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1968! Damn, this man was so far ahead of his time... "His father's a Nazi in Congress today" Idiot Bastard Son - We're Only in it for the Money www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzNV... #MusicalOffering #NowListening #FrankZappa

There's a great round table between Asimov, Wolfe, and Harlan Ellison where the interviewers present that argument as fact, and they all disagree (Ellison as vociferously as you might expect). youtu.be/RZvcKB9vQO0?...

⚡️Kyiv approves alternative Dnipro crossings after Russian strikes on bridges. Kyiv’s Southern Bridge was struck by at least one Russian ballistic missile on the morning of Oct. 27, leaving a large hole in the structure and closing the bridge to both road and rail traffic.

I think people vastly overspec how much EV charging they need. Electricians love the huge bids to put in 50A circuits...but a 20A split-phase circuit is like 3-4x as fast as L1, far cheaper and more practical to install, and more than sufficient for almost every driver

Ford's $28,350 Ford Fathom EV pickup will come with onboard power conversion tech that will slash the cost of setting it up as a home backup battery. Will other automakers join Ford and Tesla in pursuing AC V2H? And will utilities let them plug in? www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele... #energysky

"Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee released a 52-page report titled 'We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey: The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ’s Desperate Efforts to Cover It Up.' Within the report are new details…"

I've been thinking and thinking about why this isn't treated as the HUGE news it is, and I think it's that the report comes from Democrats, which makes coverage seem partisan. (To be clear, that's really stupid if true.)

Audi executive appears alongside Trump at a major MAGA campaign rally to support Mike Collins, a GOP candidate with stark Nazi ties, raising eyebrows across the US and launching a boycott effort against Audi.

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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

Not for nothing, the small cadre of billionaires are JUST FINE THANK YOU VERY MUCH with one of the two major political parties being wholly dependent on their largesse to remain competitive. AND...

AHOY THERE! A NICE DEEP DIVE ABOUT BC'S INLAND FERRYS - THEY'RE FREE! LINKY:

God: "Ok. You're dead! Before you go through the door and find out what happens next, a question: What do you view as your life's one outstanding achievement?" Me: "No contest. Negotiating the stepping stones at Chee Dale in Derbyshire in midwinter and not falling in."

Follow @annabower.bsky.social for coverage of the Floris/Benavides case.

this situation of mine was the precise situation of every mortal that breathes

"The rich are only defeated when running for their lives." - CLR James, The Black Jacobins

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

if you liked you can see everything and are thinking about the nature of documenting the objective truth and what putting an event into the historical record does to both subject and observer i have suuuuuch a cool book for you,

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic... This is why they’re mad. 🏀

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.

learning is the enemy

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

it is odd in retrospect how easy it was for the “but trump ended his friendship with epstein” narrative to be accepted as fact

have they ever fucked up in the opposite direction, quoting some guy they say is a rando but is actually a dem operative? why is it always republicans?

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

I hope smooth operations at the police academy’s gymnasium are able to recover from the scrambling imposed by the mayor playing basketball.

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

It's hard to believe but Democrats ran for decades against the "Bush tax cuts" and then made most of them permanent. Then ran against the "Trump tax cuts" and then didn't repeal them either.

I work with @comixaction.com @bkindivisible.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @standupforyale.bsky.social and many other activist groups. And when you're in community with people who are PUSHING BACK ALL THE TIME against fascism, that becomes the NORMAL way to behave - AS IT SHOULD BE!

MANY people came to my table at the NYCC and thanked me for making noise and organizing around political issues. I thanked them back and said I'm just constitutionally incapable of keeping my mouth shut, which is true! But the real sauce: I'm part of multiple communities that make me braver.

I genuinely didn’t know hatred of this crack was shared by other people

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Make Gutter Racism Disqualifying Again

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Under Bari Weiss' direction, CBS News falsifies Angie Nixon's response to a simple question about Cuba. It's not the old CBS News.

i know that this happens so often it is an easy target for jokes and ridicule but seriously how does this happen so often

Vucic swept aside in Serbian elections. Can Belgrade break free from Russia’s orbit? The Student List — an electoral alliance formed by Serbia's anti-corruption protesters, bringing together 250 academics, professionals, and public figures — won almost 53% of the vote.

I’d argue that Trump has never been interested in consolidating power for the sake of building a lasting movt. Trump is and has always been only interested in Trump. His goals are to grab as much $ possible, stay out of jail, & boost his ego. His hangers on use him to achieve authoritarian rule.

I agree with this in broad strokes, but the underlying connective tissue here is more of a character problem: this administration is simply bad at authoritarianism. Their policy judgment and execution has been ham-handed and incompetent because *they* are ham-handed and incompetent

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

I like this: Let Canadians buy BioWare. (Since Jared Kushner and Electronic Arts turned that gem into a clinker. Let competent people polish it back up to brilliance.) www.pcgamer.com/games/mass-e...