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Just had my yearly experience of thinking: "Oh, I LOVE this time of year when it stays light out until 10pm! It's just so great! This is the best! Wait--it's the solstice? The days now start getting shorter? FUUUUUUUCC--"

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TRUMP HATES CHRISTMAS!!

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My commentary on the state of the world at the moment. I hope you’re all hanging in there. #birds 🌿

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Murderbot finishing the sentence it was saying when it shut down, as soon as it restarts, especially if this startles a human; RT if you agree.

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Any Democratic politician who isn't advocating for the immediate dismantling of the lawless organization known as ICE the instant they've got the power to do so isn't worth listening to.

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So, a Fox personality calls for ICE to go to Dodger Stadium and then it happens a couple of days later. Our leaders now just getting their marching orders from right wing media.

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RT if u agree

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Pete knocking on the Situation Room door

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by the way, the Skrmetti majority cited a 2007 case that gives states the authority to pass laws when there is "medical and scientific uncertainty.” It's called Gonzales v. Carhart and abortion opponents want to use it to effectively ban abortion pills nationwide: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

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I should not discount Dad Rambling I started a new one and I have no idea what happened in the first chapter cos it was like my dad the time I foolishly thought it would be faster to ask him a single factual question about Napoleon than to go look it up

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When you can't arrest the leader, law is just another tool of oppression.

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🎶What the world needs now is alpacas, sweet alpacas 🎶 Good night, friends. May you rest well and rise with joy and purpose.

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NEW: The child sex abuse material trade on X is spiraling out of control… and a key child safety partner just cut X off after they say to company stopped paying them www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

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NEW: The CEO of proposed regulation-free "Silicon Valley 2.0" has some weird posts about Democrats starting WWIII with Russia and about killing yourself being better than working a 9-5. www.inc.com/sam-blum/jam...

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Call to action! 🚨🚨

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Well, hold on now. Before we can determine if robot therapists are bad, we need to know whether or not it's standard practice for a human therapist to provide a suicidal person with a list of bridges.

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WaPo committed a series of unforced errors and the result is unsurprising but no less stunning

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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

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Still one of the BEST newsletters and well worth the cost of a subscription. www.status.news/subscribe

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A must read.👇 “From the federal level, they don’t want to deal with us. They are continuously trying to get out of the things they agreed to in these treaties,” he said. “They pass it along to the states, but the states don’t want to deal with us either.” boltsmag.org/voting-right...

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Rest in peace, Gilbert. 💔

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Let's get back to Bearly Thursday 😇

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This print decline would be more palatable if it were accompanied by a surge in online subscriptions. But the fallout after Bezos yanked the Kamala endorsement was dire — around 250k, via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social Also, print subscribers are usually seen as much more valuable to advertisers

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nonzero chance that neither the World Cup nor the 2028 Summer Olympics take place in the United States the way things are going

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Us during COVID: I wish more people would wear masks. (monkey paw finger slowly curls) Us now watching ICE: No, not like that.

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The French government (sponsored by former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who you may remember if you followed my coverage of French elections last summer on here) passed a law last month that toughened sentences and punishment against minors. The Constitutional Council just struck down most of it.

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Boggles my mind that a country that fetishizes "Freedom!" so much wouldn't turn Juneteenth into its most important celebration of the ideal.

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“DEI” wth a hard R

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I've gotten quiz answers lately obviously pasted in from some AI tool, and I just give them zero and tell them nicely to put the information in their own words. Because if you looked it up--with Google, AI, or a textbook--and can explain what it means, you've learned. Ctrl-V isn't into your brain.

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glad to see SPLC going back to their roots - the best work they ever did was bankrupting hate groups in the courts. it's about time someone made GDL answer for their harassment campaigns.

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Randomly thinking today about how Ian Hanomansing (big important news anchor on the CBC) was a cub reporter in BC back when we were both baby adults there and omigosh, he was SO pretty. Okay, had to google it. Nostalgia crush! youtu.be/x_gNwynm6aY?...

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if you don’t know the history of Dodger Stadium you can’t fully understand what unfolded today. thanks @chrislhayes.bsky.social for the opportunity to share it.

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I wonder what the Saudis are thinking because they have more sway than our GOP Congress. archive.is/OwCY5

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NEWS: In one of the first major federal prosecutions of an LA protester, the DOJ has moved to dismiss the case. Jose Manuel Mojica was accused of assaulting officers, but came forward to Guardian to recount how he was brutally attacked by agents. “I feel a huge relief. The truth always comes out."

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Three interest-rate cuts in just over 24 hours by central banks in Europe highlighted a shift as monetary officials seek to manage the fallout from Donald Trump’s unpredictable trade policies.

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Really glad kids are growing up with Juneteenth, even is it is illegal to explain what it’s all about in 21 states.

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The suicide rate for veterans is 50 per cent higher than that of the general population, and a quarter of V.A. workers are veterans. Nonetheless, Veterans Crisis Line employees were among the workers targeted for termination by the Trump Administration.

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But never before have the rich amassed money and power on anything like this scale, and Trump helped them get there. https://trib.al/Tgt62lc

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He was detained outside church. “He was in chains at his feet,” Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. “Shoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didn’t have his ring, he didn’t have his watch. Everything was taken from him.”

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Erik Prince "pitches himself as a kind of third way for American imperialism, in which the United States gets to maintain its profound influence overseas without putting American boots on the ground—officially, anyway." thebaffler.com/latest/the-p...

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Krispy Kreme delivery truck not exactly trying to dissuade me from robbing the driver

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From the series, All Day It Has Rained, a sort of visual biography of Welsh World War Two poet Alun Lewis.

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Everyone is throwing out examples of Iraq War-era mass derangement so I might as well throw in Amanda Bynes doing a peace sign on a movie poster being photoshopped out for fear of being seen as an antiwar statement

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backstory here is heavy sigh that Grok said a fake tweet screenshot of Musk saying he "took" Stephen Miller's wife was probably real, and "consistent with Musk’s pattern of deleting controversial posts" thehill.com/policy/techn...

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Absolutely brutal article on WelcomeFest thebaffler.com/latest/come-...

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