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I'm way past had it.


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Rusty Foster (derogatory)'s avatar Rusty Foster (derogatory) @rusty.todayintabs.com
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Google built an “AI Answers” feature that literally just scrapes web pages which seem vaguely related and then rewords them slightly to disguise the source. That’s all it does. Plagiarism at scale, and with no understanding of the underlying applicability of the information. Worse than useless.

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andré carrington's avatar andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social
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The students at my school did this. They negotiated for it, they got it, and they're disbanding their encampment now that they're done. Not one arrest. No police. The first campus in the UC system to do it.

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Middle Age Riot's avatar Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social
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If Joe Biden wins again, not only does Donald Trump lose the election, he also loses the ability to delay or prevent trials for his many criminal acts. As a result, he will spend the rest of his life in courtrooms and/or prison cells. So, needless to say, Biden/Harris 2024.

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Andy Craig's avatar Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social
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Likeliest they'll just have a vote on some sort of motion to dismiss (they had those at the start of each of the Trump trials) or refer to committee to die there or something like that. They're not going to go through with an actual trial, sitting there listening to MTG present the House's case.

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southpaw's avatar southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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In a change to its guidance, CDC will say it’s okay to smoke cloves on the hood of your boyfriend’s Pontiac GT on the edge of a gorge with the parking brake disengaged. “If that’s truly what the cool kids are doing, go fucking nuts I’m tired,” a public health expert was heard to mutter, per sources.

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Rusty Foster (derogatory)'s avatar Rusty Foster (derogatory) @rusty.todayintabs.com
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My kids are currently losing their minds over the design of Fred Flintstone’s car. This is the funniest thing they’ve ever seen in their lives. Never forget what they took from us

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Goes without saying that if anyone else did this, they would be removed from the courtroom and be jailed for contempt

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Democracy’s on the Ballot 's avatar Democracy’s on the Ballot @marieo.bsky.social
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A member of Maryland’s Board of Elections has resigned after being charged with taking part in the mob during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and jabbing an officer during the melee with a flagpole.

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Pixburghgrrl's avatar Pixburghgrrl @pixburghgrrl.bsky.social
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Can someone please explain why these center-right-wing lovers of democracy who so strongly feel the need to vote for a fascist are not writing Trumpov's name in on their ballot & going about their business?

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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one thing i'll add is that there is a "volkish" quality to the notion that trump's voters deserve consideration above and beyond what we extended to every other citizen

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Another really annoying thing about the Harvard coverage is it’s got people treating Chris Rufo like an evil genius again instead of one or countless freaks DeSantis gave a no-show job

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Tim Onion's avatar Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social
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This is kinda interesting. No value judgment, but it's interesting.

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CREW's avatar CREW @crew.bsky.social
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We worked on this story for seven years....and he just...said it on live TV

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Grand juries can, and occasionally do, fulfill their mythical function of being a bulwark against government overreach and abuse. I’ve seen it happen. But in cases like this I tend to suspect that the prosecutor deliberately took a dive in front of the GJ. Case over but they don’t get the blame.

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Lydia Polgreen's avatar Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social
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The salience gap on trans issues continues to confound the GOP. A majority of Americans are deeply uncomfortable with trans issues, especially regarding children, but the issue does not seem to help the right in competitive elections. They keep trying and keep failing to make it work.

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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What's most revealing is Iowa caucuses are the heart of Evangelical power on the right and they're also the only demographic that understands what he's saying, so if this isn't moving votes there it isn't moving votes anywhere

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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So perhaps Boeing makes unsafe planes because of woke DEI or perhaps, just maybe, it's because the last time they killed a bunch of people just five years ago they got away with it and not a single manager or executive responsible was prosecuted?

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Dave Karpf's avatar Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social
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Substack finally abandoned their "Nazis are terrible but we like their money" stance.

The company is comically inept at strategic political comms. And that's what I teach.

So I wrote up some pointers on how to never-do-what-they-just-spent-the-past-month-doing.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

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Stonekettle's avatar Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social
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As a general rule of democracy: Vote for people who will work to ensure the poor have the same rights, liberty, and justice before the law as the wealthy. Corollary: A rising tide lifts all boats. Which is good news for those who can afford a seat on the boat. No so great if you're treading water.

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Congrats to all the "moderate" Republicans who voted for Mike Johnson, a far-right election-denying religious zealot who celebrated the end of Roe and thinks "post-birth abortion" is an actual thing. I'm sure you won't regret this decision and all the polarizing votes he's about to bring your way.

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post malone ergo propter malone's avatar post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social
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the other thing about Mike Johnson is that I don't think he's terribly well vetted, and he's about to be. i have no particular reason to think he has skeletons in his closet but when the national papers turn their attention to a guy who has not previously faced a seriously contested election...

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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It’d be hilarious if Emmer introduced a motion to vacate tomorrow

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Media Matters for America's avatar Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social
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Steve Bannon: Rep. Mike Johnson was “one of the intellectual architects of pushing back on the stolen election”

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kilgore trout's avatar kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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exploring brave new dimensions of extremely divorced internet poisoning

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Natasha Lennard's avatar Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social
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The far-right attorney who helped craft Texas’s bounty-hunter abortion ban is now attempting to force abortion funds to hand over reams of information on every abortion the organizations have supported since 2021… latest @theintercept.com column

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southpaw's avatar southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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"A Washington Post analysis of thousands of challenges nationwide found that 60 percent of all challenges in the 2021-2022 school year came from 11 adults, each of whom objected to dozens — sometimes close to 100 — of books in their districts." www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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ProPublica's avatar ProPublica @propublica.bsky.social
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With Shutdown Looming, Biden Calls Out Speaker McCarthy for a “Terrible Bargain” With MAGA Republicans In a wide-ranging video interview being published Sunday, the president also addressed broad threats to democracy, ethical concerns about the Supreme Court and more.

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Comfortably Numb's avatar Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly
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lmao this is so sad

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil's avatar Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social
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Just gonna keep reminding folks that the whole point of Moms for Liberty and their imitators is to create cover for Proud Boy brownshirts to bring violence to school board meetings under the pretense of "protecting" white women.

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Tess Tickles's avatar Tess Tickles @titsonthebarbie.bsky.social
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Facebook smells like lavender. Instagram smells like bubble gum. Twitter smells like dope. Bluesky smells like a doctor's waiting room.

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ProPublica's avatar ProPublica @propublica.bsky.social
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Premiering tomorrow! A new 3-part podcast series from ProPublica & On the Media about how one man built a money, influence and power machine to fuel a conservative takeover of America's courts.

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Adam Serwer's avatar Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
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The “Trump supports striking workers” story is pure, uncut fake news and it’s a bad sign that the press stuck to the narrative they wanted even after it became clear it wasn’t true www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
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pro tip: if Bob Menendez can be indicted for laundering money through his wife, Clarence Thomas can be indicted for laundering money through his wife. let's fucking go already, this isn't rocket science

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Dawna and MagicMonkey's avatar Dawna and MagicMonkey @dawna9.bsky.social
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All’s fair in love, war & politics. Right?

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Pixburghgrrl's avatar Pixburghgrrl @pixburghgrrl.bsky.social
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We know what begging for an edit button got us at the last place.🙄

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Pixburghgrrl's avatar Pixburghgrrl @pixburghgrrl.bsky.social
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I'm much happier to be here NOW! 💖💖💖

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