Estarianne

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Just your average middle aged mom but disabled and socialist. Anti-fascism, progressive politics, inclusive feminism, birds, psychology and neuroscience. Orange County, CA. pfp: @hayalah

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Btw it should surprise nobody that the "journalist" who did this has a vast array of anti-Biden coverage in his recent articles. I wonder if we should trust any of that? Also, anyone need a bridge, I've got a great one if you're interested.

Adam Nagourney - Page 2www.nytimes.com Adam Nagourney is a national political reporter for The Times, covering the 2024 campaign.

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I cannot emphasize enough that straight reporting in the NYT should be verified elsewhere if you want to be sure about it. The standards are appalling.

I’m going to start with the absolutely jaw-dropping news that The New York Times deceptively edited a quote to make it appear that JD Vance opposes a national abortion ban. — @jessicavalenti.bsky.social

GOP Platform Author Admits There's a National Banjessica.substack.com 7.16.24

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

I assume most people know about the heckler's veto. what I worry about these days is closer to a "heckler's agenda" - where the most intransigent criticisms and critics end up deciding where everyone's focus goes (even when they don't decide people's opinions) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler...

Heckler's veto - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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can't imagine that future historians will fail to notice the political effect of tech developments allowing large scale buying and selling of human attention. not optimistic about the effects on politics writ large, but worth thinking about focus, especially for organizers

Right up until he shot at their candidate they would have called him a "good guy with a gun."

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This popular gun YouTuber posted a very convincing and sympathetic video explaining why he's so upset that Trump's would-be assassin was wearing one of his t-shirts. But it seems he also quietly just removed this hat from his online merch store. (h/t Reddit)

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“Two weeks shy of the five year anniversary of the El Paso massacre, Cruz’s rhetoric echoes the white nationalist and antisemitic manifesto of the Walmart shooter of 23 people, as well as other deadly attacks in Buffalo, Pittsburgh and elsewhere." americasvoice.org/press_releas...

Ted Cruz Embraces Dangerous Rhetoric of El Paso Terrorist; Solidifies Anti-Immigrant Conspiracies That Have Taken Over GOP - America's Voiceamericasvoice.org Cruz Speech One of Many at RNC to Invoke White Nationalist and Deadly “Replacement” and “Invasion” Rhetoric; Remarks are Precisely What Texas Rep. Veronica Escobar Warned About Yesterday Washington, D...

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He has unlimited money he should never be allowed to sue anyone.

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Fascinating to watch folks online w/ healthy skepticism of media treat statements of a cat avi account they’ve followed for a couple weeks as if they are unimpeachable. Which isn’t to say cat avi is always wrong, but the selective critical thinking of echo chambers & parasocial relationships is wild

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These two deserve each other. This is also the property that can no longer be classified as by Willis Polk (really famous sf architect of the 19th-20th century) because they basically destroyed it without permits. These are the photos pre reno: www.realtor.com/realestatean...

www.realtor.com

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HOLD UP. Are you saying Sam Altman bought a massively overpriced property which turned out to be hiding massive structural flaws? Whose seller blithely dismissed significant construction problems? Whose most ostentatious features were the ones that ended up causing the most damage? Interesting.

Lmao get scammed bitch fuck u sfstandard.com/2024/07/16/s...

Sam Altman sues after buying $27M 'lemon' mansion on Lombard St.sfstandard.com OpenAI boss Sam Altman thought he'd bought a Russian Hill mansion complete with a "Batcave." But a new lawsuit against the builder claims the billionaire was misled into buying a $27 million "lemon" r...

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A lot of people are choosing to look away right now in the face of something that is making Doctors Without Borders say things like this

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Over 50k households are still without power in Republican controlled Texas 10 days after Beryl made landfall. Contrast this with how California’s clean energy investments allowed it to handle a surge of demand driven by a crazy heatwave.

Great local news segment about California's weathering the latest heat wave (pun intended) due in part to solar and battery storage: youtu.be/lWEQROBWZF0

Power grid withstands heatwaveyoutu.be After a prolonged heatwave blazed across the state, its power grids held up better than in years past, officials said. Ian Cull reports.Stay Connected:Follow...

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Great local news segment about California's weathering the latest heat wave (pun intended) due in part to solar and battery storage: youtu.be/lWEQROBWZF0

Power grid withstands heatwaveyoutu.be After a prolonged heatwave blazed across the state, its power grids held up better than in years past, officials said. Ian Cull reports.Stay Connected:Follow...

They simply have decided that being honest won't hurt their bottom line in this atmosphere.

As someone who has been talking about Silicon Valley's fascistic politics for a while, I just want to say there is no shift happening here. There is a louder, opportunistic expression of long-held positions in the hopes of a major power grab.

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Went to Amazon looking for a specific book on fascism, and here's what showed up as a *sponsored* item at the very top of my search results.

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"Host bodies must be quiet and do only as the men folk dictate." "Florida Republican called pregnant women 'host bodies' five times while discussing anti-abortion bill" www.cltampa.com/news/florida...

Florida Republican called pregnant women 'host bodies' fives times while discussing anti-abortion bill | Creative Loafing Tampa Baywww.cltampa.com It wasn't a simple slip of the tongue, either.

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A local church here in Salem, Oregon just contacted me and asked me to give a presentation on Project 2025. This is why the Trump campaign and the GOP is trying so hard to distance itself from this document produced by people in the vanguard of their movement.

On Chris Hayes podcast with Jamelle Bouie they talked about a possible reason for optimism: Project 2025 seems to have deeply penetrated TikTok. Anecdotally, my 15 yr old mentioned to me all the counselors she works with at camp have been talking about it and what rights they’re worried about losing

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The head of Hong Kong's leading journalist group says she lost WSJ job after refusing to drop role

The head of Hong Kong's leading journalist group says she lost WSJ job after refusing to drop roleapnews.com The new chair of Hong Kong’s leading media professional group says she lost her job at The Wall Street Journal after she refused her supervisor’s request to withdraw from the election for the leadership post.

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Fuck it, I'm doing it live - i really wish white queer people would stop uniting across class boundaries to harass and exile BIPOC queer people they find annoying* and aggressive** *not submissive enough ** talk too much about racism within queer spaces

i want to complain about a real life issue but it's so close to current Discussions On Here that i just know i'm going to be accused of something silly :/

Seriously when any space lacks Black and Latinx people I side eye. It's SO COMMON for white people to create white spaces.

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Oh no!

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Gabriel S. Jacobs

Any condensor works this way. A lot of people don't realize that an air conditioner needs a way to send the heat outside.

And of course they create more heat than they remove, because efficiency, so sticking an air conditioner in the middle of the room with no vent will heat the room.

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Is it? I thought respectability politics was part of class stratification and meant to insulate the upper classes from social consequences.

Just because I think respectability politics predates liberalism.

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O’Reilly led the campaign that got George Tiller killed

apparently Jon Stewart figures Bill O'Reilly is what passes for a Reasonable People Can Disagree* republican and is happy to help him sell books *as long as we don't talk about grotesque sexual harassment and toxic workplace abuse

'Find a respectable conservative': Jon Stewart slammed over Bill O’Reilly interviewwww.rawstory.com "The Daily Show" host and comedian Jon Stewart was under fire Tuesday night for having former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on the popular show to talk about political fanaticism and extreme rhetoric. ...

Respectability politics are gonna be the end of us

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Over on the bad place, @cmewing.bsky.social pointed out that court reform is a D primary policy ballon, not general election stuff, and that that's indicative of Biden still struggling to effectively secure his nomination. That's a worthwhile point

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It didn't. They've always had a hybrid model where they use Hive Moderation (hivemoderation.com ) to scan images for CSAM, CSEM, murder images, beheadings, animal crush images, etc etc, and to label and classify content that's NSFW, violent, etc , and humans handle actual reports.

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