Jonathan Aul

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JD Vance career trajectory: 1. Writes book calling poor whites lazy and irresponsible 2. Becomes Silicon Valley venture capitalist 3. Wins Senate seat with $15 mil from Peter Thiel by telling poor whites the 2020 election was stolen and immigrants are coming to kill them 4. Vice president!

Good morning to my fellow lovers of LGBTQ flags and quinoa

LGBTQ flags and quinoa: The liberal Va. enclave where J.D. Vance liveswww.washingtonpost.com One resident said he’s okay with the senator living in the neighborhood because “it says a lot about Del Ray — he picked a place that’s a great place to live.”

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if we still had MAD Magazine they would’ve gotten him with “Hillbilly Allergy by JD Pantsed” four years ago and none of this would be a problem

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QUID PRO VANCE JD Vance is Trump’s gift to Putin for all the help in this and the last two elections.

JD Vance is Trump’s gift to Putini-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io The GOP nominee may have picked the one American his second-biggest donor prefers over him. 0:00 /0:26 1× The pick of JD Vance, who outperformed Ohio’s last...

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Let's be VERY clear here. Their t-shirts are explicit antisemitic rhetoric. Their t-shirts are dogwhistles and they say "whites against Jews". ALT for the image: A group of white men on the sidewalk flying a swastika flag, one doing zeig heil, with t-shirts that read "Whites Against Replacement".

Downtown Nashville 7/14/24 And my father wonders why I don't like going to Tennessee

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If you work at X and don't wish to move to Texas now is as good a time as any to blow the whistle on what you think the public needs to know.

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Unhoused person slain at national gathering of political party tied to Supreme Court justices who just criminalized living unhoused.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel confirms that a Columbus, Ohio, police officer detailed to the RNC shot and killed a homeless Black man (earlier reported to be in his early 20s) more than half a mile from the RNC arena. The man was known by the nickname Jehovah and took care of a pit bull named Isis.

Ohio police officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources saywww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

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No one.... PA sheriff: What, cops aren't Supermen. www.police1.com/event-securi...

Pa. sheriff: Officer encountered shooter on roof before Trump assassination attemptwww.police1.com "The officer had both hands on the roof to get up on the roof [but] never made it because the shooter had turned towards the officer, and rightfully and smartly, the officer let go," Butler County She...

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The reason that the language of domestic abuse and the language of authoritarianism looks the same is because it's just the same thing on a different scale.

#DomesticViolenceWheel

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The deal with blue sky is this - it has extremely patchy moderation and an idiosyncratic user base. I block liberally here; I find it improves the experience immensely. A block is not an indictment. It simply means ‘this isn’t an account I need to interact with right now’

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Per this NYT story, an alleged Syrian war criminal and torturer received his visa and entered the US during the Trump admin, so I don’t understand why the Syria guy on Trump’s National Security Council gets to offer an analytic comment and whistle off into the sunset. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/u...

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The only hammer they use is DARVO because empathetic and sensitive people bow to it. Learning about DARVO because of fascism has been helpful to identify it in abusers, what @brooklynmarie.bsky.social calls "little fascists," I believe. www.verywellmind.com/protecting-y...

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/o...

How Narcissists Use DARVO to Avoid Accountabilitywww.verywellmind.com Narcissists and those with personality disorders often use DARVO tactics to abuse and manipulate. Know the warning signs and how to protect yourself.

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There is no company I will be happier to see leave San Francisco than this one. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/e...

Elon Musk: X headquarters will move from S.F. to Austin, Texaswww.sfchronicle.com X CEO Elon Musk announced on his social media platform that the X headquarters will move from San Francisco to Austin, Texas

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Everybody also needs to watch this reel from “liberal redneck” comedian Trae Crowder who has some personal experience with Vance www.instagram.com/reel/C9febBe...

Trae Crowder on Instagram: "JD Vance hates hillbillies #traecrowder #sorryIfilmedthislastnight #seemelive #linkwherethelinksgo"www.instagram.com 3,678 likes, 141 comments - officialtraecrowder on July 16, 2024: "JD Vance hates hillbillies #traecrowder #sorryIfilmedthislastnight #seemelive #linkwherethelinksgo".

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No one: .... Arizona Sheriff: I know exactly what went wrong in Butler, PA. www.azfamily.com/2024/07/16/v...

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See we wouldn't have this problem if we as a society just agreed that porn is a social good.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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every corporate website having a useless little AI chatbot pop up in the lower right feels like the equivalent of when all the brands were rushing to issue their own NFTs for some reason.

The generative AI bubble is beginning to look a lot like crypto - specious hype, vague roadmaps accepted without criticism, an environmental disaster wrapped around the vague promises of innovation, and an unwillingness by many to call its bluff. wheresyoured.at/put-up-or-sh...

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You quoted him saying “Have had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building” Is this true? Did you ask if the actual reason is to escape accountability for egregious environmental & worker's rights violations and stricter regulation? Fvcking stenographers.

Elon Musk vows to move X, SpaceX headquarters from California to Texas

Elon Musk vows to move X, SpaceX headquarters from California to Texas tcrn.ch Elon Musk is doubling down on his commitment to Texas by vowing to move SpaceX’s massive headquarters from its long-time Hawthorne, California home to the Lone Star State. Musk later said that he would move the headquarters of his social media platform X…

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So a cop from out of town killed a homeless black man. That isn't murder?

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Not only a mile from the arena, but across the freeway that bisects that part of town and forms an enormous physical barrier

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Important.

The things delivery workers do that piss you off are almost all to with their conditions. If you're paid a pittance per drop or are salaried but severely punished for failure to meet an impossible schedule, you're likely to cut corners. Your problem is with delivery companies.

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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to every woman, LGBTQ+ person and immigrant who works in tech: you’re disposable if doing this makes us even more money

Wow. They literally say it’s about money, not human rights, and expect that to come off like “don’t take it personally”

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The same with those that go "We were just following orders", when they say it wasn't personal. Damned straight it is personal when you are making it the choice to essentially extinguish another person's existence.

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truly impressive. all our neurons fired towards the "man fuck nate silver" cluster simultaneously.

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I only read about half of The Privatization of Everything before I had to stop from sheer rage and frustration but there’s a whole section about how the attempted privatization of the NWS has already led to people dying from tornados as subscription services get weather alert priority.

It's because they want to privatize weather. They tried doing it under his last administration but many people didn't really notice beyond the weird hurricane drawing he did. It's also why they cut (or at least tried to it's been a minute since I read that stuff) a bunch of NASA Earth's funding too

Trump’s Pick to Lead Weather Agency Spent 30 Years Fighting Itwww.bloomberg.com Who owns the weather?

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"Turn the temperature down on the violent rhetoric." Western NC Says

I honestly don't understand what anyone means when they say "turn the temperature down" on rhetoric.

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Sen. Bob Menendez found guilty on all counts, including acting as foreign agent, in federal corruption trial Menendez is the first senator to be convicted of acting as a foreign agent. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/sen-b...

Sen. Bob Menendez found guilty on all counts, including acting as foreign agent, in federal corruption trialabcnews.go.com Federal prosecutors alleged that Sen. Bob Menendez accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for the New Jersey Democrat's political clout.

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If you didn't already know that academic publishing is a racket - this beautifully outlines all the myriad ways in which it routinely extorts everyone involved with it.

Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadehwww.theguardian.com Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh