Peter

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Black Lives Matter. Trans people are who they say. Cis/He. Geek. Polyam. Humanist. Imperfect. ⚾. 🖖🏼. 🎵. Animation. Fountain pens.

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Institutions work until they don’t. It’s banal but true. Courts as institutions worked when Trump tried to steal the election, but FedSoc has been chipping away at them for decades, and I think it is very rational to doubt they will work any more to restrain an executive.

WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit. "Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."

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a far right conspiracy theorist broke into nancy pelosi’s house and beat her husband with a hammer and he and most of the party made jokes about it

If a Democrat had been the target of an assassination attempt, can anyone plausibly imagine a Trump statement that did not denigrate and equivocate?

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A reminder of how Trump responded when a supporter broke into Nancy Pelosi's home and brutally attacked her husband with a hammer:

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This was just 10 days ago. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Stop telling us the political rhetoric is becoming too violent if you’re too cowardly to mention who, exactly, is making it so.

Trump-Endorsed Candidate for Governor: ‘Some Folks Need Killing’www.rollingstone.com North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson declared "some people need killing" during a Sunday sermon.

I don't even need to click this @wallstreetjournal.bsky.social link to know that it's disingenuous as fuck.

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this is by far the craziest longshot candidate replacement idea I’ve heard, but if the technology’s there I’ll hear them out

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Happy 7/9 Day, Americans

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When you run away to join the circus …

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States like Florida with inhumane, racist policies and laws targeting undocumented immigrants have already seen shortages of farm workers. In NC I shared lamb meat with Latino friends and neighbors and in return heard community news including what they got from migrant workers passing through.

Mass deportation is a kitchen table issue, and Trump and the GOP need to be hounded about it. "Kids will come from school to homes without their parents. Businesses would lose workers, some would just shutter. Crops would rot in the fields.” zacharymueller.substack.com/p/mass-depor...

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Now is a great time to download and learn how to use Signal.

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So many of these people spent YEARS telling people that things that political organizers said would happen would not happen due to 'precedent', norms, collegiality, etc and they were fucking wrong 100%.

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Whether you agree as to whether this is the most dangerous Court since Taney's (the case @kevinmkruse.bsky.social makes here) there's another key point about the comparison: Taney's Court had only a fraction of the power and authority over American politics & society that Roberts' Court does 1/

I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

The Radical Roberts Courtopen.substack.com The current Supreme Court of the United States has just cemented its place in history as the most radical Supreme Court ever. For a century and a half, that dishonor has gone to the antebellum court l...

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House Appropriations committee (GOP) releases proposed FY25 transport/housing bill. Among other things, it would: —Cut HUD & DOT funding by $3b —Prohibit NYC congestion pricing —Ban funding for CA HSR —Prohibit implementation of car mileage standards appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

Committee Releases FY25 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act | House Committee on Appropriations - Republicansappropriations.house.gov Washington, D.C. – Today, the House Appropriations Committee released the Fiscal Year 2025 bill for the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee. The bill will ...

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Judge strikes down Montana law defining sex as only male or female for procedural reasonsmontanafreepress.org A judge struck down a Montana law that defined “sex” in state law as only male or female, finding that it was unconstitutional.

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Asian fusion* dinner *fried chili oil on frozen mini samosas

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FACT CHECK Trump: “Biden is a very bad Palestinian.” TRUE: Biden is far too alive to be a Palestinian.

Watching 'Dazed and Confused' for the first time in a very long time. I don't know if it's aged any worse than other period pieces of the time, but it definitely hits differently now. #movies

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Did an insta post about trans liberation

Resharing mostly so I remember to look more closely when I'm more awake. 😄

Hello bluesky! I didn’t get many bites from Patreon or from my email list, so here is your chance! My commissions for August are now open! I’ll make another official post during better hours tomorrow, but anyone on the nightsky interested? #nightmarket #🎨 #commsopen Reposts and shares = 💚

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45% of participants secured housing, while $589,214 was saved in public service costs.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.www.businessinsider.com Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.

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Today is Inti Raymi, the New Year of the Inkas! It was founded by Pachakuteq, Sapa Inka or ruler, c.1438 following the war with the Chanka Confederation which almost saw the end of the Inkan kingdom in Cusco. Inti Raymi is a celebration to the Sun god, Inti, on the Winter Solstice ¹/

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not a surprise, definitely not good www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Exclusive: Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza warwww.theguardian.com As the Gaza war rages, Israeli funds target US college campuses and push to redefine antisemitism in US law

When you're the only bidder for an item on #eBay, and rather than getting straight-up sniped at the end, there's a bid, an immediate cancellation, and another bid right below your max bid. Like, dude, you ain't slick. I'd rather not get the item than pay more because you're fuckin' playing games.

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The absolutely wild thing is: This goes for ALL social aid. Just *giving people some fucking money,* literally going "OK, how much did you need?", cutting checks, and waving them out the door? COSTS LESS and HAS BETTER OUTCOMES than the current system's bureaucracy and means testing, EVERY TIME.

With alt-text because THIS IS LITERALLY EVERYONE’S EXPERIENCE & I FUCKING HATE IT. Being disabled is a godsdamn full time job battling different agencies all damn day. #NEISvoid

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Every new story about the Cybertruck reaffirms my belief that they were created purely as a meme and never intended to survive in the wild

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“Each time you search for something like “how many rocks should I eat” and Google’s AI “snapshot” tells you “at least one small rock per day,” you’re consuming approximately three watt-hours of electricity […] That’s ten times the power consumption of a traditional Google search.”

Big Tech is using its political influence to hide AI’s energy consumption, while utilities jack up your electricity rates to subsidize data centers. Google’s AI-powered search is on track to use as much electricity as a whole country.

The Unknown Toll Of The AI Takeoverwww.levernews.com As artificial intelligence guzzles water supplies and jacks up consumers’ electricity rates, why isn’t anyone tracking the resources being consumed?

An impromptu trip to the local big independent record store revealed a record cover designed by my favorite animator, Chuck Jones. It was kismet, obviously. I was required by the inviolable laws of the universe to purchase it.

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HA HA HA

#WritingPrompt of the day: A person who can read minds, except they… 1. Cannot control when this happens. 2. Perceives this as audible voices in the correct voice for the thought/situation. 3. Has visual hallucinations that make it appear that the source of such voices is actually speaking them.

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i think before people are allowed to post online they should have to take an introductory course to ensure they understand basic concepts such as "a joke" and "hyperbole" and "metaphors" and "women are people also"