John

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The construction and the subsequent traffic in the Twin Cities is truly maddening. Add 30 minutes to anything.

Give me a fucking break

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they suck and they're dangerous and as a healthcare professional who wants to do as little work as possible this week please keep your dumb fingers to yourself like a lite brite is brighter than whatever you spent hundreds of dollars on

potentially unpopular opinion, but I think your little backyard fireworks actually suck

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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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With all the soccer being played right now, good time to bring back this, which continues to break my brain.

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I guess I’ve become sort of a science-hype debunker so as far as this goes, let me just say: it’s real. Really really real. You could soon get a shot every six months that would basically eliminate your chance of getting HIV. Taken a step further: we have the tools to eliminate HIV in our lifetime.

Gilead’s twice-yearly shot to prevent HIV succeeds in late-stage trialwww.cnbc.com Gilead's experimental twice-yearly medicine to prevent HIV was 100% effective in a late-stage trial, the company said Thursday.

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The University of Minnesota has paused the hiring of Israeli scholar Raz Segal to head the institution’s Holocaust and Genocide school over his principled position that Israel is perpetrating a genocide. Truly reprehensible. jewishinsider.com/2024/06/univ...

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“Trump's political career has been one long demonstration that the legal structures that were supposed to be the bedrock of the rule of law are worthless. Impeachment was no match for a…political party. The Emoluments Clause and the Insurrection Clause are words…the Supreme Court chose not to read…”

Guarantee this is a better read than any of the 1,000 purely speculative and deeply stupid "What Trump's Conviction Means for November" pieces that every major media outlet seems intent on grunting out today.

The Doubts Were Not Reasonable | Defectordefector.com Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics and coverage of Campaign 2024. Donald Trump committed crimes and a...

If the Wolves lose this series, I don’t know how the Minnesota sports psyche comes back. Yes, it’s been here many times before, but people have been feeling differently about this Wolves team.

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The right made us turn our K-12 classrooms into training grounds for resisting violent invasion (bc heaven forfend it be slightly more difficult for psychopaths to buy an ar-15!) and now they're surprised that 19 year olds know how to make it difficult to enter a classroom

They do though. They _all_ know how to barricade themselves because school shooter drills were what the cops recommended instead of literally any kind of law enforcement that might prevent school shootings.

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I am not a "Dems are trying to throw the election" guy, but if they were, this is what they'd do.

Truly, just indefensibly stupid thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Schumer poised to join Johnson invite for Netanyahu address to Congressthehill.com Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is poised to join Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address to Congress, despite tension…

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I’ve been a scientist for 30 years and I learned this TODAY!!!!! Source: www.some.ox.ac.uk/eminent/mary...

And be significantly closer to the Netanyahus of Israel (or worse).

The wolf really is at the door, man time.com/6972021/dona...

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A thing that SCOTUS could have done is just let the appeals court ruling from February stand, allowing the trial to go forward. Instead they'll reach roughly the same conclusion while managing to delay Trump's trial until after the election.

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Automated Generation of Likelike Talking Heads videos via Microsoft Research. Incredibly impressive technical work, tho the risks of misuse are going to be hard to deal with. Some of the videos in the site below, worth taking a look at to see what is coming www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

VASA-1 - Microsoft Researchwww.microsoft.com Opens in a new tab

Doors triple checked.

All the pieces are in place for the first crew flight of Boeing’s Starlinerarstechnica.com “This is a test flight, and a complicated one at that."

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Reading this fantastic article, thinking yet again about how much of my career’s sustainability is down entirely to the fact that I own nearly everything I’ve written and control the distribution. defector.com/the-money-is...

The Money Is In All The Wrong Places | Defectordefector.com You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about so...

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If I had run a thought experiment on “what are the characteristics that would make someone’s accidental, preventable death a national news story with real policy consequences?”, Angelo Chao would be the answer. How is there not a national recall of all Teslas? The doors don’t open in an emergency!

This story is horrifying — after making a mistake with Tesla’s awkward gearshift, Angela Chao found herself sinking into a pond. Emergency services could not break into the Tesla because of the glass used in the cars. Chao died. www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

www.wsj.com

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Who among us has not endorsed a guy who made racist comments about our spouse and who we held responsible for sacking the Capitol

Why was Dem turnout in Minnesota so bad?

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Shocked how little this is discussed: "If Ds lose the bet, the court’s 6-3 conservative majority will turn into a 7-2 majority at some point... If they win the bet, what do they win? They win the opportunity to read dissents written by Sotomayor instead of some other liberal justice."

I regret to inform you that Josh Barro is correct.

Sonia Sotomayor Must Retirewww.joshbarro.com Democrats are distressed about the conservative court, but not ruthless enough to tell the aging justice to step down in time to avoid shifting the court even farther right.

Yes.

I regret to inform you that Josh Barro is correct.

Is now a good time for Biden to expand the SCOTUS?

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I have a lot of thoughts about the prosecution of Tim Burke, but I think maybe the most important takeaway is: I am confident that in Tim's shoes, every good and smart and rigorous journalist I know would have done exactly what he did defector.com/tim-burkes-i...

Tim Burke's Indictment Is A Political Choice Disguised As A Legal Act | Defectordefector.com Last week, the journalist Tim Burke was arrested in Florida after a grand jury charged him with 14 federal crimes: seven counts of unlawfully intercepting or disclosing wire, oral, or electronic commu...

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Soon as the AI algorithm for Wendy's surge pricing shits the bed and drops prices too low, we need to be ready

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I must kill the queen

Angels are ready to go to war (with Europe)

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hey i think it might have one rule

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Every two weeks a judge in a different state bangs a gavel, announces "it is the finding of this court that the accused, Donald Trump, is an absolute turbo shithead" and then fines him an amount roughly equal to a MLB team's entire payroll. This is expected to continue for months.