Joel Padgett

Joel Padgett

@joelpadgett.us

Old man (now retired) software engineer; lgbtqia+;he/him;taken for 30 years; Outside DC

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Ken Paxton, while trashing Talarico's Christianity, manages to mispronounce "Christianity" two different ways in the span of three seconds

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Talarico: "If you've seen an attack ad on your TV, that was Elon. If you've gotten lies in your mailbox, that was Elon. If you've received a text message saying scary things about me with scary black and white photos. That was Elon too."

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“You’ll only have yourselves to blame” - Guy who started war nobody wanted, trade wars, raised prices on literally everything, pocketed billions, kicked people off health coverage, filled the streets with masked goons… (H/T @atrupar.com)

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This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

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I'm sorry but banning non-English speakers because machine translation is unclean is more fascist than anything in the AI space except maybe Palantir's XAI enterprise account

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social

hooooo boy we don't like this no we don't > If you don't speak English, you need to find a different community. We cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated. Since you don't speak English, you can't even verify yourself if it translated correctly. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

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Replying to @alixeharrow.bsky.social

in fact, if mr. kennedy has time for a follow up question: i was just wondering what the peasants should eat if they have no bread

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We literally have the largest bike-touring event in the world which has been an annual summer state tradition for FIFTY YEARS. There's a giant exhibit in the state historical museum about it. This is comical.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."

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EXCLUSIVE: Emails released by the FBI show for the first time that the White House was directly involved in crafting the July 2025 memo jointly issued by DOJ and FBI on Jeffrey Epstein that determined "no further disclosure would be appropriate." (paywall) www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

rawstory.comSecret email puts White House fingerprints on Epstein memo: 'Someone needs to own this'Following a briefing in June 2025 to inform President Donald Trump that his name was in the Epstein files, the Department of Justice and the FBI quietly issued a joint memo that shook the administrati...

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Again: Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything. That’s not how DOD contracts work.

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RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."

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This is such a stupid thing to say. Because if it were true, we wouldn't need a Constitution and Bill of Rights written by humans. And every country would have had the same Constitution and Bill of Rights from the beginning of time.

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Unearthed photo of GOP Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith posing in a Confederate soldier's hat at at Confederacy President Jefferson Davis’s former home. Hyde-Smith captioned the picture "Mississippi history at its best!"

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Unearthed footage of Vivek Ramaswamy mocking Amy Acton for being a survivor of childhood abuse: "She has no vision other than to complain about what someone else did to her"

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New newsletter! Nominations are now open for the upcoming Best Album of 1988 tournament! Click through for the link, or just go to the next post in the thread, I'll put it there too. It's okay if you're lazy, I'm lazy too. buttondown.com/kentmbeeson/...

buttondown.com#601 Nominations for the Best Album of 1988 are Now Open!Hey folks! Geinoh Yamashirogumi, SYMPHONIC SUITE AKIRA. Why is this the header image? Because I’m halfway through it while writing this newsletter, and I...

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Ashley Hinson claims Josh Turek supports "allowing kids to change their gender at school and not tell the parents about it" (This literally has never happened! Not once!)

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Are you kidding me with this? CBS News reporter Jan Crawford is on social media congratulating a Christian White Nationalist for his staged confrontation with AES. Jan should have done some actual news reporting on the event before spouting off. But this is the Bari Weiss CBS so I guess it tracks.

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since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

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no kings includes billionaires who think they’re kings

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish