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Dennis D.@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social |
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Retired software engineer, wanted to be a symphony musician but didn't make the cut. Love my dog, my spouse, my children, and my UU community (not in that order.)
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Katie Mack
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Went to a clinic today for a routine medical thing and was once again amazed by the number of people who are happy to hang out and just freely breathe in all the air juice inside the germ emporium
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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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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote
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ApocalypticaNow
@apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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This fucking guy voted in the last two elections
voteref.com/voters/MI/vi...
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Dennis D.
@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social
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And, for those, there is the Presidential pardon.
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Dennis D.
@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social
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You're giving the weapon to the worst among us, even if the best won't use it. Trump, famous respecter of norms, will sell pardons and execute protesters when there are no consequences to himself.
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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You could say this about the era preceding nearly every authoritarian government. And Trump has explicitly vowed to remove people who won’t follow his orders and replace them with people who will. Heritage and Claremont are lining up candidates ready and eager to do what he asks.
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Sarah Posner
@sarahposner.bsky.social
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I sure hope all the Dems calling for Biden to step aside have gamed out the fuckery that the Heritage Foundation is planning
www.notus.org/2024-electio...
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Christopher Federico
@cmfederico.bsky.social
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The judiciary has fucked the country with this, but I think you could reasonably argue that they’ve fucked themselves as well given how resulting legal chaos they will need to manage. The FedSoc vision is not a conservative one, but a reckless right-wing utopia born of dumb law-review abstractions.
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Assistant to the Professor
@darinself.bsky.social
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If SCOTUS doesn't make you angry enough to overlook Biden's faults I don't know what to tell you.
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Dennis D.
@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social
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It's worse than that, because the party is planning to nominate Biden/Harris officially via Zoom PRIOR to the convention, because somehow somebody made the lame-brained decision to schedule the actual convention after the cutoff to be on the ballot in Ohio! So they'd have to pick an alt remotely.
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Dennis D.
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They should also hammer on how many Trump administration officials have been convicted of felonies and how many of them he pardoned; "The Trump Crime Family"
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Dennis D.
@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social
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I didn't say it was good for the Dems. I'm questioning Mr. Bouie's contention that it couldn't be anybody other than Harris if Biden is out. I think Biden should stay in.
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Dennis D.
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In my scenario, there is no Biden/Harris ticket to vote for. Delegates are not pledged to vote for a Harris/Whoever ticket, they become unbound.
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Dennis D.
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A VP is picked to balance the ticket. That doesn't mean that's the best standard-bearer. Hypothetical: Biden drops dead and Harris becomes the incumbent Prez. I don't think that guarantees her the nom because when she actually ran the Dem electorate showed a remarkable lack of enthusiasm for her.
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Dennis D.
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Putting Lara Trump in charge of the RNC was a great choice.
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Jamison Foser
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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SULZBERGER: It's been three hours since our last story about Biden being old. What's next? KAHN: Sir, all our political reporters have already written at least three articles about Biden's age. SULZBERGER: You have ten minutes. KAHN: I guess the art critic could weigh in... SULZBERGER: Run it.
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Daniel A. Horwitz
@danielahorwitz.bsky.social
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The First Amendment safeguards the right to advocate for access to legal abortion care, and the State of Tennessee lacks authority to criminalize such advocacy. So our clients are suing.
Complaint: horwitz.law/wp-content/u...
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Dennis D.
@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social
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He blew through the line with his 30K sq ft penthouse whopper
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Dennis D.
@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social
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yeah, he's skated his whole life. it's appalling what the NYT investigation revealed about his tax cheating. But the IRS never ruled against him! He is clearly an edge case, but a lot of this stuff goes on with property developers.
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Dennis D.
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I think it's regional. My spouse's (upstate NY) family does it and we've talked about since we first met in the 80s.
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It sure would be comical if Samuel Alito had recently published an opinion in which he expressed strong feelings about flags and wrote that passersby viewing a flag flying over a building would naturally assume the flag conveys some message on the owner's behalf
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21p...
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Just bizarre stuff from the Washington Post spokesperson
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Melissa Gira Grant
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The mainstream SCOTUS beat is rotten to its core: days after January 6, 2021, the Alitos were interviewed by a Washington Post reporter on the Supreme Court beat about the upside-down “distress” flag flying at their house—but the paper decided it wasn’t a story and sat on it until today.
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Renee DiResta 🆒
@noupside.bsky.social
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Starting off Memorial Day Weekend with an email telling Matt Taibbi he got basic facts and timelines wrong. Again. Even if he corrects, though, there are still cranks in my inbox mad over the bs that the newsletter trolls sell their fans.
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MonthlyLimitSoldier
@andrewpaul.bsky.social
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wow! the government finally passed a major digital privacy protection law*
*for private jet owners
www.popsci.com/technology/t...
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Tim Onion
@bencollins.bsky.social
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oh my god
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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a useful exercise is to ask how the political press would be framing the election if the positions were reversed, meaning, if Trump were an incumbent presiding over a strong economy wielding a powerful campaign apparatus and Biden was the shambolic challenger on trial for multiple criminal offenses
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Dennis D.
@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social
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Horseshit. "Top executives for the gun rights nonprofit were accused of using millions in NRA donations for private luxuries." Not remotely the case at MMA.
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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Georgia just made bail funds illegal. IANAL, but I would think there could be First Amendment challenges to the provision making it a crime to bail out more than three people in a year.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Atrios
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but that's what "hallucinating" is
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Ned
@thewesterhazys.bsky.social
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This is my complaint as well. Hallucinating is a ridiculous term that AI people use to make it seem more human. Hallucinating is a sensory illusion. An llm does not have senses. When a standard search gets something wrong you don’t say “hallucinating.” Really dumb to play along with their framing!
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Joseph Fink
@planetoffinks.bsky.social
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remind me, when companies create an actual revolutionary technology that is going to change the world, do they usually have to beg users to adopt it, give it away for free for years, and at last resort force it on people with no way to disable it? Is that usually how revolutionary tech works?
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Saraidh
@saraidh.bsky.social
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I'm more familiar with the business world, but Inigo Montoya's networking guide is a good start for most blind introductions, which can be particularly daunting.
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Julia Doubleday
@juliadoubleday.bsky.social
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The NC Mask Ban is life-threatening for vulnerable people. But in the wake of years of COVID normalizing propaganda, anti-mask misinfo, and utter state abandonment, disabled people are being targeted with impunity.
Read my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/biden-cdc-...
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Dennis D.
@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social
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"With those on the left saying 'we know where you live and are going peacefully protest in front of your house" and those on the right saying 'we know where you live and we are going to kill your family", both sides have a political terror problem."
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i think the thing that gets me about this is the deep belief in the integrity of sam alito of all people. sam alito, who REGULARLY gives speeches where he reveals himself to be a standard-issue republican crank
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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Abbott might be the most reprehensible Republican holding public office right now. Quite a feat.
RIP, Garrett Foster.
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/u...
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Julia Doubleday
@juliadoubleday.bsky.social
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As North Carolina moves forward with its plan to ban masks, the CDC is silent. It's just the latest betrayal from an admin that has purposely pushed the Overton Window on masks to the far right to excuse its never-ending mass infection policy.
www.thegauntlet.news/p/biden-cdc-...
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Dennis D.
@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social
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Biden gave 3 very good IMO reasons for not going through the commission (some debates after start of early voting, audiences take time away from issue discussion, and the commission not enforcing its own rules in the 2020 debates), but the DC brains aren't discussing that at all, just "nORmz!"
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Dennis D.
@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social
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This is easily explained. * Anything bad is due to Democrats. * Anything good is actually bad if a Democrat is in the White House. Apply to all issues.
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Dennis D.
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Granny might not have been arrested in 2019, but masks have since become a political issue (God help us). There will absolutely be people threatening to call the cops on people who refuse to take off their mask in a store.
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Dennis D.
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I read his stuff on antitrust and monopolies and it seems very good to me. But this exchange makes me wonder if I’m actually not informed enough to know that he is just full of it?
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Dennis D.
@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social
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I wonder why he thinks it is an "amazing accomplishment" that the "ladies" are getting their degree. Surely they shouldn't have been wasting time on that when they should have been getting directly to their best vocation: "Homemaker".
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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I frequently see local health authority signs in public bathrooms talking about the importance of handwashing to prevent respiratory viruses, including covid. These are recently installed — not relics from 2020 — and not one mentions transmission through the air. Misinformation by omission.
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Mary Gillis
@marygillis.bsky.social
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NORTHERN LIGHTS: Take my picture! Please! I don't look great now but the photos will be spectacular, bursts of green and pink! Take as many photos as you can! THE MOON: Do not take my photo, if you little apes dare to photograph me I will be so tiny, I swear to god I will make myself so goddamn tiny
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Dennis D.
@dennisdoubleday.bsky.social
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I am always happy (and, unfortunately, a bit surprised) when I see smart people masking indoors.
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Margaret Sullivan
@sulliview.bsky.social
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