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Cool.
Keep reading:
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Another good piece from back then:
“Al Franken’s resignation was right:
Jane Mayer is wrong.”
www.vox.com/2019/7/22/20...
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It’s a bummer because I was a massive fan of him on Air America, and then his policy record in the senate…
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Franken isn’t “great”, that’s for sure:
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TAPS THE SIGN:
Trump’s own appointees provided trans care to inmates…
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It’ll be AI reading people’s responses anyway.
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It’ll be AI reading people’s responses anyway.
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TAPS THE SIGN:
Trump’s own appointees provided trans care to inmates…
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Nothing will beat the list of the 5 things Elon did at “work” last week…
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Who is “they”???
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In the US we call that “Saturday”.
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“People do not feel safe speaking out in this country against the government,” said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington.
“Because the government in the form of Elon Musk and President Trump himself will catalyze retribution.”
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“Musk’s massive online following, his ownership of a social media platform where he can dictate content moderation rules, and his position heading a government entity with access to private data, give him a unique ability to threaten those who question him and chill dissenting speech.”
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“Digital rights experts say the situation has created an unprecedented imbalance in power.”
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“As he hunts for places to slash the federal bureaucracy, the billionaire has reposted the names and titles of individual government employees, insinuating they should be fired.”
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“Last week, Musk amplified baseless claims about the judge who overturned Trump’s funding freeze on federal grants that named his government employee daughter.
Musk has called for the dismissal of journalists who have written about DOGE, calling their actions “possibly criminal.”
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Related:
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Yep, she got the new face last year:
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“But it’s also things like making sure if a passenger hits the seat in front of them, that surface has been made in such a way that it would make it less likely someone would suffer a serious injury.”
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It’s almost like 48% of voters voted for Kamala.
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“Hate it in the abstract, love it in the specific”, is a good old line.
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk never believed in anyone’s free speech except their own,” @dgraham.bsky.social writes:
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“somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion”
By whom?
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“SoT Sean Duffy issued a letter outlining 2 reasons he feels the fed govt was mistaken in authorizing the tolls—the lack of toll-free alternative routes and the program’s focus on raising money for mass transit—and must now rescind the state’s authority to operate them.”
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UPDATE:
“Sen. Darryl Rouson and Rep. Lindsay Cross, both St. Petersburg Democrats, say they have filed bills that would strike a preemption blocking cities and counties from crafting local safety rules around cranes.”
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