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Bender Rodríguez

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Bender Rodríguez's avatar Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social
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James Zogby lays out a plan for a "mini primary" and it could genuinely be exciting in terms of what an organized open convention could be.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtmZ...

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wisconsin beat MN, MI, and IL. that's all we need to know.

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Fifty Shades of Whey's avatar Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social
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a cop shot himself and this is the headline they went with

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's avatar Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"At least 200 candidates from both the left-wing alliance and President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition pulled out of the contest...in order to unite behind those remaining contenders with the best chance of beating Le Pen’s nationalists"

www.politico.eu/article/fren...

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Elle's avatar Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social
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so great that Europe's doing this again with the diseases

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Bender Rodríguez's avatar Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social
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"...and now need a Hail Mary in both meanings of the phrase: a desperate bid to overcome terrible odds, and forgiveness."

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Bender Rodríguez's avatar Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social
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"A disaster sparks outrage among people who’ve been warned repeatedly—often by those to their left—about what was coming & how to avoid it, but who brushed off proposed solutions as hyperbolic & unhelpful. They had years to avoid this sort of destruction..." newrepublic.com/article/1833...

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More than 300 Wisconsin officers back in law enforcement agencies after being fired or forced out

Sheriff's offices in Waukesha and Milwaukee counties, and the MPD, employ the most wandering officers as the total number of police employed in WI continues to decline. pbswisconsin.org/news-item/mo...

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The Onion's avatar The Onion @theonion.com
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"During the Elizabethan era, for example, people were rarely asked to prove they were not a robot."

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Former Pingu Child Actor's avatar Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social
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How centrism descends into fascism

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Daniel Feldman's avatar Daniel Feldman @dfeldman.bsky.social
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.

Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.

The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.

Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.

www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

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Nails Nathan's avatar Nails Nathan @chadstanton.bsky.social
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Again, selectively ignoring blatant corruption and the criminalization of the press because “oh well that’s just Mississippi, they should move out the state lol” is how you signal there’s no commitment at all for a true politics of solidarity, commitment to principles.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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oh, you might say, the president can’t issue corrupt pardons. ah. but john roberts says that not only can he issue corrupt pardons, but if he tells his staff they are corrupt in the course of issuing them, that evidence is inadmissible in the event that you could somehow prosecute the corruption

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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the world in which the president is throwing his opponents in jail is not a world where you can just ask a judge to let you out

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Peter's avatar Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
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a lot of people seem to think my annoyance here is with jokes about political violence, which i’m on record saying are fine and cathartic. my annoyance is with people who disengage with effective forms of politics and replace them with fantasies

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Bruno J. Navarro's avatar Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social
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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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Bender Rodríguez's avatar Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social
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Iran has imposed sanctions on 11 US security chiefs of police for their role in suppressing pro-Palestinian protests that erupted at university campuses across the United States in condemnation of Israel’s bloody onslaught against the Gaza Strip. www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/...

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Ygrene ✔️'s avatar Ygrene ✔️ @ygrene.bsky.social
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[arriving in hell] Satan: welco- Me: hit me with a plate of your eggs bro Satan: Me: (sprinkling motion) with the paprika

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ProPublica's avatar ProPublica @propublica.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority didn't happen overnight. This is the inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that reshaped the American judiciary and legal system.

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ApocalypticaNow's avatar ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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A man who'd eagerly incite ordinary people to violence, then try to slither out of accountability during the tribunals afterwards

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Paris Marx's avatar Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social
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A total ban is the only sane policy for Airbnb. There obviously needs to be accommodation in cities for visitors, but that shouldn’t be at the expense of housing units for people who actually live there. More governments should follow Barcelona’s lead.

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Will Oremus's avatar Will Oremus @oremus.bsky.social
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It’s unfortunate they put in the constitution that you can only nominate someone for president if they’re either over 80, a convicted felon who paid off a porn star, or have brain worms and a taste for barbecued dog, but that’s the system we’ve got. At least once we elect them they get full impunity

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Kat Tenbarge's avatar Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social
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If Biden were to use “absolute immunity” to do useful and cool things for the next four months, that would be awesome. Which is why I know he won’t

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Angela Collier's avatar Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social
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academic unpaid labor includes reviewing papers.

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Jordan Uhl's avatar Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com
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The Supreme Court's ruling in Trump's immunity case underscores the importance for the Democratic party to reassess the strength of Biden as a candidate.

I talked to @davidsirota.com about the calls for Biden to step aside and more SCOTUS opinions:
www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-291-wil...

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Bender Rodríguez's avatar Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social
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Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US government

Ruling leads to claims that BG’s right to free speech unfairly challenged in another case putting rap lyrics on trial

www.theguardian.com/music/articl...

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Alex Lamers's avatar Alex Lamers @alexlamers.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Hurricane #Beryl becomes the earliest Category 5 on record in the Atlantic basin.

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Paris Marx's avatar Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social
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The story is always the same: major tech companies tell us they care about the environment to silence criticism, then never actually follow through. Google’s emissions are up ~50% in 5 years, following similar news Microsoft is also blowing past its climate commitments.

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Judith Butlerian Jihad's avatar Judith Butlerian Jihad @xanindigo.bsky.social
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Diana Wynne Jones annoyed the hell out of Tolkien, because she insisted on going to his terrible lectures, which meant he had to keep giving them instead of writing.

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Bender Rodríguez's avatar Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social
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"two dogs, one toy." you funny.

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Just a funny comic for pals to read!!

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fact. steal from the ruling class. pay for local goods and services.

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Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸]'s avatar Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸] @themckenziest.gay
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Every single person currently in power is the absolute worst of humanity. Shop local. Shoplift corporate any way you can.

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⚜ Ole Dirty Rice ⚜'s avatar ⚜ Ole Dirty Rice ⚜ @cody.social
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Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans on September 9, 1965. For context, Katrina was August 29th, 2005 and now we apparently have Cat 5 storms forming in late June/early July.

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Ian Livingston's avatar Ian Livingston @ianlivingston.bsky.social
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Sun rising on Category 5 Hurricane #Beryl. 165 mph sustained wind, strongest storm so early in the season on record in the Atlantic. #tropicalwx

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Distributed Denial of Secrets's avatar Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.com
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We recently release over 160Gb of data from mSpy, a spyware vendor with millions of customers. This release includes subpoenas and documents from law enforcement agencies. Please seed the torrent.

ddosecrets.substack.com/p/release-ms...

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