brian j. white

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kit kat enthusiast. former journalist, always editor. founder of Fireside Fiction Company. he/him

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happy 4th of july/tories wipeout day everyone

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This but unironically.

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Banning medical debt from credit reports. Cracking down on junk fees. Banning non-competes. Capping credit card fees. Negotiating drug prices. Expanding OT pay. These Biden policies don't make headlines, but this is what it looks like when government works for the people.

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Prison rape jokes are a part of rape culture. Making “don’t drop the soap” and “become someone’s bitch” jokes means you think rape is okay if it happens to certain people.

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July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)

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I’M IN HELL

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Donald Trump called Biden a manchurian candidate and said Israel should "finish the job" and nobody is calling for him to step down and it's making me feel fucking crazy. It's people are saying this shit at this point just because they *can* influence the democratic party.

Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

taking food right out of ghosts’ mouths

Earlier this week, AI company ElevenLabs said it is bringing digitally produced celebrity voice-overs of deceased actors to its newly launched Reader app. The company said the app takes articles, PDF, ePub, newsletters, e-books or any other text on your phone and turns it into voice-overs.

AI resurrects deceased actors’ voices to read audiobooks | CNN Businesscnn.it Actress Judy Garland never recorded her voice to read an audiobook of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but you’ll soon be able to hear her rendition of the children’s novel that inspired the movie nonethel...

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A classic, classic thread. It doesn't get a lot better, honestly. h/t @ladyhistorian.bsky.social

When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.

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I see the NYT has changed little since its fawning reports on Hitler. No really. Their ability to toady up toward fascism is buried deep, deep within the organization's predilections. They have amazing individual reporters, but the fish has always rotted from the head: www.vox.com/2015/2/11/80...

The first four featured NYT opinion pieces and news articles today are about why Biden should drop out

The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is absolutely stunningwww.vox.com Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...

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Oh wow, I should have anticipated where this thread was going but I didn't 🧪

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A very good point. Ban The Box bantheboxcampaign.org

Kerry Washington Says If Trump Can Run as a Convicted Felon, Job Applicants Shouldn't Have to Disclose If They're a Felon

Kerry Washington Says If Trump Can Run as a Convicted Felon, Job Applicants Shouldn't Have to Disclose If They're a Felonwww.complex.com Trump was found guilty on all 34 charges in his hush money trial earlier this year.

Ban The Boxbantheboxcampaign.org

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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.

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One of those headlines that you see on a weathered newspaper before the camera pans out to reveal an apocalyptic wasteland

real asshole right here www.bangordailynews.com/2024/07/02/o...

Donald Trump is going to win the election and democracy will be just finewww.bangordailynews.com “Democrats’ post-debate hand-wringing is based on the idea that a Trump victory is not just a political loss, but a unique threat to our democracy. I reject the premise.”

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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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(Kermit) why are there so many Shows about murder

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Wait, kids… aren’t allowed in libraries anymore in Idaho???

This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

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the conservative theory of law in one headline

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I don't actually think the DNC is all that responsible for Clinton or Biden being the nominee. Primary voters genuinely thought they were the strongest candidate to beat Trump!

I don’t know if we should be looking at this from a “luck” standpoint. There were, and are, plenty of candidates that would crush Trump. These are DNC decisions that are…questionable at best being generous to them.

Order the Beltway cleared and then take the Corvette out for laps at 120mph

what crimes would you do if you were Joe Biden this morning I think I would hold up a bank while wearing a Joe Biden mask and then remove it to reveal it is also Joe Biden under the mask

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Totes appropes

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Oh boy, $150,000!

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough

The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

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I think this is the fundamental asymmetry underlying every aspect of the conflict between the parties; you see it in the Senate, in gerrymandering, in the use of executive power I don't want King Biden either, but it's long past time to make the GOP afraid of the consequences of endless escalation

I honestly believe that a lot of conservative strategizing is based on the correct assumptions that liberals would never be as ruthless as they are.

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apparently presidents can have immunity to everything but COVID

meats

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"is my side of the boat up or down tho"

If you’re keeping track of the United States, today is the day the boat cracks in half and half of it points up towards the sky.

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The Jan 6 coup is looking more and more like the civil war: deeply treasonous and based on evil, but far more successful than the initial results would lead you to believe.