Shhhboop

Shhhboop

@bduz.bsky.social

Old lady, MI and GA, love baseball,Jorts the cat, interesting law stuff, food.

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This is the issue that made me realize I was wrong about him. I wanted someone to just tell me what I wanted to hear, he told me what was realistic. Please amplify this account and this man.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This week I released my proposal to get AI Under Control to combat the growing existential risks of unrestrained artificial intelligence to humanity.

Michigan, elect this man. I went to his town hall, in rural red Tawas. He’s the real deal. Said some things i didn’t agree with, but when he explained his reasoning, it opened my eyes to a solution I hadn’t even thought about.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

Politicians use their office to get rich. Those days have got to end. No revolving door for lobbyists, no congressional stock trading, no corporate PAC money.

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The most important thing to know about Trump’s manufactured crisis in DC is that his administration is still covering up what’s in the Epstein files.

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Might be a good idea for Dem controlled state and local governments to hold hearings now about what the big, ugly bill and cuts to FEMA, NOAA, HHS/NIH, etc are going to do to their communities. Our electeds have a responsibility to inform the public about what is coming now. Particularly 👇

This shows our press is nurtured and may as well be ‘entertainment tonight.’ They are so far from the Press of our constitution, they should be called the 100th estate.

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social

Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement. Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime. /1

Focus ppl, quit driving the “former president is old” story. Our continued outrage keeps it going, focus on what matters. Don’t get distracted from the important

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social

This time, it was ‘just’ deportations, but this spits in the face of how the relationship between the IC and the administration works. POTUS and his Cabinet are the “customers” - they (should) rely on accurate, unbiased intelligence products to make decisions.

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If you’re a federal worker and have a special snarky reply to Elon’s five bullets email you’d like me to include in a compilation of anonymous replies, feel free to send them to me on signal at muellershewrote.23 and I’ll keep you anonymous.

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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Never give up.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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The artist, David Cohen is an Asheville-based artist/musician and resident of over forty years. His cartoon work spans various subjects ranging from local issues based in Asheville to more national political events and even to one-off, word-play-oriented jokes. ❤️ Give credit to artists when you can.

Listen to the Flavor.

FLAVOR FLAV ⏰@flavorflav.bsky.social

It seems like the tech bros have encouraged their followers to come here over the past week and incite hate,,, it’s a lot of Hide, Report, and Block,,, we will not wake up and realize the good place is the bad place.

Spread it far and wide, can’t some mainstream journalists talk with Mike about this and at least get this information out there, pretend we are the GOP and deal with it the same way. Make it Zuck is afraid of Trump calling him a sissy.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time *talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this* which WAS NOT ZUCK.

Go Big Gretch, a lot was accomplished during our Trifecta.

Lauren Gill@laurengill.bsky.social

Michigan enacted legislation in October abolishing fines and fees for children. The effects of charging that debt were devastating — a teenager I spoke with had to stay on probation an extra two years and couldn't go to public school because she couldn't pay back $800. boltsmag.org/michigan-juv...

I spoke too soon, as the Last working day of trifecta was left with nothing done and a bunch of bills stuck in the house because Dems didn’t bother to show up For work. 😡

🖕the New York Times

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social

Reup: After burying Maggie's role in the GOP referral against Liz Cheney, NYT falsely claims Trump didn't get Special Counsels to investigate Hillary and Joe BIden. www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/19/f...

But this 66 yr old needs to tighten her belt?

Philip Bump@pbump.com

How rich is Musk? If he took the increase in his wealth since Election Day and gave it to someone else, they'd be the fourth-richest person in the world. He could pay the median 2023 income to 5.7 million households. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Never forgot, never surrender to the sane-washing

Brandi Buchman@brandibuchman.bsky.social

On this day four years ago, Donald Trump sent, arguably, his most notorious and destructive tweet to date: his Jan. 6 invite.

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NEW: In my report for HuffPost, I speak to D.C. drag queens and take a look at the fight in our courts to keep this form of expression protected under the First Amendment - whether Trump or his judges like it or not! I hope you will read and share! www.huffpost.com/entry/future...

huffpost.comThe Future Of A Popular Art Form Could Be In Trump Judges' HandsDrag artists say the Constitution protects their art — but key court decisions on state-level bans are still to come.

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My glorious Christmas boy would like to remind you that we are running a fundraiser this month for the Humane Society of Chittenden County! They do amazing work in our community AND take in regular transports of animals from other states. ❤️ gofund.me/5f0c361b

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Yeah, definitely. Cats were perfect the way they were. They have never been bred for the benefit of the cat, only to please the whims of humans. Tweaking and shaping them purely for novelty with no consideration for how harmful it has been for their wellbeing.

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Twitter has the highest prevalence of disinformation among six online platforms studied by the EU. Fake news comes primarily from Russia’s disinformation operation, a "weapon of mass manipulation." www.scmp.com/tech/big-tec...

scmp.comEU official: X, formerly Twitter, is the biggest source of fake newsA study of six online platforms in Poland, Slovakia and Spain finds that Twitter has the highest prevalence of disinformation.

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FEATURE: In my first long-form piece for Law&Crime, I take a look at two ongoing petitions seeking to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot in '24 for his role in Jan. 6. Analysis on the language of Section III of the Fourteenth Amendment + more inside: lawandcrime.com/trump/trumps...

lawandcrime.comThe language of insurrection: Legal bids to remove Trump from 2024 ballot barrel forwardTwo years after the tradition of America’s peaceful transfer of presidential power was broken, the question of whether Donald Trump should remain on the ballot in 2024 looms large.

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