Chris Sanders

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Information addict. IT Support Manager. Leftist. Attender of many meetings.

Lover of dogs, travel, history, art, music, food, drink, coffee. Hater of assholes, bullies, printers.

WoW, Hearthstone, Warhammer 40k, assorted other nerdy things.

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I like how lawyers and judges can just start making stuff up and if they just keep repeating the stuff they made up for like 20-30 years they get to say it's an established fact

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I’m increasingly seeing this sort of thing not as an inability to imagine likely consequences, but as a refusal to do so, for which one is handsomely compensated

constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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2 years ago and being borne out everyday. I hate it.

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the media, led by the Times, has done to Biden what they did to Claudine Gay at Harvard there is no way to convince the public, because the people who he needs to convince to do that (the media) are never going to tell the public that he’s fine I think dropping out is a when, not if at this point

"President Biden has told a key ally that he knows he may not be able to salvage his candidacy if he cannot convince the public in the coming days that he is up for the job after a disastrous debate performance last week."

Biden Told Ally That He Is Weighing Whether to Continue in the Racewww.nytimes.com The president’s conversation is the first indication that he is seriously considering whether he can recover after a devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta on Thursday.

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The Business Plot of 1933, only this time make it quasi-legal and cool. www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

Last spring the Heritage Foundation sponsored a Leadership Summit by the "Bull Moose Project." Here's the leader of that project talking about his racist and homophobic, "blood and soil" version of what America should be about.

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Something grimly funny about how like 10 years ago, every harmless crank who believed in stuff like flat earth and fake moon landing would either be radicalized into antisemitism or gradually revealed it, but now all these people are open antisemites and they stumble into flat earth

round earther

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I really wish people listened to those of us who have spent years studying and writing about the far right and the coup they have been planning for decades. Because now they are just straight up telling you their plans because they are so emboldened by the fascist captured courts.

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What else are our forties for?

Perhaps the world would improve if we all admitted how truly mediocre and ordinary we are.

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i'm stuck on the "bloodless if the left allows it to be" phrasing like "we won't kill you if you just let us do what we want" is what terrorists say

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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Unfortunately, as is now being borne out daily, Democratic Party officials and journalism outlets did not spend so much as a single moment actually listening to the warnings of disinformation experts and researchers of the far right

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The bartender says "sorry, we don't serve faster than light particles here." Two tachyons walk into a bar. The punchline comes before the joke You know what the worst thing about time travel jokes is?

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi

Literally admits that "hallucinations" and bias are "limitations of GenAI systems themselves." My god 😂😭

For fuck’s sake…

Breaking News: President Biden told a key ally his campaign may be unsalvageable if he can’t convince the public he’s up for the job. The conversation is the first public indication that Biden is seriously considering whether he can recover after the debate. nyti.ms/4cHJgGu

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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)

im ready 2 be a person now

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Grim and I had the same thought, I guess. This is why I don't write anymore. Somebody's gonna say the same thing anyway ryangrim.substack.com/p/kamala-har...

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In case you're not sure what is included in the 20th century... -Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment -The FDIC -Desegregation and Brown vs. Board -LGTBQ Rights -The 19th Fucking Amendment -Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act -Clean Air and Clean Water Acts -Freedom of Information Act

This is your enemy. His pinned post is unhinged racist trash, but he is serious about the agenda

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If Democrats feel that this is a core threat, then what's the political education plan? Are they turning the document into an audiobook? Are they hosting Project 2025 teach ins? Are they creating a Democratic Project 2025? Like what's actually happening in reality?

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I don't know how many years of my life I've been writing Close-Guantanamo-Before-It's-Too-Late stories and while this would be a highly ironic end for Liz "The al-Qaeda Seven" Cheney the joke won't be funny for very long

Trump Amplifies Calls to Jail Top Elected Officials, Invokes Military Tribunalswww.nytimes.com A post that Mr. Trump circulated on Sunday called for Liz Cheney to be prosecuted by a military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals.

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One thing about Nintendo is that it kind of famously values its brand and intellectual property

Nintendo says it will not use generative-AI, preferring to create stuff that is "unique to" them and to avoid copyrighted material used by gen-AI: gameworldobserver.com/2024/07/03/n...

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there is nothing in the text of this comic that indicates sluggo has not in fact created an enormous and catastrophically deadly pipe bomb

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 3,1947

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pretty distressing shit on the surface, and also! if they thought victory was assured they wouldnt have to try and message it into reality like this. this is a think tank pivoting to a war propaganda posture believe them when they say it's war though. dont lie down and let them make it a massacre

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.

Related, if trump is summarily deporting citizens under his new mass deportation regime, citizenship and an ability to appeal to the law isn’t going to get people back in the country. The executive runs border security

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People really do underestimate just how intensely humans have co-evolved with domestic dogs over the course of many thousands of years. (And with cats, albeit over a somewhat shorter time-frame).

When domestic pigs get out, they go feral in a single generation. When dogs get out, coyotes start behaving like domesticated dogs in one generation.

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Also a little more subtly “SEAL Team Six” is the framework here because it was the original shockingly funny hypothetical but none of this military law stuff applies if he just sends the Marshals to kill someone—which, again, he already bragged he did

constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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Murray got a GPU plush toy and now he’s a gamer boi. He’s also gonna use it to work on AI* projects. *adorable intelligence

“Don’t make me hurt you” is the implicit threat here, the language of bullies and abusers. Or what you say ahead of cooking up some kind of Reichstag Fire false flag.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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No. Don't. Stop. Etc etc and nauseam ad infinitum for all the fuckin good it'll do newatlas.com/robotics/bra...

'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robotsnewatlas.com Living brain cells wired into organoid-on-a-chip biocomputers can now learn to drive robots, thanks to an open-source intelligent interaction system called MetaBOC. This remarkable project aims to re-...