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Chip Warden@lgw4.bsky.social |
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writer of software & prose; ttrpg player; sf fan; he/they/him/them; blocker extraordinaire of racists, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes, & tech gatekeepers
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Brendan Cantwell
@cantb.bsky.social
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Here is a short analysis that focuses on what Project 2025 would mean for student borrowers and debt. It’s based on the concrete aspects of the P2025 proposal. Things get worse if you read between the lines.
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Dillon of the Birch Forest
@iamtheaardvark.bsky.social
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...Student loan debt objectively makes the economy worse for everyone not just borrowers, what the hell is the conservative rancor about student debt relief about exactly?
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Adam Keiper
@adamkeiper.com
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If we're taking about court-packing again, here's my favorite detail from the 1937 controversy: The SCOTUS justices, learning of FDR's scheme at the same time as everybody else, were handed copies *during oral arguments*. Imagine being the lawyer arguing in front of those preoccupied justices!
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Kim Kelly
@kimkelly.bsky.social
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It took 50 years for the Dept of Labor to update its federal standard to better protect coal miners from the deadly silica dust that’s driving an epidemic of black lung across Appalachia.
Now, the Republicans are trying to kill it: t.co/lTtAzS5Vq4
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Dell Cameron
@dell.bsky.social
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Mining is so hazardous to your lungs that many societies would refrain from using slave labor because it was more cost effective to just pay people to kill themselves doing it.
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Julian Sanchez
@normative.bsky.social
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The pretense is always that learning about the history of racism will make (or is even MEANT to make) white kids feel guilty, which is just not how normal people react to things that happened before they were born. What they’re really afraid of is that it will make them feel outraged.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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The many manifestations of racism — slavery, segregation, etc — were an integral part of not just African American history, but American history. Denying that reality and pretending racism wasn’t a serious problem is, in itself, racist.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Without even clicking the link, I’ll guess the reason — all the talk of racism makes white kids feel guilty. Again, if your kids are reading histories of slavery or segregation and identifying with the racists in the story, that suggests you’ve got your own problems to work through. Leave us out.
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Corey Rayburn Yung
@coreyryung.bsky.social
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This is the part that I honestly just don't understand. I never, for one second, identified with the slave owners and segregationists when I was in school even though I grew up as a white kid in Virginia.
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Charm City Slicker (57-35)
@sprawlhater.bsky.social
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(lot of racist Democrats too ofc [esp in the Get Out way] but this particular example is a GOP county doing some nonsense)
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Charm City Slicker (57-35)
@sprawlhater.bsky.social
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Yes Maryland is a contender for the bluest state in the country but there are 24 counties in this place and only 6 of them usually vote blue, two more lean blue of late and a couple tiny counties on the shore can swing. Lot of opportunities for right-wing county government shenanigans out there.
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Charm City Slicker (57-35)
@sprawlhater.bsky.social
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Teaching Black history is too much of an exercise in progressive politics according to Harford County. I guess because the entire history of this country is one example after another of dehumanizing Black people and fucking them over for profit and/or sport. Better to put fingers in one's ears.
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Charm City Slicker (57-35)
@sprawlhater.bsky.social
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Harford County (a right wing exurban county home to John Wilkes Booth) school board votes 5-4 to not allow AP African American Studies classes because they focus too much on racism
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Brian Lyman
@brianlyman.bsky.social
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Arthur Madison was jailed and disbarred for trying to register people to vote in Montgomery in 1944. He came back and helped lead maybe the largest Black voter registration drive in the state since Reconstruction, a critical step to the Bus Boycott. www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/in-depth/new...
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Brian Lyman
@brianlyman.bsky.social
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The most heroic American stories involve men and women fighting racism.
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John Rogers
@johnrogers.bsky.social
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This is why you need a union, folks. $3 million in forced work.
deadline.com/2024/07/cbs-...
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Kathleen Bachynski
@bachynski.bsky.social
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“The U.S. Federal Trade Commission plans to sue the three largest pharmacy benefit managers over their negotiating tactics for various medicines, including insulin, that pushed patients toward higher-priced treatments, according to a source familiar with the matter.”
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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CNN reporter Eva McKend spent the day at the Alpha Kappa Alpha convention in Dallas, where VP Kamala Harris spoke, and was hard-pressed to find a single Black voter, even among Harris mega-fans, who thought it was a good idea to push President Biden off the ticket. 🧵: x.com/evamckend/st...
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Jeff Lazarus
@jlazarus.bsky.social
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said that white nationalists are "very fine people" AND spent his entire first term either golfing or in executive time AND thought we could buy Greenland AND did the sharpie thing with the hurricane AND [fuck I'm running out of steam insert 43 more things here] is a viable candidate for president.
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Jeff Lazarus
@jlazarus.bsky.social
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flagrantly used the office of the presidency to enrich himself and his family AND was found legally culpable of rape AND was convicted of 34 felonies AND whose organization was found guilty of tax fraud AND made innumerable public racist & misogynistic statements AND
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Jeff Lazarus
@jlazarus.bsky.social
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I live every day stunned that the guy who killed more Americans than anyone in history besides Jefferson Davis AND attempted a violent coup on national television AND suborned US foreign policy to his own electoral interests badly enough to get impeached for it AND
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Daniel A. Horwitz
@danielahorwitz.bsky.social
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🥳
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/u...
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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(pulls up a chair)
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donut
@funkndonuts.bsky.social
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just saw him called 'clearance' thomas on reddit lmao
@kenwhite.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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like if your threshold is half the elected party and they were willing to ask him publicly to step aside (to be clear: a very big "if", and treating it as a hypothetical) and Biden said "fuck you", the election /is/ being sabotaged at that point, but by Biden, not by the ones calling on him to leave
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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If the threshold is high and he's still saying "no", at that point it's very much not you doing the damaging, but the candidate themselves
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Amanda Smith
@amandasmith.bsky.social
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Call your rep today to encourage them to support AOC’s articles of impeachment. I will block anyone who tells me why they, personally, cannot and therefore why it’s pointless.
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okie
@okieokie.bsky.social
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Fuck out of here MSNBC
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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And FWIW, in case this isn't entirely clear from the above, the point of an anonymous VONC isn't to force him out. It's to force the issue to a conclusion. Because it hurts /him/ for it to remain a live issue for several more weeks.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Can he purposely throw the election? Sure. Would he? I don't think so. Should he? I think every reasonable person plainly thinks "no".
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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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Karl Bode
@karlbode.bsky.social
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terms like "tech scion" and "mogul" obscure the fact he's a nepo baby who got $6 billion from daddy to consummate a pointless merger that will cost thousands of people their jobs
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Paperback Paradise
@paperbackparadise.bsky.social
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Book
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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the baseline for the campaign really should be higher than "today he did not fire a gun into his foot, please clap". This is really just table stakes.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Well, yes, if he fucks up again that's going to be a whole new problem, and really the thing there is he needs to not do that rather than for everyone to be ok with it
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Justin Ling
@justinling.bsky.social
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Rep. Adam Smith was just on CNN saying that, while only eight members of Congress are publicly calling for Biden to go, "80 to 90%" want a different nominee. 👀
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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and that's where all the leaks and all the angst comes from: it's folks trying to probe for confidence in that number, when no confidence about it is available from public statements. It's a coordination problem
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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the basic problem is nobody in those group chats knows if the real number who would call for him to quit if they all were honest about it is 5% or 80% of the party, because they can't go public if it's 5%, and they can't tolerate the status quo if it's 80%.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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If the number is big, then they can coordinate to remove him; if the number is small, they can stop bitching and coordinate to elect him. That's all it is.
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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Worth remembering that Trump tried to overturn the ACA without a replacement, which could have brought back lifetime caps and revoked coverage for pre-existing conditions. In other words, if he'd had his way, many more Americans could have gone bankrupt and died.
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David Slack
@slack2thefuture.bsky.social
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If pre-existing conditions come back, the health insurance that saved my niece’s life when she got leukemia at age 2 is the last insurance she’d ever be able to get.
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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This is what Trump tried to do to us last time 'round. Don't see any reason why he wouldn't try again.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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You actually get the dynamic in lots of parliamentary systems where a leader will call a VONC /in themselves/ to force closed these types of questions.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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well, so long as they win it. But yes
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Basically, the D apparatus is mostly on board with /both/ "we are freaking out" /and/ "fuck NYT, they are self-interested here and not helping in either direction"
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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The polls show the people who are most concerned are the ones who watched the debate, not the ones who read about it, so I don't think it's accurate
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Josh Sternberg
@joshsternberg.bsky.social
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And yet we have yet to see a single op-ed from a Republican Senator or Congressman requesting the 78yo twice impeached, convicted felon who stared directly at the sun during a solar eclipse to step down from the campaign.
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tante
@tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy
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