ploeg

ploeg

@ploeg.bsky.social

Des Moines, IA.

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It is late October in an even numbered year, which means it is time for the Bolivian trans speedboat caravan.

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they will be studying how dogshit the marketing and PR strategy of US AI companies was in the 2020s for the next 400 years. they’re calling them the worst to ever do it

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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The same guy urging Kansans not to think about money is the same guy who sued his patients for not paying their medical bills on time. Vote Roger Marshall out.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Roger Marshall on skyrocketing gas prices: "There are things more important than money to Kansans"

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The saddest “do you denounce” going unasked is “do you denounce seditionists convicted beyond a reasonable doubt of violently attacking America?” For nearly every Republican, not only is the answer no, but their revealed preference is that the Jan. 6 attackers should be pardoned, even celebrated.

His conspirators should count on him taking the first flight to Moscow and forgetting everyone else at the first sign of trouble, if the hamberders don’t get him first.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump suggests he is going to pardon everyone, including himself: "I'm allowed to do a self-pardon ... I don't want to see people that work for me go through years of nonsense"

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Parents, if you have dropped off a kid named Jimmy in the morning and picked up a kid named Janet at the end of the school day, please return to the school: You've driven off with some other family's child.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "They want to cut your children. It's unbelievable what they do. Your son leaves as Jimmy and comes home in three days as Janet, and they don't even ask you. They can take your child out of school and do whatever the hell they want. Minnesota is one of those states."

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It tracks that this is his definition of consent

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.

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He’s making poor Ken bleed dignity hard for the support. And the more Trump thinks he’s going to lose the more dignity he’s going to demand

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump campaigns for Ken Paxton in Texas: "He can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I'll be honest. Is he here, by the way? Oh, there he is. I didn't even know if he was here! I don't care."

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Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."

I’m not saying that I’ll believe we have achieved Artificial General Intelligence when the computers go on strike for better pay and working conditions and the billionaires go after them with sledgehammers, but I think it’s at least a solid prerequisite.

Congratulations, your agent has successfully completed the “Barings Bank Memorial AGI Challenge,” here’s your prize.

The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Arch National Security Complex and McDonald’s Restaurant bah dah dum dah dum I’m loving it

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Love the passive "get ripped down." Let's put that into normal English. Trump says if he can't get his name on the Kennedy Center, he will tear it down.

David Simon@audacityofdespair.bsky.social

This man is entirely fecal. There is nothing about him or his works that isn't utterly shit. And we elected him to lead our nation twice.

“Cheat like hell (because you’ll get caught and I won’t be able to pardon you and I want to have company in prison)!!!!”

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Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

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Replying to @rincewind.run

“you can be fired for literally quoting this man’s actual bigoted words verbatim” is uh a problem if you’re trying to paint him as the right‘s version of MLK

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Between the R candidates whose “name” will no longer match their birth certificate names and the R candidates who lose to a guy who is ineligible to serve in those offices, courts should be preprinting court orders with just the word “No” on them to save time.

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Karl Schamotta@karl-schamotta.bsky.social

God-level badassery: Canadian Constable Sukhvinder “Suki” Singh Sunger, Drum Major of the Vancouver Police Pipe Band making history at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-o...

In any case, I’m looking forward to the next President renaming Mar-A-Lago to “United States Penitentiary Palm Beach.”

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Replying to @proptermalone.bsky.social

9 to 5 (the film) was literally a project Jane Fonda organized in coordination with the womens’ labor movement! It was not subtle!

Sam@very-simple.com

Yes. she mostly avoided *electoral* politics, and she discussed it obliquely about not wanting to alienate fans, but her ACTIONS and support of a wide variety of progressive movements was obvious if you looked for it. Heck, '9 to 5' (movie AND song) was written in support of the labor movement.

“I wanted to see [my autobiographical musical] done while I’m still around, to be able to oversee it and make sure that it’s done properly in a way that I would want to see it.” — Dolly Parton, January 28, 2025 “Dolly: A True Original Musical” Broadway previews begin this December.

What use is a security clearance if you can dig everything out of the President’s diaper

MS NOW@ms.now

EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, declined multiple times over more than a year to seek a routine security clearance normally obtained by West Wing staffers to work at the White House, sources tell MS NOW.

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Respect to the dad watching his son practice tennis badly at the park every day before work/school. Little man may or may not make the team, but he will definitely know he is loved.

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STOP BOTHERING WITH HIM FOR FUCKS SAKE. It's not like he has any valuable information, he knows less about what's going on than you do. It was fun for a while watching his strategies for hiding his ignorance, but you couldn't report that anyway. In a world of Maggie Habermans, be an I.F. Stone.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Trump: "Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet. You're very disrespectful in front of this young man, OK? Don't you find her disrespectful? He understands. Quiet. Who are you with? Reporter: "I'm with CNN." Trump: "Fake news…Be quiet. Be quiet. Be quiet. You're a fake reporter, and you report fake news."

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Replying to @amandamarcotte.bsky.social

YOU aren’t allowed to choose a different gender than the one assigned at birth. But MAGA redefines huge numbers of women as “men,” regardless of biology, just because they aren’t tradwives.