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I oppose this worldview—this theory of America—with every fiber of my being.

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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric

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First 24 hours are ideal conditions for bad media: * Interest in the facts is off the charts, but there is only a handful of them * Bad actors fill the unmet demand * Civiltarians try to silence political discussion * Both sides bromides roar to life * Memory itself is now said to be in bad taste

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This is NYT’s portrait of a Trump rally, where the explicit agenda was putting millions of people in concentration camps before deporting them.

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Just a reminder: it’s good to oppose assassinations. But you are under absolutely no obligation to treat Trumpists and Trump-apologists as people who are honest, or acting in good faith, when they purport to condemn political violence or violent rhetoric. They’re not sincere.

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can we please go one week without a decade happening

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Well this is grim

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I need to write the whole piece about this, but the thing to understand is that the NYT is now just Facebook. The platform dictates narrative to normies, is totally gamed by the right, and is still so ubiquitous as to be unavoidable even by those who see how broken it is. It's just Facebook.

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association

Washington Post's slogan is "Democracy Dies in Darkness" New York Times slogan ought to be "Gleefully Stabbing Democracy In Broad Daylight"

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Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.

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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

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Holy cats www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/vaccine...

Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strainswww.universityofcalifornia.edu Scientists at UC Riverside have devised a vaccine that targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a given virus.

I am so tired

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Where the fuck was this guy last night?

Biden in NC today: "I know I'm not a young man. I don't walk as easy as I used to. I don't speak as smoothly as I used to ... [but] I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job ... I know like millions of Americans know, when you get knocked down you get back up!"

"When you get knocked down you get back up!"www.youtube.com YouTube video by C-SPAN

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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

I find myself once again wondering what it might be like to be in a universe where things are getting better all the time instead of just accelerating towards ruin.

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SCOTUS holds 6-3 that it is the executive branch now

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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

I knew about autotune but I guess I never really allowed myself to also realize that drummers' recordings get effectively "snapped to grid" so that the beats are absolutely perfect. Part of that trend in the world where nothing is allowed to be organic. youtu.be/1bZ0OSEViyo?...

The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worseyoutu.be In this episode, I discuss the crisis in music in two acts: Act I - Music is too Easy to MakeAct II - Music is too Easy to Consume...and their cumulative neg...

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So many ways to talk about this from copyright being too long, to giant media conglomerates sucking, to how dangerous it is that things like the Internet Archive are fighting for their legal lives...

More than two decades’ worth of content published on MTVNews .com is no longer available

MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offlinevariety.com The website of the already-defunct MTV News has been fully pulled offline.

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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it

We could all maybe be living in a utopia if people were capable of allowing the world to be a better place even if it means there might be someone who gets help that we think doesn't deserves it.

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This was the view when I looked up today on NYC. Great theater weekend and then a momentous vision of mirroring sky and skyscraper

Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI www.theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AIwww.theonion.com SAN MATEO, CA—After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at bei...