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BREAKING!! Jim Jordan's effort to find spooks who inappropriately politicized intelligence to generate debate props finally found someone!!! That guy is named John Ratcliffe. www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/03/t...

"This is a rush job, as it needs to get out as soon as possible:" Jim Jordan-Led Investigation Discredits John Ratcliffe - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net After years of trying to find a former spook he could accuse of politicizing intelligence on the federal dime, Jim Jordan finally found one: John Ratcliffe.

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Today, I wrote 120 voter registration postcards to OH and WI (mostly WI) voters today. Mailed the first 55. Mailing in the morning the rest and whatever I can get done the rest of the night and before work. Turn your election-related anxieties into productive activism!

My opinion about the new polls is I’m spending the evening writing voter registration reminder postcards to hundreds of swing state Dem voters.

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So we have our first apples-to-apples polling comparison by a reputable pollster: 7/1 Morning Consult | Trump 44, Biden 43 (Trump +1) 6/28 Morning Consult | Trump 44, Biden 45 (Biden +1) This is not a meaningful change.

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Sound familiar?

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Clarence Thomas unquestionably committed tax fraud on his motorcoach deal and the president has the power to put him in handcuffs this afternoon, in his official capacity in charge of the IRS and federal law enforcement

No Stairway to Heaven

talking feds

Sounds like they did some market research

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Brontësaurus. Ink & gouache on Strathmore grey toned paper, 151 x 147mm, 2014. Because this seems to be doing the rounds again elsewhere. Perhaps the only piece of mine to have gone mildly viral, shunted uncredited like an orphan from workhouse to workhouse across the Internet over the years. 🤓

Four books good, two books better! 'Russia now is like 1984': Inside a Russian dystopian library - BBC News

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“As night fell Friday on downtown Jacksonville, 70 people lined the pedestrian walkway of the Main Street bridge and simultaneously turned on high-powered flashlights that lit the bridge in a ribbon of rainbow colors arching above the St. Johns River.”

The state of Florida prevented cities from lighting up their bridges in rainbow colors for Pride month. So people did it themselves anyway.

Florida won't light bridges in rainbow colors. So Jacksonville's LGBTQ community did.www.jacksonville.com After the state said its bridges will be lit red, white and blue all summer, LGBTQ supporters used rainbow-colored flashlights on Main Street bridge.

DMs open if you want to consider amicus brief on this

Also that Colorado Supreme Court found Trump guilty of a14 S3 insurrection. The scotus appeal did not find him innocent, just that Congress exclusively enforces. (Have suit in DC under full faith and credit clause to apply Colorado decision here bc Congress is exclusive on all matters)

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No lies detected

@sam-ulmschneider.bsky.social Hey Sam my first time using DMs If you’re interested I have two constitutional cases going in DC 1. SCOTUS nixed the Colorado decision on a14 bc exclusive enforcement by Congress. But in DC there is no state and it’s exclusively Congress’ legislation Lmk

I’m ashamed our country is using pardons for political purposes. Trumpism.

Oh! 🤭 Tesla's head of Cybertruck manufacturing is out - Electrek

We’re at war with Russia, we’ve always been at war with Russia. Russia’s “brazen” and intensifying sabotage campaign across Europe - NBC News

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Nun with a phallic rosary trying to trade a fish for a disembodied penis held by a cat. 1555. www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...

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and a new Algorithm watercolor #sciart artologica.etsy.com/listing/1711...

Algorithm Series 82: Relax and Let the Algorithm Handle It - Etsyartologica.etsy.com This Watercolor Paintings item is sold by artologica. Ships from United States. Listed on May 3, 2024

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Ink paintings layered with text from Darwin, Isabel Allende, and Hildegard of Bingen #sciart 🧪🧠 artologica.etsy.com

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So much new #sciart! artologica.etsy.com Brains in ink on yupo 🧠🧪

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How I Became The Voice of the Algorithmartologica.substack.com I did not become the voice of the Algorithm overnight. It started in late 2022 when I left Twitter, after the Musk takeover. I left behind a community of 12,000 – artists, scientists, and other intere...

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Dormice. Not Puffins. www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

Mini rope bridges built in Forest of Dean to help dormicewww.bbc.com The solution comes after the removal of diseased ash trees left the rodents' habitats disconnected.

Captions please 😁

“What were you thinking voting for a Walrus!”

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“Sauce tartare s'il vous plaît” I mean who knew whales spoke French! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The scientists learning to speak whalewww.bbc.com In a world-first, scientists had a

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Meta removed all links to this piece from their platform, then removed links to all Kansas Reflector pieces. When @marisakabas.bsky.social started covering it as a tech censorship story, they removed links to her newsletter, TheHandbasket.Substack.com, as well.

When Facebook fails, local media matters even more for our planet's future • Kansas Reflectorkansasreflector.com We are getting along OK without the promotional help of Facebook, but it does seem problematic that a behemoth such as Meta can dictate the terms of our communications.

Anton Postolnikov has been a subject of a years-long joint federal criminal investigation by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation

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one thing the Constitution says is presidents are categorically forbidden from taking money or gifts from foreign governments

DOJ says money stolen by Congo's president was used to pay almost $250,000 in management fees to one of Donald Trump's companies, including during his presidency.