setb.bsky.social
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Aren't most immigrants from Latin America Christians? I'd be surprised if the gangs were an exception.
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Only a complete idiot would have ripped up such an agreement.
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What is dead may never die.
Wait. Wrong author.
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I was about to ask if "octopodes" would also be correct, but my phone corrected that word to "octopuses".
I guess that's that.
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Every time I read about a high profile crime these days, and there's even a hint that the suspect was a Republican, a Christian, or a billionaire, I find myself hoping they are brought up on mostly state charges so that Trump can't just continue to pardon the plainly guilty.
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Alcoholism didn't get Hegseth fired. Signalgate didn't get Hegseth fired. But this might just get Hegseth fired.
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"hey, maybe we BOTH stop trying to kill each other this time"
"That's no good for us"
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A lot of other parts of the government were likewise quietly doing a lot with the little bit of staffing they once had.
A lot of stuff is going to get "randomly" worse in the coming weeks and months, and it may not be obvious why, to people who are checked out of politics.
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Joe Biden is old! And you viewers were too dumb to realize it because we covered it up!
Yeah dude, we knew, it's one reason we wanted him to not attempt a 2024 run for president.
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Worse, this guy was probably paying his migrant workers under the table, untaxed.
I'm sure he wanted the demonization of immigrants to continue, because without it, who would accept slave wages and working conditions?
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Yeah, we know. The less they say he's responsible for actual decision making, the less the courts and Congress can restrain his obviously ongoing role as the head of a department in all but name.
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The more intelligible parts:
"I was told that instead of picking judges, I could just have the federalist society do it, and that their picks would always rule in my favor. I'm not to be questioned or restrained, therefore these judges who struck down my tariffs hate America."
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Of course! How will they illegally detain millions of people, if they're slowing down to make sure they've got the right person, that they're actually immigrants, and actually here illegally!
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In the unlikely case that these companies are held accountable for what they've stolen, please don't stop writing. We need talented authors like you to keep writing, or in a few years, the only new books will be AI slop.
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The steelman version of what you're saying is: it has to be from this big main account, so that even if there's a digital trace of somebody receiving a secret, it's from a big account and therefore looks innocuous.
But doesn't making it clear that hidden messages are going out run counter to that?
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I don't need to have followed them all that closely to see that they don't need to have vague coded messages on a well known account. There are better ways to pass secrets, when the goal isn't to be mysterious. You can go back through my post history to when I was defending them if you're curious.
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I can't say I've followed their history closely enough to conclude it's a core group that has consistently posted for that long, including the transition between platforms.
But they do post a lot of stuff that smells more like q drops than of genuine anonymous resistance or journalism.
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Are/were you actually an NPS employee? I'm less and less convinced you represent an internal opposition to the current administration as time passes.
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This map only shows a subset of the people he doesn't care about. In fact, it would be much easier to make a "map" of the people he does care about. It would probably consist of only himself and people who directly do things to benefit him specifically.
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Missouri has 8 congressional districts with similar population counts each. What you're seeing is that the population density is low.
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And yet, even comments like yours are enough to reinforce their earlier beliefs. So I guess none of us get to say anything ever about people who haven't been given the information, or the room, to think their beliefs through to their inevitable ends.
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Used to happen to me all the time. Just walk up to it and hold "y" to flip it back over.
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No his ears would be bigger.
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If Donald Trump is ever confirmed to be a cannibal, the headline in the nyt will be "PETA takes issue with president's culinary preferences."
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Nobody is above the king's whims.
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And also, the beast was Nero, and always has been. At the time it was a thinly veiled criticism, and the only reason it seems obscure now is that so much time has passed.
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A lot of people will hear that, and conclude that it's actually fine to elect someone like him. Their vote and their voice doesn't matter much because our leaders will eventually naturally reflect our national values, even if they hey do nothing.
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He has set us back by years on the world stage in just so many ways, and the rest of the world will happily cut us out of what they are doing.
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Many of whom lobbied for harsh punishment of those caught living here illegally, because they thought it would help them maintain a semi-slave-class.
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"These sickos forced me to install mods if I wanted my character labeled as male, and if I wanted to inspect his giant penis. Degenerates."
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This is slander. Whoever made the crown of thorns was just doing their job, and doesn't deserve this comparison.
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For some reason these originalists who claim that the constitution can't possibly mean anything other than what a layman would take away from a surface level reading can't seem to understand this very clear concept. It's almost like it was never about what's in the constitution.
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Domains aren't a perfect way to identify someone, but being able to add a DNS record for a .gov or .edu domain usually means you work for an important institution. It also kinda prevented the best usernames on bluesky being whoever signed up in the first few months.
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@example.bsky.social is blue once you type it out, and I assume that's the case for any username that is a well formed domain name before you hit send, then they do the real check when you hit enter.
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I think they'll probably stick with usernames which could be domains or subdomains. (@scalzi.com, @example.bsky.social, @pbs.org)
.verified isn't a valid Top Level Domain and as such, including it in a username within a post doesn't turn the text blue: @example.bsky.verified
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He's apparently not a citizen but they've straight up said they'd do the same to citizens.
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They've done the calculus, and concluded that admitting to indefinitely detaining a citizen without a trial is their best course. Maybe:
- He has lost 70 pounds
- They can't tell which prisoner is him
- He's seen guards kill for no reason
- He can speak to how much control the US does have there
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The Republicans unfortunately had the votes necessary in that case to invoke cloture, and bring debate to an end
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Counterpoint: being in a position of public trust, you could have a journalist in your contact list without having really talked to them. If you say they have your number, you'd want to immediately know who is calling if it was them
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Okay, let's modify it then.
I'm okay with throwing spineless senators and members or even other powerful people under the bus if they deserve it.
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I'm so envious, that guy is awesome.
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We still need Canada and Greenland as strategic allies, because Russia still has ICBMs.
Alienating our friends, and hoping Putin acts like an angel is just an insane way to do US foreign policy.
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I can't mock Elon Musk on Twitter, having been banned for using his name as my display name there.
He was banning people for mocking him, while re-platforming neo Nazis. Is that something a free speech absolutist does, or is it just that he likes the latter group?
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It turns out this tweet was faked.
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Apes ARE great.
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Same bill they were claiming would end taxes on tips?
Yeah, I'd guess they don't want to pass it, they just want ammunition for attacking senate Democrats when it flops.
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No. Donald Trump does not care to be a fearless leader willing the stand up to someone with leverage over him. He wants to be like Putin, in control of the flow of information, and to make everyone too scared to speak up about how bad his leadership is for the country and for the world.
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To be fair, King George III was also probably pretty dumb.