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Isaac Rabinovitch@isaac32767.bsky.social |
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Prisonculture
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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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Thing is, they *are* venal craven fools. I'm willing to delay addressing this fact until November – but no longer.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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I was going to make a joke about Communist department stores. Then I remembered that socialist retailing is actually a thing in Finland. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_Group
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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I live in Portland. Not exactly a redneck city. Stupidity about fireworks is bipartisan.
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Seth Trueger
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incidentally I am an emergency physician and I use a walker
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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Also a structure fire risk. Three people died in such a fire here in Portland a few years back. The city bans fireworks (duh!) but we're surrounded by jurisdictions that don't.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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TIL a big reason we have so many heat islands: landlords hate trees. www.reddit.com/r/Portland/c...
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Benjamin Tausig
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The history of the name of Astoria, Queens helps teach us that it’s never worth it to try to suck up to rich people
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T. Greg Doucette
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1) Same 2) Same 3) Same
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Angus Johnston
@angus.bsky.social
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Roses are red Zoomers be zoomin'
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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Personally, I don't miss filler episodes because I'm a "and then what happened" kind of guy.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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I'm bemused to discover that packrats are also called trade rats. Who are they supposed to be trading with?
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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Fair point, but you spoiled my joke.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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Charles Blow tells me I'm full of shit. I rather hope he's right and I'm wrong, but, you know, he is in New York Times pundit. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/o...
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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By all means.
But do note that the sandwich is a posho invention! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwic...
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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I think half the social media posts I see from the UK have me running to Google. Which is fine, it's actually part of the fun.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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LOL. Your Tweet was perfectly clear, and all the britishisms only made it spicier. Even if they hadn't been clear from context, Google is a thing.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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How does that prevent him from entering office again? A criminal conviction is not a bar.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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What makes you think they can't force him? The dp, unlike the gop, is not a one-man show. If the donor money dries up and the party nomenclatura lose faith, he's gone.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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No, I was 100% literal. If Biden is forced to leave the race, and the Democratic party gets stuck in chaotic neutral mode, there isn't going to be anybody for us to suck-up-and-vote *for*.
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
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To put it very bluntly: If they are going to do those things, they were always going to do them. The possibility of the President being prosecuted after (and, based on prior precedent, ONLY after) leaving office was never going to be a sufficient restraint to stop that.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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I *was* going to suck it up and vote for for Biden, even though I despise the man. But it's increasingly looking like I'm going to be deprived of that option.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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Half of the military backing a white supremacist coup and the other half opposing it is one of many scenarios that lead directly to a second Civil War.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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Didn't Elon just fire his entire charging infrastructure team? Obviously because they weren't needed anymore!
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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But the British did industrial capitalism first, as I recall.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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No, I'm pretty sure that's a British thing too. @thetattooedprof.bsky.social?
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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I certainly see a lot more fascist symbolism and rhetoric in cop culture than in military culture. But there are still a lot more Mike Flynn's out there then I'm comfortable with.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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Equity capital strikes again.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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If I were Dutch, I would resent you erasing the imperial sins of my ancestors.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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The basic issue here is simply that the US power grid isn't anywhere nearly as reliable as it needs to be. One of many things that needs to change if we're going to deal with the climate crisis.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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This time, when it gets to the senate, have an actual fucking trial. I don't care if the Senate has to pause regular business for 6 months.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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You folks are so much more observant than I am.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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Wait, you're saying this sellers postcards aren't genuine?
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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I noticed that the Tesla console has a Netflix app. Speaking of safety issues.
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Jamison Foser
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The only thing I'm confident in predicting is this: "Democrats should nominate someone who isn't Joe Biden" <a short time later> "No, no. Not like that!"
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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Proof that @gregdoucette.bsky.social is as conservative as he claims to be!
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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Nice try.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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I never knew that capyberas were graceful swimmers. When I become a billionaire, I will buy a huge capybara-infested riverine property and build myself a modest cabin there where I will hang out and chill
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e.w. niedermeyer
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"It marks the second incident in two months involving a Tesla’s near miss-with a train while utilising its driver assistance system."
You can tell Tesla is close to "solving self-driving" because they are down to the tough edge cases like *checks notes* trains
nz.news.yahoo.com/tesla-autopi...
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MurderBotBot
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There’s unrealistic that takes you away from reality and unrealistic that reminds you that everybody’s afraid of you.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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The "show up and comment" is terribly important right now. We don't just need to elect Democrats, we need to elect Democrats who will do the fucking work.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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You speak to the redeeming feature of American fascism: it's incompetence.
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T. Greg Doucette
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Me, when I think about the ability of our media to accurately process and convey what happened today.
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Paul Crider
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I would like to see Biden give an address to the nation from the Oval Office explaining what the SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity means and what its possibilities are. Then hit the campaign trail attacking "the MAGA Court" for shredding the Constitution to give felon Trump license to crime.
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Ashley Fairbanks
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I hate capitalism. I hate Joe Biden. But tell me how it's not me and my people that wind up completely fucked under a right-wing administration if we all choose to opt out. Tell me what to do.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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Oh well.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-...
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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Well, I'm 70, and I remember the Warren Court, and have spent my adult life watching the GOP undo it.
Funny thing: Earl Warren was a Republican. But that was before the GOP became an alliance of fascists and plutocrats.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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This piece includes a cool pic illustrating how these two dwarf galaxies are visible to the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere. Makes me regret not travelling more. And yeah, fuck Magellan. Personally, I like the Arimi (indigenous people of Tanzania) myth about the Clouds the best.
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Sean Skunk-Cabbage ⚓
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I simply don't buy the very common argument of "none of the options available to me are extreme enough so I'm going to continue to do nothing" If you can't even hold your stomach and do some harm reduction how the fuck am I supposed to expect you'll be there when we need to march and strike?
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Isaac Rabinovitch
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The way Bluesky does quoteposts obscures it, but my post that Greg is quoting is itself quoting a long thread about how Trump is still the one with an uphill battle ahead of him. Must reading if you're trying to break out of doomscroll mode.
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