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I have opinions tho I'm not sure this matters. I read a lot, watch a lot, and am a bit addicted to following politics. For work, I try to save the university from the internet. It could happen...

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Mass deportation is a kitchen table issue, and Trump and the GOP need to be hounded about it. "Kids will come from school to homes without their parents. Businesses would lose workers, some would just shutter. Crops would rot in the fields.” zacharymueller.substack.com/p/mass-depor...

Trump dodged the debate question about who he wld deport. “He wldn’t tell the American ppl his plans to deport Dreamers, rip apart American families, turn troops & police into a show-me-your-papers force to go into neighborhoods across the country & upend so many industries, including agriculture.”

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Margaret Sullivan, the much-missed former public editor of @nytimes.com, on the bizarre collapse of our major media in the face of a fascist, rapist traitor who has been granted full immunity by a thoroughly corrupted SCOTUS stacked with GOP hacks. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The media has been breathlessly attacking Biden. What about Trump? | Margaret Sullivanwww.theguardian.com The bigger story is Donald Trump’s appalling unfitness for office. He tried to overturn a legitimate election and is a felon

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turns out my state is having a contest on "I Voted" sticker designs, and I would like to show you the most metal one by a middle schooler:

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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.

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New York Times: Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Too Old For This Fight And Should Drop Out And Let Luke Or Possibly C3PO Replace Him For The Good Of The Galaxy

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Werner Herzog directing a Maybelline ad: Perhaps she is born with it. What a frightful notion, to be imbued with the fetters of capitalist commodification from birth. It suggests God Himself is a part of our dreadful pattern instead of a refuge from it.

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Wow. This nine page comic by Kevin Conroy (voice of Batman) and J. Bone really hit me in the gut. It's about Kevin's dysfunctional family, his early acting career, his closeted homosexuality in the 70s-80s, and coming to his audition for Batman in the early 90s. Full: www.tumblr.com/why-i-love-c...

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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we spent decades refining the model of “the computer gives the right answer” and I remain unconvinced people wish to replace this with “the computer gives the wrong answer, but in plausible-sounding words”

No notes, GPT. 10/10.

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If you or anyone you know needs somewhere to cool off this week, your local public library probably has air conditioning and a water fountain, plenty of books to read, computers, movies, craft supplies, etc.

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for the love of god, were they giants or not???

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Keeping money out of politics…. But not really… columbusunderground.com/gop-initiati...

GOP Initiative to Keep Foreign Money out of Ohio Politics Doesn't Work as Intended - Columbus Undergroundcolumbusunderground.com In exchange for putting a sitting president on the state ballot, Ohio’s Republican leadership this week demanded that Democrats agree to a measure Republicans said would protect ballot initiatives fro...

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Preserved here, complete, for posterity.

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Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images. In case anyone was wondering who took the photograph which is popping up everywhere uncredited.

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🚨NEW: 49% of Independents and 15% of Republicans said Trump should end his campaign because of his conviction. Time for media elites to- newspaper editorials - Republicans and Dems to call on the convicted felon to drop out of the race. www.axios.com/2024/06/01/p...

Just saw Furiosa and there wasn’t a single Cybertruck. Does not bode well for @tesla

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donald trump has been convicted of 34 felonies, which is actually the maximum amount of felonies a person can be convicted with at one time. search "donald trump rule 34" for more info

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“Trump’s central campaign pledge, mass deportation, is a serious plan, a cop to his authoritarian designs, and something we cannot afford to ignore,” write @zacharyamueller.bsky.social and @yunaoh08.bsky.social 👇🏽

From @zacharyamueller.bsky.social and @yunaoh08.bsky.social From ‘Build the Wall’ to ‘Deport Them All’: The Escalating Threat of Trump’s Authoritarian Nationalism open.substack.com/pub/zacharym...

From ‘Build the Wall’ to ‘Deport Them All’: The Escalating Threat of Trump’s Authoritarian Nationalismopen.substack.com Trump’s central campaign pledge, mass deportation, is a serious plan, a cop to his authoritarian designs, and something we cannot afford to ignore.

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Remember when the most important issue was civility in politics because restaurant workers politely decline to serve Sarah Sanders and now everyone targeted by Trump or his cronies needs private security and we don’t talk about civility much anymore www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his convictionwww.nbcnews.com On social media and web forums, users called for jurors, judges and prosecutors to be killed after the former president was found guilty on 34 felony counts.

It does feel kinda Very American, though, that he very well might get away with shooting someone on 5th Ave but could not get away with fucking someone

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Read about the guilty verdict, looked up and saw my first ever Cybertruck at that exact moment. The pluperfect 2025 Moment

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We would like to issue the following correction:

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New Yorker cover

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12 regular people doing their level best. I don’t ever want to know their names. They’ve earned a lifetime of safety and privacy.

The only people who've ever held Trump meaningfully accountable over the last nine years have been ordinary Americans and they've spent that entire time being lectured to and berated by elites who've failed to do anything.

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When it was revealed that Justice Abe Fortas received $15,000 for teaching a seminar at American University, conservatives howled so much that they blocked his elevation to chief justice and then forced his resignation.

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basically everything on earth is awful except for when you get to see somebody walking a really old-ass dog in a stroller, like what a gift

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another thing I will keep saying is that it is both wild how many aspects of US culture and institutions are openly, nakedly predatory and also wild how politically sustainable that seems to be www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Veterans became eligible for billions. These firms saw a chance to profit.www.washingtonpost.com Despite a federal law that prohibits charging veterans for help in applying for disability benefits, for-profit companies are making millions.