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scientist, mom, writer, fangrrrl. Tikkun olamnik. She/her mostly because I'm old & lazy. Re-posts are not endorsements, nor do they always make sense.

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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes

"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

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"Irish nationalists Sinn Fein became Northern Ireland's largest party in the British parliament for the first time on Friday, capitalising on a poor election for its main unionist rival to cross another milestone in a campaign to end British rule." wild times www.reuters.com/world/uk/sin...

Sinn Fein largest Northern Ireland party in UK parliament for first timewww.reuters.com Irish nationalists Sinn Fein became Northern Ireland's largest party in the British parliament for the first time on Friday, capitalising on a poor election for its main unionist rival to cross another milestone in a campaign to end British rule.

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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aaand predictably, Sulz has started the anti-Kamala attacks ,guy really thinks he can swing the election to whoever won't raise his taxes, this POS needs to be put back in place the American people ASAP

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There's definitely a trap we can fall into where we say "If I accept the premise that ordinary people doing X can make the world better, it must also mean that ordinary people who aren't doing X—or worse, are doing not-X—are making the world worse." But that's not the case. (1/2)

And since it apparently needs saying, when I say we’re not the reason the really big bad things are happening, I’M NOT DENYING THAT WE HAVE AGENCY.

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Most pro labor president and not coincidentally the first since Reagan who does not have an ivy league degree. They hate him!

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Yup, Biden might be dogshit on international issues and foreign policy and military policy, but nobody has ever been a bigger threat and waged a harder war against the rich wealthy elite in decades like Biden. Biden's attack on corporate monopolies and rising taxes are scaring the billionaire bigots

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The fact they're simultaneously running don't vote campaigns and trying to undermine the dem candidate is proof that the moneybags who own these publications are united in realizing their robber baron days are drawing to a close under a guy who is the most pro labour president of the 21st century

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Meanwhile over at the Telegraph, a leader writer wonders if a community taking part in the democratic process means its time to stop "handing citizenship out" to them. The absolute state of this.

The lobby did a generally decent job last night. But this language/mindset around British Muslim voting trends is profoundly unsettling and offensive.

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Biden should just refuse to allow the NYT to attend WH press briefings going forward & release a statement that its because they cannot be trusted. One President already undermined them to half the country. The next one doing it will finish them off. Sulz wants to play this game, they should oblige

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like, it’s pretty clear that some of what’s driving all of this is biden’s unwillingness to tell donors that they’re not like the other aristocrats

no one believes in the myth of meritocracy more than the american who thinks they are different than every other american born on third base

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i love the fact that in my semi-rural town in Mercer County the convenience store is now run by Gujaritis. Get the Nanwich, it's *fabulous*. You can also get Beef Barbacoa & Rice at lunchtime, & ofc top-notch egg, cheese, & pork roll sandwiches for breakfast

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This area in Texas is so large and so old that it has its own unique dialect. Over one in eight people in the area still speak German as their first language. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_G...

Texas German language - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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I was a Florida Absentee Voter in 2000. It radicalized the fuck out of me, as well it should have.

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I got him! Sadly, the belly IS a trap.

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Your honor, with all due respect, time makes you bolder, even children get older... and I'm getting older, too

Your honor, with all due respect, she’s a good girl, loves her mama, loves Jesus and America too

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Congratulations to @bsky.app, which just passed the six million users mark. That's roughly the size of the population of the great state of Maryland. Please have some cake (crab OR Smith Island, or both!) to celebrate!

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excellent choice.

All change at Downing Street, except Larry the Catwww.reuters.com On a night of sweeping change across British politics, one thing at the heart of the government remained the same on Friday morning: Larry the Downing Street cat.

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…the dramatic sweep or bang of a March on Rome, it’s gonna feel a lot more “normal” than that and therefore easier to dismiss by many elite pundits 2) ask an older Black voter if it’s hard to believe that America may no longer be a democracy at some point in its modern history.

For a little while yet I'll be matching your donations at Balloon-Juice to benefit Four Directions in Wisconsin: balloon-juice.com/2024/07/05/f... & then another Angel will take over. Support the Wisconsin Native American Vote! Read great poetry by my friend niqaeli torres! WE CAN DO THIS THING

Balloon Juice - Four Directions Wisconsin – We Have Angels, and Poetry!balloon-juice.com Four Directions is working on an external match for us, so it’s not 100% certain that we will have an external match, but I will be very surprised if we do not! And we have angels – at this point, I’...

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All US citizens should interrogate the way we are propaganzied to support militarism abroad.

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with Pope Francis, as with Joe Biden, my frustrations are many but I have NO NOTES when he goes into straight-up “fuck you” mode and I think we’d all like him better if he did it more often his campaign to dick over all the far right wing cardinals who try and sabotage him brings me real joy

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If I were a Supreme Court justice who faced no limitations on my power other than the literal span of my life, I would simply not issue a decision that made millions of people fantasize about my assassination.

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very much reflective of the lack of any real survival instinct among journalists that they think the big story today is whether biden will step down

“What makes you so confident you should be president?” is an actual question a reporter shouted at the incumbent who just warned about a reckless court decision that imperils democracy

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Just to piggyback on this I'd love if folks would assume that, as a man who has been both fat and disabled for decades, I am familiar with literally everything you're going to say is the "simple" thing that would "fix" me. Nine times out of ten, I'm already doing it, and still fat. Still disabled.

For Disability Pride Month, one thing I'd love abled bodied people to figure out is how to speak to someone with chronic health issues without implying that if they themselves had the disabled person's health conditions, they would end it all. I promise you life goes on- even with health issues.

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"If we reelect biden we can--" HE IS PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW AND THE SUPREME COURT JUST GAVE THE PRESIDENT UNLIMITED POWER DO THE THINGS NOW

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Seriously. I come from a polluted country. Ya'll need to send a thank you note to epa everyday

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Look at this furry little pumpkin

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This might be more impactful on the election than anything Biden said tonight