maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy
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Not hep to the jive
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@emptywheel.bsky.social missile defense has been a gravy train for defense contractors for as long as there have been missiles. Why stop now? Just because no working system has ever actually been produced?
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@emptywheel.bsky.social You don't think they could have forced a better CR? Or even should have tried?
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@emptywheel.bsky.social would el salvador keep them if the checks stopped coming?
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@emptywheel.bsky.social they’re still there.
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@w7voa ha ha, safety.
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@w7voa “here’s your approved script.”
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@nationalsecuritylaw.org are there laws that apply only when you are 14?
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@emptywheel.bsky.social His vote let it pass.
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@emptywheel.bsky.social Is this the same Schumer who said he wouldn't vote for the CR, and then he did? And you wonder why we don't take him too seriously?
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@gottalaff.bsky.social See also: 19th century Asian exclusion laws; 1924 quota system.
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@emptywheel.bsky.social If it's on CSPAN, did it even happen?
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@kenwhite.bsky.social no deposit, no return
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@futurebird it is unpopular. With people who don’t have enough money to buy a congressman of their own.
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@jik Huh, my credit union doesn't do that, and my balance has been accruing for years.
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@erininthemorning.com They're going to go after marriage equality, access to contraceptives, divorce. As much as they can get away with. Wondering if Clarence Thomas will vote against the Loving decision.
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@w7voa They could start in the White House.
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@nationalsecuritylaw.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-tAyQAS6JY
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@jik Fiscal responsibility takes all the fun out of punishing people for being poor. ('Poor' here meaning 'not suffienciently wealthy to buy an elected official.)
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@futurebird Clearly a Clifford Simak fan.
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@stux As a general rule, if you don't want people to compare you to nazis, don't do nazi stuff.
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@kenwhite.bsky.social That warm glow in your heart could also be a corned beef on rye with spicy mustard.
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@w7voa Only three? They must not be looking very hard.
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@jik fedex is the worst.
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@darius So no cat videos or pictures of moss? What the fuck even is that?
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@mls14 @mike @caseynewton And what do they do when there's nothing for the AI to feed on?
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@kenwhite.bsky.social isn't 'racist nightmare' a requirement for a job in this administration?
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@nileane @macstories To my mind, Tim Apple's donation is worse than Eich's not just by scale, but because it was clearly intended as a way to curry favor with the administration, essentially making Apple a collaborator. (Along with Facebook, Amazon, Google, etc.). They're not just buying into […]
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@emptywheel.bsky.social "Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.'
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@jcrabapple May I mambo dogface to the banana patch?
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@mathowie I remember actually paying for FF Confidential. I also remember having the FF catalog in the binder. Ich bin an alte kaker.
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@js @randahl If the US forces turned back in 1944, likely the Red Army would have ended up in control of all of the territory controlled by Germany.
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@heidilifeldman Cause Karoline Leavitt wouldn't lie about that. Or suggest that Agent Krasnov's judgement was anything less than perfect.
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@heidilifeldman Federalist Society: we helped you pick all these judges, so that you could, in the end, ignore them.
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@kenwhite.bsky.social the best and the brightest.
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@emptywheel.bsky.social but trying destroy the university system and Harvard in particular was clearly on the agenda, so it’s not a surprise.
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@kenwhite.bsky.social Did they agree on how the pro bono work would be accounted for? They could say, we are going to charge this off at a rate of $100,000 per hour. For an intern.
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@randahl Tangentially, it's interesting that after years of being politically somewhat soft, now that NPR is facing some real threats to its funding, they've decided to not play nice.
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s@[email protected] it’s pretty much implied that if you say you want a ‘christian nationalist’ government, then non-xtians will be second-class, unwelcome, or forced to convert. i mean, it’s right there in the name.