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Drive big motor-coaches, ride bicycles, son, father, grandfather. Love being outside looking at the mountains.

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universal basic income programs keep getting "tested" and are overwhelmingly found to benefit the lives of everyone involved. It should only take so many pilot programs before this becomes basic policy. www.businessinsider.com/new-york-bas...

Artists in New York got $1,000 monthly through a basic income program. One participant used the money to pay bills and afford healthcare.www.businessinsider.com Jacinta Bunnell, 52, received guaranteed basic income from Creatives Rebuild New York. The program gave 2,400 artists $1,000 a month for 18 months.

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Money for nothing: is universal basic income about to transform society? @scottsantens.com www.theguardian.com/society/arti...

Money for nothing: is universal basic income about to transform society?www.theguardian.com The concept of a guaranteed income is gaining traction as a solution to the impact of AI and way to encourage more rewarding and socially valuable work

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DAs often face little accountability. Take Mississippi's Doug Evans: Over 26 years, his team routinely struck Black people from juries—a pattern exposed in the case of Curtis Flowers, who he tried 6 times. He faced no discipline, retired on his own terms. boltsmag.org/mississippi-...

Mississippi DA, Exposed for Striking Black Jurors, Leaves His Office On His Own Termsboltsmag.org When the Supreme Court struck down Curtis Flowers’ conviction, it sparked lawsuits, bills, and calls for oversight. But DA Doug Evans is getting to walk away with no accountability.

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Shameless self promotion! I'm working on a comic called Psychopomp, the second edition of The Divine Canine Tarot, and various song projects. I do it out of love, but if you enjoy what I do, consider supporting me on Patreon so I can do it more! www.patreon.com/StraySongdog

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Thinking aloud: If Trump had been killed he'd be a martyr; St Donald Sympathy would have been huge (see how people who hated Kennedy love him still) Now he's still alive maybe there's a chance for people to see how mendacious, vicious, vindictive and plan nasty he really is. We can but hope

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Calgary’s Peace Bridge. An excellent example of how investing a bit extra into high quality design can completely change the face of a city.

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"This changes everything" No, it doesn't. Jesus Christ, grow a spine.

Why are Democrats like this?

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just watched a presser with Milwaukee cops explaining that Wisconsin is an open carry state so they can't do anything about it if somebody's walking around the soft perimeter with an AR

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Look who doesn't understand that these special sections are printed up days earlier, and who will ignore the fact that multiple people in his replies are telling him that, but will still milk this stupid point for the guy he's now supporting politically.

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So the Secret Service can’t stop a gunman from shooting at a candidate for president — but the right-wing “solution” to gun violence is to arm teachers?!? Got it.

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This is getting a little ridiculous. True loser shit. It’s basically tied. What do these people think their jobs are?

A senior House Democrat says efforts to replace Biden at the top of the ticket have stopped because, “We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency."

Trump rally shooting upends congressional Democrats' crisis over Biden's candidacywww.axios.com Rep. Dean Phillips said it would be "unpatriotic and unprincipled" to focus on anything besides the shooting.

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as others have said, true loser shit

A senior House Democrat says efforts to replace Biden at the top of the ticket have stopped because, “We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency."

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Two things are true in the study of human behavior: 1) human behavior is often somewhat predictable. 2) individuals always have power and agency to behave in ways that are unexpected. Thus, Beware the “inevitability narrative.” Nothing is inevitable. Ever.

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Counterpoint: it is though.

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My colleagues & I have studied the social media aftermath of mass shooting events for a decade. We’re still processing the horrifying, abhorrent, and tragic event yesterday, which appears to be an assassination attempt on former President Trump. In case they're useful, here are some first thoughts:

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"Free bathing cars" were a long-standing summer tradition in Toronto, started by the Toronto Railway Co. in the 1890s & kept for a number of years by the TTC. Streetcars transported kids, for free, on various city routes to Sunnyside Beach where they could "bathe", AKA swim.

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This is NYT’s portrait of a Trump rally, where the explicit agenda was putting millions of people in concentration camps before deporting them.

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Please don’t “both sides” the “violent political rhetoric” conversation when one side regularly glorifies and intimidates with guns and the other side speaks out to end gun violence. These are not the same.

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My first thought this morning after I remembered the news was how many people over the last few years have put their bodies between armed far right guys and kids going to the library or a bookstore

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The Spectator takes the #YHGtBFKMwTS prize.

I think I'm gonna need a bigger hashtag.

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Has anyone asked the Republican candidate for governor — the one who recently insisted “some folks need killing” — about political violence?

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Reminder: If #England get beaten, so will she. #DomesticViolence increases by 26% when #England win or draw and 38% if they lose. If you are in immediate danger, call 999 and press 55 on the keypad. Women- Refuge on 0808 2000 247 Men- Respect Men 0808 8010327

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Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablancawww.the-reframe.com Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

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MSNBC just interviewed a Trump supporter who was at the rally and she said “There is too much hate” and we need to pray for the country. She is wearing a “Know Your Parasites” t-shirt. These people have no self awareness.

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the level of editorializing outlets are comfortable with when it works in the GOP's favor is pretty wild they never seem to have this same editorializing courage when taking about, say, Amazon labor abuses

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These are the other shootings that happen in America and all of them get one headline and then no one ever thinks about them again because it happens all the time and everyone has stopped caring

At least four people were killed and nine others were wounded in a shooting at a Birmingham, Alabama, nightclub late Saturday night, police said.

At least 4 people killed, 9 others injured in shooting at Birmingham nightclub, police say | CNNwww.cnn.com At least four people were killed and nine others were wounded in a shooting at a Birmingham, Alabama, nightclub late Saturday night, police said.

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I just don't get how a Republican could ever conceive the idea that shooting someone is okay.

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This is how you do it.

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Saw “Fatherland,” a four-actor play based entirely on testimony and records from a January 6 case, about a son who turns his father in to the FBI. Tiny tiny theater. Extremely powerful and masterfully acted. It’s going to NY; catch it there if you can.

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If a Democrat had been the target of an assassination attempt, can anyone plausibly imagine a Trump statement that did not denigrate and equivocate?