Not Yet Post Democracy Joshua Vaughan

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He/Him. Nearing decade of fatherhood, working through it like everyone else, trying to be kind, hoping for the best, preparing for the worst.

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When the France election results are good

You love to see it.

French exit poll news and which seems a good sign

Progress can be lost fast. 'Punishing Centrists and Center Left': this is what you get, instantaneous strip mining and environmental destruction, immediate loss of rights and immediate punishment of people in marginal positions. Anyone not voting is unserious at best and an arsonist at worst.

I know the latest NZ election outcome was less than good, but jesus.

Oh look, people got used to fact machines so that when you hooked them up to lie machines they couldn’t understand the difference.

Well this is grim

Reading and extrapolating about Project 2025. Do corporations not realize that with a weaponized DOJ, absolute immunity that Trump is going to actively demand voting stakes in the largest corps as tribute? Kleptocratic oligarchy is fun until the boss demands his cut and will kill you to get it.

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Hell yes Kansas.

✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Second-Trimester Abortion Ban

Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Second-Trimester Abortion Bantruthout.org In a 5-1 ruling striking down two laws, the court found that the state constitution protects the right to abortion.

Met a friends new boyfriend, a guy who is making music videos, sadly… using absolutely toxic gen AI for almost everything. The struggle to not be a dick but also not completely haze him for effectively making no art was tough. It’s like going to the coke machine and calling yourself a mixologist.

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

Re: Project 2025. Does ending Birthright Citizenship means that we literally have no valid basis of Citizenship? Could anyone Trump's govt. doesn't like is open to being stripped of citizenship and be 'deported'? If so, to where if you are stripped of your only citizenship?

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

The Inside Out characters in my head

the inside out characters in my head

This is the undefeated take on all of the Biden talk. Once again, instead of thrashing Trump, and his disgusting sycophantic followers here we are fighting about Biden’s age (which is even older today) and his acumen (which never set the world aglow), instead of focusing all fire on the true threat

My priors that the Biden interview would confirm everyone’s priors have been confirmed

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techxplore.com/news/2024-07... Bonkers. Still lab scale, but a team has created an anode free, solid state, sodium battery. It's basically just sodium and an aluminum (some powdered) current collector. Huge theoretical potential for abundance, fast charging, high density.

Lab creates world's first anode-free sodium solid-state batterytechxplore.com UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering Prof. Y. Shirley Meng's Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion has created the world's first anode-free sodium solid-state battery.

You aren’t just getting Biden, they should call it Team Biden!

Why is Biden only running in Biden? He should be running in Harris, Haaland, Buttigieg, Regan, Murthy, and all the rest of the people who come with him. And he’s not just running against Trump, but against Miller, Bannon, Kushner, Bolton, Kid Rock and Nazi ghouls who come with him. Message better.

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This was good newrepublic.com/post/183493/...

Trump Tries, Fails to Distance Himself From Project 2025newrepublic.com It’s still his blueprint for governing, no matter what he says.

Every move Heritage is making is to delegitimize the outcome so they can swoop in and murder our democracy under pile of paperwork delivered by men in black suits.

They don't want Biden in, as a person who used to specialize in research on this they want to prep a narrative for the fall of a technically illegitimate election. It's not a move to stop it, it's a move to delegitimize.

SPAIN with an even more amazing goal for 2-1 and 118 minutes. Ridiculous.

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The fact they're simultaneously running don't vote campaigns and trying to undermine the dem candidate is proof that the moneybags who own these publications are united in realizing their robber baron days are drawing to a close under a guy who is the most pro labour president of the 21st century

TTRPG madness here:

Holy shit! Germany Goal at 89:14 is INSANE

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1. elite media finds a herd issue 2. elected dems (usually backbenchers) read the columns about it 3. columnists know electeds are reading, write more columns 4. panic sets in 5. columnists want to keep the panic going >>> you are here 6. electeds do something fatally stupid

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A second insurrection. Stop comparing these people to the founders. They are the Confederacy.

A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Listen to Timothy Snyder:

Bay posting

Swole knows:

i really am going to be logged off for the holiday but i would like to drop off a parting thought: publishing a monarchist anti-voting take on the fourth of july is the strongest possible indication of someone's core, true values

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Relevant: www.instagram.com/reel/C8xb_El...

Nicholas Powers on Instagramwww.instagram.com 3,451 likes, 282 comments - thatnickpowersguy on June 28, 2024

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Reminder for people who seem to be convinced that a deficit barely outside the margin of error in July is insurmountable

Just one of many reasons why Biden is a great president and we need to keep electing Dems. This doesn't happen with Republicans at the wheel.

Companies decided to sink billions of dollars of new investment into manufacturing plants in the U.S. after the CHIPS and Inflation Reduction Act boosted incentives for U.S. production, Check out that spike in manufacturing plant construction. It dwarfs all prior increases. 📉📈 #️⃣#️⃣

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Stakes are what they are.

Things are pretty fucked up and the future is uncertain — probably the worst in my lifetime (perhaps excepting 1969 before I can remember). When it’s like that, I like to think about my grandparents and what they faced and got through with the Great Depression and WWII. /1