Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

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I enjoy cocktails, French fries, and science fiction. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him. Trekkie. Former KCRW & KCSN radio host/DJ, from New Orleans. http://mixcloud.com/safeathome

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They roasting on Threads! On THREADS!!

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Lux Alptraum לקס אלפטראום

*loved a front yard. Oy.

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Our front garden is full of native and drought tolerant plants, and I’ve never moved a front yard more. A big sheet of plastic that shreds your knees and gets HOT is no solution.

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And given Morehouse's stature as an HBCU, if they can normalize this AI shit there, they can normalize it at all HBCUs. This is very specifically an antiblack educational policy and has to be addressed as such.

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This is the vital, masculine, “anti-woke” nation led by an admirably virile leader that is favored by our “America First” conservatives like Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump,

"Russia's losses in Ukraine since 2022 exceed the number of losses in all its wars since World War II combined...The latest estimates suggest that approximately 2% of all Russian men aged 20 to 50 may have been either killed or severely injured in Ukraine." www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

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Jacob Harris

Given our lack of access to replicators, I’d like one of these that also connects to my house, please.

LOWRY! Sam Lowry!!

Yes! Ha ha ha, YES!!

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This all becomes very evident when you read a paper by a lawyer on a historical topic. Context be damned, they go for accumulating a pile of quotes that support their argument, regardless if the people they're quoting violently disagreed with them Let's get some historians on SCOTUS

These mistakes originalist justices are making aren’t about disputed interpretations of history, with evidence on both sides. They’re pulling quotes out of context to attribute ideas to founding figures that those figures adamantly opposed. (via @andycraig.bsky.social) reason.com/volokh/2024/...

The Supreme Court's Dubious Use of History in Department of State v. Munozreason.com Justice Amy Coney Barrett's majority opinion includes significant errors, and violates some of her own precepts against excessive reliance on questionable history.

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Emily Suess Dot Com

They’re cruel and evil.

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Eric Blair

If you're at an event w Bush, or his staffers, or Fed Soc insiders, you tell them “You’re bad people and you want to destroy America and I won’t pretend you’re not on an evil mission.” You don’t hug the Bush family. They’re not friends of America 🇺🇸 . www.pbs.org/newshour...

George W. Bush has been advocating for Kavanaugh with wavering senatorswww.pbs.org Kavanaugh is a former top aide in Bush’s administration.

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The Supreme Court is stealing American democracy. One of the very basic steps we must take to fix the Court and the country is this: Get Democratic elites to recognize that GEORGE W BUSH IS NOT ON OUR SIDE. Bush is on the pro-fascism side.

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Republicans also just killed a program that provided a $30 discount on broadband bills for poor people because they're good faith populists who care about rural Americans or whatever

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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I once wrote a fact check of a Morgan Spurlock book. He included what he said was a direct quote from the FDA that aspartame causes cancer. I checked the footnote. An FDA newsletter did publish that claim — but *only to specifically refute it*. That’s basically how Barrett quotes Madison here.

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America’s founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper.

The Supreme Court Has Murdered the Constitutionprospect.org America’s founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper. Happy Fourth!

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a floof

That’s at least three tribbles worth of floof!

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if only there was a word for "displacing" an "entire population" of people using "military ground operations"

Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military last week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ground operation, the latest UN figures show.

Almost entire population in Gaza now displaced amid fresh Israeli offensive | CNNwww.cnn.com Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military this week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ...

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Did you know that Trayvon Martin was interested in aviation & space? Working in the aviation industry? That he had his own flight suit from NASA? The Exhibit set to end/close in August, 2024 #AfroFuturism Go see it before it does

Trayvon Martin’s Flight Suit Will Be Displayed At This New Smithsonian Exhibit | Essencewww.essence.com

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Artificial scarcity is an existential part of the Republican Party. Convince the working classes they must fight each other for pieces of the needlessly-small pie, while the GOP gets busy cutting taxes & creating new subsidies for billionaires.

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This is super important work. And it looks like it's actually having an effect. Normal people learn about Project 2025 and are scared as shitless as they should be. The Nation, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Boston Review and others are doing the work that NYT and WaPo are neglecting.

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

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If they keep impoverished people, especially Black people, scrambling to keep themselves and children fed... then those people have to take what low wage jobs they can, be practically indentured in their work and have little time and energy to organize against them The cruelty IS the point.

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Mass murdering a captive civilian population will do that. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Gaza war a recruiting boon for terrorists, U.S. intelligence showswww.washingtonpost.com Anger at the United States over its role in Israel’s war in Gaza has galvanized terror groups globally, the State Department’s top intelligence official says.

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Conservatives: "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!" The Epstein Files: *name Donald Trump a bunch* Conservatives: "WAIT NO NOT LIKE THAT!"

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Italian prosecutors in Milan investigated how Dior is producing their handbags. They found that the workers were sleeping in the facility so bags could be produced around the clock. Consumers pay $2,780 per bag. The production of the bags costs Dior $57. Ht: @maxroser.bsky.social

Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bagwww.businessinsider.com In recent months, Italian authorities raided Dior subcontractor workshops where people were working around the clock, they said.

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J. Clark

•commanding the faithful that, if their family rejects joining the faith community and surrendering to its leader, to choose the faith community and the leader over their families

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•instructing the faithful to sell all their possessions and rely on the faith community for material support •a culture of militant opposition to the world outside the faith community

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Behavior associated with abusive New Religious Movements performed by Jesus in the gospels: •claiming exclusive access to necessary spiritual knowledge •preaching the imminent destruction of the world, and promising that the faithful and ONLY the faithful will be spared

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Co-signed. This is probably my most Accidentally Edgy opinion.

This Sunday, I’d just like to remind everyone that it’s perfectly valid to not think Jesus was a great moral teacher. In fact it’s perfectly valid to find him a manipulative, distasteful, and unlikable literary character www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/lets-face-...

Let's Face it, Some of Jesus's Teachings are Harmfulwww.bugbeardispatch.com Breaking the Taboo on Exposing the Dark Side of the Gospels

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Kameron Hurley

Instead of tackling climate change when it could have done more good, we got Enron. TAX BILLIONAIRES!