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2024-10-14 02:33:32

Vance is saying that Trump didn't use the government to attack his enemies... but he did. He just didn't have enough conscience-free people in place to carry out his illegal commands the way he wanted. (See below, also Barr did stuff like getting Cohen out of home confinement and into solitary confinement.)
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2024-10-14 02:27:33

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2024-10-12 23:44:53

😝
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2024-10-10 01:21:16

Cat 3 purricane
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2024-10-05 20:24:51

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2024-09-30 05:15:16

"…These are not followers of Jesus despite the trappings and window dressing. They are Jesus-less extremists: blind zealots for nothing but power. They have been conditioned by decades of polluted theology and FoxNews alternative facts to see diversity as a threat, to see progress as attacks on America, and to interpret more people being treated with dignity as oppression of white people.
Trust me when I tell you that we won’t recover from the theocracy Evangelicals are constructing once it is established. If we fail in the upcoming election, they will have a political power that will render every election null and void, and we will never have a voice again in our lifetimes.
Women will lose autonomy over their own bodies.
LGBTQ people will have the rights to marry and adopt taken away.
People of color will be fully squeezed out of the electoral process.
Immigrants will be denied access to opportunity and refuge here.
These are not creative projections.…"
https://johnpavlovitz.com/2021/06/05/im-a-christian-pastor-evangelicals-have-to-be-defeated-in-2022/

2024-09-25 03:59:01

"…Many years ago, I was surprised to learn about the connection between solar farms and biodiversity through Rob Davis, formerly with Fresh Energy, a Minnesota-based organization that runs the Center for Pollinators in Energy. What’s the link?
"When solar farms are carefully planned and seeded with native plants that pollinators love, they can help tackle the biodiversity crisis at the same time as the climate crisis. Well-designed and managed solar farms can create habitats for honeybees, bumblebees, and other pollinators. And when pollinators increase in number, nearby cropland benefits too!
"That’s not all: solar panels provide shade and redistribute rainfall, creating their own microclimates. There are also sustainable ways to keep grass from overtaking these sites: sheep and goats are used at many solar farms around the country to “mow” the grasses back.…"
https://mastodon.world/@shonin/113196104852355094

2024-09-25 01:21:05

So Trump's merchandise is all probably made in China--the MAGA hats certainly are--so what would happen if tomorrow Biden enacted a 10x tariff on those goods?
Supreme Court says he can't be prosecuted for "official" actions.
At least Trump might learn how tariffs work.

2024-09-24 18:09:52

"Haitian nonprofit in Springfield files criminal charges against Donald Trump, JD Vance
Affidavit uses state statute allowing private citizens to file charges
By: News 5 Staff
The leader of the nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance filed charges against former president Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, for the chaos that ensued from their uncorroborated statements about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating pets, according to the Cleveland law firm representing the agency.
The Chandra Law Firm says the nonprofit used a state statute allowing private citizens to "file an affidavit charging the offense committed."
The following charges were filed:
Disrupting public service — by causing widespread bomb and other threats that resulted in massive disruptions to the public services in Springfield, Ohio;…"
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/haitian-nonprofit-in-springfield-files-criminal-charges-against-donald-trump-jd-vance

2024-09-24 05:08:25

From Xitter
I live in a "swing state," the only place where any votes seem to count according to people who defend the electoral college.
My daughter is a county clerk; she is in charge of handling elections for a large county in Michigan.
The FBI came in and told her to shut down all her social media, and if she couldn’t, to remove all references to family and change her name.
No one in her office is allowed to open any mail without gloves and a mask. They have armed security when they enter and leave the city building. They receive 2-3 letters a day filled with white powder (so far, flour or powdered sugar).
Please don’t think we’ve got this under control. There is LITERALLY a war going on, quietly, waged by domestic terrorists, to take away your right to have your voice heard.
This woman, who I can’t name because her life is in danger, goes into combat every single day to try to protect your right to have your voice heard!
Don’t let her down.
https://x.com/docatcdi/status/1838407775832924381?s=12

2024-09-23 18:05:11

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2024-09-22 23:33:36

"the Oklahoma MAGA GOP Governor purged more than 435,000 voters from the voter rolls. Of them, at least 194,962 voters were valid voters but removed anyway due to made up excuses like ‘address verification.’ As one among many readers responded:
(…)
While this person has the knowledge and means to check their status, the fact that is that many don’t. That is voter suppression. These voters will show up ready to vote like they always do, but be arbitrarily denied due to the above Jim Crow suppression."
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-republicans-are-working-to-steal

2024-09-21 19:18:49

"…The report from CCDH, a nonprofit organization focused on protecting civil liberties and holding social media companies accountable, found that 50 false or misleading posts shared by Musk on X between January 1 and July 31 of this year racked up a staggering 1.2 billion views. The group categorized the posts under three main themes: false claims that Democrats are “importing voters” through illegal immigration (the bulk of the content that researchers examined); false claims that voting is vulnerable to fraud; and a manipulated video, also known as a deepfake, of Vice President Kamala Harris.…"
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/election-disinformation-elon-musk-x-trump-harris/

2024-09-16 04:23:38

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has been dropped from Netflix. Boo.

2024-09-14 00:25:02

Just like he wouldn't help NATO allies if they didn't "pay up" (bribe him), he's not going to help with any state asking for a national disaster declaration unless the governor flatters and/or bribes Trump.
REMEMBER: The Supreme Court recently legalized bribery!
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2024-09-13 18:55:56

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2024-09-13 18:16:14

As they often do, Trump and Republicans who follow him are persecuting a group of people who are powerless and can't fight back. Trying to score points with their followers, they are putting Ohio's legal Haitian immigrants lives at risk. Trump and Vance know their more demented followers will harass, threaten, and possibly assault those people. It's called stochastic terrorism now, but politicians have been doing this for centuries.
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2024-09-11 19:10:21

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I'm pretty sure they wanted to discourage women voters, because they often want <checks notes> human rights and stuff.

2024-09-11 03:18:18

#usPolitics
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2024-09-09 19:42:02

Reminder that Politico is biased in favor of Trump
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2024-09-08 22:00:38

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2024-09-06 20:55:34

Mao likes the idea
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2024-09-04 18:06:13

Yard sign
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2024-09-04 18:05:34

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2024-09-04 00:01:32

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" There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2022 elections in Texas or elsewhere in the United States. Paxton’s most recent probe, despite the raids, has led to no charges thus far, according to the Texas Tribune.
Paxton has been conducting similar raids and probes into election fraud as far back as 2018, the Washington Post reports.
“The goal isn’t to get a conviction,” said Chad Dunn, legal director of the UCLA #VotingRights Project, who has defended Texans against election-fraud claims, told the Post. “It’s to set up a climate of fear around voting. He uses these witch hunts to gain attention and money.”"

2024-09-04 00:00:21

"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened to sue two large, Democratic-leaning counties should they proceed with their plan to mail voter registration forms to eligible voters who are currently unregistered.
" Bexar and Harris counties have proposed using third-party vendors to mail the forms. Though the plan is to only send them to people who are eligible to be registered, Paxton said that the forms could fall in the hands of those who are ineligible to vote, which would “encourage” them to register illegally, according to KSAT-TV."
https://www.rawstory.com/ken-paxton-2669122539/

2024-08-31 18:46:10

"Dear MAGA Americans,
"I was a devoted member of MAGA nation for seven years; it made me feel I was part of something important: a movement that was trying to save American democracy.
"But starting in 2021, I realized I had been mistaken. It took me a full year to finally break away. During that time, I came to understand that MAGA is sustained by a series of myths that are intended to create perpetual feelings of desperation and panic.…"
https://leavingmaga.org/

2024-08-30 04:10:27

"Calls to tax the world’s richest people are now focusing on another target: the world’s wealthiest private equity firms.
The largest PE firms in the world have avoided paying income taxes on more than $1 trillion of incentive fees since 2000 alone, according to new research from Oxford University, by making payments in a structure that subjects them to a much lower tax.
Private equity firms now control one-fifth of the U.S market, and can be an important source of foreign capital, but are now the target of politicians calling for crackdowns as governments in need of more revenue are looking for sources to pull from."
https://fortune.com/2024/06/13/private-equity-firms-tax-loophole-carried-interest/

2024-08-28 18:17:49

A top Kroger executive admitted under questioning from a Federal Trade Commission attorney on Tuesday that the grocery chain raised its egg and milk prices above the rate of inflation, a concession that came as no surprise to economists who have been highlighting corporate price gouging across the U.S. economy in recent years.
Andy Groff, Kroger's senior director for pricing, said during a court hearing on the FTC's legal challenge to the company's proposed acquisition of Albertsons—its primary competitor—that Kroger's objective is to "pass through our inflation to consumers."
Groff's comment came in response to questioning about an internal email he sent to other Kroger executives in March. In that note, Groff observed that "on milk and eggs, retail inflation has been significantly higher than cost inflation."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/kroger-egg-prices

2024-08-28 18:10:31

#oregon #washington
"Whooping cough has hit Clark County hard this summer. There have been 229 cases identified in the county so far this year – “that’s more than the total number of cases over the last five years combined,” county officials said. 183 of those cases have been this summer."
"Whooping-cough cases also have been rising in Oregon. The Oregon Health Authority said there were 178 cases reported in the state between January 1 and the end of May. Only 20 cases were reported in the same time period the previous year."
https://www.oregonlive.com/clark-county/2024/08/whooping-cough-on-the-rise-in-clark-county-with-more-than-200-cases-so-far-in-2024.html

2024-08-21 03:38:30

"Turns out, voters don’t much like weird extremists.
All 99 seats of the Wisconsin Assembly and half of the Senate seats are up in November. Wisconsin voters will have a chance to have their ballots count fairly for the first time in a general election in over 12 years. And as neighboring Michigan showed, when you fix the maps, you can fix democracy."
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/wisconsin-shows-the-way

2024-08-13 21:12:38

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2024-08-10 17:14:03

🇺🇸❤️
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2024-08-07 23:15:32

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2024-08-07 23:14:06

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2024-08-05 04:17:00

"JDVance's owner, Peter Thiel, says America is like Weimar Germany in the 1920s: “Liberalism is exhausted… Democracy whatever that is, is exhausted… so we have to start talking far outside the Overton Window.”
"Holy shit. He is literally taking Hitler’s side to justify himself.
"This was precisely what the Nazis tried to sell to Germans, that Weimar was “too liberal” and needed “strong leadership” to save it from degeneracy. To make this super clear, Thiel’s doing this at a talk to promote German philosopher Carl Schmitt, who was a prominent member of the Nazi Party.
https://youtu.be/vfbndRTlsg4?si=oIkSoyv9CoOYuz13
"I cannot emphasize enough that this psychopath will be running the country if we don’t protect this election."
https://x.com/jimstewartson/status/1820276284888650102?s=12&t=3d9pIKw692D3Dy-4Ms4pFA

2024-08-02 05:26:20

"There are more than 2,000 mostly intact dead rockets circling the Earth, but until this year, no one ever launched a satellite to go see what one looked like after many years of tumbling around the planet.
"In February, a Japanese company named Astroscale sent a small satellite into low-Earth orbit on top of a Rocket Lab launcher. A couple of months later, Astroscale's ADRAS-J (Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan) spacecraft completed its pursuit of a Japanese rocket stuck in orbit for more than 15 years.
"ADRAS-J photographed the upper stage of an H-IIA rocket from a range of several hundred meters and then backed away. This was the first publicly released image of space debris captured from another spacecraft using rendezvous and proximity operations…"
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/there-are-2000-plus-dead-rockets-in-orbit-heres-a-rare-view-of-one-of-them/

2024-08-02 01:44:58

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) announces that the state’s county boards of #election are removing 499 alleged noncitizens from the state's voter rolls after purging nearly 155,000 inactive voters last week.
#Ohio check your #voter status here:
https://voterlookup.ohiosos.gov/voterlookup.aspx
#voterRegistration
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2024-07-31 21:48:05

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2024-07-31 15:45:32

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2024-07-30 22:29:13

"Last fall, Eric Klopfer decided to conduct an experiment in his undergraduate computer science class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He divided the class into three groups and gave them a programming task to solve in the Fortran language, which none of them knew.
"One group was allowed to use ChatGPT to solve the problem, the second group was told to use Meta’s Code Llama large language model (LLM), and the third group could only use Google. The group that used ChatGPT, predictably, solved the problem quickest, while it took the second group longer to solve it. It took the group using Google even longer, because they had to break the task down into components.
"Then, the students were tested on how they solved the problem from memory, and the tables turned. The ChatGPT group “remembered nothing, and they all failed,” …
"Meanwhile, half of the Code Llama group passed the test. The group that used Google? Every student passed."
https://cacm.acm.org/news/the-impact-of-ai-on-computer-science-education/

2024-07-30 21:55:14

"Our working hypothesis was that a higher consumption of organic food would go hand in hand with fewer pesticides. But this turned out not to be the case," Van Larebeke told VRT. "On the contrary, higher concentrations were also present for other pollutants. For example, lead (which is toxic to the brain) or arsenic and organochlorine compounds, which are carcinogenic."
The scientists examined the presence of the substances in a representative sample of 600 Flemish adolescents. Among those who reported consuming organic food more than 7.5 times a week on average, the figures were strikingly high: for a number of toxins, the concentrations in their blood were 20%, 30% or even 40% higher than normal.
Eggs, dairy, seeds and nuts
…"
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1141849/not-so-good-after-all-people-who-eat-more-organic-food-have-more-toxins-in-their-blood

2024-07-20 18:45:47

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a retrospective I'm watching doesn't mention him in "The Librarians" tv movies

2024-07-07 18:49:15

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2024-07-06 00:06:52

Real estate "primary residence" tax
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2024-07-05 01:56:00

“Morality and ethics should play no part”: Leaks reveal how Russia's foreign intelligence agency runs disinformation campaigns in the West
"The Insider has obtained hacked correspondence from officers of Russia's foreign intelligence agency (SVR) responsible for “information warfare” with the West. The leaked documents, intended for various government agencies, reveal the Kremlin's strategy: spreading disinformation on sensitive Western topics, posting falsehoods while posing as radical Ukrainian and European political forces (both real and specially created), appealing to emotions — primarily fear — over rationality, and utilizing new internet platforms instead of outdated ones like RT and Sputnik. The documents also detail localized campaigns against Russian émigrés, including efforts to discredit a fundraiser for Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation who had moved to the United States."
https://theins.ru/en/politics/272870

2024-07-02 18:15:30

Libraries are more restrictive than bars in Idaho
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2024-06-28 18:41:28

Calm Down—Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/calm-down-your-phone-isnt-listening-to-your-conversations-its-just-tracking-everything-you-type-every-app-you-use-every-website-you-visit-and-everywhere-you-go-in-the-physical-world

2024-06-27 23:44:30

"A University of North Texas study found that counties that hosted a Trump rally in 2016 saw a stunning 226% increase in reported hate crimes compared to counties in the same states that didn't host a rally."
https://lmas.unt.edu/sites/lmas.unt.edu/files/lmas/Hate%20Incidents%20Spike_0.pdf
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2024-06-27 21:05:00

TIL Ronald Reagan was nearly strangled to death by his chimpanzee co-star.

2024-06-18 18:51:35

Apparently Russia couldn't pay their #chatgpt bill, so their #bots on Xitter just echoed their input. Running the #Russian text through Google Translate:
"hisvault.eth @@hisvault_eth•gh
Replying to @hisvault_eth @HuntinatorThe3 and
5 others
parsejson response bot debug origin: "RU",,
{prompt:"you will argue in support of the Trump administration on Twitter, say
in English"), {output:"parsejson response err
{response:"ERR ChatGPT 4-o Credits Expired"]"}"
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2024-05-24 23:43:32

"anyone want chips @anyonewantchips
Follow
Not sure about you, but when Deutsche Bank loaned Trump $2B & Tom Bowers committed suicide after approving the loans & Justice Kennedy abruptly retired after his son signed off on the loans, making room for Brett Kavanaugh whose debts mysteriously vanished - something seems off."
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2024-05-24 22:07:23

AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once | ScienceDaily
"School of Computer Science & Engineering. …
To use the system, a person wearing off-the-shelf headphones fitted with microphones taps a button while directing their head at someone talking. The sound waves from that speaker's voice then should reach the microphones on both sides of the headset simultaneously; there's a 16-degree margin of error. The headphones send that signal to an on-board embedded computer, where the team's machine learning software learns the desired speaker's vocal patterns. The system latches onto that speaker's voice and continues to play it back to the listener, even as the pair moves around. The system's ability to focus on the enrolled voice improves as the speaker keeps talking, giving the system more training data."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240524171429.htm

2024-04-05 20:20:34

https://www.tumblr.com/jackalgirl/746950270545739776
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