Steeny-bo-beenie

Let me be clear. In my opinion, John Roberts has joined Roger Taney (Dred Scott - slavery) as a Chief Justice who will be remembered as an evil man. Not just wrong, but worthy of eternal condemnation for trying to destroy the Republic.

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Just need to say out loud & plain that I hate that the values of our society are so completely fucked & the power of the administrative state so completely diminished that these companies can just steal from us & run roughshod over our Actual needs, & we have damn near no fucking recourse. I HATE it

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H5N1: U.S. dairy cows may be the 'tip of the iceberg' as bird flu spreads in mammals globally. Cases in cows may foreshadow mammal-to-mammal spread. Recent die-offs of thousands of elephant seals & sea lions in So. America also raise concerns about mammal-to-mammal spread phys.org/news/2024-05...

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In honour of my husband finally finding the necessary cables to fire up the N64, finally allowing us to play Mortal Kombat 4 on date night again, here's "finish him" (lit. "impose death upon him") in Middle Egyptian.

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I hope people understand that what we are seeing is the systematic destruction of the civil war amendments by the Supreme Court, which are what made America and actual democracy and upon which all minority rights in the United States rely

Let's do this everywhere, all the time. F E D E R A L L Y

The Massachusetts "millionaires tax" has vastly surpassed projections, bringing in more than $1.8 billion in revenue so far this fiscal year — with the prospect of a surplus of hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on transportation and education

State’s ‘millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year, blowing past state projections - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com The estimated haul is already $800 million more than what Governor Maura Healey and state lawmakers planned to spend from its revenue in fiscal year 2024.

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Courtney Milan

The thing that makes Donald Trump a criminal is his criminal behavior.

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"Police don’t solve serious or violent crimes w/any regularity, & spend very little time on crime control." They spend more "time conducting racially biased stops & searches of minority drivers, often wo reasonable suspicion, rather than 'fighting crime.'" www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the datawww.reuters.com A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives.

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"After taking office & examining 100s of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found—and didn’t find. The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist. Children were not being sexualized & she could find no examples" of CRT. Former allies started threatening her.

A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrina…www.texastribune.org Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on. Her defiance has brought her backlash.

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Paul Frazee

I don't normally comment on this stuff but I guess I've just hit my limit. I've been watching Jay make consistently strong strategic decisions under incredible pressure, and watching her get dogged by this 2nd rate nonsense is too much. That guy isn't the story. The fact Jay charted her own path is.

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Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch “Once you get troops on the streets, it’s only a matter of time before it goes bad. Some kid throws a stone, next minute there’s houses on fire and people getting killed.”

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

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Peter

just to clarify, when I ask for research from someone smart, I’m not looking for the opinions of someone dumb

Wow, this goes hard.

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Rose Against: [Re]Education Through Gaybor

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columbia university achieving the daring dream of a no-student no-faculty all administration university

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Worth pointing out that Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles away and the tech it's using was launched into space a week before the Atari 2600 came out. A private corporation would have written this thing off years ago. FUND NASA.

HOLY SHIT THEY FIXED VOYAGER I …!!! blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024...

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Government workers reprogrammed a 47-year-old computer with the memory of a Commodore64 and which is currently sitting 15.1 billion miles away despite a 22-hour time lag. Elon Musk, meanwhile, can’t make a pickup truck that can drive in the rain. Viva socialism. blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024...

NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth – Voyagerblogs.nasa.gov

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someone tell tech bros that computer code has been able to replicate and survive in the wild since 1988

oh cool, tech bros reinvented the computer worm

Anthropic CEO Says That by Next Year, AI Models Could Be Able to “Replicate and Survive in the Wild”futurism.com As AI seems to grow more powerful every day, the CEO of Anthropic is saying that soon, it might be self-sustaining and self-replicating.

The more I learn about the current state of various industries, the more I am certain that trust-busting is the way forward.

Fascinating Harper's article on Hollywood, streaming TV, antitrust laws and the Writers Strike. harpers.org/archive/2024...

The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessnerharpers.org Film and television writers face an existential threat

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"Your life should not be a museum." "Being alive is as special an occasion as it gets."

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Feels a little overshare-y, but fuck it: Eight years ago I had an excruciating IUD insertion. Today I had to get that IUD removed and replaced, and I somehow found a doctor willing to do it under sedation, and oh my god 10/10 it's a crime that this option is so hard to come by. It's a goddamn crime.

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I do not know all the details what is happening in the Mideast, and there is currently fuck-all I could do if I did—but what I DO know is that anyone who says it’s your fault for posting/not posting hard enough on social media is so far out of touch with reality that they can’t get there from here.

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how to switch timelines

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GOP: We want a government built on Biblical values. Dems: Woot! We're feeding the poor! GOP: Wait. Dems: Healing the sick up in this motherfucker! GOP: No, not like that. Dems: [Grabs the mic] ALL LOANS FORGIVEN AFTER SEVEN YEARS. GOP: oh no...