kentropic

This should horrify every decent American. Remember they mean deporting millions of Dreamers, farmworkers, long-settled immigrants who have contributed to our nation for decades. Businesses will suffer and families would be separated from coast to coast. Our neighbors, our coworkers, our loved ones.

Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy

…and 3) he was a self-trained “marksman” who got *cut from the high school rifle team because he was such a lousy shot!*

Kakistocracy: impossible to find a more perfect illustration

Joe Katz

This response to a different but related post has it exactly right.

they will hold "hearings" on high school football fields, with volunteer staff and judges culled from the ranks of local car dealerships. none it will be legitimate in any way.

Helen Kennedy

“The courts! How many divisions / police / ICE agents / special deputies has the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals got?”

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Republicans' Project 2025 Plans to End Free Weather Reportsgizmodo.com Millions of people everyday rely on government data to chart the weather. Conservatives have been trying to stop it for decades.

Totally par for the course. Find something that government does well, and either burn it down, defund it, or force it into a profit model that will end up doing both. gizmodo.com/republicans-... #NOAH #Project2025 #Weather

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Slant, Extremity, and Diversity: How the Shape of News Use Explains Electoral Judgments and Confidenceurldefense.com Abstract. The 2020 election and its aftermath present an opportunity to understand how audiences’ changing news consumption patterns within an expanded, di

Check out our new piece, “Slant, Extremity, and Diversity: How the Shape of News Use Explains Electoral Judgments and Confidence,” in POQ @AAPOR which introduces a new way to help explain the consequences of how people interact in the media ecosystem. 1/ urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Dani

Except the US House adopted a rule in 1842 abolishing the filibuster in that chamber (although filibusters still throw sand in the gears of the Senate).

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Project 2025 would overhaul the U.S. tax system. Here's how it could impact you.www.cbsnews.com Project 2025, a blueprint for the next Republican president, proposes major economic changes that could impact millions of Americans.

under trump’s project 2025, a middle-class family with two children would pay $2,600 in additional federal income tax by comparison, a married couple with two children and earnings of $5 million a year would enjoy a $325,000 tax cut

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Chair of Hong Kong press union Selina Cheng fired by Wall Street Journal, says paper urged her to quit grouphongkongfp.com American newspaper The Wall Street Journal has terminated Hong Kong-based reporter Selina Cheng weeks after she was elected chair of the city’s embattled Hong Kong Journalist Association (HKJ…

Chair of Hong Kong press union Selina Cheng fired by Wall Street Journal, says paper urged her to quit group – HKFP: ‘The association said the newspaper had pressured Cheng to withdraw from running in the election and to resign from its executive committee.’

Gore Vidal Sassoon

Looks like a cold day in Pottersville

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Street Artists Transform a Scottish City Into an Open-Air Art Gallerymymodernmet.com More than 60 public pieces of art are scattered across the urban landscape.

Eleven international street artists descended on Scotland's third largest city for NuArt Aberdeen 2024. Take a look at our favorite murals. mymodernmet.com/nuart-aberde...

That Diet Coke joke goes back 40 years, at least - heard it the 1st time in undergrad days.

hammancheez

That’s what @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social has been saying for years: winning competitive elections depends MUCH more on firing up & turning out the base than on chasing an ever-shrinking pool of fickle low-info undecideds.

Steve M.

Lauren Halfwitzke doing a great job repping her bitter, hateful religious tribe: like Torquemada in heels & a short skirt.

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Researchers used 1,000 historical photos to reconstruct 5 Antarctic glaciers before collapsetheprint.in The images can be used to investigate other glaciers or ice shelves, changes to coastlines, penguin colonies, the expansion of vegetation, or even direct human impacts.

This is so fun to see! As the very first employee of the PGC back in 2007, I (alongside MANY people) helped get these historic photographs digitized, flight lines mapped, and organized so anyone could use them... amazing 🧪🌍 theprint.in/science/rese...

The rising tide of bullshit (corporate, political & cultural) is among the greatest dangers to representative democracy of our time.

People susceptible to corporate bullshit tend to be susceptible to other kinds of pseudo-profound bullshit and score lower on measures of intelligence and critical thinking. Test yourself: osf.io/preprints/ps... And learn why bullshit is corrosive: www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/the-corros...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompsonharpers.org

Jjinandtonic

Thanks for the reminder of this classic essay - as relevant today as the day it was written, to our collective sorrow & shame.

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A great passage from Gabriel Winant, historian at University of Chicago, on JD Vance in n+1. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/pol...

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

Ah, yes: Bad Faith 101 - Matt Bors, FTW

Srsly don’t know what you mean. Online search turns up “oral mite anaphylaxis”?

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Faine Greenwood

At Yale, we conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals. The results say a lot about our political divisions.www.washingtonpost.com They also give reason for hope.

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Hillbillies Need No Elegy — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERbittersoutherner.com In the new book “Appalachian Reckoning,” dozens of mountain voices combine to talk back to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” arguments. Today, an exclusive story from its co-editor and a powerful essay...

Read this and listen to people from Appalachia on how to fight back against grifters like JD Vance

Phil Strickland

Classrooms full of slaughtered kids haven’t been enough. Nor have almost daily mass shootings somewhere. Will pot shots at the cult leader finally cause enough revulsion for our insane “guns for everyone” culture to break the spell & change the law, at long last? I doubt it, but anything’s possible.

Ed Burmila

That’s been the rightwing GOTV strategy for as long as I can remember. Certainly since the rise of the NRA & their 2A absolutism.

Burning down the Reichstag - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Everybody in the press who spent two years trying to turn Peter Thiel’s fake-Appalachian messenger boy into some kind of guru of Reasonable Conservatism should contemplate how they got suckered so bad...

Mr. Am I Being Detained

100% guaranteed all the usual suspects aim to make this their Reichstag fire. They’ve already started. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/burn...

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Sir Topham Hit can fix you up.

New EPA rules could force emissions limits, monitoring at Clairton Coke Workswww.alleghenyfront.org The coke oven rules are expected to set new limits for several hazardous chemicals and require fenceline monitoring for benzene.

Justin Mikulka

Meanwhile, coke ovens - a relic 19th-century steelmaking technology - continue to poison the air of neighboring communities for miles around. But rules limiting their toxic emissions could be gutted by business-friendly judges after the recent SCOTUS decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo.

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