Jewish Brooklyn Museum officials being vandalized. (Turned out only 1 is Jewish. They got the correction wrong too.)

IDK kind of feels like we should be paying more attention to a prominent conservative think tank saying we're in the midst of a second american revolution that will remain bloodless as long as long as the left lets it be, then whether or not Biden should step down.

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Matt Novak

It's how professional RWers think of science: a belief system created to oppose religion

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Gonna have to reform the curricula a bit. Conlaw is now part of American History. Soviet studies is run by the law school. Journalism is now a minor in sport studies. Computer science is run by the business school, contains no programming, and business majors are dualed with "creative fiction"

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My favorite line about war applies here: "The aggressor is always peace-loving... he would prefer to take over our country unopposed." No man, if you're trying a revolution against the Constitution of the United States, pro-Constitution Americans aren't going to simply get out of your way. Hard no.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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if you are killed you can seek a declaratory judgment finding that you shouldn’t have been killed.