Scone Mason

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Writer, guitar player, thinker, wanker, you decide. Los Angeles

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Okay, this actually made me laugh. Better than my standard "non-dairy creamer"...

1) your for-profit prison system depends on getting paid by the govt per head of inmates. 2) one of your biggest income streams is cannabis arrests, which are disproportionately black people. 3)cannabis is legalized in many places and thousands of sentences are commuted, emptying prisons /1

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At a Turning Point Action conference in Detroit, 8,000 people packed into a convention hall to hear from Donald Trump. But first, there was a word from a sponsor: Alexander Spellane, a precious metals salesman being sued by federal regulators for fraud. nyti.ms/3XyWu49

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Just saw the weirdest Starbucks commercial for bottled Frappuccino that says it tastes like a hug from you nana. Have they met that woman? She was all bones and opinions, I don't want to drink her side eye judgement wrapped in a Argyll sweater

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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it

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No matter how you dice it, these guys spend an awful lot of time thinking about screwing children

Earlier this week, I expressed skepticism that Trump-loving evangelical leader Robert Morris was actually sorry about molesting a 12-year-old. His story of "redemption" reeked of lies, starting with his unwillingness to turn himself over to police. www.salon.com/2024/06/18/a...

Another evangelical abuse scandal: They back Trump because they tolerate thiswww.salon.com Robert Morris, one of Trump's religious advisers, admits to "inappropriate" behavior — his reported victim was 12

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Free article

Opinion | Freedom’s Just Another Word for Not Paying Taxeswww.nytimes.com Why America’s oligarchs are rallying around Trump.

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Civil War historian here when you fly the Confederate flag in your political rallies in 2024 you are announcing that you are a traitor to the American republic and uphold human bondage. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

Kari Lake gave Senate campaign speech in front of a Confederate flagwww.azcentral.com The optics of a Confederate flag behind Lake on the Arizona campaign trail can only hamper her efforts to appeal to moderates.

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Matt Novak

One of the eeriest anecdotes from January 6 is many of the lawmakers commented how their interns just snapped into their school shooting training. They’re the generation who’ve gone through it their entire lives

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There is a spectrum to humanity, and the Federalist is at one end while Dolly is way, way off to the other. These small-minded bigots don't deserve a single molecule of air, while Dolly deserves the highest praise we can possibly heap upon her.

they came for Dolly. we ride at dawn.

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Libraries are one of the most radical social institutions we have, because they’re based on the idea that *everyone* has the right to information, for free. It’s also what makes them crucial to democracy. I will never stop yelling about this!

Poor people use libraries. Rich people shut them down because they don't *want* poor people to read.

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It’s been more than a week since Donald Trump echoed his 2016 public request for Vladimir Putin’s help in winning a presidential election, and the press remains determined to ignore it.

How Trump hides the worst scandal in U.S. history in plain sighti-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io The power of repetition and the price of normalizing betrayal. It’s been more than a week since Donald Trump echoed his 2016 public request for Vladimir Putin’s help in winning a presidential electio...

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2016: FUCK YOUR FEELINGS 2017: YOU LOST GET OVER IT 2018: DRINKING UR LIBERAL TEARS 2019: FOUR MORE YEARS BITCHES 2020: STOP THE COUNT 2021: WATER THE TREE OF LIBERTY 2022: BURN GROOMER BOOKS! 2023: DEATH TO ALL LIB BABYKILLERS 2024: I, a victim, am being shunned for my conservative beliefs

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Low level government employee: fuck, they’re gonna figure out I accepted this free chicken wing Alito: today I put strobe lights on my confederate flag

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Breaking News: The city of Uvalde, Texas, reached a $2 million settlement with families of children shot in a 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary School. nyti.ms/4bLxTwO

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Breaking News: Fani Willis, the lead prosecutor in Donald Trump’s criminal case in Georgia, won the Democratic primary for Fulton County district attorney.

Election Updates: Fani Willis and the judge in Trump’s Georgia election case win their races.www.nytimes.com

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Seth D. Michaels

This line by Douglas Kelley, the chief psychiatrist at Nuremberg during the trials, and interviewer of folks like Goering, has stuck with me ever since I read it.

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Honestly, letting private equity work its destructive magic on an NFL team might be the best way to show the country how malevolent it is

lmao it's over

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Jesus. I didn't realize that the Texas pardon board waived its own requirements in order to give Abbott his pardon of Daniel Perry. Also, if there is another example of a Texas governor pardoning someone for murder, I haven't been able to find it.

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People who were repeatedly vaccinated for COVID-19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and even some distantly related coronaviruses.

Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louismedicine.wustl.edu Response to updated vaccine is shaped by earlier vaccines yet generates broadly neutralizing antibodies

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Anna O Law

This was on Instagram and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.

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A university police officer said, “but he’s going to medical school next year…” when I asked them to contact the NYPD after my sexual assault workup detected rohypnol. So anyways, my rapist is an ER doctor in Maine now.

These universities will call in riot police to respond to peaceful protests, but their response to the widespread nature of rape on campus is to try to (a) ignore it or (b) bury any ask for redress in process.

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Soldiers aren’t allowed to use tear gas in a war zone, because that would be a war crime.

NYPD has started tear gassing inside Hamilton Hall at Columbia, per student radio WKCR

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Crooked Emily

One great effect of this might be in allowing dispensaries to accept credit cards instead of the current cash only model. That cash only model opens the door to abuses and robberies which endanger the people working there.

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happy earth day! fuck off mars, you piece of shit!!!

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working in the area of math that led to this tech has been so fucking wild because there's just no way you can trick yourself into believing a lot of linear algebra is going to add up to consciousness unless you have been marinating in the bad brain juices for decades now

I cannot overstate how important it is to understand that these guys are into AI because they’re in a literal eschatological cult

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Oh so Mitch is DYING dying

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racism is so deeply embedded in America that the Republican response to a brilliant, moderate, technocratic black man becoming President was to build a cult of personality around the single worst white man in the country and attempt to make him dictator for life

you could even look at everything coming out of the right since 2016 as an effort to prevent an obama from ever happening again

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Foreign oligarch giving money to Trumps election expecting future favors : illegal Foreign oligarch buying 50 million shares of truth social for Trump to cash out, expecting future favors : free market

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So on CNN, they are discussing the moral quandary of hiring Ronna McDaniel at NBC News... with CNN Contributor Hugh Hewitt.