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Brian Bruce@brianvancebruce.bsky.social |
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If at first you don't succeed, grab a bigger hammer.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Hey! Remember Republicans saying "Obamacare will make death panels to kill your grandma!"? Then you should probably go check out chapter 14 of the Project 2025 manifesto. Because every Conservative/Republican accusation is a confession.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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It's no coincidence that the Jefferson Memorial, a creation of the New Deal, chose to highlight this particularly apt quote from Jefferson.
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!
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Brian Bruce
@brianvancebruce.bsky.social
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So basically, we have to keep our thermostats at 78 degrees so Google can give us shitty art and AI summaries of the first search result.
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Paris Marx
@parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Angus Johnston
@angus.bsky.social
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There's a fundamental disconnect between people who watched the debate and saw it as viscerally disqualifying and people who saw a gifted politician having a very bad night. The two camps are going to have a very hard time reaching agreement on anything else about the race.
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Matt Seybold
@mattseybold.bsky.social
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Mark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9
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Brian Bruce
@brianvancebruce.bsky.social
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Why isn't the media spending weeks on this? (I mean, I know the answer.) Because even his lawyers' "theory" that maybe he "only" fondled her breasts is really fucking horrible!
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Brian Bruce
@brianvancebruce.bsky.social
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One thing I've slowly realized is that when conservatives say, "we're not a democracy", what they are really saying is "we don't want to be a democracy". Equal representation, rule of law, pluralism, etc are all things the right oppose.
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Liam Hogan
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The MAGA movement will not be shamed by pointing out the basic features of a liberal pluralist democracy. They don't believe in any of it. They see it as a weakness, something that merely holds them back or slows their efforts to reshape their world.
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Brian Bruce
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A 43-page opinion when he could've just said, "The king can do no wrong."
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Popehat
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.
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Kelsey Atherton
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In "Bell Riots," the dystopian vision of 2024 is that sanctuary districts would be designated which legally permit the unhoused to sleep outside or in derelict buildings, where food is provided and there's an office that sets people up with work. Again, this is the dystopian part of the Bell Riots.
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merritt k
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we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop
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Thomas Zimmer
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ICYMI – I got to discuss “Project 2025” with @chrislhayes.bsky.social:
The radical Right wasn’t ready for Trump’s first presidency. In 2025, they will be.
What should people know about these radical plans for an authoritarian takeover of government?
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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Brian Bruce
@brianvancebruce.bsky.social
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A.R. Moxon
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I want to dig into this, since my book VERY FINE PEOPLE comes out today, and it's in large part about precisely this sort of polemic trickery in service of bullshit apologia of supremacy. There's a sleight of hand at the start that catapults us into a massive lie.
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Brian Bruce
@brianvancebruce.bsky.social
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The question isn’t wtf is wrong with trump. The question is wtf is wrong with 40% of the country.
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Assistant to the Professor
@darinself.bsky.social
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I'm just a simple country political scientist but I'm pretty sure if any other major presidential candidate said this it'd be covered none stop for weeks and everyone would agree that their campaign was over
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Technology Connections
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So, based on conversations I've been having lately in many places, I think one of the lesser-understood pieces of damage Tesla has caused, through their insular charging network which is on-display but not explained, is diminish the public knowledge of at-home charging.
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
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this has been bothering me for 24 hours and i'm probably not the right guy to be writing about the way the major leagues talks about the negro league but whatever i finally just spit it all out in a slack so i may as well share it here too
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Courtney Milan
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*goose chasing man* And did appeasement help Lincoln? DID IT HELP, YOU MOTHER FUCKER????
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Mike Masnick
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The biggest nonsense part of all this is that, no, she did not check. The bill is so obviously unconstitutional it's not even funny. Also, they didn't check. When I and others brought up the Constitutional problems we were told "you're just spewing big tech talking points." They weren't listening.