Luca Filipozzi

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I feel like the reason people raised Catholic look askance at adult converts is because you're opting into all this? You look at all of us with crushing guilt complexes and anxiety and said "that, that's the faith I want to belong to"

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"The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering... a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting... all with the same face." 1984

When I got the news about the assassination attempt, "I knew there was no American 'unity' coming that would in any way include me as a transgender woman." The first night of the RNC certainly proved that last night, but pundits are still busy scolding Dems www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/america-th...

America the Surrealwww.bugbeardispatch.com An Assassination Attempt, Fake National Unity. and Our Fascist-Enabling Media

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“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” --John Kenneth Galbraith

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Speaking of all star performances, this is the greatest of all time. It starts off as a fairly prosaic, doing-it-for-the-paycheck ensemble performance. And then Prince shows up. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFN...

Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, more - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" | 2004 Inductionm.youtube.com Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others perform "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the 2004 Hall of Fame Inductions. http://rockhall.com/⁍ Buy...

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Trump/Vance 2024

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I’m telling you as someone who studies what happens when the rule of law falls apart in other parts of the world: Americans can’t imagine it, and definitely won’t like it.

Cannon just dismissed the documents case, per Kyle Cheney.

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Judge Cannon went and did it. She has dismissed the stolen documents case against Trump on Clarence Thomas’s (nonsense) appointments clause rationale.

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This is how you do it.

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They will nullify or just ignore birthright citizenship and deport the kids too.

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Wow: “If you grow an acre of corn, it will produce 900 gallons of ethanol, which will get you about 25,000 miles for a Ford F-150...which is, not bad I guess. But let’s say we put solar on that same acre. It will produce enough electricity every year to drive my Lightning 550,000 miles.”

Forty Acres and a Sense of Hopesubstack.com Sunshine on a Cloudy Week

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Honest to God: this is an accessible, reasonably thorough overview you can share with your mom that also does a solid job shooting down the campaign’s attempts to distance themselves from the plan

PEOPLE Magazine! What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Education people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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It’s the fascist international 2.0 and it’s public and coming to try to end American democracy. Trump is signaling the axis of transnational fascism is awaiting him and the republicans with open arms. This is such a massive threat it’s really hard to describe.

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Look, we'll all be marine biologists again tomorrow if the orcas come back

Why is everyone on this site a political pundit.

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Today I stand in the presence of immortality #ea-nasir

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Is it funny that AI energy demand is reopening the most infamous nuclear reactors of all time? yes Is reopening [safely] nuclear power plants good? also yes The dream scenario continues to be AI stays long enough to lock in investments in new nuclear/renewable, then just totally collapses

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Biden accidentally called Zelensky Putin. Donald Trump met with Viktor Orban to bring him a message FROM Putin. Which is worse?

Breaking News: Donald Trump is expected to meet with Hungary’s right-wing leader, Viktor Orban, in Florida on Thursday, days after Orban met Vladimir Putin in Russia.

Trump Is Expected to Meet With Orban, Hungary’s Prime Minister, in Floridawww.nytimes.com The meeting would come after Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has long been aligned with the former president, made unexpected trips to China, Russia and Ukraine.

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I SAID GOOD DAY

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OMG.

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—"We need you to make a decision about staying in the race." —"I'm staying in the race." —"No I mean a different decision"

In a Wednesday morning interview, former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) repeatedly urged President Biden to make a decision about whether to stay in the presidential race, despite the president’s insistence that he should remain at the top of the Democratic ticket.

Pelosi urges Biden to make decision on race, despite his insistence he will staywww.washingtonpost.com “It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run. We’re all encouraging him to to make that decision, because time is running short,” Pelosi said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Wednesday.

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The "official" GOP platform runs 16 pages, but if we take out the title page, the dedication page, a three-page rambling "preamble" and the page with a table of contents printed in 72-point font, it's only *ten* pages long. Project 2025, the actual platform, is 900+ pages long. Focus on that.

Just dropped: Forthcoming remarks from VP Kamala Harris on Project 2025 and Trump in Vegas

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Can't get much more definitionally dehumanizing than "Unhumans"

Update: Donald Trump, Jr. has endorsed Jack Posobiec's new book on the "Christ-hating Communists" who Posobiec thinks a future Trump administration should use the power of the state to destroy.

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Slashing methane is a major climate win from Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. It’s $850 million (6% of EPA budget!) for “projects that help track — and stop — methane leaks tied to oil and gas production.” This would’ve a been career-defining win a decade ago. Now it’s Monday after holiday weekend.

Biden Admin takes major action on methane leaks from oil and gas production: www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

DOE, EPA outline $850M plan to slash methane emissionswww.eenews.net The funding to reduce pollution from the oil and gas industry will be released in three categories.

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The press using the white house visitor logs to write up (apparently false) attacks on Biden after Biden published visitor logs and Trump didn't: good illustration of the reward for upstanding and ethical behavior in the current media environment.

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I read a story here on Bluesky (if someone knows what I’m talking about please reshare) about training an AI to recognize skin cancer, but since so many images of skin cancer feature a ruler measuring anomalies, the AI could only recognize rulers. That’s what I think of AI in healthcare.

New grift just dropped. “In the same way the New Deal built out physical infrastructure to transform the country, AI will serve as part of the critical infrastructure of a much more effective health care system that supports everyday people’s health in an ongoing way.”

AI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health Caretime.com Making healthier choices is hard. But it’s also something that AI is uniquely positioned to solve, write Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington.

@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social #AskUsAnything why is the UEL not part of Vancouver?

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Could write but choose not to.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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the books aren’t going to ban themselves!