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@parkroseperma.bsky.social If you need another reason to boycott Home Depot, they've installed noise machines to nauseate the day laborers (and more than likely other customers)
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All because a MAGA candidate in a Republican district tried to out-MAGA the incumbent with the anti-immigrant idiocy. Politicians in Republican primaries have every incentive to push things as far right as imaginable and we're all going to suffer from it. Another problem with gerrymandering here.
It should be way bigger news that Trump effectively killed any attempt by foreign countries to build new factories in the United States with this idiotic ICE move. Just incalculable long term damage. Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...
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The best obituary about Kirk, the standard against which others should be measured—and shamed if they fail to honestly grapple with the facts of Kirk's life. Unsurprisingly, Elizabeth has been inundated with threats for this, thus carrying on Kirk's legacy of hate, intimidation, and a worse future.
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Terrific thread:
The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus. We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
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It's often said he sounds terrible because he has spasmodic dysphonia but that's not the whole story. He's had that for decades but his voice used to be much better; the dumbass didn't "trust the experts" so stopped his approved Botox treatment that was working and got an unapproved useless implant.
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social a question to ask the "Muslims for Trump" leaders: what do you have to say about ICE rounding up Muslims seeking citizenship via legal means?
Here's an example of a green card holder who's been working towards citizenship for years getting arrested. He's also a disabled US Army veteran www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
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A video of Ted Cruz being endorsed by Paul Pressler, a former judge and leader of "Conservative Baptist Resurgence" who molested teenage boys. It's creepy that he says that he met Ted when Cruz was a teenager. Speaker Johnson was dean of a law school named after Pressler. youtu.be/nO8hfCw4omI?...
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Our beautiful president has taxed the poor, sent troops to stomp through playgrounds in California, opened up concentration camps, doubled the price of seemingly random goods for no discernible reason, and bombed a foreign country just to do it. And yet these ungrateful peasants are unhappy?
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Parasocial Fan Believes He In Real Relationship With Taylor Swift theonion.com/parasoc...
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Can you imagine the infantile, superficial, and profane Donald Trump talking about his faith in such an eloquent and heartfelt manner? They hate Stephen Colbert because he is an authentic version of what they pretend to be.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.
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@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow
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@parkroseperma.bsky.social There should be a "gain" or "volume" setting on the mics themselves. You need to boost that setting when you record. (not too much or you will get peaking and your audio will sound like trash.) 1/2
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The purpose of today's military deployment to Los Angeles' MacArthur Park was to demonstrate a show of force, documents leaked to me reveal: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
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Tesla cars are designed to turn off its self-driving mode less than a second before a crash, so Tesla can claim that the car was not operating in self-driving mode when it crashed. Musk is evil. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent. Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.
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Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.
Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.