Corprotastic

Corprotastic

@corprotastic.bsky.social

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Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

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The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."

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TBH, all the focus on the armed dad who stopped the shooter is also unsettling. Yes, heroic. However: The killer was 16 YEARS OLD. Three child victims and a teacher are dead, others wounded, another community shattered. Why isn't the focus, 'How do we stop this from happening in the first place?'

Mark Follman@markfollman.bsky.social

Absolutely, the armed dad who stopped the school shooter in Bend acted heroically. So did the police who responded quickly. But this also needs to be said: "good guys with guns" and "active shooter drills" are reactive. We need much more active shooter PREVENTION www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

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School shootings being allowed to persist is a very under-discussed political reality shaping why my generation is more cognizant of the social contract being in tatters. You let us get ritually murdered in school and didn't lift a finger, what other conclusion should I arrive at?

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I'm begging @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social to run against Musk. He's an unpopular and creepy white nationalist asshole billionaire whose approval rating in most polls is 20 points underwater. You can mock Paxton for needing to be bailed out *and* mock the puppet master pulling his strings.

Conor Sen@conorsen.bsky.social

Elon Musk is single-handedly funding the Ken Paxton campaign:

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NEW Miami Herald: Two women have filed a federal civil lawsuit accusing Matt Gaetz and two others of participating in an alleged sex trafficking scheme involving young women, drugs and traveling across state lines. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

miamiherald.comEx-Florida congressman Matt Gaetz accused in suit of sex trafficking young womenThe lawsuit alleges the two women were supplied with drugs, traveled across state lines and were paid to have sex with men, including Gaetz.

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Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

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The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

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Replying to @anjalikdayal.bsky.social

I don't want to dunk-quote on this person, but actually, this is a perfect illustration of the problem. we can't become accustomed to or expect or concede constant monitoring from armed troops as we go about our business. it should always make us recoil. there's danger in it becoming unremarkable.

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New Yorkers, Whistles are on every counter, entry table and coat rack in Minneapolis. These greeted me when I arrived in August - 3D printed.

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The Trump administration has denied Illinois’ request for disaster relief — again. The state sought FEMA’s help after days of severe weather in and around the Chicago area in August. FEMA granted Indiana’s request for help with the same storm. buff.ly/P3ElxRb

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It's quite literally human sacrifice. They continue to cargo cult fascism, because "fake it until you make it" is the only thing they know. They're hoping a ritual public killing will bring their flagging power and legitimacy back, no different from previous sacrifice religions.

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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social

Every single one of these stories is like this and it pisses me off to no end

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This was a emotionally challenging piece for me to write--angering, saddening, and tbh frightening--but I also think it's important There were so many opportunities to save Tierra Walker's life and it's so obvious why her pregnancy ended in death anyway ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

ballsandstrikes.orgTierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It PredictableRepublican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.

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You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com

Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.

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GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.

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I think it is crucial for the health of the Democratic party that the entire consultant class from previous administrations, including and especially Clinton, be told to go home and stop bothering people. They are wrong about everything and have been holding the party back for decades.

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"A lot has changed since the American Library Association was established in 1876 — even just over the past decade. The library has gone from a building full of books to arguably the most versatile civic center in any community lucky enough to have one." https://nyti.ms/47zF62M

nytimes.comLibrarians Discuss the Challenges and Triumphs of Running a Library Today (Gift Article)We asked dozens of them about America's libraries -- what they provide, what they need to survive. Here's what they told us.

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She was being blackmailed over explicit photos. She went to police and gave them the photos as evidence. The cop kept the pictures on his phone, showed them to others, and didn’t catch the blackmailer- who ended up killing her. Just enraging. I wonder why victims of sex crimes don’t report 🤔🤬😢

sltrib.comUniversity of Utah police officer showed off explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey to his co-worker<b>UPDATE</b><i>: Logan police announced </i><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2020/05/17/logan-police-will" target=_blank><i>an internal affairs investigation into Officer Miguel Deras</...

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Every single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them.

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Three million highly sensitive records, out in the open for nine months.

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social

A Pentagon breach left the unencrypted personal records of more than 3 million people accessible for nine months, exposing Social Security numbers, addresses and military roles. Days later, FBI staff data containing similar information was also breached.