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Formerly @DFRLab; dad energy (and dad lack-of-energy); hanging out on the border of introversion and extroversion. Views my own.
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under trump’s project 2025, a middle-class family with two children would pay $2,600 in additional federal income tax by comparison, a married couple with two children and earnings of $5 million a year would enjoy a $325,000 tax cut
Project 2025 would overhaul the U.S. tax system. Here's how it could impact you.www.cbsnews.com Project 2025, a blueprint for the next Republican president, proposes major economic changes that could impact millions of Americans.
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My colleagues & I have studied the social media aftermath of mass shooting events for a decade. We’re still processing the horrifying, abhorrent, and tragic event yesterday, which appears to be an assassination attempt on former President Trump. In case they're useful, here are some first thoughts:
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Dr. Ruth “defended abortion rights, suggested older people have sex after a good night’s sleep and was an outspoken advocate of condom use … In the 1980s, she stood up for gay men at the height of the AIDS epidemic and spoke out loudly for the LGBTQ community.” apnews.com/article/ruth...
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s diminutive and pioneering sex therapist, dies at 96apnews.com Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has died.
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Yeah because the White House was working on a bill to help those with Parkinson’s disease that was signed this week. This is literal far right disinformation from the New York Times.
Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.
Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.
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The fact that Trump is actually weakly attempting to pretend he doesn’t back Project 2025 = EXACTLY why you need to be telling everyone you know about their evil, violent plans.
Don't let his lies scare you out of sharing the details of Project 2025 with everyone you know — especially those who are on the fence about their vote this year. There's good reason to believe knowing about Project 2025 focuses people's minds on the stakes. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...
Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them
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There is literally no good reason for elon musk to have biometric, work history, and schooling data about the twitter user base, but there are a plethora or rather in fact an UNENDING NIGHTMARISH TIDE of bad ones.
X Plans to Collect User Biometric Data, Job and School Historywww.bloomberg.com X, the social network that used to be known as Twitter, updated its privacy policy to include a new kind of user data it plans to collect: biometric.
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When land-dwelling leeches are on the hunt for blood, look out. Their appetite may have provoked acts of startling athleticism, according to a new study documented in a pair of videos.
Videos Show That Leeches Can Jump in Pursuit of Bloodnyti.ms There has long been anecdotal evidence of the wormy creatures taking to the air, but videos recorded in Madagascar at last prove the animals’ acrobatics.
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NEWS: After sustained attacks from House Republicans, the Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled. A huge blow to academic freedom and our ability to understand platforms and influence operations www.platformer.news/stanford-int...
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Make a movie milder: Star Conflicts
Make a movie milder: The Fast and the Mildly Upset
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More than 300 House lawmakers were reimbursed at least $5.2 million for food and lodging while on official business in Washington last year under a new, taxpayer funded program that does not require them to provide receipts.
Lawmakers expensed millions in 2023 under new program that doesn’t require receiptswww.washingtonpost.com Critics say the program’s lack of transparency and record-keeping opens it up to abuse. Matt Gaetz was the program’s top spender.
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This is not surprising given what we eventually learned. But it’s also worth noting that the opposite of “we responded to a unique event with educated guesses that were wrong” is not “we should have done nothing” and its extrapolation is not “everything we did was wrong.” bsky.app/profile/drew...
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🚨NEW - Canada's National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians has released its report on foreign interference and it is the most detailed and damning report yet. nsicop-cpsnr.ca/reports/rp-2... Some highlights (lowlights?) below.
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Biden's team "doesn't expect the verdict to fundamentally alter the presidential race." That is incredibly dumb and self-fulfilling messaging to ever say to a reporter. Simply assert that it's a political earthquake. Loudly. Repeatedly. To an almost deranged degree. Will it into existence!
President Biden’s campaign weighed in after Trump was found guilty on 34 counts, saying the verdict showed how “no one is above the law.” But campaign officials say privately they don’t expect the verdict to fundamentally alter the tight presidential race.
Biden team takes aim at Trump after guilty verdictwapo.st But the president’s team does not expect the outcome to fundamentally change the dynamics of a close race.
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Hey Minneapolis, Stay away from Blasedale and Franklin. A cop was just shot. Cops swarming and first responders are everywhere. Just heard a Whole lot of gunfire and police sirens
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The abuse of public records to attack researchers, a thread: On Tuesday morning of this week (May 21), Matt Taibbi began to send me a series of messages requesting my response to a series of leading questions about public records that he planned to publish as part of an upcoming series of articles.
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If you’re in academia, you need to read this. And if you’re not in academia, you absolutely definitely have to read this.
On the state of academia today. It's only going to get worse unless govts start to fund public universities properly. #AcademicSky
I'm a Tenured College Professor. I'm Quitting. Here's Why.www.okdoomer.io Americans are letting education fall apart. Politicians are helping it.
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“That child — a second grader with autism at a North Carolina school — was ultimately pinned on the floor for 38 minutes, according to body camera video of the incident. At one point, court records say, the officer put his knee in the child's back.” www.cbsnews.com/news/hundred...
Handcuffs in Hallways: Hundreds of elementary students arrested at U.S. schoolswww.cbsnews.com Black children and kids with disabilities were disproportionately impacted, according to CBS News analysis of Education Department data.
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From a friend, shared with permission - stories like this about Albini are infinite
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This is your regular reminder that most communications on Telegram are not end-to-end encrypted. Channels and groups are never end-to-end encrypted and 1-on-1 messages are only end-to-end when explicitly enabled.
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Good and Bad Ideas xkcd.com/2929