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Why a Man Who Pointed a Gun at a Pregnant Woman Over a Parking Spot Is the Transit Hero Seattle Needs: tinyurl.com/zfe26r2z

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To borrow the rhetorical framing... if the objectives of this agency were explicitly to kill trans, queer, and disabled people, what would they doing differently?

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"Our study shows that narcissistic children often emerge as leaders in their classrooms.... Yet compared with their less narcissistic peers, they did not lead their group to perform better" www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

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I dunno, I think Beto has it in the bag this time

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We're learning more about NIH's plans for Secy Kennedy's new autism studies NIH Director Bhattacharya says they're amassing a swath of confidential medical data to link together for first time, ranging from broader access to CMS records to smartwatch data www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

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Heliot Ramos is a dude. Hasn't missed a pitch over the middle part of the plate all year long. Good top of the list here minimum 60 pitches on the season. Seager is the best at this skill. Swings at pitches over the heart of the plate, doesn't miss, barrels up lots of them.

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Editor creates an AI executive who is "an expert at building and scaling digital media companies." Decides within minutes that the AI is "one of the most knowledgeable and energetic colleagues" he's ever had. Asks the AI to create a headshot of itself. It does. He sexually harasses it immediately.

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Let's see what this would look like with both...

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If Hegseth resigns and we get an Acting Secretary of Defense, it'll be the eighth time we've had one. One came under Nixon, a second under GHW Bush. And then we had five under Trump.

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Food $2M Data $1.5M Rent $8M Union Busting $5M Laundering White Supremacy $36M Utility $1.5M someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my newspaper is dying

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Finding out you're getting fired right after celebrating your hero's birthday

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"What's really needed is a Secretary of Defense-from-the-woke-mob WITCH HUNT" -SecDef nominee Ian Miles Cheong

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It’s a reverse John Wick where she’s gonna stop at nothing to find them and kill their dog

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It is good that Rogan is coming out against Trump re: due process. You can say so and still believe Rogan will disappoint you again at the earliest opportunity. Both things can be true.

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There is a lot of overlap between ableism and transphobia generally but RFK et al’s rhetoric about autistic people is that specific thing of not “my kid is a victim” but rather “I fucking hate my kid and someone had to answer for it”

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It needs to be understood that Kennedy’s crusade against autism is just an intense but narrow expression for a worldview that disabled people should not exist, and that this worldview is in fact a mainstream Republican opinion.

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What if Elon is the first autistic person RFK has ever actually met and that’s why he assumes we don’t pay taxes or go on dates

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Reuters: US JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM FAST-TRACKING DEPORTATIONS TO COUNTRIES MIGRANTS DID NOT ORIGINATE FROM

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"Due process doesn't poll well" is a truly contemptible worldview, and I worry about people who don't have anyone in their lives who are clear-eyed or honest enough to tell them so.

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The takeaway from this is resist because his authoritarianism may just keep coming but will be made much more difficult if he is politically weak.

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amazing how grasping this seems in response to someone doing something, how much he needs to be able to rewrite what you saw. the lesson is to do more things

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Centrism!

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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

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Occam's Razor is that Gavin Newsom has just always sucked ass and doesn't have particularly good political instincts.

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One of the firms that lobbied (successfully) for Intuit to ditch IRS Direct File in the first quarter of 2025 is WilmerHale, which is currently suing Trump over an executive order. I guess everyone can compartmentalize!

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given the blatant human rights abuses and crimes against humanity, the most moderate position from the democratic party in this moment should be that they prosecute and lock up the entire trump administration and heavily sanction el salvador

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i can't believe this is real but it is

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So what I'm hearing is that The Art of the Deal can't negotiate the release of one prisoner from a country that has a smaller GDP than Vermont.

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Perioidic reminder that the reason you didn't see autistic people with intellectual disabilities on the street five decades ago was not because they didn't exist. It's because they were sent away to institutions and their parents were told to put away pictures of them.

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"Bernstein analyst Robin Shu told Bloomberg that he expects Nintendo to take 'a hit on margin' if the tariffs remain at 10%, but if they increase to 46%, he 'expected them to raise [the price] by $50 to $100.'"

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Federal spending is up under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Consumer sentiment dropped for the FOURTH straight month, down 30 percent since December. The share of consumers expecting unemployment to rise in the year ahead increased for the fifth consecutive month, the highest since 2009. www.sca.isr.umich.edu

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Without exception, every self-described "classical liberal" I've ever encountered on the internet might be more clearly described as "asshole with a thesaurus."

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