Happily married Michigander. Somewhere between starry eyed 60s liberal, and old cynic. I swear a lot. No DMs unless we know each other. đşđŚ Most of you arenât the mind readers you think you are.
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Americaâs genius is not that it draws the best people but that it draws the best out of people. Even the worldâs âwretchedâ manage to make something of themselves here. But we are getting a first-hand taste of what happens when liberal democracy starts to collapse. @shikhadalmia.bsky.social
The beginning of Q, maybe? It certainly had the same character.
One more try at getting info out there. Some reasons why asylum seekers come to the UK. Most actually don't, & remain in neighbouring countries. And for Brexiteers, you wanted independent control of our own borders, so why do you still expect France to do the job for us. We've left, get over it
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Found this. bsky.app/profile/aloj...
theyâd never work again. Please, for the love of humanity, hire living, breathing person to do the job. Youâre a massive publication you can fucking well afford it.
Interesting article, but I have to wonder if the decision makers at these publications ever listen to the voice versions of their articles. I donât know if itâs AI or some other technology, but itâs not ready for prime time not even close. If a voice actor did that crappy a job,
Thatâs unusual for Whitmer, isnât it? It seems like Iâve seen several pictures of her doing that walk in the past.
That's every GOP official now. As Chris Hayes put it: "the party of the boss's son."
Adding one thing: this whole dynamic is neatly replicated around the issue of climate change. Dems take shit constantly: they're acting too fast, too slow, doing the wrong things, focusing on the wrong tech, bad Dems! GOP gibbons just throw shit & lies & block all policy & that's fine I guess.
Itâs been ages since I heard more than a few minutes of that show. Will see if I can find it somewhere.
Imagine how much money could have been saved just by going with an actual human to begin with www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Weâve said for years, they only look like adults. Some are stuck in the terrible twos/threes, some are stuck in their preteen and teen years. They are ridiculously proud of their transgressive, rebel status.
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Modern Republicans really, REALLY hate democracy.
Face the Nation: Is your reporter so uneducated that he does not know that the deployment of troops onto American soil for trumped-up insurrection is illegal? Or is it that your news outlet supports trump and has bent the knee to him, thereby rendering your news outlet obsolete. Shame, shame, shame!
That's not it: a deployment of <30 days means they get a reduced housing allowance and NO health insurance or other benefits they're owed at 30 days, payable on 31st day. By doing repeat cycles of 29 days they're bearing financial burdens for this BS.
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
Same here. In particular, almost all of them are good with suppressing voter participation, and many are willing to go further to manipulate outcomes.
Add in a healthy dollop of emotional sunk costs. Very hard to admit youâve been supporting a con man.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Also, since nobodyâs tried to force anyone to get a Covid vaccine for several years now, the people being divisive are the ones whose feelings get hurt at the mere mention of it. That bunch of angry snowflakes does not deserve to be catered to
Netanyahu is restricting aid trucks into Gazaâthe best way to get food to starving people thereâso Jordan is delivering some with air drops. The Jordanians said @merkley.senate.gov & I could join one of those flights to see the devastation, but Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight.
suggestions what to do)âsave your thumbs the effort. You arenât contributing anything of value.
If all you have to contribute to conversations about the current state of the USA, is to preach to the rest of what wimps we are for not âstanding upâ in your prescribed way without actually making the case for why itâs a good idea (or worse, calling us names without having
Yeah, yeah you were right. We all worship at the throne of your smartness and smugness. None of that excuses what the Republicans have done.
Yes, thereâs still hope. Resistance from Newsom and Pritzker, and a lot of other people speaking out are all encouraging. However, I feel like we need to have a back up plan if they decide to ignore the courts, but I donât know what that plan is or how we bring it all together.
be enough to kick them out has dropped considerably.
Unfortunately, what people not being motivated in 2024 has brought us in 2025 is Republicansâ clear intent to screw up the elections. So no matter how angry people get about seeing armed guards in the streets (and not enough are upset yet) the chance that voting will
rest of them voted for the supposed good old days of Trumpâs first term.
The American voters, by and large, either didnât believe or didn't give a damn about fascism. Those of us who saw the danger of Trump and P2025 were already voting for Kamala. Those who were convinced Biden was the true fascist obviously voted Trump. The
Most people are casting about for ways to deal with it. We need useful, workable ideas, not. some smug asshole preaching at us.
Oh, thatâs very fucking helpful. If you have a useful suggestion to make then say it. We are accustomed, in case you donât know it, to having legal means to solve our problems and having groups and representatives out there to use the legal system on our behalf. 1/2
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Unbelievably bad. âThe CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.â www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
The Heritage Foundation, authored Project 2025, theyâre thrilled everyone focuses on their ghoulish front man RFK Jr not the Heritage Foundationâs Project 2025
As aggressive as autocorrect often is in its assumptions about what you really meant to say, youâd think it could recognize âfrimâ as a common mistyping of âfromâ and act accordingly.
Unless Wikipedia is out of date, it doesnât appear to be true (it has been discussed more than once and maybe is again). I did see headlines from several African publications that 3 agencies of the UN are being moved to Nairobi. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headqua...
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can âsee in kids faces that they have inflammationâ Thatâs NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
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Me either (and I still havenât verified it; may need to go deeper into search results, which seem to favor a bunch of Republicans arguing that we should leave the UN, which is nothing new.)
Cities with approximately the same population as ICE's current detainee population: Bowling Green, Kentucky - 61,488 Greenville, South Carolina - 61,397 West Des Moines, Iowa - 61,255 Cedar Park, Texas - 61,238 Tulare, California - 61,170 Terre Haute, Indiana - 61,025
just want to reiterate that speech does not become unprotected just because ICE dislikes it
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape peopleâs reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
These freaks need to get an honest job. Their income depends on them saying more and more outrageous, stupid, and hateful things. In addition to poisoning our discourse, itâs rotting their souls.
Here he goes.
As hard as it is to believe, ICE arrested two firefighters, IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIRE, after stopping all of them from fighting the fires to line up and show id. Every time you think they've hit rock bottom, they dig a few feet more. Worst of the worst, indeed. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Author here of a chapter on linguistic strategies used in deep propaganda. One of them is the "Twisting or Reversal of Key Moral Values": the propagandist makes what WAS virtuous into s.t. evil, black becomes white, up becomes down. This is a very slick version of this. The NORM of having EXPERTS
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That's all we f*cking need -- Trump setting interest rates. Right up there with RFK Jr. making health care policy decisions.
âI saw this long ago; therefore, I am very smart and you arenât! â Itâs enough to drive you crazy đ
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The overall autocratic, oligarchic movement will continue, or try to, under Vance. Iâm not sure Stephen Miller, ICE Barbie, and some of the other ghouls will have as much influence. At least, Iâm hoping they wonât.
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Theyâre gonna pull their arms out of their sockets, reaching that far.
Doubting is a respectable way to be a Tom.
Canceling clean energy programs means fewer projects, higher costs, and more burden on working families. Thatâs the wrong direction. Clean energy creates jobs, lowers bills, and builds the infrastructure we need.
Too bad these 4 Doctors didnât comply with their oath âŚ. John Barrasso (R-WY): An orthopedic surgeon by profession. Bill Cassidy (R-LA): An internal medicine physician, hepatologist, and gastroenterologist. Roger Marshall (R-KS): An OB/GYN. Rand Paul (R-KY): An ophthalmologist.
We saw all your comments yesterday on our post about celebrity chef and D.C. icon JosĂŠ AndrĂŠs, and we agree with you he truly deserves the Nobel Peace Prize! đ
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have âstayed and foughtâ, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
âHeather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trumpâs loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in which sheâll help oversee the nationâs election infrastructure.â
JUST IN: Judge COBB has set a 10am hearing for *tomorrow* on the emergency bid by Lisa Cook to remain in her job at the Fed.
There are literally dozens of landmark cases where Brits relied on the ECHR: â ď¸Gay soldiers â ď¸Children beaten in schools â ď¸Women punished for fleeing domestic abuse â ď¸Journalists fined for protecting sources â ď¸Activists sued by McDonald All defended by the ECHR when Britain failed them.
$100,000 pyramid scheme. www.statnews.com/2024/12/03/r...
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This is the most befuddling part of the new covid vax eligibility: âPeople under 65 with no underlying conditions arenât eligible under the F.D.A. approval, even if they live with someone at high risk of severe illness.â Itâs as though the head of HHS knows nothing about epidemiology. đ¤ˇââď¸
1. For some people, a little structure goes along way. For others a lot works better. 2. The failings of religion are common enough in all religions over time that you canât just wave it away as a few bad actors. Right now in a lot of countries, the bad actors outnumbered the good ones.
Hey Republicans, It's the Damn Guns. And, It's You. open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...
â whoâs telling the truth? Weâll let you decide.â How can he breathe with the stench of that bullshit around him?
For sure. Itâs depressing though (everywhere not just Texas) how few voters get angry at the cheating. My parents were Republicans, but when a republican council member got caught trying to get an unfair advantage, they were appalled. You donât see enough voters like that anymore.
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others â Congress, the courts, the American people â from having a say or even knowing what heâs going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
Where do we contribute to a fund to sue the fuck out of the federal government on behalf of the Red Cross?
This ALL DAY LONG Thank you @liz.sheshed.rocks
Thatâs good for people who thrive on structure (some donât) *if* itâs done in a supportive, rather than threatening or power-hungry, sort of way. Too often, the model provided by religion is more judgmental and rigid than encouraging and helpful.
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Spent two decades chronicling this in Turkey. Now Iâm watching it happen in the U.S.âbut this time dumber, more brazen, and much, much faster.
I miss the good old days of being able to read a publication without having to agree to terms and conditions, share my contact information, or make decisions about cookies.
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
Honestly, itâs hard to assimilate even when you already believe it, let alone trying to convince someone else of it.
This stuff happens in movies and history class, not in real life, and definitely not in America. Besides, if it were really happening and actually bad, the good guys would show up and stop it.
Iâm just hoping I can stay in the house until Iâve outlived the need for equity.
"A fascist president is assembling a national army of right-wing thugs & invading US cities to terrorize their citizens & intimidate their leaders." I mean ... does that sound real? Even if you know, intellectually, that it is, have you really *absorbed* it?
I genuinely think part of the current political dynamic is that a lot of Dems -- especially your typical educated, affluent city-dwellers -- simply can't believe what's going on. Even though it's right there on the TV, right there in the streets, it's hard to shake the feeling of unreality.
For what theyâre spending on these troops, they could afford to pay and house the homeless to do the job.
I am disturbed by the news that 300,000 Black women have left the labor force within a three-month period, largely due to dramatic cuts to the federal workforce. www.msnbc.com/know-your-va...
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I keep hearing about crops rotting in the fields. I think I have a use for them.
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Yes, itâs a thing here too. In fact, a while back, we learned that the wife of one of the Supreme Court justices was flying their flag upside down.
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I celebrate every victory for voting rights, but this one is particularly special. No issue has been more hotly contested or more important to PA voters than this one. The DSCC and DCCC fought hard and it is great to see them prevail. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.
Turns out some of the âwe want small governmentâ people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.