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Followup: Discord Support reverted the account to my email address for recovery, and I was able to get it back. I still worry about the potential for back-doors remaining for a 2nd-pass attack, so I still don't expect anyone to trust that account, but at least I was able to get back into my servers.

And not "now that we have power, let's work with the fascists to find bipartisan solutions to the problems the fascists created."

Lula's message was we have power and we're going to use it.

I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

Records show Arnold does not apply force equally. Arnold disproportionately used force against homeless Portlanders and Black Portlanders, according to the data.

The Mercury pulled data from PPB’s use of force reporting dashboard, which is regularly updated 45 days after the end of each quarter. The data was analyzed by a third party, and verified by the Mercury.

District 4 City Council candidate and Portland police officer Eli Arnold is ranked among the top police officers for incidents in which force was used against a person, according to Portland Police Bureau (PPB) data.

It's ridiculous that someone was paid nearly $900k for being fired, but even more outrageous that the Albanese government refuses to say why they abruptly terminated a Secretary when there were hundreds of thousands of unlawful payment cancellations.

The government deserves to be howled down every time they tell us that they can't afford to give us nice things when apparently there's always infinite money available for people making the world objectively worse.

If you see ICE at your polling station, or at any other polling stations, report it to the Rapid Response Hotline and Election Defense Hotline immediately! 📣

Anyway, this is stupid and I hate it, but I also dumped the NY Times years ago over their thousands of reverential trips to diners in Indiana to interview Real Americans™️ about politics.

Substitutions is actually one of those weird, fuzzy jobs that the best solution for is "ask an experienced human." Sometimes subbing in a different kind of fruit is unnoticeable, sometimes it tanks the recipe. Sometimes gluten free bread is fine, sometimes the result is inedible.

Based on second-hand experience, anything leaning on AI to talk you through substitute ingredients is basically just a culinary roulette wheel. It could work! It'll probably get you to a solution that worked for someone under some circumstances. But it could also totally screw you over!

The measurement stuff for sure. AI is what’s going to ruin thoroughly tested recipes with random substitutions.

If you're padding out your majority with Sinemas and Fettermans and Cuellars... what do you *actually* have

And again, this is not a tactic that even works. But assuming it did, why would you bother

Another question I have about the idea that you can triangulate your way to a senate majority by antagonizing trans people as a campaign tactic is, then what. You end up with a majority that evaporates on anything important like abortion rights or impeaching a criminal administration

I think Kat would make a great political appointee at DHS during the next Democratic administration

We’ve known about this since the 1980s. I have an idea on how to stop it. It’s not complicated. Yet we still spend taxpayer $ studying this & other things we’ve known abt for decades bc in the absence of regulation, we need to fool the public into thinking we’re working on solving the problem. 1/3

Some Lula supporters apparently shouted his name out their window when it was announced he won and a cop pointed his gun at him and they took what is possibly the greatest image of a cop ever taken, like genuinely this would go hard as a cover for a Rage album its so poetic.

the only reason not to impeach Trump is if you're going to jail him instead. if that man is somehow not able to be prosecuted under the American criminal justice system then nobody in the entire country should go to jail ever again

ok, abolish the criminal justice system

Keeps happening! @wyden.senate.gov can you send a nice little letter to our friends over at The Facebook?

The "Holy Mantra of Grift," espoused by the vulture capitalist, is: "There is always Profit to be made from a corrupt Government and the sufferings of a People under the yoke of that Government. If the corruption is taken away, then so is the Profit." Their greatest fear is that you understand this.

Oh yes. Get prepared for a spanking from Wall St as punishment for electing law, order, and accountability Democrats who once again get stuck repairing an economic crisis created by money grabbing and hoarding Republicans.

"Lula faces fiscal beating for being against looting & corruption." - Fixrd it for you. Why is the right wing media so against democracy and civil rights? Why are they measuring our lives and meaning in dollar amounts only ??? 😭🤔🤦

I greatly appreciate the nuance and thoughtfulness of this thread (my original post was a pre-coffee groan of exasperation; ironically, it's my least thoughtful posts that often seem to gain the most traction...)

It's very, very telling, I think, that the markets are so concerned about the pro-democracy incumbent winning

NEWS: The U.S. State Department says it will give U.S. visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family who have fled Brazil after Bolsonaro's loss

If in the foul Year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-six you imagine a midterm wave is an opportunity to buckle down and hammer out some sensible bipartisan legislation, find another hobby and cede the field to someone who understands what time it is.

No. Your attitude has to be that absolutely nothing will get done. If you’re trying to “pass common-sense legislation to help the American people”in this environment you’re a fucking traitor.

Literally the sky should be the limit in this fight. They so badly want to return to a normal that’s just rubble.

and in between all that i want them to start smashing and destroying as much rightwing shit they can since they have spent decades telling everyone in the base that it is easier to destroy than build! lots of rightwing stuff that should be destroyed.

resetting the "days since a very important system used by large parts of critical infrastructure used '4' as a security key" counter to 0

Anti-trans propagandists present trans people as making new and radical demands because they don't want to admit that they're stripping trans people of rights that they've enjoyed for DECADES.

Among Israel's Jewish voters, the opposition have a very thin majority. Nearly 50% of Jewish Israelis support the government despite its failures and crimes. It is thanks to Israel's Palestinian citizens who voted in unprecedented numbers, that Netanyahu has no chance to form a government.

Like not to hand it to Vukic to any extent, but staying as the opposition leader after you lose an election is the thing to do if your party is even the tiniest bit more than a giant grift.

if he's not beyond refusing to surrender them, I guess he's not beyond fleeing; I'm just stuck on the juxtaposition over 48 hours between "I am running to be president for >200M people" and "I'm getting the fuck out of here, every man for himself"

He utterly emasculated the puffed chest fascists who fold and run at the drop of a hat. Here was this tiny Jewish comedian who stayed and fought and became a global symbol of defiant bravery, how dare he.

It’s vastly underated that one of the main reasons the far right hate Zelenskyy so much is he stayed & fought for what he believes in while they go from posting like this to fleeing the country within 48 hours