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NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

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"'We’re bringing attention to what’s happening to the parks, which are every American’s properties,' said Gavin Carpenter, a maintenance mechanic with Yosemite and military veteran who supplied the flag and helped hang it." www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

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oh jesus christ that Silver tweet was from a debate with Seth Abramson ok 1) thank god I'm not on the nazi site anymore 2) are you people really being radicalized into defending Seth "the humongous fraud" Abramson as a serious historian

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You had your moment of rage, and now you'll suffer and you'll suffer.

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Literally repeating Russian talking points.

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I mean it's drugs. And he's genuinely not very bright. And insane. but it's also 45 years of right wing and libertarian propaganda telling people that all government is always inherently bad. they genuinely don't understand how anything works.

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And by "lineages," we mean "world-spanning dynasties of primary historical influence." Autism is yet another one of those things that's sexy if you're rich and disgusting if you're working class.

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"Neurotypicality" may even lose all meaning and fall out of use within a generation or two. Entire lineages going back centuries upon centuries being "quirky", yet falling within accepted human variation exposes it (and the disgusting evil of 90s/00s anti-vaccine "fears") as barbarous reaction.

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There are more diagnosed autistic people because they changed the diagnostic criteria and started diagnosing people other than white boys with autism. Also: 40 years of "awareness" campaigns. That's it. Mystery solved.

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Volkswagen is now selling 4x as many EVs in Europe as Tesla is. Tesla is fifth in a sector it used to dominate

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If anyone brings up the increase in autism diagnoses, here's a useful graph and article www.psu.edu/news/researc...

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Pretending that “dark scenarios” won’t happen to you actually increases your risks that they might. Malignant opportunists exploit others’ cognitive blind spots. More thoughts about the need for scenario planning education for “plausible dark scenarios.” www.linkedin.com/posts/jagoli...

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It's 2025. Trump is beating off the neo-Nazis

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Populist revolt time. No current elected Democrat over age 50 should still be in office by this time in 2028

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“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

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I once worked on a visual novel game where all the surveys and focus groups said that nobody wanted romance, they only wanted mystery and sci-fi. Then 75+% of clicks in-game went to stories with explicit romantic or sexy themes. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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The actual takeaway you should have from this article is that user research is very hard and having people who are experts do it is worth your money. (Love and Deepspace casually charting at the top of mobile spend after it released should probably have been a counterpoint here)

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You think it's a joke but this is exactly how these "bullets" work.

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(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

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Seems like this email could severely backfire, in that it demonstrates the utter toothlessness of DOGE’s absurd directives. The question that kills DOGE has always been “Wait, are you the boss of me? Says what law?” and now Elon is forcing a lot of people to ask it.

submitted 10 hours ago • 21 comments

The New Deal is one of the single greatest achievements in this country's history. A massive, society changing investment in the public, directly and indirectly. Parks, buildings, social security, roads, everything. And fascists hate it.

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Running thread of people trying to normalize the sieg heil. It's not an "Elon gesture", it's not autism, it's not your heart going out, it's not parody or trolling. It's fucking despicable. Don't ever let this shit become normal. Fuck any excuse given, there is none. Zero tolerance. 1. Elon Musk

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Anyone justifying national Democrats' current strategy to you is committing massive, possibly world historic political malpractice, including the elected officials themselves.

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I spent years being like “look guys American fascism doesn’t have to look like the German kind, it’s always been a transnational movement that draws on a variety of symbols and traditions ….” And now they’re just out there doing literal Hitler salutes.

submitted 20 hours ago • 26 comments

Man he really called it

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this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

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Geordi, Do you know why the holodeck is not able to create a Charizard for me to battle? I wish to fight one directly. Worf

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I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

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This is horrible for the future of American science and innovation and economic wellbeing and all the things Pitt is not a small institution It has nearly 10K grad students It is where Salk discovered the polio vaccine

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We're richer than in 1870 because we have less tariffs and more gender affirming care

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I’m going to again post my stance on Trump and fascism from my campaign site. A lot of local Dems seemed spooked by this kind of talk, told me to “fight the far right as a private citizen and don’t attract attention to us.” But how much better would Dems be polling if they were talking this way?

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Remember, Russell Vought said he wanted to "traumatize" federal civil servants.

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AOC believes in Democratic Tea Party 2026. Do you?

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New, from me @theatlantic.com: No, the federal government is not too big It has real human capital needs Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

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"No kings, ___" is a good template if we need a catchy slogan format No kings, save Medicare No kings, protect trans kids No kings, fund science research No kings, hell yes functioning democracy Etc

submitted 16 hours ago • 11 comments

Fuck that.

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y'know if the pope dies at least he went out telling JD Vance to go fuck himself ig.

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