The Bob Cesca Podcast: Donald Trump’s Inner Circle

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Donald Trump’s Inner Circle — The presidential immunity case before the Supreme Court today. If you value the rule of law, today’s arguments were soul crushing. The possibility of remanding the case. The system isn’t as robust as people think. Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and other Trump goons indicted in Arizona for the fake electors plot. Trump’s fraud trial continues. The NYT’s petty smearing of Joe Biden. The Pennsylvania primary was great news for Democrats. Biden and Buttigieg improve the lives of air travelers. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by Rogues Revival, The Husht, and more!

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343 comments
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wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2024 • 3:19:09pm

Mastodon

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 25, 2024 • 3:20:48pm

re: #1 wrenchwench

Is there a Four Seasons in the area?

/

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 25, 2024 • 3:22:20pm

From downstairs.

re: #182 Mattand

LOL, if Communism means “forcing giant corporations to do right by the customers after decades of fucking them over”, well, slap my hammer and sickle and call me “Lenin”!

It all runs back to the corporate overlords wanting to do the bare minimum, and getting angry when “the bare minimum” is increased on them. They’ll use whatever nasty word(s) they can find to describe it to get unwitting fools to be on their side.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 25, 2024 • 3:24:21pm

I’ve found the DB table that’s hanging up sometimes - it’s the user session data. I made a copy of it, defragmented it and optimized it, and the queries that are still very slow on the original are MUCH faster on the copy. But it could also be faster because it’s not being continuously accessed.

So I need to do those same operations on the real table and see if it helps. I’ll wait until later tonight, because it takes a while to complete.

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William Lewis  Apr 25, 2024 • 3:28:29pm

Helping my 88 year old dad clean up some scrap fencing at the farm and took it to the scrap yard today. Part one with 50mm - the truck loaded up:

Helping my 88 year old dad clean up some scrap fencing at the farm and took it to the scrap yard today. Part two with 28 mm - looking out the back window as they used a magnet to off load it:

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nines09  Apr 25, 2024 • 3:30:23pm

re: #5 William Lewis

Nice.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 25, 2024 • 3:37:05pm


Yikes!

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William Lewis  Apr 25, 2024 • 3:43:18pm

Forgot to mention, got paid by him in 2 dozen farm fresh eggs. Only keeps a handful of hens these days but YUM for that 😎 Got enough for the scrap for gas money. Not a bad way to spend a nice spring day.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 25, 2024 • 3:51:21pm

Absolute dogshit DARVO logic, if you find students protesting an ongoing humanitarian crisis too loudly intimidating that’s because you’re weak and need to be bullied mercilessly until you become strong enough to deal with freedom of expression in a representative democracy.

Protesters calling for Israel to cease fire in its war with Hamas who have disrupted US public events and infrastructure are practicing “leftwing fascism” or “leftwing totalitarianism”, a senior US House Democrat said, adding that such protesters are “challenging representative democracy” and should be arrested.

“Intimidation is the tactic,” said Adam Smith of Washington state, the ranking Democrat on the House armed services committee. “Intimidation and an effort to silence opposition … I don’t know if there’s such a thing as leftwing fascism. If you want to just call it leftwing totalitarianism, then that’s what it is. It is a direct challenge to representative democracy now.”

…

Asked what kind of protest might be appropriate, Smith cited a recent instance in an armed services hearing in which “people came in and they didn’t say anything, they just held up bloody hands. And the chairman noticed that and said, ‘You can’t do that, you’re out, and they got up and left.”

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retired cynic  Apr 25, 2024 • 3:55:56pm

re: #9 goddamnedfrank

They could protest under their breath, in the privacy of their own home.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:00:49pm

re: #9 goddamnedfrank

If we lose in November it’s going to be because of milquetoast centrist shit-wittery like this. Again, remember that the proximity to power is the key to understanding every political question because that’s how the word politics is literally fucking defined:

Now ask yourself, who is actually closer to being the fucking fascist in this situation, the powerless student protesters or the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee who is urging armed agents of the State to suppress speech that he does not like?

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Charles Johnson  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:02:46pm

Just discovered that the query cache was not turned on in MariaDB on this server. Oops!

It is now, though. This should help performance a bit.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:07:40pm

NEWS: My friends and I now own and run The Onion. I’ll be the CEO.

We’re keeping the entire staff, bringing back The Onion News Network, and will share the wealth with staff. Basically, we’re going to let them do whatever they want.

Get excited.

— Ben Collins (@bencollins.bsky.social) 2024-04-25T23:03:29.261Z

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gocart mozart  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:11:12pm
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goddamnedfrank  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:12:19pm

re: #13 Charles Johnson

I was super skeptical about the sale but if Ben’s actually going to be running the show …

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Charles Johnson  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:13:29pm

re: #15 goddamnedfrank

I was super skeptical about the sale but if Ben’s actually going to be running the show …

It’s true, unless the NYT is in on the joke, too.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:14:36pm

Mastodon

Mastodon

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b.d.  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:15:24pm

re: #15 goddamnedfrank

I was super skeptical about the sale but if Ben’s actually going to be running the show …

Biden should give them a sit down interview.

//

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:17:04pm

re: #18 b.d.

Biden should give them a sit down interview.

//

If I were him I’d do it just as an explicit diss to Arthur Sulzberger and the NYT.

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nines09  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:18:33pm

I like music of every genre.
Rhianna did it for me it this venue.

Heard it the other day and away I went…

Rihanna - Birthday Cake (Extended Version)

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teleskiguy  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:21:29pm

TIL I’m only a couple of years younger than A.G. Sulzberger, born 5 August 1980.

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nines09  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:22:43pm

re: #13 Charles Johnson

I do hope so.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:33:47pm

Wow, I’m hoping it was enabling the query cache, because things are really running fast right now. Some of the choke points like bringing up user profiles are now faster than a really fast thing.

Time will tell the tale.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:42:25pm

I don’t know if it’s been posted here before - it probably has - but Bluesky has a crowd-sourced moderation labeler called Aegis: @aegis.blue . It’s super nice. Normally I have some difficulty picking out if my follows are responding in good faith to a misguided soul, or are snarking at trolls. Finding the post they’re responding to covered in labels makes it abundantly clear that the person in question is an asshat.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:47:38pm

re: #24 Nerdy Fish

I generally avoid those crowd-sourced moderation type things, after getting wrongly put on more than one of ‘em. I may try this one out just to see how it works - easy enough to unsubscribe if I don’t like it.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:49:17pm

Mastodon

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austin_blue  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:49:26pm

re: #5 William Lewis

Helping my 88 year old dad clean up some scrap fencing at the farm and took it to the scrap yard today. Part one with 50mm - the truck loaded up:

[Embedded content]

Salt does a number on Wisconsin pick’emup trucks, doesn’t it?

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:49:55pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

I generally avoid those crowd-sourced moderation type things, after getting wrongly put on more than one of ‘em. I may try this one out just to see how it works - easy enough to unsubscribe if I don’t like it.

I can see why that would be a problem for you, since people try so hard to make your life difficult. It doesn’t appear that you’re on this one yet, since you didn’t disappear from my feed when I turned it on.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:51:18pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

I generally avoid those crowd-sourced moderation type things, after getting wrongly put on more than one of ‘em. I may try this one out just to see how it works - easy enough to unsubscribe if I don’t like it.

I’ve been subscribed to aegis for about two weeks and all it does is slap a label on the account. So far they’ve all been VERY accurate.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:52:39pm

re: #29 goddamnedfrank

I’ve been subscribed to aegis for about two weeks and all it does is slap a label on the account. So far they’ve all been VERY accurate.

They’re reviewed by actual people, which is important. I’m never a fan of these automated systems that just automatically take action based on the number of reports. Way too easy to abuse.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Apr 25, 2024 • 4:52:55pm

re: #90 jaunte

As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.

I guess you had to Be There.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:01:45pm

Looks like 30-40% of the queries are hitting the cache, which is nice.

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nines09  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:02:22pm

re: #26 Backwoods Sleuth

A meow, a rub, a tail just happy and big V-8 purr. and you get anything.
Cats are brilliant in a way.
Dogs too.
And that goldfish knew exactly what was happening.
Don’t even get into neon tetras.
And remember the kids who won Betta fishes at the carnival, fair..
Literally gave them away in baggies.
Kids would go home, figured the fish would be better together and put them all in a big bowl.
Not a happy morning.

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gocart mozart  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:06:06pm
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darthstar  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:12:14pm

Okay, movie review - Rebel Moon 2: Decent plasma splodeyness, a little heavy on the heart strings with the young blond boy bonding with the samurai warrior woman, and of course the robot’s a fucking Elmo in the plot, but the charming guy who encourages the heroine to do the right thing dies in the end so it’s all worth it. I give it two and a half dog biscuits. And it killed two hours while I prepped dinner and cleaned. And it saves episode 5 of Fallout for another day.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:12:28pm

Listening to that exchange with Trump’s lawyer about the crimes a president should be able to commit with total immunity, and he says MURDER and COUPS could be “official acts” and warrant immunity even after leaving office, and I’m getting that stuck in a really bad timeline feeling again.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-26T00:12:08.000Z

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:13:07pm

re: #7 DodgerFan1988

Mamet has gone full fascist.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:16:46pm

re: #34 gocart mozart

Newsmax Presstitute Addison Smith lets his fellow Nazi Vish Burra lie for the GOP.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:16:59pm

Been using this invaluable tool for years; if you run a MySQL/MariaDB contraption and haven’t heard about it yet, you need this, install it now.

How To Use Mytop to Monitor MySQL Performance

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-26T00:06:54.000Z

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teleskiguy  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:17:44pm

Youtube Video

World record nordic ski jump. 291 meters!!!

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A Mom Anon  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:19:06pm

re: #40 teleskiguy

That’s some crazy shit right there. Wow.

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Charmingly Persistent  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:21:52pm

re: #24 Nerdy Fish

I don’t know if it’s been posted here before - it probably has - but Bluesky has a crowd-sourced moderation labeler called Aegis: @aegis.blue . It’s super nice. Normally I have some difficulty picking out if my follows are responding in good faith to a misguided soul, or are snarking at trolls. Finding the post they’re responding to covered in labels makes it abundantly clear that the person in question is an asshat.

I signed up for the one that warns for twitter screenshots but it doesn’t seem to be working. Am I supposed to send a report to Block for each one I see? I read an explainer but I wasn’t really clear on that.

Anyway I will check out Aegis too.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:23:24pm

re: #37 Joe Bacon ✅

Mamet has gone full fascist.

Mamet has always been a misogynist. Has he really changed that much?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:23:47pm

Ukrainian Troops Troll MTG, Invite Her To The Front Line

A Ukrainian fighting force known as the “Georgian Legion” trolled MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in the best way on X Wednesday. Greene posted a video of a nightclub in Ukraine, perpetuating the right-wing conspiracy theory that the war in Ukraine isn’t actually happening.

Responding to Greene’s assertion that “Ukraine is BOOMING!” and that in “most countries who are under attack, bars and restaurants shut down,” the Georgian Legion invited Greene on a special all-access tour of the battlefield.

“Come to Ukraine, we will give you an excursion to the frontlines,” was all the post said.

Greene’s not-so-subtle support of Russia in the conflict in Ukraine hasn’t escaped anyone, not even commentators in Russia. Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-Chief of Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT, said of Greene:

“Marjorie Taylor Greene, you’ve just shown is a beauty. She is one of a few members of the US Congress who is trying to look like a person in an old-fashioned sense of the word.”

“She is a blonde, who wears white coats with a fur collar. She is demonstratively heterosexual,” Simonyan said.

meidastouch.com

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silverdolphin  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:23:55pm

re: #10 retired cynic

They could protest under their breath, in the privacy of their own home.

I checked into this as Smith has usually been a very reliable Democrat, if somewhat centrist. And here is why Rep. Adam Smith takes it so personally.

Rep. Adam Smith says his home was vandalized by cease-fire activists They spray painted “Baby Killer” on his garage.

Rep. Smith Statement on Protest at His Town Hall
 Where they screamed insults at him and would not let him speak at all.

Here is a relevant decription of his point of view:

Protesters, Smith said, “would say, ‘Children are dying. This is a huge humanitarian crisis.’ And they’re right about that … and by the way, I do have some sympathy with these people. If there are members of Congress who won’t meet with them, I meet with them. All the time. So they have an opportunity to be heard. They’re not trying to be heard. They’re trying to silence people who disagree with them.”

From the podcast, it is obvious he is talking about a specific form of protest, those where protestors shout down those they do not want to speak or personally attacking those they do not agree with. That is, targeting individuals with different opinions. At their homes. That is what he meant by intimidation.

Some are trying to intimidate him by attacking him personally in public and in private. I imagine his family is not happy about the people who showed up at his home. Those that wanted to hear him speak at the town hall were likely upset also.

I would tend to agree with him in a philosophical sense. All things being equal, they should not vandalize his house or prevent him from asserting his 1st Amendment rights. But things are not equal. This fails to recognize the power disparity of the two. He is on the Armed Services Committee with tremendous power to intimidate and silence millions of ordinary people by his votes. And he has.

He is upset that a few ordinary people intimdate and silence one powerful person. He fucking should understand that this is part of the political game today and if he does not like the heat, get out of the kitchen. Stop whining like a WATB.

But maybe I’m too harsh. I just hate powerful men complaining about how terrible it is to be powerful.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:25:08pm

So access to abortion isn’t explicitly in the Constitution, therefore SCOTUS can’t do anything to protect it. But executive privilege isn’t explicitly in the Constitution, and SCOTUS is willing to entertain the notion the Founding Fathers—notoriously friendly to kings—simply overlooked it.

— Cate Eland (@romancingnope.bsky.social) 2024-04-26T00:11:30.146Z

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:25:14pm

re: #40 teleskiguy

[Embedded content]

Video

World record nordic ski jump. 291 meters!!!

Sew some small squirrel suit wings under his arms and add another 75 meters…though the aerodynamics of the skis and body are what matter…always loved this sport…from the first time I saw ‘the agony of defeat’ during the opening credits for ABC sports.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:32:21pm

The faucet is wide open and the weapons are beginning to flow. I expect our military logistics teams will be working 24/7 over the next five or six weeks fulfilling orders.

Mastodon

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EPR-radar  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:35:23pm

re: #46 goddamnedfrank

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

The corrupt GOP SCOTUS majority is blatantly considering making this the law of the land.

I don’t think they will actually do that, but it is a way for these fascists to amuse themselves and gull the feeble-minded into thinking that “just” delaying Trump’s cases by 5+ years for this frivolous immunity shit is some kind of victory for democracy.

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sagehen  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:36:20pm

re: #37 Joe Bacon ✅

Mamet has gone full fascist.

It’s not a “turn”, this is who he’s been for a very long time.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:46:26pm

re: #48 Charles Johnson

That’s about what I would have said if I were on live camera back to earth. I’d also write something like ‘Go Vikings!’ in the dirt. (I’d draw a penis but the Mars Rover did that a few years back).

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Randall Gross  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:50:26pm

re: #29 goddamnedfrank

I’ve been subscribed to aegis for about two weeks and all it does is slap a label on the account. So far they’ve all been VERY accurate.

Same here, so far it’s reliable.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:52:10pm

So it turned out okay - chicken and artichoke lasagna.


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Charmingly Persistent  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:52:54pm

re: #53 Randall Gross

Same here, so far it’s reliable.

Okay I signed on. Now I need to find a troll to see if it is working

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:54:46pm

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:55:02pm

The objective was to get the police to overreact and have videos of people getting arrested…objective accomplished.

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:57:18pm

So glad I implemented SameSite cookies on my cross-site auth cookies not very long ago, only to have Google announce they’re just killing all 3rd party cookies soon.

I predict a lot of sites and services are going to start failing if/when they do this.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-26T00:54:33.000Z

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:57:33pm

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2024 • 5:59:29pm

re: #58 Charles Johnson

One of these days they’ll make a change and my Geocities web page will come back to life and the world will have access to my grandmother’s persimmon cookie recipe once again.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:00:38pm

re: #59 darthstar

That’s old-school electoral baloney, and people are starving for it.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:02:45pm

re: #61 Decatur Deb

That’s old-school electoral baloney, and people are starving for it.

Give them more ice cream…it’s quite satisfying.

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austin_blue  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:06:47pm

re: #57 darthstar

The objective was to get the police to overreact and have videos of people getting arrested…objective accomplished.

[Embedded content]

Also of note:

At least as many protestors at UT were on the South Lawn today as yesterday, but there were Professors with them and Greg Abbot’s Goon Squad was nowhere to be seen. It seems that anti-semitism, which will never be tolerated in Greg Abbot’s Texas, has a short shelf-life in Abbot’s reality.

Here today, gonif tomorrow.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:06:49pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:07:04pm

re: #61 Decatur Deb

That’s old-school electoral baloney, and people are starving for it.

And watch Newsmax start denouncing ice cream.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:07:59pm

re: #65 Joe Bacon ✅

And watch Newsmax start denouncing ice cream.

Children’s ice cream, Mandrake…

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Charles Johnson  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:08:15pm

The bookmarklets that post LGF Pages and articles will start failing if/when Google kills 3rd party cookies.

More work for your humble narrator.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:09:20pm

Cops Using AI That Automatically Generates Police Reports From Body Cam Footage

Taser maker and police contractor Axon has announced a new product called “Draft One,” an AI that can generate police reports from body cam audio.

As Forbes reports, it’s a brazen and worrying use of the tech that could easily lead to the furthering of institutional ills like racial bias in the hands of police departments. That’s not to mention the propensity of AI models to “hallucinate” facts, which could easily lead to chaos and baseless accusations.

“It’s kind of a nightmare,” Electronic Frontier Foundation surveillance technologies investigations director Dave Maass told Forbes. “Police, who aren’t specialists in AI, and aren’t going to be specialists in recognizing the problems with AI, are going to use these systems to generate language that could affect millions of people in their involvement with the criminal justice system.”

There’s a different world where LLMs could be merely neat, a step in an interesting direction. But AI is…like steam looms…immediately contextualized by those with power and money to be just another medium for their priorities. It’s not that the technology itself is bad, it’s that technology is always embedded in the ideology of it’s controllers. And while that generally bad, it’s especially bad in the case of “AI” because our society has a bunch of preexisting tropes that “AI” is synonymous with beyond-human intelligence and objectivity.

Jesus, can I get through a day without a Smedley Butler and/or Luddites reference?

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Charles Johnson  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:09:32pm

But if sunlight doesn’t work there’s always Kwell lotion.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-26T01:04:25.000Z

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:09:38pm

re: #61 Decatur Deb

That’s old-school electoral baloney, and people are starving for it.

When I was in the second grade, KRCR TV-7 - the ABC affiliate in Redding, CA, came to St. Joseph’s elementary to ask us what we would ask President Nixon to do if we had his ear.

My hair was messed up because we were making bird nests on our heads at recess by rubbing our hands around in circles on top of our head, so there I was, in my green jeans and white shirt and John-John haircut all up in a nest, and I said, “Lower coffee prices.”

My parents looked at me and said, ‘Why did you say that?’ when it was on TV. I said, because you were talking about it yesterday!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:10:54pm

I haven’t mentioned Ursula LeGuin today, so I’m slacking.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:13:19pm

Trump Trial Reveals Other Stars Who Paid to Have Unsavory Stories Killed

Testimony in Donald Trump’s trial on Thursday revealed a list of other celebrities who allegedly dished out cash—or favors—to have the rights to negative stories purchased and killed by the National Inquirer. Trump has been infamously accused of calling on the magazine’s publisher, David Pecker, to kill negative stories about him during his campaign and presidency’s early days, allegations at the center of Trump’s alleged hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels in 2016. While testifying about this pay-to-kill strategy, however, Pecker also threw a number of other celebrities under the bus who he claimed had reached an agreement with him to save face. That included Tiger Woods, who cut a deal to avoid unsavory photos being published, and Mark Wahlberg, who did the same to cover up a story about an argument he got into with his wife, Pecker testified. He added that he also struck an agreement with Arnold Schwarzenegger to bury negative stories about him as he campaigned to be governor of California—something he said he agreed to in exchange for something Schwarzenegger described as a “giant acquisition.” In keeping the governor-to-be’s record clean, Pecker testified he dealt with “30 or 40” women who came forward with stories about Schwarzenegger.

nbcnews.com

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Randall Gross  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:13:27pm

re: #71 The Ghost of a Flea

I haven’t mentioned Ursula LeGuin today, so I’m slacking.

Yeah, don’t be one of those who walk away.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:14:29pm

re: #71 The Ghost of a Flea

I haven’t mentioned Ursula LeGuin today, so I’m slacking.

Can’t hear her name without thinking of her father. Patriarchy is powerful.
en.wikipedia.org

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:18:04pm

re: #74 Decatur Deb

Funnily enough I read more Kroeber pere than Ursula Kroeber LeGuin until the last few years. Ishi was a monograph I cut my teeth on in my teens.

With allowance for my dad being an unreliable cad, he apparently met Kroeber a couple of times in grad school.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:19:16pm

re: #54 darthstar

So it turned out okay - chicken and artichoke lasagna.

[Embedded content]

Okay…just had a plate and I will say this. It. Did. Not. Suck.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:21:53pm

re: #63 austin_blue

Also of note:

At least as many protestors at UT were on the South Lawn today as yesterday, but there were Professors with them and Greg Abbot’s Goon Squad was nowhere to be seen. It seems that anti-semitism, which will never be tolerated in Greg Abbot’s Texas, has a short shelf-life in Abbot’s reality.

Here today, gonif tomorrow.

He got his 15 minutes of fame and talking points that he’ll use to ban “anti-semitism” at Texas universities in an emergency legislative session. That’s all he needed.

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Randall Gross  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:23:06pm

arggghg
USC Commencement cancled
latimes.com

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:29:43pm

re: #78 Randall Gross

arggghg
USC Commencement cancled
latimes.com

All this does is serve to demonize the protesters, because you just know the university administrators are saying, in effect, “Look what you made us do.” It’s so sick and wrong.

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Randall Gross  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:29:51pm

Has anyone tried Dead Boy Detectives yet? I have some good hope for the show since they allowed tie ins to Sandman, and the supposed clash with the coming Gunn DC ‘verse.

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Randall Gross  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:31:43pm

re: #79 Nerdy Fish

All this does is serve to demonize the protesters, because you just know the university administrators are saying, in effect, “Look what you made us do.” It’s so sick and wrong.

Yeah, they purposefully painted themselves into a corner with the evil is mostly just stupid and banal brush.

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austin_blue  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:33:19pm

re: #80 Randall Gross

Has anyone tried Dead Boy Detectives yet? I have some good hope for the show since they allowed tie ins to Sandman, and the supposed clash with the coming Gunn DC ‘verse.

It’s Neil Gaiman. What more do you need to know?

Pffft. It’s a no brainer.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:41:49pm

Heh.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:41:56pm

What’s probably going to happen is we’ll get some hopelessly confused 18-part balancing test for presidential immunity, Chutkan and the DC Cir. speed run applying it in a few weeks, and then SCOTUS grants cert on that appeal and sits on it for another four months.

— Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) 2024-04-26T01:37:19.110Z

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:45:43pm

Newsmax cuts off Trump before he violates gag order: ‘We don’t want to get you in trouble’

Former President Donald Trump again tried to talk smack about the people involved in his criminal trial in Manhattan during an interview on the far-right Newsmax channel, when interviewer Greg Kelly cut him off for his own legal safety.

“You have crime all over the place [in New York], violent crime,” Trump raged. “And they’ve got 20 prosecutors and people from that office sitting there—”

“We don’t want to get you in trouble with that gag order,” Kelly cut him off.

rawstory.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:50:07pm

re: #85 Joe Bacon ✅

BIASED JOURNALIST BLATANTLY PROTECTS CRIMINAL DURING INTERVIEW.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:56:12pm

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austin_blue  Apr 25, 2024 • 6:56:48pm

I’m out. The recovery from jet lag is almost (almost!) complete. But I am going to continue to push the envelope and retire now. Night all. Sweet scaly dreams

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:07:38pm

Totally not a cult…

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:21:43pm

Republicans can’t leave a black woman alone:

A Texas prosecutor on Thursday appealed a recent ruling that tossed Crystal Mason’s illegal voting conviction from 2018, the Tarrant County district attorney’s office said in a statement.

“The trial court’s guilty verdict should be affirmed,” the district attorney’s office said. “Voting is a cornerstone of our democracy. This office will protect the ballot box from fraudsters who think our laws don’t apply to them.”

thehill.com

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teleskiguy  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:25:23pm

Mastodon

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silverdolphin  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:27:08pm

“We do not want to be a democracy.”

So says some in the WA GOP. Their platform supports this. They passed a resolution that says, in part:

“We … oppose legislation which makes our nation more democratic in nature.”

“Every time the word ‘democracy’ is used favorably it serves to promote the principles of the Democratic Party, the principles of which we ardently oppose.”

Other parts make it harder to vote. And others remove the ability to vote for Senators. Their need for a king is now part of the platform.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:28:29pm

re: #92 silverdolphin

“Every time the word ‘democracy’ is used favorably it serves to promote the principles of the Democratic Party.”

They are SO close to figuring this out.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:33:38pm

There’s a large stretch of land down 205 that is called McClendon-Chisolm. It’s a large place with large expensive houses that stretches almost from Rockwall to Terrell, nearly 20 miles. They’re starting to run into problems with trying to remain a minimum taxed town but with a whole lot of property that needs water and trash, and there seems to have been a bit of corruption in the way some of the management has gone.

Because of this, some guy puts up a rant on Nextdoor about a former (Republican) leader attacking current leadership, and he starts his screed with:

I received a mailer yesterday that so distorts the facts that I feel, that I must respond. I just got another one today. It pulls a Democrat dirty trick. “Accuse your opponent of what you are already guilty of.” Non-transparency.

Interestingly, it was funded by Texas Conservative Project PAC, That is bankrolled by two Conservative Texas oil billionaires. Why they saw fit to meddle in local McLendon-Chisholm.local politics is perplexing. The position they are espousing is anything but Conservative.

Be that as it may. Here is the meat of the mailer. It touts Adrienne Balkum for mayor by stating that she wishes to ” Deliver high-quality water services to residents” among other claims.

Is this even credible? Back in 2018, when we relocated here, Adrienne was on MC city Council. MC city was about 3-4000 population. That is nowhere near the size a city needs to be to take on the expenses and management of a full-fledged Fire Department. But Adrienne thought different. She and her co-conspirators did what was necessary to disband our current Volunteer Fire Department. As a result, MC city was without Fire Protection for a time. Fortunately, nearby cities stepped in the breach. That, by itself, should tell you that, at that time, a city FD was not needed yet. That is when I took notice because the local papers began reporting the fiasco. What was proposed was a Fire Chief with no men and no fire engines and no building be appointed at FULL SALARY and BENEFITS. Of course, he had nothing to do until the city acquired everything needed for a Fire Department. That got shot down when the word got out.

So I replied with:

I don’t know, man. John Cornyn sent me an email blaming Democrats for not doing anything about the border when Republicans killed the border bill at Trump’s request, after they negotiated it. Seems like it’s all a problem in your party.

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teleskiguy  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:37:26pm

Mastodon

I’ll vouch for this. I’ve been checking his site almost daily since last summer.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:38:42pm

LOL

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teleskiguy  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:40:59pm

re: #89 Eclectic Cyborg

This is a picture of a dumbass obscenely wealthy dip depreciating the value of that supercar by many tens of thousands of dollars, maybe even hundreds of thousands of dollars. I wonder where the picture was taken. If I had to guess, somewhere in South Florida.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:42:16pm

José Andrés praised the World Central Kitchen workers that Israel killed as “the best of humanity.” Andrés said that WCK shared the aid workers’ whereabouts with Israeli forces and said they were “targeted deliberately nonstop until everybody was dead.”

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2024-04-25T23:54:53.470Z

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silverdolphin  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:43:37pm

re: #96 Belafon

LOL

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A Biden interview with the NYT Pitchbot would be amazing. I do love how butthurt the owner of the NYT is that Biden won’t give NYT an interview. His editorial direction is now becoming too obvious.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:46:20pm
Mike Pinder, the Moody Blues Keyboardist and Founding Member, Dead at 82

rollingstone.com

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:49:22pm

re: #57 darthstar

The objective was to get the police to overreact and have videos of people getting arrested…objective accomplished.

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Massive lawsuits against UT, the Police and the State of Texas in 3…2…1…

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Decatur Deb  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:51:40pm

re: #92 silverdolphin

“We do not want to be a democracy.”…

Democracy is a border-to-border intelligence test. We’re on probation.

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teleskiguy  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:53:38pm

my first tweet that’s not a reply in quite some time

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:54:07pm

re: #93 Eclectic Cyborg

“Every time the word ‘democracy’ is used favorably it serves to promote the principles of the Democratic Party.”

They are SO close to figuring this out.

They long for the old-fashioned democracy of the ancient Athenians.

With slaves, franchiseless women, and rights-less vassal states.

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:55:01pm

re: #92 silverdolphin

“We do not want to be a democracy.”

So says some in the WA GOP. Their platform supports this. They passed a resolution that says, in part:

Other parts make it harder to vote. And others remove the ability to vote for Senators. Their need for a king is now part of the platform.

King? Nahh. They want something like this.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:55:14pm

re: #104 The Ghost of a Flea

Socrates: “I’ll drink to that.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 25, 2024 • 7:59:02pm

The end result of Ayn Rand’s selfishness is what has turned the Republican Party into a full blown fascist movement.

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teleskiguy  Apr 25, 2024 • 8:01:52pm

Oh, finally had a sighting of a Cybertuck locally. Was able to point and laugh and yell (their windows were open) “THAT LOOKS SO DUMB!” I know they heard it.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 25, 2024 • 8:02:19pm

re: #106 Decatur Deb

Socrates: “I’ll drink to that.”

I know I’m supposed to be impressed by “the Apology” but everything about Socrates’ intellectual descendants give me this weird vibe where I seriously wonder if “corrupting the youth of Athens” just meant “pedophile with a cult.”

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 25, 2024 • 8:03:35pm

Ella Purnell’s American Accent Is So Good Her Co-Star Didn’t Believe She’s British

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teleskiguy  Apr 25, 2024 • 8:03:56pm

It was only a matter of time that some wealthy dip in the valley got a Cybertruck, and I saw it today. Good thing there’s a Tesla service center just down the road next to the airport so they can get their gas accelerator pedals fixed.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 25, 2024 • 8:11:58pm

re: #109 The Ghost of a Flea

I know I’m supposed to be impressed by “the Apology” but everything about Socrates’ intellectual descendants give me this weird vibe where I seriously wonder if “corrupting the youth of Athens” just meant “pedophile with a cult.”

In retrospect Laconophilia was always a gigantic red flag.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 25, 2024 • 8:19:37pm

Tony laments the continuing destruction of the Texas prairie:

Texas Prairie Demolition Bonanza

..

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silverdolphin  Apr 25, 2024 • 8:23:09pm

re: #100 Belafon

rollingstone.com

Damn. His use of the mellotron made progressive rock. Only the Two Blue Jays (Justin Hayward and John Lodge) of the classic lineup are still alive. Graeme, Ray and now Mike are gone. I was so into them. Had the War of the Worlds album just to hear Justin and John sing. Even have the Moody Bluegrass albums. Saw the Moodies at the Gorge in George, Washington. Been buying Lodge’s recent albums just to hear his voice.

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silverdolphin  Apr 25, 2024 • 8:27:46pm

re: #110 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

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Video

And I thought that co-star, Aaron Clifton Moten, did a amazing job of showing someone who was really kinda slow. He never went “full retard” and made the character really very sympathetic. He was smart where he needed to be. I loved the interactions between his Maximus and her Lucy.

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KingKenrod  Apr 25, 2024 • 8:39:09pm

I love the Moodies - there’s no one else like them. RIP Mike Pinder

Melancholy Man - Moody Blues - Mike Pinder

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Captain Ron  Apr 25, 2024 • 8:40:07pm
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Belafon  Apr 25, 2024 • 8:49:30pm

re: #117 Captain Ron

Drink the milk, don’t snort it.

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TedStriker  Apr 25, 2024 • 8:50:53pm

re: #92 silverdolphin

“We do not want to be a democracy.”

So says some in the WA GOP. Their platform supports this. They passed a resolution that says, in part:

Other parts make it harder to vote. And others remove the ability to vote for Senators. Their need for a king is now part of the platform.

re: #105 Florida Panhandler

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King? Nahh. They want something like this.

They don’t just want something like this, they want be this… it’s their power fantasy.

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silverdolphin  Apr 25, 2024 • 9:01:26pm

God damn it. I am watching Aliens and I want to really take all those smug businessbodies at Weyland-Yutani Corporation, like Van Leuwen and all the other assholes around the table during Ripley’s hearing, and put every one of them in front of an xenomorph egg. Carter only wants to move up into their level. He I can understand.

I am so mad at the smugness of the rich and powerful today. Wall Street Businessmen. Rent Seeking Hedge Funders. The GOP. The Supreme Court. They all have people who need an xenomorph egg. Can’t escape it even in the movies. My usual bonhomie sometimes flags as it has today.

At times like these, I sometimes reread Thomas Jefferson’s letter in 1787 to William Stephens Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams. This is the one about the tree of liberty. But it has a lot more. This is important:

The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. … And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?

We are in the middle of an existential fight for America and the world. We still have the ultimate in peaceful resistance - suffrage. I know we will make it through and win, putting most of those people on the ash heap of history, but some days it all looks so hard. Today is one of them, as I watch the Supreme Court act more like Hitler’s Volksgerichtshof (People’s Court) than a legitimate arbiter of the law.

I’ll return to my sanguine ways soon. Gotta go watch the movie and dream that someday we have a Ripley of our own.

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teleskiguy  Apr 25, 2024 • 9:02:09pm

re: #47 darthstar

Sew some small squirrel suit wings under his arms and add another 75 meters…though the aerodynamics of the skis and body are what matter…always loved this sport…from the first time I saw ‘the agony of defeat’ during the opening credits for ABC sports.

I saw it all the time in aughts when I lived in Steamboat Springs, CO.

They have to land in a tele stance…

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silverdolphin  Apr 25, 2024 • 9:04:09pm

re: #117 Captain Ron

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Wondering when the FDA will get the vaccines we have for the bird flu up to full production levels. All it is going to take now is for some influrenza flu viral reassortment and this could get bad quickly. Hope not. The world is complicated enough right now.

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2024 • 9:24:15pm

I wake up this evening to news that 5-6 of the SCOTUS bench were actually nodding along to the suggestion that holding a Republican president accountable for criminal acts in office is the responsibility of Congress and if they whiff on that then he should walk free.

Anybody needs me, I’ll be the guy in the corner, curled in the fetal position and weeping for my country.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2024 • 9:24:23pm
Thursday, presidents from Iowa’s three public universities told the Board of Regents how they’re overhauling Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs on campus.

All three Iowa universities are closing their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion offices. The savings from the University of Iowa and Iowa State University closing these offices is more than a million dollars. This comes on the heels of a mandate from the legislature and Board of Regents to overhaul DEI programs and enhance civics education.

DEI positions that are necessary for accreditation or compliance with state and federal law will not be impacted.

kcrg.com

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Captain Ron  Apr 25, 2024 • 9:34:30pm
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silverdolphin  Apr 25, 2024 • 9:42:03pm

‘Are you missing my point?’: Trump attorney sharply upbraided by judge after jury goes home in hush-money trial

I’m feeling a little better because Trump’s lawyers are so bad.

Looks like the defense lawyers continue to piss off the judge. On cross examination, they tried to imply that Pecker had been inconsistent in who had attended an important meeting, giving Federal and state investigatiors diferent answers. To the point, that Hope HIcks had been present, when he spoke to the state. But that she had been absent when speaking to the Feds. So that Pecker must have lied in one of the interviews.

The state objected, the Judge ordered the jury out and got to the point. The defense was trying to purposefully misrepresent what was in the documents. Pecker never told the Feds Hicks was not at the meeting. Her name never came up. The defense was trying to imply that Pecker had positively NOT said Hicks was at the interview. That he must have lied in one of the two interviews but he only explicitly said anything about Hicks in the state interview.

Judge was not happy and will instruct the jury tomorrow that the defense was playing tricks. It again goes to the credibility of the defense.

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Egregious Philbin  Apr 25, 2024 • 9:46:52pm

re: #110 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Just watched episode 4. So into it, I reinstalled Fallout 4 and am enjoying it all over again, I love Fallout 76, until you stop getting perks..grrr

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2024 • 9:53:02pm

re: #126 silverdolphin

‘Are you missing my point?’: Trump attorney sharply upbraided by judge after jury goes home in hush-money trial

I’m feeling a little better because Trump’s lawyers are so bad.

Looks like the defense lawyers continue to piss off the judge. On cross examination, they tried to imply that Pecker had been inconsistent in who had attended an important meeting, giving Federal and state investigatiors diferent answers. To the point, that Hope HIcks had been present, when he spoke to the state. But that she had been absent when speaking to the Feds. So that Pecker must have lied in one of the interviews.

The state objected, the Judge ordered the jury out and got to the point. The defense was trying to purposefully misrepresent what was in the documents. Pecker never told the Feds Hicks was not at the meeting. Her name never came up. The defense was trying to imply that Pecker had positively NOT said Hicks was at the interview. That he must have lied in one of the two interviews but he only explicitly said anything about Hicks in the state interview.

Judge was not happy and will instruct the jury tomorrow that the defense was playing tricks. It again goes to the credibility of the defense.

So the theory of the Trump defense is that everybody but their client is a lying scumbag. I admit that it’s a defense, not a very good one, but it’s what I expect for the sort of ambulance-chasers Trump’s able to hire these days.

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EPR-radar  Apr 25, 2024 • 10:00:08pm

re: #128 Targetpractice

So the theory of the Trump defense is that everybody but their client is a lying scumbag. I admit that it’s a defense, not a very good one, but it’s what I expect for the sort of ambulance-chasers Trump’s able to hire these days.

And these disgraces to the legal profession aren’t as bad as Trump’s SCOTUS counsel, who should have been shot on the spot (or at least immediately disbarred) for arguing as they did.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 25, 2024 • 10:10:24pm

re: #129 EPR-radar

And these disgraces to the legal profession aren’t as bad as Trump’s SCOTUS counsel, who should have been shot on the spot (or at least immediately disbarred) for arguing as they did.

Yeah but six bigger disgraces sit on the corrupted court thanks to Leonard Leo and Moscow Mitch.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 25, 2024 • 10:13:13pm

re: #7 DodgerFan1988

Mamet went full wingnut quite a while back. Having seen a fair number of his plays, I can’t say I’m awfully surprised — near-toxic masculinity was also one of his things.

In his pre-wngnut period, he still wrote the best plays I don’t like in the repertory, and they shouldn’t be shunned because he lost it in later life.

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2024 • 10:13:21pm

re: #129 EPR-radar

And these disgraces to the legal profession aren’t as bad as Trump’s SCOTUS counsel, who should have been shot on the spot (or at least immediately disbarred) for arguing as they did.

I’m personally finding it mind-boggling that the conservative side of the bench is being as blatantly partisan as they are. And that legal observers are seriously suggesting that the best we might hope for at this point is that Roberts kicks this back down to the lower courts to parse what is and isn’t a “presidential act.”

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silverdolphin  Apr 25, 2024 • 10:25:32pm

re: #132 Targetpractice

I’m personally finding it mind-boggling that the conservative side of the bench is being as blatantly partisan as they are. And that legal observers are seriously suggesting that the best we might hope for at this point is that Roberts kicks this back down to the lower courts to parse what is and isn’t a “presidential act.”

The entire goal is to delay, not to actually decide. So I fully expect them to send it back, after delaying that decision until the last possible moment. It keeps any trial decision from happening before the election. If Trump wins, they have nothing to worry about. If he loses, they also have nothing to worry about. They simply refuse to take up the case.

They will hope none of them will be held up to history for being cynical partisans. Because how could not making a decision be bad?

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 25, 2024 • 10:34:31pm

Turning Palestinians into numbers

That these machines are operated and exploited by actual people has severe implications for Israeli military officials. Lavender and Where’s Daddy? may be billed as AI-powered systems, but even Israeli military heads say they are not acting autonomously: a concerted chain of command dictates how these technologies are put into action. As Zach Campbell, a senior surveillance researcher at Human Rights Watch, told +972, “Yes, this technology is problematic, but it’s also about how these systems are being used. And those are human decisions.”

Israeli government officials made their intentions clear after the horrific events of October 7. In the early days of the war, Israeli President Isaac Herzog proclaimed there were “no innocent civilians in Gazan,” and cabinet ministers declared that the war was the start of another “Nakba.” Other politicians called for the entire strip to be “flattened.” Two-thousand-pound bombs blasted out entire neighborhoods; bulldozers leveled schools and hospitals, and whole swaths of the Strip were deemed “kill zones.” These commands mapped onto efforts, years in the making, to transform the Israeli army into what sociologist Yagil Levy recently called “a death generating army.”

“The problem isn’t with the AI,” Brian Merchant, a tech reporter who investigates the unmitigated development of AI systems, echoed to +972. “The problem is what the AI lets militaries do. It provides a rationale to be more violent, to be more careless, to assert an agenda they already had or are looking for a pretext to justify.”

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2024 • 10:37:04pm

re: #133 silverdolphin

The entire goal is to delay, not to actually decide. So I fully expect them to send it back, after delaying that decision until the last possible moment. It keeps any trial decision from happening before the election. If Trump wins, they have nothing to worry about. If he loses, they also have nothing to worry about. They simply refuse to take up the case.

They will hope none of them will be held up to history for being cynical partisans. Because how could not making a decision be bad?

I think most of us knew it was all about delay as soon as they announced they’d be taking the case and wouldn’t holding oral arguments until the middle of April. What is now shocking many of us is that Trump’s lawyer is suggesting aloud that assassinating a political rival or blatantly fucking with an election is within the power of the presidency and the conservative side of the bench is not only nodding along but actually agreeing that presidents must enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution for acts committed in office (even if those acts are to prevent them from being removed from office!) so as to ensure the peaceful transfer of power.

IOW, all that talk for months about how there was no way even the most partisan Repub on the bench would endorse making Trump a dictator did not age particularly well.

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silverdolphin  Apr 25, 2024 • 10:39:24pm

Vitamin D regulates microbiome-dependent cancer immunity

Looks like Vitamin D levels are helpful, both in preventing tumors and in enhancing chemotherapies. Amazing that the guy microbiome is so important.

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silverdolphin  Apr 25, 2024 • 10:45:11pm

AI traces mysterious metastatic cancers to their source

Finally, a use for Ai I can get behind. Metastatic cancers are often very hard to trace to their original source. But the type of therapy is dependent on the type of cell the cancer is derived from. If we have a tool to do that, metastatic cancers may not be as devastating.

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2024 • 10:59:12pm

A thought just came to mind in light of the suggestions that the court might kick that back down to the lower courts to parse out “presidential acts”: The goal truly is to delay, but the goal of the delay itself is to clear the SCOTUS bench of accusations that they themselves influenced the election. If they’d denied certiorari or quickly heard the appeal and allowed the appellate ruling to stand, then we might be gearing up or already in the midst of one of the federal trials with a verdict expected before the election. Instead, now it’s virtually impossible to keep to the original timeline and the odds that a trial will even begin before the voters go to the polls is remote.

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piratedan  Apr 25, 2024 • 11:19:13pm

re: #138 Targetpractice

well, they might be able to sell that to a semi-credulous media (Helloooooo NYT), but for the rest of us that have been paying attention, we know its a steaming pile of shit.

I do wonder if there is any collective will within the Dem party to put some guardrails on said August body, but to be honest, most of us are writing these fuckers off because of their partisanship. They’re going out of their way to give Dark Brandon cause to simply tell them, fuck you, enforce it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 25, 2024 • 11:29:33pm

re: #139 piratedan

well, they might be able to sell that to a semi-credulous media (Helloooooo NYT), but for the rest of us that have been paying attention, we know its a steaming pile of shit.

I do wonder if there is any collective will within the Dem party to put some guardrails on said August body, but to be honest, most of us are writing these fuckers off because of their partisanship. They’re going out of their way to give Dark Brandon cause to simply tell them, fuck you, enforce it.

The Dem Party cannot do anything to control SCOTUS unless it has a majority in the House and 60 votes in the Senate.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2024 • 12:17:43am

re: #131 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Mamet went full wingnut quite a while back. Having seen a fair number of his plays, I can’t say I’m awfully surprised — near-toxic masculinity was also one of his things.

In his pre-wingnut period, he still wrote the best plays I don’t like in the repertory, and they shouldn’t be shunned because he lost it in later life.

Look at this famous scene from Glengarry Glen Ross:

Alec Baldwin - Coffee’s for Closers (HD)

That was written by David Mamet specifically for the film, and by god, Alec (“Fuck you, that’s my name”) Baldwin absolutely nailed it. Sure, it’s full-on toxic masculinity, no doubt about that, but having worked in high-pressure sales long ago in my younger years, this scene is 100% spot on. Brilliantly written, and perfectly acted with a cast of legends of stage and screen.

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silverdolphin  Apr 26, 2024 • 12:21:51am

re: #140 Hecuba’s daughter

The Dem Party cannot do anything to control SCOTUS unless it has a majority in the House and 60 votes in the Senate.

It could either get rid of the filibuster or go back to the old talking filibuster can be overcome by a vote of two-thirds of Senators PRESENT and VOTING, not duly chosen and sworn as it is today. With 51 Dem/Ind. Senators, this means that at least 26 GOP Senators would have to be on the floor at all times with at least one of them actually debating. The Dems could get good night sleep while over half the GOP was stuck in the chambers. Debating. Biden is in favor of this.

Then it votes on legislation to apply term limits to the SCOTUS. The Constitution says they have a lifetime appointment to Federal Courts but nowhere does it say they have a lifetime chair at the Supreme Court. Give them 18 year terms, overlappng by 2 years. One leaves and a new one joins every 2 years. A president always gets 2 and can put in 4 but never a majority. After their 18 years, they become Senior Judges able to fit any open chair on any Federal Court until it is filled or they retire. Several people believe this scenario can be done without an amendment.

This way the judges do eventually reflect the people of the US, just with a slow turnover to prevent the partisanship we have today.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Apr 26, 2024 • 12:31:18am

Your next Wordle hasn’t come across a grand piano with four legs before.

Click to Reveal

This is a good word. I love this word. That doesn’t mean it was straightforward.

Wordle 1,042 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

SibData: 4,4,4,5,5

Off to find Maurice’s Black Market…

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Nojay UK  Apr 26, 2024 • 12:40:43am

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68897731 (I hope this link doesn’t get blocked by assorted national lockouts)/

Vaccine trials targetting melanoma cancer are moving into the Phase III stage in the UK with the first test patients receiving treatment.

An important trial of the world’s first “personalised” mRNA vaccine against the deadliest form of skin cancer - melanoma - is now under way in the UK.

Steve Young, 52, from Stevenage, Herts, who had a melanoma growth cut out of his scalp last August, is one of the first patients to try the shot.

It is designed to help his immune system recognise and wipe out any remaining cancerous cells.

And hopefully, that means his cancer will not return.

The jab, mRNA-4157 (V940), uses the same technology as current Covid vaccines and is being tested in final-stage Phase III trials.

University College London Hospitals (UCLH) doctors are giving it alongside another drug, pembrolizumab or Keytruda, that also helps the immune system kill cancer cells.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2024 • 12:46:23am

re: #144 Nojay UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68897731 (I hope this link doesn’t get blocked by assorted national lockouts)/

Vaccine trials targetting melanoma cancer are moving into the Phase III stage in the UK with the first test patients receiving treatment.

Vote for RFK Jr and keep us safe from this Spuzz of Satan!!!

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Teukka  Apr 26, 2024 • 1:21:20am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 26, 2024 • 1:42:34am

Grrrrrrrr! Whatever. 5/6

I expect another incredibly long work day. I’m going in. Have a good one all!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 26, 2024 • 2:05:17am

Pianist giving a performance responds to a live cell phone in real time:

Hayato Sumino’s moment of phone duet genius | Classic FM

..

Sumino is better known on YouTube as “Cateen”. I’ve posted his videos here before. I subscribed to his channel a few years back, and it seemed to me at that time that he had a bright future. Glad to see that he’s getting gigs on major platforms now.

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silverdolphin  Apr 26, 2024 • 2:07:57am

re: #144 Nojay UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68897731 (I hope this link doesn’t get blocked by assorted national lockouts)/

Vaccine trials targetting melanoma cancer are moving into the Phase III stage in the UK with the first test patients receiving treatment.

The drug used, Keytruda, is made by Merck and is almost off patent. The drug Anktiva used by ImmunityBio (the company that bought mine) is somewhat similar but appears to work better. It is also much better at turning on killer T-cells, an important componant of any anti-tumor therapy. Both Alex Trebek and Harry Reid had their lives substantially extended using early forms of this treatment from ImmunityBio. If this had been available a decade earlier, Steve Jobs would likely have lived several years more.

Most cancers develop because critical cell protective systems are down-regulated. These drugs turn those systems back on. Then by adding a protein antigen for the immune system to recognize, specific tumors can be targeted.

Essentially, most tumors develop because they escape immune system monitoring. These drugs act to turn that surveillance back on. The body uses a natural way to destroy the cancers rather thna having to use a lot of unnatural chemotherapies or radiation.

The company I worked at created vaccines using a modified non-replicating Adenovirus into which we could insert the gene sequence of the protein of interest (instead of using naked mRNA like here). The immune system sees this as a viral infection but since it is a non-reproducing version of the virus, no one gets sick. It turns on all the appropriate sections of the immune system, something mRNA vaccines are not as efficient at (they are great at generating antibodies, lousy at generating memory cells). Specialized immune cells will take up the viral DNA (just as they do with the naked mRNA), produce the inserted protein and raise an immune response to it.

Add Anktiva to the defective Adenovirus and you have a system that can recharge the body’s ability to attack tumors on its own. This is why ImmunityBio wanted our company. They tried for years to get around our patents and eventually just bought us out.

One advantage of this system over just a mRNA vaccine is that it raises more of a total response, including the important T-cells necessary for memory. So the hope is that this system will raise a much longer (maybe permanent) response to the tumor, keeping it in remission for longer.

ANd the Adenovirus vaccine is very stable, can be lyophilzed and kept at room temperature, instead of the intense cold that the mRNA vaccines must be. This means it can be used throughout the world, not just the rich countries.

ImmunityBio has several clincal trials ongoing to look at this approach. The big question with all these approaches is just how expensive it will be (The one described in the link would likely cost $100-150K. ImmunityBio might be a little less) One hope is that many types of tumors have common protein antigens that can be used. Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is found mainly on colon cancers and might make a general target for this approach. So instead of a personalized approach,which would be expensive, there would be off the self vaccines for each type of cancer. SO maybe $20-50K. Maybe.

I think we may see a dual approach, using a generic antigen when we can and specific antigens when we must. This approach is going to revolutionize cancer treatment.

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silverdolphin  Apr 26, 2024 • 2:17:40am

re: #146 Teukka

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Thank you for this. He is absolutely right. It is the King vs Malcolm X views.CIvil disobedience vs violent direct action. I think a lot of the students are doing it right. But all it takes is a few to mung things up for all (why I worry about Putin-funded provocateurs)

In addition, they are producing some of the same things that happened with Occupy Wall Street, and made it eventually an inefftive protest. A distributed movement still needs some central control to make a real impact. One person/group to help provide one voice for all the actions. Too many voices can muddy the message. Especially when certain parties want the message muddied for their own reasons.

Even so, I really do think the major message is having an overall positive effect. It might just have happened faster with a little more control. Just MHO.

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silverdolphin  Apr 26, 2024 • 2:38:28am

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Vote for RFK Jr and keep us safe from this Spuzz of Satan!!!

History will not look kindly on these anti-vaxxers, especially if measles and polio return. Heck, one big pertussis/whooping cough outbreak could change things a lot. Babies are too young to get vaccinated and can only be protected by the herd effect of the rest of the community being vaccinated.

Here is what it sounds like.

What is That Sound? Whooping Cough

It can take up to 3 months for the coughing to stop. Just think what this does to a developing child. There can be long term lung damage and developmental problems. Males have been seen to have a 40% higher risk of an early death if they got whooping cough as a baby.

It is heartbreaking. The babies cannot even cry because they cannot get enough air into their lungs. Before vaccines, 200,000 children a year got sick and perhaps 20,000 died from whooping cough. Now less than 20 die. But even today, almost half of those babies who get it end up in the hospital, in intensive care, often with pneumonia. Antibiotics can help but vaccination works best.

Unless RFK Jr gets his way.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 26, 2024 • 2:43:04am

Like the tumblers on a lock, the birbie just fell into place.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2024 • 2:47:14am

re: #151 silverdolphin

That sounds almost indistinguishable from all the elderly chainsmokers in my neck of the woods. I hear them every day when I’m on the tram.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2024 • 2:59:28am

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steve_davis  Apr 26, 2024 • 3:00:14am

re: #153 Dr Lizardo

That sounds almost indistinguishable from all the elderly chainsmokers in my neck of the woods. I hear them every day when I’m on the tram.

I had a student in an audio tutoring session the other day, and when she started coughing, I was just thinking “yeah, lung cancer.” I really hope not, but there are throat clearing coughs and then there are hacking up lung coughs.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Apr 26, 2024 • 3:30:08am

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2024 • 3:52:33am

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No Malarkey!  Apr 26, 2024 • 4:03:44am

This may have been overlooked in all of the other court related news about Trump, but a federal judge rejected his request for a new trial in the E. Jean Carroll defamation suit and affirmed the $83.3 million judgment.

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darthstar  Apr 26, 2024 • 4:08:13am

re: #158 No Malarkey!

This may have been overlooked in all of the other court related news about Trump, but a federal judge rejected his request for a new trial in the E. Jean Carroll defamation suit and affirmed the $83.3 million judgment.

So that money’s gone. He can’t get it back.

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darthstar  Apr 26, 2024 • 4:14:12am

Mastodon

Mastodon

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 26, 2024 • 4:16:39am

TGIF drive time music!

Cayetana - Favorite Things

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2024 • 4:42:13am
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Dangerman  Apr 26, 2024 • 4:55:20am

i spend way too much of my professional life compensating for the incompetence of others

(and i dont just mean clients).

what a goddamn monumental waste of my time

that is all

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lawhawk  Apr 26, 2024 • 4:56:00am

re: #1 wrenchwench

That’s the Metro North rail yard just north of Yankee Stadium. There’s a vibrant community on the other side of the Major Deegan (the highway to the left). On the right you’ve got the Harlem River and Manhattan. The apartment buildings in Manhattan in the near background are the site of the former Polo Grounds (which meant that you had the NY baseball Giants and NY Yankees playing just a few thousand feet from each other, and their subway series was literally a walk from one stadium to the other.

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lawhawk  Apr 26, 2024 • 5:01:02am

re: #144 Nojay UK

Everyone wants to find a cure for cancer, or so they say. Just watch this run headlong into the antivaxxer BS, where they claim that this somehow causes cancers or other stuff, despite the lack of any substantive evidence that it can do that.

Finding ways to prevent cancer entirely is huge. No one should have to go through that misery, and finding ways to prevent melanoma and various other cancers would save hundreds of thousands of lives a year in the US alone. Think of the cost savings too - given that treatment for cancer is among the most expensive ailments one can get (whether the treatment is chemo, immunotherapy, or radiotherapy or a combo of the three).

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lawhawk  Apr 26, 2024 • 5:03:10am

Good news out of Baltimore - the ACoE has managed to open a limited access channel to allow some bigger ships to enter/leave the Port of Baltimore. They still have to clear the main federal channel, but this allows commerce to start flowing into the Port.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 26, 2024 • 5:20:05am

re: #105 Florida Panhandler

Too bad they won’t be The Humongous but rather the dumbass that tries to catch a razor sharp boomerang with their bare hands.

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steve_davis  Apr 26, 2024 • 5:29:54am

re: #141 Dr Lizardo

Look at this famous scene from Glengarry Glen Ross:

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That was written by David Mamet specifically for the film, and by god, Alec (“Fuck you, that’s my name”) Baldwin absolutely nailed it. Sure, it’s full-on toxic masculinity, no doubt about that, but having worked in high-pressure sales long ago in my younger years, this scene is 100% spot on. Brilliantly written, and perfectly acted with a cast of legends of stage and screen.

yep. worked straight commission sales before. fucking hated it because you aren’t selling a product, you’re selling yourself. and if the product is shit, then you are shit. you’re just a whore in a nice suit. fortunately i got a chance to teach again and my life-long lesson was there are all kinds of things in this world better than money.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2024 • 5:33:11am

If asked for the scariest horror movie, it’s Glengarry, Glen Ross.

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William Lewis  Apr 26, 2024 • 5:47:35am

re: #168 steve_davis

yep. worked straight commission sales before. fucking hated it because you aren’t selling a product, you’re selling yourself. and if the product is shit, then you are shit. you’re just a whore in a nice suit. fortunately i got a chance to teach again and my life-long lesson was there are all kinds of things in this world better than money.

Some things aren’t worth doing no matter how hungry you get. Johnny Menard is the most evil sob I’ve ever personally known & he owns a chain of home improvement stores/lumber yards in the Midwest that make Home Depot look like benevolent philanthropists. I’ve always said I could never be hungry enough to work for him. Likewise every-time I’ve interviewed and commissions have come up I laughed in their face and walked out the door. It’s a hard nope.

I’ve worked some shitty factory jobs, meat packing plants, even made plastic bottles at vacuum forming machines that were well over 125 degrees f air temp in that room for 12 hour shifts but even those were better than the above.

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2024 • 5:49:46am

re: #169 Decatur Deb

If asked for the scariest horror movie, it’s Glengarry, Glen Ross.

I went to go look up the movie, and, according to Wikipedia, because there was so much profanity in it the cast called it “Death of a Fucking Salesman.”

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A Cranky One  Apr 26, 2024 • 5:50:58am

The “spiders” under Martian ice as photographed by the CaSSIS (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System) instrument aboard ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.

Proof that David Bowie was an alien?

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gocart mozart  Apr 26, 2024 • 6:15:33am
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jeffreyw  Apr 26, 2024 • 6:24:23am

Good morning!

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Dangerman  Apr 26, 2024 • 6:39:27am

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A Cranky One  Apr 26, 2024 • 6:43:42am

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 26, 2024 • 6:47:05am
Ukraine has sidelined U.S.-provided Abrams M1A1 battle tanks for now in its fight against Russia, in part because Russian drone warfare has made it too difficult for them to operate without detection or coming under attack, two U.S. military officials told The Associated Press.

The U.S. agreed to send 31 Abrams to Ukraine in January 2023 after an aggressive monthslong campaign by Kyiv arguing that the tanks, which cost about $10 million apiece, were vital to its ability to breach Russian lines.

But the battlefield has changed substantially since then, notably by the ubiquitous use of Russian surveillance drones and hunter-killer drones. Those weapons have made it more difficult for Ukraine to protect the tanks when they are quickly detected and hunted by Russian drones or rounds.

apnews.com

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2024 • 6:47:25am

re: #176 A Cranky One

Jesus and Maria were just in the other day.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 26, 2024 • 6:49:37am

re: #176 A Cranky One

Surely he means my gym buddy Jesus who lived in Texas before he moved to LA

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 26, 2024 • 6:54:17am

Remember: Cops always lie. This is why it’s important to have legal counsel when you are charged with a crime, and to say nothing without said legal counsel present. Pissed-off cops will make up charges and fabricate stories to fit them, just to inconvenience you.

As grotesque as this is, it’s also standard practice with protestors

I once defended someone charged with a felony for getting bodily fluid on a cop – because the cop busted her lip and refused to provide anything to stop the blood dripping everywhere while she was handcuffed

Later dismissed ofc

— T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) 2024-04-26T13:46:08.527Z

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:02:06am

re: #175 Dangerman

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Is that a wingnut anti-trans meme?

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:08:20am

re: #181 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Often, when I give you an upding, your cats go from framing your nic to stacked one above the other in front of your nic. The vagaries of font-spacing.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:14:30am

re: #182 wrenchwench

Often, when I give you an upding, your cats go from framing your nic to stacked one above the other in front of your nic. The vagaries of font-spacing.

Mork pounces on Mindy pretty often, so that seems appropriate.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:18:37am

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:18:58am

re: #180 Nerdy Fish

Also: This cop will get qualified immunity, for no other reason than there was an active protest going on, and it is always the police’s view that all protests are violent. And courts are willing to support them on this, in the name of “suppressing riots.” Fuck the police.

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Egregious Philbin  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:20:16am

re: #173 gocart mozart

My long time joke when I met new people and they asked about my background was that I was married to Charo for a few months in the early 90’s. It was a good way to expose my bizarre nature to someone.

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:23:25am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:26:21am

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:28:13am

re: #143 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:29:44am

re: #127 Egregious Philbin

Just watched episode 4. So into it, I reinstalled Fallout 4 and am enjoying it all over again, I love Fallout 76, until you stop getting perks..grrr

It got me back to playing Fallout 4 VR. This time with some mods that prevent Far Harbor and Nuka-World from crashing like they did the last time I played. Fallout 4 VR is missing the DLC, so you have to copy it in, and there was a time when those two DLCs would crash to desktop in VR.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:31:38am

538 has started aggregating national polls, and gives Trump a slender 0.7% lead over Biden, with Kennedy about 10%. That leaves about 7.5% undecided. One can normally expect the independent vote to shrivel, because most people don’t want to throw away their votes. I also expect the undecided to decisively break for Biden, as the Biden Campaign spends its massive warchest reminding voters about abortion and the other reasons they dislike Trump.

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:33:24am

Voices In The Sky

I used to have a lot of Moody Blues on vinyl. Great jackets. I shop the CDs in thrift stores a lot. Moodys are never there. People keep them. They get handed down.

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:39:43am

@erikahall.bsky.social
Friday morning’s chicken knows a better world is possible.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:45:29am

Kristi Noem in her new book writes about how she personally shot and killed a healthy 14 month old dog because she couldn’t train it to be a hunting dog. Trump famously hates dogs, so this may help her in the contest to be his VP.

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:53:18am

Mastodon

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:55:06am

My dad turns 94 today, so there is cake for lunch!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:55:30am

re: #194 No Malarkey!

Kristi Noem in her new book writes about how she personally shot and killed a healthy 14 month old dog because she couldn’t train it to be a hunting dog. Trump famously hates dogs, so this may help her in the contest to be his VP.

He should make her Secretary of Education rather than VP…

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Unabogie  Apr 26, 2024 • 7:59:36am

re: #194 No Malarkey!

Kristi Noem in her new book writes about how she personally shot and killed a healthy 14 month old dog because she couldn’t train it to be a hunting dog. Trump famously hates dogs, so this may help her in the contest to be his VP.

What a disgusting thing to do.

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dat_said  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:00:13am

re: #194 No Malarkey!

Kristi Noem in her new book writes about how she personally shot and killed a healthy 14 month old dog because she couldn’t train it to be a hunting dog. Trump famously hates dogs, so this may help her in the contest to be his VP.

However, the goat - the goat deserved it - smelly thing (for some reason she also writes about killing a goat because it was mean and stinky).

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:00:45am

re: #192 wrenchwench

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Lazy day, Sunday afternoon
Like to get your feet up, watch TV
Sunday roast is something good to eat (That’s how your life goes by)
Now it’s almost over till next week (Until the day you die)

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:02:23am

re: #169 Decatur Deb

If asked for the scariest horror movie, it’s Glengarry, Glen Ross.

I saw it on the stage, but I agree (he writes the best plays I do not like).

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Unabogie  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:04:26am

re: #175 Dangerman

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:04:37am

re: #143 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

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Dr. Matt  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:07:32am

The latest Soros boogeyman story:

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:08:43am

re: #197 Shropshire Slasher

My dad turns 94 today, so there is cake for lunch!

Mine’s in his 80s. I hope I’m as lucky as you are, and he lives that long too. I lost my mom when I was in my 20s, and she was in her 40s, so the universe owes me.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:09:46am

re: #196 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Own goal! Red on red!
Fox journalist among dozens arrested at Texas university as protests swell

Not quite. It wasn’t a Fox NEWS journalist who was arrested, it was a photographer who was part of the news team for the local Fox affiliate.

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jeffreyw  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:10:13am

Good Saturday Morning!

— Frances Elizabeth (@franceselizabeth.bsky.social) 2024-04-20T13:57:31.118Z

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:11:14am

Do not doubt this stupidity will return when the next pandemic hits.

(And yes, I know Covid-19 is still a thing.)

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:11:18am

David Shiffman, Ph.D.
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social

I’ve been talking about antsemitism so much that my phone just autocorrected “Jaws” to “Jews”

This presents a real problem for a shark scientist…

Apr 26, 2024 at 10:02 AM

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sagehen  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:11:44am

Bill Maher is more waste of time tonight than usual

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Scott Galloway - Don Lemon

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cat-tikvah  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:12:53am

re: #208 jeffreyw

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I recently had a conversation with a woman who said that because Trump and Putin are friends they’ll work out the situation in Ukraine. She said she would vote for Trump this year - if she voted.

Which, fortunately, she doesn’t.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:13:18am

re: #210 BeenHereAwhile

Or a James Bond fan.

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sagehen  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:14:28am

re: #212 cat-tikvah

I recently had a conversation with a woman who said that because Trump and Putin are friends they’ll work out the situation in Ukraine. She said she would vote for Trump this year - if she voted.

to quote Beau:

“Countries don’t have friends. They have interests.”

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:14:52am

re: #212 cat-tikvah

I recently had a conversation with a woman who said that because Trump and Putin are friends they’ll work out the situation in Ukraine. She said she would vote for Trump this year - if she voted.

Which, fortunately, she doesn’t.

TBF, she’s undoubtedly right (shudder).

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dat_said  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:16:31am

Apparently, Trump’s lawyer is also nearly putting the jury to sleep.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:17:20am

re: #211 sagehen

Bill Maher is more waste of time tonight than usual

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Scott Galloway - Don Lemon

I’m never tempted, even when he has interesting guests. I was once a fan, but that was years ago. I was a Greenwald and Taibbi fan too. Eventually, I realized that they’re all self-serving clowns.

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:18:23am

re: #71 The Ghost of a Flea

I haven’t mentioned Ursula LeGuin today, so I’m slacking.

The Left Hand of Darkness doesn’t know what the right hand is doing

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:19:09am

Good morning lizards

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cat-tikvah  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:20:52am

re: #215 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

TBF, she’s undoubtedly right (shudder).

Of course! The solution is Russia controls Ukraine and Ukraine no longer exists as an independent nation or one with an independent identity. Just Little Russia.

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sagehen  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:21:21am

re: #217 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I’m never tempted, even when he has interesting guests. I was once a fan, but that was years ago. I was a Greenwald and Taibbi fan too. Eventually, I realized that they’re all self-serving clowns.

Taibbi’s coverage of the 2008 financial meltdown was excellent. But that was before he became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Forces of Evil.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:21:27am

re: #189 Hecuba’s daughter

Birb here.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:22:23am

re: #215 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

TBF, she’s undoubtedly right (shudder).

They’d “work out the situation,” but I don’t think Putin or Trump have friends. They have people they can use.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:23:24am

re: #211 sagehen

Bill Maher is more waste of time tonight than usual

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Scott Galloway - Don Lemon

Maher is an anti-vaxxer as well, so there is no chance he will take Kennedy to the woodshed for his dangerous lies.

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:25:14am

re: #223 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

They’d “work out the situation,” but I don’t think Putin or Trump have friends. They have people they can use.

Cats are pre-stacked!

But not in my reply. Vagaries upon vagaries.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:26:19am

re: #225 wrenchwench

Cats are pre-stacked!

But not in my reply. Vagaries upon vagaries.

I can stack them by narrowing my browser window.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:30:26am

re: #209 Eclectic Cyborg

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Do not doubt this stupidity will return when the next pandemic hits.

(And yes, I know Covid-19 is still a thing.)

When Republicans have power, they hire stupid people who tell themselves lies in order to feel superior about being extremely irresponsible people. It’s a self-serving nonsense driven subculture that wants to pretend to be the best of us.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:30:58am

David Pecker has been the ideal opening witness for the prosecution. Am I allowed to hope? I’m going to be crushed if the jury doesn’t bring back a guilty verdict.

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:34:09am

Mastodon

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:38:56am

Bill Maher lost me years ago when he had that stupid costume after Steve Irwin’s death. He’s a fucking prick.

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:39:07am

the moody blues - days of future passed full album (1967)

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Unabogie  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:39:08am

You could not pay me to live in Texas.

texastribune.org

Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells wants Crystal Mason’s illegal voting conviction reinstated, his office announced Thursday.

Mason, a Tarrant County resident, was acquitted of an illegal voting charge last month. Sorrells’ office is now asking the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to overturn the ruling that cleared her.

Mason was convicted of illegal voting in March 2018 and sentenced to five years in prison for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election while on supervised release for federal tax evasion.

“This office will protect the ballot box from fraudsters who think our laws don’t apply to them,” Sorrells’ office said in a statement.

Republicans bringing the comedy.

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:39:18am

re: #228 No Malarkey!

David Pecker has been the ideal opening witness for the prosecution. Am I allowed to hope? I’m going to be crushed if the jury doesn’t bring back a guilty verdict.

Just keep in mind that it’s not up to this jury to save us, that’s up to us, and you can hope whatever you want.

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sagehen  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:40:03am

re: #228 No Malarkey!

David Pecker has been the ideal opening witness for the prosecution. Am I allowed to hope? I’m going to be crushed if the jury doesn’t bring back a guilty verdict.

Media/advertising experts have estimated that the continual Enquirer covers, with their placement at every checkout in every supermarket in the country, is worth about $3M per month. So that’s a $50 million campaign contribution.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:42:01am

re: #212 cat-tikvah

I recently had a conversation with a woman who said that because Trump and Putin are friends they’ll work out the situation in Ukraine. She said she would vote for Trump this year - if she voted.

Which, fortunately, she doesn’t.

Yea.
Work out the situation in Ukraine which results in Putin controlling 30% of the world’s grain supply and prop up Russia’s economy by raising food prices at that lady’s neighborhood market.

The world might become less dependent on Russian oil, but not food.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:46:43am

re: #235 BeenHereAwhile

A situation in which Putin feels justified and emboldened to bring minority Russians living beyod Russia’s boders heim ins Reich via annexation and de facto reinstatement of the Russian Empire within ints former borders (which until 1917 still included Finland and Poland)

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:47:34am

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:47:46am

Mastodon

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:48:17am

re: #228 No Malarkey!

David Pecker has been the ideal opening witness for the prosecution. Am I allowed to hope? I’m going to be crushed if the jury doesn’t bring back a guilty verdict.

Wonder if a David Pecker “catch & kill story” has anything to do with Lindsey Graham becoming Trump’s stooge.

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:50:41am

re: #239 BeenHereAwhile

Wonder if a David Pecker “catch & kill story” has anything to do with Lindsey Graham becoming Trump’s stooge.

Can the ‘catch and kill’ files be brought back to life? Doesn’t matter, show us the corpses.

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Randall Gross  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:51:01am

re: #172 A Cranky One

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The “spiders” under Martian ice as photographed by the CaSSIS (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System) instrument aboard ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.

Proof that David Bowie was an alien?

One of teh Spiders better without Bowie songs.

Prisoner

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No Malarkey!  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:51:03am

re: #239 BeenHereAwhile

Wonder if a David Pecker “catch & kill story” has anything to do with Lindsey Graham becoming Trump’s stooge.

I really don’t think so. Like almost every other Republican, Graham became Trump’s stooge because Graham’s voters like Trump more than Graham, and he is in agreement with Trump on most policy matters.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:51:17am

re: #238 wrenchwench

The counter-argument being:

America is great because it is run by white Christian males.

Because this is what God wants.

Reducing the number of white Christian males in leadership positions will not only weaken our economy and society, it will cause us to fall out of favour with the Lord.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:53:14am

re: #237 Scottish Dragon

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Captain Ron  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:53:41am

re: #241 Randall Gross

One of teh Spiders better without Bowie songs.

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I have that album.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:53:50am

re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The counter-argument being:

America is great because it is run by white Christian males.

Because this is what God wants.

Reducing the nuber of white Christian males in leadership positions will not only weaken our economy and society, it will cause us to fall out of favour with the Lord.

Which is completely nuts, but religion has been used successfully to undermine societies many times before, and seems to be working pretty well here.

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:53:54am

re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The counter-argument being:

America is great because it is run by white Christian males.

Because this is what God wants.

Reducing the nuber of white Christian males in leadership positions will not only weaken our economy and society, it will cause us to fall out of favour with the Lord.

White male posting the counter argument as expected.

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:54:01am

re: #244 PhillyPretzel ✅

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Randall Gross  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:54:56am

re: #245 Captain Ron

I have that album.

I have it vinyl, CD, and Digital.

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lawhawk  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:55:26am
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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:57:41am

re: #229 wrenchwench

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Neon sculpture.

A friend whose parents owned a neon sign shop supported my getting a BA in art. Working in neon with his mother was a great experience.

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:57:50am

re: #250 lawhawk

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I feel sorry for the kids. Gvir, not so much.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 26, 2024 • 8:58:23am

re: #250 lawhawk

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That is a man who badly needs a chauffeur just to stop him from killing anyone.

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Teukka  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:00:33am

YIKES

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:00:45am

re: #248 Scottish Dragon

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Dangerman  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:01:41am
“Fifty-three people who tried to keep former President Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election have now been criminally charged,” the New York Times reports.

“The indictments have been brought in four swing states that will be crucial to the upcoming election.”

so if the prez has immunity do these people acting under his direct supervision also have immunity?

cause if they do, by proxy, you see where this goes

and if they dont, then the prez could shoot someone but he couldnt order the military or anyone else to do it for him

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:02:01am

— Gumby Screens (@gumbyscreens.bsky.social) 2024-04-26T16:00:12.119Z

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:03:01am

re: #254 Teukka

YIKES

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Horror? It’s an asshole with a sign, not a school shooting.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:03:03am

re: #240 wrenchwench

Can the ‘catch and kill’ files be brought back to life? Doesn’t matter, show us the corpses.

That’s up to David Pecker, and a stash of documents.

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:03:56am

re: #259 BeenHereAwhile

That’s up to David Pecker, and a stash of documents.

We know he responds to cash….

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:06:56am

Mastodon

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Randall Gross  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:07:48am

It’s Hotep Jesus making the rounds to piss on protesters:

Meanwhile, on Fox News: www.mediamatters.org/greg-gutfeld…

— Media Matters for America (@mmfa.bsky.social) 2024-04-26T16:03:32.757Z

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:07:56am

The Music Box is a cool little indie theater downtown. I’ve only been there a couple of times many years ago.

The People’s Joker - Trailer (In Theaters Now!)

Queer Joker film from a Chicago-native comes to Music Box this weekend

A movie from a Chicago-born creative coming to the Music Box Theater this weekend presents a queer take on one of film’s most iconic villains.

Writer, director, and actor Vera Drew says for her, it’s pretty clear that Batman’s archenemy The Joker is queer.

“I think specifically in the way Joker has been portrayed in a lot of the comics, like, at the very least, a lot of queer subtext has been there,” she said.

But Drew says when she set out to make her own Joker film in 2020, she knew she wanted a protagonist who was openly and overtly queer.

The end result: “The People’s Joker,” a queer, coming-of-age parody about a transgender clown named Joker.

“And it’s kind of just like this very colorful, weird, psychedelic superhero comic book movie, but really, is me kind of just processing my life and telling a very, like, personal story,” Drew said.

audacy.com

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:08:18am

re: #254 Teukka

YIKES

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Proud Boys and neo Nazis are starting to show up to these events. Expect Heckler’s Veto attempts and ratfvcking

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Vicious Babushka  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:13:13am

re: #237 Scottish Dragon

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:15:52am

re: #265 Vicious Babushka

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A Cranky One  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:16:18am

re: #255 PhillyPretzel ✅

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:16:56am

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:19:24am

re: #267 A Cranky One

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A Cranky One  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:21:40am

re: #269 PhillyPretzel ✅

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:23:12am

I just ran across a nickname for the criminal former President I hadn’t seen before. Farty-five.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:25:05am

re: #270 A Cranky One

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William Lewis  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:26:20am

re: #266 Scottish Dragon

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:26:32am

re: #271 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I just ran across a nickname for the criminal former President I hadn’t seen before. Farty-five.

Don Shartleone

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:27:57am

re: #273 William Lewis

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:42:26am

re: #268 Eventual Carrion

Bill Rhodes on Mastodon
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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:43:32am

re: #276 jaunte

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dat_said  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:46:55am

InForum: Wild horses will stay at Theodore Roosevelt National Park after officials back away from removal push

I think, more importantly, they’re going to have to come up with a management plan to help maintain a genetically healthy herd.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:47:57am

re: #250 lawhawk

Has anyone thought of….maybe revoking his driver’s license?

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:49:53am

re: #279 Dr Lizardo

Has anyone thought of….maybe revoking his driver’s license?

Doubt that would stop him

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Teukka  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:50:41am

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Dangerman  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:53:38am

re: #237 Scottish Dragon

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:56:47am

re: #282 Dangerman

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:57:28am

re: #281 Teukka

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2024 • 9:59:56am

re: #242 No Malarkey!

I really don’t think so. Like almost every other Republican, Graham became Trump’s stooge because Graham’s voters like Trump more than Graham, and he is in agreement with Trump on most policy matters.

I still remember the tweet posted here in pre-Musk days where someone asserted that Trump had something really bad about Graham. It would not be surprising if the FSB had information from his time overseas in the military.

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nines09  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:00:45am

Live camera at Baltimore Key Bridge cleanup.

Youtube Video

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:01:52am

re: #285 Hecuba’s daughter

I still remember the tweet posted here in pre-Musk days where someone asserted that Trump had something really bad about Graham. It would not be surprising if the FSB had information from his time overseas in the military.

Graham went golfing with Trump for a private conversation, then did a 180, suddenly supporting the crook. That sounds like blackmail rather than a calculated decision based on voter preferences to me.

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Vicious Babushka  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:02:44am

re: #285 Hecuba’s daughter

I still remember the tweet posted here in pre-Musk days where someone asserted that Trump had something really bad about Graham. It would not be surprising if the FSB had information from his time overseas in the military.

I don’t think there is any “really bad” info about Lindsay Graham supposedly keeping him in line, he is just a generic evil Republican with no skeletons in the basement.

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:03:26am

If anybody hasn’t read that story about Governor Noem today, you might want to avoid it if you are sensitive about animals. It’s bad. She has no business being around animals and she should probably be charged.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:04:18am

re: #281 Teukka

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Walk into any gun store in American and you’ll see that zombies are now barely concealed code for inconvenient minorities, so yeah.

Who are the zombies you’re thinking of?

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:05:25am

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:05:38am

oh

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.bsky.social) 2024-04-26T17:02:44.718Z

Welp.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:06:18am

re: #290 goddamnedfrank

Walk into any gun store in American and you’ll see that zombies are now barely concealed code for inconvenient minorities, so yeah.

Who are the zombies you’re thinking of?

They have been for a long time, maybe since Night of the Living Dead was released.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:07:33am

re: #293 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

They have been for a long time, maybe since Night of the Living Dead was released.

There are zombie sympathizers in World War Z (the novel) and yeah, they tend to get eaten despite their best intentions.

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:08:39am

re: #294 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are zombie sympathizers in World War Z (the novel) and yeah, they tend to get eaten despite their best intentions.

Good book

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Dangerman  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:08:43am

re: #283 Scottish Dragon

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:10:57am

re: #250 lawhawk

It looks like he wasn’t the driver. The post said that the driver was injured.

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:11:39am

re: #281 Teukka

What were the ones in WWZ called that mimicked zombies?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:11:39am

John Barron would like a word.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:12:49am

re: #256 Dangerman

so if the prez has immunity do these people acting under his direct supervision also have immunity?

cause if they do, by proxy, you see where this goes

and if they dont, then the prez could shoot someone but he couldnt order the military or anyone else to do it for him

But he could just pardon everyone who committed a crime for him, assuming it was charged in federal court. State court not so much.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:14:40am

re: #295 Scottish Dragon

Good book

yes, World War Z is not so much about zombies as about how humankind fails to deal with a crisis: first deny it, then ignore it, then try to suppress it, then institute half-assed counter-measures that turn out to be counter-productive and fail entirely when people panic after they find out what is really happening…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:15:00am

For those of us who follow the British Royals:
apnews.com
King Charles III is resuming public duties.

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:16:11am

re: #299 GlutenFreeJesus

FT:

“…maybe the man is simply overworked. Since 2017, Boogers has signed over 700 public company audit opinions, another record — and all while making time to jeep, backpack, fish, camp, hunt, sail, hike and hang out with his family. The second-most prolific auditor has signed about 500 over the same period, and many of those were for Spacs.”
https://www.ft.com/content/2556fab5-d168-4d68-aedb-9be4b5ab739d

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:16:57am

re: #301 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

yes, not o much about zombies as about how humankind fails to deal with a crisis: first deny it, then ignore it, then tr to suppress it, then institute half-assed counter-measures that turn out to be counter-productive and fail entirely when people panic after they find out what is really happening…

The thing about zombies is that the stories are never supposed to be about the zombies, except for Aaah! Zombies.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:17:21am

re: #258 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Horror? It’s an asshole with a sign, not a school shooting.

Words that promote hatred lead to actions in support of that hatred. It is not a criminal act but it is one that can lead to violence and evil. So it is a horror.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:18:04am

re: #303 jaunte

No matter how “overworked” I am, I still know my name. 😂

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:18:45am

re: #306 GlutenFreeJesus

Guten Frejsus!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:19:53am

re: #290 goddamnedfrank

Walk into any gun store in American and you’ll see that zombies are now barely concealed code for inconvenient minorities, so yeah.

Who are the zombies you’re thinking of?

Hey, why are you getting so deep about a declaration of a clear zone of unpersonhood such that entertaining the notion of personhood would constitute such clear stupidity that the comparable thing would be advocating rights for zombies? I mean, there’s absolutely no subtext to that statement. This isn’t an argument reactionaries routinely roll out.

I mean, it’s not like there’s suspected zombies held without trial in Guantanomo, or Russia justifies it’s artillery and drone usage first in Chechnya and then in Ukraine by talking about how everyone hit is a zombie.

I mean, there just no pattern to this kind of rhetoric. It’s totally reasonable and not at all related to a long-term trend of overlooking actual physical violence to find a reason that the rhetoric of the those angry at physical violence nullifies the basic premise that the physical violence is unproductive or cruel.

I mean, shit, I guess I’m the future zombie rights simp because golly do I spend my time stupidly focused on how society has developed an entire parallel passive-voice language applied to high explosives hitting living bodies *and* cops executing people.

I should be less of a whiny pussy and be more reasonable and appreciate the hard, hard work of protecting me being done by *checks notes* people that claim anyone they kill are zombies. I mean, what else am I supposed to do? I mean, people gathering in public spaces are obviously collectively responsible for each other, while state officials are entirely free actors and their statements can’t be used to explore the motives of that states.

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wrenchwench  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:20:11am

As always when it comes to SCOTUS, @adamserwer.bsky.social

(Gift link)

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc…

— Peter Sagal (@petersagal.bsky.social) 2024-04-26T16:30:24.026Z

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:21:11am
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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:21:47am

re: #305 Hecuba’s daughter

Words that promote hatred lead to actions in support of that hatred. It is not a criminal act but it is one that can lead to violence and evil. So it is a horror.

Promoting potential horror down the road and horror are different things. It’s an NY Post “Horror.”

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:23:04am

re: #310 DodgerFan1988

Now that is a “scoop” that Howard Stern Should be proud of.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:25:17am

re: #303 jaunte

FT:

?? Does he have a large staff who do all the work?? Because no way he could personally audit that number of corporate statements.

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dat_said  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:26:02am

re: #299 GlutenFreeJesus

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John Barron would like a word.

I ran under 7 different names as a freshman in college as the track coach initially couldn’t remember my name and later couldn’t spell it properly. One of the minor challenges of being a walk-on. Deciphering which heat and lane I was in ended up part of the pre-race ritual. I probably still have a year of eligibility left.

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Dangerman  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:26:20am

re: #300 Hecuba’s daughter

But he could just pardon everyone who committed a crime for him, assuming it was charged in federal court. State court not so much.

Which is why this whole thinking is nonsense

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:26:21am

re: #298 Belafon

What were the ones in WWZ called that mimicked zombies?

Quisling

“A a human that had broken down psychologically due to the presence of zombies (often confused as Z-Shock) and thus begun acting like a zombie. These humans attack other humans mindlessly but are still attacked by actual zombies who can tell the difference. Despite numerous attempts by government-funded doctors, the psychological trauma of a quisling is too far gone for any chance of successful rehabilitation.”

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:28:45am

re: #313 Hecuba’s daughter

Here’s his office in Lakewood CO; it doesn’t look like a huge staff will fit inside.

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:30:06am

re: #305 Hecuba’s daughter

Words that promote hatred lead to actions in support of that hatred. It is not a criminal act but it is one that can lead to violence and evil. So it is a horror.

That sort of thing is how an otherwise responsible protest gets smeared. You are always going to get hate opportunists who want to ride your bandwagon, but we’ve seen lately that Nazi ratfvckers etc are entirely happy to show up and sabotage whatever you are doing. The students have not yet figured out you need clear leadership of the protest and a clear, simple and SINGLE message. Anybody else doing something else will be invited to GTFO and disavowed.

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:30:25am

Meet our Team!

(It’s just Bin)

bfbcpa.us

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No Malarkey!  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:30:32am

re: #315 Dangerman

Which is why this whole thinking is nonsense

Trump could, for example, order the murder of all the Democrats in Congress while it was in session, then grant pardons to the death squad. There are no state courts in D.C.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:30:37am

re: #305 Hecuba’s daughter

Words that promote hatred lead to actions in support of that hatred. It is not a criminal act but it is one that can lead to violence and evil. So it is a horror.

1. The sign is dumb as fuck but it isn’t even being parsed correctly. It’s saying that Israel is engaging in a final solution of Palestinians. It’s a super incendiary dipshit thing to put on a sign because it’s so obviously prone to being misinterpreted by people acting in bad faith, but it isn’t calling for the extermination of the Jews.

2. The violence and evil is coming from the University Administrators and armed cops, and it is being cheered on by normalcy seeking centrists who don’t see the student protesters as fully human and applaud when cops start cracking skulls.

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:30:56am

re: #316 Eclectic Cyborg

Quisling

“A a human that had broken down psychologically due to the presence of zombies (often confused as Z-Shock) and thus begun acting like a zombie. These humans attack other humans mindlessly but are still attacked by actual zombies who can tell the difference. Despite numerous attempts by government-funded doctors, the psychological trauma of a quisling is too far gone for any chance of successful rehabilitation.”

Yeah, named for Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian prime minister who was trying to start up a Nazi party in the country before WWII had even started, got appointed to leader of the occupational government when the Reich invaded, and ended up being so fanatical that Berlin thought the guy had a screw loose. Unsurprisingly, like most such people, when he was put on trial after the war ended he tried to pretend he was actually working to protect his countrymen during the occupation, but they didn’t buy his bullshit and he ended up before a firing squad.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:32:35am

In her book Noem was making the point that she is cruel, a valued quality among Republicans.

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Dangerman  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:35:28am

re: #318 Scottish Dragon

That sort of thing is how an otherwise responsible protest gets smeared. You are always going to get hate opportunists who want to ride your bandwagon, but we’ve seen lately that Nazi ratfvckers etc are entirely happy to show up and sabotage whatever you are doing. The students have not yet figured out you need clear leadership of the protest and a clear, simple and SINGLE message. Anybody else doing something else will be invited to GTFO and disavowed.

College students are cats

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:35:46am

re: #323 No Malarkey!

In her book Noem was making the point that she is cruel, a valued quality among Republicans.

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Yeah. She’s incompetent and a hazard around animals. What she did was objectively evil.

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lawhawk  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:36:38am

re: #325 Scottish Dragon

The cruelty is the point.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:37:30am

re: #323 No Malarkey!

In her book Noem was making the point that she is cruel, a valued quality among Republicans.

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Animal cruelty can be charged as a felony offense. Lock up that murderous bitch.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:37:59am

I mean, if you credulously repeated the Netanyahu regime’s lies about UNRWA and have nothing whatsoever to say about the ensuing famine in Gaza then I’m gonna take your handwringing alarms over student protesters with a huge grain of salt.

Because cause and effect clearly isn’t your real concern.

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:38:48am

How Joni Ernst’s ad about ‘castrating hogs’ transformed Iowa’s U.S. Senate race
washingtonpost.com

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:39:05am

re: #316 Eclectic Cyborg

Replace quisling with MAGAt.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:41:27am

re: #326 lawhawk

Today dogs. Tomorrow migrants, the homeless, transgenders, and other undesirables.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:42:10am

re: #281 Teukka

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They have an inalienable right to eat bare arms!

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:42:14am

re: #331 DodgerFan1988

Today dogs. Tomorrow migrants, the homeless, transgenders, and other undesirables.

That’s what I’m afraid of

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jeffreyw  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:42:15am

YouTube

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:42:19am

re: #331 DodgerFan1988

This supreme court will discuss it.

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:42:20am

re: #310 DodgerFan1988

When people complain, tell them about this interview between Trump and the NYT: nytimes.com

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Dangerman  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:43:07am

re: #329 jaunte

How Joni Ernst’s ad about ‘castrating hogs’ transformed Iowa’s U.S. Senate race
washingtonpost.com

Link

We’re not sure who the heck advised Noem on this book. But whatever hell Mitt Romney endured as a presidential candidate in 2012 for driving with the family dog on the roof of his car, expect Noem to face even more outrage from the many Americans, across ideological and party lines, who will be left totally appalled by the killing of animals out of what seems to be little more than annoyance.”

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steve_davis  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:43:14am

re: #231 wrenchwench

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I’ve got that full album in HD audio, and yeah, there are places where that actually does make a difference (lots and lots of lush orchestration in it).

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Scottish Dragon  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:43:51am

re: #335 jaunte

This supreme court will discuss it.

Alito will quote a witch burner from 1635 to explain why trans ppl can be put to the question with hot tongs and splinters under fingernails.

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:51:34am

re: #339 Scottish Dragon

Way back in a Law or Social Studies class I remember a day when the Prof was taking questions about particular Constitutional lapses and weak guiderails in the fine print. His response to these concerns was a general “if this country ever comes to this point where these are a concern, it is too late and something is terribly wrong with the country.” Well, here we are 30 years later and Trump crashed right through every single one of these barriers brought up back then. And now his pocket SCOTUS agrees with his perverse takes on the Constitution. This country is beyond the Break Glass in case of Emergency stage.

As soon as Biden is able to he must Pack this Fucking Court to the rafters. This country depends on it.

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steve_davis  Apr 26, 2024 • 10:58:32am

kind of curious as to how many of us felt an overwhelming need to spin up Days of Future Passed now. It’s been awhile since I’d heard it, so it’s time.

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Markm1960  Apr 26, 2024 • 11:13:55am

re: #341 steve_davis

kind of curious as to how many of us felt an overwhelming need to spin up Days of Future Passed now. It’s been awhile since I’d heard it, so it’s time.

Except for the two big songs, I’ve never heard that album. 💿

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Apr 26, 2024 • 11:31:58am

re: #299 GlutenFreeJesus

Was one of the 14 names In-N-Out Borgers?


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