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god that other place sucked

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Bah. the post I was responding to was deleted as I posted... But the point stands. The fact that a bunch of "antitrust reformers" have been absolutely happy to cozy up with authoritarians solely because they both "hate big tech" has been pretty annoying.

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Amy A

The sequel was pretty dope too. Cats bee or something.

Calcio Storico is a thing that exists. That is all.

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In his final year as governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper has directed state agencies to improve reentry services and fix a broken system that failed me and thousands of others released from prison into homelessness each year. NEW in Bolts:

On His Way Out, North Carolina Governor Expands Support for People Leaving Prisonboltsmag.org An executive order directs state agencies to improve reentry services and fix a broken system that failed me and thousands of others released from prison into homelessness each year.

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Michael Tae Sweeney

"Our bottomless need for 'narrative' wants Trump to project unity, all evidence to the contrary. But what if?"

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But he didn't know what sparkling water was. You know, folksy.

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Fyi to journalists: Hillbilly Elegy is not about the brave nobility of rural poor/working class people. It’s deeply insulting to rural poor people - presenting them as lazy addicts who rely on welfare instead of working. The book is about how amazing Vance was to escape that backwards culture.

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again, the press' failure in this moment is so severe, profound, and widespread that it almost doesn't feel real

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e.w. niedermeyer

Too late. Seeing these ICE cybertrucks everywhere.

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Karl Bode

the GOP wanted to scare tech giants away from moderating racist right wing propaganda online, so they put on this little pseudo-populist stage play pretending they cared about antitrust reform and holding corporations accountable and huge swaths of the press bought it hook, line, and sinker

One More Time With Feeling: The GOP Never Seriously Supported ‘Antitrust Reform’ Or Monopoly Bustingwww.techdirt.com For the last few years, press and policy circles were absolutely dominated by talk about how there was an amazing “new, bipartisan coalition” of folks interested in “reining in ‘Big Tech&#821…

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This week's newsletter: It's time to call BS on generative AI and demand that companies like OpenAI actually provide useful, helpful software, and actively reject the growing coterie of hucksters using AI as a marketing tool to get media headlines. www.wheresyoured.at/put-up-or-sh...

Put Up Or Shut Upwww.wheresyoured.at I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance I've ever seen — more so than the metaverse, even — as company after company simply lies about their in...

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Mike Masnick

It helps mitigate, but doesn't address the crux of the issue which is what happens when nakedly partisan or corrupt actors get put in place, something Republicans have gone to great lengths to establish a feeder apparatus to achieve.

I agree with expansion, but it must come with enforceable ethics oversight, a realistically achievable removal mechanism, and, imo, term limits. You have to make the juice not worth the squeeze for people who want to capture the court.

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J.D. Vance is a nightmare for moms. New from me in MomLeft (a new newsletter for moms on the left): www.momleft.com/p/jd-vance-i...

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"It starts with misogyny." I spoke with Elle Reeve about her new book "Black Pill," how the far right recruits young people, and how adults can intervene: www.momleft.com/p/it-starts-...

'It Starts With Misogyny': A Q&A with Elle Reevewww.momleft.com The author of the new book "Black Pill" discusses the far right, youth radicalization and how adults can intervene.

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They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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This is personal. While my mom's behavior could have resulted in an annulment, my dad would have had to admit something that still carries a lot of stigma, disbelief, and derision. No-fault divorce benefits men, too. Violent marriages benefit no one.

I know we know about JD Vance, but he's also working to make divorces harder to obtain, and says that people in "violent" marriages should stay married and not get divorced. So.

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RNC breaks record for # of people dancing to different beats all at once

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"Had some pretty aggressive diarrhea." defector.com/i-drank-ever...

I Drank Every Flavor Of Red Bull In A Row To See If It Would Give Me Wings | Defectordefector.com At 7:43 a.m. I crack open a can of Red Bull, original flavor. The O.G. Ol’ faithful. Big red. Lil’, uh, canny. Despite being by a significant margin the most popular energy drink in the United States ...

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One more time, in honor of JD Vance, who is a legitimate fascist: inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!inthesetimes.com At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise.

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Marisa Kabas

wage workers

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It is comically irresponsible how the news media claims Trump is a "changed man" and "somber" and "serene" and "adopting a new tone"

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So, not applicable. Unless your salary is under a certain threshold and you live in certain states, you weren't eligible for overtime pay, which is what this is about about.

If you, as a non-exempt employee negotiate with your employer to work above 40 hours in a week in exchange for time off at a later date that is a separate and distinct issue from being owed 1.5 pay for hours above 40 in the week worked. Not paying it is wage theft whether the employee agrees or not.

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Tom

Do they work 60 hours in a week and then choose to have 20 hours rolled into the following week where they only work 20 so they only get paid? Cause that's what the proposal is about, a shell game with owed overtime pay, not a negotiation of working hours which you can already do.

*only get paid two 40s instead of 60 normal and 20 overtime

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Rory Blank (on vacation)

Some people pay extra for that.

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The attempted assassination of Donald Trump does not erase the crimes that Trump himself has committed against American democracy, or the crimes he would commit if given the chance, and no one is obligated to pretend otherwise www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trumpwww.theatlantic.com This crime does not erase what the former president has done, or what he has promised to do.

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Reupping this today:

I’ve made a lot of jokes about the J.D. Vance sparkling water story from Hillbilly Elegy, to the extent that it probably sounds made up, but you owe it to yourself to read the real thing if you haven’t

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if you’re trying to engage with politically disconnected people about project 2025, identify a specific part that you think will resonate with them. i just told my friend who’s a public school teacher about the plan to abolish the department of education and that got her hooked.