Joseph P-M

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🏳️‍🌈Christian | husband | father. He/him. Seattle. Mid-30s. Let’s do it differently this time

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Joseph P-M

about once a week, i have to explain to someone on the phone that the police have no obligation to do anything for you and, even if their refusal literally leads to your murder, the courts have been clear that there's no case to pursue

A man has been using Facebook to terrorize his ex and their children. He brags about it: “I want her to worry about who’s waiting on the corner.” But police do nothing and nobody seems to take it seriously. Chilling story from Stacy St Clair and Joe Mahr www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/07/f...

How one man uses Facebook to frighten his children's mother and why police do nothingwww.chicagotribune.com An analysis of data from nearly two dozen Illinois police departments found police rarely arrest people for electronic harassment, even as complaints increase.

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Michael Hobbes

I have never read one of these "we need a party for the politically homeless" pieces that does not go on to straightforwardly describe Democrats.

In honor of my upcoming pilgrimage I started the Starbridge series again. We’ve just met Jon Darrows and I am certain I made the right choice!

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Joseph P-M

Today I'm reminded that NOAA is a phenomenal government agency because from the get-go they've been telling people on the Gulf Coast to pay attention to Beryl and make plans and until this afternoon regional weather services have been saying "bitches be crazy" when people have asked about it

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Joseph P-M

very hard to figure out what this use of DEI could mean other than the n word

Subtle. Very subtle.

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Hey go give Chris money he explains all the Supreme Court stuff so you can be mad smartly instead of being mad dumbly being mad smartly is the most productive form of mad

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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness

As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

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Robert Ferry

Like it or not, the Democratic electoral strategy of “democracy is on the ballot” may not be successful because many Americans have already lived most of their lives in a marginalized majority without a functioning democracy. It is a slogan penned by a tone deaf and privileged political class.

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if stealing classified docs and lying about it while no longer in office is an "official act", we are well and truly cooked

NEW: Judge Cannon pauses some deadlines in the classified-docs case to allow for further briefing on effects of SCOTUS immunity ruling

Today I’m really thankful for the ways @chimeracoder.bsky.social actually pushes people to action within the confines of the system we have — most recently congestion pricing government contact tools 1/

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I wish someone kept a list of all the imbeciles who said Elon Musk is a free speech hero so I could waggle a middle finger in their insipid faces until it fell off

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New York Times, July 5, 2025: “Biden’s Stumbles And Gaffes During His Criticism of President Trump’s Internment Camps Vindicate Age Concerns”

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Erin Jean Warde

I have never regretted buying a bag at Aldi. I have regretted other purchases, but never a bag of any variety.

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"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes

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what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct

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listen, I’m fairly open to people with a lot of views on the election, including people who say it the outcome won’t make a difference to them, but, even if that’s true for you, it will make a difference to the vast majority of people so get over your shit by November

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AND he can pardon them proactively! He can give blanket pardons for categories of officers before he leaves office that the next President can't revoke.

I don't understand this point. Trump can just pardon them.

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Doctor Acula

Boston 1860, I got a coffee at a Dunkin' then went to Sam Adams brewery to have a pint before my job at the old mill

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really great that prominent political journalists won’t just say that trump is lying and here’s why

Huh

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Imagine writing a NYT piece talking about how the court, actually, is good right now. But Will Baude did it! Essentially, saying that all they get wrong was the Trump cases — and then insists, sort of, IDK, that even that was for what they thought were good reasons. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...

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my takeaway is that we should complain to managers about bad public transit near their shops more often

I also think it has to do with who complains. If you drive to a store or restaurant, you might tell the manager, “Ugh, parking sucks around here.” If you walk, bike or take transit, you probably don’t say anything. That leads to business owners believing that all their customers drive.

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reminder that 70s Gay Panic and our current 20s Trans Panic are literally the same thing

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OH MY GOD I THOUGHT THIS WAS A DUMPSTER I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING I HAD TRASH IN MY HAND THAT I WAS TAKING TOWARDS IT HAHAHAHAHAHAH

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Brian Lyman

Anyway, I published this on Monday. What freedoms we enjoy in America are the result of the oppressed, marginalized and unfree people who came before us and demanded the country live up to its ideals. alabamareflector.com/2024/07/01/f...

Freedom isn't free • Alabama Reflectoralabamareflector.com Throughout American history, the people denied freedom have been the most active in expanding our ideas of what liberty is.

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I’ve written at length in recent years about the pre-Montgomery Bus Boycott battles that Black southerners waged against Jim Crow. There’s an attitude that the modern Civil Rights Movement was a sudden explosion, but it was the fruit of years of planning. And superhuman courage.

There's another key attribute of hope that doesn't get mentioned much. Hope fights. Even when victory seems unlikely—especially then—hope fights. We should be hopeful people. Full essay: www.the-reframe.com/a-fools-hope/

A Fool's Hopewww.the-reframe.com How to be hopeful people in this age of deliberate ignorance, empty optimism, lazy cynicism, and manufactured despair. A more useful definition of hope than these false ones we're offered.

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southpaw

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Also it's hilarious how they changed the headline Before/after

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Due respect to the professor, this is laughable special pleading on behalf of John Roberts—his old boss—whom he repeatedly conflates with the whole court in this piece. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...

Arrogating decisions to yourself whenever your evening dose of Fox News convinces you that Trump needs protecting isn’t “statesmanship;” it’s being functionally pro-Trump.