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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

Is calling your Democrat Senators and Congress reps asking them to push forward with replacing Biden an effective thing to do?

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It is very funny how one of the Supreme Court’s big issues is making it impossible to outlaw bribery because they like being bribed

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The police are defunding us.

The new Minneapolis Police Department contract would push officers' *starting* pay to $92,000 by next summer. Starting salary for Minneapolis Public School teachers will be $51,000 for 2024-2025. minnesotareformer.com/2024/06/21/u...

Union contract would increase MPD budget by millions, push police salaries past most peers • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com Minneapolis is considering giving its police officers historic raises of nearly 22%, pushing their pay to among the highest in the nation, even as state and federal officials are forcing the police de...

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Polling is broken, has been a long time.

127,000 calls to get 1,059 respondents. These polls are sampling exclusively from people in the 99th percentile of the category “answers spam calls and then stays on the line once it’s abundantly clear it’s a survey firm” and man, if you think that’s a representative demographic…

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Remember when Howard Dean ended his political career by making a weird noise

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Gotta hand it to Trump on winning his first popular vote

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Former president Donald Trump promised to crush pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, telling a roomful of donors that he would expel student demonstrators from the United States, according to participants in the roundtable event with him in New York.

Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstratorswww.washingtonpost.com The former president has publicly waffled on the Israel-Gaza war. But he told wealthy donors he supports Israel’s right to continue “its war on terror.”

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Low level government employee: fuck, they’re gonna figure out I accepted this free chicken wing Alito: today I put strobe lights on my confederate flag

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A Massachusetts “millionaire’s tax” (extra 4% tax on $1M+ incomes) has earned the state more than $1.8 billion in income for fiscal 2023. That’s about double the estimates and the funds will be spent on education and transportation. [wgbh.org]

Millionaires tax revenue reaches $1.8 billion, on pace to double estimateswww.wgbh.org Massachusetts has collected about $1.8 billion from a voter-approved surtax on the state’s highest earners through the first nine months of the fiscal year, the Department of Revenue said Monday in a quarterly report.

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god saves his toughest battles (not getting back into bed at noon) for his bravest and sleepiest little soldier

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Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס

For me, UVA is the big one. The school was unwilling to use violence on the tiki torch Nazis, even after they surrounded a synagogue and the rabbi was forced to smuggle the Torah scrolls out before Shabbes, and were only fended off by a lone armed veteran from Antifa. But Gaza protestors? Violence.

Getting real sick of establishment Democrats pointing to the stock market, and job numbers, to prove we’re in a “good economy”. Regular people are not experiencing it that way. It isn’t a “feeling”, or “knowledge gap” it is their reality, and Democrats ignore that fact at their peril.

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Is this what he meant

Exclusive: A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post.

Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats showwww.washingtonpost.com A WhatsApp chat started by some wealthy Americans after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack reveals their focus on New York Mayor Eric Adams and their work with Israeli officials to shape U.S. opinion of the Gaza...

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You can call the NC Governor Roy Cooper to demand he make a statement on the legislature's attempt to ban masking. His office is flooded with calls from concerned people about it & can always use more. This is the actual public number to reach his office: (919) 814-2000. I have a 919 number too.

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Doctora Malka Older

This is what I mean when I say we're looking at the problem at least partially in the wrong way. We're going to have to deal with huge disruption, & instead of thinking about how to cushion people through that, techbros and govts keep looking for ✨technology✨ to solve everything with no effort

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Idk how anyone can deny climate change is real when cop riot season is starting two whole months earlier than usual

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A while ago, I searched Google for some information about a medication that a subject was taking. The AI-generated summary told me that it was used for an entirely unrelated condition and included other misinformation. I'm not exaggerating when I say that this shit is going to get people killed.

Well that's it for Google and for huge swathes of the internet as we know it. RIP wapo.st/3WDpAi8 🎁

Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answerswapo.st The tech giant is rolling out AI-generated answers that displace links to human-written websites

Steve Albini “produced” (read engineered) two of my favorite albums of all time. Low’s Things We Lost In The Fire, and Songs: Ohia’s (Jason Molina) Magnolia Electric Co. What a huge loss for music. RIP

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I can’t recall the last time I saw a local news channel just… report like this. Some regional professionals in five minutes whooped the ass off every national reporter in the country.

Anytime someone says, “the protestors don’t know anything,” just shove this in their faces www.instagram.com/reel/C6rPip8...

Mo Hamzeh on Instagram: "‼️EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING NEEDS TO WATCH AND HEAR THIS INTERVIEW‼️"www.instagram.com 42K likes, 1,962 comments - mo_hamz on May 7, 2024: "‼️EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING NEEDS TO WATCH AND HEAR THIS INTERVIEW‼️".

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The stupid, self-indulgent American conviction that it will be all right and time is on our side. It will not be all right, time is not on our side. Win fast while you see a chance, before it all comes apart.

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Reminder: Sure, the student protestors turned out to be right about Vietnam, and gay rights, and apartheid, and the Latin American dirty wars, and the invasion of Iraq -- but *this time* they are cluelessly naive and only protesting to look cool to their friends.

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The term "clash" has been emptied of a useful purpose by mainstream media over the years. When you see this term in a headline or article from a major source, it almost always referrs to a more well armed more violent party assualting people who weren't violent or able to defend themselves.

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we have to normalize smashing the phones of people who take photos of strangers to make fun of them online

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Emily L. Hauser

The world is full of inanimate objects silently rooting for you, if you just take a moment to notice

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I am now hirable as a human llm, my lies are just as plausible, my bullshit flows quickly, and I only do minimal damage to the environment

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Isn't it interesting that every killing by every cop is just a single bad apple that should never be thought to spoil the bunch, while every protest by and on behalf of marginalized people must be flawlessly perfect, or all participants deserve the brutality the police exist to deliver to them?

I’m not saying if you’re a republican you’re a nazi. But if you’re a nazi, you’re probably a republican. Audacity of rightwing politicians to claim there’s a big problem with antisemitism on the left, they want to see rectified, is pretty jaw-dropping. They won’t even weed it out of their own party

When, oh when will The Boy and The Heron be able to buy and/or stream?! I missed it in the theatres due to family stuff, and this wait is killing me! I can already buy Dune Part Two, which came out like a month ago! TBATH came out in December! I feel like I’m being punished for something.