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The bulk of Trump’s presidential immunity claim was frivolous and nearly ALL of it was ruled in his favor.

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Aaron Sojourner's avatar Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org
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"We're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be glorious." - Mike Davis, former Chief Counsel of Nominations for Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Grassley, on what he'd do if he worked in the next Trump administration's Justice Department.

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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The guy who controls the main source of information for most of the nations reporters has a huge financial stake in Donald Trump winning the election. Makes you think about why the algorithm chooses to promote anti-Biden stuff!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's avatar Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"What the report finds is that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate. For Trump, 86% of people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate."

news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...

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Jorge Caballero's avatar Jorge Caballero @datadrivenmd.social
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Project 2025, page 455-456: a national abortion database that includes detailed medical information, including the person's state of residence to assist with criminal prosecution

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Stephen Wolf's avatar Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social
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A reminder that if Trump wins & purges the civil service to replace it with loyalists as planned, all sorts of govt data will become totally untrustworthy. The House GOP is already trying to rig the census to screw Democrats in redistricting after Trump's first-term attempt failed

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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He used to be disgusted, but now he tries to be amused.

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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The saving grace for Baldwin is that the same FBI lab A) came to a different conclusion the first time they tested the gun, and B) broke the gun in the course of the first test, and their second test was therefore on a *repaired version* of the gun, thus not the *same* gun. Do I recall correctly?

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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At the risk of sounding smug again, I’m gonna suggest you stop calling other people smug. You seem blissfully unaware that the purpose of LLMs is *not* to find the correct answer. It is—and I can’t emphasize this enough—to generate answers that *sound authoritative* without regard to accuracy.

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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Yes it varies a lot, both in terms of cost per kWh, and rate structures. I only chimed in because he’s in my local utility’s territory.

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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My apologies for sounding smug. Sincerely.

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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Did you just cite an AI On a factual matter? If so, don’t ever do that. As I pointed out, my solar already pays for itself. And multiple EVs now sell for less than ICE cars, some even before rebates. Anyway, keep reassessing regularly.

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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You missed out on NEM 2.0, then. Payments on my system are less than the savings on my PG&E bill, so they’ve been cash flow positive since day one. And they’ll have 10 years of warranty left when paid off. Even with adding battery cost under 3.0, you’re probably better off, although it’s closer.

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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If you get your power from PG&E, you also pay California prices for gas, so yes you’d do better with an EV. And if you can charge at home from your solar panels, or at your office for free, it’s game over.

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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But what if I need you to do a deep dive into this and get back to me, because I’m too busy this month?

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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Are you sure it was that erucic acid was bitter, and not sour? Because one of the basic tenets of kitchen chemistry that I can recall is that acids are sour and bases (opposite Ph from acids) are bitter.

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Chris Levesque's avatar Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social
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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't.

www.zdnet.com/article/digi...

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David Waldman's avatar David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social
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Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro are both in prison right now because they preferred incarceration to telling what they know about Donald Trump and what they helped him do on January 6th.

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Gerry Doyle's avatar Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
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I am not the first to make this point but if the whole premise is that the president is not competent, and the president outmaneuvers you....

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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I have to think that they believe attempts to “recover” on the age issue amount to fighting on bad territory—that engaging the issue is self-defeating and they’re better off going on offense about Trump. Maybe the Project 2025 stuff reflects that. And, hey, maybe that continues getting traction.

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Daniel Roberts's avatar Daniel Roberts @drobertsimg.bsky.social
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I just don’t understand how or why The NY Times would be so consistently sloppy, and yet always sloppy in a way that favors Trump. I cannot think of any reason why they would do that. I am stumped.

www.axios.com/2021/02/05/n...

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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Was sure you were going with “and that Biden was born under a bad sign.”

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Dan Izzo's avatar Dan Izzo @izzos.us
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Reminder that the @nytimes.com is dogshit

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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My greatest fear is that the United States is about to get the government it deserves.

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Aaron Rupar's avatar Aaron Rupar @atrupar.bsky.social
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"Now that federal judges are the only ones 'qualified' to interpret the governing statutes, we're already seeing conservative jurists deploying junk science & hot takes to get to their preferred conclusion while ignoring the expertise of agency employees" -- @snipy.bsky.social

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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Very surprised, or very far right-friendly?

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Mark Joseph Stern's avatar Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social
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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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The Intercept's avatar The Intercept @theintercept.com
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Former Trump administration officials wrote and edited massive chunks of the manifesto, but Trump has “no idea who is behind” it.

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Pavel's avatar Pavel @spavel.bsky.social
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Well this is grim

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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My point isn’t the good things, although they’re great. My point is, an incompetent dementia patient couldn’t have accomplished those things. So any such diagnosis that preceded those things was wrong. The track record on that diagnosis is crap.

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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That’s fair. But then 3 and 2 years ago Biden shepherded the largest infrastructure and climate change bill in history into law despite far narrower House and Senate margins than Trump enjoyed, and a lot of us decided he must be a lot sharper than we’d given him credit for. Dude’s been effective.

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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“We’re going to a fucking bar! When I go out drinking, I buy drinks for people I find entertaining! Which is why you’re our designated driver.”

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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This is the editorial view of the guy who controls which posts get shown on Vichy Twitter and which get buried. Insane that journalists continue to use it as a source of information and contribute to its legitimacy

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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Declaring your evil plans in advance allows you to move the Overton Window AND mock your opponents for getting hysterical. It’s a win-win.

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Are those feathers inlaid on the neck?

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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62 and “a chain-smoker…had been in declining health since at least 1940. In March 1944, shortly after his 62nd birthday, he underwent testing at Bethesda Hospital and was found to have hypertension, atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease causing angina pectoris, and congestive heart failure.”

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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That’s not a transcript. That’s all paraphrasing and can’t even be confused with a transcript.

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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I don’t *think* this is what you’re contemplating, but: There are prenatal surgeries where basically docs perform a C-section without cutting the cord or removing the placenta, lay the fetus on mom’s belly, perform another surgery on the fetus, and then put everything back for up to several months.

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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Can you explain a little about the implosion of the SNP? Did Labour announce a path for Scotland to leave if Labour won? Did some scandal drag them down? Did they lose relevance somehow?

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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Important to note that the author is a big fat liar. He votes, including midterms. He just doesn’t want YOU to vote.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason)
Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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The rebuttal is so damned obvious, too.

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Joshua Erlich's avatar Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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thought i'd check my camera roll for "nuzzi"

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David Marshall's avatar David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social
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It was a joke, in part based on Trumpists picking and choosing who they consider to be real Americans.

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