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Shreveport!
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Shreveport!
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Thiel has a B.A. in philosophy from Stanford. I have never found his political philosophy and general reasoning about the world to be very coherent. It mostly consists of positing dubious propositions. He has made some genius investments (e.g. warrants in his Roth IRA)
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$30K? Zhao is not serious.
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In Andreeson / Trump's view, that's not a conflict of interest, it is a concordance of interest. The public interest does not figure in these understandings.
"What eroded trust was the COVID vaccine" No, it was the fucking dipshits like RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad who spread misinformation and contrarianism as a profiteering industry.
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Terrifying that Howard Lutnick made a fortune in finance That his aggressive stupidity is rewarded in a field where its participants regard themselves as super astute: proof they are all detritus from random walks down Wall St Assigning these people an important role in our collective fate is insane
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
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There are so many things in those photos! A girl in a moment of brillance A boy graceful and elegant beyond his years A young woman hitting that instance of perfection A group realizing that cultural ideal of movement
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It started with wind turbines offshore of his golf course in Scotland. "windmill creates mechanical energy for tasks like grinding grain or pumping water, while a wind turbine converts that mechanical energy into electrical energy to power homes and businesses."
Periodic reminder that Obama tried in his administration to build a network of solar and wind energy projects that would have been enough to curb emissions. If the US and China had both been compliant with the clean energy goals the world would literally be a better place.
Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
“Four Seasons National Guard Total Landscaping” is open for business 🌱
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Everybody involved knows the very particular meaning and value of olive trees. This sort of behavior has been integrated into the culture as a function of military service for 3 generations. This evil is fundamental to the culture and civil structure.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has condemned this deliberate destruction and blockade as a calculated act of cruelty. “The olive trees were cut down by Israeli forces, so we don’t even have olive oil or herbs like za’atar, which we normally rely on,” Sahar said.
Look them in the eye you four. bsky.app/profile/ophe...
This story is the predictable overlap of all @wired.com's reporting on the danger posed by Big Balls and all @stevevladeck.bsky.social's reporting on the dangers of SCOTUS' refusal to stay Trump's abuse of power.
What the crypto industry wants is simple: insurance--paid for taxpayers--that essentially provides a price floor for their useless assets. It's not subtle, and it's not complicated.
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In all of his Signal chats, Hegseth has let his enemies know what he is prepared to do.
President Trump said he wants “nothing less than $500 million” from Harvard University after months of attacking the oldest and richest US college.
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Angola style.
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Curtis Yarvin's essay "The Cathedral or the Bizarre" is a farrago in response to Eric S. Raymond's influential work "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
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This is not news. I have been reading warnings about US programs in Latin America that were discontinued for 8? months now.
The precogs from Minority Report but it's 3 Jesse Watters
“We absolutely condemn the utterly illegal and genocidal actions of Russia and Israel" Jennifer Carroll-McNeill, Ireland's Minister for Health.
"...UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese condemned an #Israeli strike on Gaza's Nasser Hospital that killed at least 20 people, including journalists & .... #Gaza’s civil defence. Among them was Al Jazeera photojournalist Mohammed Salama& 4 other journalists..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYpR...
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Someone wielding State-authorized force must be readily & reliably, individually identifiable with identifier which is uniquely recognized by a publicly available registry It's not necessary identifier be individual’s name The operational authorization also readily & reliably presented to the public
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Someone wielding State-authorized force must be readily & reliably, individually identifiable with identifier which is uniquely recognized by a publicly available registry It's not necessary identifier be individual’s name The operational authorization also readily & reliably presented to the public
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While you are Googling, search on "bag of chips, Mayor"
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Someone who wields State-authorized force must be readily & reliably individually identifiable with identifier which is uniquely recognized by a publicly available registry Not necessary identifier be individual’s name The operational authorization also readily and reliably presented to the public
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"One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" Omar El Akkad
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Fascist Hall Monitors.
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This must be the new lethality that Hegseth is touting. Vagrants, rats, nothing will be left alive!
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These troops are deployed with assault rifles to take out rats?
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0:21 "When you put these money in the hands of Donald Trump, you're going to get a better deal for the American Taxpayer” The person saying that is The Secretary of Commerce of The United States of America.
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0:21 "When you put these money in the hands of Donald Trump, you're going to get a better deal for the American Taxpayer” That's not State Capitalism, that's dictatorship beyond Louis XIV, Stalin, Mao, Bokassa Also, for kabillionth time, Trump is a proven loser as an entrepreneur.
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idiots would be better. These are sub-idiots.
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It's terrifying that this mouth-thinker made a fortune in the financial sector. Imagine privatizing Social Security to an industry where aggressive, drooling idiots like him thrive.
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Thank you for sharing Trump's Heaven strategy
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"putting this money in the hands of Donald Trump"
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Someone who wields State-authorized force must be readily & reliably individually identifiable The authorization they operate under must also be readily & reliably presented to the public The individual should be identified with an identifier uniquely recognized by a publicly available registry
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Are they idling their engines?
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Trump thinks "Thank you for your attention to this matter" is a normal closing to an email or letter because it is the one he is used to seeing in communications from debt collectors on behalf of all the tradesmen he has stiffed.
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No, I would say a little dated, 1950s Queens
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Not a problem, Mexico will pay for it.
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Putin has yet to disclose the details of any summit agreements to Trump.
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Surprised Putin didn't use this meeting to take back irredenta Русская Америка. The catastrophic Crimean War of 1853 forced the Russia Empire to sell their colonial possession Alyeska. Now that he has taken Crimea back, Alaska is next.
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Putin did not disclose the details of the agreement to Trump.
This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen
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Putin did not disclose the details of the agreement to Trump.
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Putin did not disclose the details of the agreement to Trump.
DC folks, at 800 pm, go outside with some pots and pans, a drum, a trumpet, whatever you got, and make some noise for 5 minutes. Everyone’s doing it.
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The 1933 playbook adapted to 2025 The Reichstag Fire is being reimagined. The Enabling Act of 1933 (Ermächtigungsgesetz 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich') gave the chancellor the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg
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The 1933 playbook adapted to 2025 The Reichstag Fire is being reimagined. The Enabling Act of 1933 (Ermächtigungsgesetz 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich') gave the chancellor the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg
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The 1933 playbook adapted to 2025 The Reichstag Fire is being reimagined. The Enabling Act of 1933 (Ermächtigungsgesetz 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich') gave the chancellor the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg
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The 1933 playbook adapted to 2025 The Reichstag Fire is being reimagined. The Enabling Act of 1933 (Ermächtigungsgesetz 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich') gave the chancellor the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg
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The 1933 playbook adapted to 2025 The Reichstag Fire is being reimagined. The Enabling Act of 1933 (Ermächtigungsgesetz 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich') gave the chancellor the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg
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His name is Colbert
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The 1933 playbook adapted to 2025 The Reichstag Fire is being reimagined. The Enabling Act of 1933 (Ermächtigungsgesetz 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich') gave the chancellor the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg
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The 1933 playbook adapted to 2025 The Reichstag Fire is being reimagined. The Enabling Act of 1933 (Ermächtigungsgesetz 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich') gave the chancellor the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg
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The 1933 playbook adapted to 2025 The Reichstag Fire is being reimagined. The Enabling Act of 1933 (Ermächtigungsgesetz 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich') gave the chancellor the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg
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I was just about to say that.
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I never use "n.1" I use "n.7" .7 is much more precise
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Republicans are depending on this story to explain what they have done to Medicaid Source of these figures? 6.1 hours per day? 6.1 hours are all television or speculation about what constitutes "hangs out -- leisure time"? Implied: 6.1 leisure + 8 sleep + 9.9 work 9.9 hrs work not enough for OZ
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Yes, but... In the US, there are minority populations who are active participants in authoritarianism, providing important elements in suppression of democratic rights.
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The 1933 playbook adapted to 2025 The Reichstag Fire is being reimagined. The Enabling Act of 1933 (Ermächtigungsgesetz 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich') gave the chancellor the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg
the stuff in here about the Michigan senate primary is accurate and infuriating.
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The 1933 playbook adapted to 2025 The Reichstag Fire is being reimagined. The Enabling Act of 1933 (Ermächtigungsgesetz 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich') gave the chancellor the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg
Just an innocent bystander, no doubt just out walking his dog.
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Standing by another stroller with a helmet with a faceguard
Reminder: HR1 had national fair districting. Every Dem supported it. Every Republican opposed it. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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Alternatively, Israel could adopt the "Uganda Proposal" presented by Theodor Herzl at the Sixth Zionist Congress in August 1903 according to which Zionists would settle in Uganda, and substitute Sudan for Uganda.
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Israel is planning an Involuntary Exodus for people whose land they have chosen
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Israel is planning an Involuntary Exodus
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Yes, but... DOGE was also a device to steal the most sought after resource: data The GSA Chatbot which put CIA safe houses on the real estate market indicates LLMs were trained at Memphis TN Colossus xAI data center Musk & Thiel/Palantir may have downloaded The US Data Infrastructure for their use
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Yes, but... DOGE was also a device to steal the most sought after resource: data The GSA Chatbot which put CIA safe houses on the real estate market indicates LLMs were trained at Memphis TN Colossus xAI data center Musk & Thiel/Palantir may have downloaded The US Data Infrastructure for their use
it was always obvious DOGE was decorative "innovative efficiency" cover for the brutal dismantling of corporate oversight and the social safety net, but the press spent first six months of the year propping it up as a good-faith effort
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Well... it is a Puppet Regime: www.youtube.com/shorts/i2Woj...
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Vance was mentored and launched by his professor at Yale Law School, Amy "Tiger Mom" Chua (pal of Wendy Deng when Deng was Mrs. Murdoch)
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Soldiers' reflexes are trained to neutralize opponents, not to facilitate lawful expression of 1st Amendment Rights. Training a soldier to be intimidating, but not follow through is bad training. Hegseth's primary directive is Lethality. Logically, this means Trump is hoping to get some killing done
1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely. Here's why.
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Musk always gets the angle of gaze wrong. In Soviet & Fascist & CCP imagery the gaze is about fifteen degrees above horizon for the noble hero steadfast regard. Musk takes the hero-of-socialist labor gaze up too high. Which is why people think it is a thorazine tardive dyskinesia
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Is that an FBI agent with a mask? J. Edgar would not be happy to see what G-Men have become The FBI image was of a squared away law man who is after the facts, just the facts Ma'am Not masked goons dressed like slobs who beat up pregnant women
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Those guys have "FBI" on their thug vests Protecting ICE thugs? A proud day for the FBI!
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Those little fists look like they are going to pluck just the right daisy for a bouquet
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Steve Jobs: user interface Tim Cook: Trump interface
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A horror accessible in real time on 7.21 B active smartphones Proportionately to total population, the killings in Gaza are greater than in Rwanda But, here, the USA is directly complicit.
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Apart from how wrong Rubio is, what an amateur! A horror accessible in real time on 7.21 B active smartphones Proportionately to total population, the killings in Gaza are greater than in Rwanda
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Ryan is a variant of the Newt virus.
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Wading through this colloquy I enjoyed thinking about how Jesus would have framed his contribution. Am I correct to assume some of these participants are not the people their thumbnails would have you believe they are? My next time in Oxford Union I'm using some of these irrefutable arguments.
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Oh man, who's he gonna fire this time? Math? Maybe he'll fire math.
Its always disappointing when someone who does decent work in their area is a disgusting genocide denier (screenshotting for when they inevitably block me)
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Brazil wants to descend to US level?
BREAKING: I am suing the Department of Justice for the training videos instructing FBI personnel to flag mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein files. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/i-am-suing...
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That guy from the Martha's Vineyard Police is having a conversational tone discussion with one of the most gratuitously aggressive lawyers in the country about a not obvious topic where he is warning about imposing his authority, but in a manner which doesn't allow for indignant tantrums.
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I am looking forward to the next "nothing happening here" interviews with Patelf & Bongino.
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Their mission is to facilitate Bove replacing Roberts as Chief Justice.
One reason it matters that there were two grand juries in WPB (one in 2005 and another in 2007) is that there's a possibility that the second targeted someone else -- someone like Prince Andrew. www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/25/t...