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When I was a young frog
My father took me into the big bog
To see a marshing band...

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

🎶 I wanna tax the billionaires, so freakin’ bad… Make them pay for things we all should have I wanna drink from a tap, with water so clean Instead of putting apes on NFTs...🎶

I want to start an ad campaign: "Instead of high speed rail we got... Theranos." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of universal healthcare we got... Juicero." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of clean tap water we got... NFTs." TAX BILLIONNAIRES

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make a band more vegetable: Megan Thee Scallion

make a band more vegetable: Nine Inch Kales

make a band more vegetable: My Chemical Romaine

make a band more vegetable Parsnip! At the Disco

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The Midnight Society

Rowling: ugh! i can't believe we lossst! thisss wasss ssssuppossed to be a sssure thing! Rowling: i had big plansss! sssuch big plansss! Rowling: now how am i gonna get funding for a big ssorting hat to put on school kidsss junk

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“As media we consistently proclaim that we are just reporting the news when in fact we are driving it. What we cover, how we cover it, determines often what Americans think is important and how they perceive these issues yet we keep pretending it’s not so.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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For a lot of Disabled people, posting-as-praxis is what we can do. I don't have a lot of respect for people who want to denigrate this specific part of community participation.

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Today marks the anniversary of the signing of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), a landmark moment in our great Nation's history.

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From the Guardian. Really helps to show how FPTP is a hideous system where going from 32 to 33 percent is going from historic loss to historic win. #ukpol #ge2024

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✨ blessings from the crabbit ✨ 🦀🐰🎨

It bears repeating that we are in such a precarious place in large part bc we don't have the organization built up for a General Strike. That organization will take years. Among other things, 2024 elections are a choice of what admin you want to organize under.

Seriously. I'm getting really tired of the "just making shit up at this point" school of political thinking. "What if we do a whole new round of primaries?" If you got that kind of organizational capacity, how bout doing something useful like getting a general strike started?

Ah, the classic institutions of any town. The monkeys, the church, the alligator.

Refugio, Texas Population: 2,745 Photos from Google Places API Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugio,_Texas

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I hate it here.

NEW: Judge Merchan postpones Trump's sentencing till September (via Frank G. Runyeon, Law360)

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough

The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

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How am I coping? Good beer and boy bands. Highly recommend.

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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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I don’t have anything witty or insightful so say. I’m just so offended that they chose July 4 week to bless a would-be-monarch. The very thing we created this country to escape. They aren’t protecting democracy they are laying out a red carpet for its demise.

No money for proper ventilation in schools, so kids get endless rounds of COVID that they bring back and infect the rest of their families. Endless money for AI grifters.

“ai” edtech company collapses after taking six million dollars from the Los Angeles school district to develop an “educational friend” platform.

A.I. ‘Friend’ for Public School Students Falls Flatwww.nytimes.com Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

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Posting for my immunocompromised friends: Pemgarda, a prophylactic monoclonal antibody for Covid, is now available. I was able to get it through U of Utah. It’s apparently an infusion and you have to get it every three months (which hopefully means they are also tweaking it for current strains).

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

OK, the dinosaur gas station is pretty cool.

Concord, Michigan Population: 1,040 Photos from Google Places API Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord,_Michigan

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100% this. And also: what happens to EVERYONE when the grid goes dark? What happens in a city when the trucks stop running? Utter Fucking Chaos If you think you can survive a revolution, you’re wrong. I don’t care how fit you are. I don’t care how many guns you own. We live or die together.

If you think we're expendable, I think your revolution is trash. I'm all for burning down an oppressive system, but not in a way that treats vulnerable people as acceptable losses.

As opposed to… indoor homelessness? WTAF.

In a decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court gave wide discretion to states and localities to create policy around homelessness. It clears the way for a Kentucky ban on outdoor homelessness to go into effect in July.

Supreme Court decision on outdoor camping bans clears the way for Kentucky banwww.weku.org In a decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court gave wide discretion to states and localities to create policy around homelessness. It clears the way for a Kentucky ban on outdoor homelessness to go into ...

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Chevron famously said, "Judges are not experts in the field, and are not part of either political branch of the Government." Today, Roberts and the other chaos agents on the court say: "Judges are the only experts in any field, and can dictate policy to either political branch of the Gov't"

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In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court is like “you are now free to overthrow the government we just put ourselves in charge of.”

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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear

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For letting Trump call Biden a liar and just answer whatever question he wants, I hope every time Jake Tapper eats a piece of chocolate it’s actually a piece of poo

Joe Biden is struggling because he’s actually obeying rules. He should start making himself the moderator, since they’re not going to do it. (His split screens are legendary though, and my favorite part of this shitshow)

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NEW USE FOR LLMs JUST DROPPED

everyone participating in this debate is just competing to say the most words in the time allotted, and apparently you get more points if every subsequent word you say has no relationship to any prior words said