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As a bookish kid, I admired the Supreme Court for having the character to unanimously come out against segregation in the 1950s, when no other branch of our government would have had that courage. So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
Apparently gone, now
So I'm grumpy that we seem to be once again creating a dynamic in our party where the people who got to the right answer sooner are marginalized for doing so, while people who were wrong get credit for changing their minds once it became obvious they were wrong. (See also NAFTA, Iraq War, Gaza.)
International war crime!
It's called "responsibility."
Remember this. The Nazis were defeated by geologists and car mechanics and school teachers and milkmen. Ordinary people from all over the world who risked their own lives to put the fascists in the ground where they belong.
MAGA supports evil ideas.
Seatbelts are mandated because they save lives. Vaccines are mandated because they save lives! #florida
Who is this guy? Never heard of him.
Been using a new Logitech mechanical. The backlighting doesn't stay on. But if you leave it plugged into a USB c charger the back light does stay on a lot longer.
I would guess it could be around 50 +hours for these people shacked the entire trip. Such inhumanity.
They don't mean free speech to protest genocide they mean free speech to terrorise refugees and trans people.
Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.
What’s worse than a fake university? A fake test from that fake university, now being used as a fake filter in Oklahoma for teachers transferring from "woke" states. I took PragerU's "America First" test. It's a complete joke. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahomas-...
OK, maybe this: dashboard widgets without the map. Says it works with different mapping apps apps.apple.com/us/app/eta-g...
I don't know the source, but the idea that someone went "ooh, there's an England cap, he'll come out with the things we like to hear" and got this instead is quite amusing.
I tried share ETA on a route in Apple Maps. It didn't do what you want.
My thought is to share location to another email address you have access to. It may show the map and ETA without the suggested route.
You can turn off the sound on Apple maps, so you do t hear the directions. I looked at a couple apps and can't find what you're looking for. They're all using a map with your location displayed even when viewing someone else's view of it.
Italian dockworkers' union in Genoa/Genova says if they lose contact for 20 minutes with their boats providing resources or if a hair on any worker's head is touched, they'll stop all shipments to Israel, and Europe will shut down access.
When is the Congressional investigation of Loomer scheduled to begin?
It's really quite a thing to have a Secretary of Energy who does not understand, ummm... energy.
There's an FAA Presidential Temporary Flight Restriction around MSP tomorrow tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=d...
'Los Angeles (1937)' www.commondreams.org/views/2018/1...
When is a military commander going to say, "Trump's order is therefore illegal, so we're required to return the troops to base." Asking for a formerly democratic country.
Happy Labor Day! Remember: AI “art” is labor theft. Support human artists!
At the Boston Labor Day parade
For once I like Vonnegut
Now and forever
1. YES! AMERICAN MEDIA, TAKE NOTES. 2. Reminds me of this gem:
Tough when the adhesive is down the threads. Requires letting the agent sit on the glue and cleaning multiple times. Superglue can be nasty stuff. www.rcplanet.com/bob-smith-in...
The Cold Civil War
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
Hope someone hides the autopen
Has the autopen been locked up to keep it away from Miller and Vance during the orange menace's demise?
Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting
Realeal the Second Amendment.
Repeal the Second Amendment.
Relevant cartoon by @pinkwug.bsky.social
Velkome to Amerika, seig hiel y'all
Repeal the Second Amendment
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Practice approaches and holding patterns
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live... Republicans nationally weak on public safety-consistently ignoring their culture of guns and grivence. They always vote in favor of gun makers and against the safety of children.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
every democrat who does not speak out about this enables it. what the administration is doing here is a large-scale tactic to isolate trans people and strengthen future attacks on us. the gains we have made are built on visibility and public knowledge of us and our needs.
Breakfast Club host Charlamagne says of Hakeem Jeffries: "I call him AIPAC Shakur." "I just don't think he stands for anything."
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Say the words : Fascist dictator
I teach dance, so the kids aren’t on their phones in rehearsals- what we discovered is making them put away their phones when they get to our center is that on breaks and lunch they are actually talking to EACH OTHER, and making friends. Which legit wasn’t happening when they were just on phones.
Words/phrases Democrats SHOULD use: "They're fuckin weird, right?" "I mean, why are they so obsessed with [insert mundane thing here]" "Yikes, that's what they are spending time on? Woof." "How is this not a joke? It's a joke, right? Say it's a joke"
They'd never make it through a dog agility course.
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
But I thought Pam Bondi had it in her desk—at least, before she told Donald Trump his name was in the files.
OK, I see what you did there.
Homeowner shoots, kills 2 men in ski masks, bulletproof vests claiming to be police, HPD says
I'm with him. (???)
yeah i read civ-mil scholarship
This is why every Democratic official needs to be saying *now* that everyone is going to prison.
Also, can I just say? These guys are adorable and are very often the exact kind of gay men that other gay men look down on. We give a lot of ammunition to the right when we accept their framing that one can be too gay, too feminine, too *much.* God bless these kings.
I’m with Beto!!!
The best one yet.
What you call, "a good example."
We rigged up the cmx to the 8" drive so we could save and retrieve EDLs. We started using the offline editor that could control vhs decks. Can't remember the name. That was back in the 80s. I hot wired it into the system tso we could auto assemble EDLS. The good old days: a wing and a prayer.
You have one of the big zip drives. Dude somewhere I still have 8" disks.
Hey, I have some extra cables if you need them.🥸
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
In Middleton, NY. This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs. This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
The missing piece of the equation explaining why so many critic positions are being eliminated is the little AI summaries at the top of Google results, which reduced click-throughs drastically. Once again, a tech company has stolen human labor and monetized it and doesn't care about the impact.
Sadly, though, video can be so helpful (he says from a very biased viewpoint)
Attention chumps: If you, despite all our dire warnings, decided to put your newsletter on Substack, the untrustworthy asses who run the company just did what we all knew they would, and made it impossible to take your subscribers with you if you want to leave. support.substack.com/hc/en-us/art...
I bet Putin has the Epstein files.
More of this
🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump announces he will issue an unconstitutional and illegal executive order purporting to ban mail-in voting and certain voting equipment for the 2026 midterm election. Such an effort would violate the Constitution and is a major step to prevent free and fair elections.
and also, an executive order banning mail-in voting has the legal authority of a social media post
Ow, this one hits.
Our hero, and we need them
This @velshimsnbc.bsky.social @msnbcevents.msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com @ocasio-cortez.house.gov
That's more than one operator so it constitutes a conspiracy.
ICE or kidnappers? How to tell.
Econ Professor at Columbia clarifies history
I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.
A weak, lost man. What a joke.
Two points!
That one's pretty good
I’m going to keep saying this- You don’t fight fascism with fascism light. We don’t fight fascism by sacrificing Gaza, trans folks, unhoused people, migrants, etc. We fight fascism by building a strong coalition INCLUDING everyone and fighting for a better world for EVERYONE. There’s no other way
One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.
Ca Governor Gavin Newsom enjoying himself.
