Todd

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Just hoping that, when a decision is made, the headline will read "Trump Names his Number Two."

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I do not pretend to know how French elections work or what this means for the next couple of years but there's a fash crying on the telly and that'll do, France, that'll do.

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Can I do stuff and get away with it now, if I say i was acting in my official capacity?

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Gonna need everything to stop rapidly intensifying please.

Rapid intensification is defined as when a storm’s winds jump by at least 35 mph in 24 hours. Hurricane Beryl’s winds exploded by 63 mph in 24 hours. This hurricane is unprecedented in location and time of year and it's still growing 🧪 by @andreatweather.bsky.social

Why Hurricane Beryl Underwent Unprecedented Rapid Intensificationwww.scientificamerican.com Hurricane Beryl exploded in strength from a tropical depression to a Category 4 major hurricane unusually early in its development in part because of exceptionally warm ocean waters

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Rumor is that their floating Manchin/Hogan as the compromise ticket. Sources say Trump is sitting down with Melania tonight to discuss their next move.

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Continue to be bemused by the confident assertion from many media outlets and assorted elites that the way to preserve democracy is for the elites to get together and overrule democratic process

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I spoke to Gio Reyna about maturing and our prodigy culture and making your teenaged mistakes in the public eye. My profile for The Ringer on a player whose Gio Moments the USMNT will need to thrive in Copa América this summer. www.theringer.com/soccer/2024/...

Gio Reyna Is Growing Up and Ready to Seize His Copa América Chancewww.theringer.com After a stunted few years defined by injury and scandal, the prodigious USMNT playmaker is primed to star for the national team and reinvent his club career. "I’m looking forward to getting back out t...

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I wrote about Elon Musk's commitment to free speech being so strong that he removed a bunch of tweets that exposed Ted Cruz's funder briefing book. www.techdirt.com/2024/06/21/f...

Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Removes Tweets Revealing Ted Cruz Fundraising Noteswww.techdirt.com If ExTwitter is the bastion of free speech, you would think that it would allow for the publishing of newsworthy documents revealing a politician’s funding briefings, right? Apparently not wh…

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One might wonder—where would he get such an idea? What led an off-duty security guard to deputize himself to murder a random teenager? Good rhetorical questions! Let's talk about the so-called "supreme" court, bump stocks, and other cruel luxuries. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/cruel-luxuri...

Cruel Luxurieswww.the-reframe.com Those who insist that we all as a society pay the cost of a serious problem they are creating, just so that they can imagine themselves to be the solution. Things we could never afford and should stop...

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This is an excellent bit of writing from a student journalist at Columbia U that gets at the dangers of the job and why journalists do what they do.

Why Did I Sleep On The Turf? | Defectordefector.com COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY — I started this month by waking up in a field of turf. I had spent the entire night sleeping rigidly on the ground—a decision I had made with a mind completely clear and sober. It...

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gee that sounds familiar

🚨 @meharris.bsky.social got thousands of internal emails, designs, and other documents from OceanGate, the company behind the doomed Titan sub that imploded last year. www.wired.com/story/titan-...

The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imaginedwww.wired.com A year after OceanGate’s sub imploded, thousands of leaked documents and interviews with ex-employees reveal how the company’s CEO cut corners, ignored warnings, and lied in his fatal quest to reach t...

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It’s hilarious Republicans spent the week arguing Alito’s flags are irrelevant and don’t mean anything and then the second a jury finds Trump guilty they all fly flags meaning exactly what they said Alito’s didn’t

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The timeline right now looks like an Ewok party after the Death Star exploded

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A modest proposal.

New reality show - The Guillotine. Twelve billionaires are forced to live in one house with no outside assistance. Every week, they have to put in a full 40 hours in a service industry. The one who does best that week gets to leave. Last one left demonstrates why the show’s called what it is.

Oddly, it seems that quality content and engagement have - increased - here since Jack's public unfriending of the platform?

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Ok, that's punny!

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but i was told the universities were trying to stop antisemitism on campus

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I am trying Mr. Box.

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Violence and bloodshed on college campuses, directed by local police and national guard troops against students and non-student protestors, would be hugely popular with the base of many politicians — that is to say, with many of our fellow Americans. Have a nice day.

This is how you respond to a peaceful protest if you're hoping for bloodshed

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This is also the view the students had out the windows of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.

A hell of a photo by Lily Kepner of the Austin American-Statesman

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The day after the Kent State shootings in 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58 percent of respondents placed blame for the students' deaths on the protesters, while just 11 percent blamed the National Guardsmen who shot them.

Not gonna lie, I feel kind of stupid only just now realizing that the unquestioned historical legacy of Kent State I grew up knowing had to have taken a decade to solidify and that at the time most people, or at least most of the establishment, probably thought those little bastards had it coming

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Cargo ship Dali lost power and from there it was only a matter of time before it destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge. We hadn't built the bridge for collisions of this type, we're learning. You'd think we would have—it's critical infrastructure. www.the-reframe.com/blame-manage...

The Thing That's Comingwww.the-reframe.com An anti-fascist coalition of various factions assigns blame ahead of time for a coming calamity. A series about the election. Differentiators: Part 2.

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I'll say it again: the stock market is not "the economy," it's a mood ring for the plutocracy.

I don't know how to express how *this* is the economy we all care about. We don't care that corporate profits are up or whatever the stock market is doing. We care that food is becoming more and more unaffordable.

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One of the ugliest features of Trump-MAGA politics is the use of disasters to spread conspiracy theories, invent new culture-war obsessions, and pit one region of the country against another. We're seeing that now with the Baltimore horror. 1/ Link: newrepublic.com/article/1802...

MAGA’s Ugly, Hateful Response to Bridge Horror Is About to Get Worsenewrepublic.com If they can try to turn the tragic Baltimore bridge collapse into a culture war, they’ll go anywhere—hurting their own people in the process.

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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott: "What they mean by DEI in my opinion is duly elected incumbent. We know what they want to say, but they don’t have the courage to say the N-word." www.mediaite.com/tv/they-dont...

‘They Don’t Have the Courage to Say the N-Word’: Baltimore Mayor Rips Those Who Called Him a ‘DEI Mayor’www.mediaite.com Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott accused critics of not having

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"The workers on that bridge had no idea they were about to meet their deaths...you can hear the desperation in one of the voices on the dispatch call saying, 'Is someone going to tell the workers?' And no one did." This episode gets very emotional. Lots of ranting on both sides.

Little by little, we're learning more about the immigrant workers who died on the Baltimore bridge filling potholes at night, and it's unbearable. Today's pod digs into who they were and what immigrants face in the US. Guest Maximillian Alvarez gets very intense👇 newrepublic.com/article/1802...

Horror in Baltimore: Awful New Info Emerges About Six Missing Workersnewrepublic.com Two full days after the disastrous collapse of a bridge in Baltimore, little is known about six construction workers who went missing—and are now presumed dead.