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Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew. he/him
Where are you driving midnight cruiser?

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They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel confirms that a Columbus, Ohio, police officer detailed to the RNC shot and killed a homeless Black man (earlier reported to be in his early 20s) more than half a mile from the RNC arena. The man was known by the nickname Jehovah and took care of a pit bull named Isis.

Ohio police officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources saywww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

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The reason that the language of domestic abuse and the language of authoritarianism looks the same is because it's just the same thing on a different scale.

#DomesticViolenceWheel

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Women being abused is fine with Republicans. Children being abused is fine with Republicans (once they're born). Men having "dominion" is the whole fucking point.

I know we know about JD Vance, but he's also working to make divorces harder to obtain, and says that people in "violent" marriages should stay married and not get divorced. So.

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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to every woman, LGBTQ+ person and immigrant who works in tech: you’re disposable if doing this makes us even more money

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Every picture of JD Vance looks like he was cast in a Hallmark movie where they were looking for a “Sebastian Gorka type.”

Every picture of JD Vance looks like it’s accompanying s news story about a former child actor who got caught in a multi level marketing scam

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Something I'll say for Vance's prospects is that there are 20x as many white dudes in America who are from normal-ass suburbs but conceptualize themselves as hardscrabble small town rednecks as there are actual hardscrabble small town rednecks. Huge demographic!

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Every picture of JD Vance makes it look like he just logged off of Instagram after spending 2 hours bullying teenage girls with comments like "fatty" or "I can't believe you showed your thighs like that" from a Finsta account

Every picture of JD Vance makes it look like he just got finished furtively wiping his mouth clean after drinking a can of Hormel Chili out of a Thermos.

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One of the guiding premises of my research is that most people -- even extremists -- think of themselves as the good guys. @intelwire.bsky.social's Extremism goes a long way in explaining why/how this is so. mitpress.mit.edu/978026253587...

JD Vance and >90% of the people at the RNC convention think of themselves as the good guys. Ascribing to them self-consciously evil intent does not help us understand what they are up to, nor does it help us reach the sorts of people who might vote for them but are still reachable.

Extremismmitpress.mit.edu What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to de...

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RESOLVE! THEY BREAK UPON US AND WE DO NOT FUCKING BREAK BEFORE THEM.

Withhold your despair! bad-faith-times.ghost.io/withholdyour...

They Want Your Despair. Withhold It.bad-faith-times.ghost.io Doomerism is what the fascists want. It is their lifeblood.

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CBS News: Hungary’s Viktor Orbán seized control of universities rewrote the Constitution and neutered the courts. Is that what you're advocating for in the US? JD Vance: I think Orbán made smart decisions that we could learn from in the US. (June 2024) ---via The Intellectualist

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"It’s been the hottest summer on record for around 100 US cities from Maine to California. Extreme heat is one of the leading weather-related killers in the United States, leaving hundreds of people dead each year, according to the National Weather Service." www.cnn.com/2024/07/13/w...

Las Vegas sees record-breaking 7 consecutive days of scorching temperatures 115 degrees or higher | CNNwww.cnn.com Las Vegas is sizzling under a prolonged heat wave that has delivered a record-breaking seven consecutive days of temperatures 115 degrees or higher.

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NEW: I wrote about some interesting ideas to make air conditioning more sustainable: www.wired.com/story/cuttin... 🌬️ The world is heating up and we need to stay cool - but at what cost?

Cutting-Edge Technology Could Massively Reduce the Amount of Energy Used for Air Conditioningwww.wired.com Roughly 10 percent of the world’s energy is used for cooling, with much of the necessary electricity generated by fossil fuels. Companies need to make AC much more efficient—as soon as possible.

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I don't know if it counts as optimism but I don't really think there's anything that Donald Trump could do or have happen to him that would make people who don't already like him want to vote for him. There is no more known quantity on earth, he can't change, and he is for sure not getting better.

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A great passage from Gabriel Winant, historian at University of Chicago, on JD Vance in n+1. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/pol...

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From the JD Vance (Senate) campaign website. JD Vance would ban every single woman (or girl) from receiving an abortion, no matter the circumstances by which she was impregnated or the danger to her health. Maybe (just maybe) if she risks imminent death.

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The "Aryan" anagram in the company name is a nice flourish

That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

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i've lost track of the pale but i think we might be beyond it

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when the Cincinnati suburbs sends its people, we're not sending our best. we're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with them.

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Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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That’s right people, Black people only point out racism for the attention points. When I get 50 points I get a free McFlurry wherever the machine is working (if you harass them I will see it, plz don’t)

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"Vance has said that, had he been vice president in 2020, he would have carried out Trump’s scheme for the vice president to overturn the election results. He has fundraised for January 6 rioters." www.vox.com/politics/360...

What J.D. Vance really believeswww.vox.com Trump's choice for vice president comes from the authoritarian wing of an authoritarian GOP.

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JD Vance lied to the American people. He called his book an "elegy." It's not an elegy. If Dems were smart, they would harp on this point relentlessly in order to win over the all-important "pedantic English major" demographic.

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the republican base really is guys who spent all of high school talking about how they’re gonna be marines

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No doubt we’ll hear a lot of anti-immigrant rhetoric during the GOP convention this wk. But as GOP officials & operatives enjoy cheese plates in swanky VIP rooms, don’t expect an acknowledgement of the role immigrants play in “America’s Dairyland.” New from me: americasvoice.org/blog/wiscons...

Wisconsin Can’t Be America's Dairyland Without Immigrants - America's Voiceamericasvoice.org No doubt we’ll hear a lot about immigrants during the GOP convention in Milwaukee this week. Expect a lot of the usual xenophobic rhetoric. But don’t expect an acknowledgement of the role immigrants p...

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JD Vance is particularly odious to me because we’re roughly the same age and from the same part of Ohio and I grew up with a hundred pasty, squishy faced white dudes like him & they’re all convinced they’re marginalized because you can’t smoke at Waffle House or say the n-word anymore

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First cabbage patch VP

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also worth noting that while Vance was winning Ohio by 6% and 250k votes in 2022, every other statewide GOPer was winning by 20+ points and 800k+ votes, it’s possible that lots of voters will correctly identify the guy as unpleasant and phony

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Remarkable piece, & strongly recommend reading the whole thing - this part was particularly striking. A pretty universal challenge among the right, ime.

this was such a great essay about JD Vance, and an incredible piece of writing www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/pol...

J. D. Vance Changes the Subject | Gabriel Winantwww.nplusonemag.com Vance’s form of far-right politics is so ominous because it responds in a primal, perverted way to something actual. We are caught under a heap of wreckage, an accumulation of social and historical tr...