nwjason

nwjason

@nwjason.bsky.social

I post about politics and music mostly

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According to the Sunday Night Football broadcast, the 0 points the Seahawks allowed in the first half tonight were the fewest they’ve allowed this season. Maybe in other seasons they allowed less than 0?

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Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

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A thread about the polling we've seen in recent days. There is a lot of data suggesting that voters are breaking towards Dems and away from the Rs in the closing days of the election. The wave is getting bigger. Here's a summary of new generic ballots: 1/

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❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

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I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

It’s just so hard to know what to say anymore. It feels like the American male psyche is completely broken and getting worse. It’s hard to feel anything but shame and disgust.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

Lookin great

YouGov America@today.yougov.com

New YouGov polls of 7 Senate races TX Talarico 50%, Paxton 44% OH Brown 49%, Husted 45% KS Hamilton 48%, Marshall 45% MI El-Sayed 49%, Rogers 48% NE Osborn 48%, Ricketts 47% NH Pappas 51%, Sununu 43% FL Moody 49%, Nixon 44% (Links in reply)

So the government’s running campaign ads for Trump now. Another article of impeachment I guess. It sure ain’t gonna help the Republicans win votes.

People who say it’s unacceptable for musicians to make political statements don’t understand what music is for

YouGov America@today.yougov.com

Sep 16-17 poll of 10,166 U.S. adults (±1.3 points) Do you think it is acceptable or unacceptable for performers to make political statements during their concerts? Americans are split: 39% say acceptable, 43% unacceptable yougov.com/en-us/daily-...

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The funny thing (it's not really funny) about the various cults that dip into and out of AI is that the most chilling thing I've heard from AI boosters isn't "AI will kill everyone." It's "we will use AI to benefit all of humanity."

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Dems: Just do ads where you’re standing outside a data center, shouting to be heard, and say your opponent wants these things in the local community.

I dunno, personally I think that if the work you’re doing has even a 0.00000000000001% chance of killing everyone on earth in a few years, you’re a terrible, terrible human being if you persist in doing that work

Ok so I just saw a stat that there were 100,000 people at the Melbourne NFL game. Also that it was played at the “Melbourne Cricket Ground” Am I to understand that there are cricket matches in Australia with 100k people in attendance???

The Odyssey - NOT a sequel

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net

‘THE ODYSSEY’ has passed $1 billion internationally. The first time a non-sequel or non-remake film has reached this mark since ‘Avatar’.

People have been freaked out about Trump trying to steal the midterms ever since the last election. Looks like this Post Office thing is his big try. Not sure there’s time left for anything else.

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live: Nirvana Soundgarden Mad Season Metallica Tori Amos Nine Inch Nails David Bowie Radiohead Shpongle Infected Mushroom

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Norm Eisen of Democracy Defenders Fund: “Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule. Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it.”

Spiderman and Darth Vader have emerged recently in real life to stand for their beliefs (Spiderman anti-Nazi, Vader pro-surveillance cameras) who’s next? Wonder Woman? Batman?

My new pet conspiracy theory is that the new cheap mystery beef that Trump says will be sent to American markets (but he won’t say where it’s from) is actually the meat of the wild horses that the administration has been slaughtering

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Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

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Replying to @owillis.bsky.social

Democrats have spent almost my entire adult life in a defensive crouch. It has allowed fascism to thrive. I’m fucking tired of it and I will publicly criticize anyone, esp people with influence, for continuing to push us down that path. I make no apologies for this. I’m goddamn tired of it.

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BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.

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The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

Basically if you go out of your way to get the word out that you were great friends with the ghoul that just died, people will assume that you’re a ghoul too