Dale

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Retired life insurance bot, low intermediate guitar player and proud papa.

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It is astonishing and dispiriting how many people out there are gleefully eager to demolish society for no gain other than the coddling of ignorances and satisfaction of bigotries that are their sole comforts from a world full of horrendous problems they've created.

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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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The NYT editorial board presents itself as like a wise adjunct group of strategists advising Democrats how to run their shop, but (a) it’s run and largely staffed by de facto Republican operatives and (b) it has no similar paternalistic scrutiny for Republicans.

In Opinion The greatest public service President Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not run for re-election, the editorial board writes after Thursday's presidential debate.

Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Racewww.nytimes.com The president’s inadequate performance in the debate made it clear he is not the man he was four years ago.

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If Biden wins this time, Thomas and Alito will be around 80, so it’s not crazy to think he could get the court to 5-4 liberal himself. If the Dems then win the next presidency too then it’s getting close to a lock

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Kevin M. Kruse

Oh and the "historical context of our country" is that the Founding Fathers knew from hard personal experience that the mixing of religion and government had caused centuries of war and chaos across Europe, so when they set up a new country here THEY VERY EXPLICITLY DID NOT DO THAT.

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I'm hoping we don't have the earth-salting anti-southern problem here on Bluesky like we did at the other place but I'm glad this post is here as a sign for me to tap

We have to boil our tap water before we use it for several days at a time, several times a year, minimally. If this is news to you, it’s time to start paying closer attention to how conservative politics are entrenched and spreading. We are not “red” - we are voter suppressed.

Jamaica mon

Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind

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Billions in taxpayer dollars are being used to pay tuition at religious schools throughout the country, as state voucher programs expand dramatically and the line separating public education and religion fades.

Billions in taxpayer dollars now go to religious schools via voucherswww.washingtonpost.com The rapid expansion of state voucher programs follows court decisions that have eroded the separation between church and state.

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this is the conservative plan for public schools, redirect resources from teachers to cops, then the prison-like environment prompts middle class parents to instead opt for private schools, further starving the public schools of support and resources.

“That child — a second grader with autism at a North Carolina school — was ultimately pinned on the floor for 38 minutes, according to body camera video of the incident. At one point, court records say, the officer put his knee in the child's back.” www.cbsnews.com/news/hundred...

Handcuffs in Hallways: Hundreds of elementary students arrested at U.S. schoolswww.cbsnews.com Black children and kids with disabilities were disproportionately impacted, according to CBS News analysis of Education Department data.

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Dear Americans, Other countries exist. They have relationships and interact with each other. When things happen, the reason's often regional/local. Iran and Israel have fought a shadow war for years. The world isn't a reality show with POTUS as main character, where every action is a reaction to him

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In this piece, I compare the bleating about the oppression of Twitter denying conservatives the chance to post Hunter's dick with the absolute free speech assault on poor pregnant people in the South, who are denied essential information that could save their lives.

This is the worst assault on free speech in American history And because it targets poor women in the South almost no one cares.

This is the worst assault on free speech in American historyi-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io And because it targets poor women in the South almost no one cares. Matt Taibbi thinks he’s discovered one of the biggest scandals in American history, bigger than the financial crimes that helpe...

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THE FIGHT FOR 50 Democrats have the opportunity to reach 50 seats and flip control of Wisconsin's State Assembly. But it’s going to take good candidates. If you're a Millennial or Gen Z progressive, Run for Something will help you get started. runforsomething.net/run/

The Fight for Fifty: Empowering Wisconsin's working class with working-class elected leaderswww.therecombobulationarea.news Guest column from State Rep. Francesca Hong.

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Elon Musk is a neo-Nazi. It's just a fact.

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The entire legal establishment just wishes someone *else* will hold him accountable. It’s pathetic Kicking the can down the road to a goddamn dictatorship

if you threaten a judges’s family and it is ignored via New Privileges I Just Now Invented to avoid using powers ordinarily exercised without hesitation, you do in fact have extra-legal protections. the legal system a judge is nominally trying to protect by inaction is just as compromised in the end

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Spread this widely, Sconnies!

Let anyone who has ever heard of Wisconsin know to vote NO on both Big Lie amendments on April's ballot.

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Let anyone who has ever heard of Wisconsin know to vote NO on both Big Lie amendments on April's ballot.

And be sure to tell anyone who will listen to VOTE NO on both Big Lie amendments on Wisconsin's primary ballot. Here's why: www.patreon.com/posts/alert-...

ALERT: NO ON WISCONSIN’S BIG LIE AMENDMENTS | the earlyworm societywww.patreon.com Get more from the earlyworm society on Patreon

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Trump-branded Bibles make a mockery of Christianity. Liberals assume MAGA doesn't get this. I disagree. I think MAGA loves Trump's contempt for the Bible. He gives them permission to redefine "Christianity" as a religion of hate, instead of Jesus' love. www.salon.com/2024/03/28/b...

Trump Bibles make a mockery of Christianity — which is why MAGA will eat them upwww.salon.com Faith without morality or theology, much less that

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So we are just ignoring that this is an escalation and one that historically leads to violence at scale ? The republicans are telling you they are going to become open and proud terrorists if they lose. This is definitional stochastic terror. Anyone who backs this is a domestic threat.

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Public opinion of the Supreme Court is low because they’ve been bribed to sell our bodies and lives to a bunch of creepy fascist Christian dickbags. Nobody should be polite to such an institution.

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I saw this quote the other day and haven’t stopped thinking about it since: “Dystopian fiction is when you take things that happen in real life to marginalized populations and apply them to people with privilege.” [twitter.com]

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The spice worm from Ed Wood's Dune

LOL JFC

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Jonathan Katz exposes the story about a woman being raped from Senator Katie Britt's State of the Union response as a massive lie. Must see - a fact check no one in the mainstream media picked up. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTL82RyC6/

TikTok - Make Your Daywww.tiktok.com

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7 years ago today: China approves 38 new Trump trademarks 6 years ago: Trump asked witnesses about interviews with special counsel 5 years ago: Manafort says "humiliated and ashamed" at sentencing 4 years ago: Trump says to leave passengers with COVID-19 on cruise ship to keep case numbers low

7 years ago today: Trump signs order restricting entry to US by people from Muslim countries 6 years ago: Stormy Daniels sues Trump; Conway found to violate Hatch Act 5 years ago: Manafort sentenced to prison 4 years ago: Controversy over federal response after Trump plays down COVID outbreak at CDC

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Repost from Mastodon, original source uncredited (alas, because it's brilliant)

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a reminder that at the state level the core of the republican political class is assorted small business tyrants

Florida’s Senate approved a bill that would ban cities and counties from adopting requirements for mandatory water breaks and other workplace protections against extreme heat

Florida Senate passes bill blocking local rules protecting workers from heatwww.nbcnews.com The legislation comes after the planet notched its hottest year in recorded history in 2023.

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The Shelby ruling’s rationale fell apart almost the precise second after it went into effect. Aged like it drank from the wrong grail.

The Voting Rights Act made counties with a record of racial discrimination get federal permission before changing their election laws. Roberts court said this was unnecessary. Those counties put in new voting restrictions and the racial turnout gap has increased. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/u...

Racial Turnout Gap Has Widened With a Weakened Voting Rights Act, Study Findswww.nytimes.com The Black share of the electorate had been on the rise for decades, but in some counties, a Supreme Court decision in 2013 changed that, according to a new analysis.

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There is no greater emblem of white victimhood than this. BLM was an effort to shame police for not solving murders of African Americans but cops took it as a zero-sum challenge, even though cop murders are given the highest priority, with higher penalties and $10k rewards for tips etc.