edwilk

edwilk

@edwilk.bsky.social

Old ne'er-do-well living in Southern Colorado Not looking for followers. Tighten your truss if it's bowed down, loosen if it's bowed up.

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yup.

thehandbasket.coRepublicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problemA spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

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I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

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Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

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👏🗳️🇺🇸🗳️👏

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

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Fish numbers were down 63.5 percent; crustaceans by 62 percent; and cephalopods (mainly squid, in this context) by 59.7 percent. "The taxa that declined the most are also considered the most ecologically important in the open ocean with respect to total numbers www.sciencealert.com/16-years-aft...

sciencealert.com16 Years After Deepwater Horizon Spill, Deep Sea Life in The Gulf of Mexico Shows No Sign of RecoveryIn 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig failed catastrophically, leading to the largest oil spill in the history of Earth's oceans.

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The president of the United States, Leader of the Free World, traveled to Corinth, Mississippi, population 14,622, one week before the midterms to hold a rally in front of a bunch of empty seats and some people who look like they’d leave if some dogs were spotted humping out front. Let that sink in

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don't worry the NYT had 320 entire words on it

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

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UPDATE: The Mississippi Free Press has obtained bodycam footage from the Senatobia police officer who fired the fatal shot that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. The footage shows he was standing on the side of the car when he fired into it, hitting the child. www.reddit.com/r/JoeBuddenP...

reddit.comFrom the JoeBuddenPodcasts community on Reddit: UPDATE: The Mississippi Free Press has obtained bodycam footage from the Senatobia police officer who fired the fatal shot that killed 1-year-old Kohen ...Explore this post and more from the JoeBuddenPodcasts community

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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

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Sad to hear of the passing of NYer cartoonist P.C. Vey. His jokes always hit in a way I didn’t see coming. This is one of his last in Narrative Magazine in which his cartoons were colored with a delicate, pastel watercolor that I loved and I think of often when I color my own cartoons.

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The real reason the officer had pulled Knowles over was because some surveillance system he was using had access to automated license plate reader (ALPR) data on where she’d been driving, and had decided that her travel pattern was “suspicious.” www.aclu.org/news/privacy...

aclu.orgPolice Are Increasingly Pulling People Over Because AI Deems Their Driving Patterns “Suspicious” | ACLUAnybody is susceptible to being stopped, searched, or worse; AI makes new forms of abuse possible

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While Alaskan senate candidate, Mary Peltola, recovers from a suspiciously timed car accident & Marc Elias files a lawsuit fighting back against Trump's threat to not certify her future win 🗳 Let's all bask in the glow of her absolutely amazing campaign ad. 🤍 So beautiful & calming. 🌞 🙌🏻

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How racist and desperate do you have to be to look at this and say, “Got ‘em!”?

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social

The White House put an AI video of Hillary, Chuck, Hakeem, Kamala, and Ilan jamming out to The Gap Band’s “Outstanding” like a Tiny Desk concert and described Democrats as “washed up,” but damn they never looked cooler. Total self-own.

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If there’s one thing we know it’s that voters love Elon Musk

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social

Interesting approach by Mike Rogers to make his loyalty to Elon Musk & the oligarchy an explicit part of his campaign earlier this year. “When you stand with my Senate campaign today, you are directly shielding Elon Musk,” Rogers wrote. www.metrotimes.com/news/mike-ro...

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Good win. We're going to have to run the table with these lawsuits, which will come fast and thick as we approach the election and for weeks after.

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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... I'll allow it

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

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the DOJ is basically acting as if the president’s delusions are true

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

“The Department of Justice is putting its formidable thumb on next week’s elections in a way that seems clearly intended to call into question the legitimacy of any result that is especially unfavorable to Republicans—before those results have even come in.” Me on DOJ’s California and Alaska suits:

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Telling headline in the WSJ: “clings to power?” He won the election by more than 3% and with more than 50% of the vote - how about just “prevails” or “wins re-election?” @wsj.com

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I have at this point written literally hundreds of stories about Trump since 2015. I make it a point in the bulk of them to point out he was the lead proponent of the racist birther conspiracy. The mainstream media has all but disappeared this yet it is the main reason he became potus.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

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This guy opened his speech with “Good Moleman to you”

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."