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Our latest forum, led by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, is now live. Drawing on world-systems theorist Immanuel Wallerstein’s analysis of a “two-step” strategy to state politics, Táíwò argues that the defeat of fossil fuel is the first step to social justice: www.bostonreview.net/forum/climat...

Climate, State, and Utopia - Boston Reviewwww.bostonreview.net The defeat of fossil fuel interests is the first step to social justice.

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The thing that's telling and exasperating about the centrist "Biden must drop out" calls is that... this was their guy! They act like the left insisted on him! But Biden was the guy they were saying Democrats should instead rally around when it looked like we might pick Bernie!

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“There is still much work to be done. But if you ever stopped masking, there has rarely been a better time to start again. Mask up and show your solidarity. Eric Adams will hate it.” Thank you @reallandsend.bsky.social and @avierkant.bsky.social ❤️

Masks Are a Symbol of Solidarity. Don’t Let Democrats Take Them Away.www.thenation.com Mask bans are ostensibly about public safety. The result would be disastrous for public health—but it goes beyond that, too.

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fuck load up on your physical media if you can. torrent like a madman if you can't. streaming isn't coming to save the day. behave like you got a hot tip about plans to burn the Library of Alexandria.

Sony Group Corp. will reportedly cut around 250 jobs from its recordable media business' key manufacturing hub “It will also gradually cease production of optical disc storage media products, including Blu-ray discs, according to the sources”

Sony Group to cut 250 jobs from recordable media business' key hubmainichi.jp TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Sony Group Corp. will cut around 250 jobs from its recordable media business' key manufacturing hub in northeastern Japan and offer e

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Trump tells his rally crowd Chuck Schumer has “become a Palestinian.” Second time this week he’s used “Palestinian” to describe non-Palestinians he dislikes as if the word is a slur. I remain skeptical of the claim that Trump becoming president next year would improve the lives of Palestinians.

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Related: aggressive driving - slamming the accelerator, then slamming the brakes, weaving- is so so pointless and unsafe even if you aren't speeding

My contribution to the speeding discourse is: most speeding aside from long trip highway speeding saves people negligible time on their trips.

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Hmm.

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Awww, poor Keir, all that transphobia and she's still not going to back you. Let that be a lesson, don't try to appease bigots because they'll never be happy

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I have a rental car at the moment and the degree to which you can't do anything by touch and have to look - even at the fucking automatic gear shift - is driving me insane

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11k Cybertrucks recalled and the way you to get a service appointment is by entering a note in the Something Else option: www.tesla.com/support/reca...

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I absolutely do not see the value of prime ministerial debates. We only have them because David Cameron is a tiresome public schoolboy debate me type and he thought they’d be to his advantage in 2010, so bullied people into accepting the idea. (He then wimped out of them himself in 2015.)

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"Replace biden" was a perfectly good idea almost right up to the day ezra did his piece in february when it was too late for it to happen in any orderly fashion absent the fantasy of the nonexistent Dem Council Of Elders uncontroversially choosing someone

Why didn't this crowd start the dump biden movement in jan 2023 when there were reasonable scenarios

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Wild how nobody in the media ever seems to come back with the answer "he's no worse at it than he was two years ago when we were making Dishy Rishi posts and drawing him in a superman costume, it's just he's now fair game."

In which I attempt to answer the Great Question Of The Election: how is Rishi Sunak so bad at this? thecritic.co.uk/the-rise-and...

The rise and fall of Rishi | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk How is Rishi Sunak so bad at this? Having posed the question some months ago, it’s time to have a crack at answering it. The election campaign has left little dispute about his lack of political nous…

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That editor motherfucker, James Bennet, the brother of a senator so you know it’s all meritocracy, hired Bari Weiss as to write about the need for free speech, despite the fact that she made her name advocating for censorship of Pro-Palestinian voices at Columbia.

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Perfect example of how journalists like Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT launder far right anti-trans views into the NYT. She interviewed Dr. Hilary Cass and completely omitted the fact that she met with DeSantis appointees regarding their ban. When I challenged her on this, she claimed there was no error

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By the by, this mea culpa essay-writing model of deviance management is how fancy schools already deal with cheating. In that case its aim is to create an administrative process for ritual apology and fully defuse the risk that the faculty member might be tempted to just give the student an F.

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The Google-backed leader in robotaxis, with six figure sensor suites on each car and ten figure annual cash burn, still has this many problems. Meanwhile, capital markets believe Tesla is going to somehow do better with a couple hundred bucks in cameras and an already-lengthy body count.

Feds probe Waymo driverless cars hitting parked cars, drifting into trafficarstechnica.com Auto-safety regulator is investigating 22 reports of Waymo cars malfunctioning.

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Words used by reporters to describe candidates in this WP story: Trone: "gusto" Hogan: "formidable" Alsobrooks: "mother and former prosecutor" Alsobrooks just won the D primary by more than 10 points and will face R Hogan in the fall www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Angela Alsobrooks wins Maryland’s hotly contested U.S. Senate primarywww.washingtonpost.com Tension heightened ahead of decision day in a Democratic U.S. Senate primary race between Prince George’s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks and Rep. David Trone.

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Google built its reputation and massive fortune on search, which produced a list of relevant websites each time you entered a term. Now it's pivoting and will instead provide you with a seventh-grade book report on those websites

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BREAKING: Presidential appointee Lily Greenberg Call, who is Jewish, has resigned in protest of the Biden Administration’s refusal to help stop Israel’s assault on Gaza. “What is the point of having power," she says, "if you will not use it to stop crimes against humanity?”

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NYPD pleads with Mayor Adams for greater tolerance and understanding for doped-up thugs roaming city streets

NYPD union sues Adams administration over new ‘zero tolerance’ policy on steroid use among copswww.nydailynews.com The city’s largest cop union is suing Police Commissioner Edward Caban and Mayor Adams for implementing a new “zero tolerance” policy on NYPD officers using steroids or other perf…

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So, update from Irvine this morning: It sounds like the school's original assertion that there were "hundreds" of people barricaded in a building, was extremely exaggerated. So, 10+ police agencies were called out for "several protestors".

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Have not spoken to a single person at UCI who saw anything besides kids sitting around chanting. Some of that chanting moved into a lecture hall, when no classes were in session, at which point the Chancellor decided it was now a "violent protest" and called in the goon squads to knock heads.

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This photo of cops attacking student protesters at UC Irvine yesterday is fucking crazy. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) www.latimes.com/story/2024-0...

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outside agitators.

Exclusive: A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post.

Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats showwww.washingtonpost.com A WhatsApp chat started by some wealthy Americans after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack reveals their focus on New York Mayor Eric Adams and their work with Israeli officials to shape U.S. opinion of the Gaza...

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Is this what he meant

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They’ve half-rebooted this cycle. Dumped a bunch of money into California to beat Katie Porter (who was losing anyway) and are basically extorting Brown/Tester with the threat of huge ad buys if they don’t become Pro-Scam.

Consider an alternate timeline in which FTX didn’t collapse - the crypto goons had made great progress buying politicians, consultants, and substsack bros

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subtweet, i suppose, but i am confused by the people who think 'american protesters bad, tel aviv protesters good'