Frank D’Elia

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Refugee from Truth Social 2, aka Xitter

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Since the late 1960s the business class & conservatives devoted themselves to ending the era post-1900s where we began regulating business for safety standards, esp the strong agency version post-New Deal. They've been granted victory for two generations and now the Supreme Court has made it formal.

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

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Kudos to @paulrosenberg.bsky.social for mentioning the Exodus 34 version of the Ten Commandments www.salon.com/2024/07/07/t...

Ten Commandments gone wild! The Christian right's latest toxic distractionwww.salon.com A tale of the evangelical right, the least religious president ever and Cecil B. DeMille's phony list from God

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How long before the professoriate is next? 🗃️ www.axios.com/local/atlant...

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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"We can't be bothered to teach it to you but you should definitely bother to learn it" Boy I dunno if that approach is going to work with children or really immature young adults whose motivation for anything academic is either weak and conditional or nonexistent.

How long before the professoriate is next? 🗃️ www.axios.com/local/atlant...

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Here we see a right wing Twitter account with 1.3 million followers being retweeted by an account with 2.5 million followers calling for conservatives to sabotage the upcoming American election. Musk, BTW, has interacted amicably with these accounts several times.

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Well it's not like they can just google some of the names in their own story to see what comes up and find much more interesting stories. No let's just go with a soft ball story about people moving.

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And it’s not just “people don’t feel safe,” as the article offers, in a concluding quote. It’s that people—-women, to be more specific—-are👏🏼not👏🏼safe👏🏼….

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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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I think we also have to underline the gravity for the people in our lives by drawing hard lines with them. bsky.app/profile/insa...

If you're still on good terms with Trump-supporting family or friends, what are you waiting for to happen before you'll impose a social cost by cutting them out of your life? Are you going to brush human soot off your sleeve on your way to Thanksgiving, if it comes to that?

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“But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty.” Right. It’s incumbent upon us all reading this to raise our voices. If we do that now, tens or 100s of thousands will join. Focus on the corrupt Court, and Project 2025.

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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Even if the Court were to accept that Defendant Nauta invoked his Fifth Amendment right, there is no evidence showing that Defendant Nauta's exercise of his privilege against self-incrimination motivated the charges against him," Cannon wrote.

Judge denies Trump aide's motion to dismiss classified documents indictmentabcnews.go.com Judge denies former President Donald Trump aide's motion to dismiss classified documents indictment.

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Inverted medusa heads. It's unclear if these were repurposed stone taken from other locations (spoliation) or if they were a totem to guard against attacks by Gorgons by inverting the image. Regardless, encountering them while exploring the cistern by torchlight would have been quite exciting?

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This is the Basilica Cistern, built in the 6th century by Justinian I to provide constant water pressure to Constantinople's Great Palace and fountains district. Some of the supporting columns have a unique feature.

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This is the "Cistern of Theodosius" in Istanbul, built by Roman Emperor Theodosius II in 443 CE to serve the growing need for water in the capital of Constantinople, population: ~500,000 Its location was lost in the 18th century, and only recently rediscovered, restored, and opened in 2018.

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Vote 🗳️ Blue

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yo, I wrote a thing: "Republicans are running away from Project 2025. let’s make the bastards own it" — they can run, but they can’t hide. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

Republicans are running away from Project 2025. let’s make the bastards own itbit.ly they can run, but they can’t hide

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Project 2025 is the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for turning the United States into a Christian Nationalist dictatorship with Trump permanently installed as King… Mein Kampf meets The Handmaid’s Tale meets 1984, all rolled up into one christofascist dream” open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

Republicans are running away from Project 2025. let’s make the bastards own itopen.substack.com they can run, but they can’t hide

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y40...

Elon Musk: Everything You Didn't Know About His Sh*tty Pastwww.youtube.com YouTube video by Hysteria

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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I just read an article that said "Why is it taking so long for your favorite movies and tv series to air? Blame the writers and actor strikes" No I won't. I'm blaming that ✨single✨ motherfucker at the studio who makes $250 million dollars a year who's one job is supposed to make this shit happen.

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With @wendyorent.bsky.social Discussions about the Great Barrington Declaration tend to take place in the condition tense- what would and could have happened. But it existed. And in the real world it failed. Episode 32. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

‎We Want Them Infected Podcast: The Great Barrington Declaration's Doomed Herd Immunity Plan on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show We Want Them Infected Podcast, Ep The Great Barrington Declaration's Doomed Herd Immunity Plan - Jul 6, 2024

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even trump’s campaign staff (i assume he didn’t write this) knows that the reactionary, authoritarian agenda that’s project 2025 is going to be unpopular with the average voter.

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I'm going to end up sharing this everywhere, but look how easily it *could* be done donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

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When Trump says things like this, if and when it's covered at all, it's treated as a minor source of humor or a zinger rather than as a damning indictment of his unpreparedness or ageing cognition. It doesn't lead to weeks of serious media coverage & revolt by anonymous party members.