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Gen-X Toronto/Canada
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This is how they did it last time.

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there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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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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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Unique, twisting dust lanes are prominent in this Hubble image—an edge-on view of lenticular galaxy NGC 4753. That dust likely was pulled in during a merger with a dwarf galaxy more than 1 billion years ago. Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Kelsey. 🔭 🧪

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From the writer who told you Martha-Ann Alito was the life of the party

what

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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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Pretty fucking telling, IMO, that the terfs aren’t celebrating a win here because they’re actually all far-right dipshits who pretend they MIGHT vote Labour but never will. Hope the party stops courting their vote now.

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lol. lmao even

This is the tradcath weirdo whom the @nytimes.com is publishing to tell you not to vote. You should not listen to him. Instead, you should shove his ass into a locker and burn the entire campus containing said locker to the ground. (The campus is Hillsdale)

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Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

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CNN fact checked whether I in fact caught walleye while wearing a specific hat more thoroughly than the NYT checked whether the “I dont vote” guy actually voted.

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@marisakabas.bsky.social uncovers the Kristi Noem to RFK Jr. pipeline.

it’s a gift www.thehandbasket.co/p/kamala-har...

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twitter does provide a useful metaphor for an idiot king busting in to an existing community, which continues to sort of function but in far shittier and clunkier ways

it's weird kind of seeing how twitter was a sort of play microcosm of what happens when a king comes in and ruins everything thinking that he's infallible. it's technically still serviceable, but a lot of it is so much worse

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The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it right. x.com/adambonin/st...

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Do you remember literally anything about how Michelle Obama was treated when she was a live political figure and not just a warm memory of a better time?

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Never mind I figured it out

Happy pride. Who's "chapel roam"

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Kind of wild how Republicans being in every way worse than Democrats has caused many of us to create a literal double standard where they ignore evil by Republicans, from whom they expect it, but not from Democrats, who are expected to be better, and then decide they're the same so why bother voting

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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Voters: they’re mysterious!

1.5%? We’re doing all this over 1.5%?

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A true artist and a truly sweet man. RIP, MM.

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People think fighting nazis looks like an imagined WW2 gunfight, and not telling their relative or buddy or coworker or *boss* to knock it the fuck off or else. They won't tell their racist boss to shut the fuck up, but think they'll be throwing bricks.

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SWV: Tiny Desk Concertyoutu.be We conclude 2024’s Black Music Month celebration at the Tiny Desk with the catalyst for the all-female lineup. #nprmusic #tinydesk #swv

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LMAO

BREAKING: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says she is discussing a mask ban for protests with the City Attorney. Source: youtu.be/5R6krNYXnZI?...

Los Angeles’s Mayor Was Contemplating a Mask Ban. She Just Got Covid.newrepublic.com Karen Bass floated banning masks for protesters days before coming down with Covid-19.

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Thoroughly enjoying one of my favourites, Mr David Tennant, being extremely relaxed about saying things which are true.

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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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I've volunteered for political campaigns for literally 40 years. And one thing that's always helped when things look bleak is the knowledge that there is ALWAYS something practical you can do to help make things better -- whether through electoral politics or other kinds of service. For example...