Bill Beers

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Professional GIS programmer, dilettante everything else.

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I feel like there are a lot of people who have forgotten what it was like during the Trump years to wake up every morning afraid to look at your phone and see what fresh atrocity happened since you went to sleep…

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one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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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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This is how you do it newrepublic.com/post/183493/...

Trump Tries, Fails to Distance Himself From Project 2025newrepublic.com It’s still his blueprint for governing, no matter what he says.

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Just consume one more piece of bad news. A wafer-thin piece of bad news. Go ahead, what could go wrong. It's wafer-thin.

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oh CROCKpots

“Several RFK Jr staffers fear the electromagnetic radiation from microwave ovens, complicating a volunteer potluck. (People were advised to bring crockpots.)” 😂 www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

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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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Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is

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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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There is no constitutional text that says presidents are immune from all criminal law. Nor was it the intent of the authors of the Constitution or any amendments. It is inconsistent with American precedent and tradition. They just made it up.

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Biggest campaign story ever: using a private email server that could hold top secrets but doesn’t and could be breached but wasn’t. Tiny story: stealing top secrets. Hiding them in a bathroom. Taking them to NJ. Showing them to foreigners. Meeting with foreign governments.

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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

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For the good of the country, Donald Trump should drop out the 2024 presidential race.

Donald Trump Should Drop Out | Washington Monthlywashingtonmonthly.com We’ve had months of calls for Joe Biden to drop out because of middling poll numbers. The grounds for a Trump withdrawal are far firmer.

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I wrote about Snyder v US, and how the Supreme Court yesterday legalized vast swaths of corruption for state and local officials of the kind that just happens to look a lot like their own personal conduct. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery | Moira Doneganwww.theguardian.com By sheer coincidence, this ruling concerns the sort of generous ‘gifts’ and ‘gratuities’ that justices have been known to accept

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I mean, shit. I worked on two video games in the mid-10s, as well as a related graphic novel, and both of them are forever wiped from the world because EA bought the game studio that made them and took them offline. Never again shall you see Midnight Star! youtu.be/XJhkYy_advA

For video games it can be the same. Much of the games pre 2010 are more or less lost with 90s and before having massive quantities being no longer available and on mediums that arent made to last. gamehistory.org/87percent/

87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundationgamehistory.org New study reveals most classic video games are completely unavailable

Midnight Star - Announcement Traileryoutu.be Check out the first trailer for Midnight Star. Visit all of our channels: Features & Reviews - http://www.youtube.com/user/gamespot Gameplay & Guides - http://www.youtube.com/user/gamespotgameplay Trailers - http://www.youtube.com/user/gamespottrailers Mobile Gaming - http://www.youtube.com/user/gamespotmobile Like - http://www.facebook.com/GameSpot Follow - http://www.twitter.com/GameSpot Stream Live - http://twitch.tv/GameSpot http://www.gamespot.com

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We are living through a major tech revolution but it has nothing to do with AI:

People said Greenpeace was nuts in 2009 to predict 921GW of installed solar by 2030. Last year there was 1,419GW. Cost dropped 95% from 2008-20 and it’s dropping faster. There will be vast amounts of cheap clean energy in the future; we just need to use it. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Sun Machineswww.economist.com Solar, an energy source that gets cheaper and cheaper, is going to be huge

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Excellent!

Excited to introduce a project I've been working on for a long time: a thorough comparison of Biden and Trump on the issues. "The stakes, not the odds," to borrow from Jay Rosen. The initial version has 6 topics, but I'll be adding more, as well as updating with new statements/policies. Gift link:

Where Joe Biden and Donald Trump Stand on the Issueswww.nytimes.com Here’s what President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump have done and want to do on abortion, democracy, the economy, immigration, Israel and Gaza, and Social Security and Medicare.

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NEW: Georgia's SB 63 tries to shut down charitable bail funds, turning Plaintiffs' charitable, religious, and expressive conduct into a crime. This is unconstitutional. We're suing, and asking the court to stop the law before it goes into effect on July 1. www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/our-wor...

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Gunmen kill at least 15 in attacks on synagogue and churches in Russia’s #Dagestan - www.theguardian.com/world/articl... "Simultaneous shootings target a synagogue in city of Derbent and police in region’s capital Makhachkala"

Gunmen kill at least 15 in attacks on synagogue and churches in Russia’s Dagestanwww.theguardian.com Simultaneous shootings target a synagogue in city of Derbent and police in region’s capital Makhachkala

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Spent 5 hours cross-stitching a QR code to Rickroll my brother with. Time well spent.

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it's all a grift, all the way down, and the money tap has to stop flowing at some point www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/u...

Michael Flynn Has Turned His Trump-World Celebrity Into a Family Businesswww.nytimes.com The former national security adviser took over a nonprofit group. Soon, it was paying five of his relatives and trafficking in conspiracy theories.

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The fact that a second Trump administration is even a POSSIBILITY is such a tremendous failure on the part of every segment of our political elites. He could have been impeached, convicted, and permanently excluded on the very day. He could have been arrested the second he left office. Etc., etc.

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omg lol I just realized that I've had my phone on DO disturb all this time

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10/10 no notes www.wired.com/story/perple...

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Weird way to say "Right wing engages in misinformation"

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the heavens to betsy pipeline

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A serious attempt by legislators or a candidate to invalidate a plainly valid election to install someone who plainly lost the election as president is not a "legal hack" or "finalizing results". It is treason. It is a treason against the United States and its citizens. We shouldn't dance around it.

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stories like this give the lie to the idea that the right is interested in protecting these children. per their own narrative, this girl is a victim of “gender ideology” or whatever. but the reaction from the right is always hostility, ostracization and violence.

Mom of transgender girl athlete says Florida's investigation has destroyed her daughter's lifewww.yahoo.com A Florida public school employee who faces firing because she allowed her transgender daughter to play girls high school volleyball assailed those who outed her child, saying Tuesday that the ensuing ...