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Apple we gotta talk

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"Every person is under the influence of suggestion; one person suggests to another. Many suggestions occur very easily, especially if we don't know that we are being exposed to suggestion. But even if we do know, suggestions penetrate." - G. I. Gurdjieff #quote

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“We’ll see you in court.” Gov. Janet Mills is a badass for this.

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106 years ago this week, the US Army realized that it was hiring unqualified, uneducated, illiterate job candidates because of racial preferences… White men

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We dedicated a week to the post office, one of my favorite institutions — its foundational mission, its vital civic roles, its incremental disenfranchisement, its ideal potential — in our Local Media class (relevant slides start at #48) localmedia.wordsinspace.net/spring2024/p...

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Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

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This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

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correlation doesn't prove causation but the huge, sprawling, everywhere conversations about "why i'm quitting target and signing up for costco" does i've seen it come up in all kinds of online groups, most of them not political topics

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best advertising copy: “If you want to prove to us that you are not the loser then you will give us the money.” (free to borrow, yw)

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Excited to announce some of Gwenaël Rattke’s illustrations for our book "Mechanical Fantasy Box - The Homoerotic Journal of Patrick Cowley" are being presented in "Disco - I'm coming out", an exhibition at the Philharmonie de Paris / Musée de la Musique until August 17, 2025

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Do you want me to stop or not?! If you’re going to put up a sign saying “NO STOPPING”, don’t make it the shape and colour of the universally recognised STOP sign.

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Epoch Times personals drama

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HELL YEAH: In a masterful speech, the Democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker announces not ONLY a balanced budget in his state but alludes to Donald Trump and Elon Musk as being “IDIOTS.” Let me know if you agree with him.

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from 🇫🇷 #postMalone

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Many of those Elon Musk fired are part of the management team overseeing tens of thousands of scientists, engineers and technicians who build, maintain and guard the U.S. arsenal of some 5,000 nuclear weapons. Chaos and Nuclear Weapons are not a good mix. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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🚨 Russia: American musician Kalob Wayne Byers arrested on February 7th as he flew in to Moscow to see his girlfriend. He faces 10 years in prison on fabricated drug charges. Putin is refilling his hostage exchange fund.

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NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

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“The ancient Confucian value of yì 義 means to do what is right even if it involves opposition to authority. Chinese history offers many glowing accounts of officials who...chose yì even at the cost of separation of head from torso.” —Perry Link

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This is beyond pseudohistory, it’s dangerous. Pure fascism. It is a FACT that Stonewall, riots that changed LGBTQ rights globally, would not have happened without the lead of trans & non-binary people. To erase them, in this way, is despicable, cowardly & to appease Nazism.

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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

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Having passed up the opportunity years ago to run DOJ’s Civil Division, I’ve never run a large organization, let alone at DOJ. So I’m no expert. But I’m gonna spitball that if hundreds of your subordinates want to tell you to “go fuck yourself,” you might, perhaps, have a management problem.

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Good, yes. Democrats finally getting a tiny bit of backbone

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The Senate just voted to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as Trump's Director of National Intelligence, 52-48. Mitch McConnell voted NO. All other Republicans supported Gabbard. ALL Democrats voted NO. Gabbard has taken a sympathetic stance toward Russia and Syria under the Assad family's rule.

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On the night that Putin invaded Ukraine, what was Tulsi Gabbard doing? Spending her energy blaming NATO and the U.S. for what Putin did. Tulsi Gabbard is not qualified to lead America’s Intelligence Community.

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