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Giving up hope is also complying with authoritarians in advance. It’s saying that fascism is inevitable, that there is no other way to be. I know it’s hard to keep hope alive, but I hope you find a way. ❤️

Don’t despair — here’s why https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/04/fourth-july-us-trump-biden-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This Fourth of July, it’s hard to feel optimistic about the US. But I have hope | Margaret Sullivanwww.theguardian.com Let’s remember that we’ve come a long way – and the journey isn’t yet complete

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all rise for the national anthem music.apple.com/us/album/roa...

Roadrunner (Once) by The Modern Lovers & Jonathan Richman on Apple Musicmusic.apple.com Song · 1976 · Duration 4:44

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Hey readers, do you suddenly find yourself with large, empty spaces on your bookshelf for........reasons? Get yourself some trans books to fix that!

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

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can we get a thread of sci-fi writers going? BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ and disabled authors to the front! we all need new reading material!! please alt text images and add links so we can buy from you

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Man, I am gonna have to repost this like daily this week, huh?

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now that the creature was dead, some vague dissatisfaction, or impatience, or despair, seemed working in him

Are the string of catastrophic supreme court decisions and the summer heat just cooking pundits' brains? Just had to cancel my LG&M subscription and delete it from my RSS feed. This trend of left of center doomer panic is so useless and tiresome

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i wuold absolutely try to pet a dingo there is simply no question. look at himb. babey

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It's seven-fingered turtles all the way down

Yo dawg, we heard you liked ChatGPT, so we put ChatGPT into your ChatGPT.

List 15 films The Straight Story Wild Strawberries Cars 3 Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast Doom Generation The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure Film Socialism Tuff Turf Takin Care of Business Rookie of the Year Do the Right Thing Killjoy Begotten Cemetery Man Matewan

List 15 films. Harold and Maude Flirting Slacker Tampopo Delicatessen Barton Fink Heavenly Creatures The Piano Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love Matewan Stranger Than Paradise Magic The Fisher King Some Like it Hot

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i do not think it is wise to feed a chaos agent unprecedented chaos

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Huh. Nobody seems to have noticed, but we crossed 400,000,000 docket entries in our PACER collection last month: www.courtlistener.com/recap/ 😲 😲 😲

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SCOTUS: Chevron schmevron. We’re the regulators now. Political science: Okay fine, here’s some data on redistricting for you to consider. SCOTUS: Fuck off, nerd www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-...

Analysis | Justice Roberts said political science is ‘sociological gobbledygook.’ Here’s why he said it, and why he’s mistaken.www.washingtonpost.com Social science helped the Supreme Court outlaw segregation, and it can surely help the court understand gerrymandering.

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every single character is just an aspect of your own consciousness, so no matter who it was the answer is ultimately yourself - me, losing at Clue yet again

Lol, I had a great nethack game going today (ready to descend into gehennom) and was in such a bad mood that I just let an air elemental kill my ranger. IDGAF

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An unfairly maligned formulation of the true meaning of the separation of powers, according to today’s Supreme Court majority.

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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

I like the ones where the diversity initiatives include hiring veterans I guess they don't support the troops

"Look, the Wall Street Journal lists all these companies that did poorly after they initiated diversity initiatives." Huh, looks like most of them were also acquired by private equity groups in leveraged buyouts, and then conducted stock buybacks. "YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO ACTUALLY READ THAT FAR!"

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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.

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Opening scotusblog dot com

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George Pearkes

Supreme Court: For agencies to make new rules, they first have to find the new rule box hidden at the top of this mountain* *does not apply to Republicans

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Time to take a nap. I read this, and for a second was like, “There were EIGHTY-FOUR DIFFERENT DEBATES?!??!” 😂

Playing nethack 3.7 at the airport

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

my bf always says that the point of Ivies is to mix up rich kids and smart kids so that the rich kids are assumed to be smart