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.Anything but it .ארנב רות :in Hebrew. Not white. Born the year Raiders of the Lost Ark came out.

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This is the classic rock radio station I would sometimes listen to when I was a kid

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The lesson from France is that sometimes you have to hold your nose to defeat fascism. You can't beat it with your own ideological purity.

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This learned helplessness around “no one is going to care about these things (that a lot of normal people do demonstrably care about)” I’m seeing some people display is just so counterproductive.

The number of people who have replied to either argue or bemoan that “MAGA doesn’t care” like that’s the voting bloc we have to mobilize is going to make my brain melt out my ears like taffy on a warm summer’s day

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“This is the reality at the coalface of the AI revolution: people working under oppressive surveillance at furious intensity just to keep their jobs and support their families”

Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hourwww.theguardian.com Social media content and AI training data are processed in outsource centres in the global south, where long hours, low pay and exposure to disturbing material are the norm

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So it can help, or at least it helps me, to tell personal stories to people who believe something different. Like, I worked in poverty law and DV law for 13 years. I know what the left does to try to keep people in housing. And I can see what self proclaimed right wingers do 'for' the homeless.

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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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And they got one hell of a photo op out of it, too

Meanwhile eight states, seven Democratic trifectas (CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MN, NM) and Vermont, took a lesson from the pandemic and made universal free school meals permanent.

Especially gross because my kids’ school here in GA had universal free lunch before the pandemic and lost it in fall of ‘21.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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Among the many evils of "crisis pregnancy centers": they are not medical providers and so do not follow HIPAA or medical privacy ethics. Instead, they gleefully give away (to right-wing orgs) and sell (to data brokers) all information you give them. They should be illegal.

Google “Massachusetts crisis pregnancy” and this link pops up. It’s part of a statewide campaign, including public signage (highway billboards!), urging people to avoid crisis pregnancy/anti-abortion centers. The Commonwealth is not fucking around with this.

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need more everett true comics imo

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I had a chat with the conservative mom of a friend today. We talked about a bunch of stuff and I learned several interesting things, among them, that religious conservatives are often PRO-CHOICE AND THINK THE SUPREME COURT IS INSANE. Run on Dobbs. Run on justices and court reform. Do it.

Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measurewww.nbcnews.com A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the ruby red state’s constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot — but major obstacles remain.

OH. I just remembered my favorite cover ever: Blondie’s cover of Ghostriders In The Sky.

Cat Power’s cover of “I found a Reason”

Tori Amos’s cover of Thank You Patti Smith’s cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit Body Count’s covers of Institutionalized and Ace of Spades Ella Fitzgerald’s cover of Sunshine Of Your Love

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Tori Amos’s cover of Thank You Patti Smith’s cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit Body Count’s covers of Institutionalized and Ace of Spades Ella Fitzgerald’s cover of Sunshine Of Your Love

Other than Hurt by Johnny Cash and any version of The Sound of Silence, what are your favorite cover versions of famous songs?

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reminded of a scene from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

Spent the day with a weed hangover but kinda in a good way.

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Vote for what you want. Lots of advantages to shifting to renewables, including lower operating costs, climate, environmental and health benefits. 🧪🔌💡

quitting fossil fuels is popular pass it on www.theenergymix.com/3-4-of-peopl...

3/4 of People in Fossil-Producing Countries Want Rapid Transition to Clean Energywww.theenergymix.com Nearly three-quarters of the people in fossil fuel-producing countries want their governments to speed the transition to clean energy, while a minority think big businesses are addressing climate chan...

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proving love sometimes means takin a risk. i mean EXISTING is just about the biggest risk there is. but dang what a reward to sit here for a moment and breathe the air and see the stars. what an adventure

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Ayn Rand: oh my god... I see now how wrong I was.. Me with a time traveling xbox: they also made a second one where you can duel wield plasmids and guns but I gotta switch discs

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I wonder how Louise is doing

Reminds me of this legendary moment in my history:

Ooh, I want.

#onmydesktoday: a transregional focus upon (Armenian) diasporic mobility and entangled bookmaking in #earlymodern Europe. A nice read. Recommended for #bookhistory.

The originalist position would recognize that the electoral college was established to protect vs those like Donald Trump—they didn’t know his name, but they knew him. But to me, Originalism is like Kantian Absolutism—morally sensible in the shallows and useless for anything deep.

LMFAO at NYT *not* disclosing that the guy who wrote this was a clerk for John Roberts! Honestly gotta respect the game.

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And further, Israelis' grief and rage and fear can't be ended by killing more Palestinian children. The cycle of violence is only good for those leaders who grow powerful on grief and rage and fear.

Wallace Shawn on Gaza: “The Anger of the Palestinians Cannot Be Ended by Killing Their Children” The playwright, actor, and member of Jewish Voice for Peace challenges the notion that all Jews support Israel's actions Via THR

Wallace Shawn on Gaza: “The Anger of the Palestinians Cannot Be Ended by Killing Their Children”www.hollywoodreporter.com The playwright, actor, and member of Jewish Voice for Peace challenges the notion that all Jews support Israel's actions

10 Year Old Pisces just used the word “fortnight” accurately and in appropriate context in a sentence. I am. So proud.

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Election coverage in India: screen split into 192 windows with everyone shouting insults & analysis together Election coverage in USA: 16 cutaways per minute along with montage of Steve Carnacki & flashing chyrons & blinking graphics that make everyone dizzy Election coverage in UK: Here is a cat

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Yes, Mr. President, from the Dissociated Press? What would you say to the people who've been

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Democracy dies in whatever tf this is

Went out on the porch to smoke a blunt and watch/listen to folks setting off bottle rockets and wound up writing a poem in my notes app and I think this may be the most patriotic thing I’ve ever done.