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Gamer, Ally, History buff, Agilist, S/W Dev helper monkey, amateur Scotch collector, and Notre Dame fan. All opinions/moods are mine and are subject to change depending on my caffeine level.
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Vance is here to grab content he can post on X, using your replies. Starve the beast.

submitted 2 days ago • 228 comments

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

submitted 3 days ago • 865 comments

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

submitted 4 days ago • 764 comments

And there it is. The Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers “voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,” according to his best friend.

submitted 6 days ago • 971 comments

This is straight up fascist bullshit. They should lose their badges. You don't protect the people by instilling fear in law abiding citizens.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

🧵THREAD: Far right groups, including White Supremacists and violent extremists, have taken notice of the #NoKings protests planned for tomorrow (June 14th), and have responded with extremist rhetoric and calls for violent disruption of protests. 🚨Follow this thread for intel and updates⬇️

submitted 7 days ago • 73 comments

FYI: The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is trying to get more info on the impact of recent research grant terminations. If your award has been canceled since Jan 20, you can fill out this survey: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Be alert in other cities!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

submitted 10 days ago • 85 comments

LAPD shot my finger with a rubber bullet, I was wearing motorcycle gloves with padding but no armor in the fingers. Just got out of seeing an orthopedist, the bone is badly fractured and I very nearly had to have the tip amputated. If I had no gloves it would have been gone. Please add padded or […]

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

This is awesome...lol. Aren't we supposed to perform sure diligence before giving up a half billion?

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Arrows are useless without the bow.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Fifty Quick Ideas leanpub.com/b/fiftyquick... by Gojko Adzic, David Evans, Tom Roden, and Ben Williams is the featured bundle of ebooks 📚 on the Leanpub homepage! leanpub.com #Testing #Agile #Software #ComputerProgramming #books #ebooks

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

submitted 51 days ago • 47 comments