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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

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

it is so funny to me when I talk about calling my officials (I call all levels of gov’t frequently & have since 2016) and ppl roll their eyes at me like “OK but revolution is really the only solution” girl you can’t commit to a weekly phone date & you think you’re gonna throw the first brick???

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Imagine paying someone to write these columns -- like, real money! -- on the assumption that there's an audience out there that not only *wants* to hear these pearls of wisdom but absolutely *needs* to hear them for the good of the nation. It's baffling.

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Suprise: unwashed fascist ghoul Matthew Walther - who wrote a column that the New York Times just published advising Americans not to vote - did in fact vote in 2020 and 2022. It’s time for us to stop tolerating these ratfucking liars.

he voted in 2020 and 2022 voteref.com/voters/MI/vi...

Voter Referencevoteref.com VoteRef.com is dedicated to ensuring transparent, accurate and fair elections in the United States of America.

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FYI this is what happens when you use Instagram's option that ostensibly lets you opt out of use in their AI training data sets, double 'hi' and all.

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When you see the way the press is treating Joe Biden for aging in public, you see how they could treat Donald Trump for committing fraud, rape, espionage, and insurrection and never, ever will.

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Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.

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there's a certain irony that liberals who have spent four years yelling at leftists who criticize Biden at all for any reason have now, in one week, done more damage to Biden's candidacy than all those leftists combined

I think the freakout has been absurd and overblown and far more damaging than the debate itself, which would have been survivable if everyone had been willing to circle the wagons and push back on it I am, from a purely pragmatic standpoint, extremely concerned that the damage cannot be overcome

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a big takeaway from all of the Biden drama is that huge swathes of the public — including reasonably engaged people — think that political parties are a small cabal of elites who select candidates by hand

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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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The “it is inevitable” discourse is designed to disempower actual pushback and demoralize voters to turn away or give up on democratic processes and voting. As much as it may seem like things have fully collapsed. Winning the election keeps options on the table that give us actual power to stop this

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the whole ‘actually, killing the villain makes us just as bad as him’ trope had done incomprehensible damage to society and i’m not kidding

This rules and gets at many of my feelings about reality TV (and Nussbaum’s work). www.bookforum.com/culture/time...

Time to Face Realitywww.bookforum.com Emily Nussbaum charts the history of a TV phenomenon – A.S. Hamrah

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let me make this clear: not voting is a vote for trump. voting for a third party is also a vote for trump. you might think voting for biden is safe but no sorry those votes go to trump too. votes for trump himself however get stored in an unused walk in freezer at mar a lago and count toward 2028.

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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"

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If people don't understand how crucial local abortion funds are to folks actually getting their procedures or pills, here's the latest example: National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood are slashing patient grants from 50% to 30% of what callers need. Thirty percent.

More info from my local, the DC Abortion Fund, about why they're cutting back their hours and service area

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supporting your local abortion fund is a good way to help people in immediate need, god bless my friends who routinely raise funds for them

So if a caller needs $2,000, they can only get $600 from the national groups—and local funds will scramble for the remaining $1,400. Abortion funds make a legal right a reality. Without resources, people don't get their abortions. abortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/ secure.actblue.com/donate/funda...

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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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"Politics would be interesting again" is such a telling phrase, a sign that you're so insulated by money and power that it's all just entertainment for you.

Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

you can't choose what era of history you live in! you can only choose how to respond to it.

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if there's anything that gives me a slight scrap of hope it's that these guys are *way* too confident. constantly blurting out hideously unpopular shit is not the sensible thing to do before a probable coin flip election

This is your enemy. His pinned post is unhinged racist trash, but he is serious about the agenda

living in LA is getting a pop-up notification every day that is like "LAPD races cars through the streets with reckless disregard for the lives of others"

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the other thing though is that the NYT would FOR SURE come up with some anti-Harris narrative and beat it to absolute death for the rest of the campaign

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Do the Democratic elite believe that 45 is an existential threat? If they actually do, what would you expect to see right now? Are you seeing that?

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Yeah the Times has been feuding with the sitting president for years and is certainly trying to take him out

I'm not so sanguine that "true, objective reality" will win out. The AG Failson has his frame and he's been busy shoving every little scrap of evidence at hand into it. The big "Biden Lapses" article has text that mostly contradicts its headline. Doesn't matter to the freakout.

also honest question: is there any academic work on tracking smut (meaning all porn of any kind) trends and mapping them onto larger political and cultural trends?

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I kneel in the direction of Google HQ chanting my mantra, "the electricity needs of AI supercede the human requirement of an inhabitable planet" outside the window a choir of Boston Dynamics robot dogs bark the national anthem

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI.

OK so I'm obsessed with rightwing cultural responses to existential realities (mainly climate change). Carnivore makes 100% sense to me. People don't want to acknowledge climate change and prioritize fascistic cruelty ergo a meat-only diet. But the raw milk thing has me CONFUSED.

sorry but we all like hunter biden! he does crack and is kind to sex workers. we're into it!!!

Mildred Pierce is up there with House of Mirth in terms of "central female characters who everyone want to help for some reason but who keep stepping on their own dicks just because"