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Bill Beers

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Professional GIS programmer, dilettante everything else.

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Neither, not coincidentally, is this take on Project 2025.

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Senate Dems to test whether abortion can break through talk of Biden concerns: The Senate will take up a bill on Wednesday that seeks to codify abortion protections from Roe v. Wade into the Constitution, thereby nullifying the decision that overturned it, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health…

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Bill Beers's avatar Bill Beers @wmbeers.bsky.social
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"I felt like I was driving around in an unfurnished apartment."

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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TPUSA ambassador and speaker Evan Kilgore has now taken the “brave” stand of denying the Holocaust.

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Phil Plait's avatar Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social
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(ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease^∞)

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Garlax, The Weasel King's avatar Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social
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Fuck, they had Kerry against Bush and we had to invent a whole verb about what they did in the “war hero turned peace protestor vs. warmongering draft dodger” election

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Bill Beers's avatar Bill Beers @wmbeers.bsky.social
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I hope it gives them a really wicked migraine when they wear them.

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Walter Olson's avatar Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social
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From first page to last the Trump immunity decision was based on the majority's willful policy preferences, not text or precedent. And it means that the promise of real originalism and textualism "is in a coma." The decision must and will be overturned.

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ex-Lethality Jane's avatar ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social
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Inside you are two wolves: Marie Kondo telling you to get rid of items that don't bring joy, and Jessie from Toy Story 2 who says you are a monster if you throw away a toy that your kids haven't played with for a decade.

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Robin Marty 's avatar Robin Marty @robinmarty.bsky.social
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I feel like there are a lot of people who have forgotten what it was like during the Trump years to wake up every morning afraid to look at your phone and see what fresh atrocity happened since you went to sleep…

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

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Mitchell Epner's avatar Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social
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Let me be clear. In my opinion, John Roberts has joined Roger Taney (Dred Scott - slavery) as a Chief Justice who will be remembered as an evil man. Not just wrong, but worthy of eternal condemnation for trying to destroy the Republic.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow's avatar Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social
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Just consume one more piece of bad news. A wafer-thin piece of bad news. Go ahead, what could go wrong. It's wafer-thin.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)'s avatar Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.bsky.social
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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

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Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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Jonathan Ladd's avatar Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social
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There is no constitutional text that says presidents are immune from all criminal law. Nor was it the intent of the authors of the Constitution or any amendments. It is inconsistent with American precedent and tradition. They just made it up.

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Grudgie the Whale's avatar Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social
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Biggest campaign story ever: using a private email server that could hold top secrets but doesn’t and could be breached but wasn’t. Tiny story: stealing top secrets. Hiding them in a bathroom. Taking them to NJ. Showing them to foreigners. Meeting with foreign governments.

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John Pfaff's avatar John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

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Bill Beers's avatar Bill Beers @wmbeers.bsky.social
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Had to be the main point. It's not like this opinion actually took that long to crap out.

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Bruno J. Navarro's avatar Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social
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For the good of the country, Donald Trump should drop out the 2024 presidential race.

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Moira Donegan's avatar Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social
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I wrote about Snyder v US, and how the Supreme Court yesterday legalized vast swaths of corruption for state and local officials of the kind that just happens to look a lot like their own personal conduct. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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John Scalzi's avatar John Scalzi @scalzi.com
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I mean, shit. I worked on two video games in the mid-10s, as well as a related graphic novel, and both of them are forever wiped from the world because EA bought the game studio that made them and took them offline. Never again shall you see Midnight Star!

youtu.be/XJhkYy_advA

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Bill Beers's avatar Bill Beers @wmbeers.bsky.social
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I also loved that game! What's a good time for us to come over for a sesh?

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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We are living through a major tech revolution but it has nothing to do with AI:

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Bill Beers's avatar Bill Beers @wmbeers.bsky.social
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Beautiful photo and kudos for the alt text! Vividly descriptive and educational.

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Joseph Mead's avatar Joseph Mead @josephwmead.bsky.social
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NEW: Georgia's SB 63 tries to shut down charitable bail funds, turning Plaintiffs' charitable, religious, and expressive conduct into a crime. This is unconstitutional. We're suing, and asking the court to stop the law before it goes into effect on July 1. www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/our-wor...

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Hippolyta Loudbasket's avatar Hippolyta Loudbasket @loudbasket.bsky.social
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Spent 5 hours cross-stitching a QR code to Rickroll my brother with. Time well spent.

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Adam Kotsko 's avatar Adam Kotsko @adamkotsko.bsky.social
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The fact that a second Trump administration is even a POSSIBILITY is such a tremendous failure on the part of every segment of our political elites. He could have been impeached, convicted, and permanently excluded on the very day. He could have been arrested the second he left office. Etc., etc.

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Travis, bluesky elder 's avatar Travis, bluesky elder @prof-hinkley.bsky.social
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omg lol I just realized that I've had my phone on DO disturb all this time

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Weird way to say "Right wing engages in misinformation"

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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A serious attempt by legislators or a candidate to invalidate a plainly valid election to install someone who plainly lost the election as president is not a "legal hack" or "finalizing results". It is treason. It is a treason against the United States and its citizens. We shouldn't dance around it.

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Bill Beers's avatar Bill Beers @wmbeers.bsky.social
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I was thinking egg rolls, funnily enough

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Peter's avatar Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
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stories like this give the lie to the idea that the right is interested in protecting these children. per their own narrative, this girl is a victim of “gender ideology” or whatever. but the reaction from the right is always hostility, ostracization and violence.

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THE Burger King's avatar THE Burger King @aburgeraday.bsky.social
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Me: Wanna settle this like men? Him: Darn right I do! *we go outside and start filling our cargo shorts pockets to see whose holds more*

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Bill Beers's avatar Bill Beers @wmbeers.bsky.social
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If you use the front you run the risk of mixing a zip code into the equation.

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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The kid was returning a BB gun to a mall, which is not something that carries the death penalty last I checked.

The man—who was a danger—decided the child—who was in danger—was a danger.

He was encouraged to do this by our dominant cultural narrative.

www.the-reframe.com/cruel-luxuri...

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