Shrubber

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If you need some info on Project 2025, and who is pushing it: www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

Meet the group behind Trump's fascist 2025 agendawww.dailykos.com The large red fingerprints of the Heritage Foundation seem to be everywhere in the news. The group authored Project 2025 , which would empty the federal government, populate it with MAGA loyalists, .....

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

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More trains please.

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universal basic electricity minimum for every human on the planet before AI gets another milliwatt.

Millions in Nigeria have little to no electricity. It's straining businesses and public services

Millions in Nigeria have little to no electricity. It's straining businesses and public servicesapnews.com The lack of reliable electricity severely affects education and businesses in Nigeria. Schools like Excellent Moral in Ibadan, near Lagos, operate in darkness due to zero grid access, depriving students of essential tools like computers.

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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Ochlophobist [OK-luh-FOH-bist] (n.) - One suffering an irrational fear, or a strong dislike of sizable crowds. From Greek “okhlos” (crowd, mob) + “phobos” (fearing) - 1867

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The absolutely wild thing is: This goes for ALL social aid. Just *giving people some fucking money,* literally going "OK, how much did you need?", cutting checks, and waving them out the door? COSTS LESS and HAS BETTER OUTCOMES than the current system's bureaucracy and means testing, EVERY TIME.

With alt-text because THIS IS LITERALLY EVERYONE’S EXPERIENCE & I FUCKING HATE IT. Being disabled is a godsdamn full time job battling different agencies all damn day. #NEISvoid

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Gonna be a lot of dunking on this today, so as someone who wrote his dissertation on secession movements, let me point out: 1. This is not a majoritarian mvmt. Like 1861 secession in TX, it's a minority coup 2. It looks majoritarian bc of gerrymandering and disfranchisement (1/2)

Texas Secessionsts win GOP backing for independence vote: 'Major step'www.newsweek.com The state GOP has backed a referendum on leaving the American Union in its 2024 legislative platform.

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Exactly

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Now this is a #pride flag I can get behind. 😉

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Cops shouldn't be in schools. I don't understand how that's even controversial.

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I fucking LOVE John Cuneo. This is his cover. That is all.

Next week’s cover of The New Yorker just dropped.

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*as patiently as possible* Guys can we all agree that venues need to cover PayPal fees? If my contract says $100, I should get $100, not $95. My accountant asks for receipts and I do not want him to bust my chops next year. Please do not make writers pay fees out of their payment! 😭

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With good morning greets today, a lovely 256-colour VGA rendition from the 1995 Discworld game of the great A'Tuin, Disc-bearing turtle of the cosmos. Discworld is one of my favourite things, so I lapped up this game. Unlikely I ever completed it back then thanks to its mooniest of moon logic.

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Protestors should debate the boot on their face in the marketplace of ideas. Until Congress declares debate to be a form of hate speech. brianmcfadden.org/2024/04/26/a...

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Police characterizing the faculty as "aggressive" in their non-movement with their hands restrained really feels like a whole lot of a tell about how police do their usual brutality too.

Lol to nobody’s surprise, the police really don’t know shit about the bond and duty of care faculty feel for their students. This is what protect and serve actually looks like.

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We should bring some of these back.

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On Confederate Surrender Day it’s important to reiterate that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist and disqualified from holding office! So is Senator Ron Johnson, and a bunch of House Republicans. Remember forever!

Folks, if you really want a viable 3rd party, vote that way in local and school board elections, not the presidential. Ralph Nader gave us GWB. Jill Stein gave us (and Putin) DJT. Please learn from that. RFK and his patrones are trying to get DJT in power. Full stop.

CNN: RFK Jr.’s New York state director says her ‘No. 1 priority’ is preventing a Biden victory www.cnn.com/2024/04/08/p...

RFK Jr.’s New York state director says her ‘No. 1 priority’ is preventing a Biden victory | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com A New York-based campaign official for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pitching Republican voters to support his independent presidential bid by arguing that Kennedy will help Donald Trump defeat Joe Biden i...

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i tried to take some pix of how weird the light got right before totality, this is probably the closest

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i saw this flare!!!

The fact that I could catch a friggin' solar eruption with this... I'm just... Damn. 250mm focal length with my canon dSLR, unworked and unrefined picture.

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people got this idea because the debate-me assholes pushed it relentlessly. there’s a reason i never turned comments on in the old blog days.

too many people got this idea into their head that being an ethical and open minded person on the internet means letting a bunch of remorseless blithering assholes screech at you whenever they want

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He is risen! Punch him down, separate him into two equal parts, place into two greased loaf pans, cover, and let him rise again for 45 minutes.

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Much love and solidarity on Transgender Day of Visibility! In this time of trans moral panic and fascist reaction, it's vital we all stand together to say, "Yes, trans people belong here and deserve to thrive, and no, we will not budge one inch for your bullshit."

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Heads up: A phishing attack is targeting Apple users with password reset notifications/text messages. When that doesn’t work, they’re calling some victims claiming to be from Apple. If you get a push notification, don’t allow. Don’t click links. Don’t answer unknown phone numbers.

Warning: Apple Users Targeted in Advanced Phishing Attack Involving Password Reset Requestswww.macrumors.com Phishing attacks taking advantage of what appears to be a bug in Apple's password reset feature have become increasingly common, according to a...

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"CNN dropped an interview Monday night that, in normal times, would spell a death knell for a presidential bid: a former employee explaining how he inadvertently helped his boss, the presumptive GOP nominee, advance one of his numerous criminal schemes." -- @snipy.bsky.social

"Trump Employee 5" details Trump's mob-like management stylewww.publicnotice.co Brian Butler dishes to CNN and reminds us why his former boss should be nowhere near the presidency.

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Hi. Why are no major U.S. news organizations covering this story about how it sure as fuck looks like Boeing murdered a whistleblower? www.bbc.com/news/busines...

Boeing whistleblower found dead in USwww.bbc.com Prior to his death, whistleblower John Barnett was testifying against Boeing over concerns about standards.