Wendel

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English instructor, politics junkie, nerd.

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Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

I forgot James Spader was in Stargate for a bit because I only think of him as Robert California nowadays. It's like I'm not acquainted with that young fella from Stargate.

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yo, I wrote a thing: "Republicans are running away from Project 2025. let’s make the bastards own it" — they can run, but they can’t hide. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

Republicans are running away from Project 2025. let’s make the bastards own itbit.ly they can run, but they can’t hide

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Cruel and ghoulish Republican governors of a dozen states – Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming – opted out of a program, leaving about 9.5 million students without food benefits in repressive summer heat.

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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France telling their fascists to fuck off.

Far right fails in France elections, leftist alliance on top: Exit pollwww.aljazeera.com The second round of France’s snap parliamentary election called by President Emmanuel Macron has drawn a high turnout.

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Read all about it 10 years ago in Marci McDonald's prophetic warning about Harper's CPC under new faces archive.org/details/arma...

globalnews.ca/news/1060459...

In groundbreaking move, Poilievre campaigns among evangelical Christians - National | Globalnews.caglobalnews.ca In three recent appearances at evangelical Christian churches, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre received blessings and made pitches for votes.

The Armageddon factor : the rise of Christian nationalism in Canada : McDonald, Marci : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivearchive.org 445 p. ; 23 cm

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This awful Biden situation could’ve been avoided if the US had simply stayed under British rule and gradually transitioned to being an independent parliamentary democracy like Canada

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Project 2025 was from the Chris Rufo school of fascist communications, where you discuss your evil schemes out loud, confident the "normies" are not paying enough attention to notice. But now it seems less politically engaged people are taking notice. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

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Massive study out of Japan and Korea revealed that "COVID-19 survivors were at significantly heightened risk of developing cognitive deficits, insomnia, encephalitis, and at least four other neuropsychiatric sequelae.” www.news-medical.net/news/2024062...

New study links COVID-19 to lasting neuropsychiatric issues, highlights vaccination benefitswww.news-medical.net COVID-19 survivors face significantly higher risks of developing neuropsychiatric conditions, but vaccination reduces these risks over time.

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The newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents have Donald Trump's name all over them. He had been secretly disguised as 'Doe 174.'www.businessinsider.com Former President Donald Trump may have fought to keep his name redacted in court documents before a judge ordered it unsealed.

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I know that 5,000 votes UK wide is too many but I do think you’ve got to say it’s very funny that the transphobes got fewer votes than the party that fields candidates called things like ‘Nick the Incredible Flying Brick’ and ‘Lord Psychobilly Tractor’. Eat shit, genital inspectors

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the Gaiman allegations are incredibly disappointing and I am so tired of famous men using their power and status to exploit young women like this

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"there's a huge amount of hype — but so far, the only companies making much actual revenue off AI are the ones selling the hardware it needs, like Nvidia." futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...

There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

Good news everyone! www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

Senior Labour figures acknowledge party’s stance on Gaza cost them seatswww.theguardian.com Wes Streeting, the health secretary, admits party suffered losses because of its position on the Middle East crisis

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

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This is why we shouldn’t put men on a pedalstool. I’m shocked to see so many people ignoring this. He is an active user on bluesky we have to be consistent. Believe all victims

Neil Gaiman denies sexual assault of two young womenwww.telegraph.co.uk The alleged victims claim the best-selling author engaged them in sadomasochistic acts and told them to call him ‘master’

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Since 2019 I've liked to remind you that we should work to break up not just ICE, but abolish the entire DHS. It's a post-9/11 reactionary agency that needs to be destroyed. www.cnn.com/2019/07/04/o...

It’s time to break up the Department of Homeland Security | CNNwww.cnn.com David Perry says the bigotry under investigation at the Border Patrol, the overreach at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the terrible conditions in border facilities show an DHS, it’s time to d...

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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Courtwww.theatlantic.com Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.

Great article on what the federal government, specifically, is doing to address the housing crisis in Canada. There is hope that in the future Canada will have denser, more affordable cities. www.businessinsider.com/canada-housi...

Canada's bold plan to make housing more affordable is showing signs of working — and could be a model for the USwww.businessinsider.com The Canadian federal government is finding new ways to pressure local governments to legalize denser housing to solve the country's home shortage.

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It's important to note that this single-post analysis above is entirely consistent with a much more comprehensive analysis by @ketanjoshi.co showing that changes in the X algorithm and moderation policies that began in Oct 2022 have massively favoured trolls and penalized climate scientists. See:

Musk is remaking Twitter into a climate denier sanctuaryketanjoshi.co I got some data that analyses how climate deniers have changed their audience size, relative to pro-climate accounts, on Musk's Twitter. It's....not good.

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“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

This is an excellent and extensively well-researched article. Highly recommended.

How to Fight Disinformation — Part I: Firehosingwww.truthorfiction.com A practical guide to battling common disinformation and other hybrid warfare tactics.

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How to Fight Disinformation — Part I: Firehosingwww.truthorfiction.com A practical guide to battling common disinformation and other hybrid warfare tactics.

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Disabled folks get treated like shit in every aspect of life & have to deal with that constantly. I wish more people understood that when disabled folks ask for the bare minimum in accessibility instead of responding with dismissiveness and apathy when asked for small accessibility changes.

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@baatl.mastod.one keeps falsely labelling @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social's posts as not having alt-text when they do have alt-text. Is there any way we can fix this?