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Progressive activists no longer have a considerable amount of influence on Twitter because the site has been reengineered to promote paying users and people who agree with Elon Musk. This has been reported on extensively and is obvious to users left of center.

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A privilege of being a well compensated opinion columnist is that you can just say shit that is cartoonishly wrong and there are no consequences

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

I would like to propose a rule that if you are a Democratic senator who literally doesn’t show up for judicial confirmation hearings, you are not allowed to fundraise off of Trump being a “threat to democracy and the rule of law” ever again

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among other things it seems like a great time to rob a bank in LA right now

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Elon Musk should be remembered as both an amoral monster who did a tremendous amount of harm during his White House tenure, and also as just a bit player in the GOP’s decades-long push to deny public resources to people they don’t like www.fastcompany.com/91348065/tru...

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Oh hell yes, they got a longtime private equity guy to review my book! He hated it! Do you want to be cool and preorder BAD COMPANY, or do you want to be like GARY??

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It is impossible to get people to believe that Trump is a walking constitutional crisis when you, one of 47 Democratic senators, can barely be bothered to show up to oppose his judicial nominees. Completely unserious people.

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The official NBA Finals of Car Dealership Owners For Trump

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Whitney Hermandorfer said she'd remain faithful to her "oath" as a judge. Her answers at her confirmation hearing suggest otherwise ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...

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This is the best day on Bluesky since the night Trump got COVID on Twitter

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Need Katie Miller to do a post

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Sometime soon Elon is going to post a piece of AI-generated art related to his spat with Trump that will be wack enough to alter the earth's weather for months. No one will understand how it happened. "As far as we can tell," officials from the NOAA will say, "it was something to do with the steed."

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This is a level five Goof Situation, all users report to Riff Stations

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

[the drum solo intro to "Down With the Sickness" loud enough to blow out every window in my house]

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yes, drop this news now, exactly at this moment

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funny how this, precisely this, happens to 100% of people who do business with either of those assholes

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We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

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Again, congrats to the students in the Supreme Court clinic at UVA Law for bravely taking on this Straight Rights Matter case, so that Stephen Miller and America First Legal could litigate something else instead ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

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Four Democratic members of the SJC - Blumenthal, Hirono, Padilla, and Booker - didn't even bother to show up. Booker! Trump is shoving Emil Bove down Booker's throat, and he can't show up? Is he too busy hawking his new book? What a complete failure to meet the moment.

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This is a real problem

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I'm only half-watching this Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, but it is hard to overstate how unprepared the committee's Democrats are to fight these nominees. A bunch of elderly statesmen bringing decorum to a gunfight. Pathetic. Get these losers out of my face forever.

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Pleading with the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to ask Josh Divine at his confirmation hearing tomorrow if he still believes homosexuality is morally equivalent to bestiality, or that Christians are "obligated ethically to impose their beliefs on others." I do not ask for much.

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Would Trump judicial nominee Josh Divine make Judge Matt Kacsmaryk look like a reasoned judicial officer? Probably not, but the Missouri federal courts nominee could possibly give the N.D. Texas judge a run for his money, as @jaywillis.net's examination of Divine's college newspaper columns shows.

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Meet the aspiring federal judge who wrote that the fight over same-sex marriage "is not, and has never been, about equal rights," because opponents of same-sex marraige are just "opposed to a group receiving extra benefits"

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Lol at Lisa Blatt giving Whitney Hermandorfer, Trump's anti-choice Sixth Circuit nominee, a personal little tongue bath in a Williams & Connolly letter supporting her nomination, while name-dropping RBG to boot. Blatt is an amoral disgrace. www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

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Pleading with the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to ask Josh Divine at his confirmation hearing tomorrow if he still believes homosexuality is morally equivalent to bestiality, or that Christians are "obligated ethically to impose their beliefs on others." I do not ask for much.

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This nominee is clearly being set up as the next Matthew Kacsmaryk, a guy who’ll hand out endless nationwide injunctions for the religious right, except he may be even MORE extreme and unstable. What a lunatic. ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...

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Folks, I need some help with a 10+ year old YouTube upload that doesn’t play with sound, BUT there is an auto generated CC transcript which (maybe?) suggests there was sound at one point? If you have any idea how to recover audio, if such a thing is possible, my DMs are open and I’d be very grateful

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Let me introduce you to Josh Divine, a Trump judicial nominee who as a student newspaper opinion columnist explained opposition to homosexuality by grouping it with bestiality, polygamy, and “any form of sex that goes against the biological design of procreation and the nurturing of a family.”

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Oh.

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Let me introduce you to Josh Divine, a Trump judicial nominee who as a student newspaper opinion columnist explained opposition to homosexuality by grouping it with bestiality, polygamy, and “any form of sex that goes against the biological design of procreation and the nurturing of a family.”

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wanna know how i know llms heavily trained on the work of journalists…

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After doing extensive research about CrossFit Open workouts (like 20 minutes of watching YouTube) I can say with confidence that I would wax this dead-eyed bobblehead ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/can-you-do...

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